🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

Have been wondering when candidates would start talking about this. One of the biggest corruption scandals is U.S. history playing out in real time.

Sean Duffy goes full Baghdad Bob: "A lot of carriers are eating the cost increase of jet fuel right now ... in the long run, it becomes cheaper for Americans to travel"

they're creating new Trump cultists in a lab and putting them on Fox News. get a load of this guy.

lol -- Trump is sending JD Vance on another humiliation tour in Pakistan

Probably just had bad allergies. bsky.app/profile/ronf...

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

Pete Hegseth might end up regretting his decision to relieve Nancy Lacore of her position as chief of the Navy Reserve. ICYMI @lauren-egan.bsky.social on the fight for a typically red South Carolina House seat:

Join me Sunday at 11:45 AM Eastern, for a Substack live with California AG Rob Bonta. We’ll discuss the decision in the Live Nation case and what comes next. Karma. joycevance.substack.com/p/livenation...

Child: I know your name. Mamdani. Obama: What’s his first name? Child: Mayor.

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.  In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

Trump did not graduate from Wharton with honors. He was considered an unprepared, non-standout student. He proves this every damn day!!

And here’s a gift link to the remarkable story about the FBI Director from @theatlantic.com. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Peace when markets are open War when markets are closed

Trump stands (?) while talking to reporters on Thursday (Win McNamee/Getty)

Scott MacFarlane, after leaving CBS, has one of the hottest new indie news Substacks around. He joins us tonight to give us a peek at his new world—and how he manages to cover all the news, all the time. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Indulge me. My chicken, Pickles, and I are trying TikTok videos as a form of civics education to get people engaged ahead of the midterms. If your on TikTok, take a look? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gaPFsC/

Trump on DoorDash grandma Sharon Simmons's delivery to the White House: "To be honest, it was a little tacky"

I DISAGREE is available for pre-order now and comes out on September 15th. Hope you'll get a copy! Can't wait to talk to all of you about it ❤️ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803493...

BIG personal news: I wrote a book! And it's good. I promise. It comes out on September 15th! So what is I DISAGREE about? It's my answer to the question I get the most: How do you do it?

Q: "Are you still interested in acquiring Iranian oil?" Trump: "Well, we'll see. I mean, we have a very good relationship with Iran right now, as hard as it is to believe."

I enjoy Bluesky but the fact it is randomly down for 1-2 hours a day is really not great

Wearing a penis costume to a No Kings rally is a 1st Amendment right. Alabama’s efforts to prosecute were firmly rejected today. www.al.com/news/2026/04...

Jury finds Live Nation, Ticketmaster committed antitrust violations www.courthousenews.com/jury-finds-l...

🚨🚨 🚨 This is why the Ellisons cannot be trusted with @cnn.com @warnerbrothers.bsky.social They are reportedly taking revenge against a journalist who dared to oppose the merger--by pulling ads from his publication! It's an insult to free speech #BlockTheMerger www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

Hale: From all the data I see, Pope Leo is the most popular American, and he’s actually the most popular figure globally. He has 69% support among Republicans, 75% support among Democrats. He’s well beloved among all political stripes. And so I think it’s a fight Trump needs to get out of.

Saudi Arabia has warned Iran might retaliate against Trump's "blockade" of Hormuz by closing the Bab al-Mandeb—a Red Sea chokepoint crucial for Saudi's remaining oil exports. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Democratic Senator Andy Kim speaks about how the American people shouldn't have to endure an "unhinged" Commander-in-Chief who is "taking such dangerous actions in our name and without our say," followed by "I'm just tired of this"

Like many Californians, fishing has been a generational passion cemented by hours on the Truckee and American Rivers. Thanks to our remarkable work restoring California's salmon population, I'm thrilled that this season will have even more opportunities for ocean salmon fishing.

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Rev. James Martin: "I don't know too many doctors that have glowing hands ... it came after he had just been tweeting out a pretty hateful attack on Pope Leo, so obviously religion was on his mind last night, and that probably came from watching the 60 Minutes special with the thee cardinals"

Trump: "Do you think that men should play in women's sports?" Doordash driver: "I really don't have an opinion on that." Trump: "You don't? I bet you do." Doordash driver: "No, I'm here about…" Trump: "Pizza." Doordash driver: "No tax on tips."

OPEC+ "Great 8" production just ever so slightly off plan for the month.

The WBD-Paramount merger is a consumer story just as much as a Hollywood story Fewer streaming options Less competition Content disappearing behind paywalls We're sounding the alarm State AGs: we have your back #BlockTheMerger blockthemerger.com/openletter

No surprise at all

I frankly don't see this administration being capable of doing real diplomacy. You don't just show up, talk for a few hours, and expect real results.

Sam Mitchell is an all time great Timberwolves player and underrated coach. Great to see him with my friends in downtown Minneapolis tonight.

Average GOP Congressman: We err...uhhh...don't uh need uh...oversight of the DoD because uh...we trust the President to decide what's best Donald Trump: I AM JESUS CHRIST RETURNED TO EARTH THE POPE ISN'T MAGA AND HE'S WEAK ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS I AM GOING TO BUILD A HOTEL ON THE MOON

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

VIKTOR ORBÀN CAN STILL WIN IF MIKE PENCE HAS THE COURAGE.

Ossoff: "Trump apparently promised pardons for entire WH staff, which is what you do when you run it like a casino. Maybe the West Wing is too busy placing bets on the war to care, but American are getting hurt...in Trump’s America the well-connected get stock tips & everybody else makes sacrifices"

So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.

Here we go! “Now it’s war. We’ll see who wins. I kept quiet for years, and because of that, people judge me. They ask me, why are you speaking now? Because the man would not let me live in peace!” english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-...

As Trump’s unauthorized war on Iran with Israel entered into its second month, some Democratic officials were looking around and wondering: Where are the anti-war protests this time around? And why are college campuses so quiet?