Traders made over $2.6 billion through four suspicious trades made in March and April, according to an ABC News report.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. JEE

Primary thing Epstein suicide note proves is that billionaires are the worst writers in the world.

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait lift restrictions on US military access to bases and airspace, WSJ says reut.rs/4wgxw8D

Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Tuesday that Egypt has received a fourth shipment of stolen Ukrainian grain via Russia, accusing Cairo of violating its promises. #EuropeNews ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/37fv

The most embarrassing war in US history.

Trump says US Navy acting 'like pirates' to carry out naval blockade of Iranian ports reut.rs/4umfPCH

Palau flag container vessel Gaia transits Bosphorus en route from Novorossiysk to Alexandria via Ambarlı carrying containers, including an IRISL box.

Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Ghalibaf, one of the country’s top remaining leaders, called out the U.S. leadership as global oil prices touched $126 per barrel.

Hegseth ‘dangerously exaggerated’ US military triumph in Iran, Senate hears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The USS Gerald R. Ford may soon head home following a record-setting, 10-month deployment that included operations off Venezuela and Iran, according to news reports. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...

Syrian commission prepares war crimes case against notorious Assad official www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The bulker PANORMITIS will have to find another destination to unload www.themarker.com/news/macroec... #UnitedForUkraine #SlavaUkraïni

Very advanced dementia

Iran/Ukraine, what's the difference

ICYMI: The Pentagon is asking Congress to codify in legislation the Department of War name, as a recent proposal estimates the name change to date has cost about $50 million. From Stars and Stripes' Matthew Adams:

Another Strait Closed! Turkish flag container ship Kappa, en route from Novorossiysk to Körfez, in a laden condition during Bosphorus transit, experienced engine failure & ran aground at Yeniköy Point, approx 21:00UTC. International traffic temporarily suspended until Kappa is towed by CoastalSafety

Exposed: How Ukrainian wheat stolen by Russia is smuggled to Israel. My investigation, with the fab @yoruk.bsky.social , reveals how grain stolen from occupied Ukrainian territory has been sold to Israel. Profits from the shady operation are financing Putin's war www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Spanish Navy Juan Carlos I-class amphibious assault ship ESPS Juan Carlos I (L61) westbound in the Strait of Gibraltar - April 26, 2026 SRC: X-@jr_amon_ceuta

Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years

Cameroon flag roro My Rose transited Bosphorus carrying Russian KAmAZ trucks from Novorossiysk to unknown African destination.

Pentagon says Navy Secretary John Phelan is leaving, in latest departure of a top defense leader apnews.com/article/pent...

“We're very far ahead of schedule, really, a lot ahead of schedule,”

This year's Lyrid meteor shower is getting a boost thanks to a dim crescent moon. Skywatchers could see 10 to 20 shooting stars per hour soar across the spring sky, according to NASA, when the fiery display peaks Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. https://to.pbs.org/4tWbyG2

One of the more insane facts about palantir is Louis Mosley the grandson of wannabe British hitler Oswald Mosley, is the head of palantir's UK branch. youtu.be/IOekgrWfJxE?...

The 'adversaries won't wait' statement doesn't reject deliberation outright, it just makes serious deliberation always feel premature. You can debate this or that war, but the underlying question, whether to build the systems at all, is treated as settled, & that's deliberation as performance.

The headline argument is straightforward enough, democratic survival depends on hard power, hard power is now software, so Silicon Valley owes the West an AI weapons industry. Adversaries won't wait, so we can't either, which taken at face value sounds like a defence of democracy.

I've set out the framework I'm using here in an earlier thread, on VDA, the Arc of Democracy, and the moral-epistemic stacks idea, what follows applies that framework to the Palantir document directly. skywriter.blue/@eliothiggin...

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

More serious thoughts on this in this thread bsky.app/profile/elio...

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Someone has documented the entire source code for Elite and explained how every line works, plus included deep dives into various functionality. Covers all main versions like BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and NES. You can also play online in browser. elite.bbcelite.com

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

For decades, presidents avoided even the appearance of profiting from their office. President Donald Trump is taking a different approach. https://to.pbs.org/482NOaK

The Trump family real estate business is undergoing the fastest overseas expansion since its founding a century ago, each deal potentially shaping everything from tariffs to military aid. https://to.pbs.org/482NOaK

Last night, the Trump administration quietly waived sanctions on Iranian oil, desperately appeasing Iran in the hope they’ll be permitted to TACO away…

Trump administration policymaking: Something between a joke and a tragedy or treachery

NEW: We’ve identified the man who runs the far-right troll account on X “HowlingMutant,” whose jokes about rape and the Holocaust have earned him nearly 200,000 followers, which include Vice President JD Vance. His name is Alexander Norden, from Rockaway Park in New York City.

Family Feud? Survey says this military group will be against opening any Strait: xcancel.com/farsnews_age...

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

4 years anniversary of the sinking of the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, the cruiser Moskva

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

Hungary’s election has ended Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule. Days before the vote, we uncovered exposed passwords linked to Hungarian government systems. Here’s what we found: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04...

"The head of Belgian Drylock Technologies' Russian factories publicly thanked the company's employees who joined the Russian army and fought against Ukrainians." The factory is based in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone, where Russia produces Shahed drones. kyivindependent.com/investigatio...

What’s Up, Doc?

So let’s have universal health care and help people live in dignity.

The Iranian Navy is completely obliterated, apart from the so-called "fast attack ships", which we can trust are no threat to slow moving cargo vessels.

Is Trump resurrecting Epstein?

Nothing like having a good reckoning to look forward too.

Is there any precedent for charging for use of an international waterway even if they are territorial waters like the Strait of Hormuz? John-Paul Rathbone and I had a look at the history books (the answer: not quite) as.ft.com/r/497666f2-c...