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NEW: Zelenskyy tells @NBCNews that Russia took satellite images of US airbase in Saudi Arabia three times in the days before Iran hit the facility with missiles and drones. He tells us such intelligence is being shared with Iran to help target US forces. nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/…

🇭🇺👀 Orban is massively buying votes in Hungary's poorest regions. This is revealed in a large-scale investigation, "The Price of a Vote," jointly conducted by six independent Hungarian projects. Party representatives are traveling to villages and offering local residents $150-$170 per vote. Local mayors are promising firewood, medicine, part-time jobs, and transportation to the polls for the "right" vote, and threatening those who refuse. The campaign is reaching 600,000 voters (approximately 10% of the entire Hungarian electorate). Journalists collected info from 60 people from 14 different communities, including ordinary citizens, officials, and security forces.

Sounds like the table is being set for the US to withdraw from NATO. Not that this wasn’t obvious before, but it’s now being said pretty explicitly

@lady_doi The trip is being privately funded, this whole narrative is bizarre.

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Everyone sitting at Mar-a-Lago realizing he’s talking about them.

A bill passed the Senate last night 100-0 to fund TSA, the Coast Guard and FEMA. If Speaker Johnson called it for a vote it would pass easily. But he won’t do that. Because Trump has ordered him to keep TSA shut down and keep the chaos. Pure incompetence.

Look how aggressively we are sanitizing Kushner's conflicts. The NYT described Kushner as "having business interests" in the Middle East. KUSHNER IS BEING DIRECTLY PAID TENS OF MILLIONS ANNUALLY BY MIDDLE EASTERN GOVERNMENTS

The Reconciliation Bill is a disturbing giveaway that sets an extremely dangerous precedent On the heels of the disastrous House reconciliation bill’s passage, Senate Republicans have unveiled their own poisonous version of the bill that will fund President Trump’s agenda—a bill that calls for the outright sale of public lands as a key element. The provision in question mandates the disposal of between 2 million and 3 million acres of lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service across 11 states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Alarmingly, the provision contains very limited exemptions—Wilderness Study Areas, Areas of Critical Environmental Concern, roadless areas and critical habitat are all considered eligible for sale. Based on those limited restrictions, more than 250 million acres of public lands will be eligible to be sold to "any interested party." This effort is in and of itself entirely destructive—especially when considered with other provisions in the bill that will mandate oil lease sales in the Arctic Refuge, force construction of a mining road through a national park and more than double the amount of logging in western national forests—but it also sets a dangerous precedent that members of Congress can simply liquidate our public lands to fund their pet projects. There is no question that this is a crisis point; our senators and representatives now face a critical test. Will they stand for their constituents and the overwhelming majority of the American public who want to protect public lands? Or will they succumb to pressure and give our public lands away to fund tax cuts for the wealthy?

SENATOR @yarbro (D-Nashville): “Tennessee’s got some real problems, and this legislature is totally disconnected from them. Just absolutely engaged in performative nonsense. I think I voted on my 3rd Charlie Kirk honoring bill today.”

Trump: "We have a thing called a war, or as they would rather say, a military operation. It's for legal reasons. Because as a military operation, I don't need any approvals. As a war you're supposed to get approval from Congress. Something like that. So I call it a military operation."

Important to note, the FCC Chairman himself is stating that CBS’s new ownership is “Trump winning.” That should deeply embarrass and offend CBS’s leadership. When the FCC Chair brags that you’re state TV for the Trump administration, a reassessment of one’s values is in order.

The cost of your flight went up because you searched for it twice. Your rideshare costs more because your phone battery is dying. This is surveillance pricing – corporations using your own data and behaviors against you. In the US Senate, I’ve got a plan to ban it.

The head of Europe’s central bank just said financial markets don’t understand what they’re in for. This is Christine Lagarde saying the damage is already done. Most people have absolutely no idea. Here is what she actually said. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. That chokepoint carries 20% of the world’s oil and gas. Markets shrugged. Investors assumed it would blow over. Lagarde told The Economist that technical experts are not talking about months for recovery. They are talking about years. Helium travels through the Strait of Hormuz. Helium is not a balloon gas. It is the invisible ingredient inside every advanced microchip on earth. Qatar supplies 35% of the world’s commercial helium. Qatar’s facilities have gone dark. Spot prices have surged past $450 per thousand cubic feet. Most chip fabricators carry less than three months of inventory. The world is building AI data centers at record speed. The raw material that makes the chips possible is now scarce. Meanwhile Brent crude has hit $99. Earlier spikes passed $120. US gasoline is up 30%. Iraq cut 1.5 million barrels a day. Saudi Arabia paused its largest refinery. Europe is heading into this with gas storage at 30% capacity. And the ECB is not cutting rates to soften the blow. It is considering hiking them to fight inflation. Slow economy. Rising prices. Tighter money. All at once. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

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Trump: "I just want to ask -- are the Saudis impressed by the fact that a family has saved $5,000? They're looking like, 'What they hell is $5,000?' Their shoes cost them more than $5,000. But that's the way it goes. We're talking about the real world."

That’s not a haircut, it’s a lawnmower accident. We would know.

Why, just fifty years ago, we would have thought UFOs were alien beings, or perhaps swamp gas or weather balloons. But nowadays we know that they are demons - or perhaps a toad or a small dwarf living in the clouds

Vice President J.D. Vance tells conservative influencer Benny Johnson that UFOs may be “demons,” not aliens, saying, “I Think They’re DEMONS,” and adding, “one of the devil’s great tricks is to convince people he never existed.” (2026)

Trump: I hang out with losers because it makes be feel better. I hate guys that are very, very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success.

Senator Thune, in a mystery vote gave the House everything they needed. The Dems agreed to NO REFORMS. All Speaker Johnson had to do was a Reconciliation (50 Votes) to get the remaining ICE funds....now, he is calling for a C.R., which takes 60 votes, so we can debate this all over again.. And, that wont' happen until after Easter Vacation. What a shitshow. Republicans NOW own the Shutdown. Convince me I’m wrong!