April 20, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
“Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country. “Happy Easter also to the WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges and Law Enforcement Officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our …
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April 20, 2025 Completely Horrible People
First, a reminder from earlier this month: The often perturbed South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace posted a video on social media Monday blasting the “evil” voters who call her office to complain. Hundreds of people have called, Mace reported, after she ditched a town hall meeting last month organized by the Lowcountry Accountability Alliance in South Carolina. Mace has …
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April 20, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Arizona Public Media reports: 19-year-old Jose Hermosillo, who is visiting Tucson from Albuquerque, says he was lost and walking near the Border Patrol headquarters on April 8 when an agent arrested him for illegally entering the country. Hermosillo was not carrying identification. Court documents say a Border Patrol agent arrested Hermosillo “at or near Nogales, Arizona, without proper immigration documents” …
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April 20, 2025 Diplomacy, Trump Administration
The New York Times reports: A draft of a Trump administration executive order proposes a drastic restructuring of the State Department, including eliminating almost all of its Africa operations and shutting down embassies and consulates across the continent. The draft also calls for cutting offices at State Department headquarters that address climate change and refugee issues, as well as democracy …
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April 20, 2025 Infighting Is Funny, Trump Administration
The Associated Press reports: Three former senior advisers to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth decried on Saturday what they called “baseless attacks” after each was escorted from the Pentagon in an expanding probe on information leaks. Dan Caldwell, a Hegseth aide; Colin Carroll, chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg; and Darin Selnick, Hegseth’s deputy chief of staff were …
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April 20, 2025 Activism, Trump Corruption
The Washington Post reports: From Wyoming to Washington and Mississippi to Manhattan, protesters at hundreds of rallies in small towns and big cities gathered Saturday to denounce President Donald Trump’s sweeping policy moves, the second day of mass action this month as opposition to the administration continued to coalesce. The more than 700 planned events were part of the “50501” …
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April 20, 2025 Mass Shootings, Trump cultists
The Miami Herald reports: The night before police say Phoenix Ikner killed two people and wounded five others on Florida State University’s Tallahassee campus with his stepmother’s handgun, he was cracking jokes and sharing emojis in a chat for Christian college athletes. He quipped about taking something to help him “sleep like a champ” and, responding to another student, laughed …
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April 20, 2025 China, Technology
Wired reports: On Saturday, about 12,000 human athletes ran in a half marathon race in Beijing, but most of the attention was on a group of other, unconventional participants: 21 humanoid robots. The event’s organizers, which included several branches of Beijing’s municipal government, claim it’s the first time humans and bipedal robots have run in the same race, though they …
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April 20, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Daily Beast reports: Actor Vince Vaughn stopped by the White House for a photo op with President Donald Trump. An image, posted across The White House’s official social media accounts, shows the pair parodying Vaughn’s 2005 romantic comedy hit, Wedding Crashers. The plot follows a pair of conmen, played by Vaughn and long-time collaborator Owen Wilson, as they lie …
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April 20, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Associated Press reports: A class action lawsuit filed Friday asks a federal court to reinstate the legal status of international students caught up in a Trump administration crackdown that has left more than a thousand fearful of deportation. The suit filed by several American Civil Liberties Union affiliates seeks to represent more than 100 students in New England and …
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