Carney: "The days of our military sending 70 cents of every dollar to the United States are over." *thunderous applause*

Mohamed A. El-Erian: Wall Street vs. Main Street: The Great Disconnect. Look at this chart from LSEG. The S&P has almost completed a "round trip," plunging by 7% due to the Iran war before rebounding. But on Main Street, households are dealing with high energy prices and plunging confidence.

Unified command (local cops) arrived allegedly in response to protesters standing on the sidewalk on the other side of the free speech zone barricades. Inflatable phalluses wave along to a chant of, "suck a dick!"

Our South Whittier Health and Wellness Fair is back next month! Stop by Carmela Elementary School on May 2 for free vaccines, haircuts and health resources.

Per indie reporter @domguan.bsky.social, all photos of those killed by ICE have disappeared from the fence memorial outside Broadview's ICE building. Protesters on scene at the moment say they don't know what happened to them.

Statement from CADEM Chair Rusty Hicks on Recent Allegations Against Rep. Eric Swalwell.

🧐 "No details have yet been made public regarding the reasons or procedures behind the grant of citizenship. According to the decree, Adams obtained Albanian citizenship upon his own request..."

✈️ FVCKJET DIPLOMACY 🤔 The Fvckjet flies east from Paris over Europe towards Islamabad, trailed by two “SAM” VIP transports 👀

PEARSON: “Never trust xAI.” Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social reacts to Musk’s company “pausing indefinitely” a promise to build a water recycling faculty — and challenges Mayor Young, the chamber, the council etc. to now get them to follow through.

✈️ Le fvckjet est arrivé 👀 🛬 Les Bourget, París

We just got the first hard economic data showing the effects of the war, and it shows inflation surging. Lemme take two minutes to explain what it all means while talking into a baby koala's butt.

Next week, Republicans will have another chance to vote with us to end the war in Iran. @sanders.senate.gov & I will also call for a vote to stop the sale of US taxpayer-funded weapons to the Netanyahu gov, which has used them in violation of international law. We must end these wars.

South Korea has proposed a $17 billion supplementary budget to cushion the economic impact of Trump and Netanyahu’s war. In the package: cash payments of $65-$400 per person to the bottom 70% of earners -about 36 million people.

Way to go Oregon! Gov. Tina Kotek signed a sweeping immigrant justice package yesterday eight new laws covering schools, hospitals, workplaces, courts, and law enforcement. This is what state-level resistance looks like.

UPDATE: District Judge Troy Nunley has extended the restraining order on the Nexstar acquisition of TEGNA for an additional 7 days, pending his decision on whether to issue a longer injunction.

The guy investigated for years for conspiring with Russia (who may have gotten not one, but TWO pardons for his ties to Russia) interceded to make sure Trump didn't fire Tulsi. Great. Just great. www.axios.com/2026/04/10/t...

ICE has been really good at catching wind of these unannounced visits in other cities recently and flying all the captured migrants out beforehand. But not today. Well done catching them, Congresswoman. We should expect that all of the detention centers are this bad when they aren’t tipped off.

The next administration must take the lesson of this one; every single immigration judge hired under Trump 2.0 must be fired on day one.

⚡️Putin’s envoy Dmitriev meets Trump officials ahead of oil sanctions deadline. Kirill Dmitriev’s visit to the U.S. comes just days before an April 11 deadline on whether Washington will extend sanctions relief on Russian oil.

Great news!!

Apple said on Thursday that it will shut down its retail store in Towson, Maryland, the first of its U.S. locations where retail employees successfully unionized in 2022.

Another strange day from Trump World, where the insanity never ends.

I'll bet Ghislaine is threatening to release stuff on Melania unless she gets a pardon. Remember: all the really bad Trump stuff that's been released came from Ghislaine's discovery files, and those stories leaked to the WSJ came just before her sex offender status was waived.

This Arts Month, explore free arts experiences across LA County: free admission hours at Los Angeles County Museum of Art + Natural History Museum , the new David Geffen Galleries opening 4/19, and the #NexGenLA Celebration May 3. #ArtsMonth #LACountyArts

Credit where credit is due: Congressional Democrats showed up during recess - they came back early - to introduce a war powers resolution. Republicans blocked it.

NEW: The republicans wouldn't let democrats introduce a war powers resolution today during a pro forma session, but democrats will be back next week when Congress is back in session to force a vote on the matter. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

SCOOP: The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has delayed publication of a CDC report showing covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ED visits + hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half. My latest. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

The Mamdani administration today announced its own click to cancel rule, to make sure that every subscription transaction in the city is as easy to end as it is to start. The FTC did this in 2023, it was challenged in court & Trump's FTC wouldn't defend it. NYC is doing it themselves.

⚡️ Zelensky says US ignores Iran-Russia cooperation because it 'trusts Putin.' "I said this publicly. Did we hear a reaction from the U.S. to Russia that they have to stop it?" Zelensky said in an interview. "The problem is they trust Putin."

Passing the CBS news station, the chant leader takes a moment to call out the media: "everytime the media lies, a neighborhood im Gaza dies!" (fwiw I did see a CBS crew out here earlier in the night, but not sure if they're still around)

Epstein survivor Danielle Bensky: Bondi deserved to be fired. But we’re really worried about Todd Blanche stepping in. He is not a suitable attorney general. He gave Ghislaine Maxwell a sweetheart deal. He has not listened to survivors.

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

WATTERS: “Are you mad there’s a ceasefire? Where do you stand?” @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “I stand in reality. There is no ceasefire. It’s a complete fiction.” (From @acyn.bsky.social )

The Trump admin is quietly trying to build medical dossiers on all federal employees. Their prescriptions. Therapy appointments. Abortion records. For millions of people (and their families). They won’t say how they’ll use it. But I can venture a guess. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called for the EU to end its Association Agreement with Israel.

Breaking: SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California Supreme Court orders sheriff to pause investigation into 2025 special election and preserve seized ballots.

NEW: Since Donald Trump waged war on Iran, Americans have paid over $8 BILLION MORE for gas.

Last night’s mayoral election in Waukesha showed just how much your vote matters—Democrat Alicia Halvensleben won in a historically red city by less than 500 votes!

Two absolute musts are universal basic income and healthcare. Survival itself must be decoupled from employment. In addition, we also need to do: 4-day weeks, universal pre-K to college, end gerrymandering via multiwinner districts and proportional RCV, expand SCOTUS, add states (DC+PR), Nuremberg 2

JD Vance in Hungary: "This is not American influence. I would never do this, but do you know how easy it would be for the US to threaten Hungary economically in the same way the EU has? We would never do that because we respect their friends enough to respect their democratic will."

You could have had free universal healthcare this entire time. The money was always there.

BREAKING: Democrat Alison Page has defeated longtime Republican incumbent Dan Toland in the River Falls, Wisconsin mayoral race, flipping the seat from red to blue. Toland had held the office since 2012.

BREAKING: Democrat Alicia Halvensleben has defeated Republican Scott Allen in the Waukesha, Wisconsin mayoral race, flipping the seat. This marks a major political shift in one of the most historically conservative suburbs in the Milwaukee area and follows a night of major shifts away from the GOP.

🤔 (From @qasimrashid.com )

Other key state supreme court races this fall: AZ: Author of 2024 opinion upholding Civil War-era abortion ban up for retention MT: Moderate justice is retiring on court that has often thwarted GOP power grabs NC: Anita Earls, one of two Dems on the bench, is up. Ds could win back majority in ‘28

Reminder that there's *another* conservative-held open seat on the WI Supreme Court that's up just a year from now. After tonight's win, liberals have a 5-2 majority. They could boost that to 6-1 — and ensure conservatives can't win back a majority any sooner than 2030.

Nixon’s unauthorized bombing of Cambodia was also a significant reason the 1973 War Powers Resolution was enacted—over Nixon’s veto. The Iran War illustrates that it is high time for a thorough strengthening and reform of that law.