Hey @wsj.com @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @latimes.com @cbsnews.com @npr.org why isn’t this top topic. Trump is unfit for office. He’s not snoozing at the beach on. Sunday afternoon. He’s in the Oval Office dropping off during official business while we’re at war with Iran. Hellooo

You sure? www.forbes.com/sites/jeffre...

SPEAKING of Ghislaine Maxwell trying to get out of prison...betcha didn't know Michael Wolff helped Epstein hire a PR person for Maxwell's trial... #EpsteinFiles #GhislaineMaxwell

They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files. Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas. You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.

At 33 points, Trump’s approval rating is official lower than his felony count.

Did you know #ukraine has been posted by users on #Bluesky 5,900 times over the past week? See what else is trending and learn more at https://api.getskyscraper.com/tools/

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

For Taco Tuesday I wrote a long post which, buried w/in it, includes a description of 2 acute psychological dilemmas Trump is facing. 1) To win v Iran, Trump has to fight Putin 2) To make a deal, Trump has to admit Obama is smarter than him Neither is tenable. emptywheel.net/2026/04/21/t...

The party of free markets, of Reagan, the intellectual heirs of Milton Friedman, the champions of market forces over big government, and of free enterprise and small business over the jackboots of government intervention.

"The corruption is endemic, it is systemic, and it is growing." Questions of insider trading continue to loom over the Trump administration as the war in Iran drags on. @joshrogin.bsky.social , Ron Insana, and Dan Nathan discuss on the #11thHour.

“We just want to undo democracy with arguments about how wealth should be able to purchase any service to crush anyone not of the super rich with their full participation in the system of destroying themselves” version 9,811

Fed Chair Powell: “There is effectively zero net job creation in the private sector.” #ablueSky #MedSky #LawSky #PoliSky #EconSky

NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room. The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction. The Health guy collects raccoon dicks. It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

The company Emrod is already transmitting energy over kilometers without cables, using microwaves and laser-based safety. In Finland 🇫🇮

July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.

“Trump’s enablers will be remembered for hiding the dementia, crimes and treason of the worst parasite in US history.”

Over 200 House Republicans just voted to continue Trump’s war in Iran. If you’re still wondering which party is anti-war, this should clear it up. Spoiler alert it’s NOT the GOP.

As we learn that Gabbard has referred the Ukraine whistleblower and the IG to the DOJ for prosecution, keep in mind that last May, a whistleblower reported her for hiding intel about foreign agents discussion someone close to Trump about Iran. From February: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-tulsi-...

I hope dem presidential candidates are paying attention. 👀

Ukraine collected $500 million more revenue than expected in the first three months of this year, the country’s Finance Minister Serhii Marchenko said, as Ukraine tries to better line its war coffers and reassure key partners.

THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT

Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar went on Orbán's state TV today for the first time in 18 months: "This factory of lies will end once the Tisza govt is formed... What has been going on here since 2010, which even Goebbels or the North Korean dictator would have been envious of, cannot continue."

Klein: I agree that it is a revolutionary technology, that it is going to transform our economy on the scale of the Industrial Revolution. But unlike the Industrial Revolution, which created huge numbers of jobs, the goal of this revolution is to eliminate jobs.

How did Magyar win? A long running grassroots campaign in rural and small town Hungary; a refusal to be distracted by government propaganda; a focus on economic issues and corruption; a central promise to bring back democracy and the rule of law

Wow. No one showed up for JD Vance

John F. Kennedy warned you cannot negotiate with those who treat your rights as optional and their demands as absolute.

Péter Magyar: "We are going to relaunch Hungary's accession to the International Criminal Court. It's in the interests of the international community and Hungary for us to be there." Viktor Orbán had initiated Hungary's withdrawal from the ICC due to its investigation of Israel's actions in Gaza.

Newsom’s press team is doing some impressive trolling-

Oh my what a Schlapp in the face this is

Iraq veteran Rep. Crow: We have spent close to $100 billion on this war. 13 service members are dead. Over 300 are wounded. The world is more chaotic. Americans who can't afford their groceries, rent, mortgages, and gas continue to suffer, while we spend tens of billions of dollars on this war.

"I'm just contemplating the fact that one moron, one psychotic moron, one capricious idiot, has completely bollocksed up the global economy not only to the detriment of his own people, but the detriment of the planet. ... It's like how much more of this can the planet take?"

In a now-deleted post, President Trump shared a rendering that appeared to depict him as Jesus on Monday, drawing rare criticism from the religious right and allegations of blasphemy. https://wapo.st/4mo8Czc

If your country just ousted a dictator you’d probably dance like this too! Credits: @guardian

Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

for sure, congratulations to magyar. but the real heroes imo are those in civil society & journalism & rank-and-file opposition & academia who have fought against the disintegration of rule of law, the weaponization of the courts/media, & so much more for so long. 🇭🇺

People in the Budapest Metro, Hungary, shouting: “Russians, go home!”

Trump is a failed president Inflation? Rising Wars? Non-stop Corruption? Rampant Jobs? Fewer GDP growth? Less Gov't Shutdowns? More Gas prices? High Measles? Yes Lies? Non-stop Debt? Higher Free speech? Not for woke Epstein class? Free to molest Is America Great? Not even close

Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Schubert's Hungarian Melody, played by Andras Schiff, who has been refusing to return to his native Hungary under Orban (out of principle, and also b/c pro-regime elements were threatening to break his hands if he returned). www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm39...

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

Orban losing is a tremendous victory for democracy, a huge defeat for Russia, and an embarrassing loss for Donald Trump and JD Vance, who decided to meddle in that election for one of their autocratic friends. Fuck them. They deserve this defeat.

The United States LOST 150,000 manufacturing and construction jobs last year.

While Rome burns, an unserious Trump grasps for delusional manhood at a toxic masculinity event. Incapable of leadership he dispatches three amateur stooges to Pakistan to non-negotiate a deal.

Pope Leo: “War divides; hope unites. Arrogance tramples upon others; love lifts up. Idolatry blinds us; the living God enlightens.”