Every once in a while you see something perfect…

Add this to the very, very long list of absurd Trump vanity projects we’re wasting taxpayer dollars on while people struggle to afford housing, healthcare, gas & groceries.

Steve Hilton: Fox News host, Trump hype man, zero U.S. elected office experience, zero U.S. government service. Xavier Becerra: Congressman, CA Attorney General, HHS Secretary. California needs a governor, not a cable-news guy who can’t identify a taco. 🌮

Even Republicans are choking on Trump's billion-dollar ballroom boondoggle, with House members admitting the optics of palace renovations strapped to immigration legislation reek of tone-deaf imperial decadence while voters drown in gas and grocery prices.

Speak to the nearly 80M who enthusiastically voted for a #NaziKing who promised death camps for brown people, golden ballrooms for his oligarch buddies. But he hates who you hate so here you are........ #Idiots

Holy crap. 70% disapproval.

MAGA activists and influencers seizing on the incident to lobby for a ballroom and multiple other completely unrelated pieces of legislation.

Karoline Leavitt right before the event: “This speech tonight will be classic Donald J. Trump. There will be some shots fired tonight, so everyone should tune in.” bsky.app/profile/atru...

He is saying this while traveling to Palm Beach from DC for a dinner with his Trump crypto investors before flying back on AF1. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Thom Tillis announces that he will take Jeanine Pirro at her word that the Powell investigation is closed and will now vote to confirm Trump’s nominee for Fed Chair.

Nobody knows how to use a shooting for his personal benefit quite like Trump.

Chip Roy now wants taxpayers to pay for Trump’s ballroom.

Chief of Protocol for the White House.

Anyone suggesting we should stop accurately pointing out factual ways that the president is wrecking this country on a daily basis, or expressing an opinion about that, because of something a random nut does is espousing a profoundly un-American concept that I completely reject.

I think Franklin Graham is a nepo-baby charlatan who weaponizes the Bible to advance his political agenda.

But he can’t go anywhere so he needs a ballroom bunker fortress. bsky.app/profile/ronf...

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Oh look. Another shooter going after Donald Trump. Presumably. Maybe. Still not going to forget about the Epstein Files.

How many fake assassination attempts before Trump fills out the Punchcard and gets a free cheeseburger?

Was this whole drama about getting his ballroom built???!!! #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

Asleep?

The Washington Post using the picture from the photographer they laid off.

Good question. Another good question would be how does it happen. Why do gunmen keep getting close? www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fox...

Sen. Gillibrand: "He shouldn't be spending tonight sipping champagne. He should be focused on ending the war in Iran and he should be focused on getting the costs down for the American people."

Guy who got bit by the zombies two scenes ago and is not hiding it well

Confession: I spit out my coffee on this one!

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Uh oh. An issue at the correspondents dinner. I don’t believe it for a second 🤣🤣🤣

Breaking news: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Trump.

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My goodness, look at these polling results, trump's disapproval in just about every category is OVER 67%. That includes millions of trump supporters, sick of his bullshit. Wow!

Iran’s Foreign Minister says the U.S. blocking Iranian ports constitutes an “act of war” and a ceasefire violation, and adds that targeting commercial vessels and taking crews hostage is an even greater violation. He says Iran will “resist bullying” and defend its interests.

U.S.–Iran peace talks collapse as ceasefire nears expiration, JD Vance’s trip is suspended, and Trump signals imminent bombing, raising fears of that full blown war will break out yet again. Meanwhile, VA voters head to the polls on redistricting. Catch up on the top stories for April 21, 2026.

🚨 Talks with Iran have collapsed before they even began. Iran refuses to negotiate under a U.S. naval blockade and threats, and Trump says he expects bombing to resume once the ceasefire ends. Iran is warning it will retaliate if attacked—and planned talks in Pakistan appear dead.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed an executive order banning state employees from using insider info to bet on prediction market apps like Kalshi and Polymarket, warning the unregulated boom “opens the door to insider trading and abuse.”

🚨🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: Trump folds and says U.S. will delay potential attacks on Iran after request from Pakistani leaders, and says he is extending the ceasefire pending a “unified proposal” from Iranian leadership.

Iranian state-linked media, Tasnim News, asserts: "If the US wants to maintain the shadow of war, it should consider the Strait of Hormuz completely closed."

Advisor to Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf says Trump’s ceasefire extension “makes no sense,” calling it an attempt to buy time for a surprise attack and claiming Iran “currently holds the initiative” as tensions escalate.

Did Kash Patel read his own lawsuit? When asked why he was locked out of his computer — as The Atlantic reported and Patel *admitted* in his lawsuit — Patel denied it happened: "I was never locked out of my systems," he just claimed. What his lawsuit says: buff.ly/JTRuZKf

BREAKING: The YES vote will WIN Virginia’s redistricting referendum, allowing Democrats to redraw maps ahead of the midterms and potentially flip the state from 6–5 to 10–1 — a four-seat swing that could decide control of Congress.

NEWS: Virginia Redistricting Constitutional Amendment projected to PASS. Helping the Democrats neutralize the advantage Republicans gained in other states like Texas.

By turning Trump's own redistricting gamble against him, Virginia just changed the math on Congress.

🚨 Iran's Revolutionary Guard Navy says it has seized two ships in the Strait of Hormuz "which had endangered maritime security without the necessary permits and by manipulating navigation systems" and has escorted them to the Iranian coast

Iran’s consulate in Hyderabad just posted this video mocking Trump and his “ceasefire extension”

At least 34 tankers linked to Iran, including vessels carrying crude oil, have successfully bypassed the U.S. blockade, per FT

PATTY MURRAY: What happened to childcare in this budget? RFK Jr: Ok, let's talk about childcare then instead of the war MURRAY: Just so it's clear, the president is requesting $1.5t in defense which cuts our non-defense incredibly RFK Jr: It's not my department

“Land-based flight”???? Does he mean “planes crashing”?

Trump: "STATEMENT OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP: Based on the fact the Govt of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Pakistan we have been asked to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their representatives can come up with a unified proposal"