CDs are back. Dumb phones are cool. The anti-screen generation is growing up

Stephen Colbert isn’t backing down in an extraordinary public dispute with his bosses at CBS over what he can air on his late-night talk show.

Canada is now the first non-European country to be granted a membership in SAFE. This is a gamechanger program that means Canada can rearm our Canadian Armed Forces members more effectively and scale up our defence industries with more contracts overseas.

I refuse to sit back and watch the climate crisis destroy our planet. California will keep showing up, pushing forward, and proving that a safer, more sustainable world is possible.

I want to remind folks of something that’s still raw for me. After the 2024 loss, most Dems in Congress went quiet. You remember the silence. It was deafening. Jasmine Crockett did the opposite. She stepped up early, got loud, and was never afraid to take on Trump. @jasmineforus.bsky.social 🧵

Some PR advice for the Andrew-stricken royals – try something that look less like a $12m cover-up | Marina Hyde

AOC: We all saw the performance Bondi had. She was screaming and crashing, and I think it’s because she knows she is implicated in a massive cover-up to protect a ring of pedophiles through:

Could be part of a better club www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Gov GN👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇸 Keep up the good work. Not shocked about wildfire relief contractors day job. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Center-left Socialist candidate António José Seguro recorded a thumping victory over hard-right populist André Ventura in Portugal's runoff presidential election Sunday, according to official results. n.pr/4rIP76a

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Name them shame them

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

There is no parallel universe that will have a scenario without an obscene Trump in the Epstein files. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Movie review from Guardian on Melania.

Donald Trump's administration is killing innocent people, arresting journalists, and destroying America's moral authority. California will not roll over to this wrecking-ball presidency.

This week’s cover of The Economist.

Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.

Marco Rubio has many titles, except when it’s time to take accountability. He may be the Secretary of State, but Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are negotiating with foreign leaders behind his back. When did the Senate confirm them as our representatives on the world stage?

Even a broken clock is right twice day

Rand Paul: "After seeing this, if you call this a good shooting you aren't watching the video. This was a real tragedy and a mistake. The man had been disarmed and then shot 10 times ... if we say things that are obviously not true, the situation is going to get worse."

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Kristi Noem must resign. And if she won’t, she must be held accountable and impeached by Congress.

After just a few short weeks, our effort to impeach Kristi Noem is already close to success. You did that. Now let’s keep up the pressure. Tell loser Mike Johnson and the rest of the cowards in Congress we’re not stopping until they finish the job:

Accurate and disturbing.

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

If we wonder how was Auschwitz possible, how could those guards do what they did? Look at ICE. There are always enough humans to carrry out executions and despicable acts on fellow humans. Even in the USA. #abolishice

News Analysis: Without waiting for facts, the Trump administration has advanced one-sided narratives to justify the killings of protesters in Minneapolis by federal agents, even when bystander video shows something else entirely.

This? This is cope. This is cope for the White House, which is watching its self lose control of its big propaganda project, and its cope for the 30-something percent of the country who still support Trump and are watching their numbers dwindle. You think they can’t see their friends change?

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Christi Noem should testify under oath in Congress and explain why she lied about the facts around the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Such utter shit. F Burnham and F Starmer - figure it out. Or don’t. The Greens will mop up the rest. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Stop focus on his ill health or what he got up to in the Epstein files. F’ing unite that your country is being taken from you. Your constitution is dying. What’s your response?

What’s happening in Minneapolis is beyond illegal immigration enforcement. It’s a petri dish to provoke street violence in order for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act. Ultimately to derail midterms and eventually the future powers. What else is it? America, is turning into a tinpot dictatorship

China dumped another $22.7 billion in U.S. Treasuries and buying gold instead. America is now a failing country. www.moneymetals.com/news/2024/04...

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

The world is truly f’ked up: Robbie Williams breaks The Beatles' chart record www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Vice President JD Vance plans to visit Minneapolis tomorrow. Does anyone have a protest planned against his visit yet? We’ll share his location and time as soon as we have that information.

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has 43,000 signatures! Let’s get the 100,000 needed! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?

PSA: If Bill Kristol can say this dems should be able to say it

The EU’s top diplomats met for crisis talks on Sunday and discussed reviving a plan to levy tariffs on €93bn of US goods, which was suspended after last summer’s trade deal with Trump. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Being in the UK, and a once huge fan of America (warts n all), I’m gutted what Trump is doing to it’s relationship with Europe. This is beyond Putin’s fantasies. Trump will go down as one of the world biggest assholes.