At 8:03 this morning, Easter Sunday, President Donald J. Trump’s social media account posted: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F*ckin’ Strait, you crazy b*stards, or you’ll be living in Hell—JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”

There are many things that could be going on with this ultimatum, which actually doesn’t sound like Trump’s usual style, in the same way the post of yesterday morning didn’t.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, addresses an audience on the campus of the University of Chapel Hill during a campaign rally on September 19, 2019 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Photo: Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)

Hoosier children are less likely to get an annual checkup each year than children in other states, a new report commissioned by the Indiana Business Health Collaborative found. (Getty Images)

Hoosiers are less likely to undergo routine cancer screenings or take their children to an annual checkup than residents of other states, according to a new report commissioned by the Indiana Business Health Collaborative.

Over the past few weeks, Democratic establishment figures and the Israel lobby have come together to denounce mega-streamer Hasan Piker and to demand that left-wing Democrats shun his extremely popular platform. Their charge is that he’s an antisemite. The reality, of course, is that Piker is not an antisemite.

Legal expert David Cole speaks about the “blatantly illegal” U.S.-Israeli war on Iran: “The U.N. Charter absolutely prohibits one country from aggressively attacking another country, using force against another country, unless that country has attacked us — and Iran had not attacked us.”

In Gaza, a Palestinian man died from his injuries Thursday after Israeli soldiers shot him in the outskirts of Khan Younis. The killing came after two Palestinians were killed and several others were wounded in an Israeli airstrike targeting a gathering of people in Khan Younis. A relative said the strike killed a father and a toddler.

More than $100 billion has flowed from consumers and businesses around the world to fossil fuel companies during the first month of the US-Israeli war on Iran, according to new analysis highlighting the economic consequences of energy price spikes tied to the conflict.

President Donald Trump wants his “SAVE America Act” (officially the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act) to become law so badly that he is demanding Senate Republicans eliminate the filibuster in order to pass it. Enough Republicans are resisting that the issue has become a drawn-out battle within the GOP, grinding work in Congress to a halt and garnering much media attention.

The bill, which passed the House in early February:

The ascendance of Christian nationalism inside of the second Trump administration has meant a lot of work for Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU). The 70-year-old organization has rarely been so challenged on both the legal and policy fronts. The AU is currently involved in lawsuits and political organizing on issues including abortion, LGBTQ rights, the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, and more.

If we are not marching against genocide, war, economic blockades, a trillion-dollar military budget, an escalation of nuclear weapons, we are not sincere.

A line of semi trucks waits to pick up cargo at the Port of Long Beach, April 10, 2025 | Corine Solberg/Sipa USA via AP Images

Trump strips commercial driver’s licenses from 200,000 legal immigrants who bring your goods to market.

Like working on a farm, driving a truck is far from the most rewarding occupation, which is why both industries are chronically understaffed and need immigrants to fill their ranks.

Dear Senator Todd Young,

Yesterday morning, standing in the Oval Office, Donald Trump declared that the war with Iran — a war he started without a declaration of Congress, apparently at the urging of MBS and his son-in-law who takes $25 million a year from Saudi Arabia — is “won,” and then added that “the only one that likes to keep it going is the fake news.”

The US government’s decades-long economic blockade against Cuba is in many ways not a complicated issue. The policy of restricting trade with the country’s Communist government was put into full force under the Kennedy administration, with the explicit goal of causing enough economic hardship, hunger and desperation to spur regime change.

A man wearing the logo of the Hezbollah-linked Islamic Health Organisation stands in the remains of a health centre in Bourj Qalaway, following an Israeli attack. Photo by Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images.

BEIRUT, LEBANON—In early October 2025, Lebanese paramedic Haj Qassem Sultan stood outside Marjayoun Government Hospital in southern Lebanon and addressed Lebanese TV.

This time, the danger isn’t financial engineering. It’s that our financial system has attached itself to the vulnerabilities of our physical world — power grids, water, land, supply chains — and created hazards that markets have no framework to analyze. Our models for detecting risk look at prices, volatility and correlations. They have no instruments for reading a grid failure, a drought or a severed supply chain. By the time warning signs show up in market data, the damage will already have been done.