BREAKING: Global Sumud Flotilla activists released from Israeli custody after Israel seized an aid flotilla bound for Gaza in international waters, say they were tortured, sexually assaulted and denied basic legal rights. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/finz9n

Kevin Warsh starts his tenure with his credibility in tatters. He's proven himself to be Donald Trump's sock puppet. And he refuses to answer who cut him a $100 million check for his secret investments – and what they may want from him as the new Fed Chair.

A new report shows that private equity firms now own almost 3 million apartment units in the U.S., which amounts to one in eight apartment units. Half of these units were bought since 2021.

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

Amidst everything else going on, today's Tracking Report by the @pandemiccenter.bsky.social finds that the # of measles cases in the US in 2026 has exceeded that of 2025--breaking last year's record for the most measles cases since elimination.

NEW: Among the more than 50,000 words in the DNC’s 192-page autopsy of why it lost the 2024 presidential election, here are a few that do not appear even once: Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Jewish, Muslim, foreign policy, protest, genocide. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

disgusting.

Just unbelievable corruption. He said he would drain the swamp, instead he brought in the swampiest administration in history, declared himself Supreme Emperor of Swampopia, and ordered his justice department to essentially give his entirely family immunity.

Thomas Massie lost tonight because he wanted the Epstein List released and pedophiles held accountable. Trump didn't want any of that, so he had to go.

Googles plans on changing their search engine to being mostly ai including even the search results…. Google this might be the end.

Expansion is actually easier than impeachment. Expansion doesn’t require a 2/3rds majority in the Senate, unlike impeachment

Of all of Biden’s failures to meet the moment, few piss me off more than his not using SCOTUS’s “presidential immunity” ruling to cancel student debt. Especially after the election. He had four months to cancel it and delete the records!!! What were they going to do? Impeach him? Lol

We are still a long way from a second civil war or breakup of our country. But, if it did happen, I think a breakdown in Full Faith and Credit and fights over long-arm statutes could be triggers. A nation of many sovereigns can't survive if they don't respect the laws of the others.

"The Trump administration’s use of tear gas has been so extreme — with some children exposed multiple times — that the only research ProPublica found that might approximate the impact is a 2018 survey of Palestinian refugees in the West Bank subjected to the chemicals by Israeli security forces."

My guess is that the percentage of Americans who are aware that we are blockading and immiserating a neighboring country is in the single digits. Its not an invasion, but involves the use of American military force with the intent of collapsing the government.

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

stop them all , this is insane

I've read @doctorow.pluralistic.net 's Attack Surface. I know where this is going...

Around midnight, Senate Banking Committee Republicans unveiled new crypto legislation. Among other flaws, it will turbocharge the massive conflict of interests posed by Donald Trump and his family's crypto ventures. No bill should move through the Banking Committee without real ethics guardrails.

Spanish citizen Saif Abukeshek and Brazilian activist Thiago Ávila were the only flotilla members detained for “questioning” inside Israel out of 175 international activists, where they say they faced severe physical abuse in detention.

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Thank God the Roberts Court rooted out all the blatant racism and partisan maneuvering from southern elections.

Yes. They have ill will.

I know it's not common to have compassion for her. She's not easy to like. But I feel bad for her. And this makes me worry she'll "fall down some stairs" or something. Like a previous wife of his. He gets rid of anyone inconvenient, in one way or another.

Dialing up the killing spree at sea.

Candidate for governor of CA... Becerra just said, "Chevron. That's the problem with politics. They're not the bad guy. You need Chevron. I need Chevron. [Californians] need Chevron. If they want to give me a check, that's their prerogative." Yes, Mr. Becerra, Chevron is the/a bad guy.

In Gaza, a new terror has emerged for displaced families: Predatory rodents are shredding the tents that residents spent years pleading for at aid organizations and have also begun attacking and biting humans.

Prosecuting every one of the people involved in this is the moderate position and voters need to be reminding every single Democrat running that this is how it is.

As part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, all “able-bodied adults” 64 or younger who don’t have dependents and don’t work, or participate in job training at least 80 hours a month are now restricted to three months of food stamps every three years. Previously, it applied to those 54 or younger.

With local victories in hand and bipartisan outrage growing, advocates want federal lawmakers to permanently close the door on converting warehouses into detention camps.

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.

This indictment really is absurd. Trump’s DOJ and FBI are accusing the SPLC of sponsoring far-right extremism instead of combating it. Even though the FBI worked with SPLC to combat extremism until last year. The indictment is ridiculous.

The interim CEO of the civil rights organization said he does not know all the details of the investigation by the Department of Justice but believes it’s tied to efforts to gain information about the Ku Klux Klan and other organizations with the potential for violence.

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

In case you think migrant families in blue cities are breathing any easier these days, my kid’s best friend is transferring to a school right next to her house because her mother wants to minimize their time in cars to avoid any interaction with the authorities

Link to letter: www.michigan.gov/ag/-/media/P...

Mexico Is Going All In for Universal Health Care jacobin.com/2026/04/mexi...

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

This article is definitely worth reading. My sense that Harvard and Yale Universities were entities worthy of reverence and admiration has been shattered by learning of their determined efforts to expand were satisfied by engaging in the enslavement industry.

Amazing recent history explainer re Hungary, Orban, corruption, Magyar's win even though the system was thoroughly rigged for Orban, also touching upon EU connections. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/kim-lane-s...

We should be learning from other countries...

Minnesota’s Boundary Waters comprise over a million acres of untouched forest and thousands of lakes and streams, accessible largely by canoe. On Thursday, Senate Republicans voted 50-49 to open the area up to mining.

Exactly one year ago today:

100,087 100,087 signatures from women in the UK who don't think trans women are a threat, and don't want them excluded. When I signed this there were around 4000 of us. Not In Our Name!

Sen. Mike Crapo blocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren's last-ditch attempt to preserve the IRS's free Direct File program. In the last election cycle, Crapo was the top GOP congressional recipient of campaign contributions from the corporate PAC of TurboTax's parent company.

While Hampshire’s case is in some ways unique, it is amazing to think that in a single lifetime - about 70 years - the US founded the greatest public and liberal arts college system in the world and then destroyed it, to build prisons, give tax cuts to the rich, and own the libs

Oh no! Highlander Center set on fire.