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Philly fans chanting "We want Boston" We'll see how they feel about that when the Sixers get to Boston

I don't think it's sunk in how insane it is that an American vice president was promoting a man who banned his opponent from appearing on TV.

Serious question... Does Donald Trump remember his first term in office?

NYT headline for the ages

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility her husband was brought to while he waited for a deportation flight. Dozens of people crammed into tiny cells, a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day. It's unacceptable.

Scoop: Sebastian Gorka is angling to become the next head of the National Counterterrorism Center, a position that would give him broad powers over America’s vast counterterrorism apparatus, per four people familiar with the matter

Trump has fired 100+ immigration judges, replaced them w/ "deportation judges," ordered courts to stop granting bond & is pressuring judges to rule against immigrants. The result: immigration courts have become extensions of his mass deportation campaign nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/…

This report on the “Biden Administration’s Weaponization of the FACE Act” repeatedly cites conduct that occurred…during the first Trump administration.

This interaction between White House election security official Kurt Olsen and Paul Brown, the head of the FBI’s Atlanta field office, is eye-popping. Brown was pressured to retire for not going along with the plan to seize 2020 ballots from Fulton County. propublica.org/article/trump-…

When asked if he took the post down because of Gaines' and others' criticism, President Trump said no. "I didn't listen to Riley Gaines. I'm not a big fan of Riley, actually."

"What about sexual relations between two adults of the same sex?" Here's when the "not wrong at all" crossed the "always wrong" line: Evangelicals: Never Mainline: 2009 Black Protestant: 2023 Catholic: 2009 Other Faith: 2000 No Religion: 1992

Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” propublica.org/article/russ-v…

TRUMP: Do you think men should play in women's sports? DOORDASH DRIVER: I really don't have an opinion on that. I'm here about no tax on tips.

Trump has systematically demolished federal guardrails that prevented him from overturning the 2020 election. At least 75 career staff are gone. Two dozen appointees, including many from the election denial movement, have been hired. Ten helped try to overturn the 2020 vote. Once-fringe actors now have access to vast powers. propublica.org/article/trump-…

Both of these people had valid work permits and pending hearings on their asylum claims. But because simply having a hearing doesn't protect you from arrest, they've now been jailed and will have to seek asylum from detention, away from their patients, and in terrible conditions.

what is Iran's ten point plan that Trump is calling a "workable basis" for an agreement, you ask.

Trump once again declaring a “ceasefire” that Iran supposedly agreed to should be taken with a heavy dose of skepticism. This has become a pattern: set a deadline, apply maximum pressure, declare progress- and then watch as Iran largely ignores it. The administration’s approach leans heavily on brute-force, strongarm tactics, but Iran has very little incentive to play along on those terms. From Iran's perspective, time is on their side. They can continue to sow chaos indirectly- through threats and attacks in the Strait, proxies, regional pressure, and strategic ambiguity- without ever fully engaging on U.S. timelines. Meanwhile, each new deadline from Washington risks looking less credible when it passes without meaningful change. At some point, you have to ask whether repeating the same playbook is actually strategy, or just inertia. If the goal is a durable outcome, relying on pressure alone- without offering a framework Iran sees as worth accepting- may simply prolong the cycle rather than break it.

Here is the thing about the 25th Amendment Even if the VP and a majority of the cabinet did vote to remove a President (already extremely unlikely), POTUS can appeal to Congress. Removal only happens with 2/3rd vote in BOTH houses of Congress (Higher bar than impeachment)

Rep. Ansari: "Every single person in this country needs to be calling Republican members of Congress and senators relentlessly today. Of all of the issues that have come up over the last year, all have been devastating, but we're talking about the potential for nuclear war here. That is the language that Donald Trump is using and we should not pretend that it's not."

Vance: I have a special guest. Let's hope he actually answers or this will be very embarrassing. Phone: I'm sorry, the person you're trying to reach has a voicemail box that has not been set up yet