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Yes! The unvaccinated are done carrying the burden of the unvaccinated!!

As I told @AP here, “This is going to be the first family of a president to make a lot of money off war — a war he didn’t get the consent of Congress for.” audacy.com/kdkaradio/news…

Even in death—those around Epstein continue to cover for his crimes. This silence is not accidental. This is how systems protect those in power.  That is why we must pursue the truth and accountability at every turn!

NEW: Epstein survivors release a statement following the firing of Pam Bondi: "Attorney General Pam Bondi failed us."

BREAKING: Top GOP officials are reportedly "terrified" the vigorous investigations currently being conducted by France, Poland, and the UK into Jeffrey Epstein's bank records will prove Trump was deeply involved in the pedohpile cabal's money laundering before the midterms.

Trump’s paramilitary of ICE thugs is unqualified, unvetted, and it is wreaking havoc across our nation. When Democrats take back the House this November, we must abolish ICE and revamp the entire DHS.

He careens from one direction to another, searching for a way out. One day—“We don’t need the Strait. Europe must go open it.” Next day: “We will not only open the Strait, we’ll take Iran’s oil and get rich!” Iran: Hits Kuwait refinery. Shoots down US F-15E. He’s flailing.

Two-year-old Kaleth and his mom are home. During his time at the Dilley trailer prison, Kaleth was sick—he could not eat the food from CoreCivic, was vomiting, and ran a fever while detained. He had trouble sleeping and missed his Dad. He and his mother are asylum seekers and never missed an ICE check-in. They did everything right and they were still imprisoned. I am grateful Kaleth is back home but this trauma cannot be undone. Keep using your voices so more children can be free and safe. We won’t stop until we shut down Dilley and #FreeOurChildren.

Absolute disaster for the Pentagon. A prominent US Army War College Professor admits that sending Marines to occupy Iranian islands will turn them into a massive drone magnet. Washington is literally preparing hospital ships for huge casualties just to steal oil.

Josh Shapiro is absolutely correct!

Nichols is identifying something the Sunday shows keep dancing around. Hegseth doesn't just distrust senior officers. He's systematically dismantling the institutional buffer between a commander-in-chief and a personal army... and using scripture as the solvent. During an Iran war briefing he told Americans to pray to Jesus for U.S. forces. Days later he read a Pentagon sermon praying "wicked souls" be delivered to "eternal damnation." He restructured the Chaplain Corps so chaplains now display religious affiliation instead of rank. The "Deus Vult" tattoo on his arm is not incidental. That phrase launched the First Crusade. He put it on his body and then took control of the most powerful military on earth. Render unto Caesar. The problem is Hegseth can't figure out which one he is.

Maria Farmer broke down after newly released Epstein files confirmed that a 1996 complaint filed by her sister was ignored by the FBI. “I’ve waited 30 years… they can’t call me a liar anymore,” she told the NYT. The complaint alleged that Jeffrey Epstein asked her to photograph young girls at pools and later stole personal photos of her younger sisters. Both Maria and her sister Annie Farmer have accused Epstein of sexual assault. Annie was just 16 at the time.

Democrats sued Wednesday to block President Donald Trump's latest executive order restricting mail voting, arguing that the U.S. Constitution empowers states and Congress, not the president, to determine who is eligible to vote by mail. to.pbs.org/4scgK7c

The Constitution is clear: states run elections. For decades, Oregon has run safe, accurate, and fair vote-by-mail elections that are the gold standard for protecting Americans’ freedom to vote.

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

"What the president did is blatantly illegal and unconstitutional and a giant federal overreach into our elections," Gov. Katie Hobbs told reporters yesterday. @ColtonKrolak She spoke after being asked about President Trump's executive order cracking down on mail-in voting.

🚨A reporter asked Macron about Trump’s personal attacks against him. Macron’s response: “We are talking about war. Civilians dying. Economies suffering. What I heard is neither serious nor worthy of response. A world leader cannot use the language he is speaking.” Neither serious nor worthy of response. The President of France just dismissed the President of the United States in one sentence. France closed its airspace. France officially refused to send warships. France welcomed the doctors America expelled from the Caribbean. Macron said “nobody can force us.” Now Macron is telling the world Trump’s language is beneath the gravity of the moment.

Trump’s new Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, is in the files.

Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one. A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it. The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link. General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.” Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon. Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to. The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone. Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

A French general just looked at Trump’s plan to build a runway inside Iran to fly out uranium under active bombing. His response: “American officials should stop snorting cocaine between meetings.” This is the same man who called joining Trump’s war “buying cheap tickets for the Titanic after it hit the iceberg.” The French are not holding back. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

DAVID ROHDE: “Iran offered to give away ALL of its ENRICHED URANIUM during the recent peace talks. Hours later the U.S. started dropping bombs.” Everything we’re being told by the Trump admin is a lie. He’s single-handedly destroying the United States.