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A controversial land swap orchestrated by the mega-rich could be “a harbinger of what’s to come” for public lands under Trump. From our colleagues at @floodlightnews.org:

Speak to a demographer for five minutes and they will tell you that most of the decline in births is just “there used to be a lot of really big families, now 3 or more kids is rare”. This banal and non-alarming fact hardly ever gets mentioned in these “demographic panic” pieces.

Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.

As you know I’m not a big fan of “distraction” theory. This is a really clumsy attempt at distraction.

Trump’s sons signed a weapons deal with the Air Force during a war Congress never authorized. Amazon paid $40 million for a Melania documentary, then won a $581 million no-bid Pentagon contract. The corruption is not hidden anymore. It is the business model. November cannot come fast enough.

NEWS: Trump is so desperate to get out of his E. Jean Carroll verdicts that he is asking the Supreme Court to reverse both of the verdicts, and the DOJ is intervening on his behalf. @meidastouch.com

Absolutely shameful. 😡

Donald Trump is slapping his face on everything from passports to coins. But here are things he won’t put his name on: 15 million Americans losing health coverage Gas prices at a 4-year high Tariffs costing families $2,500 Trump wants his face on everything but accountability.

If you are someone who forages for mushrooms and other edibles in wilderness areas, you’d better read this investigation. Your health may depend on it.

I think the X-Files is very now coded, minus the technology. The government still sucks and you can't trust them, the Russian government sucks and you can't trust them, and David Duchovny still is nice looking.

Great to hear a bit of clear science communication from @marcuscrede.bsky.social in the latest @ifbookspod.bsky.social. It's so wild that 0.5% of observed variance can be spun into TED talks, policy impact, and airport books. 🤔🤯😭 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

NEW: Last year we published a story about how Trump’s Department of Education halted thousands of civil rights investigations. But there is no publicly accessible way to track the status of those cases. We are suing to get info that belongs to the public. By @charlesornstein.bsky.social

Today is a dark day for America. But make no mistake, we will fight tooth and nail to ensure the voices of all Americans will be heard in November and in every election that follows.

NEW: Trump has begun talking about how he “is the most powerful person to ever live.” Our look at how Trump’s view of himself as one of history’s Great Men is shaping the second term of what has now become his YOLO Presidency. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

Cannot stress enough that what's happening now and will accelerate over next few weeks is a big spike in fuel costs paid for by every American that will flow *directly* into insane, unprecedented profits for American oil companies. They're going to be the big winners of this.

Anyone who believes Donald Trump’s corrupt scheme to take over the Fed is over is fooling themselves.

Before they were arrested- Vets are demanding an end to the war on Iran at the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.

As predicted, by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social

As an answer to the classic “What would Jesus do?” question, “start robot wars” would be an unconventional response, to put it mildly. And yet, here we are. A rising group of tech elites is wrapping artificial intelligence in Christian theology—and the Trump administration is listening.

The explosive growth of AI data centers have transformed opaque structures of inequality and power into literal ones. Oligarchy is now more than an idea, it is a place—and the people who live there are fighting back.

“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

ENJOY!

BREAKING: Senate Republicans blocked my War Powers Resolution that would have ended Trump's unnecessary, unjustified war against Iran. These cowards have had four chances to stop this chaos in the Middle East. And they put Trump's ego before America. Every damn time.

This is why Russia is still fighting, why the war continues and why people are dying: Because Trump and Vance encouraged Putin to believe he could win

AOC: President Trump—I want to be clear—not only threatened genocide, he is continuing to threaten genocide against the Iranian people. That is his main point of “leverage” in this situation. It is a war crime. It is abhorrent, and it is also illegal.

THIS kind of "intimate" relationship between Paramount and Trump is the reason why I am testifying this afternoon before a Senate panel against the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros., which owns CNN www.thedailybeast.com/new-cbs-boss...

If you are appalled by this--and you should be--please try to find one thing POLITICAL to brand Republicans as the pro-terrorist party, especially if you're in a swing district or state. Call your GOP MoC to ask if they agree with Todd Blanche's decision to let terrorists rearm.

Breaking WaPo: The Pentagon is sending thousands of additional troops into the Middle East in the coming days. The forces moving into the region include about 6,000 troops aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush and several warships escorting it. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

ProPublica reports that OMB Director Russell Vought has become the ideological architect of Trump’s second term, wielding unprecedented behind-the-scenes power to gut federal agencies, zurl.co/UsOb2

There’s a virus in our tax system. A stealth virus, it was embedded in America’s economic DNA for a century, biding its time. And then we created those conditions, unleashing it to infect our institutions of culture and democracy, replicate, and burst forth to infect anew. An oligarchy virus.

100+ journalists, including Cory Doctorow, Rachel Maddow and many more, are backing the Internet Archive’s #WaybackMachine as essential to preserving the public record 🗂️ Read more at Fight for the Future 👇 www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04... 🧵⬇️ @fightforthefuture.org

Lost in the news the past few days is the Trump administration proposing to weaken rules that limit how coal companies handle toxic waste that can reach groundwater. The new rule would let states grant exemptions from standards that keep contaminants like mercury & lead away from your water supply.

There it is. Week ahead schedule for House Oversight Committee no longer includes Tuesday's deposition with Pam Bondi on #EpsteinFiles

That’s why bishops and priests from Vance’s religion denounced it so forcefully. Because it’s no big deal. Almost makes you wonder if the lifelong atheist became a Catholic for political reasons before running in Ohio.

Yeah, he was just joking about being a messiah. As malignant narcissist megalomaniacs do when trying to pander to evangelicals. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

NOT WITH MY TAX DOLLARS. It’s not just that this is a memorial Trump is building to honor himself. It’s the size & the location. Twice the size of the Lincoln Memorial, and towering over Arlington National Cemetery, where two presidents and thousands who died in service to this country are buried.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

What I want to know is if by “retiring/resigning,” do they still get to keep their healthcare/retirement benefits vs. being denied them if they’re expelled.

America's money goes to Hungary. To Argentina. To fund wars in Iran and invasions of Venezuela. It goes to kill shipwrecked survivors. To ICE, who shoot US citizens and build concentration camps Our money seems to fund death and destruction all across the globe But it never goes to help Americans

I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.

So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.

Pete Hegseth has cut ALL educational funds for active-duty service members at Harvard and Princeton (despite him attending these schools) in favor of Christian-affiliated colleges.

I'm officially calling for the Cabinet to remove Trump from office under the 25th Amendment. If they can't, Congress must return from recess today and begin impeachment proceedings. Read my full statement below. quigley.house.gov/media-center...

This is a fascinating and revealing examination of Pete Hegseth’s particular sect of Calvinist evangelicalism, by @joolia.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Biggest increase in inflation in 4 years. Biggest monthly increase in gas prices in 60 years. Trump’s war in Iran is costing Americans big here at home.

This is just so corrupt on every conceivable level. There is no excusing it. These people are The Shittiest Gangsters and we need to throw them in jail for the rest of their lives.

Automatic draft registration: streamlined, efficient. Automatic voter registration: creeping deep state tyranny.

Wake up, babe. A new FLDS cult documentary just dropped on Netflix.

BREAKING: Democrat Alicia Halvensleben has defeated Republican Scott Allen in the Waukesha, Wisconsin mayoral race, flipping the seat. This marks a major political shift in one of the most historically conservative suburbs in the Milwaukee area and follows a night of major shifts away from the GOP.