Remember when we used to have experienced seasoned diplomats with decades of knowledge and experience in a specific region involved in sensitive and complex negotiations with other countries over important details? Seems like a better plan than Vance, Witkoff and Kushner.

Jeffrey Epstein himself bragged that he was Donald Trump’s “closest friend for 10 years.” We’re supposed to believe Melania didn’t know that? And that the only time she spent with him was at parties? 🙄

How does James Comer have Hillary testify but not Melania?

Trump’s DOJ claims it’s cracking down on fraud. Meanwhile, Trump has pardoned 70+ allies, donors, and insiders convicted of fraud. So what exactly is this “war on fraud”? Katie Phang breaks down the hypocrisy. Unfiltered. Watch 👉 youtu.be/wvX7-oYs-cs?...

FACTCHECK UPDATE: No, the UK can't "be more like Norway" in the North Sea 🇬🇧 extracted most of its oil & gas after privatisation 🇳🇴 has much more left due to state stewardship 🤔Lawson spent UK windfall on tax cuts; Norway got a sovereign wealth fund www.carbonbrief.org/...

Trump family benefactor ALTS deprived investors of key information by hiding a criminal judgment Issued May 2025 but not disclosed until weeks after a $1.5B capital raise At stake: integrity of our financial system -TN https://www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/04.09.26-pr

Methinks the lady doth protest too much

Private investor money apparently steered directly into the pockets of the Trump family & their associates Stock down ~80% & projected Losses exceeding $340M Our markets cannot be influenced by political rent seekers -TN

Breaking: Epstein survivors release statement slamming Melania for trying to absolve herself of involvement in Epstein’s crimes. “Melania Trump is now shifting the burden onto survivors under politicized conditions that protect those with power.”

Former first lady Hillary Clinton testified under oath before Congress about the Epstein matter even though she never even met Jeffrey Epstein. Current first lady Melania Trump partied with Epstein. She needs to testify under oath before Congress.

I feel like this should be a bigger story. 👀

Quite a moment: Melania becomes the first member of the administration trying to distract the public’s attention back to Epstein in order to get them to stop talking about Iran.

Extraordinary. (Douglas Murray and Tim Montgomerie also mentioned in this article.)

Pakistan confirms that Lebanon was part of the ceasefire agreement youtu.be/Wuizp6qRkjU

We've reached the point that they're using the Epstein files to cover up Iran

❗️EU authorities demand urgent explanations from Hungary after leaked recordings reveal FM Szijjarto shared internal EU and national discussions with Russia between 2023 and 2025. Lawmakers are also pushing to restrict access to sensitive information for pro-Russian officials within EU institutions.

NATO has no obligation to help Trump in his war in Iran. Trying to bully NATO countries is just weak sauce.

Savage video from the Iran Embassy in Lebanon.

I’ve known Lebanon for three decades. What’s happening now is an invasion. This is Gaza 2.0 – and the world is barely paying attention. @CaroleCadwalladr for the Nerve Link 🔽

Reform UK's Malcolm Offord ducked election campaigning for yacht race. The racist and incompetent candidates. The homophobic joke. The bungled uncosted manifesto.

Yesterday the US government told us the Iranians were “begging” for a ceasefire. A ceasefire the Iranians today, the Americans tell us, have immediately reneged on.

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese: “The Australian government also firmly believes that the ceasefire has to apply to Lebanon as well.”

Donald Trump may have declared ‘total and complete victory’ after a ceasefire with Iran. But this morning's Russian newspapers don’t agree. One writes: “Only the feverish mind of the American president himself can consider this a triumphant victory.” #ReadingRussia

Vance in Hungary: Backing Orbán While Denouncing “Interference” — what you need to know.

MAGA and Reform have a habit of crying foul over election. Yet, they actively interfere in foreign elections. Vance has done just that with his visit to Hungary. It is long past the time that we sanctioned the US regime and put a Cordon Sanitaire around it. Oh, and stop using the USD to buy oil.

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.

Israeli aircraft reportedly sprayed glyphosate over border farmlands in southern Lebanon & Syria’s Quneitra in Jan–Feb ‘26. Lebanese tests & UNIFIL samples found concentrations 20–30x above normal, killing crops. Israel said it is to deny militants cover. UN warned of humanitarian/environmental harm

Israel detained a Spanish United Nations peacekeeper and fired warning shots at an Italian convoy in Lebanon. Spain and Italy have demanded explanations.

A group of new accounts on the prediction market Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the U.S. and Iran would reach a ceasefire on April 7, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for these new customers.

Associated Press journalists saw charred bodies in vehicles and on the ground at one of Beirut’s busiest intersections in the central Corniche al Mazraa neighborhood, a mixed commercial and residential area.

Unprecedented corruption

The latest act of direct interference in the UK’s next election.

“This is a trans-national effort, funded by Russian oil, to replace Western liberalism with a pro-Russian ideology... Orbán is not just the puppet that gives this packaged ideology a European face... he oversees the money laundering vehicles to fund the larger network” emptywheel.net/2026/04/07/p...

A member of the Assembly of Experts for the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran, Major General Mohsen Rezaee: “The responsibility for the collapse of the ceasefire falls on the shoulders of the United States, which is either unwilling or incapable of reining in its ‘rabid dog.’”

It's a total shower of a government, led by a man without any capacity to control himself, and with nobody around willing to intervene and - if necessary - unseat him via the 25th amendment. There is no longer any other rational, objective way of looking at the crisis in Washington.

We're witnessing the inevitable result of electing a President who thinks being on television & posting on Truth Social is the same as actually doing the job of governing. Without a single figure in his team who can say: "Donny...shut the fuck up". So by Saturday, we'll be back in genocidal terrain.

TRUMP: “Do everything I ask or I’ll bomb you back into the Stone Age!” IRAN: “How about, instead, you do everything we ask and we’ll call it a day?” TRUMP: “Deal.” FOX NEWS: “Awesome Trump is the world’s most masterful negotiator!”

BLATANT LIE CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Karoline Leavitt: "Lebanon is NOT part of the ceasefire agreement". FACT: Literally the PM of Pakistan, who mediated the ceasefire, tweeted out that it WAS included. He's literally the one who witnessed the deal.

If these himars don’t end up in Russian hands…

Iran says it is halting traffic in the Strait of Hormuz after Israel attacked Lebanon, testing fragile ceasefire deal. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/4vg5XLY

My PM nailing it 👊

Oooh great , now back to the Epstein files

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

And his family and associates make money from the wild market swings….

Trump is also ignoring the Supreme Court ruling on tariffs from just a few weeks ago www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump lost this war in every possible sense — morally, legally, politically, economically, reputationally, and strategically.

People are saying, we won like nobody has ever won before. By losing.