Phil McDonald

The Trump administration’s latest attempt to dismantle the Education Department is moving student loans to the Treasury Department. This illegal scheme threatens to trap borrowers, students, and families in chaos—while taxpayers foot the bill. I’m fighting to stop it.

Update: Just left Dilley. More secrecy, same cruelty under the new DHS Secretary.

Ponownie zapraszam wszystkich do włączenia się w Czuwanie Modlitewne o Pokój, które odbędzie się w Bazylice św. Piotra w sobotę, 11 kwietnia o godzinie 18:00 czasu rzymskiego. #MódlmySię #Pokój

When America was attacked on 9/11, NATO members stood with us. In fact, more than 1,000 non-U.S. NATO service members paid the ultimate price in Afghanistan, never returning home to their families. When President Biden announced his decision to withdraw all U.S. forces on April 14, 2021, more than 6,000 non-U.S. NATO troops were still serving in Afghanistan, including approximately 1,300 from Germany. That total number of non-U.S. NATO service members was roughly double the number of American service members serving in Afghanistan in April that year. And some NATO allies remained to the last possible moment. Amid the chaos of the evacuation at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, Norwegians ran the field hospital used to treat the 13 Americans killed in a suicide bombing on August 26. As late as August 17 that year, nearly 800 NATO civilian personnel remained in Afghanistan for essential tasks, including air traffic control, logistics, communications, and security during the withdrawal of U.S. forces. They stood with us to the end. Some talk big. Some put their lives on the line to honor their commitments. That is what many of our European allies did. They were true friends and allies to us. The way we are treating them now is shameful and self-defeating. From the 2021 file: thedispatch.com/article/afghan…

Rinnovo a tutti l’invito a unirsi a me nella Veglia di Preghiera per la Pace, che celebreremo nella Basilica di San Pietro, sabato 11 aprile alle 18:00. #PreghiamoInsieme #Pace

This is beyond disturbing and is a major red flag. @afsatweets

Rep. Don Bacon on JD Vance: "I think it's a terrible, crazy mistake to go into someone else's country and campaign for one of the candidates over the other. We don't want peace to interfere in our elections. That's what Russia does."

I urge everyone to accompany this moment of delicate diplomacy with prayer, in hopes that a willingness to dialogue may become the means to resolve other conflict situations in the world as well. #PrayTogether #Peace

I renew my invitation for everyone to join me for the Prayer Vigil for Peace, which we will celebrate in St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday, April 11, at 6:00 PM Rome time. #PrayTogether #Peace

.@VP should get the heck out of Hungary & focus on Iran. My family is from Hungary—a freedom-loving country that rose up against the Soviets in 1956. Today Orban has aligned Hungary closer to Russia & undermined NATO. Regardless we shouldn't interfere in other countries' elections. That’s what Russia & China do.

APPLEBAUM: Victor Orbán has been in charge of Hungary for 16 years. He has used his power as a democratically elected leader to take over the institutions of the state, judiciary, media, bureaucracy, universities. Thanks to that and unbelievably high level of corruption, Hungary is now one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in EU, with major problems in healthcare and education. Yet in the campaign he’s not talking about any of that. Instead, he’s pushing mythical fantasy that Ukrainians are going to invade Hungary to create fear. He’s trailing in the polls by about 20%. The only question is whether he will halt the election, change the result, or create some kind of outrage.

We haven't forgotten that Jared Kushner apparently still hasn’t filed any financial disclosures—even though he's legally required to, now that he's peace envoy. Meanwhile, he's set to head to Ukraine this month in a bid to relaunch talks on a peace deal. politico.eu/article/ukrain…

A 16-year-old Latina girl from Chicago mailed her application to MIT. Her name was Sabrina González Pasterski.... On merit alone, she should have been impossible to ignore. At 14, she had built a working single-engine airplane in her family’s garage—documenting every step, from assembly to flight. She passed inspection and flew it herself. She came from public schools, a first-generation Cuban-American with no elite pipeline or connections. She understood the unspoken rule: girls like her had to be exceptional just to be considered. She was. MIT still waitlisted her. It hit hard. MIT had been the goal she built everything around. Being told “not yet” felt like being told “not you.” But then two MIT professors came across her airplane video. They watched a teenager design, build, and fly her own aircraft—and immediately recognized something rare. They pushed her case forward. MIT reconsidered. She got in. She didn’t forget that moment. Instead, she used it as fuel. At MIT, she didn’t just succeed—she redefined what success looked like. She became the first woman to win the prestigious Orloff Scholarship, graduated in just three years with a perfect 5.00 GPA, and became the first woman in two decades to graduate at the top of MIT Physics. Her research moved just as fast. Her first paper was accepted within 24 hours—something almost unheard of in theoretical physics. Opportunities followed. NASA showed interest. Jeff Bezos personally offered her a role at Blue Origin. She declined. She chose to pursue deeper questions instead, heading to Harvard for a PhD in physics. There, she focused on black holes, quantum gravity, and the structure of spacetime. At just 25, her work was cited by Stephen Hawking—a rare acknowledgment from one of the most respected minds in science. But her story isn’t just about intelligence. It’s about navigating a space where people like her are often underrepresented. She had seen the imbalance early—few girls in advanced physics, even fewer from her background. Instead of stepping back, she stepped forward. She kept her focus narrow and intentional. No social media presence, no distractions—just her work. She maintained a simple website, sharing research rather than chasing attention. When people compared her to Einstein, she rejected it, insisting she was still learning. After completing her PhD, again with top performance, she continued her work at leading research institutions. Today, she contributes to some of the most complex problems in physics, exploring how the universe fundamentally works. And as she does, she quietly expands what feels possible for others. Sabrina González Pasterski’s story isn’t just about brilliance. It’s about persistence, identity, and refusing to shrink to fit expectations. MIT hesitated. She gave them a second chance to see clearly. And then she went on to prove exactly who she was. © Women Stories #archaeohistories

Urgent: Nigel Farage says he barely knows Trump. He’s heard of him but he’s never campaigned for him, or modelled himself on him. He DOESN’T want photos like those attached to be circulated at a delicate time with local elections looming. Please DO NOT circulate these.

Because we suffer from a collective national amnesia, our temptation will be to quickly memory-hole Trump’s threat along with the rest of the president’s verbal incontinence and move on. But the world is unlikely to forget how dangerous the United States has become. open.substack.com/pub/charliesyk…

🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: Search results for “Epstein Files” have hit a new all-time-low since the war began. Now we have a ceasefire. Don’t stop talking about Epstein. Repost this.

TEXAS BUILT A $11 BILLION SURVEILLANCE STATE WHILE HANDING OUT DATA CENTER WELFARE Your state is paying Palantir $1.2 million to scan 40+ billion faces through 2030. Here's what Texas taxpayers are funding: 1. DPS pays $1.2M for access to 40+ billion scraped facial images through Clearview AI contract lasting through 2030 2. Operation Drawbridge: 9,000+ wildlife cameras generate 250,000 daily AI-analyzed images via $6M Deloitte contract 3. Data centers get 15-year tax exemptions for $200M investment but only required to create 20 jobs 4. Tangles software contract costs $5.3M for social media scraping and warrantless cell phone tracking 5. Houston alone deployed 3,800+ Flock Safety license plate readers enabling real-time vehicle tracking 6. Operation Lone Star surveillance costs $11 billion while data center subsidies cost $130M annually Now follow the money: Palantir employees → $344,914 to RNC, $143,020 to NRSC Palantir → $1.2M Texas DPS contract through 2030 Joe Lonsdale (Palantir co-founder) → Relocated to Texas, maximum political donations Amazon/Google/Meta/Microsoft → Pursuing uncapped data center tax incentives worth hundreds of millions Technocracy Index Score: 75.7/100 — HIGH RISK Full investigation with every name, dollar amount, and contract: technocracyatlas.com/state-map @GregAbbott_TX @SenTedCruz @JohnCornyn @ACLUofTexas @LukeMacias @FARFA @JoeLonsdale

Notably, Ted Cruz is not up for reelection in November.

If you are wondering why Lauren Chen being invited to the White House is so insane, look up Tenet Media