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Meaningless nonsense

#Trump says deadline for #Congress to approve #IranWar doesn't apply: Hostilities have 'terminated'

The White House asserted to Congress in a letter Friday that hostilities with #Iran have “terminated” despite the continued presence of US armed forces in the region.

#TrumpsWar #war #ForeverWars #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
https://apnews.com/article/iran-congress-war-powers-republicans-trump-authorization-41ef029df176a6486422e9d68aa6d872

#GiftArticle

It has been clear for a long time that #Trump is a person with a disorganized mind & a disordered personality. What the past few months & especially the past few weeks brought into focus is how his pathologies have cascaded downward & outward through his admin. They have become institutionalized. The reason it so often does not act coherently is because it cannot. The world faces something new & baffling & frightening in Trump’s 2nd term: a #PsychoticState.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/opinion/trump-iran-psychotic-state-institutions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z1A.tNXf.iuTv1Vccmxzt&smid=nytcore-ios-share

#Inflation Surges as Effects of the #IranWar Show in Prices

The #Consumer Price Index [#CPI] jumped 3.3% in the year through March, a 2-year high, reflecting higher costs for #energy & goods affected by disruptions in the #MiddleEast.

#TrumpsWar #US #Iran #Israel #war #Trump #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #economy #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #EnergyCrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/10/business/inflation-cpi-report?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#Venezuela Approves New #Law to Open #Mining to Foreign Investors

The move opens the country’s coveted #mineral fortune up to foreign investors, in the latest move that Venezuela’s leadership has taken to satisfy the #Trump admin.

#geopolitics #MafiaState #sovereignty
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/americas/venezuela-mining-us.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

New Report Pushes Unproven Anti-Christian Claims Against Biden DOJ

“The report stems from a 2025 executive order signed by #Trump directing a task force to investigate alleged discrimination against Christians in federal policy.

While the findings will not carry legal authority, they are expected to frame the #Biden administration’s actions as limiting religious expression in public life.”

https://newsfactsnetwork.com/news/report-pushes-unproven-anti-christian-claims-against-biden-doj/

"Consider this week in full. The abominable Easter Sunday social media post that dropped the f-bomb and mocked Islam. The far more abominable post two days later about destroying one of history's most accomplished civilizations. The complete and utter backing down from it hours later. The phantom ceasefire, which Netanyahu obviously intentionally wrecked."

~ Michael Tomasky

#Trump #Iran #war #ceasefire #economy #Epstein #Melania #NATO
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https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=5a5eab21ca2a8fef4af5e35709ecca15.3025&s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea

Iran's Guards seize #wartime power, weakening Supreme Leader's role

2 months into a war with the #US & #Israel, #Iran no longer has a single, undisputed clerical arbiter at the pinnacle of #power — an abrupt break with the past that may be hardening Tehran’s stance as it weighs renewed talks with ​Washington.

#IranWar #TrumpsWar #Trump #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/irans-guards-seize-wartime-power-blunting-supreme-leaders-role-2026-04-28/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

AP Exclusive: #Trump admin admits it used faulty numbers in its #NewYork #Medicaid #health “fraud” accusations

Trump’s administration this week acknowledged it made a significant error in figures it used to help justify a fraud probe into New York’s Medicaid program, a glaring mistake that undercuts a federal campaign to tackle waste, mostly in #Democratic-led #states.

#idiocracy #kakistocracy #RevengePolitics #law #HealthInsurance
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-medicaid-fraud-dr-oz-trump-342285a3c5d5b71f36ce3f3c77ec72c5

"The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index just dropped to 47.6 for April. During the height of COVID in March 2020, we never got anywhere near that low. During the 2008 financial crisis, the worst economic collapse in generations, we never saw numbers remotely close to this.

On top of that, the inflation numbers that came in this morning are brutal."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #economy #inflation #oil #gas #airfares #ConsumerSentiment
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/friday-afternoon-news-updates-the

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116382355071551054

At this point it's pretty clear that Donny and his wife have something too hide

#Trump does not give a shit about anyone, why would he tried so hard to make the #Epstein case disappear, pretty sure he doesn't do it to "protect others"

#USPol

Another complication:🚨"Iran has been unable to open the Strait of Hormuz to more shipping traffic because it cannot locate all of the mines it laid in the waterway and lacks the capability to remove them, according to US officials."
#IranWar #IllegalWar #Trump #US #Netanyahu #Israel #Iran #StraitOfHormuz #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/us/politics/iran-mines-strait.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z1A.ldkQ.eB0dqYUiJ_h3&smid=nytcore-ios-share

#Defense Secy Pete #Hegseth is facing questioning from lawmakers for the first time since the #Trump admin launched the #war against #Iran, which Democrats have contested as a costly conflict of choice waged without congressional approval.

The chief financial official for the #Pentagon told lawmakers that the estimated cost to #US taxpayers of the #IranWar is $25 billion so far.

#TrumpsWar #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #economy
https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-hegseth-congress-trump-updates-04-29-2026

Exclusive: #ICE launches new effort to uncover #US ‘birth tourism schemes’ despite the fact that #SCOTUS has yet to rule on the constitutionality of the #Trump #ExecutiveOrder on #BirthrightCitizenship & that a majority of the justices appeared skeptical of the admin’s arguments.

#law #immigration #Constitution #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Sturmabteilung
https://www.reuters.com/world/ice-launches-new-effort-uncover-us-birth-tourism-schemes-2026-04-10/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

I should think not

Federal appeals court won’t rehear Trump’s appeal of E. Jean Carroll’s $83 million jury award

A split federal appeals court said its full bench of judges would not rehear Trump’s appeal of the $83 million jury award for defaming magazine columnist #EJeanCarroll.

The decision paves the way for #Trump to ask #SCOTUS to hear his BS arguments involving presidential #immunity following the high court’s landmark 2024 decision.

#law #rape #RapistInChief
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-appeal

I already made this point, but I'll make it again: the bootlicking tech bros signed up to bribe #Trump with Baalroom donations last year when they (stupidly) thought it was a good bet. Now they're getting cold feet. It's obvious now, even to their dumb asses, that this was *not* in fact a good bet, because the people stood strong while elites folded.

And here we are.

ALT

"American Christians can’t pretend we haven’t seen what our leaders have done this spring. Ours is no longer a government interested in haggling over the finer points of just war theory, a Scripture-shaped standard of ethical conduct in warfare, to defend a military intervention."

~ Justin R. Hawkins

#Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #war #WarCrimes #NuclearWeapons #genocide #morality #JustWar
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https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/04/threatening-profound-evil-trivializes-iran-just-war-theory-trump-hegseth/

Cardinal’s meeting at #Pentagon was ‘unusual,’ #Vatican official says

Through the first year of Trump’s 2nd term, tensions between his admin & the Vatican — with the first #US born #pope — have simmered.

#law #Trump #Hegseth #Republicans #Constitution #FreedomOfReligion #ChurchAndState #Christianity #Evangelism #NewApostolicReformation #NAR #military #war #NationalSecurity #geopolitics #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/10/trump-vatican-pentagon-meeting/

"It feels like something shifted in the United States this week after President Donald J. Trump threatened on Tuesday that 'a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.'”

#Trump #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-10-2026

ONCE AGAIN, after an ICE watch episode which was relatively chill (by those standards), I feel like the universe is patting me on the head with-- yes!-- another #Trump health boondoggle!

The White House has a full dental operatory, so it's complete bullcrap that he went to see the dentist on a Sunday in Florida. Healthcare workers on social media are speculating that this might be a pre-heart surgery dental evaluation...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/donald-trump-health-update-medical-expert-raises-questions-on-dentist-visit-after-walter-reed-claims-rushed-to-hospital-101777762983535.html

#Trump unveils giant gold-accented victory arch design for Washington DC

“L’Arc de Tri-ump…”

“The renderings of the arch depict gold inscription that say "One Nation Under God", topped with two gold eagles, and guarded by statues of four gold lions.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwywre1e3kvo

" #Trump sweetens pro- #Orban endorsement with promises of economic aid to #Hungary"

People of #EU #Europe:

Relax

A reminder: Trump's words about #Canada last year

#MapleMAGA Pierre #Poilievre was trending to win

Instead Trump aided in Canadians rallying to Mark #Carney

The #US #USA administration is rat poison

Everything the child rapist touches turns to shit

Be angry at meddling in your #politics, yes

But Trump and #Vance supporting Orban helps Peter #Magyar

https://kyivindependent.com/trump-sweetens-pro-orban-endorsement-with-promises-of-economic-aid-to-hungary/

"Sunday’s vote may well be one of the most important elections in the history of postcommunist Europe. It will test the longevity of a regime that has deviated from principles of democracy and the rule of law that were vindicated by the peaceful revolutions of 1989 and later secured by the European Union, which incorporated Hungary as part of its eastward expansion in 2004."

~ Isaac Stanley-Becker

#Hungary #Orbán #Trump #Vance #authoritarianism
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/viktor-orban-hungary-election-magyar/686732/?gift=ZIT7NMCmIj_IC4HqpIXYJuWv3tNn9DgOL6G3sGcscyo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

"The Islamabad talks between the United States and Iran are in serious trouble. According to the Financial Times, the negotiations have already reached a stalemate, talks have turned heated, and the central breaking point is control of the Strait of Hormuz. Iran walked in demanding full authority over the waterway. The U.S. floated joint control as a compromise. Iran said no."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #JDVance #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #Islamabad
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/saturday-afternoon-news-updates-the

Our elderly neighbor called #Trump a "dumb motherfucker" yesterday 😆

It was quite the sight!