🔥🇺🇦The 11th Separate Army Aviation Brigade "Kherson" demonstrated how the crew of a Yak-52 light aircraft destroys Russian Shahed/Geran drones.

Grijalva to RFK Jr: "You apparently once cut the penis off a roadkill raccoon"

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

Days after the president blasted the Pope as “weak on Crime,” his own DOJ moved to dismiss criminal cases against individuals convicted of conspiring to use force to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. Some of the conduct for which Rhodes was convicted: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/oath...

This story is horrific. Worth noting that Target is not the only retailer using AI for theft prevention. It’s an entire industry. And if you’re looking for alternatives that are safer to shop at in this regard, you’re very likely out of luck. Small, non-corporate businesses probably your best bet.

This is a favorite strawman of the Religious Right, asserting that the exact phrase "separation of church and state" isn't in the Constitution. They ignore that there are only three references to religion in the entire Constitution, all three of which work to separate church and state.

he's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare

Whew! Hillary Clinton this morning on the US-Iran talks that fell apart: “This is hard, disciplined effort that has to go into diplomacy to reach any results. And I don’t see this administration either wanting to do it or, frankly, being capable of doing it…”

This dude was kicked out of the E Street Band in 1973. nypost.com/2026/04/12/u...

“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.” ~Thurgood Marshall, 1989. Image: Getty Images.

I have three degrees that address human-shark interactions, invented the field of human-shark studies, and run the largest social science lab on human-shark studies in the world. This is animal harassment.

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Gotta say - this article asks questions abolut The Pitt's treatment of Black and brown female characters I have been wondering about myself. https://loom.ly/BiYaf_c

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country. Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

There’s a reason people read the classics.

Not specifying which civilization has big Monkey's Paw energy

Somehow I don’t think this is going to help save journalism or democracy or even be noticed by those threatening the same

Do horses want cake? We conducted an investigation into statements published by @bencollins.bsky.social in the print edition of @theonion.com.

The problem with a lot of Christianity, not all but a lot, is that it's obsessed with partying over the metaphysics of Jesus's birth & death but glosses over or ignores all the lessons of what he said & did between those two events. He was alive before he was "risen".

The fuckin' strait was fuckin' open before he fuckin' started to bomb Iran.

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

BREAKING: Donald Trump meets privately with Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth to assure them their jobs are secure, amidst swirling rumors that they may be the next cabinet members to be fired. #KashPatel #PeteHegseth

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

Crime in the United States has dropped immensely in the last 35 years

This is not a normal statement or appearance by an FCC chairman. This is a would-be authoritarian lackey bragging about creating a Thought Police. Don’t be okay with this.

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

NASA might have been the coolest organization on planet earth — a real life/larger than life organization that the smartest people in the world respected, kids dreamed their whole life of working for, & even Hollywood couldn’t make larger than it already was. So of course Trump ruined it in a year.

I used to work for NOAA. Which is basically NASA but for the oceans and atmosphere. Same exact thing. They have left nothing but wreckage. And every single damn person who voted for that monster is culpable. We all knew who he was.

The other main goal hasn't changed: distracting attention from the Epstein files

The Treasury secretary offers a note of understanding about Trump’s delight about the death of a legal opponent.

There wasn’t a single Democratic elected official who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death. Not one. Donald Trump is openly celebrating Robert Mueller’s death and no Republicans are condemning him. Both sides are not the same.

Mullin is so clearly unqualified to run DHS that any senator who votes to put this man in charge of any federal agency, let alone DHS, is announcing their own disqualification for office.

From Dolores Huerta: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for… I can no longer stay silent…” Full statement: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Not only does Cuba routinely get struck by hurricanes but they are leagues better at preparing for hurricanes than anyone else in the region, a tendency that would undoubtedly become worse with the US, and especially Trump's FEMA, in charge

Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...

Pete Hegseth has a chance here to prove how manly macho masculine he is *and* to force the damned news media to give some great coverage.

Security officers at Temple Israel had "engaged with the suspect" after a vehicle rammed into the building, according to Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard. n.pr/413acg2

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

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He’s not playing chess literally. He’s not playing chess figuratively. He’s not playing chess on any level of abstraction whatsoever. I doubt he can play chess.

It's just impossible to keep up with the stupidity of our government

sad but in no way surprising

This of course is not illegal. No rules against it. The only thing that prevents news orgs from doing this all the time is self-imposed and rigorously enforced standards of accuracy. So support, read and pay for journalism that does that.