How dare the rogue state of Israel demand the evacuation of Tyre, a city of 60,000 people? No so much as a bleat from Washington.

Trump confusing the COBOL programming age glitch with actual people aged 120, I.e. none.

NEW: Airwars-supported cross-border investigation identifies victims of US boat strikes. Journalist collective reveals victims are labourers, fishermen, cab drivers. Almost 200 have been killed since Sept 2025. No trial, no defence. 🔗 www.elclip.org/los-bombarde... #LosBombardeados

In a sane world, 🇺🇸 relative decline would lead Washington to double down on core alliances in Europe & Asia. The US int'l system has unmatched potential re: scale, divisions of labor, and tech swaps. We're talking about ~50% of global GDP. And yet, Trump's burning it all down. #geopoliticalsuicide

‘S.N.L.’ Recruits Aziz Ansari to Play F.B.I. Director Kash Patel www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/a...

Amb. Chas Freeman: Israel’s Grand Plan Collapsed in Record Time www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjRD...

This Day in Labor History: May 1, 2010. A group of 1,000 subcontractors from India and Nepal laboring in Iraq working for the U.S. military occupation went on a violent rampage against their terrible living conditions!!!! Let's talk about contract military labor on this May Day!

Quiz : connaissez-vous vraiment les onze jours fériés français ?

Earth Day, 22 April 1970 “Borrowing the tactics of the Vietnam Moratorium, the nationwide celebration of Earth Day stressed the urgent need to stop the brutal destruction of our world…”

The Lebanon-Israel 10-day ceasefire eByers into force at 11:00 pm, so what does Israel do in the meantime? Continues to bomb Lebanon. BTW Hezbollah will be included and Iran has agreed to surrender the enriched uranium.

Politics has unexpectedly hit a special interest of mine so here is a quick rundown on the Avignon Papacy.

8. We should not, however, lose sight of the very specific place of the Gulf in the “geopolitics” of Trump corruption — and how that corruption inflects every aspect of this deadly, pathetic, and almost incomprehensibly stupid fiasco. /end

Don't think I've ever been as terrified in all the Trump security crises. As @pkrugman.bsky.social said, "It’s the most astonishing, awful thing that I’ve ever seen, and we’ve all seen a lot of awful things." Mainly as cope, and to teach it, I keep asking why. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Had a post up earlier about Trump’s rephrasing (weaseling out) of his shocking threat but took it down thinking I’d gotten the date/time wrong but Reuters has confirmed… bsky.app/profile/reut...

When an Israeli Merkava tank hit a home, Father al-Rahi and others rushed to the scene to help the wounded. The tank then fired a second time, killing him. This is who Israel is killing-- a priest serving his parishioners to his dying breath on the land he calls home.

If Trump wants to steal Greenland, he doesn't need tanks or missiles. He can just tell Microsoft and Oracle to brick the entire Danish state and all of its key firms, blocking their access to their email archives, files, databases, and other key administrative tools. 7/

Second, Hegseth was "pulled by his District of Columbia National Guard unit from guarding Joe Biden’s January 2021 inauguration" after he was flagged by unit members as being a potential "insider threat." It effectively ended his military career.

Did you know there is a Russian Orthodox cathedral (St Nicholas) in Tehran? Le Monde reports that the US or Israel targeted it with a missile, blowing out the windows and doors. This is “help is on the way”.

Twinning! Something important is going on this week that will have world-wide implications! Like an egg splitting in half, a tropical wave gives birth twin tropical #cyclones in the Equatorial Pacific. Notice how one spins clockwise I the Northern Hemisphere, the other counterclockwise SH… 1/

How ICE Is Assisting TSA theonion.com/how-ice-is-a... #TheOnion

#dementiadon #pedopresident #feloninchief

Everyone who touches tRump dies

French naval base, Camp de la Paix, struck in Port Zayed, Abu Dhabi as Israelis launch another raid on Tehran.

Per LeMonde, the Iranian Guardians of the Revolution say they have struck the carrier Abraham Lincoln with 4 ballistic missiles.

This war is costing airlines millions as flights are cancelled : Emirates, Qatar Airways, Etihad, EgyptAir, Air Algérie, Ethiopian, and Kenya Airways. Could be days, weeks or months before operations fully resume.

Per La Repubblica (Rome), Iran has announced closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Rigoletto is the Closing Ceremonies emcee

Was today years old when I learned that Herbert Hoover blamed Mexican-Americans for the Great Depression and deported up to 2 million of them, including plenty of US citizens

Progressive International is organizing Flotilla Nuestra América to bring humanitarian aid to Cuba. elpais.com/mexico/2026-...

BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.

I know its standards are lower than the temperature in Ohio but still can’t quite believe that the New York Times published a piece telling Harry Potter fans to grow up, stop wanting the good guys to win, embrace the reign of Lord Voldemort, and stop doxxing dementors who are just enforcing the law.

Two global trading houses that brokered an opaque deal with the Trump admin this month to sell Venezuelan oil were previously prosecuted for bribery schemes involving oil sales elsewhere… A senior trader at Vitol donated $6 million to Trump’s 2024 election. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Cartoon by @mwuerker.bsky.social.

ICE at the Winter Olympics? Rubio and Vance want an ICE security detail at the opening ceremonies in Milan?? Will have to verify this on Tuesday.

this is so incredibly courageous

I am not a defamation or torts scholar, but boy do I have a good title for your next law review article: Government Defamation.

Jared and Ivanka spent $1.4 billion to buy the Albanian island of Sazan. www.repubblica.it/venerdi/2026...

I don’t know who added Liam Conejo Ramos to The Problem We All Live With, Norman Rockwell’s 1964 painting of Ruby Bridges. But bravo.

Good GARtuitous, north American sport fish blanket includes the Alligator Gar! @solomonrdavid.bsky.social

Below is our story about the skyrocketing number of kids detained by ICE. We cover the facility where Liam is now being held-- parents said food had worms and mold, and kids were so distressed they hit themselves in the face and wet themselves. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...

I guess all the guys who did the Syria maps in the 2010s will start checking out the greater Midwest just in case

Kinetic action coming…civilian airlines forewarned. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Trump’s pal Javier Milei cut firefighting funds so now Patagonia is on fire bsky.app/profile/lemo...

This is extraordinary. I can’t think of a single Fed statement this defiant — ever. The Fed works through open consensus building and when it must, quiet, patient resistance. I cannot stress how bad things are that Jay Powell is saying these things out loud.

Spot on!

A 3rd tanker is being boarded by the US off Venezuela, per Bloomberg. 22/

2/A similar thing is happening with the trade deals -- Japan and Korea pledge billions in investments that are then directed by Lutnick. This is not arms-length bureaucracy making decisions but small groups of clique insiders. www.wsj.com/tech/trump-s...