RFK Jr. Admits Trump Went Around Him on CDC Pick The president circumvented his health chief in his nomination for the embattled CDC.

The president circumvented his health chief in his nomination for the embattled CDC.

George Takei speaks at the PFLAG National’s “Love Takes Pride” event. Photo by Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images for PFLAG.

For over 50 years, @pflag.org has brought together LGBTQ+ people, families, and allies to fight for equality. As someone who’s been involved with PFLAG for decades, I can tell you that with attacks on our community escalating across the country, that work has never felt more urgent.

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Most Americans know what it would take to fix our broken country

- Abolish Citizens United
- Outlaw foreign influence
- End the electoral college
- Tax the oligarchs
- Reestablish rule of law
- Strict separation of church & state

It’s whether we have the courage to change our self-destructive ways

Jeffries on Kash Patel: "We have to stop putting all the blame on the people who nominated this incompetent, toxic, malignant individual. What about the people who confirmed him? It's extraordinary to me that Senate Republican confirmed people like Noem, Bondi, Hegseth, RFK Jr, and Patel."

MAGA is essentially the Confederacy revived. We must beat it down, as it is profoundly unConstitutional, unAmerican and indeed treasonous.

The MAGA movement has been built on nothing but LIES.

A Historian Spent 30 Years Interviewing Nazis. He Identified 12 Warning Signs of Fascism. All 12 Are Present in Trump's America Right Now. The evidence is not opinion. It is public record. And it demands your attention before November.

A Historian Spent 30 Years Interviewing Nazis. He Identified 12 Warning Signs of Fascism. All 12 Are Present in Trump's America Right Now.

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”

Hormuz shipping again near standstill after shots and seizure Ships were largely avoiding ‌the Strait of Hormuz on Monday after an escalation at the weekend in which Iran fired what appeared to be warning shots at vessels and the U.S. military seized an Iranian cargo ship.

Hormuz shipping again near standstill after shots and seizure reut.rs/4tn16aJ

On the right is someone NFL doctors say is 6’3, 230 lbs with 5% body fat

On the left is someone White House doctors say is 6’3, 224 lbs with 4.8% body fat

If the White House is THAT dishonest about something so clear, why should we believe anything they say about anything?

Buttigieg: I’ll give the Turning Point folks a lot of strategic credit for going to a lot of different places. Going to these college campuses is kind of the equivalent, in their minds, of the way I feel when I go on Fox News.

The difference is, when I go on Fox News, I’m telling the truth

www.theguardian.com Obama and Mamdani read and sing with New York preschoolers in first meeting

Obama and Mamdani read and sing with New York preschoolers in first meeting #TheGuardian

Behind Trump’s Public Bravado on the War, He Grapples With His Own Fears — The Wall Street Journal The president’s impulsive style has never before been tested during a sustained military conflict; ruminating on Jimmy Carter

“We are witnessing astonishing military successes that do not add up to victory and that is squarely on the president and how he’s chosen to do his job—lack of attention to detail and lack of planning." Via WSJ

Agencies in talks with Trump, family to resolve $10B lawsuit over tax leaks President Trump and his family are suing federal agencies over leaks of their tax information. Court filings say they’re in talks to find a solution instead of heading to trial.

that beep beep beep sound you hear is the president and his family backing a truck up to the US treasury...

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

When All Else Fails, Just Blame Corporate Greed Horseshoe theory FTW.

"None of these actions will actually fix the pricing problem—and so the president just ends up looking ineffectual in the process." (Don't tell him, but that's okay with us.)

U.S. presidents have shared priorities with Catholic popes for seven decades. Today, American leaders’ values and those of Vatican authorities are in direct conflict. The president’s historic breakup with the pontiff threatens to upend a century of strategic partnership.

The president’s historic breakup with the pontiff threatens to upend a century of strategic partnership. on.wsj.com/4mKoe0k

Trump nominates former Coast Guard doctor as CDC chief The nomination comes after months of interim leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

President Trump has nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz, who served as deputy surgeon general in his first administration, to serve as the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

--> She's been promoted to serve as a combination token & scapegoat.

www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

'We are missing data': NWS weather balloon changes scrutinized as tornados hit Midwest For much of Monday, the agency didn't anticipate a tornado threat for Kansas City — then five hit that evening. Did a change in weather balloon launches leave forecasters in the dark?

"The Trump administration cut the agency deeply last year, leaving some forecasting offices short-staffed...

“You’re missing data from the Four Corners region, the northern Plains, part of the central Plains, and that’s where the storms were developing,” he said..."

www.nbcnews.com/weather/torn...

SUPPORT THESE DATA CENTERS SCHOOLS LIBRARIES BOOKSTORES

Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us

"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

Everything is staged. Including his assignation attempt.

Nationwide General Strike Planned for May 1: No Kings Organizer | Common Dreams Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin announces nationwide general strike on May 1 in next No Kings mass action.

There’s already a date onboard for a general strike

May 1st, National Strike

No work, no school, no shopping

www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...

Where’s Pam Bondi?

Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups

Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia has signed into law a bill to end tax exemptions for a slate of Confederacy-related organizations in the state.

Someone is dying in ICE custody EVERY WEEK.

And that doesn't even include the American citizens ICE has killed in the middle of our streets in broad daylight.

It could not be more clear, ICE needs guardrails, not a blank check from Congress.

Maricopa County election staff told to grant FBI unrestricted access, new emails show The emails depict Arizona election offices preparing for possible federal intervention while at least one top local official offered support for the probe.

‼️Election administrators in Maricopa County, Arizona ordered staff to grant federal agents sweeping, unmonitored access to election facilities — including instructions not to record their actions — according to newly released emails. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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