April 28, 2025 Disaster, News
Tampa’s ABC affiliate reports: The City of Clearwater says one person has died and multiple injuries have been reported following a boat crash near the Memorial Causeway bridge. ABC Action News spoke with the mayor of Clearwater, Bruce Rector, who says the Clearwater Ferry was in a collision with a privately owned boat. “We believe the boat responsible for hitting …
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April 27, 2025 JMG Community, Open Thread
Variety reports: “RuPaul’s Drag Race” star and judge of “Drag Race: Philippines,” Jiggly Caliente, has died. She was 44. Caliente had been suffering from complications due to a severe infection, and as a result, had undergone surgery, losing most of her right leg. The news was confirmed by her family, who shared the update on her Instagram page. They wrote, …
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April 27, 2025 Trump cultists
“I wish we could just skip right over and get to the Supreme Court and get this taken care of because in many of these cases, you’ve got Soros-linked attorneys who are just trying to make some money and delay the president’s agenda. “It’s very concerning that judges are behaving this way. I would rather follow the Constitution than a …
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April 27, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
The Washington Post reports: “This individual is a career criminal who has been in our country illegally for years,” Noem said in statement provided to The Washington Post through a spokeswoman. “Unfortunately, so many families in this country have been made victims by crime, and that’s why President Trump is working every single day to make America safe and get …
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April 27, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
The Hill reports: House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) said Sunday that President Trump “does not want” the “one big, beautiful bill” encompassing his agenda “to be a health care bill.” “He will not be cutting benefits for individuals, will not allow that,” he added. “He does not want this to be a health care bill. This is …
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April 27, 2025 Covidiots, Crackpots
The Guardian reports: Donald Trump’s private golf resort in South Florida will next week host one of the world’s leading purveyors of chlorine dioxide, a potentially life-threatening form of industrial bleach that is claimed without evidence to be a cure for cancer, HIV/AIDS, Covid and autism. Andreas Kalcker is among 50 listed speakers at the “Truth Seekers Conference”, a two-day …
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April 27, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump is vowing such success with his widely-derided tariff plan that income taxes could be “completely eliminated” for many American workers. In a Sunday morning post on Truth Social, the president made a bold pledge about the degree to which he believes his tariffs will work. New polling shows Americans are highly skeptical the tariffs will …
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April 27, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
The Hill reports: USDA Sec. Brooke Rollins said a price drop for eggs has already hit some parts of the country, but for others, it is “coming” soon. Rollins joined CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, where she highlighted a major economic indicator: the price of eggs. Egg prices rose to a record high in March at $6.23 per …
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April 27, 2025 Canada, Trump Administration
“They’ll have their elections this week. They’re going to have a new leader and we’ll deal with a new leadership of Canada. There are many things we work cooperatively with on Canada on, but we actually don’t like the way they treated us when it comes to trade. “The president has made that point when he responded to the previous …
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April 27, 2025 News, Religion
USA Today reports: With the passing of Pope Francis, who presided over the Roman Catholic Church and its estimated 1.4 billion followers for 12 years, attention now turns to the selection of his successor. The decision is made through a time-honored process known as the conclave, an election conducted in secrecy behind the locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. …
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