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Trump’s justice department appointees remove leadership of voting unit Not scary at all

And Restore the Fairness Doctrine Act

I want Moira Rose to be my @waze voice

The White House is spending money to put up migrant mugshot yard signs. This is all a distraction their failure to release the Epstein files.

Could you ever have imagined you would see a headline like this in your lifetime

As you may know, I have a new book coming out in August. If you’d like to pre-order it, without co-funding Jeff Bezos’s next mansion, I recommend purchasing it today for Independent Bookstore Day.

Judge Hannah Dugan, the Wisconsin judge who was arrested on Friday morning on charges of obstructing immigration enforcement, spent most of her legal career working on behalf of low-income people and marginalized groups. Here's what to know.

“It’s cynical, manipulative, and cruel — and for what? Amazon has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controlling over 60 percent of the market and selling far more books than all indie bookstores combined,” Reminder to NOT buy books from Amazon today (or any day really)

These charges are so stupid. There was an ICE agent **in the elevator** with the defendant after he left the courtroom. But oh yeah, the state judge somehow obstructed ICE because she let the defendant leave the courtroom through a side entrance. The Trump DOJ is run by morons and thugs.

BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

Exactly this

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “It is grimly entertaining to see this most ‘masculine’ of administrations reflecting stereotypes about female behavior that long kept women out of power,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes.

Musk is enabling election interference against political parties he dislikes. He will keep doing it until governments stop him.

Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.

A group of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s classmates at Yale University urged him in a new letter to reconsider his role “in facilitating the Trump administration’s intended transformation” of the United States “into an authoritarian state.”

If a bird flu pandemic does hit, we’ve got the absolute worst possible clowns in charge. No science, no plan, no clue. Scary shit here…

Under Hegseth, Chaos Prevails at the Pentagon www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

A charity tied to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s wife, Casey DeSantis, gave $10 million to nonprofit political committees that helped the governor defeat a ballot measure.

China has returned two Boeing jets, each valued at $55 million. With $69 million in tariffs applied, the cost per plane increased to $124 million. Orders for an additional 130 jets have been indefinitely suspended.

BREAKING: The Interior Dept just used a fake “energy emergency” to greenlight gas and mining projects on public lands. It’s a lie. There is no energy emergency. This is a giveaway to big oil.

A developing political scandal in Florida has put Gov. Ron DeSantis on the defensive. Republican lawmakers are investigating how $10 million in state money was diverted for use in a campaign.

THIS IS WILD‼️ Florida got $67M from a Medicaid fraud settlement. Instead of using it for actual health care, Casey DeSantis funneled $10M to a “charity” she controls. That “charity” passed it to anti-abortion and anti-marijuana groups—who then helped fund GOP campaigns. Both measures lost!

Al Gore ripped the Trump administration to shreds in a speech Monday at a climate week event in San Francisco.

Trump kills programs to combat opioid addiction: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Countering DeSantis, $10M Hope Florida donation came from Medicaid, draft shows www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

Hope Florida $10M donation among issues in DeSantis-administration spending probe

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Pope Francis on migrants and immigrants: The "act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and woman...

Bill Owens, executive producer of “60 Minutes”, resigns: “I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes’, right for the audience.” We’re falling into fascism. — Deeper and deeper.

Breaking News: Three federal prosecutors who worked on the criminal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams said that they would resign rather than admit wrongdoing in refusing to abandon the case, according to an email obtained by The New York Times.

🔥 @ninajankowicz.com to the European Parliament: "Before I describe the details of Russia's recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America."

Pete Hegseth reportedly shared details about Yemen strikes in a second group chat with his wife and brother. Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., says it's 'not shocking' based on behavior out of the Pentagon.'

BREAKING NEWS: The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

BREAKING NYT: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat.

The week was dominated by news about the Maryland man illegally deported to El Salvador. But there was also concern over tariffs and Robert F. Kennedy's work as Health and Human Services secretary.

Shout out to all the finance bros who didn’t give a shit about democracy, human rights, racism, homophobia, misogyny, the future of the planet or basic human decency and voted for the conman they thought was gonna be good for the economy. You guys are geniuses.

Phoenix Ikner, the MAGA white supremacist Florida State Murderer. Kicked out of his college Political club for quoting MAGA anti-immigrant and anti-POC rhetoric. You can always identify them by the hats.

Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio said on Sunday that he’s concerned that the global monetary system will break down.

Ed Martin appeared on Russian state television some 150 times. Gladly contributing to Russian propaganda efforts should end his nomination to be a U.S. attorney, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes.

This afternoon I was on MSNBC to discuss today's shooting. Hard to fathom that many of the kids who survived the Parkland shooting as Freshmen are now survivors of the FSU shooting as graduating seniors. www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/wat...