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<\/a><\/p>\nRobert Reich: Stephen Miller’s Strait of Hormuz<\/a><\/h2>\nHis crackdown on immigrants is assumed to be good for America as long as it causes immigrants more pain than it does us. Same “logic” as Trump is using in Iran.<\/em><\/p>\nTrump\u2019s chief bigot, Stephen Miller, said on Fox News that immigrants to the United States bring problems that extend through generations.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot only is the first generation unsuccessful,\u201d Miller claimed. \u201cYou see persistent issues in every subsequent generation. So you see consistent high rates of welfare use, consistent high rates of criminal activity, consistent failures to assimilate.\u201d
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 15, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\nOn the evening of April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln went to Ford\u2019s Theater in Washington, D.C., to see a production of the comedy Our American Cousin. …
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But while Americans mourned Lincoln, the new president, Andrew Johnson, restored the political power of Confederates. On May 28, he issued a blanket pardon for most former Confederates except certain leaders and wealthy southern planters. Those he said could apply to him directly for a presidential pardon, which he promised would be \u201cliberally extended.\u201d They were. By December 1865 he had pardoned all but about 1,500 former Confederate leaders.
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The idea that those embracing the iconography of the Confederacy were simply defending individual liberty against an overreaching government became an article of faith among the radical right, especially as the Republican Party complained that the taxes necessary to run a modern government that included everyone were promoting socialism.<\/p>\n
Former Army gunner Timothy McVeigh wrote to a newspaper in 1992, saying: \u201cTaxes are a joke. More taxes are always the answer to government mismanagement\u2026. Is a Civil War Imminent? Do we have to shed blood to reform the current system? I hope it doesn\u2019t come to that. But it might.\u201d. Three years later, McVeigh set off a bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people, including nineteen children younger than six, and wounding more than 800 others. When captured, he was wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Abraham Lincoln and the words \u201cSic Semper Tyrannis.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2009, Elmer Stewart Rhodes, a lawyer and former paratrooper who had been a staffer for Representative Ron Paul (R-TX), started a right-wing gang called the \u201cOath Keepers.\u201d Claiming to take their inspiration from the patriots who stood against the British regulars on Lexington Green in 1775, they pledged to stand against what they considered a tyrannical government.
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In November 2022 a federal jury convicted Rhodes of seditious conspiracy for using force and violence to try to stop the process of the democratic election of a president. Juries found at least a dozen other Oath Keepers guilty of seditious conspiracy or other serious crimes.<\/p>\n
As soon as he retook office in 2025, Trump issued a sweeping pardon …
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nRook Winchester: AIDING AND COMFORTING INSURRECTIONISTS<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Ren\u00e9e Feltz @ Truthout<\/em>: \u201cAlligator Alcatraz\u201d Guards Allegedly Beat Prisoners for Requesting Phone Access<\/a><\/h2>\nThe ACLU told a judge that guards were obstructing her March order to provide phone access in the jail.<\/em>
\n(Ren\u00e9e Feltz @ Truthout<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Liz Dye: Trump’s litigation extortion machine<\/a><\/h2>\nAnother day, another Trump trollsuit bites the dust.<\/p>\n
This time it was his $10 billion defamation claim against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch for an article<\/a> describing a \u201cbawdy\u201d drawing he penned \u2014 allegedly! \u2014 for Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s 50th birthday in 2003.
\n…<\/p>\nOn Monday, a federal judge in Miami finally dismissed<\/a> the case for failure to satisfy even the most basic requirements of federal pleading.<\/p>\n\u201cThe Complaint comes nowhere close to this standard,\u201d wrote Judge Darrin Gayles. \u201cQuite the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is not an isolated outcome. The world\u2019s most famous vexatious litigant regularly spams courts demanding an eleven-figure payout.<\/p>\n
(Liz Dye more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Fred Wellman: Farmers in Missouri are getting squeezed again.<\/a><\/h2>\nLast week, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins claimed that 80 percent of farmers had already locked in fertilizer prices and wouldn\u2019t be affected by rising costs tied to the war and supply disruptions. Farmers immediately pushed back. Many don\u2019t lock in fertilizer months in advance. Many can\u2019t afford to. Many are already operating on razor-thin margins and taking on debt just to plant the next crop.<\/p>\n
At the same time, another blow landed. China is actively reducing its reliance on U.S. soybeans by changing livestock feed and investing in domestic alternatives. That shift is already cutting demand and threatening long-term export markets for American farmers.
\n(Fred Wellman more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Shelby Holliday @ WSJ<\/em>: Commercial Ships Transit Strait of Hormuz as U.S. Blockades Iran\u2019s Ports<\/a><\/h2>\nBrad Lendon @ CNN<\/em>: Why are some ships going through the Strait of Hormuz during a blockade?<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Margherita Stancati, Benoit Faucon and Henna Moussavi @ WSJ: Iran\u2019s Regime Has Changed\u2014for the Worse<\/a><\/h2>\nThe U.S.-Israeli attack fast-tracked the ascent of hard-liners and apocalyptic religious followers, raising doubts about a lasting peace<\/em><\/p>\nDiana Falzone @ NewsNation<\/em>: IRGC controlling what citizens see as internet shutdown reaches Day 46<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Alex Colston @ zeteo<\/em>: Zeteo Joins the Gaza Flotilla as It Sets Sail to Break Israel\u2019s Blockade<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Molly Olmstead @ Slate<\/em>: It Turns Out, the President Can\u2019t Get Away With Insulting the Pope and Portraying Himself as Jesus<\/a><\/h2>\nAt least, he can\u2019t anymore.<\/em><\/p>\nJames Eagle: Trump\u2019s approval is sinking faster this time<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Decoding Fox News: Fox News: The War is Over! The War’s a Mess! This is Not 3-Dimensional Chess!<\/a><\/h2>\nA condensed overview of 15 hours of Fox News for the week ending 4\/12\/26<\/em><\/p>\n
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Trump\u2019s chief bigot, Stephen Miller, said on Fox News that immigrants to the United States bring problems that extend through generations.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot only is the first generation unsuccessful,\u201d Miller claimed. \u201cYou see persistent issues in every subsequent generation. So you see consistent high rates of welfare use, consistent high rates of criminal activity, consistent failures to assimilate.\u201d On the evening of April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln went to Ford\u2019s Theater in Washington, D.C., to see a production of the comedy Our American Cousin. … But while Americans mourned Lincoln, the new president, Andrew Johnson, restored the political power of Confederates. On May 28, he issued a blanket pardon for most former Confederates except certain leaders and wealthy southern planters. Those he said could apply to him directly for a presidential pardon, which he promised would be \u201cliberally extended.\u201d They were. By December 1865 he had pardoned all but about 1,500 former Confederate leaders. The idea that those embracing the iconography of the Confederacy were simply defending individual liberty against an overreaching government became an article of faith among the radical right, especially as the Republican Party complained that the taxes necessary to run a modern government that included everyone were promoting socialism.<\/p>\n Former Army gunner Timothy McVeigh wrote to a newspaper in 1992, saying: \u201cTaxes are a joke. More taxes are always the answer to government mismanagement\u2026. Is a Civil War Imminent? Do we have to shed blood to reform the current system? I hope it doesn\u2019t come to that. But it might.\u201d. Three years later, McVeigh set off a bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people, including nineteen children younger than six, and wounding more than 800 others. When captured, he was wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Abraham Lincoln and the words \u201cSic Semper Tyrannis.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2009, Elmer Stewart Rhodes, a lawyer and former paratrooper who had been a staffer for Representative Ron Paul (R-TX), started a right-wing gang called the \u201cOath Keepers.\u201d Claiming to take their inspiration from the patriots who stood against the British regulars on Lexington Green in 1775, they pledged to stand against what they considered a tyrannical government. In November 2022 a federal jury convicted Rhodes of seditious conspiracy for using force and violence to try to stop the process of the democratic election of a president. Juries found at least a dozen other Oath Keepers guilty of seditious conspiracy or other serious crimes.<\/p>\n As soon as he retook office in 2025, Trump issued a sweeping pardon … The ACLU told a judge that guards were obstructing her March order to provide phone access in the jail.<\/em> Another day, another Trump trollsuit bites the dust.<\/p>\n This time it was his $10 billion defamation claim against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch for an article<\/a> describing a \u201cbawdy\u201d drawing he penned \u2014 allegedly! \u2014 for Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s 50th birthday in 2003. On Monday, a federal judge in Miami finally dismissed<\/a> the case for failure to satisfy even the most basic requirements of federal pleading.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Complaint comes nowhere close to this standard,\u201d wrote Judge Darrin Gayles. \u201cQuite the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n This is not an isolated outcome. The world\u2019s most famous vexatious litigant regularly spams courts demanding an eleven-figure payout.<\/p>\n (Liz Dye more…)<\/a><\/p>\n Last week, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins claimed that 80 percent of farmers had already locked in fertilizer prices and wouldn\u2019t be affected by rising costs tied to the war and supply disruptions. Farmers immediately pushed back. Many don\u2019t lock in fertilizer months in advance. Many can\u2019t afford to. Many are already operating on razor-thin margins and taking on debt just to plant the next crop.<\/p>\n At the same time, another blow landed. China is actively reducing its reliance on U.S. soybeans by changing livestock feed and investing in domestic alternatives. That shift is already cutting demand and threatening long-term export markets for American farmers. The U.S.-Israeli attack fast-tracked the ascent of hard-liners and apocalyptic religious followers, raising doubts about a lasting peace<\/em><\/p>\n At least, he can\u2019t anymore.<\/em><\/p>\n A condensed overview of 15 hours of Fox News for the week ending 4\/12\/26<\/em><\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nHeather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 15, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nRook Winchester: AIDING AND COMFORTING INSURRECTIONISTS<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nRen\u00e9e Feltz @ Truthout<\/em>: \u201cAlligator Alcatraz\u201d Guards Allegedly Beat Prisoners for Requesting Phone Access<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Ren\u00e9e Feltz @ Truthout<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nLiz Dye: Trump’s litigation extortion machine<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n…<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nFred Wellman: Farmers in Missouri are getting squeezed again.<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Fred Wellman more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nShelby Holliday @ WSJ<\/em>: Commercial Ships Transit Strait of Hormuz as U.S. Blockades Iran\u2019s Ports<\/a><\/h2>\n
Brad Lendon @ CNN<\/em>: Why are some ships going through the Strait of Hormuz during a blockade?<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nMargherita Stancati, Benoit Faucon and Henna Moussavi @ WSJ: Iran\u2019s Regime Has Changed\u2014for the Worse<\/a><\/h2>\n
Diana Falzone @ NewsNation<\/em>: IRGC controlling what citizens see as internet shutdown reaches Day 46<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nAlex Colston @ zeteo<\/em>: Zeteo Joins the Gaza Flotilla as It Sets Sail to Break Israel\u2019s Blockade<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nMolly Olmstead @ Slate<\/em>: It Turns Out, the President Can\u2019t Get Away With Insulting the Pope and Portraying Himself as Jesus<\/a><\/h2>\n
James Eagle: Trump\u2019s approval is sinking faster this time<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nDecoding Fox News: Fox News: The War is Over! The War’s a Mess! This is Not 3-Dimensional Chess!<\/a><\/h2>\n
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