Expanding the court makes sense, but I feel like you need a President and congressional leaders who know how to fight and maneuver and get things done. We can't value comity over survival when dealing with Klan 3.0 in the halls of power.

We can't have disease monitoring, climate monitoring, pollution monitoring, police monitoring, crime monitoring, concentration camp monitoring, rape investigation monitoring, arms sale monitoring, or corruption monitoring. But women must be monitored. Feel that power and wield it accordingly.

Written by THE BULWARK. court expansion is absolutely a 2028 litmus test

Late drop of a big story tonight—the research team that jailbroke AI safety standards with weaponized poems have published their Adversarial Humanities Benchmark, broadening their research through cyberpunk attack-fiction and ADVERSARIAL HERMENEUTICS:

And just to be abundantly clear: NASA AND SCIENCE IN GENERAL HAVE MASSIVE RETURN ON INVESTMENT. Cutting this budget is a net financial LOSS in the medium- to long-term. It undermines our future -- intellectually, technologically, and economically.

BTW, this is one of the currently active, functioning, doing-good-science missions that the proposed budget would kill.

While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy... The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%. NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

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I referenced "Calling Bullshit" in a guest lecture earlier this year I called "Disinformation Communication". While I did describe "lying w percentages" in a variety of ways beyond the book's examples, I didn't imagine this, either. (I might have said "all reductions of more than 100% are lies"?)

So now Pete Hegseth has fired the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Staff of the Army, both in the middle of a war, both with no public or known explanation? Seems fine.

This is your periodic reminder that Democrats introduced legislation in 2021 to ban gerrymandering nationwide and every republican voted against it except two who were absent.

Kudos to the Black woman who stood right next to Trump. Also, who knew all those guys were on the team?

"the rule of law, checks and balances and the peaceful transition of power..." www.scientificamerican.com/article/ex-n...

HUGE scandal if true. Laura Loomer got Marco Rubio to throw two Iranian women with green cards in ICE jail to be stripped of status and deported, claiming they were related to Qasem Soleimani. Official documents provided to @dropsitenews.com appear to show they are NOT related; they're innocent.

“This was not a disease that was killing healthy people. It was killing sick people”. RFK Jr. lying about the COVID19 pandemic.

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.

In our book Calling Bullshit, we talked about some of the ways people create misleading narratives by judiciously choosing how to calculate percentages. "Making up utterly nonsensical shit" was not among the methods we addressed. Gift link,

The Trump Admin Wants To Test Drinking Water For Abortion And Birth Control Pills [Women must be controlled by the federal government at all costs, so women can be forced to bear as many children as they can, because billionaires need workers and racists need white babies.]

Republicans are pedo protectors and the voters should consign their party to the rubbish bin in Nov.

When reminding soldiers to reject unlawful commands becomes grounds for punishment, the danger isn’t dissent—it’s power drifting beyond law. Militaries run on discipline, but democracies survive on legality. Blur that line, and institutions stop protecting people.

Voting rights groups are suing the Trump Justice Department over efforts to sweep up sensitive American voter data. While GOP officials in other states refused, Sec. of State Frank LaRose has given the department personal info for 8 million Ohio voters ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/21/r...

"David Jackson, a longtime reporter who chronicled the White House and political campaigns for USA TODAY and The Dallas Morning News, has died."

"There are about 2,000 ships and 20,000 mariners still stranded near the strait." Criminals are pretending to be Iranian authorities in order to run crypto fraud scams to get their millions of dollars in toll fees for passage. arstechnica.com/security/202...

"Emily Hart is one of a slew of AI-generated hot girl MAGA influencers [by] men like Sam [student in India] capitalizing both on pro-Trump sentiment and [their] relative lack of digital literacy" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/indian-med-student-rakes-in-thousands-with-ai-generated-maga-hottie/

We have an opportunity to restore salmon populations, uphold commitments to sovereign tribal nations, and meet our region’s clean energy demands – and when the federal government walked away from the agreement, we stepped in. #EarthDay Read more: https://ow.ly/ur0g50YO71I

Oregonian Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

On Earth Day, we celebrate our natural environment, including the beautiful public spaces in Maryland's Eighth District. Let’s recommit ourselves to protecting our dazzling natural resources so they can be enjoyed by future generations.

Obviously Bhattacharya is a hypocritical hack. That’s who he is, it’s priced in, so I’m not so angry at him. I’m mostly angry at the useful idiots who accepted and promoted the “he’s part of a new generation of freethinkers open to new ideas” bullshit.

Would love to play that one for the jury in the defamation case.

After months of focusing almost exclusively on Democratic-led states, Dr. Oz says the feds now plan to audit all 50 states' Medicaid programs. minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/22/r...

Really think the game being played with futures markets is leaving a lot of folks unprepared for the future which now seems functionally locked in. If supply is down 10m barrels a day, then demand will, eventually, have to conform and that is going to be unpleasant.

The science is overwhelming: greenhouse gas emissions drive climate change. That’s why we challenged the EPA’s proposed rescission of the finding that vehicle greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and the environment. #EarthDay Read more: https://ow.ly/GVjr50YO6RO

When federal funding for community solar projects was threatened, we took action: we filed two lawsuits to protect federal dollars meant for reducing pollution and lowering electricity bills for low-income households. #EarthDay Read more: https://ow.ly/jrVl50YO6VT

Never underestimate the ability of Republican short term thinking to cause long term harm - Virginia voters approve new congressional maps in blow to Trump www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Fuuuuuck this - #ToddlerSkincare: the ‘dark and exploitative’ world of children’s beauty videos on TikTok www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

The party that protects sex traffickers and predators. Like protects like.

April 21, 2026

Two CIA agents were killed in a vehicle accident in Mexico over the weekend after destroying their competitor's drug lab.

Bill Nye and hundreds of Planetary Society members are heading to DC on Monday to protest the White House's proposal to slash NASA's science budget in half. These cuts were announced as the Artemis astronauts were on their way to the Moon:

Happy Earth Day! A @lizadonnelly.bsky.social drawing!

NEW: Here is the SPLC indictment: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Prince died 10 years ago today. Here's a couple photos from that evening as people gathered to sing outside of First Avenue in Downtown Minneapolis. A photo from after George Floyd was murdered and a mural in Uptown seen in 2025.

Also I rather suspect the academic achievement gap - boys now trail girls substantially in the aggregate - has a lot to do with these sorts of attitudes pushing male teachers out of primary school education. It is bad and false to tell boys and men that they aren't and cannot be nurturers.

Flu shots protect people from some heart problems as well as flu. Flu kills tens of thousands every year just in the US, and it can lead to long-term post-viral conditions for those who survive it. The person who dies of your flu might not be you. Don't let these antiscience dolts ruin your health.

NW Natural says it's paying back nearly 200 households after inadvertently cutting off their gas service late last year due to an internal mistake. A local utility watchdog is pushing for penalties.

We don't get any of the $5 million reward, because we made the information public and didn't provide it to law enforcement privately, which you could argue forced Dubai's hand. On that note, you can donate to Bellingcat here: www.bellingcat.com/donate/

Anthropic has now reversed every change, and said that removing Claude Code from Pro was a "small test of 2% new prosumer signups." This does not sufficiently explain why changes were made to support materials and the website. I believe more changes are to come. www.wheresyoured.at/news-anthrop...

Here’s the 5th Circuit’s opinion openly and directly defying an on-point Supreme Court precedent that prohibits the display of the 10 Commandments in public school classrooms. Shameless defiance of SCOTUS, but we’ll see if the supermajority cares. txvalues.org/wp-content/u...