The two-week temporary ceasefire has done little to quell GOP fears about the war in Iran costing the party seats in November.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has threatened to withdraw Customs and Border Protection officers from airports in sanctuary cities that limit cooperation with federal immigration agents. The move would effectively halt international travel, tourism and commerce though major airports in Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, San Francisco and elsewhere.

Source: ButaJape

Proponents of renewable power will control the Phoenix area utility’s policymaking for the first time after they won an unusually contentious race that drew attention from national groups.

from The Forward [Jewish publication from USA] April 7, 2026

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has insisted he is not going anywhere, despite a series of reported clashes with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his being tipped as the latter’s potential successor.

Eligible men will automatically be registered into the military draft pool by December as part of an effort to streamline the previous process of self-registration and save money.

Please only vote if you have contributed to PieFed in some capacity (e.g. coding, translation, reporting bugs, discussing bugs) or might in the near future!

Pepper&Carrot by David Revoy.

…DHS has issued memos claiming (without facts or law in evidence) that officers can arrest people and enter homes without signed judicial warrants. This has always been false. And it’s not edging any closer to the truth no matter what this administration might say in Truth Social posts and/or court filings…

Nancy by Caroline Cash for April 8, 2026 | GoComics

From US news | The Guardian via this RSS feed

The Department of Justice said Wednesday that Pam Bondi will not appear for her upcoming deposition in the House Oversight Committee’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation given that she is no longer serving as the US attorney general.

Putinists sticking together

A Tiff & Eve guest strip by me (she’s not on Lemmy, so I’m posting here on her behalf).

The Addams Family began not as a family, but as single nameless characters in Charles Addams’ single panel comics in the New Yorker.

Rhymes with Orange Comic Strip 2026-04-08 | Comics Kingdom

Chad Bianco of Riverside county obtained warrants to seize ballots cast for state’s successful redistricting referendum

Democratic-backed candidate Chris Taylor won election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, growing the liberal majority on the court as cases affecting congressional redistricting, union rights and other hot button issues await in the perennial battleground state.

Source and Secret Panel

Chris Hallbeck On Mastadon On BlueSky

There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then needing to type “truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump” into your web browser to see if he actually said that. Once there, you can see a post in which Trump did indeed threaten to wipe out the entire civilization of Iran, stacked on top of an ad for a sketchy herbal supplement of some sort:

Not going to get my hopes up, but at least they got written up and put on paper.

In which the boys return to the devilishly tricky P of E.

A Study in Revelation 13

Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has amended the charter of a federal vaccine advisory panel to seemingly grant himself more power to hand-pick members and loosen membership requirements, according to a notice published today in the Federal Register.

Last month, Trump said Orbán had his “complete and total support” in a video message to the Hungarian Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest.

Archive article: https://archive.is/cJhjU

True Seeing is a sixth-level spell for a reason… some things should remain unseen. Kayra’s potions are so strong, her True Sight can see through the fourth wall. (At least, that’s my interpretation of what’s happening here.) Not a bad hook for a campaign.

Dracula. The vampire comes from Transylvania in Romania, Van Helsing comes from the Netherlands, and the story takes place in England. :D

Most of the 15 bills being considered are part of a coordinated effort by groups linked to right-wing activist Leonard Leo.

A group of 36 lawmakers says the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has created “disappearances” on US soil, due to the “increasingly unreliable” online system used to track people detained by immigration authorities, according to a letter shared with the Guardian.

Tyson Cole : https://pleated-jeans.com/2025/10/06/funny-one-panel-comics-tyson-cole/

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Source: @mrlovenstein on Bluesky