US Justice Department adds former Trump lawyer to probe of former CIA director, CNN reports Citing sources familiar with the ‌matter, the network reported that Joseph diGenova, who has worked with Trump’s legal team on a variety of matters, will join the Justice Dept in the Southern District of Fla

its just funny to me that the avatar of conservative masculinity is such a moist subservient cuck

Joe Rogan is standing directly behind Trump in the Oval Office

Texas. Texas. “A coalition of business groups, restaurateurs, and lawmakers in Texas has been formed to push back against the anti-immigrant policies of Donald Trump’s administration as sales collapse and companies struggle to find employees.”

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

Here’s CBS News’ homepage. The top story says Iran reimposed restrictions in the strait. Two stories down is CBS’ story from yesterday in which Trump claims Iran “agreed to everything.” CBS wrote that headline yesterday despite a 6th paragraph in which Iran denied Trump’s claim. Don’t believe Trump.

The worst possible tactic you can use when negotiating a deal with a regime like Iran is to dunk on them in public during negotiations. Any knowledgeable seasoned diplomat knows this. But we have Mr. Art of the Deal who needs to feed his cult and the markets a steady diet of BS.

Trump on the nuclear dust: "We're taking it. We're taking it. Very simple. Very simple. With Iran. We're going in. With Iran. We're taking it. We will have it. I don't call it boots on the ground."

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Trump says the Strait of Hormuz is fully open; but the IRGC says no, they get to decide who passes through. Trump says Iran has agreed to turn over its uranium; and Iran says no, it won't. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

How do we not have laws against this? Trump, IRS in talks to settle US president's $10 billion lawsuit www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Disgusting

Trump called the play: “Get David Ellison in charge right away” That’s the executive branch handing a media empire to a billionaire ally As @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov tells @jenrubin.bsky.social @contrariannews.org: this is oligarchy — & AGs are the last line of defense

Electric vehicle owners could earn thousands by supporting power grid Electric vehicles could store renewable energy when there is excess supply and give it back to the grid when demand peaks, but car companies disagree on the best way to do that www.newscientist.com/article/2523...

Please Clap: Trump Demands Praise From Media Outlets He Constantly Attacks Amid Ceasefire in War He Started www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Rep Harder to RFK Jr: “What I don’t understand is how you can spend your entire career talking about an issue, & the first minute that you get power to do something about it, you take off the mask & become an apologist for an administration that is increasing mercury more than any other in history”

RFK Jr claims Trump's post threatening to "end Iranian civilization" was actually "a message of love and compassion to the Iranian people"

Trump is trying to destroy the US Forest Service — closing offices, slashing jobs, and gutting protections for 193 million acres of public land. Tell Congress to block this illegal assault NOW.

Trump loved Mamdani until he raised the smallest amount of tax on a few of his ultra rich buddies who don’t even live in the city but keep empty apartments there - literally their taxes will go up like $38,000/year on $350 million apartments - and now Trump says Mamdani is the devil ruining the city

Trump administration restores funding to Manhattan subway project after NY sues The Trump administration has agreed to resume funding a key Manhattan subway project after New York officials sued www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Bought Nearly 20% Of Elon Musk’s Tesla Cybertrucks In Q4 insideevs.com/news/793205/...

House Republican Likens Trump to the ‘Second Coming’ of Christ While Dismissing Pope Attacks www.mediaite.com/politics/hou...

President Donald Trump is seeking more than $377 million to renovate the White House, an 866 percent increase that would mark one of the largest expansions of the complex in decades. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-seek...

The Trump admin tried to end-run an order blocking the East Wing ballroom's construction by invoking an exception permitting work on the project’s “safety and security” features. Judge Leon indignantly clarifies: “That is neither a reasonable nor a correct reading of my Order!” buff.ly/kWARaBf

Surprise tornadoes prompt concerns about changes at NWS Many forecasting offices did not launch weather balloons at 7AM, as they have for decades - a change that may have been the result of staffing issues “We are missing data at the normal times,” which may have impacted forecasting models.

‘Pray With Me Please’: Pete Hegseth Reads Fake Bible Quote From ‘Pulp Fiction’ During Pentagon Prayer Service Quentin Tarantino poached the fake Bible verse from the 1970s Japanese martial arts movie Bodyguard Kiba. www.mediaite.com/politics/pra...

BREAKING — Trump’s DOJ reportedly wants to prosecute the whistleblower who triggered his first impeachment. Retaliation is a confession. We’ll defend that patriot — and fight Trump’s thuggish intimidation.

NEW: Chicago Progressive Partnership super PAC, which launched ads attacking Kat Abughazaleh and then eventually in favor of Bushra Amiwala as an apparent attempt to split the vote, has filed its FEC report, which reveals it was another shell group for AIPAC and its allies

Ticketmaster and Live Nation hold illegal monopolies, jury finds www.reuters.com/business/med...

Pentagon ramps up plans for military operation in Cuba in case Trump orders direct intervention: report www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Tuberville on Somali-Americans: "If you talk like they talk, they should be kicked out. They should banned from any committees. They should not be able to vote."

Oh sorry, so religion and politics should be separate? Is that what you're saying? bsky.app/profile/atru...

America's right-wing in a single exchange. It's perfect.

Neguse: "Despite all of that, Speaker Johnson made the decision to gavel the House & send everyone home. Now we're back 2 weeks later & what has the majority decided is the most pressing issue to debate? Apparently it's a resolution commemorating a bill that the GOP passed last year. It's absurd."

Today's cartoon by Nick Anderson. "Donald Trump has decided to pick a fight with the pope. Because apparently threatening Iran, insulting allies, flirting with a global recession and posting AI images of himself as Jesus were not enough for one week..."

Mike Johnson was "taken aback" by the Pope commenting on war and advocating for peace, but not by Trump cosplaying as Jesus. You can't make this stuff up.

Goldberg: “If people knew how much money I gave up just by being honest about Trump on Fox News (before the network shelved me for a year until my paid-per-appearance contract ran out), they’d wonder why I didn’t go full Jeanine Pirro. But integrity matters, at least to me,”

This report on the “Biden Administration’s Weaponization of the FACE Act” repeatedly cites conduct that occurred…during the first Trump administration.

Isn’t Fox a little sick of interviewing Trump every day? Bartiromo was stuck with the rambling buffoon just a couple days ago www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...

The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran, according to exclusive analysis for the Guardian. Saudi Aramco, Gazprom and ExxonMobil are among the biggest beneficiaries of the bonanza

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores. The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

Reminder that Trump and the GOP snuck a huge tax break into their Big Ugly Bill allowing private jet owners to write off the cost of their planes faster than before. Meanwhile, the Big Ugly Bill will kick millions of people off food assistance and healthcare programs. "Party of the working class."

“Public records appear to show the most prominent member of Vance’s closest circle with connections to Orban’s Hungary is Chris Buskirk,” who co-founded the Rockbridge Network with Vance. Rockbridge is “the secretive fundraising group backed by billionaire Peter Thiel…” 4/5/26 … 1/

NEW: Virginia just passed a law to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, giving it 222 of 270 electoral votes needed to activate. This map and spreadsheet show which states could join to activate it by 2028 depending on the outcome of the 2026 elections docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ERASING HISTORY: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro asks court to vacate seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and Proud Boys leaders Ethan Nordean & Joseph Biggs, despite jury findings of coordinated efforts to stop the transfer of power.

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

The White House DoorDash fiasco is a snapshot of a presidency in free fall www.fastcompany.com/91526651/tru...

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

First Amendment challenges in 3… 2…