Kirk backed out of the event after seeing the sparse crowd that gathered for the last event Vance spoke at. Kirk's ego can't take people not praising her; she's just like Trump. komonews.com/news/nation-...

In 2024, US GDP growth was 2.8%. After Trump took office in 2025, it fell to 2.1% in part due to Trump's economic policy and trade war. In 2025, the US trade deficit remained the same despite Trump's claims of victory. The real victors: China, whose GDP grew 5%. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/b...

Let's go, local prosecutors! From state, to county, to municipal governments, local leaders need to step up to enforce the laws federal agents ignore and violate. The Trump Administration condones law-breaking by Trump's goons; American citizens do not.

This is the type of medical research and experience that is guiding US health care policy. Sheesh. We're all doomed. people.com/dr-oz-says-t...

Nothing says "failed economic policy" better than a photo of a billionaire handing an elderly woman delivering food to pay for her husband's cancer treatment a $20 tip in the spirit of the GOP's "trickle down economics." Does the GOP see how bad the optics are? www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...

Today is April 14, 2026. Just a reminder that 11 years ago, Donald Trump announced he would release his national health care plan "in two weeks." He hasn't released it in the last 11 years.

Looks like the US will be invading Hungary next, claiming a "rigged" election. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

He sent thousands of troops to start a war with Iran. He announced HE'S closing the Strait of Hormuz. Inflation is out of control. The US debt is soaring. He's accused of child sex exploitation AND he's an adjudicated sexual assaulter. But he's got time to go to a UFC fight. Trump is useless.

So I guess Trump is now the terrorist, holding world markets hostage because the target of his military action refuses to do what he demands--even though he claimed complete victory, Iran's military capacity was destroyed, and the "war" is over. Trump lies A LOT, huh? www.npr.org/2026/04/12/n...

Since when is propping up a Trump-friendly dictator with US taxpayer dollars putting "America First"? It's "Trump First." It seems Trump is doing what he always does: he puts Trump first using other people's money. If we stop him from giving away US tax dollars, he stops disgracing the nation.

Fox: "The problem is teens and young adults, from ages 15-19 the fertility rate is down 7%..." The irony: Fox "News" has, for decades, decried the fall of "traditional families" but they're now lamenting the lack of single teen mothers as a problem with US birth rates. Fox "News" is insane.

This map shows the current locations and headings of ships in the Persian Gulf. The red dots are bulk chemical carriers including oil tankers. Note none of them are transiting the Strait of Hormuz. When Trump and Hegseth say the Strait is open, they're lying, and we've got the proof.

This is why environmental pollution must be regulated on a federal level. Desperate Republican leaders in states like Iowa will only consider the immediate economic benefit of industrial development without factoring in long-term detriments to themselves and neighboring states.

Not so much America First, huh? “White House Secures Foreign Steel for Ballroom Project” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/u...

Noting that Trump's "Justice" Department is actively seeking ways to avoid applying the law justly and equally. Instead, they're seeking a separate set of laws to isolate the MAGA faithful from the consequences of breaking the law at Trump's behest. This is shameful.

TACO Man is back! www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/04/...

TACO, TACO Man. Trump will always be the TACO Man. He's got an offramp to back out of his ridiculous Iran threats, and he'll cite this as a reason for him to not attack Iran again. Sooner or later, Trump will understand we've figured out his patterns. www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...

Today's update on Trump's reason for attacking Iran: February: to "regime change" March: to illegally seize Iran's vast oil reserves April: to erase the millenia-old Persian culture from the map. Republicans need to grow a spine and join Democrats to oust this demented war monger.

Trump boasts about committing genocide, and the Republicans turn their backs. He speaks of killing the population of an entire country--incl. non-combatant women and children--in a war of choice he started, and GOP leadership stays silent because the want to maintain their power. That's treason.

Please tell me it's not just me who finds this not just disturbing, but disgusting. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...

Those of us in the dwindling cadre of print editors and publishers all know the panic/frustration/horror of finding an error in something just off press, and the agony that lingers until the next issue drops in a day, a week, a month or a year. We've all been their. www.abc27.com/pennsylvania...

Not shocking: a GOP Congressman entangled in an extramarital sex scandal and sexual harassment case that led to the suicide of an aide is still in office and facing no punishment from his fellow GOP members. Republicans condone a lot of sexual abuse, don't they? www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

About 5% of military members are non-US citizens. An unknown number are married to, children of, or otherwise related to migrants. US military members shouldn't have to worry about their relatives being deported as they work to protect the nation and its residents. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...

At this moment across the US, thousands of performative "christians"--who just attended half of their annual church services where they heard sermons on the compassion and love of Christ for all--are swearing at and threatening fellow attendees who blocked their quick exit from church parking lots.

Trump is going to continue his quest to remove any class, taste, and history from the White House to turn it into a Don-designed fiasco of mismatched marble and gold leaf. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship. For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...

Do you think Kimberly Guilfoyle ever looks in the mirror and thinks, "Y'know, take away all this Botox and filler, take away the liposuction and the boob job, get rid of the hair extensions and the fake eyelashes, and under it all, I'd still have the soulless look of a concentration camp matron."

Trump's disdain for American veterans continues. When the GOP votes to support eliminating aid and assistance to our veterans--like they did by objecting to the PACT Act that was the largest increase in veterans' benefits in a generation--they demonstrate their hatred. www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

Do you see a pattern? Not all Republicans are pedophiles but it seems like a whole lot of pedophiles are MAGA supporters, doesn't it? I'm sure they were inspired by the past history of the Party leader protecting the right to molest and assault children & women. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

For a military that's been completely destroyed, with their capabilities taken "back to the Stone Age" according to the Administrative Assistant for Excusions Pete Kegseth, Iran sure knows how to use their remaining rocks and sticks effectively, huh? www.stripes.com/theaters/mid...

Now that Trump revealed his "presidential library" will actually be a for-profit hotel, will the companies that agreed to pay more than $60M of the "library" cost as part of bogus "defamation" settlements pull their funds? It's money going to Don's pockets. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The confessed serial sexual assaulter, adjudicated rapist, convicted fraudster and admitted adulterer is shocked--shocked! I say--that people don't like him. I stand with Bruce.

Let me get this straight: all those media companies who paid "settlements" to Trump for his bogus defamation suits and "donated" money to his library actually funded a for-profit hotel? Let's tax those donations and make the its finances public 'cause those were bribes. www.npr.org/2026/03/31/n...

This is how a 5th grade bully, not a leader, acts. Trump thinks his mere presence will force the Justices to overturn the 14th Amendment. In reality, Trump will sit for hours, alternating between sleeping and squirming bc he's bored. He's an embarrassment. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Nothing tells you more about who Trump's constituents are than FL Guv and royal suck-up Ron Desantis naming the Palm Beach airport--the 51st busiest in the US, but the second highest in private jet traffic in the nation--after Trump, who caters to his wealthy peers. www.npr.org/2026/03/31/g...

Give Trump naming rights to the 51st busiest airport in the US, and keep it off any place that matters. The people who travel to Palm Beach to worship him and try to suckle favor from him can see his name plastered on a little-used airport for rich Florida men. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Just curious: why does Trump need to deploy any troops to an "excursion" he has claimed repeatedly was over after the first day? This is another clear case of Trump lying directly to the voters while risking the lives of his "suckers and losers" in the military. www.usatoday.com/live-story/n...

Pete Kegseth--the ultimate anti-DEI hire put in his job bc Trump wanted ANY white man, even a ridiculously unqualified Fox "News" weekend host, in that position--is now blocking qualified minorities and women from key national security posts. Anti-DEI=less security. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

Granted, I haven't read the Trump proposal, but it looks an *awful lot* like the plan Obama signed that prevented Iran from getting nuclear weapons. That is, except for Trump's demand that Iran erect a 30-foot gold statue of Trump in Tehran. (j/k, but made you look.) www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...

Even Trump’s neighbors know his policies hurt America, so they voted Democrat. “Florida Democrats Win Special Election in Mar-a-Lago’s District” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Yesterday, Trump declared he was in negotiations with "a top person" within the Iranian regime. Today, the Trump Administration says "plans for talks" are fluid, but they haven't happened yet. So...Trump wasn't talking to anyone, according to his own Admin. He's lying. www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...

What’s your longest Wordle streak? Mine’s 158 days.

Humans suck. dailygalaxy.com/2026/03/deep...

Please note my handle changed because my geography changed. I'm no longer JackInEC because I am no longer in EC.

“US to deploy of thousands of additional troops to the Middle East, officials say” - www.reuters.com/world/us-dep...

Unfortunately, not enough MAGAs will feel the sting of this overt betrayal of campaign promises to matter. They just won’t wake up to reality. Exclusive: US weighs military reinforcements as Iran war enters possible new phase - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

… and that includes a Remedial Kindergarten classroom.

Democrats must now start campaigning on the idea that the problems facing Americans right now are not solely Trump’s fault. Dems need to stress that all the challenges facing families are caused by Republicans in Congress enabling Trump’s destruction. If voters want better, reject MAGA enablists.

He's doing to the nation what he did to his many failed businesses: bleeding us dry through skyrocketing debt. And this fromt the guy who once claimed he would eliminate the ENTIRE federal debt in eight years. Sheesh. fortune.com/2026/03/10/t...

This morning, the DJIA fell below 47,000 points. That's below 50,000: it's below the level at which Attorney General Pam Bondi set where she would investigate child sex trafficking crimes. It's also just 4% gain over 14 months under Trump from the 45,000 peak Biden hit in Dec 2024. Pathetic.