Strongly disagree. His reference to revolutionary action thru unity in diversity, the Magna Carta of 1215 (cgecks and balances), history of religious diversity w a bone to the right, and beating swords into plowshares, fascism, shared values, etc, are all extremely significant in the current moment

Chevron, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and Exxon will make almost $3,000 a second in 2026. While the biggest oil companies stand to gain a total of $94 billion, the Iran War has Americans paying over $4 a gallon, airlines upcharging to offset jet fuel costs, and farmers unable to afford fertilizer.

Scoop: When she started as editor in chief in October, Bari Weiss believed CBS News journalists were so biased against Israel that she quipped “they might as well be Hamas.” Much more in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un confirmed a policy that requires soldiers to commit suicide on the battlefield to avoid capture in Ukraine, praising those who opted for "self-blasting" as "heroes" bloom.bg/4eLhvRA 📷️: Korean Central News Agency/KNS/AFP via Getty

Some pretty crazy stuff that somehow didn’t make it on the air.

#Osint Intense naval military/rescue activity between #Denmark and #Norway. #SAR

🚨 Zelenskyy calls on Israel to reject the vessel carrying Ukrainian grain stolen by Russia, which has arrived in Haifa. "This is not – and cannot be – legitimate business. The Israeli authorities cannot be unaware of which ships are arriving at the country’s ports and what cargo they are carrying."

⚡️ The EU is considering sanctions against individuals linked to transporting Ukrainian grain allegedly stolen by Russia and shipped to Israel. united24media.com/latest-news/...

8 in 10 searches for sexual terms by simulated 13-year-old accounts on X resulted in explicit content, according to CCDH UK testing. And that's not all. After the searches were conducted, X began actively recommending pornography to the ‘teen’ accounts' For You feeds. X is failing our kids ⤵️

Moscow State University’s new supercomputer, controlled by Putin’s daughter, was built using smuggled Nvidia chips The MSU-270, worth $37.4 million, was assembled from Nvidia equipment purchased through a Chinese intermediary, T-invariant reports.

Exklusiv💥Der Fund einer Kamera am Bahnhof #Minden beschäftigt die Sicherheitsbehörden - und die #Bundeswehr. Sollten Militärtransporte für #Sabotage ausgespäht werden? Heute wurde bei einem Verdächtigen durchsucht: www.tagesschau.de/investigativ... Mit @manuelbewarder.bsky.social & Ellen Waldeyer

Trump is mired in an illegal war that's destabilizing the world while spiking inflation & immiserating Americans, a key part of the govt remains unfunded, & Rs who control Congress are fixated on...spending taxpayer $ for a vanity ballroom Trump vowed would be privately funded A complete clown show

ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.

BIG MOTHER JONES SCOOP: There are lots of unresolved health and environmental concerns with glyphosate (a.k.a. Roundup), yet the government keeps letting farmers, companies, and public agencies spray it all over—including, as we recently learned, in America’s forests.

A senior staff scientist at Google’s artificial intelligence laboratory DeepMind, Alexander Lerchner, argues in a new paper that no AI or other computational system will ever become conscious.

Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.

My latest. I hope you read and share. Despite the will of the voters, Republicans have turned to the courts to overturn the election and discard the results. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/in-v...

Well if this does end up happening, you heard it here first

OpenAI publishes a five-principle framework for AGI development, pledging to resist concentrating AI power and to collaborate with companies and governments (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Iranian media have published several images of US/Israeli cluster munition dispensers and submunitions reportedly deployed during the war.

HEINRICH: You referenced Ukraine. Have you spoken with President Putin at all recently? TRUMP: I have. We're trying to get something done. I settled eight wars. HEINRICH: What was the last conversation you had with Putin? TRUMP: I don't want to reveal that.

And yesterday there’s another suspiciously timed article just as the Met is on brink of signing a Palantir contract, a slew of headlines appear about how it a trial of the software resulted in the force ‘rooting out’ ‘rogue officers’. Nice publicity if you get it! 4/

NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

"The investigation will consider whether Google’s scraping of journalistic content to feature in the ‘News’ tab and to produce AI Overviews is an anti-competitive practice and whether outlets that decide to opt-out from being featured in the overviews are being penalized with less visibility."

The remnants of a bizarre long-lost world that fell apart before our planet was fully formed are falling to Earth in the form of meteorites, according to a new study in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. www.404media.co/the-destroye...

Every day, I am more convinced that we are going to need to just turn everything off and start again. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/b...

Peter Thiel’s antichrist talks, Anduril’s Christian defense of robot wars, and Andreessen-Horowitz’s claim that AI is pro-family: How tech oligarchs are giving AI a godly rebrand.

SOUTH CAROLINA— Just passed S.1095 out of committee. This bill is a total abortion ban that eliminates exceptions for rape, incest, fatal fetal anomalies & more. If you live in SC now is the time to contact you state senator & ask them to oppose this bill. It’s moving fast, so don’t wait!

Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known. U.S. bases and equipment across the Middle East came under attack — including from an Iranian F-5, despite American air defenses — and repairs could cost billions of dollars. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/i...

🔔 for those interested in women & the Maritime world

🔴 UPD: Three people were killed, and 21 others sustained injuries as a result of the Russian attack on Dnipro. The search and rescue operations are still ongoing.

One candidate is talking to police after being doxed on social media. Another says he’s being harassed. Residents caught in the middle report receiving death threats and hateful messages. What is going on in Champlin?

America’s nuclear scientists plan to break ground on an AI data center next week, but the Township where it’s being constructed just put a 365 day hold on providing it with water. www.404media.co/community-vo...

Retirement accounts could soon be gambling on prediction markets. Three firms have filed applications with the SEC to offer "event contracts" for retirement accounts, similar to prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi. Retirement savings could then be bet on future events.

A master class by Jerome Powell.

I’ve had time to study DOJ’s indictment of the SPLC now & it only gets more disturbing. A weak indictment, like the now-dismissed one against Comey & the one a grand jury declined to indict against members of Congress. I point out the likely ulterior motive: joycevance.substack.com/p/whats-wron...

Recently: - Anthropic has tightened access to Claude Code - Meta is laying off 10 percent of its workforce - GitHub is removing access to several more expensive AI models AI companies can’t endlessly subsidize their AI products by charging users less than it costs to actually run them.

Either this is just a squeaky toy for Trump to play with, which is never intended to be taken seriously by anyone else, or a worrying number of people in the administration *really* don't understand what NATO is or how it works.

"If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. It’s your job to get on Polymarket and pump the arbitrage opportunity."

Today's round-up on journalism worldwide features stories on a Lebanese journalist killed by Israeli forces, Hungarian journalism’s resilience and a memorial for journalists in the UK Click to read and share 👇🏼 buff.ly/DPmpIJV

Stars & Stripes ombudsman says she's been fired by the Pentagon. www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-...

US Army soldier at Fort Bragg was charged with using classified info about the Jan. 3 US raid that captured Maduro, Venezuela's president, to make wagers on Polymarket....a site where you bet on real-world events. The soldier profited $409,881. www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...

Trump confirms government could 'just buy' Spirit Airlines, then confuses Obama with Biden and Jet Blue with People Express www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Don't go! That's it! That's the whole thing!

This review is actually worse than I thought it could be. Which is an accomplishment of a sort.

In related news, 2 + 2 now equals 5.

Stephen Miller is behind the Trump administration’s push to reauthorize 702. They have already designated “Antifa” organizations as foreign terrorist groups. It’s likely Miller will use 702 to surveil, target, and suppress activists on the left.

Crypto billionaire Justin Sun sues Trump family’s World Liberty Financial ft.trib.al/A9uA1rZ