The largest clean energy project in American history is officially online. A 3.65 GW wind farm + a 550-mile transmission line, delivering more power than the Hoover Dam–in fact, enough to power a million homes. Big wind. Big wires. Big win. www.usnews.com/news/us/arti...

Jeanine Pirro vows to track down the vandals who are wrecking the reflecting pool. This really should be easy....

Cicus Magamus www.politico.com/cartoons/202...

Democratic Rep. Gabe Amo tore into Wright: “You’re willing to huff and puff … when your audience of one is paying attention. But the fact of the matter is, my constituents—and the constituents of people across this Congress—are struggling because of your decisions.” trib.al/XvDbMvp

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn't a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

Donald Trump's policies are accelerating Social Security’s insolvency. Here’s a common-sense solution: My bill would fund Social Security for the next 75 YEARS by making the wealthy pay their fair share — and EXPAND benefits at the same time. It’s time to act.

Things your legal department has to do when you are a propaganda outlet peddling lies for a corrupt regime nonstop… Fox is poison…

Can we please return to precedented times? I wish to be bored again by the news.

Train carrying fresh water derails, contaminating Alberta’s oil sands

Happy Tuesday! Who's ready to hear about 1. Flesh-eating maggots (mostly go after cattle) 2. They're native to the US 3. The USDA has kept them out of the US since the 1960s 4. But the flesh-eating maggots are making a 21st century comeback. And believe it or not it may be thanks to MAGA.

Ireland’s data centre strain a ‘cautionary tale’ for rest of world, UN says

After defense officials got a request to push through a deal with a firm tied to Donald Trump Jr., Pentagon staff moved at an unusually rapid pace. “The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” said one person involved.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... Scientists, providers, educators, researchers, academics, advocates, anyone with critical knowledge & feedback: public comments are open until 7/13/26. We are counting on you. Thank you. #OMB #grant-funding #research-funding This is #Project2025

There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

China’s space industry is just beginning to launch megaconstellations to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink, which suggests that if the country does not curb this practice, it will further degrade an already congested space environment.

"I'm being very generous allowing domestic terrorists to steal only $2 billion dollars from you because otherwise I was going to steal even MORE from you. You're welcome, taxpayers. Suckers!"

Kari Lake benefited from several streams of media-related income around or during the time she served — illegally, a federal court ruled — as de facto leader of VOA's parent agency. www.notus.org/money/kari-lake...

Negotiations Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com For @rawstory.com

“.. $41.5bn as of Sunday night — or $316 per US household.” ⛽️ @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/32ff...

CO secretary of state unloads on Dem governor for freeing felon MAGA election denier

Folks, you gotta read this @billhanage.bsky.social is a world expert on the transmission of infectious diseases and he is a bloody brilliant science communicator

A highway more than 1,700 miles long, stretching from Texas all the way to Montana, may soon be named after Donald Trump if this bill is passed.

Hey, mainstream media: Isn't it about time you start talking to mental-health professionals and reporting to the public about the multiple and manifest mental illnesses that have long been exhibited by the president of the United States?

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LeAnn Rimes has cancelled several shows after Covid led to severe laryngitis. So many still refer to the pandemic in past tense but it's still disrupting lives, careers & health www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/...

Fifty days into the Iran war the world has lost 550m barrels of Gulf crude—nearly 2% of last year’s global output. Three factors are pushing the world towards the cliff edge

And 9 seconds later … www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Billionaire diplomacy #ceasefire

As tech companies race to secure massive power deals to build out hundreds of data centers across the country, these projects represent just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the potential climate cost of the AI boom.

The Trump administration is reorganizing the National Weather Service (NWS) and making changes to forecasting, while a key union representative warns the reorganization could involve potential staff cuts.

The Trump admin and Sen. Mike Lee are conspiring to destroy public lands for short term profit. Teddy Roosevelt is rolling in his grave. https://www.hcn.org/articles/interior-department-crafted-talking-points-for-public-lands-sell-off-agenda/

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

Ossoff: "Iran's ballistic missiles and drones are not destroyed. The regime is intact, along with its ability to throttle the global energy supply. Along with its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, which it only assembled after Donald Trump shredded President Obama's Iran deal."

From his book, "The Art of Being An Idiot"

Not once in this story does @politico.com mention that US factories employ ~89,000 fewer employees than a year ago. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Cognitive dissonance helps explain why Trump supporters remain loyal, new research suggests

President Donald Trump's administration has admitted to a major error in data used to justify a federal fraud probe into New York’s Medicaid program.

UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Leo shelved plans to visit America. Some officials saw their reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Would be nice to have government officials who don’t fall for AI slop

You can use our new database to explore the financial disclosures — and potential conflicts of interest — of President Donald Trump and more than 1,500 of his appointees. Here's what Trump budget chief Russell Vought has disclosed:

Seems secure. 🙃 "The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages." blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompi...

This video is an earthquake Rorschach test. The fist time I watched it last year I was focused on the foreground and only saw the driveway crack, I thought “this is a nothing-burger”. Then I watched it again, saw the background move and GASPED. When I play it in class only about 25% first see slip.

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

🚨 Breaking: House Natural Resources SHUT DOWN over Don Jr. Subpoena! 🚨 We know Trump and his family are lining their own pockets with corrupt government deals. But, when we tried to subpoena his Jr. to answer questions today, Republicans shut it down. ⬇️

The Trump-aligned company tasked with creating the $220 million ad featuring Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem got a $60,000 signing bonus for making the commercial, during which time it spent $20,000 on horse rentals, lawmakers revealed Monday.