Powerful explosives were found near the Balkan Stream pipeline in Serbia that carries Russian gas to Hungary, the leaders of the two countries said on Sunday, triggering political scrutiny in Hungary days before a national election.
While the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has sent oil prices soaring, with the national average cost for a tank of gas recently eclipsing $4, experts are now forecasting $6-per-gallon prices as early as this summer, a forecast that one media and political strategist said, if accurate, would lead to an "extinction-level event" for Republicans in the midterms.
Today's lunar flyby begins at 1 pm EDT. Watch live if you'd like to. Youtube video above is carrying it. Read more
[Holy Crap, I'd go for this!--Idepedant97] ========================================== Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., recently rolled out sweeping tax cut plans. Booker seeks to create a federal tax exemption for up to $75,000 in income for married couples. Van Hollen wants to set that figure at $92,000. Both have been floated as potential 2028 presidential candidates. In California, progressive candidate for governor Katie Porter, a former Democratic congresswoman, is proposing to wipe out state income taxes for California families making up to $100,000 per year. In Georgia, gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms, a former mayor of Atlanta and Biden administration official, is campaigning on "eliminating state income taxes for teachers." The trend has sparked a "wonk revolt" uniting policy experts from the center to the left against the new trend, said Zach Moller, senior director of economic policy at the moderate Democratic group Third Way.
Prominent MAGA figures have accused Donald Trump of going 'insane' as his unhinged Easter message enrages Christians who once supported the president but are now calling for his removal
Los Angeles has spent more than $300 million on Inside Safe since Bass launched the program in December 2022, clearing scores of homeless encampments and moving about 5,800 people into interim housing " mostly hotels and motels. The goal was to get each of those people into permanent housing, typically taxpayer-funded apartments. But even as the mayor's initiative brings more people indoors, a growing number are winding up back on the street. The longer the program exists, the greater the share of participants who have returned to "unsheltered" homelessness, according to monthly dashboards which were posted by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, or LAHSA, and analyzed by The Times. Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus alongside Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. Mr Fidan is the former head of the MIT, the Turkish analog of US CIA.
Volodymyr Zelensky is a good human being
A loyal army of followers, a huge disinformation network, and a party of soul-selling cowards can crowd out facts for a long time. But eventually, reality catches up.
US Senator John Fetterman (D-PA): "Someone asked me who is the leader of the Democratic Party? I said that's TDS, Trumpf derangement syndrome. They're increasingly defined by the exact opposite of what Trumpf says. If Trumpf supported ice cream on Sundays, Democrats would decide we have to vote that down as a bad thing. Every single Democrat should fully support Israel. They are now making choices to vote against defensive things like (Felon Musk's insider deal) Iron Dome."
These people are not good human beings
Excerpts from former Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene's Easter Day social media post:
Dummkopf Trumpf Bankrupting US for Israel
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.
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.
