RFK Jr. is in his influencer era The real reason Trump’s health secretary is launching a podcast.

The alliance between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump has been a strange one, despite their shared skepticism of medical experts. Both sides seem intent on squeezing more out of it — a big platform for Kennedy and a crucial bloc of voters for Trump — before it ends. www.vox.com/health/48621...

Die Wiederkunft der Pest 🐦‍⬛

Ein Mensch mit Schnabelmaske & Hut, wie ihn Salbader im Mittelalter während der Pest Epidemien trugen

Oh my goodness! We're back in the times of the late Middle Aged when the Black Death ravaged Europe!! Who on earth confirmed this man as Secretary of health???

RFK Jr Has A History Of Doubting Germ Theory – Here’s How We Know He’s Wrong For 150 years, germ theory has been the basis for much of medicine, and the evidence for it is stronger now than ever.

Robert Kennedy Jr. disagrees with germ theory, which attributes many diseases to bacteria, viruses, and prions. Instead, Kennedy promotes miasma theory 😳 "For him, environmental poisons are electromagnetic radiation, pesticides… Vaccines are his modern-day miasma." www.iflscience.com/rfk-jr-has-a...

Senate Republicans hope Supreme Court ‘surprise’ could help save majority Senate Republicans who fear their three-seat majority could be in danger in this year’s midterm election would welcome the retirement of conservative Justice Samuel Alito as an “October surprise” t…

Senate Republicans hope that a Supreme Court ‘surprise’ could help save their majority 🌲🏴‍☠️ An appeal to Alito, if not to heaven thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Is the U.S. Constitution Doomed to Fail?

The American continent was nothing like the England of Domesday. To persuade citizens to settle a place where water, not dirt, was the most precious resource, this “Arid Region” would require a railroad and land giveaways starting with the Homestead Act of 1862. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/b...

Canadian astronaut’s bon mots help heal wounds from French language row Jeremy Hansen praised for speaking French in space after Air Canada chief’s linguistic snub exposed tensions and drew rebuke from PM

Bonjour, tout le monde 🚀🌎🇨🇦 Canadian astronaut’s bon mots help heal wounds from a French language row www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

California’s Blue Armageddon One of the most liberal states in the country can’t find a Democrat to lead it.

Swalwell’s collapse has been sudden and swift, if not surprising. Talk of bad behavior toward women had trailed him for years. Then multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct. Swalwell has been met with multiple investigations, and instant pariah status. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Disbarred Trump Lawyer Raises Nearly $1M for Supreme Court Appeal Former attorney John Eastman, who was disbarred in the state of California this week for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump, is thanking his supporters fo

Former lawyer John Eastman, disbarred in California for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election in favor of Trump, thanks supporters for an “outpouring of support,” declaring that “outrage at the disbarment decision of the California Bar has been quite encouraging” 2paragraphs.com/2026/04/disb...

Trump won't touch the one thing that could fix fertility rates - Salon.com Conservatives says the "problem" is fewer teen pregnancies. But the solution is actually fixing childcare

Despite claiming to be the “fertilization president,” Donald Trump has made it clear that making childcare affordable is not a priority. In a video later deleted, Trump said his administration “can’t take care of daycare” due to the Iran war. 🐔🌮🍊🤡 “We’re fighting wars.” www.salon.com/2026/04/18/t...

Trump’s antipathy for Pope may have roots in childhood Protestant church Manhattan church led by Norman Vincent Peale was known for opposing presidency of JFK – and Catholics in general

Donald Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo for his criticism of the U.S. attack on Iran and Trump’s decision to post an image portraying himself as Jesus make more sense considering Trump attended church services led by the anti-Catholic pastor, Norman Vincent Peale www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

'We should absolutely be concerned about non-college-educated men today': higher rents, living at home, falling out of the labor market | Fortune "Very real economic forces" are "limiting the options for non-college-educated men," said Gabrielle Penrose of the American Institute for Boys and Men.

Men living with their parents are 20 percentage points less likely to be in the labor force. A 10% rent increase is associated with a 0.5 percentage point decline in labor force participation. Housing costs explain a third of the employment decline among non-college men. fortune.com/2026/04/18/m...

Why Trump’s Mega wave has come to a stuttering halt The president wants to Make Europe Great Again, but the Orbán defeat and the papal bust-up have got his right-wing cheerleaders rattled and thinking the unthinkable: that they don’t need his help, sa...

Trump’s Mega wave has come to a stuttering halt 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Donald Trump wants to Make Europe Great Again, but the defeat of Viktor Orbán and the papal bust-up have got his right-wing cheerleaders rattled and thinking the unthinkable: That they don’t need his help www.independent.co.uk/voices/donal...

Did Hegseth quote fake Bible verse from Tarantino movie? Separating fact from 'Pulp Fiction' Hegseth said the lead mission planner for an Iran war rescue operation delivered the prayer to him and told him they use it ahead of missions.

Did Pete Hegseth quote a fake Bible verse from a Quentin Tarantino movie? Separating fact from 'Pulp Fiction' 😝 Hegseth gave a prayer that is almost identical to a fake Bible verse from "Pulp Fiction." Whether he "misquoted" Ezekiel 25:17 is subject to interpretation. www.snopes.com/fact-check/h...

Why Do So Many People Think Trump Is Good? The work of the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre helps illuminate some central questions of our time.

How can half of America look at Donald Trump and not find him morally repellent? He lies, cheats, steals, betrays, and behaves cruelly and corruptly. More than 70 million Americans find him morally acceptable. Some even see him as heroic, admirable, and wonderful. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Trump’s Deranged, One-Way Feud With Pope Leo He’s finally met someone he can’t bully.

In 452, Pope Leo I faced down Attila the Hun and convinced him to turn back from Italy and spare the city of Rome. In 2026, Pope Leo XIV is facing down Orange the Hun. Because claiming to be the second coming of Jesus is a literal sign of the Antichrist. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

She Made Sure Her Baby Was Born an American. Then Federal Agents Separated Them.

To give their first child together a chance at American citizenship — to be born on U.S. soil — Diana Acosta and Jaime Murillo agreed that they would do anything 🇺🇲 “Every day we thank God for the opportunity of our son being born over there. He is a U.S. citizen.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...

The Cobra Effect: why managing by metrics backfires Metrics are useful, but as the Cobra Effect explains, they can ultimately generate behavior that defeats the main goal.

The Cobra Effect gets its name from a campaign during the British Raj to reduce the cobra population in India 🐍 Authorities offered a bounty for dead cobras, paying anyone who produced a carcass. Yet the incentives didn’t reduce the cobra population at all. www.fastcompany.com/91523024/cob...

The Scapegoat Scam Hungarians stopped falling for an authoritarian’s trick.

Orbánism was a model for what Trump is trying to do to America. A Trump administration desperate to prevent Orbán’s defeat sent J.D. Vance to ask Hungarians to “stand for Western civilization.” Vance praised a man who had publicly condemned “race mixing.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Quiet Way Authoritarianism Begins to Crumble Among the many reasons for Viktor Orbán’s defeat was the rural clubs where citizens relearned democratic habits.

Where might the MAGA voter who has begun to worry about the country turn? Maybe gathering with other like-minded people, registering voters, organizing a yard sale, having a movie night. These are small, quiet paths away from loyalty and back toward citizenship. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart

MAGA did this 🐔🌮 ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart 🇫🇷🇺🇲 After Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé’s husband died, an inheritance battle exploded. Her stepson then used his influence to have her arrested, a www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

Have a friend who works near SpaceX, and the parking lot there is full of them

🤣🤣🤣 Because of course

Hahahahahaha

We Thought It Couldn’t Get Worse. It Did. Watching the news each day has become a ritual of disbelief — and a window into a deeper crisis in American democracy.

We Thought It Couldn’t Get Worse. It Did. 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Watching the news each day has become a ritual of disbelief — and a window into a deeper crisis in American democracy katiecouric.com/news/opinion...

Stephen Miller cost Trump what was supposed to be his big win

Stephen Miller’s great-great-grandfather was born in the village of Antopol, a shtetl in what is now Belarus. He came to America in 1903 with $8 in his pocket and spoke no English. Three generations later, Stephen somehow developed a visceral hatred for immigrants. www.rawstory.com/amp/trump-ta...

Exactly 🚀🚘❌ Some business genius he is

Who Is Actually Buying the Cybertruck? New Data Shows That It's Often Elon Musk Registration data reveals that nearly one in five Cybertrucks sold last quarter went to companies Musk already owns, underscoring the truck's failure to break through with everyday consumers.

Almost one in every five Cybertrucks registered in the U.S. during the fourth quarter of 2025 were delivered from one corner of Elon Musk’s business empire to another 🚘🚀❌ SpaceX was responsible for 1,279 of the 7,071 Cybertruck registrations — more than 18% of the total www.inc.com/amaya-nichol...

Why challenging birthright citizenship is a slippery slope | Opinion A Nashville immigration attorney argues birthright citizenship should remain a stable constitutional promise, not a political target.

Birthright citizenship is one of the clearest statements this country has ever made. Belonging here is grounded in law, not lineage. In constitutional principle, not political preference. The Supreme Court should reject any effort to spurn birthright citizenship. www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...