“Marketed as tech geniuses, yet they could barely keep up with basic tasks. In reality, they were overconfident, drunk on power and utterly clueless. They giggled and asked me how my day was going—right as they hit the keys to obliterate nearly a decade of my work.”

“The Treasury Department has this information because that’s where banks file Suspicious Activity Reports... Wyden’s staff documented that Epstein-related filings by banks contain “information on more than 4,725 wire transfers involving Epstein’s accounts, all of which merit further investigation.”

Journalists are dying of hunger: “without immediate intervention the last reporters in Gaza will die”. Write your elected representatives if the images of starving children were not already enough to move you.

“Tiffany Doe claims she convinced the then-13-year-old plaintiff to attend the parties as a means to break in to New York's professional modeling world. “

“There are celebrities, princes and princesses, high-profile scientists, artists from all over the world, all alongside some of the world’s most powerful oligarchs and political leaders—people like Prince Andrew (circled), Ehud Barak (circled), Donald Trump (circled).”

To those who question what Labour stands for – look at Best Start. It will change Britain’s future | Polly Toynbee

Lord, they’re making me do it. They’re making me talk about Jeffrey Epstein. Why? Because they are so damn set on trying to cover up whatever this all is. I explain the sordid mess in today’s piece, link in the replies.

“The psychological toll of ICE raids isn’t borne only by the new immigrants whom Trump calls 'invaders,' but also by many of the Americans tasked with protecting us from real foreign threats,” Xochitl Gonzalez writes:

You don’t have to love America right now. Not the one under assault from a vengeful despot. But I do hope you care enough to reflect on the commitment of our founders to form a union & free the new nation from a mad king and the yoke of oppression—care enough to be willing to fight for America now.

“Scardina says he voted for Trump and still supports many of the former president’s policies, but this isn’t what he signed up for. “Buyer’s remorse? I don’t know, a little bit.” A LITTLE BIT????

John Lewis: "If it hadn't been for the media, for brave, courageous journalists, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings." Democracy cannot function without an informed public.

Yes, we must now deploy the tactics of “the baddies” to protect ourselves from our own gov’t: “Face coverings also have the benefit of shielding your identity from cameras and police surveillance…If you wear a hat, and you're interested in further protecting your identity, keep the brim low.”

“Therefore the latest polling tells us less about Trump than it does about the catastrophic failure of not just Democratic campaign professionals, but also civil society and the media, to effectively inform voters of the consequences of the choice they had before them.”

Get busy! There are seven vulnerable Senators. This Reverse Robin Hood monstrosity can be killed if we can persuade 3 not to vote yes with Vance as tiebreaker.

“Trump was not done. He lied that Qatar “gave $5.1 trillion worth of investment in addition to the jet,” before returning to Alexander. “Go back— you ought to go back to your studio at NBC because Brian Roberts and the people that run that place, they ought to be investigated…”

Good time to remember: The last time Trump was president, he ran up more than 25% of ALL the debt in the entire history of America $7.8 TRILLION DOLLARS And he’s about to do it again — so he and his billionaire friends, Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg, can get tax cuts

Superb thread with advice on the process and what we can do. “The most important thing you can do, by a parsec, is attend a town hall with your Republican Senator and with your Republican member of Congress. There is nothing more useful than spending even a minute talking face-to-face with them…”

“Kasper has never been charged with or convicted of any crime.”

More than 700K Americans died from COVID after he wrote this. We still have not achieved herd immunity.

Plus, as always, a @resist.bot.

If you still do have the plot, though, here are updated scripts/language calling on Congress to do something about Trump's Qatari sky palace bribe. Looking like amendments to the NDAA are probably our best route.

Just one of its failings: “This is the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, based in Alaska and California, which does not inspire confidence as it has failed nearly half of its tests. It would have minimal value against a Russian or Chinese attack.”

Excellent suggestion to write media executives. “In your message, avoid generalities. Instead, focus on two key things that news executives have to take responsibility for: facts and rules. List any falsehoods and misleading claims. And questions their standards and practices.”

Alarmingly terrible! …”it would mean that hundreds and hundreds of court orders – in cases ranging from antitrust to protection of private tax information, to safeguarding the social security administration, to school desegregation to police reform – would be rendered unenforceable.”

“colleagues who also bought into the school’s opening blather about academic freedom are getting crushed by what she acknowledges in her piece is a dominant political agenda of attacking so-called “woke” doctrine, including diversity, and belittling elite traditional universities”...

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

But Hayden-Smith says his efforts to get the charity to understand the lived experiences of people like him were met with resistance – and, on occasions, even hostility. “No one wants to feel like an annoyance or a nuisance under the guise of trying to do something positive.”

And this man is serious. “Vought was one of the main authors – credited as the key architect – of the Heritage Foundation’s influential Project 2025, widely seen as the blueprint for Trump’s second term of office.”

“The arrest and prosecution of judges on such specious charges is where rule by law ends and tyranny begins. The independent judiciary is the only constraint of law on a president. It is the last obstacle to a president with designs on tyrannical rule.”

Fletcher: “I can tell you from having visited...death on this scale has a sound and a smell that does not leave you."

Look to Hungary. “There are no tanks in the streets; there are elections, and public protests, and judges in robes. But, the more closely you look at its core civic institutions, the more you see how they’ve been hollowed out from within…The new way is cheaper, easier, looks nicer on TV.”

“The president seemed exhilarated by everything he had managed to do in the first two months of his second term…”

“…trucking work is going to dry up. Warehouses will start doing layoffs because no labor is needed to unload containers and some products will be out of stock, reducing the need for shipping labor…this will start in the Los Angeles area. After about 2 weeks, it'll start hitting Chicago and Houston.”

Time to yell, time to shout, Time to get your booty out!

No attorney general should ever speak like this. She's Trump's advocate, not the people's lawyer, which is what the AG's job is. Whatever state she is barred in should start disciplinary proceedings immediately. This isn't subtle or arguable, it's wrong.

Speaking of "waste fraud and abuse", Elon's little sociopath-grunions cut several hundred thousand of NEH grants that help fund the Internet Archive (aka Wayback Machine). sfstandard.com/2025/04/17/d...

Rural hospitals will shut down. Disabled kids will lose therapists. Families will be stranded without care. All so Republicans can hand out more tax cuts to billionaires who don’t need it! This isn’t policy—it’s cruelty. Medicaid Cuts Kill‼️

#MedicaidCutsKill Medicaid pays for 60% of long-term care in this country. Over 40% of births. Nearly 40% of child healthcare. Cutting Medicaid for billionaire tax breaks is just cruel. Medicaid Cuts Kill!

We knew it was coming. It’s here now. 🧨

“Republicans aren’t just vowing to uninsure the 21 million Americans with Medicaid coverage through expansion; they’re …That allows Democrats to go on the offense in states like Texas, Florida, and Georgia and demand Republicans increase coverage, not shrink it to pay for wildly unpopular tax cuts.”

“That message should be that Donald Trump is a bully who cowers in a real fight. The good news is that no figure is more contemptible than a bully in retreat. “When people feel uncertain, they’d rather have someone strong and wrong than weak and right,” Bill Clinton said…”

Raise your kids with the strength to know what they stand for, yet the humility to listen, learn, and grow. – Unknown

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“The Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 53 percent of Republicans surveyed last week said Trump should not seek a third term. Nearly two-thirds of all respondents agreed Trump, 78, should not run for president again in 2028.” Let’s check back in with Okies after another tornado season - without FEMA.

So... it's not illegal, then. Because pretty sure none of these impose criminal charges for speaking to journalists about non-statutorily-protected information.

Have you contacted your senators yet? A bill that would restrict access to the ballot and eliminate online and mail-in voter registration was recently passed by House Republicans. Tell your senators to protect our elections by rejecting the GOP's voter suppression bill: act.indivisible.org/...

The massacre took place on the night of 23-24 of March 2025. Ten days later, 4th April, the commander of the same army unit (Golani Recon) was filmed instructing his soldiers: "Everyone we meet in Gaza is an enemy. We identify a person, we shoot, we kill, and carry on. Don't get confused."

“It can discipline government attorneys, including referring them for disbarment. It can impose escalating fines upon an official personally for each day an order goes disobeyed. It can order that officials be imprisoned. It can even set in motion criminal contempt cases against … officials.”

“The overall mood in the West Wing has grown dark. Trump and his inner circle are frustrated at having to revisit a damaging storyline that they believe slowed their momentum last month, the sources told me, even as the president remains loath to fire a Cabinet member under pressure.”