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“Minutes after voting for $300 MILLION for private school vouchers, Senate Republicans voted to cut $43 MILLION for diapers for needy families.”😳

Welcome to @GovBillLee & the @TNGOP supermajority’s Tennessee, folks. A budget is a moral document.

Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."

"How is a person to know if a harried medical intern is getting diagnoses from ChatGPT because they have no time to consider their case? Will you only find out your CPA is having AI do your taxes when audit time comes around? "

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ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

"Nearly two dozen were held in custody for more than 20 days...Teens who were detained alone were sent to Christian youth shelters in Michigan, which made it hard for their families to find them. And nearly half of the children detained have since left the country." sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

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Republican Push For ICE Over Affordability Leaves Americans Dumbfounded – DC Journal - InsideSources Every day the news brings another screaming headline on the cost-of-living crisis facing Americans. Health care costs are up. Gas prices are up. Consumer

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As the new GOP budget resolution drops, it shows how out of touch the GOP is with what Americans want. We don't want to invest 140M in ICE...we want affordable healthcare, groceries and housing.

Superpower Suicide The geopolitics of our moment

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Virginia votes on new congressional map with control of House at stake

Backed by Abigail Spanberger, the measure could boost Democrats and counter Donald Trump’s redistricting push

The Onion relaunches InfoWars as legal wrangling continues The satirical news site said it’s rebranding right-wing pundit Alex Jones' controversial platform under a proposed licensing deal.

OH! Irony, let there be Justice>>
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Pope Leo's doctoral thesis was about the Augustine "Just War" argument.

Vance thinks that Leo needs to be careful about a pope's statements about theology.

Dunning-Kruger. Every day. The less you know, the more confident you are that you know it all... and you need not listen to ANYTHING.

There isn’t a word in the Dictionary that best describes the Utter Failure and STUPIDITY of the Republican Party

#Iran #AmericaLAST #SoldiersLAST #VOTE

This is so fuck'n outrageous! He even declared that he was guilty! Micheal Flynn gets 1.25 million and maybe even more in a new deal? WTAF?

Did Trump invent a new kind of corruption?

Right out in the open, Donald Trump is suing his own IRS to try to steal $10 BILLION taxpayer dollars.

I just introduced a bill that would make this theft ILLEGAL.

US authorities offered $5M bounty for Irish mob boss arrest

Daniel Kinahan, the founder of boxing promotion company MTK Global, was arrested in Dubai on Wednesday over allegations of being an international crime boss.

Pro-Kremlin blogger leaves psychiatric hospital after criticizing Putin, says conditions were ‘pretty rough’ — Meduza Pro-Kremlin blogger and informant Ilya Remeslo has left a psychiatric hospital, he announced on his Telegram channel. He spent 30 days at the facility.

Ilya Remeslo made his name helping bring a criminal case against Alexei Navalny. Then he criticized Putin. Thirty days later, he walked out of a psychiatric facility, describing conditions worse than prison. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031 Some on the Moon's surface, some in orbit. How does 5 years sound? Do-able, right nerds? The nukes-in-space ambitions of the current US administration have taken a step forward - and the US Office of Science and Technology Policy has just published its hopes for who does what.…

Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031

Republicans exploit an obscure law to open this pristine Minnesota wilderness to mining Their use of the Congressional Review Act could drastically reshape public lands protections, experts say.

“It allows Congress to basically do a thumbs up or a thumbs down, where otherwise a filibuster would apply."

Republicans exploit an obscure law to open this pristine Minnesota wilderness to mining.

Either brave or extremely foolhardy passengers on that cruise ship! Would you be a passenger on it?
I wonder if Iran can even fully clear the Strait of all of those mines before ships start moving through.
And, it's only for the remainder of the cease fire, anyway.

Clarence Thomas’ radical remarks might not be what they seemed Something is upsetting the justice. Could it be his conservative colleagues?

Something is upsetting the justice. Could it be his conservative colleagues?

Mob lord hellbent on murder and revenge after surviving assassination attempt

Notorious Irish crime boss Daniel Kinahan has been arrested in the United Arab Emirates over his alleged links to an international organized crime network, according to reports on Friday.

More Crops Grown for Fuel and Livestock Feed Than for People, New Study Finds Cutting back on beef and biofuels could help improve food security and mitigate climate emissions.

Cutting back on beef and biofuels could help improve food security and mitigate climate emissions.

Some American farmers bet on solar. Then Trump changed the rules Farmers in the U.S. operate on the thinnest of margins, and some have looked to renewable energy as a way to cut costs on electricity.

Farmers in the U.S. operate on the thinnest of margins, and some have looked to renewable energy as a way to cut costs on electricity.

A new search engine that allows users to search Nazi party records in order to find out whether their ancestors were card-carrying members has been accessed millions of times since it was launched earlier this month. https://cnn.it/4tZZBiF

Homeland Security’s SAVE program divides election officials as November nears • Ohio Capital Journal As the midterms approach, Republican and Democratic election officials are split over a powerful federal computer program at the center of President Donald Trump’s quest to expose noncitizen voters…

As the midterms approach, Republican and Democratic election officials are split over a powerful federal computer program at the center of President Donald Trump’s quest to expose noncitizen voters and compile lists of voting-age Americans. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/17/r...

World Court celebrates 80-year anniversary as the international legal framework is strained The United Nations secretary-general warned on Friday that international law was eroding before the world’s eyes, during a speech celebrating the 80th year anniversary of the World Court.

"The force of law must always prevail over the law of force," António Guterres told dignitaries gathered in the ornate Great Hall at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. https://to.pbs.org/4cvccTz