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Oh it's going to get worse, and they all know it. What a gross and embarrassing position Democrats have put themselves in.

No prosecutor wants to go down in history as the guy who failed to get a conviction for arranged sand accessories.

"In the end, American consumers paid $159 billion in temporary national sales taxes for which most will never be reimbursed a penny. And rather than those taxes being used by the federal government to, say, repave roads or build bridges, most of the money will instead provide corporate windfalls." publicnotice.co/p/trump-tari…

Look at all the 🇺🇸 trade that's now happening without the Jones Act in effect. And the Jones Act fleet is still fully booked. This is all extra shipping, from Americans to Americans, that's happening just because government got out of the way.

Trump’s ballroom is costing taxpayers nothing, just like he said. Unless you count the taxpayer money he’s shoveling under the table. A comically corrupt administration, from top to bottom. nytimes.com/2026/04/25/us/po…

WOW! If true, it's enormously damning. Laura Loomer got Marco Rubio to throw two Iranian women with green cards in ICE jail to be stripped of status and deported, claiming they were related to Qasem Soleimani. But official documents appear to show they are NOT related at ALL.

This is pure evil. The President of the United States’ genocidal threat to commit war crimes is illegal under federal & international law. The U.S. military swears an oath to the Constitution, not the president. @thejointstaff is required to disobey any & all illegal orders. @SpeakerJohnson must immediately call Congress back to Washington & rein in this mad president.

The 25th Amendment exists for a reason. The President of the United States is a deranged lunatic, and a national security threat to our country and the rest of the world.

Must read dispatch by @yarotrof. We’re in a real pickle now, @briangobosox. “[L]eaving in place Iran’s theocratic regime … would essentially grant Tehran control over the world’s energy markets.” “Now that Tehran has demonstrated the capacity—and global implications—of choking off the Hormuz strait, it has created significant geopolitical leverage for itself, and an incentive for Gulf states to appease it in the future. Reopening the strait, military analysts say, may require a ground operation to seize the Iranian coastline.” “12 days into the war, Iran keeps firing missiles and drones across the Middle East, albeit at a slower rate. Iran’s ability to destroy with precision strikes some of the most sensitive and scarce U.S. military targets in the Middle East, such as radars for air-defense installations, didn’t go unnoticed. Should America abandon its Gulf partners after exposing them to existential danger, there will be inevitable repercussions in South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.” “One nightmare scenario, in particular for America’s Gulf partners now bearing the brunt of Iranian attacks, is that the U.S. and Israel would stop, then Iran would continue harassing strikes to cow these oil-rich monarchies into submission. The fear is that Tehran will try to pressure them to expel U.S. bases and sever their dependence on an America that failed to protect them.” wsj.com/world/middle-east/en…

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It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly. When this person bought in, the market had this at a 17% probability. They turned roughly $87,000 into over half a million dollars overnight. Reminder that Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket's advisory board and his firm invested double-digit millions into the platform last year. The DOJ and CFTC both had active investigations into Polymarket that were dropped after Trump took office. Prediction markets cannot be a vehicle for profiting off advance knowledge of military action. We need answers, transparency, and oversight.

On today's new @Undisclosedpod, we chat with @TheViewFromLL2 about her terrific new season of @proofcrimepod: audioboom.com/posts/8864541-…

This is an astonishing, heartbreaking piece by @ebruenig theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…

New sidebar for season 3 up now! Covering the really interesting question of how memory works. And the background on the pivotal interview with the ex-husband. Listen on proofcrimepod.com or wherever you pod. #investigation #truecrime #podcast

Strong contender here for most pathetic social media post in all of human history.

👀 A cryptic new letter from Senator @RonWyden to the CIA director.

First sidebar of the new season is here. Susan, Jacinda, and Kevin share their thoughts on the first two episodes, and more. Find wherever you pod, including this link to Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

We've reached the stage of politics where having an informed opinion requires you to watch videos of people dying on repeat and in slo-mo.