If you've been reading independent journalism—which holds that Trump went to war with Iran in mid-2025 and that there have been no ceasefires in the war since then, everything happening now makes sense.

If you've been reading corporate media headlines... you're confused as f*ck. This is only the tip of the iceberg.

Not only do corporate media readers have no idea that this is a year-long war with lulls but *no ceasefires or deals*—just Trump lies intended to manipulate markets so he and his pals can profit—but they don't know how bad America is losing.

Hey, anyone have any possible theories as to why racist Trump voters would be willing to believe Bill Cosby is a serial rapist but not Trump, when the two have faced a nearly identical number of allegations to that effect? Any idea of what would motivate racist Trump voters here? I keep banging my head against a wall on this, as voters who support the convicted felon Trump are super anti-crime and super respect women, so they wouldn't ignore dozens of violent crime allegations just because of race or political preferences.

So what's really going on here?

Nearly all net-positive interstate migration in the US is to the worst states in the country, make it make sense

What we *should* be doing is acknowledging that nearly every red state is a failed state and unpacking why that is and emulating what the blue/purple states are doing And before anyone references cost of living, look, I get it—I too have lived through some extremely economically precarious years—but that doesn't change the fact that if you're moving to a wildly affordable state the chances that it is *also* a wildly shitty state are very high.

This is only the beginning.

He has no plans to leave office or allow free elections. Nor are his plans hidden—they're all unfolding in plain sight.

The Insurrection never ended and the Christofascists won't stop until our democracy is gone.

Choose who you'll be in this moment. If I had told you a year ago that Marjorie Taylor Greene wouldn't be radical enough for MAGA, nor Lauren Boebert, nor Thomas Massie, nor John Cornyn, nor the senator-doctor who made Kennedy Jr. DHHS chief... if I told you he would be openly stealing our money to fund terrorism...

The BARE MINIMUM you do to a criminal defense lawyer who signs a non-prosecution agreement with HIS OWN CLIENT is disbar him.

But that is insufficient for Todd Blanche, who took an OFFICIAL ACTION as acting AG as part of a BRIBE to hold his job permanently.

He must be indicted. It gets worse. This breaking news confirms Blanche knew Trump had no case against the IRS when he gave his client $1.8B in taxpayer cash and promised never to prosecute him. Blanche will now become permanent AG. This is a criminal bribe—a TEXTBOOK example. thedailybeast.com/trumps-18b-slu…

Dusty turds like this get follows off the ignorance of their readers. Bush v. Gore *infamously* seized both federal *and* state issues from the Florida Supreme Court—in the former case instituting a one-off 14th Am. reading it immediately abandoned—and I bet this troll knows it. By a 5-4 vote, conservatives stole the 2000 election by ending counting—a decision properly for the Florida Supreme Court on the basis of a state "safe harbor" provision. A study later showed Gore would've won had counting gone on.

SCOTUS knew it. I know it. This troll knows it.

(🚨) We’re mere *hours* from a constitutional crisis of historic proportions—and many Americans don’t seem to realize it.

Why? Because nearly no corporate media outlet will properly report on it. So please consider sharing this new report widely.

🔗: sethabramson.substack.com/p/trumps-secon… I want to mention a couple of items that lay outside this already sprawling report.

First, that this war about to become illegal under U.S. law—and long illegal under international law—is in the midst of causing a global economic collapse, energy crisis, food crisis, and more.

(🚨) OK, the time has come.

Everyone needs to read the 2020 bestseller Proof of Corruption, in which the man pictured below is a key antagonist trying to steal the 2020 election for Trump.

Don't care about the money here, just borrow it from the library. nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/… As a journalist I've spilled more words on crooked Trump lawyer Joe diGenova and his lawyer partner Victoria Toensing than any author writing in English. For years I told U.S. media to watch these two, as their specialty is Roger Stone-style election ratfuckery.

Now here we are.

NOTE: If Kash Patel indeed brings manufactured criminal cases over the 2020 election this week—something he knows a lot about, as he sought fake evidence from Kremlin agents to steal the 2020 election for Trump—it’s *not about 2020*.

It’s about rigging elections *going forward*. As detailed in PROOF OF COUP (2023), the 2020-born Waldron Plot—which Patel was aware of—held that an obscure DHS reg lets Trump seize voting machines and take control of elections if evidence of foreign tampering is found.

Patel is expert at faking such evidence. So stay tuned.

I keep saying, as a Trump biographer, that this man holds deeply deranged beliefs—on almost every subject—he cannot be talked out of by experts, to the point that it can accurately be said that he lives in his own warped reality. 25th this man immediately. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a… Consider the implications here.

Biden knew that finding a cure for cancer was such a difficult task that it needs a whole-of-government initiative. He started one.

Trump secretly believes he knows the cure for cancer but everyone around him has to hide it because it's *insane*.

As to the Swalwell report:

1. The truth should be worked out via legal process.
2. Dems can't have anyone facing such allegations as a candidate.
3. MAGAs wouldn't care about this; that's immaterial.
4. Politics is informing how some folks are responding; that's also immaterial. That is, it's possible to think in terms of three distinct spheres—legal, political, moral—at once. Legally, there's nothing to say till all this is resolved in court. Politically, we know that, true or false, allegations affect who's viable. Morally, MAGAs are hypocritical scum.

The torrent of lies coming from Karoline Leavitt right now is breathtaking 1 Iran has two navies; only one—the far smaller one—was destroyed
2 Half of Iran's launchers are intact
3 Iran held back its small air force—it wasn't destroyed
4 There's been no impact on Iran's nuclear capabilities
5 Only .3% of Iran's army was neutralized
6 The Strait is closed

We're in Week 5 of Trump's 2-week non-war. If we give the non-war war 2-3 more weeks it'll wrap up "weeks" ahead of schedule. Trump destroyed 100% of the 1/3rd of Iran's Navy that's non-IRGC and 0.5% of Iran's Army—i.e. all of it. Its nuke program exists *and* doesn't. Questions? Tonight Trump explained that Iran was an imminent threat to destroy Israel because it never came close to doing so in 47 years. He explained that this non-war war is technically his third non-war war with Iran, as he won the first one in early 2020 by not fighting it. Questions?

(1 of 2) This is inaccurate—and the truth is worse. She was already detained, and when Trump's pal heard that he contacted the White House to demanded she be deported so he'd get custody of their child. The White House complied.

I don't know what to call that, but it's criminal.

https://twitter.com/HQNewsNow/status/2035030863491035549

(2 of 2) But wait, it gets worse! The Trump pal demanding Trump execute a government action for his benefit has evidence on Trump's past sex crimes—which means that this situation reeks of both Bribery and Extortion.

The former is impeachable *and* criminal, the latter criminal.

It looks like we have to go over this YET AGAIN for all the corporate media journalists in the back: Markwayne Mullin was selected by Trump—as are ALL Trump peons—on the basis of him having no scruples and being willing to do as he's told.

EVERYTHING he's saying today is a lie. America has gone through this dance too many times to go through it again. Stephen Miller and others craft narratives for nominees to deliver to Congress if they think those nominations are uncertain. The narratives have nothing to do with what the nominees are tasked with doing.

I do think to myself, sometimes, as an agnostic, that if there weren't only a God but a highly engaged and attentive God as evangelicals believe, that God would have in some celestial way far beyond our understanding struck down this piece of shit harder than any human in history

https://twitter.com/Mollyploofkins/status/2033311942094246210

There's a level of hypocrisy only humans notice, then there's a level of hypocrisy so galactically astounding I think the absence of celestial retribution in the face of it may be the strongest argument yet that God doesn't exist

I remain unsure, but this tries my doubt *sorely*

(🧵) BREAKING NEWS THREAD: Those who've been reading PROOF OF DEVILRY—the largest exposé of the Trump-Epstein Scandal—are cheering today. Congressional questioning confirms my reporting that one way Epstein helped interfere in the 2016 election was illegal campaign contributions. 1/ As PROOF OF DEVILRY reported, these payments were part of an effort—involving everyone from Michael Cohen to MBS (of Saudi Arabia) and Marc Kasowitz to David Pecker of the National Enquirer—to pay off Trump women. mediaite.com/media/news/bom…

There's no reason for Iran to attack NATO nation Turkey—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it.

There's no reason for Iran to attack a UK base in Cyprus—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it.

Now Azerbaijan has been attacked. Iran denies involvement.

I think this is Israel. I say this for a reason. Right after the illegal invasion, US media reported that America and Israel had reverse-engineered the Shahed drone and had essentially identical copies of it. Evidence suggests these suspicious strikes are coming from Lebanon—where the IDF is positioned.

You'll see a lot of bad analysis claiming Trump's third illegal attack on Iran is merely an attempt to distract from scandals at home.

PROOF will shortly publish a book-length report establishing that the current war with Iran is not disconnected from the Trump-Epstein Scandal. Fully unpacking this will take the coming PROOF report, but as a preview I will say that planning for the current war—and a switch to focusing on destroying Iranian ballistic missiles and ending its government—began at the same time Trump and Kushner set their plan to *own* Gaza.

Trump is withholding tens of millions in disaster relief because he had Noem institute a reg at DHS that says she must approve major expenditures. And right now all she's approving is massive weapons purchases and a fuck plane for her and Corey. Where do YOU think this is headed? When I say we're witnessing evil, I'm comfortable writing that as a journalist. Trump and his minions are letting U.S. citizens die so they can stockpile weapons in preparation for martial law while buying themselves toys to facilitate their adulteries.

What would YOU call that?

This isn't a teaser—it's just an acknowledgment that the next PROOF report is taking a while and there's a good reason. The Epstein Scandal isn't primarily a sex scandal. You don't understand how powerful and well-connected this man was.

This is a global scandal and it is scary. I was in the Epstein-killed-himself camp. I am no longer. Moreover, I feel like—as a former federal criminal investigator—I have a good sense of who had him killed. They are still in power. People must prepare themselves for a sea change in how we think about the Epstein Scandal.