Friday: "trump says Iran deal in a day or two" Two days later: Iran says no to further talks Maybe just maybe it's time for reporters to stop blasting their latest phone chat with trump across the media ecosystem without facts, context AND without a transcript of the call.

NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

Ha! He's doing a piss poor job with all of his deranged untruth social posts. & he knows damn well that that's not what Peter Theil paid him for. www.benzinga.com/news/politic...

Sean Hannity is so far up Donald Trump‘s ass, the guy we see on Fox News must be a body double manufactured by the same person who created the Melania body double, that smiles at her husband during his demented speeches.

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Within the course of an hour, the Trump administration has reversed course three times on whether JD Vance would be heading to Islamabad for the next round of Iran peace talks.

One day, kids will study Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu the same way we studied Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin

The violence in Preacher Mikes backyard seems pretty extreme. Not surprising for blood red districts. 8 children lost their lives early this morning. MAGA Republican policy has killed millions over the last decade. Let's change that this year. #SheShed www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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All of the Founders' worst fears about how American democracy could go off the rails - lack of separation between church and state, a populist demagogue assuming dictatorial powers - are happening just in time for the 250th birthday

We are living in a timeline so dumb it's exhausting.

At this point the only thing holding MAGA together at all is racism

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

US military prepares to board Iran-linked ships in coming days, officials say

“Our American culture is at stake,” Peale warned his colleagues. “I don’t say it won’t survive, but it won’t be what it was.”

Franklin once reportedly said "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic". Wonder what he would say about a convicted felon writing obscene amounts of money from the Treasury without even involving a vote or a decision by anyone but himself?

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion. I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

New euphemism for "pure, unadulterated horseshit" just dropped

Imagine that: The deal made by Trump and his gang of incompetent, boot-licking imbeciles, fell apart. 👉 The Strait of Hormuz is closed again.

There’s so much to say about the remarkable reporting from Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak—and I’ll say a lot of it in Monday’s newsletter. But the most striking thing about all of it is the role & behavior of Chief Justice Roberts. “Calling balls and strikes” this ain’t: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

UKRAINE STRIKES 620 MILES DEEP INTO RUSSIA OVERNIGHT: Overnight on April 18, Ukrainian drones struck an oil depot in occupied Crimea and an oil refinery in Russia’s Samara Oblast.

NEWSFLASH: US renews sanctions waiver for Russian oil. Late on Friday night – apparently to escape public notice – the Trump administration reversed their pledge, renewing lapsed sanctions waivers for Russian oil.

Kash Patel has responded to The Atlantic re a story about him being MIA. According to "more than two dozen people" interviewed by The Atlantic, Patel was "erratic, suspicious of others, and prone to jumping to conclusions before he has necessary evidence." Bad investigatory behavior, if true.

Also: Pope Leo is a natural-born US citizen over 35 years of age, has lived in America more than 14 years, and insofar as we can tell, has never engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the US.

Things are going swimmingly

Trump May See Nuking Iran as ‘Safer' Option: Conservative Magazine Editor #Newsweek

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room. The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction. The Health guy collects raccoon dicks. It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged

White House Faith Office Senior Advisor Paula White‑Cain on Trump's faith: "He can quote to you so many sermons. I mean, profound."