Brian 🇺🇦

Imagine if this were reversed? The GOP would be holding hearings. Matt Taibbi would off his couch.

Also, there are no white people in the Bible. Happy Easter 🐣

BREAKING The US-Israel have just bombed Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran's most prestigious school for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Iran's "MIT", its graduates are sought after by universities and companies globally.

Christian and trans woman here. Trans Day of Visibility is always March 31st. Always has been. It's a fixed date. Easter is not a fixed date. It falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon on, or after, March 21st. That means there are 35 possible days on the calendar Easter can fall on. Because for Easter and other moveable feasts, Christians use astronomy to set and celebrate them. You claim to be offended or upset or whatever because Pres. Biden observed a fixed day of recognition for a community whose existence bothers you on the same day that coincidentally happened to be Easter. But Mr. Erickson, your weird and sad discomfort is not about taking umbrage over disrespect to Christianity. If it were, you wouldn't be offering support for war crimes against civilians, which decidedly goes against Christ's teachings. None of this is about faith for you. It's about your very deep discomfort with trans people, so much so that you would reject Christ's teachings in order to favor that discomfort. Someday, you will meet God and you will be called to account for exploiting the sacrifice of Christ as a shameless grift to enrich yourself and erroneously soothe your hateful tendencies.

BREAKING: Israeli settlers are attacking the village of Qusra in the West Bank right now, setting vehicles and homes on fire. At the same time, another group of Israeli settlers is attacking the adjacent village of Talfit.

Guess how quickly the word "Christian" appears in this guy's bio. Just guess.

The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. propublica.org/article/vetera…

NEW: Trump's bid to escape scrutiny of his White House secrets threatens to bring down the system that governed access to records of every president since Reagan. And its demise could come quickly politico.com/news/2026/04/0…

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…

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.

They might as well shout from the rafters that they've done a bunch of illegal stuff and want to hide the evidence

Read the following from the NYT & ask yourself one question: When else in history did a genocidal foreign occupying army warn residents not to harbor members of a religious community that they seek to eliminate?

In a surprise twist, the Epstein files released the attorney general.

Bondi was awful, but no worse than Patel. Noem was terrible, but no worse than Hegseth. Funny that it’s only the women who get fired.

Since Liberation Day, a year ago today: * US foreign direct investment is lower * US factories employ 89,000 fewer people * US goods trade deficit is UP 2% npr.org/2026/04/02/nx-…

Had a short convo in airport yesterday with a guy who said, “we’re not impacted at all from the war because we are a net exporter” … I suggested that is a flawed argument given that oil is a globally-priced commodity and we don’t sell oil to ourselves at a domestic discount; not to mention that U.S. consumers and businesses pay global prices regardless of where barrels were pumped … oh, and, energy is an input cost embedded throughout supply chains … he said he hadn’t been thinking of it that way … hmmm

Both parties are the same and that's why I keep demanding one party save me from the actions of the party in power who is trying to deliberately hurt everyone and consolidate power.

ICE murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and Kristi Noem didn’t give their families privacy. Instead, she spread lies about them to justify their murder.

Remember when they were going to save the Iranian people

Just total corruption and misuse of resources, all the time, out in the open.