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Will the World Hold Trump Accountable for Iran’s Massacre?
The Iranian Red Crescent Society announced Saturday that it’s submitted evidence of US-Israeli war crimes to the International Criminal Court. The ICC prosecutor accepted the documents as official evidence, and cases are now moving forward under the Geneva Conventions. The Red Crescent estimates American and Israeli airstrikes have destroyed more than 132,000 civilian structures across Iran. Hospitals. Apartment buildings. Universities. Bridges. The illegal assault began February 28th, and on day one the US bombed an elementary school in southern Iran. Over 150 students and teachers killed. Strikes on hospitals full of newborns. Trump keeps threatening to destroy every bridge and power plant in Iran. When the most powerful nation on Earth bombs schoolchildren and walks free without consequence, the entire post-war order built on the rule of law starts to crumble.
Did Trump Just Use a Shooting to Sell His Corrupt Ballroom?
Saturday night a gunman stormed the lobby outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and knives. Trump was evacuated. And what did the president do next? He went straight to a press conference and used the moment to push his 400 million dollar White House ballroom project. We need the ballroom, he said. That ballroom is drowning in conflicts of interest. Public Citizen reports 16 of the 24 known corporate donors hold federal contracts. Lockheed alone has pulled in 191 billion dollars from Washington over the last five years. Fourteen of the donors face federal enforcement actions, many already paused by the Trump administration. Pay-to-play has a brand new address, and it’s right there on the South Lawn.
Have Trump’s Own Voters Turned on Him?
A new Strength In Numbers and Verasight poll just landed, and it’s absolutely brutal. 55 percent of American adults say the House should impeach Donald Trump. Only 37 percent oppose it. That puts him in Nixon-at-Watergate territory. But here’s the real punch in the gut for the White House. 21 percent of the people who voted for Trump in 2024 now want him impeached. One out of every five. Among Republicans, the same number. Independents back impeachment 50 to 28. And more than 85 House members have already endorsed impeachment or invoking the 25th Amendment. The wheels are coming off. When one in five of your own voters wants you out of office, you’re not facing a political headwind. You’re facing a political hurricane.
Will Trump Turn Your Mail Carrier Into an Election Cop?
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield is leading 24 other states in court to permanently block Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting. The order signed March 31st tells federal agencies to compile lists of eligible voters and weaponize the US Postal Service to enforce them. Trump wants letter carriers deciding which ballots get delivered and which ones don’t. Rayfield says the Postal Service was never built to be an election gatekeeper, and the federal government has no constitutional power to make it one. The Constitution gives election authority to the states. Period. Oregon has voted by mail since 1998 with rock-solid security. This is voter suppression dressed up as integrity, and if it stands the next election will be policed by a man who lost the last one he didn’t fix.
Is Paramount Buying CNN One Steak Dinner at a Time?
Paramount Skydance executives hosted Trump at a private dinner Thursday night in Washington at the US Institute of Peace. They’re awaiting federal approval for a 111 billion dollar deal to swallow Warner Brothers Discovery, which would hand them CNN. Sitting with Trump that night? Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the man whose Justice Department antitrust division will decide whether the deal goes through. Also at the table were Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, FCC Chair Brendan Carr, and CBS News chief Bari Weiss. Senator Chris Murphy called it what it looks like. Information oligarchs cozying up directly to power. When the regulator dines with the regulated weeks before approving the biggest media merger in history, that’s not a dinner. That’s a bribe with a wine list.
Trump Decapitates American Science Overnight
In a Friday email signed on behalf of the president, every member of the National Science Board got the boot. All 24 of them. No warning. No explanation. Just a one-line notice their service was terminated, effective immediately. The Board oversees the 9 billion dollar National Science Foundation, the agency funding the basic research behind MRIs, cellphones, LASIK eye surgery, Antarctic stations, and far more. Trump has already proposed slashing NSF’s budget by 55 percent next year. Now he’s gutted the experts who’d have fought him on it. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren called it the latest stupid move from a president who keeps harming science and American innovation. China and Europe are racing ahead while America pulls the plug on its own scientific future. That’s not policy. That’s national surrender.
And that’s the way it is, Today Monday, April 27, 2026. I’m Thom Hartmann.
