This action should be raising alarm bells across the country.
It’s not an annoyance.
It’s a willful and malicious action to deprive the people of the United States of critical health information in order to prop up a government disinformation campaign against vaccines.
Jay Bhattacharya has ordered that a paper showing the effectiveness of COVID19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and hospitalization be suppressed and hidden.
This man has been crying nonstop about political censorship for 6 years.
But he’s the one who is actually doing it.
Seems like NYT should have mentioned that UAE's spymaster bought 49% of Trump's World Liberty Financial and used $2B of its USD1 stablecoin, directing hundreds of millions to Trump.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...
Reupping my video and post explaining the most corrupt aspect of Todd Blanche's appointment to criminalize investigating RU: bc in 2019, he and Victoria were trying to get corrupt foreigners to lie abt the topic.
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1. The FBI gutted a counterintelligence team tracking threats from Iran
2. Trump went to war with Iran days later
3. Now Trump is hosting top holders of his memecoin at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday, with unclear vetting and security
See the national security risk?
Sean Parnell, spokesman for Pete Hegseth: STATEMENT: Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan is departing the administration, effective immediately. On behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War, we are grateful to Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department and the United States Navy. We wish him well in his future endeavors. Undersecretary Hung Cao will become Acting Secretary of the Navy.
Trump just fired the Secretary of the Navy and replaced him with Undersecretary Hung Cao, one of the biggest idiots Virginia politics has produced this century (really saying something here) in the middle of the Iran war
SPLC Union Logo: Yesterday, the Department of Justice leveled outrageous allegations at the Southern Poverty Law Center. In so doing, they maligned the integrity of the SPLC workers who have labored tirelessly for decades to expose the dangerous cruelty of extremists and hate groups in the United States.
SPLC Union Logo: This work is punishing. It takes a toll on our health and on our safety. But we persist because we believe in our mission to advance justice for all, and we believe that investigating, naming, and alerting the American people to the activities of those who seek to harm our neighbors is a moral imperative and an essential public service.
Today our colleagues are facing abuse and harassment from the far-right figures emboldened by this attack. But we will not be deterred, we will not be intimidated, and we will continue to name racism, sexism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and all hate for the blight that it is.
Below is a statement from the unionized workers of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Kash Patel ordered investigation based on theory that reporting is illegal www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/04/kash...
So weird that Trump just happens to choose the course of action most favorable to Russian interests and no one else
Sometimes candidates don't meet expectations, but I'll never regret being a "Yellow Dog" Democrat.
Trumpism is, essentially, Calvinball.
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
Before WSJ published that article you may have read, I thought about how Trump really spends his days, bc it shows he's not really acting as President.
The answer?
Construction, cons, and corruption.
& watching snuff films that make him believe DOD can do anything.
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![29. In fact, Defendants ignored their own politices and procedures, rushing
the story to print without substantively fact-checking the allegations or giving
Director Patel a meaningful opportunity to respond—all to publish before the truth
could be exposed and derail the Article.
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29. In fact, Defendants ignored their own politices and procedures, rushing the story to print without substantively fact-checking the allegations or giving Director Patel a meaningful opportunity to respond—all to publish before the truth could be exposed and derail the Article. [I have put a pink rectangle around the word spelled, "politices."]
Nothing like misspelling a word in the ¶ accusing The Atlantic of failing to take enough time to fact check an article.
[Kash has submitted a new version, and used the opportunity to dox Fitzpatrick's address.]
I was treated to a spectacular bit of gaslighting by Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer, David Markus, over this post. I have a zero-tolerance policy for both gaslighters and mansplainers—habits that frequently overlap—so I’m sharing some thoughts. Please spread the word. Thanks. youtube.com/shorts/uMb82...
New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
Did not miss any of these (tho admit the Whiskey Pete thing didn't make it far beyond FT), but strongly applaud this kind of summarizing.
It's REALLY hard to keep up with all the corruption. Really hard.
A must-read guide from @taniel.bsky.social about this year's state Supreme Court elections from coast to coast.
Watching the Democrats trot out 70+ year olds like Mills, Brown, Cooper, etc in all these must win senate races really drives home the importance of state legislatures. It’s a testament to how thin the Democratic bench is in many states, because the state legislative pipeline is in shambles 1/3
It's normal in libraries to see a small number of book challenges by parents & patrons who have concerns about content. Today, however, 92% come from organized groups, including officials and dark money groups like Citizens for a New LA. It's time we reclaim our libraries for the people they serve.
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
They wanted to impeach President Biden over a truck payment
You watch Jon Ossoff speak like this about the actual stakes & then you watch Andy Beshear speak about Funny Words, & the abject poverty of the latter approach to Democratic politics in 2026 is so stark that you don't know whether to laugh or cry about the latter.
I dunno, maybe Palantir has a point: can anyone deny that Silicon Valley has produced a regressive and harmful subculture? That things would be better if we excluded their inferior subculture from America? 🙃
When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
pope tweets good
Add this to your list. The world is marshaling to defend themselves against GOP MAGA fascism. 26 countries attended. I have had to search hard to find any info available to US readers. The story has been buried by MSM.
youtube.com/shorts/5pFHv...
Peter Schiff: The most likely explanation for Trump's Truth Social lies about Iran on Friday, is market manipulation. If so, Trump insiders must have made billions. The next likely possibility is that Trump is either delusional, incompetent, or a combination of both. Either way it's not good.
Whistleblower Josef Palermo, 1st ever Kennedy Center visual arts curator, revealed that Felon47 ravaged the Center’s economic base — as a result, it may go bankrupt.
When Josef was laid off, he refused to sign an NDA, so he gets neither severance nor healthcare.
Who among us would be so brave?
