Hegseth’s Christian Crusade? Trump’s Defense Secretary Wants a Holy War Against Iran
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social does a deep-dive into the actual religious, messianic maniac pushing for conflict in God’s name - not Iran’s ‘Supreme Leader,’ but America’s ‘Secretary of War.’
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VAN HOLLEN: What you've done is prove a windfall to very wealthy people who don't pay taxes
BESSENT: Why would I do that? What's your theory of the case?
VAN HOLLEN: Because this administration time after time has tiled the tax code in favor of very wealthy people
April 20, 2026
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Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) posted: “We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it. He’s just burning your tax money.”
For the record, KBJ is probably the smartest person on SCOTUS, and the one who is most serious about the rule of law and reason.
Witness the mesmerizing murmuration of starlings in Italy, a stunning display of nature's coordination and beauty as they dance through the sky in unison.
The US judiciary needs to defend the rule of law and itself as an institution by making this kind of error too costly to bear. E.g. an Ontario court held the lawyer in contempt for submitting materials with fake cases made up by AI: www.lawtimesnews.com/news/general...
I'm not going to provide details, so don't ask. Nevertheless:
No, it is not OK to have one hallucinated cite. No, you can't delete that and expect me to take the rest of your work seriously. No, absolutely not. It should never ever happen.
Iran just seized 2 ships — AFTER Trump extended the ceasefire indefinitely. But “SOS!!!”
If you look at X after a Supreme Court argument, it’s almost always bubbling over with right-wing influencers suggesting that Ketanji Brown Jackson is stupid (usually based on a misinterpretation or a misleading clip of something she said during arguments). They also often just call her “Ketanji”
Officials delegated leadership of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to an outside contractor (who is currently a subject of multiple ethics investigations)
This was the plan all along....
Outsource government to friends of the administration.
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Lot of people on the right crying about the Virginia redistricting vote.
We told you this would happen while you were celebrating the illegal off-cycle seat grab in Texas.
Stop playing stupid games if you don’t want to win stupid prizes.
EIGHT CHILDREN DIED in a mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana this weekend.
Eight children.
A critically important reminder from @citizencohn.bsky.social:
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“We were terrified they were going to kill us.”
Ecuadorian fishermen recount surviving one of Trump & Hegseth’s boat strikes.
Not drug runners. Fishermen. Drone strike. Boat blown up. Taken captive. By us.
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lol #Palantir is a dumpster fire & should be put down.
Also, Xitter is still a thing?
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Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
I’ll support any Dem that moves to kick Palantir off the public dole and out of doing business with the US.
Please give Zack Polanski 3 minutes to explain how our government is walking us into a nightmare.
And ask yourself this. Do you want *your* health data to be a weapon in the hands of Peter Thiel, an authoritarian of whom "unscrupulous" would be a generous description!
Say NO to Palantir. Vote Green!
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If palantir was used by us in the bombing of that school..the founders should face i.c.c..removing humans from target acquisition in a planned attack. As if it removed legal or civil accountability for mass murder. In a terrorist style civilian attack. Is over the red line
🇪🇺 EU country ambassadors have launched a written procedure to approve a €90 billion credit for Ukraine; Hungary has lifted its veto.
There is also talk of a 20th sanctions package against russia, Radio Liberty correspondent Rikard Jozwiak wrote on Twitter.
#VotingMatters "EU provisionally approves €90bn Ukraine loan as Hungary drops opposition after Druzhba pipeline reopens" www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
HUNGARY’S OUTGOING GOVERNMENT ‘SHREDDING EVERYTHING’
The foreign minister literally locked himself in the building with his flunkies and they spent days shredding state papers to hide their guilty relationships with Moscow.
Orban seems to have gone into hiding and a massive cover up is underway
Wooohooooooo 🎉🥳👏
🇪🇺🤝🇺🇦EU approves 90 billion euro aid package for Ukraine and new sanctions against Russia after Hungary lifts veto.
It just got even crazier in Hungary
FBI
Rob Rogers cartoon.
April 21, 2026
Hey Bluesky. I just posted my first article on Substack. And this makes my first Bluesky post. Check it out and share it if you like
Let the games begin. 🙃
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I mean, there's no Board. It's a ChatGPT set up by Will Lewis. Nobody's even left there to remember what was written before, every contrarian task is new to the program.
🇪🇺 🇳🇱 Dutch central bank chooses Lidl for European Cloud in an aim to reduce its dependence on US companies.
The Lidl-owned company, Schwarz Digits, also recently announced €11b in investments to expand its capacity.
Another win for growing European tech 👏
The European Union has approved a €90 billion loan to Ukraine, as well as the 20th round of sanctions against Russia. The package is to be split 60/30 for military aid and budget assistance respectively.
