For those that don't know what this is, it's not the stock market (s&p, Dow, NASDAQ), IT'S THE PRICE OF CRUDE OIL going up. US stock market is closed. In other news, gold and silver dropped a lot. The VIX (volatility index) is up. All of those things = Not good.

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Florida NAACP and Florida Alliance for Retired Americans, moments after Ron DeSantis signed Florida's latest voter suppression bill into law, my firm sued. www.democracydocket.com/cases/florid...

Magnitude 7.4 quake hits off Indonesia’s Ternate, tsunami warning lifted The ​epicentre of the ⁠earthquake was about ⁠120km (75 miles) from Ternate, in Indonesia’s North Maluku ‌province. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

TRUMP SAYS WE'RE DEPENDENT UPON IRANIAN OIL But we didn't have to be. We had electric cars in the 1970s and their users loved them. We have had fifty years to prepare to ignore the Middle East and we did NOTHING but throw blood and treasure into perpetual wars. substack.com/@cognitivedi...

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United. No Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment needed. This is no joke. Here's how it works. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fP...

NEW: Billionaires are pumping millions into PACs to defeat a proposed California wealth tax. @rbreich.bsky.social tells @moreperfectunion.bsky.social why this one-time tax on the ultra-wealthy is urgently needed — and the crucial public services it could fund for Californians.

Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy: Thank you for your service and for setting the standard of excellence, alongside the teams at NASA who made this possible. You make the United States and Canada proud.

Long before today’s ruling, we knew social media was harming our young people. Teens, parents, advocates, even casual observers begged tech and elected leaders to take action. While we applaud this decision, we have more work to do to protect young people online and support their mental health.

Of course if the situation were reversed, the Times would call this what it is: a major loss for republicans and a major victory for democrats. But they are allergic to criticism of Republicans and so cannot bring themselves to utter the word “defeat”

A free and open democratic society is the most fertile ground for scientific research and development. Trump and his Republican cronies are working overtime to make this country an irrelevant backwater.

It is crazy how few people know this: Russia now occupies less Ukrainian land than it did one month into the full-scale invasion four years ago

Victor Glover will be the first Black American astronaut to reach the moon… And he’s the pilot! www.theroot.com/who-is-victo...

“I’m sorry. If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’” - Charlie Kirk Artemis II Pilot…

I remember somebody on this app yelled at me and said I was basically stupid if I thought he would release a voting exec. order. Well…how’s that crow taste ya old mansplainer? If it’s outlined in Proj 2025 he will try it. #pinks #momsky #resist

Hilarious video until Americans realize they are all on this plane and this absolute psycho pedo is flying it. #cdnpoli

Why not offer both? In one of my stories, an alien entity comes to take over the Earth but is waylaid to play wargames by a retired gentleman who almost never loses. The trap: The old man convince the entity to not attack Earth as long as he can beat the entity in any game. #HorrorWritersChat

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

💄💀 #Art by Lena Zagidullina

They always did this with the best tools they had at hand. Today, it just happens to be machine intelligence tapping into various databases they can pay to play in. Not a new thing. Don't be shocked. Truth be told, governments always move towards this state unless you keep your eyes on them.

HOPE WAS IN THE BOX #FracturedFairyTales In this analysis of the fairy tale, the Answer-Man challenges the idea of Pandora saving humanity by trapping Hope in the the box of troubles she inadvertently opens. I think we got lucky. cognitivedissident.substack.com/p/fractured-... #AnswerMan #fables

Thaddeus Howze. Any genre, any time. Substack and Patreon Favorite imprisonment concept: expertise as a cage. Imagine being the only person who speaks the language of the monster eating your city. You can never retire. You're not a prisoner. You're essential. Same difference. #HorrorWritersChat

Happening to so many people.

DC Universe postage stamps have been available to purchase, to put on your mail to jam into your stamp collection, if you knew where to look. I didn't know they even existed. Artists: Jim Cheung and Laura Martin illustrated the stamp collection #DCComics #Batman #DCUniverse #StampCollecting

What does it mean to become a Herald of Galactus? #Galactus has consistently lied to his potential #heralds. He tells them they will be transformed but they will retain themselves. The Answer-Man calls Galactus a damned, dirty liar. Here's why! cognitivedissident.substack.com/p/what-does-...

Meta Experiencing Mass Account Closures An meaningful expansion of a thread on BlueSky cognitivedissident.substack.com/p/meta-exper... #META #CSA #AIPurge #WeaponizedAI #AccountLoss

FACEBOOK IS UNDER ATTACK Don't expect them to tell you about it. Unless it happens to you, there isn't any reason to know. Unless it happens to a friend whose content you enjoy. Someone like me. Locked out on November 25, 2025, I did everything they suggested. No help was forthcoming.

History remembers Custer's Last Stand. But the Cheyenne remember who knocked him off his horse. Her name was Buffalo Calf Road Woman, and eight days earlier she'd ridden into gunfire to save her brother's life. #history

Trump Planning Something In Midterms Trump said he “should take over the voting” “ought to nationalize the voting.” will only accept the results “if the elections are honest.” Republicans give him cover and say he's not serious. His actions say otherwise. www.wired.com/story/this-i...

Pentagon accused of orchestrating 'cover-up' of Middle East casualties www.rawstory.com/hegseth-iran...

Are we there yet "It's the Moon, stop saying 'Are we there yet'" Oh sorry Are we there YET

LOOK OUT PAM BONDI, YOU IN DANGER GURL Rumor has it Bondi is on Trump's "You're fired!" list. Donald Trump ousted embattled DHS Secretary Kristi Noem after she publicly threw him under the bus, and now he may have his sights on another member of his Cabinet. www.rawstory.com/pam-bondi-26...

Guess who illegally has your private Medicaid information, in violation of a court order? RFK Jr & Oz provide ICE “a large and complex” set of data on Medicaid recipients." Specifically exposing citizens & permanent residents. The Gestapo is coming for old & disabled stateline.org/2026/03/31/s...

i hate when the april fools day jokes make me kind of wish it was real

Artemis II lifts off

So, can I seek compensation from the J6 participants for the mental stress I experienced watching the insurrection live? www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/p...

US Congresswoman Nancy Mace says that the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files will shock the world.

Starmer sees the writing on the wall. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/9f3d...

The comment made me chuckle. 😏

Everyone pointing out that US law doesn't allow leaving NATO without Congressional approval is correct. It's also beside the point. Congress can't make a president deploy the military and order troops into battle, which means the US won't defend an ally, even if the US technically remains in NATO.

Good luck guys! #NASA #ArtemisII

BREAKING: Artemis II lifts off on mission around the moon. nbcnews.app.link/KbL7XEKxZ1b

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BREAKING — Effort launches to remove Trump’s name from ALL federal property, monuments, and currency. UndoTrump.org

NO ONE WHO: has died under the care of ICE, has been slain protesting ICE, has ever suffered under ICE, whose rights have ever been abridged by ICE, has ever been rendered stateless by ICE, has ever been deported by ICE, Will ever know representative justice. No one will ever be held accountable.

The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was left on the freezing streets of Buffalo by Border Patrol officers, was ruled a homicide. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NASA launched four astronauts on a 10-day flight around the moon on April 1, marking the most ambitious U.S. space mission in decades and a major step toward returning humans to the lunar surface before China's first crewed landing reut.rs/4v4GNjx

TY Mark! 💖 @thewelshtaffy24.bsky.social @docmurphydog.bsky.social @yodamonkey2.bsky.social @loveandlight1.bsky.social @sassy0210.bsky.social @trwbbr.bsky.social @j1j2.bsky.social @maryosteen.bsky.social @magabraindisease.bsky.social @honestcanadian.bsky.social @capeacadia.bsky.social

BREAKING The Jan. 6-related civil suits seeking to hold Trump liable for inciting the insurrection SURVIVE, as a federal judge rejects his latest bid to scuttle the case on immunity and First Amendment grounds. Doc buff.ly/ZjGrJOP