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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...

Neither of those calculations is correct. (It's a 500% increase and an 83.3% decrease.)

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"

He wants a nuke that can take out at least ten cities at a time.🙄 Still I'm encouraged that people who know and understand things have managed to get through to him on this.

Hey MAGA, are you tired of all the winning yet? #DonTheCon

Exclusive: Former Disney CEO Bob Iger has taken an advisory role at Thrive Capital, the venture firm founded by Joshua Kushner. on.wsj.com/497TJvs

Israeli soldiers have looted civilian property in southern Lebanon on a large scale, according to testimonies from IDF personnel, Haaretz reports.

Jon Ossoff calls a proposed move a “bailout” for the United Arab Emirates, alleging influence from Emirati royals on the White House and warning it could become a major scandal.

🔴 Iran's Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf has resigned from the negotiating team, according to Israel's N12 News

Oh so that was a lie

🇮🇹👏 Italy has ruled out replacing Iran at the 2026 World Cup, despite political pressure, - Sky News Italian sports minister said it would be “not possible, and not appropriate” for Italy to step in, stressing that “qualification is done on the pitch.”

Trump ally Ronny Jackson weighs bid for top House Armed Services spot

Who's doing okay and who's doing not so well in the Iran War?

Papa! Papa!

Legit question. Now that we all see how self defeating and dumb gerrymandering is, how about we pass a nationwide ban on it to take effect in the 2030 census?

This morning's Politico Playbook says that "the hottest ticket in town" during the WHCD weekend is a party hosted at Donald Trump Jr's club, where “only non-fake news is allowed in.”

"Now we are living with an administration that actively obstructs our search for truth. President Trump and his allies seek to extinguish all independent arbiters of fact. The press is among them." ethicsandjournalism.org/2026/04/15/o...

"The two US officials and two members of the Chihuahua State Investigation Agency were returning from an operation to destroy cartel drug labs in Chihuahua – which borders the US states of Texas and New Mexico – when their vehicle skidded off the side of a ravine and exploded, local officials said."

LOL Tesla. Demand has fallen for overpriced defective swasticars, so they're pivoting to (1) useless humanoid robots (2) far-behind-frontier-models MechaHitler AI tech and (3) autonomous driving they promised years ago and will likely never deliver. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Not great

So guessing this is justifying not getting a deal when he walks away…..

Pentagon Reveals Attacks in Latin America Are Just the Beginning theintercept.com/2026/03/23/t...

“When Democrats’ own voters complain about their party in their own words, the complaint is not that Democrats are too liberal or “weak and woke”, it’s that they’re not fighting hard enough, particularly against Donald Trump.”

He warned the crisis could impact global growth, drive inflation, and lead to shortages, including a potential jet fuel crunch in Europe within weeks.-NYT

Fatih Birol, head of the IEA, said in an interview with CNBC that the world is facing the “biggest energy security threat in history,” citing the loss of around 13 million barrels per day of oil supply amid disruptions linked to the Iran conflict and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Breaking news: Medical data from 500,000 volunteers in the UK has been put up for sale on an Alibaba-owned website in China ft.trib.al/KxoFmNs

DoD: Overnight, U.S. forces carried out a maritime interdiction and right-of-visit boarding of the sanctioned stateless vessel M/T Majestic X transporting oil from Iran, in the Indian Ocean within the INDOPACOM area of responsibility.

Five times, Trump has set a deadline for Iran. That deadline has been extended every time, despite Iran not doing the thing Trump demanded. www.cnn.com/2026/04/22/p...

President Trump told Fox News Wednesday that there was "no time pressure" on the ceasefire, which he has extended indefinitely. n.pr/4mLpDn2

House Oversight Committee Republicans ‘Split’ Over Whether Convicted Child Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell Should Be Pardoned

The Trump administration has agreed to pay $1.25 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Carter Page, a 2016 Trump campaign adviser who was wiretapped during the investigation into Russia’s interference in that year’s election, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

We are very happy that today Apple issued a patch and a security advisory. This comes following 404 Media reporting that the FBI accessed Signal message notification content via iOS despite the app being deleted.

Orban doesn't want to spend the rest of his life living in Russia or Belarus.

"No Republicans are publicly urging any particular oustings. But privately GOP senators believe Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and FBI Director Kash Patel could be at risk of leaving — voluntarily or not."

More than 70,000 likes for a post on X falsely claiming that the SPLC “planned, organized & paid for” the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in 2017. This stuff is all over Musk’s X. The reality: SPLC was using intel to warn the rally could turn violent. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

🇪🇺🇺🇦‼️ The European support package for Ukraine has been unlocked - 90 billion euros for two years, - Zelensky.

Trump gave Iran the opportunity to close the Strait of Hormuz. He put them in a position of power. All of the consequences, including the economic ones, are uniquely his fault.

Eric Trump -- the president's son -- is on Maria Bartiromo's show bragging about one of his companies landing a $24 million Pentagon contract

BREAKING: President Trump's acting attorney general reclassifies state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug in a major shift.

BREAKING NYT: The FBI began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about Kash Patel using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation, according to a person briefed on the matter.

This is happening because one man, who vowed repeatedly to lower food prices on "day one," unilaterally launched us into a costly war that no one wanted. He's causing death, destruction, and chaos in the Middle East and Congress has thus far stood idly by.

The new acting Secretary of the Navy, Hung Cao, who is replacing John Pelan, is a theocratic loony who thinks California is infested with witches. The only thing the Trump administration shows *any* aptitude for is filling its job openings with unqualified kooks.

So now Pete Hegseth has fired the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Staff of the Army, both in the middle of a war, both with no public or known explanation? Seems fine.

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The secretary of the Navy is out. I don’t know why.

Not a big deal — it’s not like the U.S. Navy has any large-scale operations going on right now or anything.

Here's another take, with a different protagonist. The story is, someone in the Trump admin feeds video to a gullible right-wing media hack to implicate a former Capitol Police officer, then uses the resulting right-wing media story to goad the FBI Director into ordering a raid on that person.

idk how to read this story other than "J6 participant uses access to the Trump Administration to SWAT a former Capitol Police officer with the full force of the FBI"