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![Pro-government demonstrators wave Iranian flags during a gathering in Tehran, Iran [File: Vahid Salemi/AP]](https://kewus.net/yesterday/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP26101706124095-1776005561.webp "Pro-government demonstrators wave Iranian flags during a gathering in Tehran, Iran [File: Vahid Salemi/AP]")
Priyanka Shankar and Abid Hussain @ Al Jazeera: Trump calls Iran’s leadership ‘fractured’. Is it, and who’s in charge?
Almost 53 days into war, there is little evidence suggesting that Iranian government is fragmented.
George Grylls @ Times of London: Is Mojtaba Khamenei really leading Iran?
The badly wounded supreme leader gives orders by sealed messages to avoid revealing his location and has delegated negotiations to senior commanders
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 23, 2026
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Today the Pentagon cracked down on the independence of Stars and Stripes, the newspaper charged with providing “independent news and information to the U.S. military community.” Stars and Stripes operates out of the Department of Defense. In order to make sure the paper protects freedom of the press and remains independent of the Pentagon rather than becoming a propaganda outlet, Congress provided for it to be overseen by an ombudsman who regularly reports to Congress. Today the current ombudsman, Jacqueline Smith, reported that she has been fired.
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Sam Biddle @ Intercept: These Middle Eastern News Sites Are Actually U.S. Government Propaganda Operations
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Hanna Duggal @ Al Jazeera: What is uranium enrichment and how quickly could Iran build a nuclear bomb?
Al Jazeera spoke with MIT professor Ted Postol about what Iran could do with its 440kg of 60 percent enriched uranium.
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Liz Dye: Trump DOJ will avenge the KKK by taking out SPLC
Joyce Vance: What’s Wrong With The SPLC Indictment
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Apoorva Mandavilli @ NY Times: C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines
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Ken Klippenstein: U.S. Spies on the Vatican
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Judd Legum: A tiny California tribe just donated $2 million to MAGA Inc. Here’s why.
A case study on how everything has a price in Trump’s Washington.
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Borowitz: Pete Hegseth’s Zero Tolerance for Competence
Paul Krugman: Cultifying the U.S. Military
Pete Hegseth’s plan to corrupt our armed forces
…Gratuitously exposing service members to disease isn’t a small issue. But it’s much more important as a symptom of the ongoing effort to corrupt the military and make it a servant of extremist politics and politicians.
MUSICAL CODA
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James Eagle: Why tech layoffs are still spreading in 2026
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Chris Freeland @ Internet Archive: Introducing Vanishing Culture: A New Book on the Loss of Our Digital Memory
(Chris Freeland @ Internet Archive more…)Kate Knibbs @ Wired: The Internet’s Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
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Christina Pagel: Last 2 weeks under the radar in US: attacks on press freedom, corruption & nationalism
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Howard Dean @ Salon: America isn’t prepared for what comes after the measles crisis
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Decoding Fox News: Fox News Humiliates Itself for the Glorious Leader
A condensed overview of 15 hours of Fox News for the week ending 4/19/26
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker
ICE Accountability Project
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
- April 16: Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt
- March 25: Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano
- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam
April 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide - January 24: Alex Pretti
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz
- January 9: Parady La
- January 7: Renée Good
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter
Suffering Under President Obama
NACDL Criminal Case Tracker
Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks’ journey to Washington
Walk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas
Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive
Accountability Initiative ICE List
GriftMatrix
Trump Action Tracker
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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