One does not need to be a fan of Chuck Schumer's to see this for the pathetic attempt at fascist intimidation that it is.

NEW MEMO from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee memo shows Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer plans to make big changes to the hearing process, including not requiring witnesses to swear in. trib.al/rjIltID

Vote-o-rama happening for the Senate budget resolution tonight. This is one of many steps towards Republicans & Trump trying to give ICE and CBP another $70 billion.

This is all part of doing a budget reconciliation bill, which can’t be filibustered, and therefore Rs can pass even w/ all Ds opposed

We are currently in the 3-5 day pause on the 14 day extension of the initial 48 hour hard deadline for the ceasefire.

No what the institutions are stepping in to stop democratic measures?

What’s next? You’re going to tell me that representative government is so corrupted that our only way forward is to aggressively force institutions to change?

Did this mf just say "your body your choice?"

Are the women back there somewhere? Yes, I think I see them.

Didn't Warsh effectively fund sex trafficking?

Several U.S. officials and Trump associates drew the same conclusion: the president thinks the U.S. has achieved everything it can militarily and wants out of the increasingly unpopular war. He won't resume it until he has exhausted every other option.-Axios

Lufthansa Cuts 20,000 Flights to Save Fuel Amid Iran War Price Surge Global jet fuel prices have jumped more than 70 percent since the start of the war, pressuring airlines in Europe, the largest consumers of jet fuel shipped through the Strait of Hormuz.

The German airline Lufthansa said it would cut 20,000 flights over the next six months to save jet fuel as the pressure builds on companies to address surging prices and declining supplies of energy caused by the war in Iran.

When they received the call to respond to an Israeli airstrike in the city of Mayfadoun, in southern Lebanon, most of the paramedics held back, having previously seen colleagues killed by double-tap attacks targeting rescuers. But the medics from the Islamic Health Association (IHA) rushed to the scene. By the time the other emergency workers arrived at the site, they found the IHA medics had indeed been caught in a second strike. They started evacuating their wounded colleagues, only for their ambulances to be hit in two further attacks. One of the paramedics covered his ears and screamed, convulsing in pain as shrapnel shattered the back window of the ambulance. The rescue mission on Wednesday afternoon had turned into a nightmare as Israel carried out three consecutive strikes on three sets of ambulances and medical workers.

Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics.

Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

From Financial Times report:

Trump pardons allies who boost his crypto coin.

Trump invests in corporations that he's supposed to be regulating.

Trump cuts deals with autocrats to advance his family's real estate business.

The list goes on.

We must not become numb to this corruption.

I'll second your jfc.

Who’s next to leave the Trump admin following Chavez-DeRemer’s departure? In the past month, top officials such as Attorney General Pam Bondi, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer...

Tulsi Gabbard has been told by the White House that she has until the midterms to pack up and leave, according to sources I've spoken to in recent weeks. sherwood.news/power/whos-n...

I struggle with the reality that some of the nation’s least wealthy people continue to support a man so deeply, irredeemably corrupt he routinely uses the power of public office to enrich himself.

Your government refusing to prosecute sexual predators, but protect them instead, only makes sense when you realize your government is being run by sexual predators.

Indeed

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Wake up Republicans Dementia Don has no idea what's going on. Trump said
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U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE RUBIO AND DEFENSE SECRETARY HEGSETH ALSO SEEN ARRIVING AT THE WHITE HOUSE, ACCORDING TO CNN.U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE RUBIO AND DEFENSE SECRETARY HEGSETH ALSO SEEN ARRIVING AT THE WHITE HOUSE, ACCORDING TO CNN.

'I know everything': Brazilian model Amanda Ungaro, Paolo Zampolli, and how the Epstein Network Brought Them Both to Trump's White House Flown to New York on Epstein's jet at 17, partnered for two decades with the man who brought Melania to the US, deported before she could post bail after a single phone call to a federal official, Ama...

In 2002 a 17 year old from Londrina, Brazil boarded Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet in Paris and was trafficked to New York. Around 30 girls were on that flight. Ghislaine Maxwell prowled the cabin. Some girls sat on Epstein’s lap. The teenager was Amanda Ungaro.

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Illustrating once again the extent to which the Venezuela raid emboldened Trump to engage in further military adventurism.

It's peace talks day and the president is watching television.

Left, Fox & Friends, 6:40 a.m.
Right, Trump, 6:50 a.m.

Putin wants Russia seen as a respected global player while living conditions for a huge part of Russia’s population remain no better than in the early Middle Ages.
This is the paradox before us: Putin seeks imperial expansion abroad while failing to secure basic human dignity at home - @MelnykAndrij

The Tariff Refund Nightmare In principle, Americans are owed $166 billion in refunds of Trump’s illegal tariffs. But actually collecting is like unscrambling an egg.

What’s clear is that many consumers, importers, and producers will never collect the refunds that they are owed. buff.ly/r7SHlv0

With Orban Out, the Pianist András Schiff Plans a Return to Hungary

András Schiff, who plays one of my favorite Goldberg Variations, is also a cool dude. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/a...

#Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Andrii Melnyk:

Thirty-five million Russians have no toilet at home.

On the one hand, Russia demands recognition as a "great superpower," claiming the right to redraw state borders by force and impose a new sphere of influence⤵️

Moreover,during his 26yr rule,Putin has effectively abandoned his population,many of whom still struggle with the most basic standards of sanitation.According to official statistical data,one-fourth of Russian households don’t have access to centralized sewage systems or indoor sanitation facilities

It’s gonna be Wilde!

Why would any other country trust us?