Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates. “I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said. (Published Nov. 2025)

What the American "drug war" looks like on the ground: Ecuadorian fishermen were attacked in a double drone strike, arrested at gupoint, taken to El Salvador and then finally released. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Steve Witkoff has visited Moscow seven times yet never traveled to Kyiv. For some reason, the Trump administration isn't playing its cards against Vladimir Putin.

Donald Trump, getting tough with Iran. 🙄

NEW REPUBLIC: “Where Did Millions in Funding Go?” $63 MILLION companies paid in *settlements* to Trump appears to have vanished (into his pocket) and @SenWarren wants answers. newrepublic.com/article/2092...

OGAdamKinzinger: #Virginia Good job, Virginia!! vt.tiktok.com/ZS9dsLf1f/

The verdict of a prominent conservative website and magazine: "A 79-year-old man who has long dealt in chaos is now being consumed by that chaos. His episodes are becoming more frequent, his good days further apart. What he has lost is not a sense of decency or decorum—he never had those...

I’m shocked. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/21/t...

What’s happening in Ukraine and Iran? This might help. My latest in the @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/will-wins-...

Wow. They’re so thick it’s almost impossible to credit.

❗️Hungary and Slovakia confirmed they will support a €90 billion EU package for Ukraine and new sanctions on Russia once Druzhba oil supplies are restored, Czech foreign minister said. #Ukraine

Starmer is a decent person who just doesn't have what it takes to do the job. That's the unglamorous truth. The trouble with building moralistic scaffolding around it, pretending he's The Devil just to make ourselves feel a bit better, is that after he's gone, what will remain is our own dishonesty.

Interested in people’s views on how things look today, after Olly Robbins’ testimony, which I couldn’t watch as I’m currently serving as an election officer in Virginia’s special election- been here since 5am😩!

🚨 Virginia voters: If you are in line by 7:00 PM ET, stay in line! Do NOT leave. If you arrived before 7 PM, you are legally allowed to remain there until you cast your ballot. Every vote matters today. Please stay put and make your voice heard! 💙🗳️ #VoteYesVirginiaToday

Republicans like Nancy Mace and Anna Paulina Luna claim to care about ethics... Yet there's been precisely zero House Ethics Committee investigations into Republican House Rep. Max Miller. Miller has been accused of: 🧵

@vinguptamd.bsky.social @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @markhertling.bsky.social @kenharbaugh.bsky.social

Masterful questioning by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to RFK Jr. on why he's giving more money to insurance companies in the HHS budget hearing: Q: "We know they're lying...We are giving them more money because they're saying that they need it?" RFK Jr.: "Yeah, they're lying, but..." Bravo, AOC! 👏

Settee down everyone, it's not that funny

The popularity of McDonalds remains an unfathomable mystery

Tragic and heart-breaking. Why we must not let our guard down - measles is terribly contagious and can and will come roaring back if we let it.

I love this picture

Despite the global turmoil one question consumes me @nigella.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social @jayrayner1.bsky.social . The best way to cook broccoli such that the delicious stalks are cooked but the florets not turned to mush

If I was an enemy of America I would be pissing myself laughing

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Live and learn en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_S...

I would like to congratulate Madgwick and his support team from Manchester university for the university challenge final

Donald, after being told Air Force personnel were missing in Iran, had a freakout that got him excluded from an important briefing. He was't worried about the missing pilots. No, he only cared that a failed operation would hurt HIS POLL NUMBERS, as it had Jimmy Carter's. What a self-absorbed prick.

"Aides—presumably senior military officials in particular—believed that they had to exclude the president from the decision-making if it were to succeed. And Trump was excluded, and the operation succeeded." What a situation to be in.

Moin-moin! Schönen Dienstag!

If this act had been committed by a soldier in literally any other nation on earth, the evangelical right would demand a termination of all US military aid. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/w...

My dear girl, my husband vanished from/ with alcohol and addiction, leaving me with our three young children who blamed me.. until they grew, and realized I fought for them, for us, with every breath that I took.. I am so sorry, but I also know that love will conquer that despair. You’ve got this 🤍

Jonathan Cohn: "I don't know that the FDA is going to always get it right or wrong, but we definitely don't want the FDA taking orders from a president because he got a call from a podcaster."

🚨BREAKING: A federal court Monday approved a settlement forcing Virginia to halt voter purges near elections — delivering a major win for voters by reinforcing federal protections against last-minute disenfranchisement.

Starmer as PM tends towards anger with the machinery of government not delivering what he wants almost oblivious to part of his own job being to make that happen

"average New Labour minister causes 3 scandals" factoid actualy just statistical error. average minister causes 0 scandals. Scandals Peter, who lives in cave & causes over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Just heard about an insane "tax avoidance" scheme being pitched to recruitment agencies, involving paying HMRC with a "bill of exchange". I'd think it was a joke if it hadn't come from an unimpeachable source. If you come across this, do get in touch in complete confidence.

This from trade guru Richard Baldwin on Trump's trade war conduct is great. And helps explain why in fact he is not remaking the world economic order or anything else. He's just going to leave a huge mess behind. www.linkedin.com/pulse/trumps...

It's not just that Palantir believes "Western Civilisation" to be inherently superior, though they do. It's that they're arrogant enough to believe they can order "the West" a la carte, selectively choosing the racist authoritarian bits they like and declaring them the civilisational secret sauce.

Points 9, 18 and 19 go after accountability directly. Scrutiny of public figures gets reframed as a kind of cultural sickness driving talent away from public life. The problem becomes the people doing the scrutinising, not the people being scrutinised.

Brave guy given the propensity of people like this to fall off balconies

The US of America: 10 people shot dead, among them 8 children between 1 and 14 of age.

Pro-Russian party associated with former president Rumen Radev has won Bulgaria’s snap parliamentary election with over 38 percent, according to exit polls. Radev has taken eurosceptic positions, called Crimea Russian, and opposed military support for Ukraine. #Bulgaria

Ukrainian 71st Airmobile Brigade has stopped a Russian infiltration attempt in Sumy region using the Urengoy Pomary Uzhhorod gas pipeline and light vehicles including motorcycles and quad bikes. Ukrainian forces killed 35 attackers, wounded 17, and destroyed several vehicles. #Ukraine

No Cards, huh?

5/ Iran is trying to establish a protection racket in the strait, likely to consolidate the IRGC control of it and gain leverage over the US in negotiations. Iran has reportedly decided to give vessels that pay a “security” fee and adhere to Iranian protocols priority to transit through the strait.

NEW: The Iranian political officials who will reportedly negotiate with the United States in Islamabad, Pakistan, on April 21 neither have the authority to independently determine Iran’s negotiating positions nor are driving decision-making in Tehran. More Key Takeaways ⬇️ (1/6)

Ukraine has destroyed a large Russian command post with strike drones on April 2, leveling a multi section fortified bunker complex that included a vehicle hangar and extensive underground layout. #Ukraine

During a recent focus group of 20 Gen Z Republicans conducted by a conservative think tank, a subset of participants were asked to share their thoughts on Hitler. Only one responded with outright criticism.