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Speaker Johnson's beginning of the end Trump's elfish toady is quickly losing control of the House.

New in PN: Speaker Johnson's beginning of the end

"Johnson has such a small majority he can’t afford to alienate anybody, & he has nonetheless managed to alienate everybody. The coming months will be brutal for him & are likely to end w/his speakership destroyed in a humiliating, titanic blue wave"

Bsky staff is scrambling to convince ppl that today's outage has nothing to do with their embrace of ai. That's great. We should make them scramble more. The cost of replacing competent humans with AI needs to be greater on every single level for every single company.

Kash Patel's team threatens lawsuit over bombshell report he drinks on the job FBI Director Kash Patel's communications strategist, Erica Knight, threatened legal action against The Atlantic on Friday night, following their publication of a devastating report on Patel's alleged ...

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Report in question detailed claims that Patel has been frequently drunk on the job, to the point FBI officials considered ordering forcible-entry SWAT equipment in case he locked himself in his office while intoxicated, that he has been impossible to reach at times…

www.theguardian.com An iron worker takes on one of Trump’s most loyal followers in Congress

An iron worker takes on one of Trump’s most loyal followers in Congress #TheGuardian

Iron will: Australia’s richest person counts the cost as court orders she share mining millions with rival family Gina Rinehart, who’s been called Australia’s ‘female Donald Trump’, has long fought claims from the family of her father’s business partner – as well as her own children

Incredible wealth still isn’t enough for some people

No pockets in a shroud

Happy April! open.substack.com/pub/sharonbu...

Good morning beautiful friends. What are you up to today? We're going to enjoy the sunshine! 🌞 Pawhugs from Texas the cat and Bianca 🦋🐈🫂🇸🇪🦋

It would've been so much more entertaining if Lil Miss Einstein delivered that performance in all six languages she demonstrated to the immigration court. 😂

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First it’s “I didn’t know.”
Then it’s “he did know.”

They can’t even keep the Epstein lie straight. 🤦🏽‍♀️

#SheShed

The war with Iran delayed Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial.

The war with Iran got people to stop talking about Trump's connections to Jeffrey Epstein.

So both men had corrupt motives for colluding to start a senseless war. Because they only care about themselves, not the people they kill.

I’m Team Pope Leo.

And you don’t have to be a practicing Catholic to think — what the hell is wrong with the Pentagon’s mouthpiece?

This is repugnant.

😯

‘A dream come true’: Brazil’s blue-and-yellow macaws return to Rio after 200 years An ambitious ‘refaunation’ project is bringing the much-loved birds and other lost species back to the city’s national park

‘A dream come true’: Brazil’s blue-and-yellow macaws return to Rio after 200 years

Quite a line on Page One in Milwaukee:

“.. It’s stunning that in the nation’s most competitive battleground an entire class of major statewide elections has become chronically uncompetitive.”

Everyone needs to speak out to condemn unacceptable statements & actions…

‘A wow moment’: Democrats make big gains in key battlegrounds They notched a landslide victory in Wisconsin and cut into the GOP’s margins in Georgia’s reddest House district.

In Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election, the Democratic-backed candidate sailed to a nearly 20-point landslide victory Tuesday in a battleground Trump carried less than two years ago. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

A serious-looking astronaut in a black shirt stands inside a spacecraft, hands clasped, with a humorous caption below about hearing someones voice even when far from Earth.

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The Not-So-Bionic Woman Or how I keep durable medical equipment companies in business...

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The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why. When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...

Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each.

Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture.

(Published May 2025)

Anyone up for a swim?

former White House official Anthony Scaramucci confirms Donald Trump is completely compromised. He reveals both Putin and Netanyahu have massive blackmail material on him. The US President is literally a hostage to foreign powers!

This is the truest truth of all the truths (and there aren't many).

What's the HOLDUP????

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

Priorities.

Rafael Cruz was born in Alberta, Canada. His father was Cuban-born. Because his mother was a US citizen, he acquired US citizenship at birth under American law, even though born in Canada. He renounced his Canadian citizenship only after it became public for his political career.

Is it really a leak if the president has been going around saying this for years?

Washington state’s Millionaires’ Tax was officially signed into law this week.

The revenue will fund public education, child care, and expand the state's earned income tax credit to help an additional 500,000 working families.

Remember: We still have the power to fix the system.