BREAKING (ABC News): The second crew member aboard the F-15E shot down over Iran on Friday has been rescued by U.S. military forces who conducted a rescue mission earlier on Saturday night, two U.S. officials confirmed to ABC News.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Happy Birthday to Dr Maya Angelou (born April 4, 1928)

I just got back from a three hour Easter vigil and I am happy but EXHAUSTED. Time for chocolate!

Some real sourcing now

We're in the middle of a war and he had to file an emergency petition FOR A BALLROOM.

Judas Iscariot was paid 30 pieces of silver for turning Jesus Christ in to the Roman authorities. But he made nearly 10 times that amount by placing a Polymarket bet accurately predicting the day of Christ’s death.

The hoarders down the block had been ordered to spay all their cats. They'd bred Charlie four times and let her kittens die, no vet trips, no wet food, just pouring out some cheap kibble and letting ALL the pets crowd at the same dish. She made a break for it after the spay and ran to my porch.

Yesterday was the anniversary of the day the Cat Distribution System gave me Charlie. She was so skinny I'd been feeding her every afternoon. Then she wandered onto my porch high on anesthesia after getting tipped and spayed, and passed out on my lap.

And quit trying to make me download an app!

Anyone caught serving perch for Easter dinner needs to be sent to a reeducation camp.

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Bloody hell!

All kidding aside... when Trump says "two weeks," he's lying. He's not saying "two weeks" anymore. And remember, he tries to move the needle on the stock market right before it opens Monday morning. I'm genuinely afraid to go to bed tomorrow night.

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

🚨 Ever Alvarenga, an asylum seeker, was driving to work Thursday morning when he was rear-ended by an ICE vehicle. He is still in the hospital after suffering significant injuries to his head, chest, back, & hands. [1/2]

I mean, you don't really need a translator

I recognize this movie from the BBC in the 80s, and you're not going to like how it ends.

“Does someone have a more chill way to describe 762,000 African deaths?” “Let’s go with messy.”

It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.

I'm getting worried.

"The abrupt change was messy" is how the Washington Post is framing a decision that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, with millions more expected to die.

Remember, when these people or their children fight to get their land back, they'll be "terrorists".

Ten days til Pam Bondi’s deposition to House Oversight Committee

War Crimes in Our Name? Decisions of war, made without Congress, without consent, and without accountability. This is the moment to pay attention—and to act. zurl.co/DVlhb

Terrific analysis by Steven Poole in the Guardian, teaching me a new word: dysphemism, which is the opposite of euphemism. It’s a way to make something sound “maximally horrible.” Poole examines the “chest-beating fiesta of blood and guts” in Trump and Hegseth’s language about the war against Iran.

It's been one week since more than eight million people took to the streets for the biggest day of mass protest in American history — and our organizing work is just getting started: https://www.nokings.org/whats-next

The President starts a war with Iran. Now, his family looks to profit from it. The corruption is enough to make you sick.

Think about Eisenhower’s conduct during WWII – his clear sense of mission, his diplomacy toward allies, his acceptance of personal responsibility if things went wrong. Compare that to the toddler in the White House now. How far we have fallen.

🇺🇸 U.S. Senators sent a letter to Rubio and Bessent raising serious concerns about the national security implications of a delegation of sanctioned members of the Russian Duma visiting the US for meetings with Members of Congress and executive branch officials.

CENTCOM’s official X account has now gone silent for over 24 hours in the midst of what could be the worst day for the U.S. in the war yet

New in PN: Trump's war crime campaign, explained by an expert "Right now, we are living through a moment of impunity, and leaders in the United States are acting unlawfully. The question is whether and when we snap out of that." — @bcfinucane.bsky.social

Perfectly done. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/markway...

They’re making this woman pay $500 a month to talk to her husband.

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Pete Hegseth is recklessly firing some of our most dedicated military leaders. @crow.house.gov These are folks with hundreds of years of combined experience, being pushed out with no notice. Hegseth’s political purges are endangering our national security.

The Trump budget calls to eliminate the Native Hawaiian education program but doesn't eliminate the Alaskan Native education program. What's the difference, you might ask? One state voted for him, and one didn't.

#VisibilityBrigade #newjersey #democracy #epsteinfiles #PeacefulProtest @maddow.bsky.social @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @rosaliewong.bsky.social @jesscraven101.bsky.social @emmatk.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @rbreich.bsky.social #epstein #ice #nj #war #iran #gas #prices

The Treasury Department is working on a plan to gut its office that researches financial market risks. Because the office is funded by fees on the financial industry, this won't save taxpayers money. But it will make it harder to spot and prevent the next crisis. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

"A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed it is not hosting another, separate religious service for Catholic employees. “The Protestant service is the only service scheduled in the Pentagon chapel today,” they said in a statement."

They say you don’t really understand a policy until you feel it in your bones. Not read about it. Not debate it. Feel it at 3 a.m., when the house is so cold you can see your breath and you’re bargaining with the thermostat like it’s a luxury item instead of a lifeline.

Amazing how quickly the “party of small government” has morphed into the party of “imperiously all up in everyone’s shit all the time.”

“They were going to come. It was going to be a big thing. We were going to go to the beach right after. All those plans had to go out the window because they said ICE would be here."

Every time I walk by the White House the fences outside have gotten 10% more ridiculous

Great work!

Whom to believe? 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...

White House seeks $5.6 billion cut to NASA budget in 2027 reut.rs/4bQP6Ic

This was entirely foreseeable, and many of us warned that if the Department abandoned all of its principles, the decent public servants in its ranks would abandon the Department.