Just for a second, I would like everyone to briefly contemplate how American media would have covered either George Bush announcing a joint venture with Saddam Hussein to charge the rest of the world a tax on oil.

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

No one has benefited more from Trump’s war than Russian billionaires.

There is something you can do about all of this — make your plans for May 1. This country needs a united show of power, energy, and hope. indivisible.org/events/may-d...

We do now know the NSF is proceeding with dissolving the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. Congress might reverse it, but it is now already underway. YOU CAN NO LONGER SUBMIT FUNDING PROPOSALS TO SBE. Program officers are being moved to different parts of the agency. Call your Congress member

It’s crazy that the vice president openly intervening in a foreign election for the candidate backed by Russia ranks a distant second in insane things happening today.

Come on then, and remove him.

Anti-War protest tonight at 6 pm at the White House. Spread the word!

One House Republican pushes back on Trump's Iran threat today — Rep. Rep. Nathaniel Moran of Texas: "I do not support the destruction of a 'whole civilization.' That is not who we are, and it is not consistent with the principles that have long guided America."

Remember when Bill Clinton spoke to his AG for a few seconds privately, on the tarmac, and the US media, following the instructions of bad-faith wingnuts, made a huge multi-week scandal out of it?

NEW: Iran-linked hackers are attacking US critical infrastructure around the country, according to a warning from federal agencies and confirmation from the company whose component is being exploited. @agreenberg.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/iran-l...

After Trump wrote, in reference to Iran, “A whole civilization will die tonight,” the entirety of the House Democratic leadership issued this joint statement:

General good rule of thumb, don't repost "news" from breaking events from non-reporters that fail to include links.

Speaker Johnson, we are calling on you to bring the House back to DC IMMEDIATELY! The Cabinet needs to invoke the 25th Amendment. But Congress can’t just sit on its hands and wait for that to happen when the President is threatening to commit war crimes TONIGHT.

1/ NYT out with a huge piece on the decision to go to war. It's much as we thought: Bibi sold Trump a rosy scenario that he heard over the mild to moderate warnings that it was BS but the details are so...appalling/demoralizing. Vance clearly a source: GIFT LINK 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

Bloomberg has dropped what must be the single most important election eve scoop in modern European history. Among other things, it makes both Orbán and Vance look like Kremlin stooges, which is precisely what they are.

Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman offer a definitive path to war account saying the whole process, start to finish, has Benjamin Netanyahu's fingerprints all over it while the constitutional and statutory officers who should be advising the president on decisions to go to war were excluded.

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.

The opposition party is currently being led by People Magazine’s headline writers. people.com/trump-ramble...

Reporter: Are you willing to end this conflict with Iran charging tolls for passage through the strait? Trump: Us charging tolls? Reporter: Iran. Trump: What about us charging tolls? Why shouldn’t we? We won. We’ll charge tolls.

California has led the largest expansion of health coverage in America, bringing the uninsured rate from 17% a decade ago down to a RECORD LOW of 5.9%. Quite literally the opposite of the health care carnage we're seeing from Republicans in Washington.

Tump says Putin explained NATO to him. Wow. That explains a lot

Trump admits on camera that at his request, the U.S. is now stealing Venezuela's oil to fill the American war chest. This is the world's richest country, plundering a country where 80 percent of people did not have enough food to eat in a 2017 survey, according to Human Rights Watch.

President Trump insults NATO, South Korea, Japan and Australia Refers to President Biden as "mentally retarded" Then praises North Korea

JPMORGAN: “.. Operation Epic Fury has now set a record for US Tomahawk missile deployment, surpassing the Iraq War in 2003 and exhausting four years of supply based on current production rates.” [Cembalest] #$RTX

Still got 3 days left though.

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

The president is deeply unwell and threatening more war crimes against the people of Iran. Trump is lashing out because he’s historically unpopular and his regime is crumbling. Urge your Members of Congress to use their power to stop the mad king’s illegal war: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...

Tricia McLaughlin, as DHS spokesperson, justified the deportation of an Army veteran because he was a "repeat offender" who had bounced a check and broken something. Meanwhile, her husband got a $220 million federal contract under incredibly suspicious circumstances. I bet it was his first offense.

This is a case where the law has not changed, but in the past someone like this would have been allowed to stay in the United States and apply for a green card because of her marriage. No more. She has been in the US since she was less than 2 years, and applied for DACA.

FYI... Somebody should tell the governor of Texas that this photo is AI-generated. Neither the US military nor the White House has released any images from the rescue.

via @mkraju.bsky.social Trump on Wednesday on Strait of Hormuz: “We don’t need it. We haven’t needed it.” Trump today: “Open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in hell.”

Tfw a Muslim mayor honors a Christian holy day better than the ‘Christian’ president

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

I had to check but yes this is real

The Bondi firing will get all the attention but what Hegseth is doing with the upper echelons of the military is much more dangerous over time than Bondi’s tenure as AG. And it won’t get 1% of the coverage. Someday it will get a lot of coverage, and those will be dark days.

The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"

NEW: Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff’s net worth increased 15%—to $2.3B—in the past year, largely due to World Liberty Financial. That’s the crypto venture his family co-owns with the Trumps and a firm backed by UAE’s national security adviser. @giacomotognini.bsky.social for Forbes

He probably just wants to make sure that future Presidents — of all political parties — are comfortable. 🤡 @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

You can use our new database to explore the financial disclosures — and potential conflicts of interest — of President Donald Trump and more than 1,500 of his appointees. Here's what Trump budget chief Russell Vought has disclosed:

The Edmonds-based travel writer and TV personality says: “A new tax on fat paychecks like mine was just signed into law in my home state — and I like it.”

Hegseth not only fired the Sec of the Army. He also fired head of Army Training & Command, as well as the Army's chief of chaplains. Destabilizing Army leadership during an active shooting war is another example of Hegseth's incompetence & cannon fodder philosophy www.military.com/daily-news/h...

Trump's illegal tariffs have cost American small businesses billions. Big corporations have armies of lawyers to fight back. Your neighborhood restaurant doesn't. That's why we introduced the RELIEF Act to refund every last dollar in tariffs this administration collected.

The Israeli defense minister threatens an illegal occupation and crimes against civilians www.reuters.com/world/middle...

“The Department of Justice has now released all of the files with respect to the Epstein saga,” Blanche claimed. "The Justice Department has not released all of the files from the federal investigation into the deceased billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,” as @people.com reports👇🏽

MacFarlane: It was really striking that Todd Blanche said, “To the extent the Epstein files were a part of the past year at the Department of Justice, they should not be a part of anything going forward.” The survivors would vehemently disagree.

Federal judge orders immigration authorities to allow a Catholic organizing group and clergy access to an immigration detention center in Broadview, Illinois, during Holy Week, marking a sharp rebuke of the government's blanket restrictions on religious ministry inside the facility: