Top Democrat on House Judiciary formally asks White House physician to conduct cognitive exam of Trump: “Experts have repeatedly warned that the President has been exhibiting signs consistent with dementia and cognitive decline… increasingly incoherent, volatile, profane, deranged, and threatening.”

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Our Pope from Chicago ❤️‍🔥

As a former Senator, Ben Sasse has the best health care in the world as he is fighting his metastasized cancer. How many times did he vote to take away even basic screenings from tens of millions of his fellow Americans?

The NYT bends over backwards to pretend that Israel is “Striking Hezbollah” rather than “Keeps Slaughtering Innocent Civilians Including Dozens of Children.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

🇮🇱🇱🇧 Netanyahu: There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. We continue to strike Hezbollah with full force, and we will not stop until we restore your security. 🇺🇸 Trump: Netanyahu is about to slow down in Lebanon.

At least the BBC is asking questions about some of the strange aspects surrounding the F15 shootdown, the rescue of its high-ranking "weapons officer," and related action deep in Iran. Elements of the DoJ story don't add up and we know they lie habitually. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ0t...

BREAKING: House Republicans block the Democrats’ attempt to pass an Iran War Powers Resolution—refusing even to allow a vote. During a pro forma session, Rep. Glenn Ivey sought unanimous consent to advance the measure. Presiding GOP Rep. Chris Smith ignored the request and abruptly gaveled out.

Chuck Schumer: ‘The American People Deserve A President Who Can More Credibly Justify War With Iran’ https://theonion.com/chuck-schumer-the-american-people-deserve-a-president-1835697625/

"Betrayal does not begin when someone formally switches sides. It begins when someone uses the trust of the system to undermine it from within...Hungary today does not function as a member state pursuing a different policy but as...Servants of the Kremlin..." www.kyivpost.com/opinion/73594

What a headline: * GERMANY'S MERZ SAYS I AM CONVINCED THAT IT WAS NOT TRUMP'S INTENTION TO DESTROY A CIVILISATION @reuters.com

Trump DID it 👇 "The Iran war has laid bare a new geopolitical reality. America’s adversaries are becoming more coordinated, sharing resources and capabilities in ways that amplify their power, while America’s global alliances, long its greatest asset, are neglected and fragmenting."

Meanwhile, the international press is using Israel’s fake language & euphemisms. These are all headlines from the international media. It’s not a ground operation’ or a ‘security buffer zone’. It’s an INVASION. These are war crimes. 2/

I remember when MAGA morons were pushing Russian propaganda from their Putin-paid influencers and calling us “warmongers” for supporting aid to Ukraine so they could defend themselves.

Highly unusual indeed. Also worth noting that these strikes were almost certainly conducted with US-origin warplanes—thus implicating US legal restrictions on arms exports.

⚠️ A five-story residential building in Beirut’s southern suburbs has been completely leveled in an Israeli strike

We can never unsee the genocidal monster Trump revealed yesterday. Even worse, we are likely to see more of him going forward. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-expose...

Recklessly producing and then accepting a situation where a foreign power can restrict freedom of navigation is not just a strategic defeat, it is a reversal of the most fundamental foreign policy and national security priority of the United States since the founding of the republic.

Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this. "Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings." ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas

U.S. officials told Reuters that the movement of thousands of Marines to the Middle East, from San Diego, was continuing for now. www.reuters.com/world/hegset...

The “art” of Trump’s “deals” is his ability to convince millions of people that there is a deal when there isn’t.

Sounds like somebody needs to rein in Israel ASAP. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

It did include Lebanon until it didn't.

Local media reporting that the death toll in Beirut alone from Israel’s bombardment is over 500. AFTER a ceasefire was agreed. It looks like 9/11 on the ground. (🎥 Arthur Sarradin, Radio France)

France plans 36 billion euro boost to rearmament, nuclear deterrent expansion reut.rs/3O6of1K

Trump is now begging to be business partners with Iran. Think about that. Reminder: there is zero evidence that what Trump is saying is true. None. Iran, however, is positioned to cash in and make more money than ever before.

When you’ve lost *checks notes* Josh Barro.

For comparison, the JCPOA ('Iran Deal') payment that everyone in MAGA excoriates was $1.7bn. The $2m-per-ship toll regime on the Strait would generate at normal traffic something like $40bn *each year* for Iran (120 ships per day at $2m per split 50/50 with Oman).

APNewsAlert: JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli military official says the country is still attacking #Iran, after White House said Israel agreed to ceasefire.

I cannot for the life of me fathom how David Sanger of the NYT could possibly have reached this conclusion: “Mr. Trump’s tactic of escalating his rhetoric to astronomical levels certainly helped him find an offramp he had been seeking for weeks.“ Drugs? Stroke? AI? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

#BREAKING Series of Israeli strikes across Lebanon kills dozens, wounds hundreds: health ministry

Also: History: In 1994, Ukraine held the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world (left over from the Soviet Union). Under the 'Budapest Memorandum', Ukraine agreed to give up every single one of those nukes in exchange for security "assurances" from the U.S., the UK, and Russia. Hmmm

Both Trump and Netanyahu should go. Nobody should recover from this global disaster. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

Donald Trump is threatening to destroy a "whole civilization… never to be brought back again," but at least Merrick Garland kept his investigation from looking too political.

This is a very likely scenario, Lumi. Our children and grandchildren will pay for it all, and they will continue to beg for universal healthcare. Fun fact: Both, Iran and Israel, have free universal healthcare and free college education.

Don't worry, Kevin. Israel will make a deal with Iran (like it did with Saudi Arabia) and all will be good. And we, the American taxpayers, will continue to fund Israel and pay reparations to Iran too.

So there’s no regime change, we lift all sanctions against them going back decades, they retain missile and drone capabilities, they control the strait and can charge tolls, and keep their enriched uranium. So much for “unconditional surrender.”

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

Great conversation. Very informative.

I really dont. understand why Trumps connections to 🇷🇺 spanning over decades has not raised more alarm. This seasoned 🇬🇧 intelligence officer is a 🇷🇺 specialist and found that Trump was compromised - and along with his 2016 team colluded with 🇷🇺. Trump is a traitor and its not a slogan.

Colleagues Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman have new insider details of how Trump decided to go to war with Iran, including Netanyahu's hard sell that Iran was ripe for "regime change." That's also the title of their upcoming new book on Trump. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

Trump is a narcissist with low intelligence and a short attention span. He is loud when he thinks no one will fight back, but spineless when someone calls his bluff. He will cave and claim victory. Our legacy media will praise him and the circus will continue.

Just in time for Trump's scheduled war crimes, Bellingcat has updated our tool for identifying damaged buildings and structures in satellite imagery, ideally for investigating atrocities in Iran. Full details here: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

“The Iranian officials made clear to the mediators they don't want to be caught in a Gaza or Lebanon situation where there is a ceasefire on paper, but that the U.S. and Israel can attack again whenever they want to.”

We gave Iran something better than the bomb. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...

Fun fact: In 1929, Donald's mother came to NYC to work as a maid.

Bloomberg reports California has surpassed Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy. With about 39 million people, the state’s GDP now exceeds that of Japan, which has a population of roughly 123 million, marking a major global economic shift

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