"Pete is not speaking truth to the president," one administration official said. "As a result, the president is out there repeating misleading information."
68-year-old Palestinian Sabriya Shamasneh was beaten to death by Israeli soldiers during a raid on her home in the town of Jayyous, in the northern occupied West Bank.
Israeli Atrocities Against Palestinians is Nothing New
In the midst of Vietnam, Lyndon B Johnson angrily and famously declared: I'm not going down in history as the first American President to lose a war'. But he did. And yesterday Donald Trump became the second to also lose one.
[Trump personal attorney Todd] Blanche is currently serving as the acting Attorney General following the recent firing of Pam Bondi. Speaking with reporters, Blanche clarified, "As to whether or not I want this job, I did not ask for this job. I love working for President Trump." He continued, "It's the greatest honor of a lifetime, and if President Trump chooses to keep me as acting, that's an honor. If he chooses to nominate me, that's an honor." Blanche further added, "If he chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I will say, Thank you very much. I love you, sir.'" Read more
A Pew Research poll finds 60% of US adults now have an unfavorable view of Israel and increasingly negative views of ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.
No kidding
The extended deployment of the United States Navy's largest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), is set to last a bit longer. The supercarrier departed from Split, Croatia, on Thursday after undergoing repairs during a five-day port visit, the U.S. Navy announced. It was last month that CVN-78 suffered a fire in the laundry facility that took several hours to contain and impacted operations for two days. The U.S. Navy didn't indicate the extent of the repairs, but said, "Gerald R. Ford remains poised for full mission tasking in support of national objectives in any area of operation."
Chilean President Jos Antonio Kast has thrown his weight behind Argentina's territorial claim to the Falkland Islands during his inaugural state visit to Buenos Aires. Meeting Argentine President Javier Milei at the Casa Rosada, Mr Kast endorsed Buenos Aires's position on the disputed South Atlantic archipelago, along with South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Read more
In a series of Situation Room meetings, President Trump weighed his instincts against the deep concerns of his vice president and a pessimistic intelligence assessment. Here's the inside story of how he made the fateful decision.
A group of 36 lawmakers says the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has created "disappearances" on US soil, due to the "increasingly unreliable" online system used to track people detained by immigration authorities, according to a letter shared with the Guardian. The lawmakers are urging that the DHS inspector general's office open an investigation into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "online detainee locator system" (ODLS), which has been used for years by family members, attorneys and journalists to track people in the federal immigration detention system. "Since January 2025, that system has grown increasingly unreliable," the lawmakers, including Senator Ben Ray Lujn and House representatives Veronica Escobar and Lauren Underwood, say in the letter. "Without a functional locator system, DHS is effectively creating disappearances' on US soil, and we urge the DHS office of inspector general (OIG) to investigate this matter." Read more
The Guardian: Mexico is facing a "toxic crisis" and has become a "garbage sink" for the US, exposing Mexican communities to dangerous pollution, a UN expert has warned. In an interview with the Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab, an investigative outlet, Marcos Orellana, an environmental specialist, said pollutants ranging from imported waste to dangerous pesticides were affecting people's right to live healthy lives. Orellana, whose title is UN special rapporteur on toxics and human rights, conducted an 11-day investigative mission in Mexico last month to learn about toxic threats facing its population. He said he found lax environmental standards and a lack of oversight, which have allowed pollution to accumulate over the years. Read more
Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests. Read more
The entire world is on edge waiting for Piggy to drop a nuclear bomb or commit some other atrocity. It is fucking madness
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A scene from Michael Moore's 2018 film, "Fahrenheit 11/9." This sequence maps the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany onto the rise of fascism in the United States.
I can say, I have heard MANY a black people say the same thing. Even heard a black preacher, whom I call the Chris Rock of preachers, preach this stuff. Most white people don't know this stuff. ANY black person you are close to, if they trust you, will tell you that it ain't white people they have the most problems with....it's.......
A popular conservative social media figure claims that liberals have been exaggerating their political influence, insisting that conservative voices are a silent majority suppressed by fear of losing jobs. A self-described entrepreneur and CEO, Sabina Gilman, posted her thoughts
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday likened the rescue on Easter Sunday of a missing American airman shot down over Iran to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ," the New York Times reports. "Minutes later, speaking at the same news conference describing the military operation, President Trump asserted that God supports the Israeli-U.S. war against Iran, which has killed thousands, including many civilians." Said Trump: "Because God is good, and God wants to see people taken care of."
