Melania's Immigration Witness, Paolo Zampelli, Asked to Get His Baby Mama Deported emptywheel.net/2026/04/09/m...

🚨 BREAKING: Zelensky proposes a defensive military alliance that includes the EU + Ukraine, Turkey, Norway, and the UK. This will enable control of the seas, skies, and land of all Europe as the United States withdraws from NATO. The alliance will be stronger than Russia.

I don't want to import apartheidists and frankly the next Dem President should send them all back. They are not actually refugees in danger of political prosecution. Our reputation for sheltering refugees is already shattered anyway, we don't need to pretend it's principled to keep them here.

If you thought the Trump admin might want to put some distance between them and the subject of this NY Times profile...here he is with Vance in Hungary yesterday

There is no McTry.

Lol www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

New — I wrote about the terror and loss of the last few days, mostly so we don’t forget. www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-iran...

Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu. Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran? Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.

Trump has proposed sweeping budget cuts to security agencies that would undermine the integrity of our country’s elections. This is just the latest in what Trump has been boasting for months: that he intends to intervene in and “take over” elections.

“My law firm only has 60 lawyers, but it’s currently litigating 89 voting and election cases — a number that motivates me to continue fighting Trump’s attacks on democracy,” Marc Elias writes. “He wants us to think we can’t stop him. But we can and we must. Because we’ll lose if we stop.”

I've not been on here much. After 25 years inside legacy news, my decision to step away probably looked confusing. Why would a mid-career DC correspondent leave content to think about platforms, creators, and how people find news? It felt like it was time to chase the problem.

NEW: A “Vatican source close to Pope Leo XIV” tells NBC Chicago that the Pentagon meeting between Trump officials and the Vatican’s top American diplomat “was most unpleasant and confrontational.” This is now the fifth news outlet to describe the meeting in this way.

In recordings obtained exclusively by the Daily Beast, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein bragged about his close friendship with both Donald and Melania Trump.

Trump doesn't know Melania. Never heard of her

They’d send live videos of raids, tell them where they were staying, and generally dump tons of operational information out to any girl who’d pretend to be impressed by it

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

Viktor Orbán gets a get-out-the-vote endorsement post from Donald Trump. In recent days, various news organizations have revealed new evidence that Orbán has repeatedly acted in the interests of Russia and against the interests of the United States.

Melania Trump wants these photos and emails to be scrubbed from the Internet. Please stop liking and sharing them. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

“Reports”??? He’s got access to the best intelligence in the world. He doesn’t know?

NEW: A federal judge has ordered the DOJ to hand over all it's evidence in the murder of Renee Nicole Good in the next 3 weeks. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Epstein survivors have issued this statement in response to the First Lady's surprise public appearance denying any involvement with Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell.

Oh. Holy hell please let this be the reason Melania ran to the press: the guy who imported her, Einstein visa and all, used ICE to deport the mother of his child. Zampolli was in Hungary w/JD. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

IT HAS BEEN 110 DAYS SINCE TRUMP’S DOJ WAS SUPPOSED TO RELEASE THE FULL EPSTEIN FILES. THEY STILL HAVE NOT. TIME TO HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE, CONGRESS!

There is NO reason unless she's trying to get out ahead of something. Why on earth would the administration risk putting the Epstein files back into the news cycle? I think (dons tinfoil hat) Ghislaine is threatening to spill the tea in exchange for a pardon.

CBS News has a bombshell interview with a U.S. soldier who survived the deadly attack in Kuwait on the first day of the way -- he says Pete Hegseth is lying about the attack and that the base "was unprepared to provide any defense for itself." www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

Credit where credit is due: Congressional Democrats showed up during recess - they came back early - to introduce a war powers resolution. Republicans blocked it.

Inflation is up Incomes are down GDP growth lowered again to an anemic .5% What has Vice President @JDVance been focused on? Campaigning in a foreign country for a foreign politician who is a puppet of Putin.

Who could have imagined youtu.be/bxn6ByCebcw?...

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge dismissed the DOJ’s lawsuit demanding Massachusetts’ unredacted voter rolls. The ruling marks its fourth consecutive loss of 30 active cases seeking access to sensitive voter data from states. https://bit.ly/4mhdfeq

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

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A landslide in Wisconsin will make it much harder for MAGA to steal elections

Was genuinely taken aback by how bad this article was www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

The Hill: Automatic registration for US military draft to begin in December Eligible men will automatically be registered into the military draft pool by December as part of an effort to “streamline the previous process of self-registration and save money”. thehill.com/policy/defen...

Donny Dumbfuck wants applause for a janky ceasefire that looks like it's already falling apart. as usual, Donny got hoodwinked. thank you for your attention to my post in which I try to make sense of all the stupidity. link is here: bit.ly/4tyRauc

NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal. Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.

Quid pro whoa. #eastwing #ArcelorMittal

Watters: Are you happy that there is a ceasefire? Where do you stand? Jessica: I stand in reality that there is no ceasefire.

Journalists have unmasked Satoshi and Banksy, but we still have no idea who Trump sent to murder Epstein. 😢

What a f*cking waste of lives and money. 😠

New in PN: TACO Tuesday's lasting hangover "For years, conservatives told themselves that Trump’s constant escalations were crafty gamesmanship. This barely-averted disaster in Iran cuts the knees out from under their creative fiction. Trump'’s not performing as a madman. He’s just barking mad."

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

A useful list.

"Schumer takes no action" will be on his tombstone

Yep. It was connected.

BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office

INBOX: Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington (i.e., DC), issues statement decrying the escalating war with Iran and condemning Trump's recent remarks: "Any nation which undertakes war with the intention of ending an entire civilization has lost its moral compass…"

“Strongly and powerfully” uh-huh.

Garcia: I think that Trump has lost his mind. He's not capable of being the president and he should be removed using the 25th amendment immediately. I don't trust anything that that man or the people around him actually do. He has proven to be the most corrupt person to ever be president.

AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”