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The FBI director flew this government plane (or one just like it), possibly from Las Vegas, where he still lives, to see a hockey game in Long Island. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

Portland, Oregon respects liberty and democracy, rejects fascism and oligarchy. They demand the fall of the regime. (🎥datguy_eddy) #3E #FiftyFiftyOne #EndImpunity #EndOligarcy #EndAutogenocide

Once again, I was left to wonder: was Pete Hegseth signal chatting military attack plans to everyone but me?? Am I the one that’s insecure, or is it his communication practices that are insecure?

‘SINNERS’ stats: • A on CinemaScore • 4.3/5 on Letterboxd • 98% on Rotten Tomatoes • #1 at domestic box office ($45.6M) • Best reviewed wide-release film this decade • Biggest domestic opening for an original film this decade Read our review: bit.ly/SinnersDF

he's gotta go Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

On this #420day, we celebrate the 52nd anniversary of performers “Gail & Dale” singing the hit, “One Toke Over the Line,” on Lawrence Welk. Neither had an idea the song was about pot, and Welk thought the song was a “modern spiritual.”

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.

How do you use this thing? Am I pushing the right buttons? Says person in charge of the most powerful military in the history of the world www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

Demonizing journalists who “sneaked” their way into the chat won’t be as easy this time. 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

Tesla pays $323 million a year in taxes to China for its auto plant there. But it pays $0 for its plants in California and Texas.

😳 what's going on here 🤷‍♂️

OPINION: John J. Martin writes on the SAVE Act and how its citizenship voting requirement could be viewed as unconstitutional.

The forest is refracting in a drop of water

One million people checked out my list of the Top 15 signs from the Hands Off protest two weeks ago. These are my favorite new ones from yesterday. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

On Easter Sunday, we celebrate joy, hope, and our faith in renewal — even through the darkest of times. To all those celebrating today, our family wishes you a happy Easter.

“.. One U.S. diplomat described the draft to POLITICO as ‘bonkers crazypants.’ .. you could give infinite monkeys infinite typewriters, and they would come up with something better than that.” @politico.com #BonkersCrazypants 🤡 www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

He’s at least thought it.

Just starting in Culver City and look at this great crowd! #NoKings #HandsOff #April19 #Indivisible #50501movement @maddow.msnbc.com

Energy Conservation Cannot Outpace Energy Prices Per Unit. Please Share! youtu.be/y0e4HPF49bw?...

A CDC source, in tears, revealed: That RFK Jr. has ordered them not to publicize bird flu symptoms in exposed workers. Not to test them. Not to speak. They know people are getting sick. And they’re being forced to stay silent. This is not just a cover-up. It's cruelty.

“There is a simple theological word to describe the disregard for the value of human life, abandonment of moral principles and contempt for the rule of law we are seeing from the Trump administration: Evil. This is not a word I use lightly.” baptistnews.com/article/an-e...

I was alive and an adult during the Contract With America which some of us called the Contract On America. It was a gimmick but it worked. House Dems could create something similar: Be super clear about what would happen if there are elections and they win back the House starting DAY ONE.

Kilmar Garcia was mistakenly deported. The WH mistakenly sent a demand letter to Harvard. A US citizen was mistakenly arrested and held by ICE in Florida. ... these aren't mistakes. They're tests.

Page One in Cincinnati this wknd: Cincinnati.com

A Friendly Reminder….😊💙

Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

DANA BASH: “can you say with absolute certainty García has never been in MS-13?” VAN HOLLEN: “Trump is trying to change the subject” away from due process 🎯 ALSO: Can we say “with absolute certainty” Dana was never in MS-13? Her Q is backwards. That’s the point.

FED WATCH: “.. shocks to the supply chain are increasing by the day. Ford is halting shipments of F-150s, China is putting export controls on rare minerals, halting LNG imports, and cancelling Boeing orders, .. and air travel between the US and Canada is plunging by 70 percent.” #SummerOfScarcity

Nancy Mace keeping it classy

I'm struck by how one comment from the debate didn't get more attention. Security clearance. PP said he had it as a minister in the past (2015). Clearances have time limits. He's long past his, which is why he doesn't have it. Am I the only one uneasy with the idea of a PM not having clearance?

The American tourism industry is going to get absolutely smoked

Notice who’s missing: George W. Bush. Unconscionable cowardice. Three ex-presidents denounce the current one in a two-week stretch

Mic drop

Foreign Minister of Czechia Jan Lipavský on Putin's truce": "It is like declaring a hunger strike between breakfast and lunch and then eating sweet. We see that the attacks continue...So it seems to me that this declaration of peace is more of a media trick than a reality."

Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "I'm not vouching for the man. I'm vouching for the man's rights. His constitutional rights to due process."

NYC at it again. No kings!

BREAKING NEWS: the President of the United States is a convicted felon! In all seriousness, why isn’t this a headline every day?

I've always found it very funny that the directors who most successfully considered Christ on film and actually approached a divine resonance were Pasolini and John Waters.

Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.

Retaliation front www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

Young artists drawing each other & having some fun. #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

As the pressure grows on congressional Republicans to identify cuts in Medicaid, they are crashing into a familiar problem: The changes that could save the most money would impose heavy costs on many of their own voters.

Newsom getting dunked to hell by a guy who even serious politics knowers had in the “who?” category until last week, you love to see it