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Wife of US Coast Guard member arrested over expired visa after security check for military housing: cnn.it/44GWoea

Vance’s claim not only overstates the number of undocumented immigrants that entered the U.S. during the Biden tenure, but the 20 million figure is higher than the total number of people living in the United States illegally, Peter Gattuso writes: thedispatch.com/article/vanc...

American military contractors are reportedly on the ground in Yemen, advising government forces and enhancing coordination with US forces, while also strengthening Washington’s previously weak intelligence-gathering capability - SCMP

So I assume we’ve triumphed and the Red Sea is again open for business? Trump displays weakness. Weakness in the Middle East, in Ukraine, and dealing with China. Wasting US prestige and wealth for nothing. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/o...

crazy that an incorrigible drunken dipshit who has failed at everything of consequence he has ever tried is also disastrously bad at leading the single largest bureaucracy in the world

In a new memo, Attorney General Pam Bondi said the DOJ will allow for subpoenas, court orders and search warrants to get information and testimony from journalists.

Russia has for the first time admitted North Korean fighters are battling on their side. The Russian General Staff praised the "high professionalism" of North Korean assault meat in Kursk. Previously, the Kremlin dismissed reports of their involvement as fake.

The Trump administration disappeared children aged 2, 4, and 7. They are US citizens by birth.

Trump is not joking about trying to become president for life

Disappearing people. Ignoring court orders. And now, arresting judges. This what dictators do to undermine the rule of law and consolidate their own power. It’s un-American, no matter what political party you support.

Signalgate 3.0 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

Trump blows up the notion his Canada talk was just a fleeting fancy 'I'm really not trolling,' he tells Time Magazine, of his dream to make Canada a state www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

JD Vance follows Curtis Yarvin (3 hours ago). “Yarvin suggests that a would-be American autocrat should campaign on and win an electoral mandate for an authoritarian program. They should purge the federal bureaucracy in a push Yarvin has anagrammatized as Rage (for “retire all gov employees”)”

The guy Trump has “negotiating” with Putin reportedly has ties to the Russian mafia. Steve Witkoff is a billionaire real estate investor, currently Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East but in Moscow talking with Putin about Ukraine. By @craigunger.bsky.social: whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-...

High-ranking Russian general killed in car bombing near Moscow, as Witkoff meets with Putin; full text of US peace proposal at odds with Ukrainian, EU positions, Reuters reports; and more.

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so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything.

A billboard by The Telegraph, reportedly in Kent, England.

Ukraine is one day closer to the Victory.

not beating the allegations

⚡️ 'End policy of appeasement' — European foreign affairs chairs rebuke Trump's Russia stance. "Negotiating with the war criminal Putin is evidently futile," a statement signed by officials from eight countries said.

“There’s zero percent chance that someone hasn’t tried to install Pegasus or some other spyware on his phone,” Mike Casey, the former director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said... “He is one of the top five, probably, most targeted people in the world for espionage.”

Seems like 1775 all over again

New in PN: Lisa Murkowski reveals the ugly nature of Trump's rule "Trump is not a normal president who governs through persuasion and political savvy. He constantly resorts to coercive threats. A system where that becomes normal isn’t a democracy. It’s a reign of terror."

Still a minor incident, but now some official confirmation Small Arm Firing at some places on LoC initiated by Pakistan. Effectively responsed to by Indian Army. No casualties. Further details being ascertained.-The Print India

It doesn't matter what the rest of the sentence says, the opening 10 words in themselves are the scandal: "President Trump on Thursday directed the Justice Department to investigate ... "

We are here now. đź§Ş

This is the dumbest and ugliest thing I’ve ever seen.

NEW: Pentagon & Pete Hegseth in total meltdown [WSJ]. Hegseth reportedly screamed: “I’LL HOOK YOU UP TO A FUCKING POLYGRAPH!” at the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Hegseth went into meltdown trying to find who leaked news about Musk’s briefing on China. He’s unstable, unfit & finished.

The leaks will continue until Hegseth is shitcanned

Hegseth’s defense that what he talked about on the second group chat was all unclassified and for “media coordination” might hold more water if DOD were releasing *any details at all* about the Yemen air campaign to the media like the ones he was sharing in the chats

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Impotence.

Trump gives inside info to Wall Street elites

In the US the Trump regime is dutifully serving Israel by violating the rights of US citizens who criticize or protest against its mass murder or human rights violations of Palestinians in Gaza. In Michigan, the regime sent the FBI to violently break into students homes. #EndImpunity

Zelensky won't agree to a ceasefire while his capital is being bombed, — Macron said. "U.S. anger should be directed at one person: Putin, who started this war against a neighboring country. He must finally stop lying to the world," the French President emphasized.

NEW: A case of Sock Puppet-Mastery. Ed Martin secretly orchestrated an attack on a judge—in a case he was a party to. Now he’s one of the highest law officers in the land. @andykroll.bsky.social & @jeremykohler.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/ed-m...

"This is not a pursuit of peace, it is a mockery of it." - Kaja Kallas said in response to Russia's attack on Kyiv.

Another case of "you do realize that's worse, right?" It is flatly illegal for DOD to be doing anything like this on its own rather than merely providing support to a domestic civilian agency like DHS. Their putative defense here is saying the military kidnapped people all on its own.

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.