Ashley St. Clair to MAGA "influencer" Benny Johnson: "I've been sitting on the receipts of you for far too long. You and your sociopathic behavior, & the way you operate your businesses & your grift...You're next...I've known you're a piece of sh*t." 🍿

2026 - Melania: I never knew about Epstein’s abuse of his victims. 2006 - Trump to Police: Everyone has known he’s been doing this. Don’t buy what Melania’s selling.

I break down Melania’s Epstein statement — the obvious contradictions and the damning admissions — and why it could mean trouble for Donald Trump here: youtu.be/rtc-1KTcQkk?...

I love this man. Who cares what the Orange Failure thinks about this. When Volodymyr speaks of ammunition and weapons he's speaking about LITERAL physical defense of the people and the country he loves. And he'll never fail them. He's the Leader of the Free World. Give him the damn prize already.

Trump fought with Pope Francis before. He’s finding Pope Leo XIV to be a tougher foil. www.vox.com/politics/485...

🚨 BREAKING: A Russian drone strike on Ukraine’s Cherkasy killed an 8-year-old boy and injured nine others.

We need to not just defeat Trump, but figure out how to authoritarian-proof our democracy

BOYLE: The CBO says the big beautiful bill eliminates healthcare coverage for more than 15 million Americans. Are they really all, according to you, illegals and defrauding the system. That's really your position? RUSS VOUGHT: Yes BOYLE: That's laughable!

Hubris

A Trump administration executive order that would require banks to collect citizenship information from customers is in "process," U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday, as experts warn it could leave millions of Americans without access to a bank account.

Indonesia and France agree to boost defense ties

A strong message from Lithuania’s Speaker Juozas Olekas peace with Russia must come from strength. If Russia is not stopped in Ukraine, the risk is clear—it won’t stop there. Ukraine’s fight is about European security as a whole.

Ukraine reported strikes on Russian radar and air defense systems in occupied Crimea and Russia’s Belgorod region, aimed at weakening Moscow’s air defense network. www.kyivpost.com/post/73916

Democrats have likely ousted the Republican mayor of Whittier, a California city of nearly 90,000 (within Los Angeles County).

🤝 Ukraine and Germany have agreed on a €4 billion defence cooperation package that provides for the supply of hundreds of missiles for Patriot air defence systems, the development of long-range capabilities and joint drone production.

“against all enemies foreign & domestic” shame shame shame

Life goes on even near the frontline. Ukrainian soldiers who protect lives helped little kittens start a new one🐾

Apologies for being a bit quiet today — I spent the afternoon at a shelter. I didn’t expect this, but I’ve just adopted a cat. He comes home next week 🐱🥹

70 days until election day! Lets win this thing #MD-5 Harrydunnformd.com

SPRINGSTEEN: “The 🇺🇸 I love, that I’ve written about for 50 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, racist reckless, treasonous administration.”

Why aren’t Republicans demanding investigations into the numerous sexual assault allegations that have been made against Trump?

The entire Republican Party has been ignoring Trump's sharp mental decline the same way they've ignored his crimes.

A measure of excess deaths from climate change: "For Texas, this comes out to roughly 900 additional deaths per year due to climate change that occurred since the 1950s, equal to 1.7% of summertime deaths." by @andrewdessler.com www.realclearscience.com/2026/04/14/h...

Minnesota authorities announce an investigation into ICE agents after they kidnap a Hmong-American US Citizen and force him into the freezing cold. I have the details including how the federal government is stonewalling turning over evidence to the local authorities. youtu.be/pRDiDMkFoqM?...

For three years, the health secretary confessed to his private ‘lust demons’, torrid affairs and heroin use — but his greatest fear went much deeper

Today, Pamela Jo Bondi, our most recent head of the Department of Justice, is blithely ignoring a valid, legal subpoena requiring her to testify before Congress. We are not a nation of laws. We are a nation of some people can get away with anything.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

How did Magyar win? A long running grassroots campaign in rural and small town Hungary; a refusal to be distracted by government propaganda; a focus on economic issues and corruption; a central promise to bring back democracy and the rule of law

Former U.S. Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton And Sheryl Sandberg Join Forces To End Child Marriage

Important stuff here from @davidkurtz.bsky.social. Trump isn’t a normal president getting upended by business cycles and trends outside his control. All the challenges/crises facing the US economy today are unequivocally the results of Trumps actions talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Facts.

Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like. [Via @itep.org]

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.

Trump: I’m going to destroy an entire civilization. The Pope: Blessed are the peace makers. War is bad and should stop. Trump: I’m Jesus. The NYTimes:

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸 THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️

A major U.S. Postal Service union is launching a national TV ad campaign promoting voting by mail, stepping into a politically charged debate as skepticism about mail-in ballots has been raised by President Donald Trump and others. https://to.pbs.org/4cJkKaQ

LOL

The glamorous reality star-turned-Kremlin influencer said people will soon “snap.”

I think Orban's loss should prompt liberals and Dems to start thinking right now about how to win some of these big arguments with JD Vance over our international future. He's the likely GOP-MAGA 2028 standard bearer, so there's no avoiding these arguments. 7/7 newrepublic.com/article/2090...

@michellegoldberg.bsky.social reports on an amazing anecdote among people celebrating Orban's defeat. I used it here to argue that liberals and Dems have a good case to make in response to Vance/MAGA's effort to claim "Western civilization" as exclusively theirs. 6/ newrepublic.com/article/2090...

As JD Vance's speech showed, MAGA thinks of itself as global. What would it look like if liberals and Dems laid out *their* vision of our shared international future more forcefully, and contrasted it with Vance's? Here's a start at what this might look like. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2090...

JD Vance's speech in Hungary was widely mocked, and deservedly so. But I think it deserves our attention. As vile as he is, he made common cause with right-populists abroad. He laid out a vision of a shared international future. We shouldn't cede that turf. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2090...

It's true that Magyar is center-right and wasn't particularly liberal on some important things. But the Hungary election doesn't have to map neatly on to US politics for Dems and liberals to seize on it. Here's why. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2090...

The Orban defeat was legitimately "too big to rig," as Trump falsely says about 2024. Trump won a historically narrow victory in an unrigged election. The popular majority against Orban had to overcome *actual* rigging. There's an opening here for Dems. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2090...

It's obscene the level of which this administration has gone after trans youth to make their lives a living hell. The latest attack on care will completely defund any hospital or clinic that provides care to trans youth. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New post from Pope Leo: "God's heart is torn apart by wars, violence, injustice and lies. But our Father's heart is not with the wicked, the arrogant, or the proud. God's heart is with the little ones and the humble."