ASSOCIATED PRESS "The U.S. military said that it carried out 'self-defense' strikes in Iran, on missile launch sites and boats placing mines." [Republicans sent U.S. forces there, to bomb and kill citizens of another nation, but call it "self-defense" when U.S. forces doing that are attacked.]

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Driving into Seattle along the waterfront this evening, with the setting sun bouncing off the windows of all the buildings. It doesn’t even look real.

In case you have forgotten who Andy Kim is, he’s the rep who came into the Capitol building after Trump’s J6 goons had trashed it, got down in his hands and knees, and cleaned it up. And ICE have gassed him. They have peppersprayed the true patriot who thinks American ideals are worth defending.

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

Richard Sidey "When Pack Ice Orca surround your zodiac and you have your telephoto lens attached. An epic encounter with the rare Type B1 Killer Whales in Antarctica. These orca are spy hopping our inflatable boat, the exact same way they check out seals on ice floes."

Handwriting isn’t just “slower typing.” EEG studies show writing by hand recruits broader sensorimotor, visual, memory, and attentional networks than typing the same words. The brain learns through movement too, not only through information. 🧠✍️ #neuroskyence #neuroscience #brain #EEG #words

As the ebola and hantavirus outbreaks continue to spread, the Trump Administration is responding by ordering US scientists NOT to cooperate or even communicate with international health agencies. If either outbreak spreads to the USA, Trump is making certain that we will be completely unprepared.

“'Early adoption of any particular idea always seems strange to the masses,' said Dale Partridge, a pastor who calls for erasing women’s suffrage." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

A merch website run by Kash Patel is trying to trick visitors into installing malware. Customers are instructed to copy seemingly benign text into their terminal, but clicking copy and pasting installs software stealing personal data.

As part of the Department of Education's anti-DEI push, we cannot teach about any forms of implicit bias EXCEPT for antisemitism. But not only is that wrong for how it ignores other groups, but it is impossible to teach about antisemitism without teaching about its intersection with other bigotries.

US federal net debt is on track to smash records. 📉 According to CBO forecasts, the debt-to-GDP ratio is projected to climb from 99.4% in 2025 to a massive 120.2% by 2036—surpassing even post-WWII peaks (back when we had insanely high GDP growth) JPMAM

The NIH is demanding that it's grantees cease collaborations with foreign scientists. Wait until NIH director Jay Bhattacharya hears about this! His stated top priority in the director role is to prevent government interference with or censorship of scientific researchers.

This brazen act of theft is not only organized crime; it is overt subversion of the Constitution. No one—not DOJ, not any judge, nor Congress—has any lawful authority to condone, permit, or join this vile theft.

Deleted from WH posts. Andrew Taake — later pardoned for Jan. 6 — pleaded guilty in Texas in 2025 to online solicitation of a minor. Prosecutors said he sent explicit messages, photos to someone he believed was a 15-year-old girl, who was actually an undercover cop. They are now deleting pedo files.

House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee voted to make themselves eligible to collect from President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund. Of course they did. 🙄 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

BREAKING: The CFPB has deleted 15 years' worth of data off its website. Every post that predates Trump's second term has been removed except for reports mandated by Congress. In total some 1,700 pages on the website have been wiped out.

While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Bhattacharya’s legacy The US had a “world-class Ebola lab in Frederick, Maryland, with the NIH,” designed to develop vaccines & treatments. The lab would normally be swinging into action. “But that lab was shuttered last year, with staff laid off abruptly”😢 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Monroe??? Nicely done!! And what a way for SE Michigan to make the news!!!

It’s estimated that 762,000 people have already died due to the closure of USAID, and ultimately 14 million people will die altogether This will always be Elon Musk’s true legacy

Wow. They’re openly defending the deletion of DOJ records about a man accused in a child solicitation case who assaulted police on January 6. Truly the Epstein administration.

White House propaganda app, which IT experts say has security vulnerabilities, is to be installed on the work phones of every US government employee. www.govexec.com/management/20...

Texas solar is projected to beat coal for the first time on the ERCOT grid. This news isn't getting the attention it deserves.

🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

That’s an insult to all soldiers…

📣 In response to the Voting Rights Act being killed, I’ve launched a new fundraising page specifically to help dozens of Black Democrats get elected (with more to come). Donate today. #BlackJobs26 #BlackSky #Blue26 secure.actblue.com/donate/black...

RFK Jr. has fired the two leaders (Dr. John Wong and Dr. Esa Davis) of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force the expert panel that determines which medical screenings and preventive services insurance companies must cover at no cost to patients under the Affordable Care Act.

"Most January 6 insurrectionists have already been treated to a pardon. Now they may also be looking at a payday. Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund divided by 1,500 'patriots' comes out to more than a million dollars each. A million dollars. Per insurrectionist. Courtesy of the American taxpayer."

Is anyone paying attention? Bond yields just hit their highest levels in decades. Not just in the US. The UK. France. Japan. All four at the same time.

If a Democratic President tried this GOP House members would go on talk radio to rally a crowd to stand in front of the bulldozers and Fox News would have custom graphics and theme music to cover it www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Remember: it was like pulling teeth to get Republicans to fund the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. But it took them no time at all to create a $1.8 billion Insurrection Slush Fund to pay off the legal fees of the January 6th rioters who beat cops. These are sick, corrupt people.

We ended child poverty and had a huge public health initiative where the US army gave everybody lifesaving medicine and your boss wasn’t allowed to force you to come in for no reason, and then a bunch of child molesters decided that those things were making the great unwashed too uppity

Pete!

this is why I have such a problem when people say you can't blame the Democrats for their part in all this. "they're the minority! vote blue no matter who!" yet here they are, giving the farm away to the wolves. the entire system is a fucking joke and there is no punchline, only an obituary

Headline may as well read: “King Trump and his princely sons declare themselves above the law, scrutiny, and justice — grant themselves divine right to pilfer public coffers for life.”

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Trump just directed his cronies to make him, his family and his friends exempt from our nation’s tax laws.

I reported for years before Trump got reelected on how much he and his crew were laying down blueprints for how to use the power and money of the federal government to try to undo the attempts at justice and accountability, and how team trump were meticulously plotting to unleash hell on those who…

Get out and vote today in Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon and Pennsylvania! 🗳️

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

Clear and overwhelming evidence that Trump has been buying stock in companies and then promoting them to enrich himself. Even for Trump this is a shocking level of naked, in your face corruption.

In ALABAMA alone, over 22,000 ACA enrollees have been priced out of the market entirely, and by my estimates the ~450,000 who managed to cling to their coverage are paying an average of ~$730 more in premiums than they did last year *plus* another ~$830 more in out of pocket costs.

On Friday, federal judges in Wyoming tossed charges against 9 criminal defendants over Darin Smith’s “deeply concerning” misconduct as acting U.S. attorney. Tonight, the Senate is voting to confirm Smith to this job for the rest of Trump's presidency www.huffpost.com/entry/us-att...

NEW: Donald just STOLE $1.7B from us to pay insurrectionists. I have some important info about this. Please share widely.

Chilling 2009 court records have surfaced tracking the arrest of Minnesota Senate candidate Aaron Brutger. Despite initially facing a felony domestic assault charge by strangulation, Brutger walked away with a misdemeanor plea deal — and now, the official backing of the GOP.

Reminder of the time when Randy Fine was caught voting on behalf of other members during a bill outlawing Israel boycotts Randy Fine must be stripped of his American Citizenship and Deported back to Israel