Oil executives sold more than $1.4 billion in personal stock, since January, profiting off US-Israeli attacks on Iran and the resulting energy crisis. Chevron CEO Mike Wirth made $104 million. In March alone, ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance made about $54 million. By Heated's @emorwee.bsky.social:

🔴 NEW - Orbán Allies Received £57 Million from State Oil Giant Days Before Election For Reform-linked Mathias Corvinus Collegium, election week saw a dividends bonanza. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕 *All four astronauts went to public schools!

If you’re okay with Graham Platner using the r-word then you are no different than all the people who laughed and clapped for Trump when he did this:

If you return unwanted Reform local election leaflets to their party headquarters using their free post address, then it will cost the party £2.50 per envelope. Please don’t share this information; it could cost Nigel Farage a fortune.

Unbelievable stuff from the Washington Post on behalf of Jeff Bezos today.

Perfect time for my college to shut down our religion program

So, Doordash is doing dishonest PR work for Trump.

If you want to understand the institutional environment that makes it so easy for Trump to fire Immigration Judges he doesn't like and to remake the "immigration courts" into a deportation machine, see Section II of our NSF funded research + IV for reforms. Un-gated. 👇 NSF surely wouldn't fund now.

In case it's not super obvious- you...can't get doordash delivered to anywhere inside the White House fenced off complex, much less the West Wing much less the patio of the Oval gd Office. No need to treat a stunt as something real!

One reason I indexed and downloaded everything I ever wrote for The Post. Here are links to all of the stories (except the ones from May-Sept 2014), if you're curious! pbump.com/projects/wap...

For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.

Reporter: “Do you expect other countries to help with a blockade of Iran?” Trump: “Yeah, other countries are gonna.” Reporter: “Which countries?” Trump: “We don’t need other countries.” He is absolutely insane. video courtesy @dropsitenews.com

Reagan told Nixon “Last night, I tell ya, to watch that thing on television as I did. To see those monkeys from those African countries, damn them. They’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes.” www.theroot.com/why-the-deep...

The great thing about Trump and Hegseth is that as their decisions prove catastrophic they make even more catastrophic decisions.

Orban was the glue that held together central and eastern Europe’s far right.

One of the most delicious things to come out of Orcban’s defeat is Solovyov’s meltdown. He actually posted this 🔽 All is lost for Russua, folks! 😂

Gov. Janet Mills has signed Maine's millionaire's tax into law. While some states are still cutting taxes, we're starting to see more action around broad-based tax increases as budget conditions tighten around the country.

There it is. Week ahead schedule for House Oversight Committee no longer includes Tuesday's deposition with Pam Bondi on #EpsteinFiles

Oh my what a Schlapp in the face this is

Lmfao it's the same person holy shit

So much winning.

Shoutout to everyone who blamed this on a GOP psyop and Roger Stone. "In the end, it was three women in a group chat trying everything in our power. It really has just been us.”

"This line of inquiry fundamentally misunderstands the role of political access journalism, publishing, and, perhaps most critically of all, some pretty sweet jacket design."

Ouch.

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

This is an actual paragraph that had to be written by an actual newspaper.

Friendly reminder: Republicans continue to block our efforts to lower healthcare costs.

Oh hey speaking of guys who are problematic pieces of shit who shouldn’t be near an office of power

Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October. Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year. Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

I know from experience that leaving Substack has a cost. No other platform is as *easy* to get up and running, any time you change platforms, you're going to get significant churn. But, my friends who are on Substack--I don't think it will get easier to leave, might as well do it now.

The Iran war increasingly looks not only like another shocking humiliation but perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in American military history. trib.al/i3eHAOp

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

‘Proactively fall in line’: Holocaust Memorial Museum quietly changed content after Trump returned to office www.politico.com/news/2026/04... #publichistory

3/ Now @propublica.org is reporting they’ve seen documents that show the real story behind the raid was to target alleged squatters — with the landlord's blessing. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

Markwayne Mullin appears to be scaling back the visibility of ICE agents in enforcement, saying he’d “love to see” ICE spend more time doing “transport” and less on the “front line.” One way to do that is by paying local police to take on more of the investigations and arrests of immigrants.

🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests

Peter Magyar's victory in Hungary is a critical reminder that we can't give up the fight for democracy. The people of Hungary made their voices heard and democracy won. As Coretta Scott King said: 'Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation.'

I said this from the moment Trump’s potential blockade was announced. China, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Iraq and a bunch of other countries have already made deals with Iran to transit the Strait. They’re not going to be happy with Trump tanking their economies.

Mass murder.

”Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried-out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion. Restoring these natural carbon sinks could also bring significant environmental benefits.” #RestoreNature for #Defence 🫎 www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

Trump sues the press to intimidate and to try to shape future coverage. Imagine how much further along he'd be at this if he were more successful at intimidating the judiciary.

BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE custody, per required notification to Congress, marking 16 deaths in detention this year.

The alt-left doesn’t care about bigotry. Just doesn’t care.

JD Vance’s first failure as VP was in December 2024 — when he was tasked with trying to convince senators to confirm Matt Gaetz as AG. The list of humiliations has grown longer ever since, including two embarrassments over the weekend. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

can u spot my eliminated job’s salary in her lips

So, Trump says Iran wants to make a deal and the markets rebound? Wow!

Exciting times for the study 11thC England: the 'lost' seal of Edward the Confessor has been rediscovered in the Archives nationales de France! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky