More RECKLESS, brutal inanity from Trump & Russ Vought: OPM is moving to require every insurer in the Federal Employee and USPS Health Benefits programs to every month provide everyone's _identifiable_ health data, incl doctor visits, prescriptions, and treatments. 👎🏻 www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

Watching the Democrats trot out 70+ year olds like Mills, Brown, Cooper, etc in all these must win senate races really drives home the importance of state legislatures. It’s a testament to how thin the Democratic bench is in many states, because the state legislative pipeline is in shambles 1/3

Brilliant

Thanks to our Cap-and-Invest Program, California has now provided a billion dollars to help fleets and businesses deploy 11,600 zero-emission freight, trucks, and buses. While Trump forfeits American innovation to China, we're cementing our leadership in the green economy.

Ohhh I am so calling them the Liquor Cabinet from now on. Priceless.

Bouts of precipitation in the form of rain is forecast across Texas, & rain & snow is expected across California this early week. Both states could see flood concerns. If flooding occurs while you’re outdoors, immediately get to higher ground, & NEVER enter flood waters in a vehicle or on foot.

The application has remained stable since the evening of April 16 and we have seen no evidence of unauthorized access to private user data. Given the ongoing stability, this will be our final update.

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2092...

There's a war on for your mind. theonion.info

The reason Trump pressured Republican led states to redraw their election maps without voter approval is because he knows his policies are unpopular. He knows Republicans will lose without map rigging. Virginia can vote YES for fair maps to stop him tomorrow. #VoteYesVirginia

Trump's comparisons of himself to Obama have grown pathological. @atrupar.com flags Trump obsessing about outdoing Obama's Iran nuclear deal (he won't). He's also been comparing their presidential foundations, too: newrepublic.com/article/2092...

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING NEWS🚨 The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania strikes down a law restricting Medicaid from funding abortion, and in doing so recognizes a "reproductive autonomy" as a fundamental right in the state constitution. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

Co-sign. @talkingpointsmemo.com is a must-read.

You are free to be fascist on Xitter but you are not free to point out fascism on Xitter

You wanna guess how this will go? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

What’s that line? Something about doth protest too much?

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central Cartoon Network And more... This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped. State AGs must step in and block it.

She has a name and it is Connie Ballmer.

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

"I don't drink and will sue anyone who says I do!" ~Kash Patel

Grenell instructed me to “get rid of” the center’s permanent art collection. New art to adorn the building’s walls after its renovation, I was taken aback. If the donors of the works didn’t pay for their removal, he said, we could auction or give them away. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

Breaking WaPo: The Trump Justice Department is now demanding all ballots from the 2024 election in the Detroit area — a highly unusual move that comes shortly after prosecutors seized 2020 ballots in Georgia and obtained 2020 election records in Arizona.

BOUNDARY WATERS: Congress’ move to allow mining in a national forest near a wilderness area may have broad ramifications across the country. From Stateline:

This. Concur.

Agreed. It’s too clean for a Trump tirade.

"Dear America" letters from people who work at the besieged US Department of Housing and Urban Development: dearamericaletters.org

It’s a mark of how completely normalised the corruption & depravity have become that we barely bat an eyelid at the thought of two *property developers*, one Trump’s nepo baby son-in-law, being sent to represent the USA in peace negotiations with Iran. Sometimes it all hits you afresh.

They went to Jared

So we get multiple conflicting reports, including from Trump himself, that Vance is or is not leading the US delegation for peace talks on Tuesday, then we get multiple reports from Iran state media that they have no plans to attend peace talks on Tues & didn’t know about it.

It's a happy moment for Freddie Freeman and his family, and welcome to Ryan Ward. dodgerblue.com/dodgers-reca...

Dodgers 4/19 S. Ohtani DH K. Tucker RF W. Smith C M. Muncy 3B A. Pages CF A. Call LF R. Ward 1B H. Kim SS A. Freeland 2B R. Sasaki SP

This is a genius bit of engineering and the sort of thing a country serious about assisting farmers and tackling energy shortages would be working to put over every canal

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A Russian war correspondent writes Ukraine now dominates in drones and has a tactical edge on several fronts, while Russian air defense and comms are failing up to the Urals. He says Kyiv is preparing a summer 2026 counteroffensive.

Very legal and very cool.

Xavier Becerra @xavierbecerra.bsky.social sued the Trump administration as Attorney General to stop ICE & won! Becerra will stand up to Trump defending CA as our Governor! #Becerra

Here's the key reason why putting Joe DiGenova in charge of the Russian investigation is so suspect. On the same day Mueller finished Joe was spewing FALSE conspiracy theories abt Ru and the Bidens, hoping to get paid by Lutsenko for doing so. emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...

I mean, of course that’s what happening. It’s been clear the whole time

The average refund so far is $350 more than last year at this time, despite projections that it would be closer to $1,000 due to Republican-led tax changes as part of the Big Beautiful Bill Act.

To understand why the USA is where it is today, all you need to do is see that Trump cannot tolerate even the mildest, insightful criticism from the Pope, but Trump will allow Putin to humiliate him deeply and constantly, while still craving Putin’s approval.

The directors of the firm hired to continue the crossword after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked. The crossword has been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.

I don't throw around the term "hero." I define it generally as a person who goes beyond what anyone expects of them, to the point that they risk life or freedom, in order to do good within a moral and ethical framework, most commonly to save others. I think Wayne Hsiung met that definition today.

These two ¶¶ more than 35 ¶¶ into an adventure in sanewashing would be the entire story if reporters cared about accountability for Trump. www.wsj.com/politics/nat... Trump was warned abt Strait. He ignored those warnings. Now he confesses he was wrong.

This definitely can be replicated by the Dems but the question is do they have the guts to do it.

If you haven't read this yet, you should. The online right influencer scene, is well paid, well coordinated, and working in lock step with the right wing politicians. There's nothing like this on the left. Elon's baby mama spills the dirt. thecycle.substack.com/p/hell-hath-...

This⬇️ is really important and we’d better come up with a plan.