🚨Trump Administration Illegally Withheld Funding AGAIN, Government Watchdog Reports www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!" And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

🧵 Russia: At the Yoroslavskiy train station in Moscow, Chechen Kadyrovite mafia kidnapped a person in broad daylight as he screamed for help, threw him in the trunk of their Mercedes SUV, and drove off. Bystanders and police just watched on and dared not interfere.

The Fulton County, Georgia Board of Commissioners recently voted 5-2 to reject the GOP’s nominations of two prominent election deniers to the county board of elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Current and former officials say the current effort amounts to the dismantling of the civil rights division and its traditional mission.

Prices are rising nationwide and Trump’s gaslighting everyone about why. His tariffs and failed policies are driving costs up. He’s spent $200 billion more in his first 100 days than the same period last year, delivering less to Americans at a greater cost.

White privilege, at its basest.

Spot on and absolutely hilarious!

Spot on and absolutely hilarious!

Emmitsburg is home to the National Fire Academy, effectively the war college for U.S. firefighters. The Trump administration's decision to halt classes has some townspeople pondering their votes.

SCOOP: The Trump administration is “decommissioning” a Department of Justice office that been at the center of dismantling transnational organized crime networks, drug cartels and human trafficking rings. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A late note on Judge Howell’s ruling striking down the Perkins Coie exec order. Key point is in 1st sentence: “No American President has ever before issued executive orders like the [this] one.” Trump apologists can change the subject or stay silent, but can’t deny she’s right. ... 1/10

Let's talk about mine safety real quick. There have been 12 mine fatalities so far in 2025. In the same period in 2024, there were 5. So while the administration is making cuts at MSHA and delaying the implementation of the much-needed silica rule, the number of miners dying has more than doubled.

Trolling: A think tank founded by Stephen Miller sued John Roberts last week, asking a judge to declare that the White House should control the federal court system talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

“Shipping ports are empty across the United States. Nothing is coming in. Businesses have cancelled the remainder of their 2025 orders.” (h/t FreightWaves)

NEW: The USDA will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella in their products, halting a Biden administration effort to reduce food poisoning from contaminated meat. What could possibly go wrong?

NEW: In a SCATHING decision, Judge Briones of the Western District of Texas absolutely SAVAGED the government over this case, tearing to shreds ICE’s hearsay “evidence” that this husband and wife were in Tren de Aragua as “completely and wholly unsubstantiated” — and ordered their immediate release!

Lawyers sidelined, entire directorates vacant, career staff pushed out for infractions that include donating $50 to a Dem eight years ago. It’s been a chaotic three months at Trump’s NSC www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

This is a really big one. Just published: Excellent reporting from @nickmiroff.bsky.social. The Trump administration was actively working on a plan to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to America—why did it stop? Must read: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I'm listening in on the Perkins Coie hearing in DDC. (I made it onto the call!) Judge Howell is just recapping where everything is at - 3 pending motions, she hasn't ruled on sections 2 and 4 previously, so she's going to focus on that.

Great gravy.

NEW: I’ve seen a doc circulating w/ details of a relatively major State Dept reorg to be announced soon, maybe Tuesday. It has a LOT of stuff. “Significantly downscales” US embassy in Ottawa and limits consular officers to 10. Closes all “non-essential” embassies/consulates in Sun-Saharan Africa.

An absolute must-read from @stevevladeck.bsky.social this morning: “Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.”

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

“Hi, I’m Elon. Can we be friends? Will you be my friend? I’ll give you a Cybertruck, I promise.”

Amazing.

Another (presumably AI-generated) message from Elon Musk in Palo Alto via TikTok. There’s another video from a different user on Twitter, suggesting this isn’t just some prank by the TikTok creator.

It looks like someone has hacked a crosswalk button in Palo Alto to deliver at least two different messages in the voice of Elon Musk. (They are not complimentary)

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... They’ve reduced their vulnerabilities and examined America’s weaknesses, and now they’re hitting them. Hard. This realigns American allies in Europe and Australia more towards China, it hurts the US, and it highlights the benefits of doing business with China.

Pasadena knows.

Tariffs will be lifted on penguins who agree to be completely white. by Stephen Miller

Who did this?

Trump Economy

This is a United States Senator MACK: I was laid off from HHS and now people aren’t getting social services, especially people with disabilities BANKS: You probably deserved it MACK: Why did I deserve it? BANKS: Because you look like a clown

Here's the evidence ICE submitted in his case: a "gang worksheet" filled out by local cops in 2019 saying: 1) he had on Chicago Bulls gear 2) a confidential information said he was part of an MS-13 clique in a state he'd never lived in. ICE agreed they had nothing else. Read the full context here:

Again, if the Trump Administration view is that the Federal govt is not the right place to execute these activities, what's the transition plan for the sector they think is better?

USA to coal miners - Drop Dead. Literally. And take your towns with you www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...

Read this.

Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime.

Are we great again yet?

Farmers in a West Virginia town are angry over Trump's funding cuts. The Republican president won 70% of votes in the state in his bid to regain the White House. They believed Trump's repeated campaign vows that he supported American farmers. Hunger came up, time and again reut.rs/3QQ6aCO

Everyone should read this powerful clarion call. And the entire Bar--especially major GOP-associated firms--should now step up and join Paul Clement, et al. (and Cooley and Williams & Connolly) in their powerful indictment of an unprecedented abuse of power. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING The FDA’s top vaccine official has resigned. Dr. Peter Marks wrote this in his resignation letter about Robert Kennedy Jr.: "It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

A DHS staffer accidentally sent email to a reporter in January with unclassified info about an upcoming Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation. But unlike Waltz and Hegseth, she was put on administrative leave and told last week that the agency intends to revoke her security clearance