my broad sense is that FIFA is trying to run something much closer to its authoritarian host country playbook in a country with a whole lot of complex federalized democracy so they're running into a lot of problems they didn't expect or plan for x.com/GovSherrillN...

Things I have seen in the rubble of Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon in the past week, part four. At least 2,167 people have been killed in Lebanon since March 2 and 7,061 wounded. The dead include at least 172 children and 260 women. More here: www.instagram.com/p/DXKtLrhDqC...

Kudos to all the senate democrats who voted for this freak cause they wanted to show their bipartisanship. You really did a number on millions of workers

The feds are moving forward with plans to wall off the Big Bend region. Some reports say walls are "off the table" in the state park, but DHS hasn't canceled construction contracts or restored the legal protections they stripped. Nobody is crossing here. Look at those cliffs.

Just to go back to basics: I once worked on a (winning) presidential campaign. Something too obvious for anyone to mention was: "Don't get into a fight with the Pope over who knows more about Jesus." These people are morons.

Despite the administration’s rhetoric and bogus legal theories, the supposed armed conflict with “narco-terrorists” appears to be entirely make believe. Murder is the general term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.

[shocked pikachu.jpeg]

A decade ago, I wrote that tech tycoons were on a path towards being considered the new robber barons. Now that 750k tech workers have been laid off, it was inevitable things would get rough. medium.com/humane-tech/... When it hits a million, they’re gonna need Pinkertons whenever they go outside.

One can imagine JD Vance ending his feud with the Pope or just ignoring it, but of course he wants the 2028 GOP nomination, and so he has to impress the most influential person in that contest

Shameful for us. Totally reasonable response from Zelensky.

it gets lost in the shuffle of constant corruption and bloodshed but even with the memecoin ALONE, that would make him very clearly the most corrupt U.S. president in history, you could easily argue

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.

"Given the horrific and illegal behavior of the Netanyahu government over the last three years, the American people have had enough," writes @sanders.senate.gov.

U.S. infectious disease research is on the brink. Without immediate action from Congress, much of it will cease to exist within a year. For example👇 1️⃣ No collaborative RFAs posted for >1 year (normal: many / year). 2️⃣ No foreign collaborators allowed on grants. 🧪🪦 www.idsociety.org/globalassets...

BARTIROMO: Did you see Europe is drafting a plan to open up the Hormuz Strait without the United States? TRUMP: It's so sad. Look at Greenland. We should have Greenland.

Very smart to do this while the Supreme Court is still considering Trump v Cook. Masterful gambit sir

We will be taxing the ultra-wealthy and global elites.

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate. Taxing billionaires is not radical. What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.

At a No Kings protest (I think last summer), someone wore a USAID shirt on the mall. You saw that stuff around DC a lot, people proudly wearing flair from their jobs Trump had threatened or taken. Benz straight-up thought he had found out that USAID was secretly funding No Kings

I've written before about how USAID was the first government agency killed by conspiracy theory. This confirms it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

NEW: Raskin, w/ 50 House Dem co-sponsors, formally introduces a bill which would create a commission to assess Trump's fitness for office under the 25th Amendment. Bill text here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Story TK

NEW on MS NOW: Rep. Jamie Raskin has introduced a bill that seeks to kickstart the removal of Trump through the 25th Amendment — a longshot effort that, while unlikely to succeed, aims to put renewed focus on the president's mental fitness and recent rhetoric.

CPJ calls on Kuwaiti authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, detained under new security and fake news laws. Read more: cpj.org/2026/04/cpj-... #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedEldin

The U.S. killed two more people in the Pacific yesterday. And they suspended the search for the shipwrecked civilian from April 11. They don't want the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to investigate these murders. Full story, @theintercept.com

A clear PR stunt from a "Doordasher from Arkansas" who was also a Doordasher from Nevada when they lobbied for the company last year waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u... about.doordash.com/en-us/news/d...

this is legitimately fascinating as an a real life demonstration of why trump is flailing

Reporter: Are the White House good tippers? Do you know? DoorDash Grandma: Um.... *she looks around sheepishly because she hasn't been tipped* Trump: *hands her some money* Thank you, you reminded me.

Instead of governing, just staging one reality TV stunt after another — for camera crews that will broadcast every one

Pope Leo hit back at President Trump over the Iran war, saying the Vatican’s appeals for peace and reconciliation are rooted in the Gospel, and that he didn’t fear the Trump administration. Follow AP's live updates.

We need this energy. Nothing less than completing Reconstruction.

“The Pope is weak on crime” is one of those things that’s not just too absurd to have been believed if it were fictitious, it’s too absurd for someone to have invented it as fiction.

"How would you help advance the President’s Executive Orders and policy priorities?" has been a standard question for new federal job applicants since Trump changed federal hiring policies. Hope that makes you feel better about air travel. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-politi...

NEW: Archbishop Paul Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, responds to Trump’s post attacking Pope Leo. Says he is “disheartened” and argues that Leo is “not a rival” but rather “the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel." www.usccb.org/news/2026/ar...

I realize it's not a huge surprise to learn that LAPD are regularly using small drones to monitor protests, but I think it deserves some attention.

this is a boring take but if we want this from a Dem President in 2029 we need to deliver the type of huge legislative majority Magyar just achieved and not the razor-thin one that Biden was forced to work with.

DHS opens investigation of complaint against Swalwell filed by self-styled 'conservative Michael Moore,' who mailed swing state voters conspiratorial film about Barack Obama in 2012 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

such a shame the US didn't have any famously brilliant negotiator whose whole persona is built around endless boasting about his deal-making ability to send in

The Secretary of State attending a UFC fight while wartime diplomatic negotiations fail would generate an explosive, front-page, above-the-fold headline for any previous administration

Man arrested for allegedly damaging US military aircraft in Shannon airport

this confirms my overall suspicion (as well as previous reporting) that the US negotiating team was so profoundly deficient in technical expertise as to miss the crucial distinction between peaceful and hostile application of nuclear technology instead of re-inventing the wheel, they just forgot it

Hungarians vote in hard-fought election that could oust Viktor Orbán after 16 years

This keeps popping up in my feed and I still can’t believe it’s real. The cut to the huge grin right after talking about gold star families is insane.

Can't decide if Donny will be too bored with this war and too hungry for his fracturing base's approval to go back to it, or just drop a nuke out of spite.

Thank you, great link. California voters need to know that MAGA Republican Steve Hilton will bring anti-woman, anti-child, anti-family austerity to CA. It wasn't enough for him to ruin the UK economy. He had to carpet-bag himself to CA to try to do it again! Hilton: Bad for CA.

J Street taking this position really does seem to signify that the space for being "pro-Israel, anti-pretty much all Israeli policies" is shrinking rapidly, and that increasingly people are picking a side. jewishinsider.com/2026/04/j-st...

Officials and experts have concluded that at the end of U.S. and Israel's Big Beautiful Bombing campaign... "Iran still has most of the tools it needs to make a nuclear bomb." www.wsj.com/world/middle...

"As Mr. Vance was detailing the impasse in negotiations, President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were at a sports arena in Miami for UFC 327, watching a video montage of past fights." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Yes. In the sense that nothing then nor now is really what passes for "diplomacy" of any kind.