Maybe part of what Iran objects to is the reuse of the Steve and Jared show, whose ignorance led to the latest round of attacks.

The original argument was that some people who showed up on J6 didn’t really know what they were doing, so shouldn’t be punished harshly. But these guys - a jury found that they absolutely knew what they wanted to do, which was overthrow the Constitution. Yet he pardons them.

Kharg Island: the key to victory. The Greeks knew it, the Carthaginians knew it, and now YOU know it.

The country that gains the most from Trump's war of choice on Iran never fired a shot. Chinese renewables are more in demand, rare earths even more so. The war was the stress test Beijing's energy strategy was designed for. China sees how the US military works under stress + its vulnerabilities.

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“IRGC Commander Major General Ahmad Vahid” … this is a name to become familiar with.

Is he bragging about a spike in terrorist attack plots?

IT’S THE SAME FUCKING MAXIMALIST SHIT. These aren’t negotiations, they’re demand sessions. And Trump continues warcrimes threats. “US officials to travel to Pakistan for talks as Trump warns US will ‘knock out’ every power plant if Iran doesn’t accept deal” www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

It's popular to say Elon's rockets blow up, and god knows I'm critical of Musk and have doubts about Starship Reality: their Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft have been enormously reliable, at highly competitive cost, and abile to adjust schedules and payloads very quickly

There are a lot of reasons why Trump is failing over and over again with Iran. Here are 5 of the most important. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

From last night: Minnesota Still Cleaning Up after Pam Bondi's Trophy Stunt emptywheel.net/2026/04/18/m...

Just in time to pump the markets again

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

Have been wondering when candidates would start talking about this. One of the biggest corruption scandals is U.S. history playing out in real time.

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

centers of #corrutrumption

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

What’s interesting here is they say “culture” when they mean “people” but they think that this maintains a veneer of deniability about what they’re really saying. In any case it’s true that the “culture” of the tech billionaires is morally and intellectually depraved rot bsky.app/profile/elio...

6 days after Trump made 13 celebratory posts in a hour claiming that Iran surrendered to all his demands and the war is over, he’s back threatening to blow up power plants and bridges.

NEW: Much of MAGA is now convinced that the Trump assassination attempt in Butler, PA was staged www.wired.com/story/maga-i...

Remember when Trump called for the execution of lawmakers who urged the military to refuse illegal orders? Trump did that because he wants free rein to commit war crimes.

this is very much not a new phenomenon, nor does it have much of anything to do with 'modern dating'

I spoke to the Sindo about the unprecedented scale of disinformation we witnessed during the fuel protests & the disinformation economy. It's not enough to get this content removed post-hoc; we need to hold the platforms accountable for promoting disinformation & hate speech. archive.ph/AOVHC

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Maybe Kash thinks FBI stands for Federal Bureau of Intoxication

To understand why the USA is where it is today, all you need to do is see that Trump cannot tolerate even the mildest, insightful criticism from the Pope, but Trump will allow Putin to humiliate him deeply and constantly, while still craving Putin’s approval.

Gotta give credit where credit is due. Donald Trump is doing an absolutely terrific job appearing unstable. No one can do it better.

Todd Blanche Puts Dmitry Firtash's Onetime Lawyer In Charge of Criminalizing the Russian Investigation emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...

Breaking down Hungary's lesson for democracy repair with the great @normeisen.bsky.social --

Whatever happens with the ceasefire, it's worth remembering that even if the war ends, the damage remains. The broader economic consequences are large, and persistent, and affect all of us.

#leadership v. #corrutrumption

I wrote a whole book about AI but I agree with this completely — and also the implication that there are countless other areas of research more important than AI.

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This award-winning 1967 Czech doco about Ireland is almost impossible to find so I stuck it on the you tube. Some astonishing, indelible images, an Eastern European vision of the western edge of Europe that makes it seem utterly haunted & mysterious. youtu.be/Pkl5ALvWzho?...

groundwater #corrutrumption

But none of this is true according to Prince William County Director of Elections Eric Olsen, who told Democracy Docket that the RNC is “trying to invent a headline to further a political agenda” and “to fabricate a nonexistent problem.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

He can't help it if he's lucky

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

April 18, 2026

Just sent out my free weekend update. This week the big story was that Germany bet on Ukraine, not as a supplicant but as a defense partner. The USA, otoh, bluffed and then, as it always does, protected Putin. Shame on you who fell for it. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

(we are not on the brink of a total internet collapse)

I'm pretty tuned into Democratic politics and I have never in my life heard anyone ever use the phrase "justice involved population." But thank you for now vouching for the existence of that phrase and letting Fox News do a thousand pieces about it.

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

Dave Matthews Band You've never hidden who you are. You get your jeans at Costco, your polos at Old Navy, and your hackey-sacks from a guy who used to deal. When a friend talks over Ants Marching to joke about "that shitstorm in Chicago" you respond in-depth about the ICE abuses & local resistance