Hasana Sharp

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

This is excellent. I listened to it on your podcast and found it quite unflinching. All too rare right now.

Notice how troops were sent to LA for political theater, but none were sent to Texas to help find the missing people who were swept away in the flood?

So dangerous.

Question: if Republicans don’t believe the cuts to Medicaid and other benefits are problematic, why did they delay the worst of them until after the midterms?

The U.S. government is trying to hoodwink vulnerable seniors into voting red in 2026 before the pain hits in 2027.

Over 7M seniors rely on Medicaid. Nearly 2M live in nursing homes where Medicaid pays the bills. Republicans just slashed nearly $1 trillion from it.

My mom just got this email…

You didn't need a video of a happy armadillo playing in a sprinkler, but here you go #bluesky ... ☺️

according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return

The law in its infinite wisdom bans trans and cis people alike from being trans

Oklahoma Will Require Schools to Teach Disproven Conspiracy Theory That Democrats Stole 2020 Election from Trump Oklahoma schools will now be required to teach high school students about the disproven conspiracy theory that Democrats stole the 2020 president election from Donald Trump, according to new standards...

This is batshit crazy👇

To revise Oklahoma’s curriculum, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters — a strong Trump supporter — sought help from other MAGA devotees like Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts and PragerU co-founder Dennis Prager.

Because of course they did.

The bill the Republicans passed this morning requires Medicaid recipients who are being actively treated for cancer to work 40 hours per week. If they can’t do that, they lose their health coverage.

I'm fuming about this, tbh

Y'all need to read this grabbed-at-his-own-naturalization-hearing story.
Local news, y'all.
Put your "Joe-Rogan-of-the-left" money into Local F'in News.

BREAKING: ICE deported a Burmese man who doesn’t speak English to South Sudan—a country he’s not from and on the brink of civil war. He refused to sign English-only papers.

They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.

Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago

None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya Details are murky and no final agreement has been reached, but the plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libyan leadership.

My god. What an abomination. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

“They’re trying to kidnap someone” On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.

"All I can hear are the screams—the deafening desperate screams, from a mother, from her daughter, from the woman holding the daughter’s baby." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s only a matter of time before one of these street assaults leads to a shoot out.

And I’m not sure that’s not the administration’s intent

Our trade deal so far is no tariffs on Rolls Royces and Bentleys and our refugee policy is white South Africans only.

This is some shit you hear right before a man with long white hair and an even longer sword starts slaughtering people

YouTube video by MSNBC 'Never seen anything like it in my life': New Jersey congressman reacts to Newark mayor arrest

Please watch THIS particular interview, shared by @prisonculture.bsky.social to get the play by play on what happened. Getting arrested for protesting is a king move, but that's not what happened here. This was a goddamned grab and sack.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUjf...

Trump says ‘highly unlikely’ U.S. ever uses military force to annex Canada U.S. President Donald Trump says it is 'highly unlikely' the United States would ever use military force to annex Canada, though he maintains he will continue to push to make Canada the 51st state.

We notice the near total lack of American leaders and media calling this out. That's a big factor in why we cannot trust the US again. No one can.

www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

Wow

Auchincloss on Fox News: "What I'm seeing is a president who is more interested in the valuation of his memecoin than he is about people's 401ks. What I'm seeing is a president who along with Howard Lutnick is self-dealing on crypto instead of worrying about the strength of the US dollar."

NEW: Columbia pro-Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi walked out of court today after a judge ordered his immediate release from ICE detention. His words to Trump: "I am not afraid of you."

w/ Liz Crampton

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Are you sure they’re not trolling us? Sadly, my 12 year old — who , admittedly, spend too much time on YouTube — knows who she is. She even put her in her project on the history of fashion as the representative of y2k.

"Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America. No more artificially drawn line from many years ago. Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE! America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!"

complete batshit insanity

New NIH grant rules override the Civil Rights Act of 1964, barring recipients from DEI activities The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is rolling out rules that block new grants for any researcher or institution ad | The National Institutes of Health is rolling out rules that block new grants f...

This feels existential for US science:

To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work

(e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.)

No institution could *ever* comply.