The president has used a loophole in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to get away with mass warrantless surveillance of Americans — and this week Congress will vote on whether to expand this power. Tell Congress to vote NO at 833-946-2258.

A tax day reminder from my father-in-law, a retired IRS Special Investigator: Don't hate on the Tax Man. The IRS is one of our strongest defenses against kleptocracy. But it's been hamstrung by budget cuts. Which hurt all of us, since big fish cost a LOT to catch. So, less money means more go free.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... We knew it was happening-saw & heard the news over the last 25 yrs-Warrantless surveillance, arrests & indefinite detentions of anyone for any reason are legal. D Soar’s narration is melodramatic, but the series material presented is overwhelming & heartbreaking.

Progressive property tax!

"the Pope needs to be more careful with theology" lol the hubris is weapons-grade

New evidence finds that sight and imagination rely on the same neurons and use the same neural code. n.pr/4mpWUEd

Former TIME editor Richard Stengel: “He is repeating every foreign and domestic policy mistake the US has made over the last 5 decades, but he’s doing it with a gracelessness, cluelessness, and corruption that has no precedent.”

Breaking: ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota county investigates ICE arrest of Hmong American man as a potential case of kidnapping and false imprisonment.

it happened to me: i was buying groceries and noticed that a pothole near my intersection (that has been an active impediment to me taking a granny cart to the store) has been fixed by the mamdani regime. it could happen to you too.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

This post is about the midterms and the role Harris and AOC should play. Idgaf about your 2028 takes. Come talk to me in December once we flipped both chambers. open.substack.com/pub/santiago...

I blame Reagan for everything.

This isn’t an accident. Recreation was once given equal weight alongside energy extraction in public lands management. The Trump administration has quietly erased that. Drill, baby, drill even if it means bulldozing a trail that took decades to build and belongs to all of us.

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Communities across the country are already stopping ICE warehouse plans. Organizing works. Now it's time to go even bigger—join us on April 14 and help protect our communities: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Just flagging that Jared Kushner was reportedly in the situation room for a key meeting in the lead up to the war in Iran. He has billions in investments from the Saudi government, which was pressuring Trump to go to war. Not normal. Not ok.

‘Unwaged and often unrecorded, “women’s work” has proved too difficult to measure. It is​ the great originality of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬, a research project led by Jane Whittle, to have found a solution to this problem.’ @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on medieval work. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"At some point if the ship doesn’t turn around, maybe it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump."

Enthusiastic prosecution of government corruption seems like a winning message that might, y’know, like, travel.

JD Vance *wracking* up the losses this week!

During the 1970s oil crisis, the Netherlands 🇳🇱 realized car dependency was a trap and built world-class bike infrastructure. The US 🇺🇸 just invented "Right on Red" to supposedly save gas and accepted the pedestrian casualties. Two approaches, two very different outcomes. A new NJB video. 👇

‘The Orbán government has for years systematically obstructed or undermined pan-European unity…This is why the elections represent a critical test for the Kremlin: what is at stake is the preservation, within the EU, of an active center of resistance to a common European policy toward Moscow…’

‘American efforts notwithstanding, Israel continues to lead the world in assassinations, carrying them out on an unprecedented scale in Gaza over the past two and a half years.’ Andrew Cockburn on Mossad’s kill list. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The military- industrial complex are not complaining.

No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this. You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.

How to destroy public services? 1. Drastically reduce your budget. Throw people out on the street and don't replenish pensions. 2. Complain about the deterioration in its quality. 3. Say that the degradation of public services is proof of their inefficiency. 4. The privatizations

“Make cities for humans, not for cars. Leparisien.fr/paris-75/un-... A jogger every three seconds under the Pont-Neuf: in Paris, the crazy success of running at lunchtime via @le_Parisien”

… It has become popular among many to cut ties with family members, friends and colleagues over political disagreements. [Yet] politics relying on relentless disaffiliation and ostracism are incompatible with the ethics of charity and community-building, and ultimately corrode democratic ties."

Translation: they are doing it. finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...

1000 stories to be honest. People are in motion everywhere. Folks in Minneapolis continue to hold each other thru this moment - every day I see comrades raising thousands to keep neighbors houses. A friend adopted a class at her local elementary school & throws monthly parties for kids, no fanfare.

This looks important. 👇 The summary thread makes a couple of interesting point. One of the key points, in my opinion, is the focus on old social media users — rather than the obsessive focus on youth.

He didn’t cave. It was always the plan. He was blustering to move the market so a few of his friends could make a few $billion day trading knowing when he would “cave”.

They call it cutting red tape. It’s cutting the public out. It’s cutting science out. And it’s cutting our parks and forests out of the conversation entirely.

“Even as the cost of infrastructure for active transportation is being used as a reason for inaction, evidence is accumulating that when the full economic cost is considered, driving costs society more, while cycling and other forms of active transportation save society money.”— @sflkirk.bsky.social

TACO Tuesday but also market manipulation

At this point it's clear that he is deliberately creating chaos to whip-saw global markets so his sons can make money on insider trading. Evil.

After the 2010 election under Scott Walker, WI was seen as a test case for a national GOP strategy. Seems long term moral decline is unpopular.

When is a ceasefire not a ceasefire? When it involves Netanyahu. Iran War Live Updates: 2-Week Cease-Fire Takes Hold www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

The US president starting and losing wars so he, his family, and his cronies can profit isn't even hard to believe any more.

Yes, that Trump is a master of “the deal.”

Here's the number for the congressional switchboard. Please call your reps and senators. This man needs to be removed from office now. (202) 224-3121

It would not hurt if you called your GOP MoCs to tell them they are legally complicit with the war crimes Trump is committing. Might not prevent armageddon, but couldn't hurt. (202) 224-3121

For once, the NYT couldn't even sanewash this.

Read the story. Not a peep that the PCBs came from general electric. They just happened to be in the river and were now magically lowered.

NEW: New Hampshire has banned student IDs for voting, adding to a ever-growing list of GOP restrictions ahead of the midterms.

They don't need ratings - Byron Allen's company is literally renting the timeslot.

In Japan, community-owned health co-ops serve millions of people. They own hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and dentist offices, providing affordable care to the poor and elderly. Co-op members perform basic health checks on one another with the guidance of doctors, emphasizing preventable care.

Host: Gas prices could top $5 a gallon if the Iran war keeps the Strait of Hormuz closed. Don't worry, Trump is not giving up on building his $400 million ballroom. His administration argued that being asked to stop building his ballroom is "threatening grave national security harms."