In Trump tantrum of the hour news…

#Trump Threatens to Fire Powell if He Does Not Resign From #Fed

Although #JeromePowell’s term as the #FederalReserve chair officially ends on May 15, he can stay on as a governor until 2028 & said he would not leave until a criminal investigation was over.

#law #economy #independence #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #USpol
nytimes.com/2026/04/15/busines…

After Trump’s latest broadside, Pope says ‘world needs to hear’ message of peace

#PopeLeo said Wednesday that his visit to Africa offers a message of #unity & #peace “the world needs to hear” as he continues to face criticisms for his stance on the #war in #Iran from #Trump & the #JDVance.

#IranWar #TrumpsWar #MafiaState #WarMonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast
cnn.com/2026/04/15/europe/pope…

I shared something about this yesterday and basically took it as a policy marketing ploy. But no, that woman was a stooge. No reason for me to know that esp as a non-american. But I still think she looks like she despises him.

#trump #fakenews #uspol

"A group of four psychiatrists warned congressional leaders on Monday that US President Donald #Trump has recently exhibited 'every behavioral sign of a personality in acute crisis,' presenting a 'constitutional emergency' that demands immediate action from lawmakers and members of the administration."

commondreams.org/news/psychiat…

#25thAmendment #ImpeachTrump

‘A Constitutional Emergency’: Psychiatric Experts Say Congress Must Confront Mentally Unstable Trump

“We recognize the gravity of what we are asking. We ask it because the gravity of the situation demands it."

^{jake-johnson (Common Dreams)}

Whoa! This political loop hole could make the electoral college legally irrelevant!

👉🏾 Virginia ups the National Popular Vote Compact to 222 votes npr.org/2026/04/14/nx-s1-57425…

More US states need to join to reach 270, but if successful, then whoever wins the national popular vote wins the election!

Since #Democrats win the popular vote far more often than the #GOP, it would probably result in #America 🇺🇸 never electing a #Trump like candidate (or at least make it significantly harder to do so).

"Worse than Hitler" used to be an comical over-exaggeration but it's 2026 and here we are....

#Trump #StephenColbert #Hitler #PopeLeo

"Acting AG Todd Blanche went on Fox this morning to reaffirm that the DOJ is completely done with Epstein. No more documents, no more releases, nothing. Everything has been turned over, he says. That’s a lie. Millions of documents are still out there. The cover-up remains in full swing."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Epstein #Trump #ToddBlanche #DOJ #coverup
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meidasplus.com/p/tuesday-after…

Tuesday Afternoon News Updates: The "Blockade" That Never Was — 4/14/26

Chinese tankers, Iranian memes, soaring inflation, and more. Here's your afternoon recap.

^{Ben Meiselas (Meidas+)}

Um … Hell No. Nope.

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

#DOJ moves to toss #SeditiousConspiracy #convictions of #OathKeepers & #ProudBoys

The DOJ on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys & Oath Keepers leaders who were sentenced to #prison terms for leading members of the #FarRight #extremist groups in attacking the US Capitol to keep #Trump in #power >5 years ago.

#law #Jan6 #Insurrection #PoliticalViolence
apnews.com/article/proud-boys-…

Appeals court orders judge to end contempt investigation of #Trump admin #deportation flights

A federal judge must end his “intrusive” contempt investigation of the Trump admin for failing to comply with an order over flights carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador last year, a divided appeals court panel ruled Tuesday.

#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #judiciary #JudgeShopping
apnews.com/article/trump-judge…

#Trump admin’s challenge of #Watergate-era records #law alarms historians

Scholars warn that the #DOJ declaration that the #PresidentialRecordsAct is #unconstitutional could impact other admins.

#accountability #transparency #corruption #CriminalState #MafiaState #kleptocracy
politico.com/news/2026/04/03/w…

Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data.

eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/goog…

#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #maga #ICE #google

Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data.

In 2025, Google gave Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

#Vance wading into spat between #Trump and the #Pope is only turning the heat up…

“It would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of what’s going on in the Catholic church and let the president of the United States stick to dictating American public policy”

- Trump is a dictator acting without checks or balances.

- launching an illegal war is not merely ‘public policy’

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a…

JD Vance defends Trump amid spat with Pope Leo: ‘Stick to matters of morality’

Catholic vice-president effectively tells Leo to stay in his lane after pope criticized the White House over the Iran war

^{Richard Luscombe (The Guardian)}

#War in the #MiddleEast has upended the #world #economy, the #IMF said Tues, warning in a report that disruptions to #oil markets could slow growth, fuel #inflation & raise the possibility of a global #recession.

The sober message came after the #GlobalEconomy had largely weathered a #pandemic, #Russia’s war in #Ukraine & soaring inflation without tipping into a recession. But #Trump’s decision to initiate a war in #Iran has stopped the world economy in its tracks.

#FDT
nytimes.com/2026/04/14/busines…

Greg Olear looks at all the documents with information about Trump that he has successfully kept from being released:

Melania's immigration papers

His SAT scores

His academic records

Transcripts of his "perfect call" with Zelensky in October 2019

The Apprentice tapes

Tax returns pre-2015 and post-2020

#Trump #transparency #accountability #coverup #disinformation #Epstein #Melania #MedicalHistory #Zelensky #Putin #PeePeeTapes #AssassinationAttempt #JackSmith
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gregolear.substack.com/p/undoc…

Undocumented: A Brief Survey of Documents Related to Donald Trump That Have Yet To Be Released

Troves of records, correspondence, deposition transcripts, NDAs, contracts, translator notes, intercepts, photographs & videos exist that would expose Trump for what he is. We still haven't seen them.

^{Greg Olear (PREVAIL by Greg Olear)}

What are we doing

Here is a panel of 7 people at #CNN who are guessing what #Trump maybe or maybe not meant with his Jesus image post..

When he sets off a nuke, are we gonna discuss if it's a firecracker or not?

youtube.com/watch?v=ij3uU17O5M…

Meanwhile on the #moon , #artemis left a payload according to #trump. Do you think it’ll succeed like other Trump #business ventures ? #trans #queer #lgbtqia #culture #peertube #mastodon #owncast

thistleandmoss.com
video.thistleandmoss.org

"Trump responded to Orbán’s defeat with a long screed attacking Pope Leo XIV. ...

Today is Orthodox Easter, and about 45 minutes after attacking the Pope, Trump posted an image of himself in the place of Jesus, apparently healing a sick man in a bed, surrounded by a soldier, a nurse, a woman praying, and an older man."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#PopeLeo #Trump #Orbán
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.…

April 12, 2026

By the end of 2024, inflation in the U.S., which had soared in the aftermath of the Covid-19 lockdowns, was almost back to the Federal Reserve’s goal of 2%.

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

#Trump vows to 'kill' Iranian warships that near #US #blockade of ports

Trump made the comment on social media just after the blockade of #Iran was expected to begin. Trump said Iran has some “fast attack ships” remaining even after much of its navy was destroyed by US strikes.

#MafiaState #TrumpsWar #IranWar #war #WarCrimes #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #economy #EnergyCrisis
apnews.com/live/iran-war-israe…

Out today: “The decision … is not going to result in any more oil production; it’s not going to result in lower gas prices. It will result in real harm and the potential extinction of one or more species in the Gulf.” texasobserver.org/trump-god-sq…

#environment #Politics #Trump #GulfCoast #news #energy #USpol #ClimateChange #water

How Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Could Devastate Endangered Species Along Texas’ Gulf Coast 

If left intact, the exemption for oil and gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico could forever harm vulnerable species and their habitats.

^{Justin Doud (The Texas Observer)}

It's been a bad day in court for the Paedo...

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a…

#TheGuardian #Trump #USLaw

Trump media company drops lawsuit against the Guardian

TMTG drops defamation claim over report that prosecutors were investigating payments received as possible money laundering

^{Richard Luscombe (The Guardian)}

As if they had the right to disallow it.

#Trump admin “agrees” to keep flying rainbow #Pride flag at New York’s #Stonewall monument

#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #LGBTQ #PrideFlag #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny
apnews.com/article/stonewall-r…

Cartoonist Rob Rogers was fired from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2018 for the cartoon below. While he seems to have done all right for himself, it's just one episode of many showing the rank cowardice of the media that contributed to this disaster.

#Trump #Epstein #Media

Trump Posts Himself as Christ After Bonkers Attack on Pope

"Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician. It’s hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it’s hurting the Catholic Church!”

~Donald Trump

thedailybeast.com/trump-79-pos…

#Trump #USPol #EUPol #megalomania #popeLeo .

#Trump🚨appears in a Christ-like role, healing a sick patient while surrounded by followers.

MAGA fury:⚡continues on TS *comments beneath Trump’s post raged at him for committing “literal #blasphemy.”

#Trump🚨posted the IMG online shortly after he ignited his feud with #PopeLeo with a long-winded tirade that attacked the pontiff as “weak.”

His latest post🚨has provoked a more wider reaction, uniting his supporters from: #Catholic & Protestant trads against him.
#USPol
mediaite.com/online/gross-blas…

‘Gross Blasphemy!’ MAGA Die-Hards Deliver Rare Rebuke of Trump for Posting ‘Unacceptable ...

The post drew a resounding and loud rebuke as religious MAGA supporters furiously condemned the depiction.

^{David Gilmour (Mediaite)}

"After Victor Orbán’s Fidesz party took power in 2010, Hungary became a role model for those who admired corruption, fascism, and loyalty to Vladimir Putin. Orbán’s regime brought widespread crony capitalism, captured Hungarian media outlets, and installed corrupt judges. He actively undermined solidarity within the European Union and worked to block aid to Ukraine. Sound familiar?"

~ Paul Krugman

#Orbán #Trump #Putin #JDVance #MAGA #Hungary
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paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the…

The Axis of Autocracy Loses a Wheel

Hungarians stand up for democracy

^{Paul Krugman}

#PopeLeo XIV said on Monday that he was not afraid of the #Trump admin, hours after Trump lashed out at the pontiff on social media.

Leo, speaking to reporters on a flight to Algeria ahead of a 10-day tour of several African nations, said: “I have no fear of the Trump administration, or speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do.”

#unfit #disgrace #embarrassment
nytimes.com/2026/04/13/us/poli…

#PopeLeo XIV is one of the world’s most powerful critics of the #US #war with #Iran. In recent days, he has condemned the worship of mortals & money, the pitfalls of arrogance, & the “absurd & inhuman violence” unleashed by fighting further destabilizing the #MiddleEast.

His many admonishments appear to have reached #Trump, who responded to those calls for #peace by scorching the first US-born pontiff on social media & then taking personal credit for Leo’s ascension to the papacy.

#idiocracy

“Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise,” #Trump moronically wrote in a lengthy social media post on Sunday night. “He wasn’t on any list to be Pope, and was only put there by the Church because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump. If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican.”

#idiocracy #unfit #disgrace #embarrassment

When he sent the post, #Trump was fresh off a weekend of attending a MMA fight in Miami & spending time with supporters at his golf club after negotiations with #Iran had failed. He criticized #PopeLeo as “weak on crime”—an insult he usually reserves for Democratic mayors—& “terrible for foreign policy.” …Trump also accused the pope of “catering to the radical left” & then offered a piece of advice, to “focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician.”

#idiocracy #unfit #disgrace #embarrassment

Shortly after criticizing #PopeLeo XIV in a lengthy social media post Sunday, #Trump shared an AI generated image depicting him as #Jesus.

The image, which was posted on Trump’s account on his social media platform shows Trump dressed in white & red robes. In the illustration, Trump’s hands emit shining lights, & his right hand is touching the forehead of a man lying on a bed, wearing a hospital gown. The image evokes religious art depicting Jesus healing the sick.

#idolatry #blasphemy #unfit

Just when you think he can’t go any lower…

#Trump Attacks #PopeLeo

Trump’s lengthy post on social media showed there were really no boundaries when it comes to people he might target, including the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.

#unfit #disgrace #embarrassment
nytimes.com/2026/04/12/us/poli…

#Trump fires entire San Francisco Presidio Board of Trustees, report says.

So he can privatize the Presidio and turn it into a hotel and golf resort.

#bayarea
abc7news.com/post/pres-donald-…
via ABC7 News App

Trump fires entire San Francisco Presidio Board of Trustees, report says

President Donald Trump has fired the entire San Francisco Presidio Board of Trustees, according to a new report.

^{ABC7 San Francisco}

#Oil #prices remain lower than their recent highs reached last week before #Trump called off his threat of mass devastation in #Iran & agreed to #ceasefire discussions.

But with a failure to reach a lasting ceasefire agreement & the clock ticking down to yet another deadline, oil prices are now trading higher than where they settled on April 1. That was just before Trump’s disastrous primetime address in which he failed to detail an exit strategy for the #war.

#idiocracy #economy #EnergyCrisis

#Oil #prices rise after #Trump threatens to block passage through #StraitOfHormuz

#BrentCrude, the international benchmark, was up 8%, at about $102. #US #crude was up 8% to $104.

Dow futures sank 1.04%, or 502 points. S&P 500 futures were down 1%, & Nasdaq futures declined 1.15%.

#idiocracy #kakistocracy #TrumpsWar #IranWar #Iran #war #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #NationalSecurity #inflation #economy #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
cnn.com/2026/04/12/business/oi…

Iran’s foreign minister claims #US intentionally tanked talks.

Writing on X, Abbas Araghchi said #Iran had negotiated with the US in “good faith” for an end to the #war.

“But when just inches away from “Islamabad MoU”, we encountered maximalism, shifting goalposts, & blockade,” he wrote, using an acronym for “memorandum of understanding.”

He added, “Good will begets good will. Enmity begets enmity.”

#idiocracy #kakistocracy #Trump #IranWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #NationalSecurity #economy