BREAKING: New data shows ZERO oil tankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz today, signaling what appears to be a complete shutdown of the Strait for the first time in history. The Strait normally carries about 20% of the world’s oil supply.

📌MEDIA: Stop calling Jared Kushner a "high-level negotiator." He's a damn thief operating in his repulsive family's best interests not ours.

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

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🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

We pay taxes. They steal our money and they use the government we pay for to make their rich friends richer. My latest on how Donald Trump is using the federal government as his private ATM Machine. open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...

There is so much market manipulation going on in this administration.

I am a gay dad and this is FUCKED UP

Yikes! Always something… We better wake up to what’s happening online. The right isn’t just posting anymore; they’re scaling influence with AI. 📌 AI-generated pro-Trump “influencers” are surging on social media and are starting to shape what people see and believe.

So, when they declared the Strait open the headline banners all read: Iran declares Strait fully opened Only apparently Iran did not say that, Trump did and yet they reported it as fact. Total failure.

A group of children serenade President Barack Obama and Mayor Zohran Mamdani with "Soda Pop" from the movie KPop Demon Hunters

Hey, I think we found the judicial activism.

Senate Dems say a 27-year-old died in ICE custody on Sun. Just one day prior, a 47-year-old Mexican national also died. Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has blasted “serious deficiencies in ICE detention centers,” calling them “incompatible w/human rights standards and the protection of life.”

OMG.

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion. I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

Caitlyn Jenner spent years championing Donald Trump and his movement, but now she can't leave the country.

We sued the Education Dept. for withholding records about discrimination in schools. Got information to share with our team? Contact @jsmithrichards.bsky.social on Signal at jsmithrichards.93 or @jodiscohen.bsky.social at jodireporter.88 👇

A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Florida seeks to bar undocumented immigrants from attending state colleges www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/04/16/f...

If you are part of the fight against Trump fascism, you need to understand what you are up against. And then you need to make sure your friends and followers do too. That’s why I leave my writing open access- so you can pass on important info👇

Read the text of this invite below. It is crazed. 'Ellison’s decision to spend time in Washington “honoring” a White House that has made demonizing the press central to its playbook has outraged staffers at CBS News.' www.status.news/p/david-elli...

Incompetent or just dishonest? Trump’s budget chief wouldn’t tell me how much the unconstitutional war in Iran is costing taxpayers. At the same time, he’s begging Congress to EXPLODE the Pentagon budget to $1.5 TRILLION! Just OUTRAGEOUS.

Yesterday, @brianbeutler.bsky.social noted how Trump is likely to dole out pardons like candy—recent reports confirm this—but not for state crimes. It's why a Democratic House majority next year must use their oversight powers to provide documents and evidence to state partners in CA, IL, and MN.

The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles. That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org. (All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).

NEW: “We see, just, use of excessive force after use of excess force,” said Christy Lopez, who spent years investigating law enforcement misconduct at the DOJ. “In no scenario is it OK to be pepper-spraying people as you're leaving the scene.” w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to obtain access to Rhode Island's unreacted voter file. In these cases nationally, my law firm is now 5-0 and DOJ is 0-5. Not sure how Harmeet is going to explain this to her "boss." www.democracydocket.com/cases/rhode-...

You might or or might not (but I’m guessing might not) be surprised to learn that CBS News invited Stephen Miller to be their guest at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Hegseth, too. www.breakermedia.com/p/axel-s-tel...

damn, dark as shit

"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."

Christians, donald trump isn't your savior, he's your test.

Nation cuts off nose to spite face. Drop in immigrant tax filings may cost government billions as IRS shares data with ICE www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

This is not how a public servant talks in a democracy. This is how a dictator’s henchman talks.

Jesus fucking Christ with this stupid fucking bullshit of the Congressional Democrats failure to do anything when the dumb fucks voted the Republicans and power in both the House and the Senate. Please go take a remedial civics class, for the love of fucking God educate yourself.

MacFarlane: Are we to pretend we didn’t watch all that on television on January 6th? Did we not all see what happened at the Capitol? These vacating of convictions, these pardons, are communicating to the American people: do not believe your lying eyes

If you want to know what happened when an American president tried to overthrow our democracy. This is my documentary "True Believers at the Insurrection", what lead up to it and the events of that day. I'm grateful for your support. We are the last eyewitnesses. vimeo.com/833374121

A 12-year-old child was killed in Kyiv as a result of a russian attack, Mayor Klitschko reported 😡😡😡

BREAKING on MS NOW: Tulsi Gabbard just referred the whistleblower whose complaint led to the first impeachment of Trump — and the Inspector General who deemed the complaint "credible" — for possible criminal prosecution by the Trump Justice Department.

As we learn that Gabbard has referred the Ukraine whistleblower and the IG to the DOJ for prosecution, keep in mind that last May, a whistleblower reported her for hiding intel about foreign agents discussion someone close to Trump about Iran. From February: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-tulsi-...

The average U.S. gasoline price is $4.12 a gallon. It was $2.37 when Biden left office 15 months ago. The Trump regime wants you to think a 74% increase in the price of gas is no big deal. It is.

🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court permanently disbarred John Eastman — a key architect in President Donald Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election — delivering one of the most consequential professional penalties yet for an election denier. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Vance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration. ​I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro.

An exciting day: I’m testifying today in a Senate hearing about the possible merger between Paramount & Warner Bros. This kind of power consolidation is a danger to freedom of speech and media independence so it must be fully vetted. Hope you’ll tune in and watch: www.youtube.com/live/xETe83T...

One job of journalism is to identify changing circumstances that require changes in policy. So when the first-ever convicted-felon president assaults the free press, why would reporters honor him at a dinner just because “that’s what we always do”? Wake up. Cancel the Correspondents’ Dinner.

Yesterday I joined a call with American partners There was an amazing man - Ryan Hendrickson @tipofthespear42.bsky.social He works on landmine removal near Kharkiv Real courage My personal hero! Please read about his work and support: landmineremoval.org I was sending him hearts in Zoom ❤️

The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more than 18,000 challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal. We are tracking the increase in these cases:

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.

Last week, he threatened to wipe out an entire civilization. This week, he attacked the Pope and followed it up with an AI image of himself as Jesus Christ. The Epstein files? Buried. The swamp? Filled with his GOP sycophants. MAGA, the jig is up. You're not getting anything you voted for.

Every time they say they’re the party of law & order, that they’re pro-law enforcement, that DOJ is taking violent criminals off the streets & Democrats are pro-criminal, remember this. It’s all a sham; a mob-style loyalty exercise.

This is a favorite strawman of the Religious Right, asserting that the exact phrase "separation of church and state" isn't in the Constitution. They ignore that there are only three references to religion in the entire Constitution, all three of which work to separate church and state.

The politics in Hungary may have changed, but the politics in the US are the same. Todd Blanche is telling us we should be happy that Trump is directing DOJ to go after his political opponents. We cannot give up but we must fight for democracy every single day. And if we do we can win!