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@lindsaywise @GehringJackie "I was wrong to follow the meanness of Conservatism. I should have been trying to help people instead of taking advantage of them. I don't hate anyone anymore. For the first time in my life I don't hate somebody." --Lee Atwater, on his deathbed

Totally mystifying why Trump asked for 20 minutes in prime time on the first night of Passover to deliver a nothingburger of a speech that changed not a thing. Makes no sense.

What the president knows but can’t admit is that America has suffered defeat. Not on the battlefield, but on the bigger map of strategy, says @andreaskluth (via @opinion) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Tonight's situation is incredibly puzzling. In President Trump's address to the nation just now, he effectively reread many of his recent social media posts out loud. Between threatening Iran's power plants, saying the Iran War would last 2-3 more weeks, and calling out NATO, there was nothing new. Yet, the market is now trading like the Iran War is ramping up for another month-long escalation. Why? Because he didn't explicitly de-escalate. Ironically, President Trump's address to the nation just now has imposed more pressure on the US through the market's reaction. The market, which was finally beginning to show some signs of calming, is now highly agitated, with US oil prices back to $104/barrel, stocks down sharply, and the bond market melting down again. Ironically, President Trump is now back to solving the problem he fixed earlier this week: How will he contain the market?

satire/news:

🚨POTUS will use his address tonight to declare that the war in Iran is winding down. He also intends to harshly scapegoat NATO allies for the biggest unresolved matter of the war, Iran’s ongoing restrictions of shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. W/ @EliStokols and @meganmesserly Read the full story: politico.com/news/2026/04/0…

Maybe this will cause a reorientation back to what matters, which is our country.

For all sorts of reasons, Gen-Z is woefully unprepared for dealing with the workplace. Here’s why—and what companies need to do to fix it. on.wsj.com/4m0pA6s

@HQNewsNow Therapists, this one’s for you to unpack

Trump gets distracted: "We have a regime change. They said 'what do you mean you have regime change?...' My friend, great show... I love this guy, He's so nice to me. Every time I watch... you know, we're not supposed to be seduced that way, but I am. When someone's nice to me, I love that person. Even if they're bad people!"

NEWS: Demand for OpenAI shares has dropped significantly in the secondary market, in some cases becoming almost impossible to unload. “We literally couldn’t find anyone in our pool of hundreds of institutional investors to take these shares,” said Smythe, whose firm has handled $2.5 billion of transactions. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Look at this. This wallet has just put an $800,000 bet on boots on the ground in Iran. They previously were right about the time US struck Iran first. Unusual.

Ifill: Yes, President Trump did show up and sat discreetly in the back. I think it was a good lesson for him—there are just places in which he is very small.

🚨BREAKING: OpenAI shares have fallen out of favor and investors are trying to sell but finding no buyers Sam Altman 4 months ago: “if you want to sell your shares, I'll find you a buyer. Enough! I think there's a lot of people who would love to buy OpenAI shares. We can sell your shares very quickly!” LMFAOOOO this aged so badly

@factpostnews This talk of TDR... What nonsense, when the real issue is why are Republicans and the GOP such cowards and sycophants enabling someone who is clearly not fit to be in his office - in his current condition. That is how history will look at this time. TDR is the voice of sanity.

@factpostnews Why have we normalized this?

Trump: Tonight I'm making a little speech at 9 o'clock. And basically I'm gonna tell everybody how great I am.

JUST IN: Food delivery robots in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, & Chicago facing rise in violent attacks from "anti-clanker" activists.

OpenAI shares have fallen out of favor on the secondary market — in some cases becoming almost impossible to unload — as investors pivot quickly to Anthropic, its biggest competitor, per Bloomberg

BREAKING - A Baltimore mom is receiving massive praise after returning to the same food stand her son robbed just days before to reconcile with the owner, return the money, and apologize for her son’s actions, confirming she placed him in a treatment facility.

JUST IN: Mt. Everest guides accused of “poisoning” climbers to trigger helicopter rescues as part of an insurance scam. The guides have allegedly been lacing hikers' food and pressuring them into taking expensive rescue helicopter evacuations. "Guides with the trekking agencies allegedly poisoned tourists by putting baking soda in their food to trigger severe gastrointestinal distress that mimicked altitude sickness or food poisoning," the New York Post reports. Operators would allegedly then forge medical documents and flight documents to charge international travel insurers. According to police, the groups have received $19.69 million in insurance payouts. Police in Nepal have charged 32 individuals for organized crime and fraud, including trekking company owners, helicopter operators, and hospital executives.