Breaking news: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Trump.

love to base my analysis on the existence of an imaginary trump administration capable of finding a face saving negotiated outcome

New from me: All 40 of Trump's judicial nominees who have taken Qs from the Senate Judiciary Committee have refused to say Trump lost the 2020 election. Now his high-level executive nominees are dodging the Q, too. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

In nine hours the national press corps will raise their glasses to the most racist person in the country and claim it’s a “work dinner” for “source building”

Honestly, the weirdest thing about this story is that it involves Donald Trump actually paying his contractors.

incroyable

The 85-year-old widow “was chained by her wrists and ankles to other inmates and loaded onto buses and a plane ‘like a potato sack.’ After two weeks in detention in Alabama and Louisiana, she said, she feared she might die.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

Where we stand with Warsh/Powell/Pirro as of Saturday morning: - A committee vote for Warsh is now scheduled for Wednesday. - We don't know if Tillis will vote yes. He hasn't said anything since Pirro said she was dropping the case. He will be on Meet the Press Sunday. - Fed hasn't said anything.

Guess no meeting, will wait for further confirmation… Iranian Foreign Minister, Araghchi, is leaving Islamabad after his talks with Pakistani officials.- Al-Mayadeen

BUT HER ... oh never mind

A whopping 14 paragraphs into this piece: "Trump Jr., meanwhile, is an investor in Polymarket and a strategic adviser to Kalshi, its top competitor. A representative for Trump Jr. last month said he was not involved in any discussions the government might have with the companies."

If the Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act, Mississippi Republicans could gerrymander to gain a congressional seat, secure legislative supermajorities, and make every state Supreme Court district heavily white and Republican. A new congressional map might have to wait until 2028, though

Meal portions served to sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln according to Newsweek.

The frenzy shows no signs of slowing: More than 60 empty crude supertankers were steaming toward the Gulf Coast as of Wednesday, roughly triple prewar levels and a sign that U.S. exports will only rise further in the months ahead.-WSJ

Jesse Peltan: "Electric vehicles are an extremely powerful tool for reducing oil demand. This is so obvious when you use the same units. There is a ton of chemical energy in the oil we burn to move cars, but you only need a small fraction in electrical energy for EVs to do the same job."

Russia-Linked Vessels Avoiding Swedish Waters After Boardings Oil tankers transporting Russian crude are steering clear of Swedish waters after the country began boarding vessels at sea to check their papers, Bloomberg reports⤵️

Vessel-tracking data showed traffic through the Strait of Hormuz fell after Iran seized two ships on Wednesday, tightening its grip on the key waterway, Reuters reported. Fewer vessels moved through the strait in the past day than usual, according to Reuters data, as security risks rose.-Iran Intl

Speaking in Athens, French President Emmanuel Macron stated that Europe has found itself in a unique situation where Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and Xi Jinping are simultaneously confronting it: “We should not underestimate that this is a unique moment⤵️

The Iranians are not making any major concessions so likely nothing will change if these negotiations even occur. Will have to wait and see how Trump spins it.

I really think people don’t appreciate how much gas-fired generation is at risk from pure economics in the next few years. Probably a third to a half of the world’s LNG trade is feeding power stations which are already, or on the brink of, being permanently undercut by solar+batteries.

Can hear the sound of the brain draining.

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

This is the final result we were waiting for from the April 7 elections in Alaska. The result means the right failed to flip any seat in the Anchorage local government as they’d hoped to, and liberals will continue to hold their strong majority.

We murdered two more people in a boat today.

In the UK, solar farms are becoming bird havens.

Savvy what-now? www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

[crying] our president’s commitment to the troops not eating is beautiful

BREAKING: Florida judge questions whether she has jurisdiction to hear Trump's case against the IRS, orders briefing on the question by May 20 and arguments to follow May 27. Judge Kathleen Williams: "[I]t is unclear to this Court whether the Parties are sufficiently adverse to each other ...."

Bessent rules out extending U.S. waivers for Iranian and Russian oil - AP News

"At least pardon him because everyone else is getting pardoned." Pretty much the slogan for this current administration. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/wil...

There are literally more surveillance cameras in Atlanta (124.14 per 1000 people) than people aged 65 and over (123 per 1000 people) according to the 2024 U.S. Census population estimates

Breaking News: Gov. Janet Mills of Maine vetoed legislation that would have blocked new data centers in the state until November 2027. It would have been the first state moratorium on data centers as the A.I. industry booms.

Elon Musk has used SpaceX as a kind of piggy bank over the last two decades, turning to the company as a financial tool to get loans and bolster his struggling companies, according to an examination by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/t...

This is the Avignon Papacy guy.

Elon Musk announced on yesterday's earnings call that, despite years of promises, Tesla's "Hardware 3" will never be able to achieve autonomous driving. Every Tesla built from 2019-23 will never be able to do the most important thing they were sold to do. So, naturally, TSLA stock went up.

Only 12,000 people worldwide have applied for the FIFA Pass to get an expedited U.S. visa interview for the World Cup U.S. government’s early data shows no clear WC travel spike Travel to the U.S. has already been trending downward, with international visitation declining by roughly 5.5% last year

Good news: “After years of growth fueled by the war, Russia’s economy contracted by 1.8 percent in the first two months of the year, compared with the same period in 2025.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/w...

Judge Ho also reiterates his belief that the "invasion" of migrants gives Trump the power to suspend birthright citizenship for migrants' children. (Before his SCOTUS campaign, Ho staunchly defended universal birthright citizenship.) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Continuing his campaign for SCOTUS, Judge James Ho claims that other countries have "weaponized" mass migration against the U.S., citing a Breitbart conspiracy theorist for the proposition that Mexico is pushing migrants into the U.S. to reclaim old territory. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

I have now seen the fake photo on IG and FB with the caption “this should be on the front page of every newspaper” and I gotta say - was the real one not good enough somehow? You coulda made the same argument with the real one, not the snapshot of AI slop.

They are really doubling down, remains to be seen who is telling the truth…. Sources close to Iran's Supreme National Security Council: No negotiations with the United States.-Fars News Agency

What a shock, the illegal tariffs turned into a gigantic wealth transfer from ordinary people to companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/u...

Elon Musk has also disrupted, by which I mean brutally ended, the lives of over a million poor children and adults globally by means of destroying USAID, but who gives a fuck, right?

The bank robber said "I won't do it again if you let me keep the money"

Trump: " ... the horrible & ridiculous Supreme Court decision on Tariffs ... All they had to do was one little half sentence, 'that the US does not have to pay back monies already paid' — & our Country would be 159 Billion Dollars richer ... Couldn’t they have done that for our Nation?"

Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.

If anyone should have known not to appease the Nazi, it was the ADL. Greenblatt deserves this.

A man who says he was born in Colorado was deported recently after being pulled over in Texas, after which immigration officers denied his offers to show them proof of citizenship he says he had at home.

i didn't realize how literally she was pulling wires without understanding them. manually typing shit into the prompter lmao