April 17

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When “senior administration officials” continue to lie to you day after day, week after week, so they can use your media platform to launder lies and manipulate people, how long do you keep doing it because they are “scoops” that get lots of clicks?

Credit-card balances: all-time high. Applications for credit: four-year high. Delinquent credit: nine-year high. A "hamster wheel" of credit, says the NYT: @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/b...

Incompetence, due to an impulsive manipulative criminal President.

With Eric Kripke's depiction of an all-powerful fascist in 'The Boys', its been impossible not to find parallels in certain current events.

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"The door on all this apologizing only swings one way. You’ll never get an apology out of Donald Trump," writes @kathkrueger.bsky.social.

Never forget Trump started this fight. Based on a lie. “I got the highest vote in the history of Texas … We are entitled to five more seats.” Trump Democrats need to start breaking some rules around here and fight back.

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Start Asking, What is The Point Of This War? youtube.com/shorts/en3G6...

Sen. Ron Johnson claims preposterously that as many as 3.9 MILLION (!!!) Americans died as a result of the covid vaccine Complete insanity

Her husband wrote an entire book telling people not to go to college like him.

Coward and draft dodger pretends he’s on the frontline.

Few countries celebrate #EuropeDay quite like Georgia. Day 528 of consecutive, nationwide pro-EU protests.

Money for nothing

What!!

Actor and UNICEF UK Ambassador Tom Hiddleston visited Ukrainian children at an educational hub in Moldova's capital. It means a great deal when public figures use their influence to draw attention to the war and support Ukrainians. Bravo👏 🇺🇦

On Jan 20, 2025 the price per barrel was $77.

In Opinion The Pentagon’s $25 billion estimate for the cost of the war in Iran “gets a lot of attention, but it’s more of a headline than a real number,” the economist Justin Wolfers writes. “My math suggests the Iran war will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and very possibly trillions.”

Putin tells Russians they are at war with NATO.

The abrupt closure of Voice of America by the Trump administration has allowed Russian and Chinese state media to dominate African news. streamlinefeed.co.ke/news/rus...

These are actual Freedom Riders, now elderly, sitting together decades after risking their lives to challenge segregation in the American South. On May 4, 1961, they rode buses south to defy illegal segregation in terminal facilities.

I can’t wait to celebrate how we threw all that tea in the harbor and fought a war with England just so Trump could put his name/face on everything, turn the nation’s capital into Mar-A-Lago, start an unnecessary war, roll back voting rights, protect pedophiles, and alienate our allies.

It’s raining microplastics in Jakarta and the problem is only getting worse. They can also be a vector for pathogens that stick to them. Pay close attention to the canary in the coal mine.

Who's running the country

Was this a twofer deal? What was the cost in bitcoin? www.latimes.com/california/s...

Trump has run through the authoritarian checklist at breakneck speed, with one exception: controlling elections. His efforts to tilt the midterms was not going well until the Supreme Court weighed in to help him.

An ICE takedown caught on camera in the Bronx has left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head.

quote this shit and say that you're using the maps anyway

ICYMI: We obtained the grand jury testimony of Rudy Giuliani, Lindsey Graham, Brian Kemp, Brad Ratffensperger, Cassidy Hutchinson, Marc Short, Greg Jacob, Boris Epshteyn, Michael Flynn, Chris Carr, Lin Wood, Mark Meadows, Cleta Mitchell, and more. You can read & search the transcripts on our site👇

It's become totally commonplace. But it's remarkable how quickly it became commonplace that having totally valid immigration/work permit documents just became irrelevant and these people are routinely tossed into detention by ICE.

Then why should we pay for you to jet overseas to meet with him?

🚨 According to The Economist, citing a Russian document, Russia is considering supplying Iran with thousands of fiber-optic FPV drones along with training for their use against American forces. www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

Iranian Navy seized the tanker Ocean Koi, accusing it of trying to disrupt Iran’s oil exports and national interests.

A Greenlandic taxi driver says he was offered $200,000 to sign a petition saying he wants Greenland to be American www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

The NAACP and ACLU have filed lawsuits to block Tennessee GOP’s new racist gerrymandered map which aims to eliminate the state’s only majority black voting district. Thank you to both for fighting against this white supremacy.

They shut down the entire National Mall so Trump could take a joyride in the pool

You can search #Hondurasgate and read if you speak Spanish.

Wrote up a quick intro to #Hondurasgate and what it means for the Network State and tech fascism. These audio leaks provide important spoken evidence on the Network State plot and particularly Próspera, its most advanced location, in Honduras. www.shanley.com/blog/hondura...

Mike Luckovich

This is what happens when people who do not believe in conspiracy theories tolerate people who do. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

US forces bomb Bandar Abbas, Queshm and other Iranian port sites as hostilities between US and Iran resume. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

ZELENSKYY: Ukraine has received appeals from some countries close to Russia informing us that their representatives plan to attend events in Moscow in the coming days. A strange desire… We do not recommend it.

Dems gearing up review of Trump's pardon corruption. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...

Big Tech’s unregulated AI data centers are quietly draining our local power grids and water supplies. ⚡💧 We need basic oversight before they cause rolling blackouts and spike utility bills. Tell Congress to pass the AI Data Center Moratorium Act NOW: 👉 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

This is a matter of national security. 🇺🇸 We need a permanent safeguard against an unfit President. Tell Congress to create an independent 25th Amendment commission immediately to protect our country before a crisis hits. Send your letter in 30 seconds: 👉 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...