The Iran war increasingly looks not only like another shocking humiliation, but perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in American military history. trib.al/VVZfBVu

Messages sent to the FBI by an investigator with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension went ignored for at least two days, per records obtained by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/the-fb...

* SOME OF LEBANON'S HOSPITALS COULD RUN OUT OF LIFE-SAVING TRAUMA KITS WITHIN DAYS AS SUPPLIES NEAR DEPLETION FOLLOWING MASS CASUALTIES IN ISRAELI STRIKES, SAYS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION @reuters.com

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

NO

Unprecedented corruption

This poor girl has allergies so bad she had to get a shot, take antibiotics and anti inflammatories and wear the cone of shame. She’s been hiding from me in places in the house she knows I never go. I feel terrible.

“Everybody hates us, what should we do?” “The only thing that will get people back on our side. An armed overthrow of the Pope.”

I mean

While families are struggling to put gas in their cars and food on the table, Trump wants to give 1.5 TRILLION taxpayer dollars to the Pentagon. He wants to increase the military budget by 40% but cut $73 billion from domestic spending. How is that “America first”?

Once again, interesting leak.

This is an account close to the Iranian leadership. We are now seeing the shape of why Iran agreed so enthusiastically to this "ceasefire". They will control and toll the Strait for the first time. They keep their nuclear program. They keep their missiles. What a disaster.

Oh hell no

A helpful glossary for Leavitt's press conferences is that "frankly insulting"=true.

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

Page 56 of Trump’s proposed budget for 2027 calls for the closure of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The ONLY source of federal funding for libraries. Send a postcard today to stop this attack! bit.ly/48xmMZ3 via @everylibrary.bsky.social #fundlibraries #saveimls

We aren’t losing our minds. This is what is really happening. It takes a ghastly toll.

Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️

They have no clue what they’re doing.

Aw c’mon

Maybe next January.

A debacle. 🧵

Can we please get back to finding out what’s in the Epstein Files?

I’d feel better about this if I thought we had competent people looking after domestic security.

I have a hard time imagining Hungarian voters being swayed by JD.

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

Chris Murphy: "He's not telling the truth. But if you accept even part of the Iranian statement, Donald Trump has agreed to give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz. That is extraordinary and cataclysmic for the world."

Insane

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Second: bsky.app/profile/simo...

"If you want an argument for throwing Republicans out of power, it’s that they wouldn’t even [have stopped] Trump from committing genocide. That’s what toadies they are." On the pod, @jenrubin.bsky.social is so good on the need to keep the focus on Trump's unfitness: newrepublic.com/article/2087...

Project Jupiter water-use claim rankles opponents and supporters haussamen.com/2026/04/07/p...

Hmm. Who leaked? Both Rubio and Vance? Vance missed the first meeting but he sure sounds like the voice of reason in this reporting.

More school board victories. People care about their kids’ education.

Excellent news

Shawn Harris shifted GA-14 left by 25pts. That’s the largest Congressional special election overperformance in at least a decade. Dalton, a majority Hispanic county in the district, shifted left by 33pts. Republicans won’t know what hit them in November.

The White House Correspondents Association is planning to "honor" Trump at its dinner three weeks from now. No way. It was egregious before. Now it's obscene.

Please note that Trump’s big demand is to restore the status he disrupted by starting his insane and unconscionable war.

Alas.

So the Israelis plan to keep killing people in Lebanon.

BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office

Yet another very important and informative read from General Hertling U. S. Army retired.

apocalypse averted - this is the moment for republicans to make sure he can never threaten again, not a minute to lose, remove him now

It's not over. Not even close.

Georgia Voter: It's giving war crime. You can't do that. We don't just annihilate people because we can and, you know, make a grab for the money and the oil. And that's what we've done in Venezuela. And that's what we're doing in Iran.

KHANNA: We needed a diplomatic solution REBECCA QUICK: But we know Iran wasn't telling us the truth. They've been lying and that makes people not trust diplomacy KHANNA: Yes, but it was ripped up by Donald Trump in 2018. The reality is Obama had gotten rid of 97% of their enriched uranium

Now Ron Wyden:

Multiple things may be true: 1) Trump's threats are monstrous and should be denounced. 2) He appears desperate and is using these threats to try to coerce Tehran to reach a deal. 3) The danger of further US escalation—with the risks to Iranians and probability of counter-escalation—is real

Congress must convene immediately to condemn Trump’s horrific threats against tens of millions of people and stop this unconstitutional war. We must prevent Trump from unleashing the catastrophic and illegal violence he is touting.