Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social, just reported its 2026 Q1 results. It lost $405 MILLION on $900,000 in revenue.

Oregon's legal battle over its management of voters rolls is over. The state recently settled, agreeing to share voter data with the plaintiffs — including a conservative activist group — who had accused Oregon of failing to proactively remove some people from the rolls.

Taxpayers paid $300,000+ in sexual harassment settlements on behalf of 6 former House reps before the practice was outlawed in 2018. It's good that was banned. Now let's strip taxpayer-funded pensions from members who engage in sexual misconduct.

BREAKING from The Atlantic: Kash Patel has given out bottles of a personalized whiskey to FBI staff as well as civilians he encounters in his duties, according to eight people, including current and former FBI and Department of Justice employees and others who are familiar.

I’ve ended up as the unofficial DOGE correspondent for my friends and fam thanks to our reporting. Have a read, there’s a lotttttt to dig into: www.wired.com/tag/doge/

Republicans want a billion dollars for the ballroom now. That’s your money.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service says an individual was shot by law enforcement near Washington Monument; White House briefly locked down.

The Met Gala is receiving pushback this year after it was announced that Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos, and his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, are the main benefactors.

Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina has a message for tonight's Met Gala chair Jeff Bezos

Russia has tightened security around Putin amid Kremlin fears of assassination by drone or even a coup, leaving him more often in a bunker and even more isolated, report Anastasia Stognei @maxseddon.bsky.social and @labboudles.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/fe70...

Among the first agencies President Donald Trump gutted after taking office for his second term was a Department of Homeland Security team that had repeatedly disproved his stolen election claims.

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The Right is wrong.

The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

The guy whose undergrad professor at Penn remembered him as the dumbest student he ever had, thinks that a Columbia and Harvard Law grad could not match his skills in Identifying Animals 101

So, to recap: The FBI seized more than half a million scraps of paper containing votes from a state’s long-settled presidential election based on a 3-week investigation.

Reuters: US APPEALS COURT TEMPORARILY BLOCKS MAIL-ORDER ACCESS TO ABORTION DRUG MIFEPRISTONE

"Right now, our industry is afraid of the wrong things. We’re afraid of offending power. We’re afraid of losing access. We’re afraid of another baseless lawsuit... "There is a fine line between being a team player and being an accomplice...” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

The FDA allowed into the United States at least 150 drugs or their ingredients made at banned factories that were found to have mold, foul water, dirty labs or fraudulent testing protocols. (Published June 2025)

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The Air Force made a deal to buy interceptor drones from a company backed by President Trump’s sons. So the Trump family will benefit from government contracts as Trump continues the war against Iran. Nothing about this is normal or ethical.

JUST FILED: Hegseth is cornered with questions about possibility of Trump sending US troops to the polls in November youtu.be/ntFG3eOt-yM?...

Is anyone participating in this strike today?

NEWS --> Dem can redraw anywhere from 10 to 22 additional House seats for the party in time for the 2028 elections if they aggressively redistrict in 7 key states, a new Fair Fight Action analysis finds. This would neutralize GOP's post-SCOTUS advantage. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2098...

I don’t think people are understanding that the civil rights movement included a lot of violence.

The basic view of Alito and the rest of the Roberts Court when it comes to voting rights is that black people can vote for anyone they want as long as it is a Republican.

One thing to understand about the shadow docket is that it's a deliberate "fuck you" to literally everything and everyone who isn't in the majority of the Supreme Court. The rule of law, the American people, and especially to the lower courts whose work is summarily reversed without explanation.

Any member of Congress that votes for a clean FISA reauthorization is voting to hand Kash Patel, Stephen Miller and Donald Trump the power to spy on Americans without a warrant on a silver platter.

Let us get this straight: Jared Kushner, who has not filed a financial disclosure or gotten a security clearance, as far as we know, is going to Pakistan to lead negotiations on an ongoing war while the VP and Secretary of State hang back?

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

Very nerdy cool story on old malware meant to undermine calculations in precision processes — to undermine Iranian weapons programs If you compare the stealth and precision of this attack—and how long it potentially undermined Iranian WMD—to the meat cleaver of today, it’s mind blowing Also … /1

🚨BREAKING: Internal emails between DOJ personnel suggest that, from the very outset of the effort to obtain sensitive voter data from states — much earlier than previously known — officials there planned to share it with the DHS. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Alex Jones yesterday, April 22nd of 2026, is once again saying the Sandy Hook massacre was a false flag done by "professional shooters." It is imperative we take over that studio as soon as possible.

“Federal investigators believe the commando bet more than $33,000 on the prediction market Polymarket just hours before President Donald Trump announced Maduro's capture in January, the sources said.”

DOJ arrested one of the commandos involved in the Maduro raid for insider trading on a predictions market on it. abcnews.com/US/doj-arres...

You can’t make this stuff up. The most corrupt first family of all time.

ICYMI, people and organizations tied to Hungarian president Viktor Orban’s former regime have been deeply involved with NatCon, the Thiel-backed conference that elevated both JD Vance and Christian Nationalism in the US. I’ve been collecting receipts. 1/

NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math. less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)

The report said registration hurdles, voter roll purges and access limits disproportionately kept Black, Latino, young and disabled Alabamians from participating. #alpolitics

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption. It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

A new investigation from ProPublica and @frontlinepbs.bsky.social examines federal agents’ response to protesters and bystanders at the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps. “We see, just, use of excessive force after use of excess force,” one expert said.

Interesting @markjacob.bsky.social point here: Why not more stand-alone stories with heds like "Trump Is Dismantling Democracy"? "Such a headline would be easy to support with facts that the NYT and other major media report in isolation every day. They’re simply afraid to hit the total button."

Did not miss any of these (tho admit the Whiskey Pete thing didn't make it far beyond FT), but strongly applaud this kind of summarizing. It's REALLY hard to keep up with all the corruption. Really hard.

"The company founded and formerly run by Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright recorded $193 million of income last year but paid no 2025 federal corporate income taxes, according to its regulatory filings, and actually got more than $10 million back from the IRS..." www.eenews.net/articles/oil...

If Dems retake either house, they must launch an investigation into this. There's no easier way to highlight the corruption of this era and to establish that Dems are committed to fighting it. Pretty sure @wyden.senate.gov and Maxine Waters would be the chairs to do it.

Trump's DOJ just asked for probation for someone who committed three identity thefts.

that beep beep beep sound you hear is the president and his family backing a truck up to the US treasury... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I'm fairly gobsmacked by the number of people who profess surprise that Orbán was funding CPAC. Did you know of his ties to Heritage and Project 2025? One of the most telling, tho, was he funded Rufo and the racist Trump tried to install at State, Jeremy Carl. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...