Jon Ossoff really tells it like it is. Love this! 💙

that beep beep beep sound you hear is the president and his family backing a truck up to the US treasury... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"As illiberal strongmen have discovered in other contexts... after a while, voters, especially moderates, become exhausted by constant messages of fear, hatred, and vituperation..." foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/12/h...

"In addition to filling the courtroom gallery and two additional overflow rooms, hundreds of protestors rallied outside the U.S. District Courthouse in Baltimore before the case was set to be heard..." marylandmatters.org/2026/04/15/h...

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..." "One of her children recently enlisted in the military... www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

"Over the past several months, our community has built a blueprint that other communities can use when federal agencies attempt to move detention infrastructure into their neighborhoods..." blog.hagerstownrapidresponse.com/p/today-in-b...

And they remain mystified as to why it's so hard for them to find real lawyers who will work for him... Eastman: disbarred Giuliani: disbarred Chesebro: disbarred Clark: facing possible disbarment Ellis: law license suspended www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Very normal stuff. "Aides kept the president out of the room as they got minute-by-minute updates because they believed his impatience wouldn’t be helpful... "At one point Trump mused he should award himself the nation’s highest military honor, the Medal of Honor... www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Oh. He marveled. "Some of the president’s advisers were caught off guard that tanker traffic would grind to a halt so quickly after the bombing began... "Trump has since marveled at the ease with which the strait was closed..." www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Last month, Trump's DOJ inexplicably dropped the prosecution in the largest ($20 billion!) Iran sanctions violations case ever: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/n... Now one month later, they're bragging about how they're going to so so so sooooo prosecute Iran sanctions: www.wsj.com/world/middle...

"The company founded and formerly run by Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright recorded $193 million of income last year but paid no 2025 federal corporate income taxes, according to its regulatory filings, and actually got more than $10 million back from the IRS..." www.eenews.net/articles/oil...

"Dear America" letters from people who work at the besieged US Department of Housing and Urban Development: dearamericaletters.org

"Trump Administration officials declined to explain the reason for the reversal..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/b...

"Ms. Ross-Mahé, age 86, was greeted at the airport by her three adult children. She was still dressed in her prison wear — orange shoes, sweatpants and a gray sweater — covered in stains and holes... "She was in a state of physical shock... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...

"Top staffers were figures with connections to GOP politics who hadn’t worked in the arts, including one spouse of a Republican party leader whose longest professional experience was working as a marketing and events manager at a Toyota dealership in Ireland..." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Gen Z Protests Around the World: Success or Epic Fail? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/w... New York Times points out that massive protests haven't made meaningful change. I take umbrage with that. Consistent protests inspire people and put pressure on politicians. Why else would they try to stop us?

Why leadership looks like. Thank you, Senator Elizabeth Warren! And thank you @annstrussell.bsky.social for posting this✌🏾☀️

"The Trump administration cut the agency deeply last year, leaving some forecasting offices short-staffed... “You’re missing data from the Four Corners region, the northern Plains, part of the central Plains, and that’s where the storms were developing,” he said..." www.nbcnews.com/weather/torn...

Joe Pesci as a gyno telling the patient they have more than one uterus

Happy 5 year Bleep-A-Versary to the time @maddow.bsky.social got bleeped on her show. When I was watching it real time, I was getting ready to go out and thought she had written "shitshow" into her teleprompter, and they knew when to bleep her. She later cleared it up. #Maddow #PsakiBriefing

PA last month said the two Trump prison camps they want to put there can't be hooked up to water or sewer (and therefore can't open). www.pa.gov/agencies/dep... Now MD says Trump the prison camp they're trying to put near Hagerstown can't get sewer either: www.projectsaltbox.com/p/maryland-o...

Love went Rachel plays the DJ. Great song with relevant lyrics. #Maddow

BTW, this Wednesday is the 5 year anniversary or "Bleepiversary" of @maddow.bsky.social getting bleeped on her show(by accident, of course). @maddowblog.bsky.social #Maddow #LastWord

Maddow: All the people who came out to protest at Stonewall when the Trump administration pulled down the pride flag, "today you won."

Perfect way to go to commercial. Democracy and freedom in action. #Maddow

Sorry, I'm late, glad to be here for another #MaddowMonday. #Maddow

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"The judge concluded his opinion with an unusually sharp rebuke of the Trump administration: 'Suppression of political speech is the mark of an autocracy, not a democracy — as the Framers recognized when they drafted the First Amendment'...” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

"Each day of the trial, the courtroom filled with community members. Current and former students and colleagues, members of the California Faculty Association from various universities and students who had heard about the case all came to show support..." www.huffpost.com/entry/jonath...

all over the world, these guys are just exact xerox copies of each other. in this case, "istvan" is pronounced "JAYR-id"

Well put. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Normal stuff here, very normal: "As the president threatens to wipe out Iran and attacks the pope, even some former allies and advisers are questioning whether he has grown increasingly unbalanced, describing him as 'lunatic' and 'clearly insane'..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

Long Island, New York: www.newsday.com/long-island/...

Goshen (Orange County) New York: midhudsonnews.com/2026/04/13/d...

"Oregon's Democratic Governor Tina Kotek signed eight bills into law defending immigrant rights, as the Trump administration ramps up federal immigration enforcement..." ktvz.com/news/governm...

"She is from British Columbia but moved to Texas in 2021 when she married her American husband. The family was driving home from a baby shower when they were stopped at a border patrol checkpoint. She and Ayla, who has autism, were fingerprinted and detained..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"The only way to lose in a fight against Trump is to try to appease him... Those who "stand up for themselves and resist the ridiculous attempts at intimidation have prevailed..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

will he actually have to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue to be removed from office?

Clearly he just watched “60 Minutes.” What a deranged waste of a human being.