Randi Doeker

. . Republican/Conservative = authoritarian nationalism Democratic/Liberals = democracy You can fixate on the debt, fossil fuels, social safety net in both Parties. But each side has its own form of government. Take a stand -- pick one. There are no sidelines.

Trump has suddenly canceled funding for Catholic charities that support homeless children amid his feud with the Pope.

Reuters is reporting that Iran is broadcasting this VHF message: "Attention all ships, ​regarding the failure ⁠of the U.S. government to fulfil its commitment in the negotiation, Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz completely ​closed again. No vessel of any type or nationality ​is allowed ⁠to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.”

There is no good explanation for this Administration to quietly lift sanctions on Russia late on a Friday night. Congress and the American people need immediate answers. We must not help Russia fund its illegal war in Ukraine and aid Iranian attacks on American troops.

ICE officer David Courvelle admits to raping a woman in custody for months. He did it in exchange for letting her see her daughter. I need ICE to be abolished yesterday!

NEW: Christian Singer Phil Vaught arrested with 160-count indictment for r*ping children & producing CSAM over 11 years. The r*pes happened from 2015 to January 2026. Arrested in Mississippi. $1.5M bond.

Xanax, a popular anxiety medicine, was recalled nationwide due to a potential issue that could affect the medication's quality and efficacy. bit.ly/4dVhzOl

@michaelkruse @motokorich The day he was announced one of his brothers explained that they played Wordle daily.

This sentence from @motokorich: On the flight to Turkey, the pope revealed that he had solved The Times’s Wordle puzzle in three guesses that morning. nytimes.com/2026/04/15/wor…

🚨Republicans just voted 50-49 to hand the Boundary Waters to a foreign mining company that will pollute its headwaters & ship every last mineral to China. Now it goes to Trump's desk, who has financial ties to the billionaire behind the deal. They're not even pretending anymore.

@BrendanCarrFCC The building is close to Lake Michigan = major bird migration route. If it was glassy, it would reflect bird habitat and, thus, cause birds to fly into the building.

"When it opens June 19, [Barack Obama’s new presidential center] will set at least three modern-era records for a former White House occupant: time taken to be completed, project cost and the price to get inside." wsj.com/us-news/the-ob…

Trump bragged he graduated top of his class at Wharton… There were 366 students. He finished… wait for it… 364th. 😂

@FT It was all about the United CEO trolling his former employer, American, where he'd been told he wasn't CEO material. That's all.

United plus American won’t make US airlines great again ft.trib.al/BBhQ0as | opinion

@jmart Look at the potential R candidates in 2014 and compare that to 2016. Things change....

Floated in Bloomberg, rolled out in person at a WSJ subscriber event and now the social video April of 2026 and Rahm rolling out policies like the leaves already turned in New Hampshire fall 2027

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration has fired 113 immigration judges since last January… without due process, explanation, or stated cause. And this isn’t just unusual… it’s almost unheard of. Immigration judges are typically protected by strict hiring and removal standards, meant to preserve independence in the system. So, seeing this many removed, in such a short time, is raising serious alarms. Jeremiah Johnson, a former immigration judge in San Francisco, told the New York Times: “On Nov. 21, I heard my afternoon case. It was a family of four Indigenous Guatemalans, a mother and father and two children. They were refugees who had suffered physical abuse. The father’s leg had been broken, and his brother had been killed. They were targeted for their race and ethnicity. They had a fear of persecution, based on past persecution, which the government didn’t rebut. I granted them asylum. DHS waived the appeal. My last words on the bench to that family were: You’ve been granted asylum in the United States. That decision is final. Welcome to the United States. One of the kids — I think he was in fifth grade — jumped up and clapped his hands together. Later, I went to my office and signed onto my computer and found out I’d been fired. I was escorted out without time to print the letter they sent.” This is why what the Trump administration is doing has never been about “the worst of the worst” or “doing it the right way.” It’s about who the government believes deserves to be here… and who it decides doesn’t. And when you follow that pattern long enough, it stops looking like isolated decisions, and starts looking like a system built around white supremacy.

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Department moves to vacate seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys in major Jan. 6 cases.

@thehill She was also at a Congressional hearing held in Nevada.

Trump gets McDonald’s delivery to Oval Office to promote ‘no tax on tips’ thehill.com/homenews/admin…

FACT CHECK: There are 6% fewer drill rigs (O&G) operating today than there were on Biden's last day in office.

This senior says she made under $22k total income last year, so she wouldn’t actually owe any federal taxes and would gain nothing from the no tax on tips policy

Does anyone in Israel want to check why they allowed a Russian vessel with stolen Ukrainian grain to dock at Haifa? So sick of this

There is a video circulating on the internet that is difficult to watch. A woman sits on a pavement in Louisville, Kentucky. She is wearing a hospital gown. It is 36 degrees outside. Her belongings, everything she apparently owns, are in a plastic bag on the concrete beside her. Behind her, through the glass doors she has just been escorted through, the hospital hums along as normal. The security guards who brought her here have already gone back inside. She couldn’t afford her bill. This is not a scene from a developing nation or a history book. This is the United States of America. The country in which it happens has spent decades telling the rest of the world that it has the highest GDP on earth. Which is a bit like a restaurant proudly displaying its bill on the wall. Enormous number. Terrible meal. The lobster was frozen, the wine came from a box. Europe, by comparison, has spent the better part of a century building something rather different. The food, for a start, is extraordinary. Not in a showy way, but in the way that a simple lunch in Lyon or a glass of wine on a terrace in Lisbon reminds you that eating is one of the genuinely good things about being alive. The wine is the wine that the rest of the world has spent generations attempting to replicate, mostly without success. Roughly 35 percent of Europeans live with a chronic illness. In America, that number is 76 percent. The difference is not genetic. It is architectural. It is the slow accumulation of decent food, walkable cities, actual holidays, and a healthcare system that does not require you to crowdfund your own appendix. Europeans work fewer hours. They have more purchasing power on a smaller salary once you subtract the cost of health insurance, medical debt, and the private school their child needs because the local public one has a metal detector at the entrance. They live, on average, about ten years longer. Not ten years of decline and doctor visits, but ten years of being a person in the world. In the first quarter of 2025, the number of Americans leaving the United States doubled compared to the previous quarter.  Europe was their top destination. Not for a sabbatical or a gap year. Permanently. These are not people who failed. These are people who did the maths. There is a man somewhere in America right now who has worked fifty-hour weeks for forty years, taken one week off when his employer permitted it, and will, statistically, be dead before he sees seventy. And there is another man, not very far away on a map but an entire civilisation removed in practice, sitting on a terrace in the afternoon sun with a glass of something cold and no particular place to be. He has had six weeks off every summer since 1987. He knows his neighbours by name. The first man’s country has the higher GDP. The first man’s country tops the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) index. The second man tops the Quality of Life Index (QLI). The better health. The longer life. The afternoon. MAGA America calls that losing. Ask anyone. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Oh shit. They shipped door dash woman to a Nevada hearing last year. She’s the maga paid prop. Everything they do is a con.