"The indictment is a grotesque attempt to recast white people as real victims of racism. In the DOJ’s telling, advocates who spent decades dismantling the Klan are its secret benefactors, 'enriching' themselves by secretly creating racism — something in such short supply it can only be generated."

NEW: Nearly 140,000 people filed claims against Purdue for the harm they said its drugs caused. Fewer than half of them will get any compensation under a new payout plan. With @inquirer.com

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

WHOA. In less than 12 hours, tens of thousands of Americans have helped launch GTFOice.org. People don’t want warehouse prison camps in their communities. Amazing to see the outpouring of defiance.

Ghislane Maxwell lured countless children into Jeffrey Epstein’s global pedophile ring. Now, some Republicans are openly floating giving her a pardon. It’s outrageous. We need to end the special treatment for the Epstein class.

Exactly. Blanche is the one who cut a deal with Maxwell to waive her sex offender status. He got her “out custody” and moved her to club fed. He’s the Michael Cohen of the Epstein era.

The Epstein crisis is escalating. Reports say Ghislaine Maxwell may be seeking a pardon as lawmakers demand answers from the DOJ over missing files and unanswered subpoenas. This isn't going away.

IVEY: Is there anything the Trump administration is doing to help refund the tariffs? LUTNICK: I'm not involved in that process. I wouldn't know one way or the other IVEY: Oh, come on, Mr Secretary. You don't know if there's a process in place?

Tillis said that “the principle here is that anybody who didn’t back the blue on January 6th is disqualified from consideration for me in the Judiciary Committee.”

The remaining women are Gabbard, McMahon, Rollins, Wiles, and Loeffler.

At news conference now, Pete Hegseth uses the term “gift to the world” to describe War in Iran

I guess if Americans don’t want to buy Spirit Airlines with their tax dollars it’s tough shit because Trump will spend our money on whatever he pleases since we don’t have a Congress anymore.

The call's coming from inside the house. Betting on an operation you're on? That's the type of insider trading that prediction markets allow — and exactly the danger we're trying to prevent in Illinois.

I subscribe to @gelliottmorris.com because he provides the best polling analysis out there Want to know what polls are really telling us about where the public is at? Check him out Meanwhile... I think we all know that it's very very bad for the GOP When Fox News is admitting this on air ⤵️

The new Fox poll has some of the worst numbers for Trump that I've ever seen

"In the US, especially among the elites that ought to be leaders, people are hiding because of what Trump can do to them. They're complying in advance, not standing up because they’re afraid. But once there are too many of you for the govt to do bad stuff to each of you, it’s almost like immunity."

I used to think that threatening to wipe an entire civilization off the face of the Earth would be a disqualifying action for an American president and that responsible people would pack up his things and check him into a rest home.

had to double check that this wasn't a parody account

Trump: " ... the horrible & ridiculous Supreme Court decision on Tariffs ... All they had to do was one little half sentence, 'that the US does not have to pay back monies already paid' — & our Country would be 159 Billion Dollars richer ... Couldn’t they have done that for our Nation?"

The emperor has no clothes, the courtiers have no calculators, and somehow they’re all in charge.

Pathetic

"...who still plans to attend the Mar-a-Lago event" is the funniest part of this whole thing: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

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A Chicago woman who was the victim of a botched police raid is now poised to join the city’s police oversight board:

Aside from being incompetent and lacking charm, Patel is a brown man… the clocks been ticking for a while.

"I stand by every single word of this report...I have been inundated by additional sourcing going up to the highest levels of the government, thanking us for doing the work, providing additional corroborating information." Sarah Fitzpatrick on Kash Patel: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

I would really like to know the origins of Kelly's unabashed hatred for Hegseth.

Exactly: don’t trust him, MAKE him not use nuclear weapons

The GOP’s priorities are insanely off. Sen. Kim is right: Spread the word. Then let's kick these feckless cowards out of office.

This is insanity on full display.

WATCH — @tedlieu.bsky.social : “Trump and his family have made over $9 Billion in his presidency.”

Didn't bend, didn't cower, didn't even feel the need to stand next to Trump grinning awkwardly like it was normal. And now he's emerged unscathed with his job and his dignity intact and his reputation even stronger than before. Huh. Seems like this could be a model for others in power.

"The Republican apologist class will go on producing the long, articulate, disqualifying-in-what-sense replies that history will read with the same grim clarity it reads the German conservative intellectuals of 1933" this is very good:

Kevin O’Leary is a douchebag

I’m sure the people whom Kash fired couldn’t have helped.

To be clear, the eight Iranian women who were allegedly political prisoners set for execution and saved by Trump are nonexistent and generated by AI. The 170 Iranian schoolgirls who were blown to smithereens by Trump's orders were all very real, and all are very dead.

Lawrence Freedman: The US leads no longer. But is the full extent of the current crisis appreciated? Not just the coming economic hit but also the impact of Trump’s self-destructive behaviour. All allies are adjusting to US incompetence. This makes increased defence spending more urgent.

“To settle this, it would be great if the White House would release the case files and any FBI recordings of Homan’s meetings with undercover agents posing as businessmen...” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Epstein survivors are here in DC today to press for a full release of files by Trump Admin They’ll be on national mall… as Trump and some of the media have a black-tie dinner together

Yes he does!!!!!

President Trump announced a plan to resurface the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool with “American Flag Blue,” sparking controversy among preservationists. The project, which bypasses traditional review processes, aims to be completed by July 4.

Meet our DC spring interns—Abhi, Sumaia, Andrew, Jaden, and Dana!   From tackling legislation to supporting our constituents, our interns are at the heart of our work—and we are so grateful for everything do! ❤️ If you’d like to intern in our office, apply here: stansbury.house.gov/services/int...

When I talk about a two-tiered economy with different set of rules and standards for the super-rich, this is what I mean. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/technology/elon-musk-spacex-loans.html

🇺🇦🇬🇧 Ukraine is of great importance for the protection of democracy around the world, — Prince Harry 💬Not so long ago, many believed that liberal democracies had finally won and the main conflicts were already behind them, gone into history. But history has once again reminded us that this is not so,

Good afternoon! Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates— 💰His net worth is up $2 billion, to $6.3 billion 💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million 💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million 💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million And Jared became a billionaire last year. Have a great day!

The story of the Iran war is that Trump lost it in the first days. Everything since has been trying to deny that cardinal fact. You can see this by the fact that everything happening since has been trying to break free Iran’s hold on the strait, something it didn’t have before the war.

Paper? We got a “new paper”? So he’s forgotten the word deal now?

New from me: All 40 of Trump's judicial nominees who have taken Qs from the Senate Judiciary Committee have refused to say Trump lost the 2020 election. Now his high-level executive nominees are dodging the Q, too. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

what concrete step could democrats take that would - again, concretely - set the Trump admin up for successful diplomacy? we had a solution put in place by a previous admin, and Trump ripped it up because it was the black president who did it. it's not democrats with the blinding hatred problem