So, amid all this turmoil, how are all the Donald Trump voters feeling? Has buyer's remorse set in? Are they starting to wonder whether voting in a convicted felon as president " a man who has declared bankruptcy six times " might not have been the wisest move?
Not according to the polls. Rather, the US appears to be a nation of dith Piafs: they regret rien. I'm not saying that disillusioned Republicans don't exist; do enough digging and you can certainly find a few. And journalists have been doing a lot of digging. During Trump's first term, there was a steady stream of media pieces profiling the regretful Trump voter. The genre has remained popular through the first few months of Trump 2.0. But, according to a much-discussed segment by CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten this week, polling proves that the idea of "regretful" Trump voters is "more of a media creation than anything else". Read more
The leopards have been feasting. Today we're checking in on two big Trump-loving constituencies: truckers and soy farmers. Truckers love Donald Trump. Per FEC donation data, truck drivers are nearly three-quarters Republican, making it one of the reddest professions. You can imagine why. This group is mostly rural, mostly white and male, and tied to a job that lives and dies by the cost of fossil fuels, particularly diesel"which can account for up to 40% of costs. They also hated environmental mandates to electrify their fleets. Per Econ 101, as demand for products craters in the face of Trump's chaotic tariffs and the supply of truckers remains the same, what does that mean for prices? Exactly. It is also not surprising that Mack Trucks is laying off about 20% of its workforce in response to the economic havoc Trump's tariffs are generating. Read more
Easter is that magical time of year when chocolate bunnies mysteriously lose their ears, and kids suddenly develop the speed of Olympic sprinters during egg hunts. Families gather to celebrate with colorful eggs, tasty treats, and, of course, the time-honored tradition of sharing Easter Dad Jokes that are so cheesy, they could outshine a plate of nachos. And what's Easter without dads slipping in their classic one-liners between bites of ham? Whether they're cracking yolks about egg-cellent adventures or delivering puns so bad they make the Easter Bunny consider early retirement, Easter Dad Jokes add that special dose of groan-worthy humor to the holiday fun. Read more
A US man has been shot dead after hijacking a small passenger plane and injuring two passengers in the Caribbean nation of Belize. Fourteen passengers were on board the aircraft when Akinyela Sawa Taylor took control of the flight at knifepoint. Two passengers were injured, including one who was stabbed in the back. Taylor ordered the pilot to take him out of the country, but was then shot in the chest by another passenger. The hijacker's motives are unclear, but Taylor had previously been refused entry into Belize. How Taylor was able to get through its borders is unclear as is how he was able to smuggle a knife aboard. Another mystery is how the other passenger was able to bring a loaded firearm on the flight. Akinyela Sawa Taylor is allegedly a US military veteran. Read more
1) After ICC-indicted war criminal Vladimir Putin announced an Easter ceasefire' with Kiev, Russian forces carried out 387 attacks and 19 assaults. Ukrainian casualty counts are still being tabulated. 2) Christopher Smith is expected to become the US Ambassador to Ukraine. From 2022-23 he served as deputy chief of mission in Kiev. Bio: 2021-2025.state.gov 3) Fascist Viktor Orban of Hungary is urging countries against Ukraine's ascension into the EU. The Putin acolyte vowed not to let Brussels "force" Budapest to accept Kiev's EU membership, lying that Ukraine's entry would harm Hungary's economy. 4) A prisoner exchange with the Kremlin returned 277 Ukrainian POWs and 246 Russian EPWs. Most of the Ukrainians had been held in captivity for nearly three years. The Russian EPWs were most likely not undernourished like the Ukrainian POWs. Read more
The White House is starting to rebuild the NSC with aides that are staunchly aligned with Trumpf's agenda. Derek Harvey, a military intelligence analyst and retired US Army colonel, is expected to be named senior director for intelligence. "Always, we're letting go of people," Trumpf told reporters about the firings of aides to National Security Adviser Mike Waltz in the wake of the Signal group chat controversy. "People that we don't like, or people that we don't think can do the job, or people that may have loyalties to somebody else." This news is no surprise. The NSC will undergo a dramatic Islamophobic and anti-NATO realignment, rife with faulty analysis and bellicose policy decisions-- an AIPAC dream come true. When Democrats return to power, they should immediately rescind the POTUS AUMF. The damage this right-wing NSC will cause will take years for Democrats to repair while Ukrainians suffer and the Palestinian population and their lands further reduced. Read more
Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo, Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University, is a former IDF intelligence officer and official at Israel's UN Mission in NYC. Yarhi-Milo played a significant role in drumming up public hysteria about a supposed wave of intolerable anti-Semitism sweeping over the campus. Dr Yarhi-Milo laid the groundwork for the extensive nationwide crackdown on civil liberties and ICE detentions, including Mahmoud Khalil. Pro-Israel oligarchs donated $100 million to Columbia. Since Sep 2000 and by a factor of 20:1, at least 62,688 Palestinians have been killed compared to 2,916 Israelis. Below, Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo poses with Hillary Clinton during Clinton's 2023 guest teaching stint at Columbia University. Read more
America's oldest serving astronaut Dan Pettit has returned to Earth on his 70th birthday. The Soyuz MS-26 space capsule carrying Pettit and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner made a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan's steppe at 06:20 local time (01:20 GMT) on Sunday. Read more
"The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2" publication " which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak theory " was prompted by Dr. Fauci to push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated naturally. Dr. Fauci's Senior Advisor, Dr. David Morens, deliberately obstructed the Select Subcommittee's investigation, likely lied to Congress on multiple occasions, unlawfully deleted federal COVID-19 records, and shared nonpublic information about NIH grant processes with EcoHealth President Dr. Peter Daszak. Public health officials often mislead the American people through conflicting messaging, knee-jerk reactions, and a lack of transparency. Most egregiously, the federal government demonized alternative treatments and disfavored narratives, such as the lab leak theory, in a shameful effort to coerce and control the American people's health decisions.
1) Ukrainian intelligence releases the voice intercept of a Russian commander losing his temper and ordering his soldiers to shoot at their own comrades in a neighboring unit. "F**k the 55th, shoot them, that's the battalion commander's order, shoot them." The unidentified Russian commander appears frustrated at the adjacent Russian unit for not properly following an order and revealing their positions to Ukrainian troops. 2) The director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service threatened NATO states during a 15 Apr meeting with Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, saying that Poland and the Baltic states would be the "first to suffer" if there were any "NATO aggression" against the Russia-Belarus Union State. 3) GOP Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (PA 8th CD) visits Ukraine's front line and signs an artillery shell for Vladimir Putin. Fitzpatrick, a retired FBI SA, is pictured below. Read more
6 Jan terrorist Peter Marocco, the Trumpf junta apparatchik in charge of dismantling USAID, left a meeting at the White House last week to return to his office at the State Department. But when he arrived, Marocco could not enter the building: security told him he was no longer an employee there. Word of Marocco's firing quickly tore through the GOP and MAGA ecosystem, startling Trumpf's loyalists who viewed the aide as part of an elite cohort of administration true believers. Loud voices on the right piled on Marco Rubella, accusing him of undermining their disruptive agenda. Rubella has also differed with Trumpf regarding Ukraine and Russia: www.msn.com Read more
Joe Kasper, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's chief of staff will leave his role in the coming days for a new position at the agency, according to a senior administration official, amid a week of turmoil for the Pentagon. Senior adviser Dan Caldwell, Hegseth deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, the chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, were placed on leave this week in an ongoing leak probe. All three were terminated on Friday, according to three people familiar with the matter, who, like others, were granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue.
Thirty years after a truck bomb detonated outside a federal building in America's heartland, killing 168 people in the deadliest homegrown attack on U.S. soil, deep scars remain. The bombers were two former U.S. Army buddies, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, who shared a deep-seated hatred of the federal government fueled by the bloody raid on the Branch Davidian religious sect near Waco, Texas, and a standoff in the mountains of Ruby Ridge, Idaho, that killed a 14-year-old boy, his mother and a federal agent. And while the bombing awakened the nation to the dangers of extremist ideologies, many who suffered directly in the attack still fear anti-government rhetoric in modern-day politics could also lead to violence.
Some Trumpf junta members are dissatisfied with Europe's ongoing support for Ukraine. Kiev's European partners have sought to present a united front on Ukraine, pledging additional assistance and preparing a "reassurance force" of troops to monitor a potential ceasefire. Trumpf has rejected providing security guarantees to Kiev and has not announced any new aid packages, aiming instead to broker a ceasefire with Russia. Some Pentagon officials questioned an unspecified ally about why it continues sending military aid to Ukraine, a query that was ignored. Trumpf paused all security aid in March to pressure Kiev to the negotiating table. While the flow of these packages, approved still under the Biden administration, has resumed, economic and military are expected to run out in the coming months. Archived link: archive.ph Read more
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U.S. District Judge James Boasberg declined to grant an emergency motion blocking the Trump administration from deporting more people under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) on Friday, saying he doesn't think he has the "power" to do so because of a recent Supreme Court ruling.
