Satellite imagery released by Iranian state media shows 40 IRGC fast-attack boats active in the Strait of Hormuz. Sentinel-2 satellite imagery dated May 2 shows a swarm of approximately 40 IRGC Navy fast-attack boats returning from patrol in the Strait of Hormuz.-Press TV

Call her and let her know you want her to do this.

I can’t even imagine how many billions of Hungarian forints have been funneled into the American rightwing mediaverse

I keep waiting for all these folks who believe so strongly in merit and fairness to join together to ban legacy admissions…

Tysm for sharing this! Unfortunately it completely makes sense and I absolutely hate it 😭. My family fled during the Hungarian Revolution and in the space of one generation I could possibly flee right back. Thank you again, I had completely missed this connection!

Humpty Trumpy

The Russian air defense across Russia is increasingly overwhelmed to counter the Ukrainian air campaign. The situation in Russia's South, most notably in and around Tuapse, is currently the most prominent example, but it is happening across the country.

Tough news, does anyone out there have openings for some morbidly cynical hacks who specialize in cashing checks from the Hungarian government

No wonder the administration pulled out all the stops to try and keep Orban in there

I’m George Conway, a constitutional lawyer and co-founder of the Lincoln Project. We’ve got to protect our democracy from Trump’s deranged, egomaniacal descent into authoritarianism. But Congress is doing NOTHING to stop Trump, and it’s time for a change.

- Jonathan Ross watch ON - There is a killer on the loose - - 🚨 - - - OK people DO YOUR THING, find him, but do not approach - he Is considered armed and dangerous - make anonymous tips to MN Attorney General

Time for #FunWithNumbers In 2024, the US used 377 MILLION gallons of gasoline a day. Average prices have gone from $2.98 to $4.30. 377m x $1.32 = $497,640,000 A HALF BILLION A DAY, PFFT! Straight to Big Oil. $15+ BILLION so far, burned just on gas, just in the U.S. TRILLION$ WASTED... [==*==]

- Few understand conflicts of interest - if you see one, it is categorically bad for your wallet - bc economic conflicts of interest eliminate the presumption the product is safe or worth the price, ie, it is just as likely awarded on a criteria other than effectiveness, reliability, price, or merit

How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.

We are winning if they have to be this explicit; big money looks big scared 😳

lol yeah girl, how did you think health insurance companies worked?

crown street's own chaya raichik, comes within touching distance of class consciousness only to veer off into racist fantasy at the last moment, "classic" raichik.

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

Sky and Amanda Roberts, the brother and sister-in-law of the late Virginia Giuffre, are denied an audience with King Charles here on Capitol Hill

Two things that passed the Minnesota senate last night that you might have missed: 1. Ban on chatbots for minors 2. Ban on pharmaceutical advertising on TV

Americans feel worse off financially than at any point in 25 years, Gallup finds www.axios.com/2026/04/28/t...

Mark Kelly notes that $1.5T will be close to what the ENTIRE rest of world spends, which he calculates as around $1.8T.

Iran said it would respond with 'long and painful strikes' on US positions if Washington renewed attacks, and also reasserted its control over the Strait of Hormuz, complicating US plans for a coalition to reopen the waterway. www.reuters.com/world/iran-w...

Federal agents “took off his pants and shirt, handcuffed him, and drove him 65 kilometers to the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland, where he was fingerprinted, photographed, and jailed.” Sounds… fascist.

Facts are not irony—This is the only crooked straight in the world He’s right on this one

Pakistan has opened six land routes to facilitate the shipment of goods to Iran.-Press TV

You guys just don’t understand—his healthcare plan is stuck inside the Persian Gulf behind the nasty Iranian’s blockade and he’s trying to get it out for all of us

It's legitimately crazy that the Federalist Society managed to converge on "We need to rip up the entire post-1929 and post-1964 civil compacts and that's how we'll preserve our traditions." Yeah, it's obviously bigoted in motive, but also these *were* the compromises that preserved traditions.

Every damn book, conference, big money fellowship has been about reducing polarization. Many knew the real issue wasn’t polarization, but that polarization was the only politically correct proxy for the real problem. What a joke man

👇🎯 It’s been an exhausting two decades watching this systemic unwillingness to call far right authoritarianism & racism what they are, & to have to keep pretending it was “polarization.”

Thank Gd—the JCPOA is back Joint Coalition Partners Of America #JCPOA

This is truly where we are

As far as I can tell, a map-drawer can now say, "I am going to split this community of black voters into separate districts, not because I intend to dilute the votes of black Americans, but rather because black Americans vote Dem and I want to dilute the power of Dem voters," and it's just fine

🚨BREAKING: Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Fact is Iranian leadership is more savvy, more intelligent,and more humane than USrael.

Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.

Khanna to Hegseth: "You know what I'm sad for? I'm sad for all the people who voted for Trump. I'm sad for them because you betrayed them. You betrayed a lot of that MAGA base. And you know who knows that? JD Vance knows that."

Cannot stress enough that what's happening now and will accelerate over next few weeks is a big spike in fuel costs paid for by every American that will flow *directly* into insane, unprecedented profits for American oil companies. They're going to be the big winners of this.

The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.

At least 2 US ambassadors to Ukraine have experienced Trump’s corruption and Kremlin treason scheme first hand; both have resigned one after another. If your diplomats are sounding the alarm that your head of state is a turncoat, under normal circumstances that would be a trigger for an inquiry.

Brava

“We all need to play by the same set of rules” - @aoc.bsky.social

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, remember that you can convict the defendant only if it wouldn't surprise you that he did it.

3. Alito's justification for gutting the VRA (again) is a heinous distortion of the 15th Amendment. A constitutional provision meant to empower Black voters has been weaponized against them. It now HINDERS Congress's ability to help racial minorities elect their preferred representatives. Perverse.

The Trump administration has terminated more than 100 advisory committees to #science agencies and reduced the transparency and independence of those that remain. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Don't think I've ever seen @rickhasen.bsky.social this angry. "The Supreme Court itself has shown itself to be the enemy of democracy. [Democrats] have to consider reform of the Supreme Court itself, a conclusion I had been resisting until the court made this unavoidable." slate.com/news-and-pol...

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

Ukrainian mid-range drones struck deep into Russian territory. In the Voronezh region two choppers (Mi-17 and Mi-28) were detected by a surveillance drone and struck by two strike-drones. Clearly the Russian military expected to be safe here. Apparently, they were not.

I'm seven points down from the second spot in the #CA14 top two primary and running even with a wealthy self-funded candidate who donated to Laura Loomer's campaign in 2020 and launched a TV ad this week. Your support matters.

Iran has warned of “unprecedented military action” against continued U.S. seizures of Iran‑linked vessels, citing a senior Iranian security source.-Press TV