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Saturday, April 04, 2026

Just a few months after opening, the controversial Trump Truth Store in Crystal Lake, Illinois, has temporarily shut down, citing a drop in sales amid the ongoing Iran war. In a notice to customers, business owner Lisa Fleischmann posted on Facebook on March 26 that the MAGA-themed shop "is closed until further notice."


A federal judge slapped down President Donald Trump's argument that he wasn't civilly liable for inciting violence at the deadly Capitol riot because his "Stop the Steal" speech was comparable to a rapper working up a crowd with divisive lyrics.


A bipartisan duo of senators fired off a furious letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as well as Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, demanding to know how a delegation of Russian lawmakers was allowed to visit Capitol Hill and tour it with members of Congress.


The White House quietly scrubbed footage of a bizarre Easter event after a presidential adviser compared Donald Trump to Jesus Christ...


ICE arrested Salah Salem Sarsour (53), the head of Wisconsin's largest mosque, for throwing rocks at IDF soldiers and Molotov cocktails at their homes 30 years ago when he was a juvenile.

Another Political Prisoner


Google, Meta, and Perplexity accused of sharing millions of chats to increase ad revenue.


The FBI has labeled a suspected Chinese cyber intrusion into a government surveillance system a "major incident" that poses risks to US national security.

US Under Constant Cyber Attack


"Secretary of War Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum directing military installation commanders to allow War Department personnel -- namely, uniformed service members -- to request to carry privately owned firearms while in their nonofficial duty capacity on DOW property within the US."

Pete Hegseth is not an intelligent man


Donald Trump is raising a few eyebrows after he made a facepalm comment about presidential libraries (and libraries in general).


Friday, April 03, 2026

"The Trump administration has delayed funding for thousands of reproductive health clinics, known as "Title X clinics," that serve uninsured and low-income people, which could leave many patients without care. Title X clinics served approximately 2.8m clients in 2023, and about 2m those patients reported using contraception for family planning."

This is not a good human being


Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi condemned the targeting of civilian infrastructure. "Striking civilian structures, including unfinished bridges, will not compel Iranians to surrender," he said in a statement posted on X, adding that such actions "convey the defeat and moral collapse of an enemy in disarray". Read more


Amazon will add a 3.5% fuel and logistics-related surcharge to fulfillment fees it charges third-party merchants, as the war in the Middle East, which began with US and Israeli strikes against Iran at the end of February, continues to drive up fuel costs.


SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The late Ted Bundy, one of the most famous and prolific serial killers in U.S. history, has claimed another victim. New DNA testing confirmed Bundy was responsible for the 1974 killing of a 17-year-old Utah girl who disappeared after leaving a party alone on Halloween night, the local sheriff's office said Wednesday. Laura Ann Aime was found dead on the side of a highway in American Fork Canyon about a month after her abduction. She was bound, beaten and without clothing. Read more


resident Donald Trump said on Friday that Vice President J.D. Vance "is now in charge of FRAUD' in the United States" and will be referred to as the country's "fraud czar."

In his Truth Social post, Trump claimed that fraud "is massive and pervasive" in the U.S. and said of Vance that "the job he will be doing, in conjunction with many great people within the Trump Administration, will be a major factor in how great the future of our Country will be."


Whatever floats yer boat this weekend. Open thread for music...


President Donald Trump's new acting attorney general insists that the Department of Justice has to move on from the Epstein files -- while denying that the issue cost his former boss her job.


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