How tragic is this.

Israeli media is concerned that if Orban loses the election tomorrow in Hungary, the EU could finally pass Union-wide sanctions on illegal settlements, settlers, and companies involved in settlement construction.

Two of the three major credit bureaus have sharply reduced the share of complaints they resolved in customers’ favor. In 2024, Experian’s relief rate was 20%. Last year, that figure fell to less than 1%.

The á is interesting here. Suggests to me that this has been copied and pasted.

Here’s your man, @jaketapper.bsky.social, while you were fixated on Biden.

Not once in this story does @politico.com mention that US factories employ ~89,000 fewer employees than a year ago. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

I hope he took his buddy the police robot with him and they have wonderful adventures in albania together

In my new Substack post I talk about the history and pitfalls of the psychological approach to leader behavior. But also why we need it more than ever now. zeitzoff.substack.com/p/the-return...

Trump's son-in-law, his business buddy and JD Vance are going to negotiate an end to the U.S. bombing campaign against Iran. We need to talk about how fucked up this is. 🧵

The Malignant Mr. Measles

5/ Any future agreement between the United States and Iran that does not secure the strait would severely undermine what the campaign has achieved so far.

3/ The current ceasefire will not secure US interests by default, however, because the United States and its partners have yet to achieve the necessary conditions for a positive political outcome.

NEW | Special Report: Applying US Air Warfare Theory and Doctrine to Evaluate the Campaign Against Iran, Part I The US-Israeli combined air campaign against Iran should be evaluated based on whether it achieved its political objectives, which is the core purpose of any military operation. (1/7)

Please stop pretending these people care about Palestine, Lebanon, or the middle east in general Screenshot in case he decides to be a coward

Pope Leo “may not be Trump’s greatest opponent, as some of the president’s critics had hoped,” Francis X. Rocca argues. “But neither is he the quiet bystander that the president’s supporters might have wished him to be.”

Jeffries and Schumer are intent on calling a WPA vote, and that would have the effect of peeling off a few members in both house. But you need a larger narrative that GOP refusal to do its job enabled a catastrophic war.

I think the discussion over 25A and impeachment gets at a larger reality. You can argue both sides of either tactic, but the underlying problem is NO ONE is really holding the GOP accountable for letting Trump send his son-in-law on a diplomat's errand EVEN AFTER his incompetence led to war OR

One thing an even modestly skeptical journalist should assume when Vance is giving an account of his purported behind the scenes valiance is that he is lying. 11/

"They were all just stooges after all. None of them were kidding themselves; they were not going to object loudly, because that would require a modicum of courage. At least they could tell Maggie Haberman that they were the voice of reason in the room later on." 7/

But we should take the claims of the purportedly brilliant, insightful and sober advisors that they took pains to caution Trump with a large grain of salt. 5/

First Plato—now Dr. Peterson—out the door at Texas A&M! Who’s next? Here is Dr. Peterson’s letter of resignation, which he just shared with the faculty.

Kaja Kallas criticising Gulf countries, expecting help against Iran, but not helping Europe and Ukraine against Russia Thoughts?

This is really worth your time. His co-hosts wind up laughing at him.

I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad as.ft.com/r/db911dd6-f...

feckless

Not QTing to be mean but he’s also got a chance at being left holding the bag

Agree with this @gregsargent.bsky.social analysis. And fear that when congress is back we will hear attacks and mockery from GOP about how Democrats are undermining a wartime leader, or are weak (“what did they do to stop Iran?”). And the GOP stranglehold on the national security issue will remain.

You might say that Iran can no longer even think of making nukes. That would be an important outcome. But was Iran really going to build nukes? So for 100bn spent and all these bombs dropped, what have the Americans bought?

You know what doesn't get its support unceremoniously pulled by a tech company? Fuckin' books, brother

"Scaled back" isn't "stop", "helpful partner" isn't "yes", and anyone check to see if Bibi had his hand behind his back? 🤞 *TRUMP CALLED NETANYAHU ABOUT SCALING BACK STRIKES YESTERDAY:NBC *ISRAEL AGREED 'TO BE A HELPFUL PARTNER': NBC

high-profile adult Catholic convert forced to discover the idea of Chesterton's Fence the hard way from first principles; details at 11

The best short piece I've ever read about woke was by Michael Gerson of all ppl. He says "woke means believing there are structural forces keeping Black people and women down. Put me down as woke." Then "some woke goes too far but they're not rioting on Capitol Hill, unlike the right."

Our analysis of breach data suggests poor digital security within the administration, with officials using their government emails along with weak passwords to sign up to dating, music, sport and food websites. Passwords included variations of the word “Password” and “1234567”.

Hassett would tell you your mother had died with that shit-eating smirk on his face.

Wrote about how Hegseth’s effort to resegregate the upper ranks of the US military ties into the larger MAGA project to restore hierarchies of race and gender: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Brutal

"Iran may have lost every military battle, but the war appears to have ended on Tehran’s terms.” Nancy Youssef

Are the lying liars who lie all the time about everything lying now, when they have every incentive to lie? Sadly, it is impossible to know.

If this holds (a big if), the major accomplishment will be cutting our losses weeks in rather than years in.

Big in South Carolina's 1st Congressional District race: Republican Will Haynie, the Mayor of Mount Pleasant, SC's 4th biggest city, has crossed party lines to endorse Democrat Nancy Lacore. Vice Admiral Lacore was Chief of Navy Reserve until Pete Hegseth fired her, presumably for being a woman.

Congress should force every single federal employee who was present at this meeting to testify about it.

shocking that the team that brought us those many-pointed plans to solve ukraine have perhaps bungled the iran talks. literally impossible to have foreseen.

Morally, too

this was a bad idea from people that are unbelievably high off their own supply

You don't do this to the Catholic Church. Big mistake. Big. Huge.

With Hungarian elections on the horizon, EU leaders are finally recognizing that this is not simple veto politics, but a sustained strategy of undermining—and instrumentalizing—European integration in ways that benefit both Putin and Trump. Long overdue.

Jews were not given "the mandate" in 1917. This doesn't mean anything. It's literally just historical falsehood.