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Collectively, a group of nearly 100 billionaires and spouses have donated $9.8 million to the #Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins’ network since the start of 2025, representing a third of what groups supporting #Maine's Collins raised from all donors. themainemonitor.org/billionaires...

L - GOP Rep and MI senate candidate Mike Rogers actual photo from the campaign trail. R - Photo put out by staffer.

Thank you, Rep Joyce Beatty! Nobody else tried to do it. I appreciate it very much!👏👏👏

MSM, some quick notes: 1. It’s not a settlement (the case was dismissed). 3. It’s not a ballroom (it’s a bunker). 3. It’s not a library (Trump said it will be a hotel). It matters that you get it right.

Mainstream media should be covering Trump with fewer political reporters and more crime reporters.

Cassidy played this in the worst possible way. He took a stand on impeachment thinking Trump was finished. Then Trump comes back and he sells out on everything thinking he could appease him somehow. He sold his soul & lost anyway. He loses with his integrity gone. What a legacy.

This is just to say

Got your winning 2028 ticket right here: @captmarkkelly.bsky.social and @aoc.bsky.social Unbeatable.

This comparison of Trump—ailing, sunsetting, obsessing over monuments to himself—to the ancient emperor Ozymandias is so good. From @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social, on our pod. Check out this exchange: newrepublic.com/article/2102...

We can hope! Gotta get out that vote.

DC looks increasingly like North Korea, plastered with “Dear Leader’s” glowering face and with armed troops roaming the streets and Metro stations. It’s a disgusting display with no place in a democratic society, but then, would-be dictator Trump has no use for democracy.

We seriously should treat sports betting ads like cigarette ads: ban them.

From someone who knows her legal cases: AI "completely hallucinated"

Right now, the federal government can buy Americans’ most sensitive data—including healthcare information—without a warrant. Congress must reject a clean reauthorization of FISA Section 702 and close the data broker loophole. I will be voting no.

When parental rights threaten my kid. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Commentary by Sam Loranger -- They work. They save money. Why are Hospital-at-Home programs still temporary? www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/14/m...

Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.

there really isn't much to the American ideology that refers to itself as "conservatism" beyond rejection of the New Deal reforms of the 1930s and the civil-rights reforms of the 1960s

Note from the copy desk: This WaPo subhead is a work of art.

"It is to create havoc on the seas." Welcome to the Ocean State, where beautiful beaches look out on maritime havoc. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/m...

Literacy grant produces big gains for Black and poor students in D.C. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Great turnout for No Kings in North Kingstown RI @kathyprojo.bsky.social

USA Today sane-washes Trump's bizarre plan to send ICE to the airports, suggesting that masked, armed thugs with no TSA training will "help" the situation.

The Middle East policy makers in the state department, the brains behind any effective approach to Iran, have been fired, retired, or ignored. apnews.com/article/iran...

AI agent Claude admits to being "naive" in countering Bernie's plan to control artificial intelligence before it wrecks our democracy. This exchange is brilliant.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... @democrats.org

"No quarter" is an international war crime. That's what the defense secretary champions in a White House full of criminals.

www.providencejournal.com/story/grocer... @wheelerreporter.bsky.social

So dark and unhinged. The Trump regime is dropping thousands of bombs for clicks. If you’re not horrified by this you have lost the thread.

This could be fun.

Nursing homes feed residents anti-pyschotic meds while investors steer cash into their pockets.

Wrote a note to self in Wordpad on my laptop. No internet open. Mentioned seeing Kelly Ripa on TV at the medical lab waiting room. Went online later for email. MSN feed that shows when I close email highlighted Kelly Ripa. First time she's ever been there. Coincidence? Not likely. Fuckers see all.

‘The digital colonization of flyover states’: how datacenters are tearing small-town America apart

Everything is always about Epstein but this, too, looks right.

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Gift link: wapo.st/3OCZdqY

4 Minnesota guys

Not at all funny, but the headline on today's column by @leonkrauze.bsky.social sparks memories of Duck Soup by the Marx Brothers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Wh...

“Every parent of a daughter who played hockey has a mental binder full of slights… ********* …Watching the president of the United States joke to the men's team that he would "have to" invite the women gold medalists to the the White House "too”, and seeing the men all laugh, is par for the course.”

Federal prosecutions in Minnesota prove federal officers have broken the law. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @theguardian.com

Best tribute to Jesse Jackson: wapo.st/4cxEYoe

Rep. Angie Craig: "The attacks on Black and brown people in Minnesota have been egregious. At the end of the day, what they wanted out of Minnesota was for us to riot. I think this will go down in American history as one of the greatest examples of peaceful resistance from an entire community."

RFK Jr. and the White House posted this today. Not clever, just creepy. If anyone requires a warning label, it’s this sociopath.