Remember when Trump threatened to wipe out a whole civilization? And then backed out of that and talked about forming a deal with Iran? And then dropped that and went to a UFC fight as negotiations fell apart? And then unveiled a triumphal arch and a photo of himself as Jesus?
That was this week.
Donald Trump’s Department of Justice found a new and disturbing way to try to consolidate power exclusively in the hands of Trump. slate.trib.al/ZeyVx1v
After pager attack on Hezbollah, Hungary offered help to Iran Revelations about a 2024 call offering aid raise questions about Hungary’s ties to Iran as the Trump administration is supporting Prime Minister Viktor Orban for reelection. April 8, 2026 at 5:26 a.m. EDTToday at 5:26 a.m. EDT 5 min Summary 88 Make us preferred on Google Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, right, welcomes U.S. Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance as they arrive in Budapest on Tuesday. (Jonathan Ernst/AFP/Getty Images) By Catherine Belton Soon after the deadly Israeli attack that caused thousands of Hezbollah pagers to explode in September 2024, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government offered its assistance to Iran, the key sponsor of Hezbollah, considered a terrorist organization by the United States.
Subtext to the picture selected for yet another story describing Hungary's cooperation in Russia's projection of power: Usha and JD are willing participants in that projection.
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Alright let's see. In 2019 Trump was angrily posting about the 1.8 billion in cash the Obama administration gave Iran in 2016.
1.8 billion divided by 2 million is 900. Prior to the start of this war, about 135 ships went through the Strait of Hormuz every day.
Why does Vance care whether Orban wins? Because if he loses, it will challenge the MAGA belief that history flows in only one direction
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Exactly what Jesus would say.
Your utility prices are higher than ever before, and you can thank Jon Husted.
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They oversaw a very important social media influence operation for the Kremlin, got caught, fled. And now they're not just back, they're guests at Donald & Melania Trump's Easter Egg Roll at the White House.
It’s probably nothing. 🤡
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Republican Congressman Caught Asking Another Staffer for Nudes
Representative Tony Gonzales was already facing a scandal after he had an affair with a staff member who later committed suicide.
This man is still serving in Congress with the support of Mike Johnson.
A group linked to tech billionaire Peter Thiel contributed $2.5 million to the PAC that sparked outrage last month by sending out mailers targeting Black voters that compared the referendum to the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow-era voting restrictions.
Elon Musk is now worth over $800 billion.
Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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"He wanted it big. He wanted lots of gold, lots of marble. He wanted visitors awestruck by his architectural expansion of the country’s symbolic seat of power."
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Truth!
So weird that all his deadlines expire right before the markets open on a Monday. This is the third one in as many weeks.
From Catherine Belton, on why Vance is going to Budapest
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BOOM:
BOOM shaka lacka!!!!
It’s genuinely a challenge for legal journalists to cover the birthright citizenship case, because one side’s argument is “the Fourteenth’s Amendment intent and text and a century of uninterrupted Supreme Court precedent all support birthright citizenship,” and the other side’s argument is “nuh-UH”
The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.
Trump: "All of the sudden the war starts, and they start shooting at Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Oman. Everybody was shocked, including us."
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
Government wants any PI ruling deferred so it can cure this issue. Anthropic, not so shockingly, does not want that.
Helluva 2026 pic by Megan Varner.
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It’s the biggest story. Dems forced Republicans to the table with a common sense solution. Fund TSA, FEMA, & the Coast Guard, then negotiate over ICE reforms. Trump said “no.” No deals with Democrats.
Just like with the immigration bill in 2024. A disabled GOP in Congress is in Trump’s interest.
