Sorry, which side is supposed to be religious zealots here, someone remind me.

“Glory be to God?”— Trump sounds like a radical terrorist as he threatens more war crimes against Iran.

Kevin Kallaugher, Baltimore Sun

Michael de Adder, Counterpoint

Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution

Folks, we have lost power in a gale here today, so @jbf1755.bsky.social and I will have to reschedule What the Heck Just Happened? We’ll keep you posted. Sorry about that.

Will water be decisive in the Gulf war? Water may become as crucial a commodity as oil. The arid Arab countries of the Gulf increasingly rely on desalination, which provides 90% or more of the drinking-water supply for Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, and almost as much for Oman.

🔥An absolute world first - a pilot took down a Shahed using the STING interceptor from a distance of 500 km! Using Hornet Vision Ctrl technology, Roman “Hulk” from the BULAVA unit downed not one, but two Shaheds located 500 km away.

Yesterday on the pilgrimage to Chimayó

US searches for missing crew. Hegseth doesn't want to give any briefings. www.ft.com/content/ffed...

Jonny Gannon: What some foreign-policy theorists miss is that political culture cannot be redesigned from the air, and human nature cannot be remade from a conference room in Washington. The question now is whether we understand Iran well enough to influence its fracture without owning the collapse.

The massive wave of Iranian sponsored terrorism across Europe that many analysts predicted hasn't happened. But, Ashab al-Yamin, which uses Iran-linked Telegram channels, has taken responsibility for assaults on ambulances, a synagogue and banks www.ft.com/content/adc3...

This morning is looks like Trump is back in let's have a major land invasion mode. But then, his position changes on 18 hour cycles, and no actual strategy is ever apparent.

On CNN this morning, I said it plainly, things are not great in Iran. We have a downed U.S. fighter jet, a missing crew member, and a situation that isn’t matching what we’re being told. With Tuesday’s election days away, leadership matters more than ever. #GA14

The clueless NYT presents as a distant prospect something which is now well underway, with quotable numbers that NYT fails to research or quote.

Donald Trump Jr. is eyeing up the unfinished White House ballroom for his wedding, but may have to change his plans, an insider has claimed.

Mullah Trump declares holy war!

If you’re going to rage-tweet a war, at least learn the difference between “reign” and “rain.” 🤡

Large majority of Canadians support the Alto high-speed rail project

Russian internet: what is happening there and what it means - an opinion of Ukrainian expert Vadym Denysenko. At first glance, everything the Russian authorities are doing with the internet looks like chaos. And it is indeed classic managerial chaos. But it's too early to celebrate⤵️

The FY2027 budget requests $1.5 trillion for military spending and pays for it by gutting NOAA, FEMA grants, NIH, and fully eliminating programs that keep the lights on for struggling Americans.

#GoldenAge 🥇

The ultimatum that went mysteriously unmentioned in Trump’s prime time address makes a reappearance. But this time it is more vaguely worded. He’s not explicitly vowing to attack Iranian power facilities. Iran threatened to attack power and desalination plants in the Gulf if Trump did that.

A Border Guard Can Destroy Your Family. These Canadians Found Out The Hard Way #elbowsup #boycottusa #FuckTacoTrump #canadastrong #CanadaSky #never51state #canadaunited #political youtu.be/kN9KximtVlU

Kentucky Bourbon Workers Voted For This. Now They're Getting Fired. #elbowsup #boycottusa #FuckTacoTrump #canadastrong #CanadaSky #never51state #canadaunited #political youtu.be/NIIqOZ87dh0

I've seen too much of this lately, and it makes me sad. I like this place, and I hate seeing good people driven away. What is the point of attacking people here? If you don't like what they say, then mute them.

“It’s like a viewpoint discrimination festival,” Mr. Boutrous said... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/b...

Trump will eventually learn he can't lie his way out of this war, and he won't know what to do, because that's how he always deals with everything.

Not really looking forward to listening to Pamela Jo shriek insults at committee members to avoid having to answer or lie under oath.

March 9: “The war is very complete.” April 3: “We are at war.” 🤡

Russia made no territorial gains in March, the first time its progress has stalled entirely in 2+ years. The reasons: Ukraine's counteroffensives, loss of access to Starlink’s satellite internet data, and Russia’s own ban on Telegram in favor of its own app. But Russia has an ace in its hand: Trump

GOP representatives do not have long to pass a funding bill for ICE, and doing so may prove impossible, according to party members.

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon suggested downed pilots were the price of fighting a war with Iran.

"Four Catholic faith leaders washed feet and offered Communion to 14 DHS detainees at the ICE facility in Broadview IL on Holy Thursday..." "Outside in rain and heavy winds, 50 Catholic faithful held a Holy Thursday liturgy, blessed the delegation and held their own Washing of the Feet ritual..."

I hope someone will ask him if he's planning to meet with the survivors. And they should demand every document with Trump's name on it be released unredacted, and any pictures and videos that include him.

Personally I find it alarming that the federal government and the military are being run by Christian Nationalist extremists who are trying to bring about Armageddon so Jesus can return and the chosen will ascend to Heaven. And they don't care how many have to die to bring this about.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was taken to a hospital last month after falling "ill" in a previously unreported incident, CNN reported on Friday.

Can’t keep casualties and number of troops killed a secret for long. We do not care how often Trump and Hegseth lie to the press.

"He [Todd Blanche] just said that the Epstein investigation basically is in the past, that he’s not going to address it moving forward, and that all the documents were released. I mean, that’s just a bold-faced lie. We know they've only released about 50% of the total documents." Rep. Robert Garcia

Trying to get news that might be bad out of the Pentagon is a lot like trying to get Epstein files from DOJ.

Trump-appointed toadies at DOJ have issued a finding that Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional and Trump therefore does not need to file it. No court was involved; just Trump's own lawyers telling him what he wans to hear. What does that mean? (1/2)

The White House called a lid. The press pool didn’t see Trump today, and he hasn’t spoken to them since Tuesday.

Trump announces by executive order that he’s taking over college athletics.

To dismiss the possibility that Pete Hegseth has contemplated/is planning a possible coup d'état (if say, Vance invoked the 25th Amendment, or if Trump had a stroke, etc.) is naive AF.