Attorney @normeisen.bsky.social says a merger between Time Warner and Paramount would be a Viktor "Orban-ization" of U.S. media

With my spouse being a former teacher, I can hear her saying this to those people who think they are smart until they actually come across someone that can think on their feet. They are Hollywood, not neighborhood and look like fools when they try to hard.

Hungary just threw out Orbán after 16 years The playbook he used? Suppressing the arts & turning news into propaganda The Ellisons want to do the same thing here — CBS, CNN & TikTok under their ownership We're not letting it happen @democracydefendersfund.org @contrariannews.org 👇 -TN

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

The defense secretary is derisively comparing the media to a maligned group of rabbinic Jews, the FBI director is denying reports of drunkenness on the job, the vice president is in a two-front theological war with the pope and Erika Kirk, Donald Trump is still president, and gas is $4. Happy Friday

I would say that Trump was lying about all the claims he's made today about Iran's total capitulation, but is it a lie if his source is a voice in his head?

David Ellison will host an exclusive dinner “honoring” Trump next week. It comes as he’s waiting for regulatory approval of Paramount’s proposal to buy Warner Bros., which would create a massive pro-Trump media monopoly. What is he going to promise Trump at this dinner? Hello???

Trump is posting fresh blasphemies this morning

The sun is going down...

Don’t miss the latest from @lizdye.bsky.social on Trump’s frivolous litigation strategy for Public Notice @atrupar.com, which will have you… rooting for Rupert Murdoch??

Days after the president blasted the Pope as “weak on Crime,” his own DOJ moved to dismiss criminal cases against individuals convicted of conspiring to use force to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. Some of the conduct for which Rhodes was convicted: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/oath...

Todd Blanche and Jeanine Pirro Clear Proud Boy and Oath Keeper Terrorists to Rearm emptywheel.net/2026/04/15/t...

Seems highly likely that someone in the White House is checking every media interview by every Cabinet member and logging whether Trump gets personally praised.

Late last summer, a small group of political appointees began convening at ⁦‪DHS‬⁩ HQ. The group — which once called itself “Team America” — looked for federal levers it could pull to make Trump’s March executive order about elections a reality. @dougbockclark.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social

Hungary's Viktor Orban, installed 18 years ago by the same political operatives who worked for Trump and Netanyahu, was the model for the US MAGA movement. Today he's ousted. Powerful people here will be looking at these results and wondering what they can loot before our 2026 midterms. 6/

Ossoff: "Iran's ballistic missiles and drones are not destroyed. The regime is intact, along with its ability to throttle the global energy supply. Along with its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, which it only assembled after Donald Trump shredded President Obama's Iran deal."

Ossoff: "Trump apparently promised pardons for entire WH staff, which is what you do when you run it like a casino. Maybe the West Wing is too busy placing bets on the war to care, but American are getting hurt...in Trump’s America the well-connected get stock tips & everybody else makes sacrifices"

Orban's regime isn't just a Trump ally--he's the model for Trump's regime. Orban created a hybrid regime with the appearance of democracy, rampant corruption, stealing of elections, and the absence of the rule of law. His loss would be a setback for the project of authoritarianism worldwide.

This is spot on! Trumps reckoning is coming in Nov and he was implementing Orbans playbook to keep those elections from neutering him. The only question is whether the Senate will flip and that is a distinct possibility. NC, TX, AK and MA all have a punchers chance of flipping. VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!

This has recently become known as the Trump effect. Anything Trump Touches Dies (ATTD).

Donald Trump believes that the direct costs of his war with Iran, combined with his request for increased military spending mean that the federal government can no longer afford Medicare.

blessed to live in a country where the AG is in charge of stock market announcements, the son in law is in charge of peace negotiations, the secretary of state is in charge of getting wasted at fights, the FBI director is in charge of getting wasted at hockey , and the VP is in charge of tweets

As little as I already thought of the man I'm in awe of what he's accomplished in 15 short months. Historic run. Basically threw away all his fire extinguishers and told every firefighter in town to eat shit, and then set his house on fire. We need a separate Mount Rushmore for morons

The things you say when you’re cornered in Iran — and you put yourself in the corner:

Nessel: I think Trump is setting this up to say that, if and when the Democrats are likely to retake both chambers, it’s fraudulent, so people won’t believe the actual results—and that might turn into the elections not being certified in states like Michigan

MOSCOW, Idaho (FāVS News) — During a town hall at an Idaho University, Wilson and his fellow pastors pitched a vision of America with no LGBTQ+ rights, no divorce and no voting rights for married women. Wilson has gained notoriety for his Christian nationalist views and his ties to Pete Hegseth.

When he launched this war, the President vowed regime change and “unconditional surrender.” What has he gotten? We went from Ayatollah Khamenei to Ayatollah Khameini Jr. - and are now negotiating over a 10-point plan written by the Iranians.

Man I miss when there was some class, some subtlety, when we fucked with other countries' elections.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth holds regular Pentagon prayer meetings, which infuse worship with the furor of Christian nationalism. "Hegseth is trying to evangelize the military leadership with his version of Christianity,” says @briankaylor.bsky.social of @wordandway.bsky.social.

Trump has discussed issuing mass pardons to aides before leaving office, joking and speaking seriously about broad clemency.

1/2 @davidrlurie.com at Public Notice on Trump's bevy of stooges: "While Pam Bondi was, until recently, the public face of Trump’s legal stoogery, it has actually been Blanche, operating largely behind the scenes, who has done the day-to-day work of debasing and gutting the DOJ." 🧾 is.gd/8Zu4nI

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Unprecedented corruption

Watters: Are you happy that there is a ceasefire? Where do you stand? Jessica: I stand in reality that there is no ceasefire.

Art of the Dipsh*t It’s Wednesday. There are 209 days until the midterm elections. Bibi in the Situation Room, Couch Boy goes to bat for Putin and Trump loses to Iran.

Sen. Bennet (D-CO) says he doesn't believe President Trump was rushed into war with Iran by Israel. "No, my assessment is that Donald Trump fell in love with the result of our military capabilities in the Venezuela episode and applied that to a completely different set of circumstances"

My full, unedited conversation with Sen Bennet on the war against Iran (recorded shortly before the temporary ceasefire announcement): www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXiL...

Colorado's four Republicans in Congress are supportive of Trump's war on Iran (Gabe Evans, Jeff Crank, Jeff Hurd, and Lauren Boebert). None agreed to an interview about the war today. We continue to welcome them to come on 9NEWS and share their views.

Todd Blanche is trying to turn political prosecutions into a routine matter. He is claiming it's Trump's duty to go after his enemies and purge the department of career lawyers. He is a dangerously good liar that we cannot underestimate.

Very peculiar and unhinged behavior from the FCC chair here. He is pretending a statement read on CNN, which came from Iran's Supreme National Security Council, is fake, and he is threatening CNN over it.

It was March 23rd. Then March 27th. Then March 30th. Then he gave that weird address on April 1st. new deadline April 4th. Then April 6th at 7 AM. Then April 7th at 8 PM. And now another address tomorrow at 1 PM. The chaos is intentional.

Garcia: Blanche just said that the Epstein investigation is basically in the past, that he’s not going to address it moving forward, and that all the documents were released. I mean, that’s just a bold-faced lie.

Trump's regime will not take care of daycare, Medicaid or Medicare but they want hundreds of billions of more so they can wage endless, unconstitutional wars www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

New York Attorney General Letitia James statement about her legal challenge to Trump's mail-in voting executive order: "Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy, and no president has the power to rewrite the rules on his own"

Hegseth firing Generals who wouldn't go along with his purge of Black and female officers www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

When you have senior white male military officers willing to end their career by raising concerns about the blocking of Black and female officers, it feels safe to say this isn't about ending DEI: the better historical parallel is Wilson's resegregation of the bureaucracy bsky.app/profile/nbcn...

From Dec of 2024: I think the major thing I would update is that loyalty to Trump, by itself, is not the only criteria for military promotion now. Officers must also fit with Hegseth's white Christian nationalist selection process donmoynihan.substack.com/p/you-should...

Hegseth fired Army General Randy George & is seeking to replace him with “someone who will implement their specific vision for the Army” Very peculiar timing considering we’re mid-conflict, but if you had to venture a guess, it’s likely bc he refused to carry out an illegal order — subpoena time

There is no aspect of voting or the 2026 elections that Republicans are not attacking. This is an all out assault on democracy. My law firm and I are litigating in nearly 90 places to stop it with more to come.