We live in a country where the two most dynamic, charismatic, eloquent politicians of this century have the first names Barack and Zohran. This is what bothers the white supremacists so much.

Former President Barack Obama met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time Saturday, joining preschoolers at a child care center for a book reading and singalong. Source: Emma G. Fitzsimmons / NYT

Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani read a book to kids in NYC about the importance of community

In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace. Several accounts have already amassed thousands followers. Some of the posts have more than half a million views.

Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

Thomas isn’t going anywhere voluntarily. www.nytimes.com/1993/11/27/u...

While I mourn the loss of professional copy editors from #Florida newspapers, I must admit that their absence HAS produced a lot of headline howlers, including this one. www.news-press.com/story/news/c...

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Holy cow. The opening anecdote here tells you the story is going to be a Friday evening doozy that rocks DC. Also lol at the FBI Director routinely getting hammered in a Vegas joint called The Poodle Room. 😚 👌

This is the stuff that inspires revolutions.

Iranian girls from the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Iran that were killed by the Trump administration

Trump approves disaster aid for red states 89% of the time. For blue states? 23%. When your community is underwater or burning, whether you get federal help shouldn't depend on how your state voted. This is the most partisan abuse of disaster relief funding in the 47-year history of FEMA.

"abortion bans have influenced how doctors and hospitals respond to pregnancy complications. Facing risks of prison time and professional ruin, doctors have delayed key interventions until they can document that a fetus’ heart is no longer beating or that a case meets a narrow legal exception"

Jenner’s passport was changed to ‘Male’ under Trump’s new policy.

America is losing a talented researcher today. Rümeysa Öztürk, whose abduction by masked men prompted a search and her eventual release by ICE, has returned to Turkey. She wants to resume a career without "state-imposed violence and hostility." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

In case you missed it: first-person video footage of the U.S. Navy Divers Medical Team opening the hatch and entering inside the Orion Integrity capsule to meet the Artemis II heros U.S. Navy Courtesy Asset/ Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One www.dvidshub.net/video/100269... #Artemis 🧪🔭

"You're just voluntarily complying with this whimsical cosplay" -- holy shit, Tim Kaine is *demolishing* Russ Vought

A DOJ press release accused Heather Morrow of assaulting an ICE agent. When video showed Morrow hadn't attacked anyone and was tackled by an officer, prosecutors dropped the felony charges but promptly filed a misdemeanor case against her. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.

People will be tempted to rationalize away a Vance or Rubio as not as bad as Trump and therefore as authorization to vote third party or abstain. This is wrong. We are still going to be fighting what Trump has wrought. And we will be for a few cycles at least. The GOP must be crushed.

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

Read that again. This Louisiana bill forces homeless people to choose between jail and "treatment"—and if they can't pay for the latter, they will be forced to perform unpaid labor. The historical precedents are clear: convict leasing, Black Codes, debtor's prison.

The battle of the snowbirds is over. US businesses thought snowbirds would slink back and break the boycott. It didn't happen. In the hardest winter in memory Canadians held strong. Forbes writes that we are delivering a massive and sustained economic blow to the US. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGku...

Trump stiffed the lawyer who cross-examined Stormy Daniels in his trial - never paid her bill.

BREAKING: In just the 16 months since Trump was reelected, the collective fortune of billionaires has grown by $1.96 trillion. More than half of that growth comes from just the top 15 billionaires, who alone grew their collective wealth by over $1 trillion.

If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than: Tesla Southwest Disney Live Nation HP United PayPal CVS Health Palantir Citigroup PG&E 3M That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax. It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.

It's too bad that the folks in charge after the Civil War didn't contemplate and address keeping insurrectionists from gaining power in the — *listens in earpiece* — I'm sorry to report that they did, but the Supreme Court effectively deleted it.

it gets lost in the shuffle of constant corruption and bloodshed but even with the memecoin ALONE, that would make him very clearly the most corrupt U.S. president in history, you could easily argue

If you paid taxes for 2025, you likely paid: $124 — school lunch & nutrition programs $49 — diplomacy to prevent wars $19 — USPS $19 — Federal Aviation Administration $18 — national parks and $4,049 — weapons and war. These priorities are hurting us all. We need change. #TaxDay

INBOX: Amid rising tendons between Trump and Pope Leo, the administration has abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.

Photojournalist takes photos of empty rainy street in Mpls. Police were ordered to ticket people hanging out at McDonalds, bus stops, libraries. Cops: What are you doing? Him: "Rain makes the reflections look nice." Cops: Your explanation indicates you're having a mental health crisis. Handcuffs.

"His question, which came mere hours after he told the chatbot that God had abandoned him, hung in his oft-used log with the AI platform for two seconds. Then, ChatGPT detailed how the school would lock down, national media would swarm, and the president would express condolences"

Despicable fucking government.

BOYLE: The CBO says the big beautiful bill eliminates healthcare coverage for more than 15 million Americans. Are they really all, according to you, illegals and defrauding the system. That's really your position? RUSS VOUGHT: Yes BOYLE: That's laughable!

BOYLE: Trump said 'the US can't take of daycare, Medicaid, or Medicare, that has to be up to the states' VOUGHT: He doesn't want to to that B: He said it. So you're disagreeing w/POTUS? V: He's talking about fraud B: Excuse me. He never used the word 'fraud.' He said we have to pay more for wars

This is Missy. She escaped from her backyard and ran straight to daycare, where she had a spa day and got to play with her boyfriend. Lessons were learned, but not the ones her parents probably hoped. 13/10 (TT: spotsplaceyqr)

It’s stunning that the very people targeted by these thugs, lawmakers whose lives were in jeopardy at their hands, will do nothing to stand up to this.

ERASING HISTORY: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro asks court to vacate seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and Proud Boys leaders Ethan Nordean & Joseph Biggs, despite jury findings of coordinated efforts to stop the transfer of power.

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart

Dilley is evil and must be closed. It's a goddamn concentration camp. A moral abomination. People are going to Hell over this.

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

Kurt Browning is 59 years old!!! Holy shit!

Billionaires get paid in stock worth billions. They use that stock as collateral to borrow billions. They use those borrowed billions to buy everything, including media outlets which then pump bullshit like this to keep you in the dark about the tax loopholes designed just for them.

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Trump will continue to decompensate through escalation unless he is removed from office or otherwise externally contained. The escalation will occur on domestic and international fronts, and his failures on each front will serve as feedback loops for one another. He won’t stop: he must BE stopped.

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