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April 4, 2026

I am seeing a lot of comments on Bluesky that the Trump/Walter Reed rumor started with the one of the KrASSenstein bros.

I Love Too go on the Nazi propaganda website to learn if our pedophile President is dead by checking the betting sites and Edward Krassenstein (our nation’s most trusted News Source)

Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social) 2026-04-04T18:46:10.238Z

it has come to my attention that this rumor is of krassenstein origin

I apologize if I caused anyone to experience a fleeting moment or joy, hope, or the even-more elusive joyful hope

TV's Adam, getting some buzzards involved, (@tvsadam.bsky.social) 2026-04-04T21:51:33.825Z
April 4, 2026

XTC - Dear God

April 3, 2026

"... the dismissal was tied to refusal to comply with Hegseth's directive to remove the 2 black and 2 female officers..."

April Come Pete Will
‪@peterlucier.bsky.social‬

Greg Jaffe Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt on the byline with a source on background saying the dismissal was tied to refusal to comply with Hegseth’s directive to remove the 2 black and 2 female officers from the promotion list to one star general




The tension with Mr. Hegseth was not rooted in substantive differences over the direction of the Army, military officials said. Rather it is the product of Mr. Hegseth’s long-running grievances with the Army, battles over personnel and his troubled relationship with Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, the officials said.

Over the last year, General George and Mr. Driscoll had formed a tight partnership, officials said.

Mr. Hegseth has also clashed in recent months with General George and Mr. Driscoll over the defense secretary’s decision to block the promotion of four Army officers to be one-star generals.

Two of the officers targeted by Mr. Hegseth are Black and two are women on a promotion list that consisted of 29 other officers, most of whom are white men. Mr. Hegseth’s highly unusual decision to remove the officers prompted some senior military officials to question whether they were being singled out because of their race or gender, officials said.

Mr. Hegseth had been pressing Mr. Driscoll and General George for months to remove the officers from the promotion list. But Mr. Driscoll and General George refused, citing the officers’ long records of exemplary service.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/us/politics/hegseth-fires-general-randy-george.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YFA.r1Ll.aNgj-BU71dpT&smid=nytcore-ios-share


April 2, 2026

Jen Shah Details Ghislaine Maxwell's 'Concerning' Special Prison Treatment: 'Everybody Witnessed It' (Exclusive)

Jen Shah is opening up about her experience in prison with Ghislaine Maxwell and her perception on how Jeffrey Epstein's associate is being treated behind bars.

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City alum, 52, met the 64-year-old convicted sex trafficker while serving time in a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas.

Speaking exclusively to PEOPLE during an interview for this week's issue, Shah says that Maxwell "was treated very well" and was "afforded things [in prison] that nobody else was afforded, like private workout sessions, special meals, bottled water."

"Everybody witnessed it, and I know that firsthand because I worked in [recreation] so I would have to clean things up," the Bravo star says. "I was also asked for certain equipment because she was going to go work out late at night."

https://people.com/ghislaine-maxwells-concerning-prison-treatment-detailed-by-jen-shah-exclusive-11938173


Real Housewives star Jen Shah details her time in prison with Ghislaine Maxwell:

"When the victims would be on TV and talking, Ghislaine showed just complete disregard for them. And this is when they are pouring their hearts out in front of Congress and for the files to be released.”

Rachel Bitecofer (@rachelbitecofer.bsky.social) 2026-04-02T21:46:06.478Z
April 2, 2026

Trump: Davy Crockett, obviously a distant relative of Jasmine Crockett, and a very High IQ Frontiersman, would be...

What did I just read???

Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman.bsky.social) 2026-04-02T17:52:36.403Z

Yes, it is real (there is a video, but I didn’t watch it) …

Edited to add:

so, for my sins, i went to the original post to see if there was some kind of context in the video that i might have been missing, but, no, it’s this picture of fess parker over the davy crockett theme song for two minutes and change. i’ve got nothing, the president has oatmeal brains.

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) 2026-04-02T18:01:51.984Z

April 2, 2026

BREAKING: President Trump confirms that the United States has bombed the B1 bridge in Karaj. This is civilian...

BREAKING

President Trump confirms that the United States has bombed the B1 bridge in Karaj.

This is civilian infrastructure, a major transportation artery.

Where are the MIGA people now?

How’s your Amoo Lindsey doing?

BREAKING

President Trump confirms that the United States has bombed the B1 bridge in Karaj.

This is civilian infrastructure, a major transportation artery.

Where are the MIGA people now?

How’s your Amoo Lindsey doing?

Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yasharali.bsky.social) 2026-04-02T16:46:16.563Z
April 2, 2026

Trump Has Discussed Firing Attorney General Pam Bondi (Update: Fox News reports that Pam Bondi has already been fired)

President Trump has discussed firing Attorney General Pam Bondi in recent days as he grows frustrated with her leadership at the Justice Department and her handling of the Epstein files, according to four people familiar with the conversations.

Mr. Trump has floated the idea of replacing Ms. Bondi with Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the people said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations by the president.

Mr. Trump has not made a final decision, and Ms. Bondi’s allies pointed to photos of her and the president traveling to the Supreme Court on Wednesday to dispute the notion that the president is planning to fire her.

“Attorney General Pam Bondi is a wonderful person and she is doing a good job,” Mr. Trump said in a statement to The New York Times. A spokesman for Ms. Bondi referred to Mr. Trump’s statement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/us/politics/trump-pam-bondi-future.html


Fox News reports that Pam Bondi has already been fired

Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) 2026-04-02T16:58:36.106Z

FOX CONFIRMS PAM BONDI OUT AS AG

TODD BLANCHE TO BE INTERIM AG

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2026-04-02T17:01:50.149Z
April 1, 2026

Exclusive: Trump's DOJ says he's not required to turn over official records

Source: Axios

President Trump's Justice Department has concluded that a federal law requiring presidential records to be turned over to the government is unconstitutional, a senior White House official tells Axios.

Why it matters: The finding is an indication Trump will be reluctant to give all of his official records to the National Archives at the end of his term, as presidents have done for nearly a half-century under the Presidential Records Act of 1978.

The law, passed in the post-Watergate era as a hedge against government corruption, states that every official record regarding a president's decisions or policies belongs to the U.S. government, not the president.

Trump has shown that he disagrees with the law.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2026/04/01/trump-doj-presidential-records-act-national-archives



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April 1, 2026

I'm at the Supreme Court this morning, and we're expecting President Trump to attend oral arguments over his attempts to

I'm at the Supreme Court this morning, and we're expecting President Trump to attend oral arguments over his attempts to unilaterally re-interpret the 14th Amendment.

Several nearby streets are closed. Secret Service agents & some guys in military olive drab & sidearms are roaming the hallways.

I'm at the Supreme Court this morning, and we're expecting President Trump to attend oral arguments over his attempts to unilaterally re-interpret the 14th Amendment.

Several nearby streets are closed. Secret Service agents & some guys in military olive drab & sidearms are roaming the hallways.

Jose Pagliery (@josepagliery.bsky.social) 2026-04-01T12:08:52.729Z
April 1, 2026

'Haters gonna hate': A top FEMA official defends his claim that he was teleported

The top official in charge of the federal government’s disaster response has taken to social media to double down on his claim that he’s experienced “teleportation” – an experience he insists was real and connected to his religious beliefs – while also saying his remarks have been taken out of context.

“Haters gonna hate,” Gregg Phillips, a senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, wrote in one comment defending himself earlier this month.

“I know what I’ve experienced,” he wrote in another post, in what appeared to be a poem where he refers to people ridiculing what they don’t understand and to Jesus Christ rising from the dead.

CNN previously reported that Phillips, who serves as associate administrator for the Office of Response and Recovery at FEMA, described in a podcast last year multiple episodes in which he said he was suddenly teleported miles away — including once to a Waffle House roughly 50 miles from where he had been.

CNN also reported Phillips had a history of violent rhetoric towards public officials. He said in a podcast last year that he’d like to punch “that b*tch” in the mouth, referring to former President Joe Biden who had just left office, before adding, “He deserves to die.” In another podcast, Phillips said that migrants were coming to kill Americans while warning people to be armed.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/politics/fema-official-gregg-phillips-defends-teleportation-claim

FEMA was once described as a “turkey farm”: a place to store incompetent political cronies despite the importance of its work.

Now it’s a place to store lunatics, whack jobs, who will put “teleportation” on the list of evacuation options.

Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) 2026-04-01T12:22:28.246Z

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