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Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.”
—Thomas Jefferson, 1780
“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
During the entire insane scene where he yelled at aides, blamed Europe for not helping, and worried about comparisons to Carter's Iran crisis, Donald Trump continued to obsess about his ballroom, and mused about giving himself the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration in US history.
WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/
OMG
Kash Patel appears to be a drunken national security threat
"Meetings and briefings had to be rescheduled for later in the day as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights."
"A request for 'breaching equipment' ... was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors."
ALERT: Scott MacFarlane reveals new court filings showing Trump may receive a taxpayer-funded payout from his IRS lawsuit — while the DOJ also moves to return taxpayer money to pardoned January 6 defendants.
Your tax dollars could be going directly to Trump and those involved in the Capitol attack.
the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system
And there it is....
Update in Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own I.R.S., in which he seeks taxpayer-funded damages for the prior release of his tax records
Trump legal filing says he's in "discussions" with his own I.R.S. to "avoid protracted litigation"
DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states.
DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand.
My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases.
DOJ is now 0-5.
My firm is 5-0.
Lesson: When we fight we win.
Stevens to RFK Jr: "To top it off, Mr Secretary, I got a copy of HR-944. You know what it is? It's your impeachment articles, sir. You have abused your office, you have gutted America's public health! You should be ashamed."
brilliant -- Morning Joe put together clips of Pete Hegseth reciting a fake Bible quote from Pulp Fiction, along with the Samuel L. Jackson scene from the movie
Pope Leo XIV: Woe to those who manipulate religion in the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into filth. The world is being ravaged by tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters.
Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
Here's the article which includes the actual interview in question. Yes, he absolutely said this and yes, it's in context.
wordinblack.com/2025/02/rfk-...
Joe Kent’s wife, Shannon, was killed during a military mission in Syria. Donald Trump believes he remarried too soon. Trump has cheated on every one of his wives, including the one he dumped on the side of the golf course.
July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.
Trump rants his ballroom will feature "Bomb Shelters, a State of the Art Hospital & Medical Facilities,Top Secret Military Installations, Protective Missile Resistant Steel, Drone Proof Ceilings, Military Grade Venting, & Bullet, Ballistic, & Blast Proof Glass"
Dafuq kind of ballroom is this?
Trump coup conspirator John Eastman has been disbarred. That’s good. He abused his status as a White House lawyer to advocate lawbreaking, even doing so in writing the night of Jan. 6
But quite bad that this, years later, is the only consequence for him, or just about any high level coup plotter.
JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:
House Democrats will introduce five articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of war crimes in connection with the Iran war, abuse of power and mishandling of the Department of Defense (DOD).
“Ms. Chavez-DeRemer’s husband exchanged text messages with young female staff members, as did her father.”
Come on, now.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...
BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology.
This is a serious escalation.
NEWS: JD Vance has rough night at TPUSA event. He is heckled and only 25% of the crowd showed up.
Trump declares the Iran war “over” and says America has one (it isn’t over).
Trump says he drinks diet soda because if it kills grass it also kills cancer.
Blanche says no more Epstein files.
Can someone out there please count up all the CPAC speakers who ranted about George Soros funding left wing causes?
Be sure to take breaks and stretch every hour or two.
Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3
He's not well. He's never been well. He's never been more unwell. He will become yet even more unwell.
It's Congress's job to remove him, since the Cabinet won't. And it's our job to send people to Congress who will be laser-focused on doing just that.
👉 georgeconwayforcongress.com
Sharon Simmons, the DoorDash grandma who was just part of a Trump photo op at the White House, says on Fox News that "no tax on tips" helped her because she couldn't afford her husband's cancer treatments
Q: Did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ?
TRUMP: I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do Red Cross. Only the fake news could come up with that one.
"There may eventually be an agreement to end the war, mostly b/c the president is desperate to extricate himself from a conflict he blundered into. But it won’t be b/c Trump is such a terrific dealmaker. In fact, the man who made his reputation on 'Art of the Deal' remains world’s worst negotiator."
Cardinal Cupich: "We're dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people & killing of children & our own soldiers into entertainment. To splice together movie cuts w/ actual bombings & targeting of people for purposes of entertainment is sickening. This is not who we are."
How convenient.
If you’re not mentioning this as part of why Israel won’t stop the bombings, you’re not telling the whole story. Bibi is out for Bibi.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
JD Vance is on a historic roll:
He campaigns for AfD in Germany - they lose.
Invited the Pope to come to US for Trump’s big event - Pope refuses.
Leads peace negotiations with Iran - fails miserably.
Campaigns in Hungary for Orbán - who gets smoked.
Victor Orbán’s removal sends a timely signal.
Corrupt kleptocratic Christian nationalism was on the ballot in Hungary today — just as it will be on the ballots that Americans will cast in November.
It was repudiated abroad — may it be repudiated here in November (and beyond).
Trump’s rambling about intercepting vessels, destroying mines, threatening to blow things “TO HELL,” and dragging other countries into it, but buried in this word salad is the main headline:
THE U.S. IS GOING TO BLOCADE THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ AND IT’S GOING TO START SHORTLY