I’m old enough to remember when Presidents didn’t conduct delicate peace negotiations on crappy social media apps

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Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.

Iran is rejecting Trump’s claim that Tehran agreed to hand over its enriched uranium stockpile. A source close to Iran’s Parliament Speaker said “no form of nuclear material transfer to America has been negotiated,” directly contradicting Trump. 1/

"There's only one majority in this country and that's the working class." —Zohran Mamdani

Stevens to RFK Jr: "To top it off, Mr Secretary, I got a copy of HR-944. You know what it is? It's your impeachment articles, sir. You have abused your office, you have gutted America's public health! You should be ashamed."

LEFT: What Donald is making our troops in Iran eat. RIGHT: What Donald is giving folks at Mar-a-Lago to eat. Honestly, I thought I was going to make this point a lot better than I can. The food at Mar-a-Lago may be richer and more plentiful, but it still looks like poorly-plated slop.

April 2025, HHS fired the entire FOIA teams at the CDC, FDA, and NIH. The CDC’s office was eliminated. Then a watchdog group filed FOIA requests with DOGE, & DOGE denied them. A federal judge had to order compliance. Meanwhile, 12% of FOIA requests were fully granted last year. Lowest on record.

42,722 people in ICE detention as of April 4th have no criminal conviction of any kind. That's 70.8%. The data comes from ICE's own numbers, published by TRAC at Syracuse University.

FEMA is sitting on nearly $10 billion in approved disaster preparedness funding. Spring flooding is here. Hurricane season starts June 1st. Louisiana, Florida, Texas, California. I put state names on what was cut and why it matters right now.

Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

On November 4th in California, you will have the power to stand up to Donald Trump. You will have the power to stand up for people. We're going to give the people of this state the power to stand up for democracy.

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What is this Press Conference? The only thing missing is the men getting on their knees and it's not his "ring" they're kissing. He truly believes he's a god-like creature. I find him beyond repulsive. This f*cker would pull out his d*CK if it wasn't so small too. He's not fooling us. He's a sicko

Today marks 3 years since this corrupt SCOTUS passed Dobbs & overturned Roe v Wade. In my own country, guns & fetuses have more rights than I do as a woman. Women must have bodily autonomy. No man should decide what rights I have over my own body; that is between me & my doctor.

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Republicans are suicidal.

Everyone needs to start reporting ICE agents are Iranian sleeper cells.

As if kicking Americans off their health insurance wasn’t bad enough, Trump’s budget could put more than 300 rural hospitals in the US at risk of closure. We already have a health care crisis in Rural America. Trump would make it even worse to give billionaires a tax break.

No money to feed other people’s children but lots of money to fight other people’s wars.

Mamdani’s win, like AOC’s, reminded folks of the power of the people. *San Antonio also just elected Gina Ortiz. May every lazy capitulating rep be “stunned” & Republicans sweat stress. Primary & replace them ALL. ⭐️Ppl check Dr. Annie Andrew’s up against Lindsey Graham and Kay Abughazaleh in IL.

Why is NYT trying to center Cuomo and his feelings, when the story of the night really is: The people have spoken; Mamdani’s progressive economic populist agenda is what the people want. Or Mamdani wins NYC Mayoral race and is happily laying the bricks for a dignified affordable NYC.

The NYTimes hated him because (checks notes) he said he would raise some taxes on the super wealthy and provide free buses. Wow, sounds like a real monster.

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Alejandro Barranco, the Marine veteran, just left L.A.'s Metropolitan Detention Center where he was able to visit with his dad, Narciso, after he was detained over the weekend while working as a landscaper at IHOP. He'll join @nicollewallace.bsky.social and me on @msnbc.com at 5PMET. Tune in.

It continues to be a complete disgrace that the orange convicted felon is at the NATO summit in The Hague when he should be in prison for sedition as well as the fact that he has been trying to weaken and destroy the NATO alliance from the beginning. It’s disgusting.

Schrier to RFK Jr: You gave Cassidy the answer he needed to hear in order to get his confirmation vote, then as soon as you were secretary you turned around & fired all 17 members. You lied. I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every vaccine-preventable death at your feet.

The Ku Klux Klan Acts (passed in 1870 & 1871 to protect 14th amend rights) were particularly focused on masked gunmen who violated the civil rights of Black people. We should remember this history when masked law enforcement ofcrs are deployed in our communities. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Time to start acting like the J in JD is for Jose. Everywhere he goes, he needs to be called Jose Vance.

Terry Moran told the truth.

A headline from Hell. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

tbh i didn't know one person could destroy the global economy

After yesterday's events in the White House, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway's largest marine fuel companies, appears to have announced that it will no longer refuel American Navy vessels. Haltbakk has called on other European companies to refuse service to American forces.

📸 No one follows more etiquette rules than the Royal Family—but notice how King Charles didn’t make any smart-ass or demeaning comments about Zelensky’s attire today. Why? Because respect isn’t about clothes—it’s about character. And that’s something money can’t buy.

What happened to Little Marco?

Nobody should be surprised that our Secretary of State is a pathetic, weak, cowardly piece of shit.

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This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes…

from today's post — please read the whole thing, thanks! link is here: bit.ly/41irHtM