Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Sunday, April 05, 2026

Excerpts from former Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene's Easter Day social media post:

  • "The Strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they've been telling for decades."
  • "I know all of you and [Dummkopf Trumpf] and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit."
  • "You know who has nuclear weapons? Israel. They are more than capable of defending themselves without the US having to fight their wars, kill innocent people and children, and pay for it."
  • "Trumpf threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trumpf claimed he was freeing."
  • "This [war against the people of Iran] is not making America great again, this is evil."
    Dummkopf Trumpf Bankrupting US for Israel


    Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst said Sunday that President Donald Trump told him during a phone interview the United States had sent weapons to the Kurds that were meant to make their way into the hands of Iranian protesters but never did. "President Trump told me the United States sent guns to the Iranian protesters," Yingst related to the Fox & Friends Weekend hosts. "He tells me: We sent them a lot of guns. We sent them through the Kurds,' and the president says he thinks the Kurds kept them." "He went on to say, We sent guns to the protesters, a lot of them,'" Yingst added. Read more


    A growing number of Americans are reconsidering where they live " not just for lifestyle reasons, but for financial ones. New IRS migration data reveal a clear pattern: billions of dollars in income are moving out of high-tax states into areas where taxes, and often overall living costs, are lower. Read more


    A visual guide to Iran's coastline and strategic islands Stretching some 1,800km (1,120 miles), Iran's southern coastline forms a vast maritime corridor from the marshy Iraqi delta in the west to Pakistan's rugged terrain in the east. At its centre lies the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow chokepoint through which 20 percent of global oil and gas flows. Scattered along this coastline are several islands that host military outposts, energy hubs, and geopolitical leverage points within what analysts describe as Iran's "strategic architecture" of control.


    A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's attempt to collect data on students on public universities in their attempt to stop them from considering race as part of the admissions process.


    Iran has announced that Iraqi ships are free to pass the Strait of Hormuz, the latest sign of Tehran easing its stranglehold on the critical conduit for global energy supplies. Iraq will be exempt from all restrictions in the strait, with controls only applying to "enemy countries", Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said in a statement on Saturday.


    A 32-year-old man was hospitalized with a concussion and "significant injuries" after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents rear-ended his vehicle in Baltimore, according to his attorney and a U.S. senator. Ever Alvarenga Rios' vehicle was "violently rear-ended" by ICE agents Thursday morning, his attorneys told WMAR-2 News. Now, he's in the hospital after sustaining "significant injuries" to his head, chest, back and hands, according to Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland. "After the accident, he was detained & ICE now refuses to allow his attorneys to meet with him privately, a clear denial of the due process rights afforded to all under our Constitution," Van Hollen wrote on social media on Saturday. "ICE tactics are endangering our communities & violating the Constitution." The senator described Rios as an asylum seeker.


    Donald Trump is facing significant hurdles after declaring, in a series of executive orders last year, that rapid construction of AI data centers was among his top priorities to ensure the US wins the AI race against China. Perhaps most likely to frustrate the president, his aggressive tariffs on Chinese imports are reportedly hindering most data center projects.


    McALLEN, Texas (AP) -- For five months, the young father waited for his 3-year-old daughter's release from federal custody after she crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with her mother, hoping through delays for their safe reunion. Only when he turned to the courts as a last resort did he learn that the girl had suffered alleged sexual abuse at the foster home where she'd been placed after immigration officials separated her from her mother. Read more


    James Talarico delivered a sermon entitled, "Divine Losers: Resistance and Resurrection"


    In my head, I maintain this list. I call it the Dead To Me List, a compendium of performers who have shown or expressed support for Donald Trump. Anybody on that list will never receive another dime of my money or second of my time for any new project in which they are top-billed. Yes, I recognize the futility of this. No, I don't flatter myself that my one-man boycott will change anything or even be noticed. It's something I do for principle. Something I do for me.


    Eostre is the pagan fertility goddess of humans and crops.


    679 million people watched China's robots perform fully autonomous kung fu at the 2026 Spring Festival Gala. Backflips. Nunchucks. Sword fights. Drunken boxing. No operators. No remote control. No second takes.

    One year ago these same machines were shuffling across a stage waving handkerchiefs. Today they are sparring with martial arts masters, executing 7.5-rotation airflare spins, and performing three consecutive single-leg backflips in front of the largest television audience on Earth.

    This video breaks down the 8 most jaw-dropping moments " from the robot that bowed to a child, to the swarm of 20 machines that moved as one organism at 4 meters per second, to the single move at the end that made a stadium go silent.


    "WE GOT HIM!" President Trump wrote on social media after spending Saturday monitoring the operation from the White House. "Over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History."


    The sudden and forced departure of US Army Chief of Staff General Randy George in the middle of the illegal and expensive war against the people of Iran on behalf of Israel is devastating morale inside the Pentagon, where multiple senior officials expressed dismay over the state of the department's hideous leadership. Over the last year, Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth has been purging officers throughout the ranks, including five sitting members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS); only two holdovers remain in their posts.

    This is not a good human being


    ICE agents arrested the niece and grand niece of US-assassinated IRGC Major-General Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian military leader who in 2001 fought alongside US SOF and CIA against the Taliban and helped take the city of Herat, following USSSECSTATE Marco Rubio's callous termination of their lawful permanent resident (LPR) status.

    USSECSTATE Marco Rubio Holding Press Conference at Foggy Bottom


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