Maddow: "Amid all of this insanity it may be a good time to remember that this kind of desperation from the White House and from the president is palpably driven by fear."

Provide the social safety so that grandmothers don’t have to take multiple jobs to pay for their husbands cancer treatment

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.

Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?

EVERYONE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT THIS: Conflict of interest doesn’t even begin to cover it. Chad Bianco really seized over 650,000 ballots based on conspiracy theories that don’t even hold up to basic scrutiny. No credible fraud. No real discrepancy. 🧵

Well put. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

Both sides? Explain your nuanced approach

Greta Thunberg is right.

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Warehouses on fire, Molotov thrown at Sam Altman’s house, a data center supporting politician’s home shot at — attacks on the ruling class have begun. Every attacker will now be deemed a terrorist, that’s inevitable. But what the ruling class doesn’t want you to know is they made this inevitable.

Given the huge early turnout in Hungary odds seem very high that Magyar wil defeat Orbán very decisively; the question in that case would be whether Orbán goes with the Ukrainian electoral interference lie he has been preparing and whether foreign actors support him.

If voting didn't matter, the fascists wouldn't be trying so hard to steal it. Tell cynics, closet fascists, and other cowards you're not buying their shit.

Nothing screams, “we’re going to bomb Iran,” like a fast fashion floral blazer. www.jezebel.com/karoline-lea...

We can’t wait to get back to San Francisco, and we are especially excited to be back at Kilowatt on April 23. Praying and Silent Pictures will be joining us for the show, and it’s FREE! Looking forward to a cool night of music together💐

Record turnout in Hungary today as voters decide whether to end Orbán’s 16-year grip on power. Trump called in via speakerphone and Vance flew to Budapest to campaign for him and polls show it may have backfired. Orbán is trailing by double digits. 🍿

The Media and Democracy Project does a deep dive into how newspapers covered No Kings 3. Bottom line: not well enough.

We’ve lost ground. We can’t even get back to where Obama had us because Trump has buried us. So much losing.

Kushner being involved as he has deals with MBS is insane

Whatever happens with Iran from this point on, the American president has done permanent damage to the global status of the dollar, for absolutely nothing.

The Secretary of State attending a UFC fight while wartime diplomatic negotiations fail would generate an explosive, front-page, above-the-fold headline for any previous administration

Major media outlets are helping JD Vance play both sides — posing as the principled adviser opposed to the war but also as the loyal helpmate supporting his president's war. Get a grip. Vance is helping a criminal president conduct an illegal war. It’s a scandal that working the press works so well.

The US administration is engaged in Hybrid Warfare on Europe, Election interference in Hungary, UK and Germany by Trump, Vance and Musk, threats to invade EU-territory in Greenland , Economic Tariff Warfare,Threats and Geopolitical bullying. Trump's actions speak for themselves, a Russian asset.

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These are horrific criminal civil-rights violations that, god willing, will be prosecuted by the U.S Department of Justice ca. 2029.

"We didn't read your book, Melania. We didn't. I understand that you're annoyed because you did detail this in your book, but we didn't read your book. I think we could all admit we didn't read the book." @janecoaston.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social on Melania's crisis communications attempt

Promising pardons to criminals is something only a criminal would do. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Seems like they all know they are commiting crimes?

In his first 100 days, Zohran Mamdani has: -Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by gig companies -Cracked down on predatory landlords -Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program -Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets This is what leadership looks like.

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Oh dear god www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Buttigieg: "For the leader of this country to make a nakedly genocidal threat against another civilization as if the US was a death star that was going around blowing up civilizations, of course that is a new low ... the whole country is being judged just for tolerating that kind of thing at the WH"

This is propaganda.

Dear G!  How are you?  Nice story about J. E. in New York mag, you look great on the picture. I know you are very busy flying all over the world. How was Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call when you are back in NY. Have a great time! Love, Melania

Thanks to Melania, some big Streisand Effect energy going on now putting the Epstein Files smack-dab back in the center of the news

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

Prediction markets have been dogged by accusations of insider trading in many areas—but shady bets on war “risk unleashing an entirely new kind of national-security threat," @saahildesai.bsky.social argued last month.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge dismissed the DOJ’s lawsuit demanding Massachusetts’ unredacted voter rolls. The ruling marks its fourth consecutive loss of 30 active cases seeking access to sensitive voter data from states. https://bit.ly/4mhdfeq

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Trump again claims the Iran “10-point plan” was a “fake hoax”—but those terms came directly from Iran, were widely reported, and he himself admitted he’s using them as the framework for negotiations. How could someone who lies so brazenly about undisputed facts ever be trusted?

It is going to take a decade or more to prosecute the corruption and crimes of the Trump Regime. He will likely never face justice as he’ll likely be dead. A group of new accounts on the prediction market Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the U.S.

cc: @nytimes.com

Spoiler alert: nothing trickled down.

If you are at Paul Weiss and are wondering if we have forgotten your firm's betrayal of democracy, we haven't. If you are wondering if we are judging you for remaining there, we are. www.wsj.com/business/c-s...

The receipts. A complete timeline of the shifting rhetoric. More: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

Today's press conference: We pulled of a risky rescue and we're going to tell the world exactly how we did it. Our administration leaked about the second airman, endangering his life. We're super good at endangering more lives to clean up messes of our own making.

How do we turn anti-Trump solidarity into political power? Some thoughts... https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2026/apr/05/anti-trump-solidarity-no-kings