Lisa D. Connell

@atrupar Wondering if that was how his parents talked to him: “You’re a disgrace.”

O'DONNELL: In his manifesto, he wrote that 'I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.' What's your reaction? TRUMP: I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you're horrible people. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody. I'm not a pedophile. Excuse me. You read that crap from a sick person. I was totally exonerated. You should be ashamed of yourself, reading that. You're a disgrace.

Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. nytimes.com/2026/04/25/hea…

HIV now returning. This carefully details the system breakdowns after aid cuts, the local actions for resilience, what still had to be sacrificed, then the human consequences. nytimes.com/2026/04/25/hea…

BREAKING: Both President Trump and Vice President JD Vance are uninjured after an incident at the correspondents' annual dinner, AP source says. apnews.com/article/white-…

"I stand by every single word of this report...I have been inundated by additional sourcing going up to the highest levels of the government, thanking us for doing the work, providing additional corroborating information." Sarah Fitzpatrick on Kash Patel: theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/…

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. Many science advocates see it as the latest step by his administration to erode—some would say destroy—the independence of the 76-year-old research agency. scim.ag/4eGM0YS

'Something fundamental has changed in American society ... it is so broken that one half of it could knowingly put a degenerate lunatic in the White House just to spite the other half.' theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

MISSING Essence was last seen on February 10, 2026 in Peoria, Illinois. She may stay in the local area. missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/20…

MISSING Trinity was last seen on April 8, 2026 in Phoenix, Arizona. missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/20…

@ArthurJonesJr13 @ashishkjha Call the managing editor or night editor at both publications and ask them about news story placement.

@ashishkjha Thank you. 🙏 Unfortunately, news is no longer an interest to corporations. Propaganda and money are.

Gene Braunwald died at 96. In a normal world, this would be front page of the NYT and WSJ. The father of modern cardiology. Fled the Holocaust as a boy Went on to save millions of lives The most important clinician-scholar of the last 50 years. We should all know his name

It’s been more than 10 months since 17-year-old Summer Christie was last seen, and we need your help to find her. Summer was 16 when she went missing from Sacramento, California, on June 12, 2025. She may still be in the Sacramento area or could travel to Reno, Nevada. If you have information, call NCMEC at 1-800-THE-LOST or the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office at 1-916-874-5115. Poster: missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/20…

MISSING Nevaeh was last seen on March 10, 2026 in Salina, Kansas. missingkids.org/poster/NCMC/20…

@Joseph_Fasano_ “Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.” — Soren Kierkegaard.

What's a poem or quote that came to you at just the right time? Maybe we can make a little thread that people can scroll through to find what they need today. I know I could certainly use that right now. ❤️

Charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with a federal crime for paying informants to help dismantle hate groups is an outrageous weaponization of the Dept of Justice and the FBI. As someone who has been a prosecutor and has taken on the Klan I can tell you that use of paid informants is a common tactic used to dismantle drug cartels, the mob and extremist groups on both the right and the left. It is clear that all civil rights organizations are in the cross hairs of this Administration and that folks, puts everyone at risk.

“As Americans, we have to be able to say it's not normal to wish for the destruction of an entire civilization.” Historian @TimothyDSnyder tells me why, when President Trump threatens to eradicate Iranian civilization, he "taints" all Americans by publicly using genocidal rhetoric.

After a valiant battle with cancer, we lost my former staffer Asal Sayas. She had many friends and admirers, including me. While battling her own cancer, she worked on President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot to expand access to clinical trials. My heart is with her loved ones.

After shuttering refugee admissions, the Trump administration now wants to send more than one thousand of our Afghan allies to the Democratic Republic of Congo, which currently faces a grave humanitarian crisis. This brave group includes children, families of American service members, and people who lent a hand to our servicemembers. This is the ultimate betrayal.

We hunger for a future imbued with hope that is capable of engendering a new sense of justice and producing fruits of peace and fraternity. This is not an unknown future that we must passively await, but rather one that we ourselves are called to build with God’s grace. #ApostolicJourney #EquatorialGuinea

New: Covid-19 vaccines roughly halved the chances a US adult would need to visit the ER or be hospitalized with their infections last fall and winter, according to two sources familiar with the findings of a new study. But you won’t hear about it from the agency that led the research: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The current head of the CDC, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who’s also director of the US National Institutes of Health, blocked the publication of those findings in the CDC’s flagship journal, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, according to the sources. cnn.com/2026/04/22/hea…

Fun fact as we celebrate America’s 250th birthday: There literally would’ve been no United States of America if not for vaccine mandates to protect us all… 🤔👇🏽 🇺🇸