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Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Federal agents detain wife of another US army member: ‘ICE is out of control’
Jose Serrano, a sergeant, said Deisy Rivera Ortega, his wife, was arrested at an immigration appointment…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/20/ice-detain-wife-army-member
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer out amid misconduct investigation : NPR
In January, the New York Post first reported that the Labor Department's inspector general was looking into complaints that Chavez-DeRemer was having an affair with a subordinate, drinking alcohol on the job and using taxpayer-funded travel to visit with friends and family members...
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/20/nx-s1-5739251/labor-secretary-trump-chavez-deremer
The “Messy” Plaintiffs Behind So Many Anti-Abortion Lawsuits – Mother Jones
According to an investigation by the San Francisco Chronicle, at the same time that Mitchell was promoting his client as a symbol of aggrieved fathers-to-be, the Galveston man was evading a felony arrest warrant for allegedly beating up the girlfriend whose abortions he claimed to mourn. In October 2024—a few months before filing his lawsuit—Rodriguez had a violent altercation with his girlfriend at a motel. He allegedly grabbed the woman’s neck as if he was trying to “crush” it, the article detailed, to the point where she “believed she was going to die.” She told police the attack was the eighth time in five months that Rodriguez assaulted her. He then proceeded to slam her to the floor, climb on top of her, and punch and slap her until she finally broke free and escaped, the Chronicle said…
Supreme Court takes up another clash between religious and LGBTQ+ rights - POLITICO
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Colorado can exclude Catholic preschools from the state’s universal pre-K program because they won’t agree to accept children with same-sex parents...
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/20/supreme-court-catholic-schools-religion-colorado-00880551
Palantir Wants to Bring Back the Draft – Mother Jones
The book frames Silicon Valley’s move into military technology as the righteous repayment of a “moral debt” owed to the country that built the tech billionaire class. “The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.”
If you read past the post and dig into the book itself, you’ll find that this sentence continues: “the engineering elite must also, Karp said, participate in “the articulation of a national project—what is this country, what are our values, and for what do we stand.” That is to say: Men like Karp should decide what this country is…
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/palantir-wants-to-bring-back-the-draft/
Escape route from Iran energy shock leads to China, U.S. allies find - POLITICO
But there’s also an obvious catch: The faster they move to decarbonize, the more they will have to rely on China to supply the necessary materials. After all, Beijing controls the overwhelming majority of the world’s clean technology and critical mineral supply.
Governments, uneasy about the idea of swapping one dependence for another, are keenly aware of that fact. The question now is whether they’ll put those reservations aside in favor of bolstering their energy security or continue taking measures to protect their economies from China’s dominance…
Historians sue DOJ over presidential records opinion : NPR
"This latest case is just another example of the utter contempt with which they hold not just history but the rights of their fellow citizens to hold them to account," he said, about the current administration...
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/20/g-s1-117887/trump-justice-department-presidential-records-lawsuit
Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?
On 23 March, traders placed $580m in bets on the oil futures market just 15 minutes before Trump said on social media that the US was having “productive” talks with Iran, according to the Financial Times. The traders made a windfall after Trump’s comments triggered a sell-off in the oil markets that made oil prices plummet.
The same thing happened again on 7 April, this time when traders spent $950m on oil futures, betting that the price of oil would fall just hours before the ceasefire with Iran was announced.
“We can’t say from the outset whether any of these trades were illegal. Any one of them could be lucky, and any one of them could be based on lawful information,” said Andrew Verstein, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. “But many of them bear the hallmarks of suspicious trades that would naturally warrant investigation.”…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/18/iran-war-bets-ethics-concerns
LIVE DEBATE [God is Imaginary] 1-16-2026 (Justin, DZ Debates live on YouTube)
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