The guy running P*lantir is one of the richest men on earth and without radically restructuring society he will not be the last guy to want to exterminate most of us who gains that much power.

I regret to inform you that “drunken idiot who isn’t interested in working” is the best case scenario for FBI director in a Trump regime.

"Ireland is uniquely placed to offer a valuable perspective as a neutral, post-famine, post-colonial republic. At this crucial moment, we must work with all those who share our views to deepen international cooperation, and to nurture and develop conditions for lasting peace.” - @president.ie

Notice how the progressive councilors have passed the most legislation and yet none of us got a shout out from the mayor at the state of the city address for our work delivering for Portlanders 🙃 just in case the alliances weren't clear! 😉

Girl just worry about the transportation package, city councilors can’t even ask their colleagues to sponsor a bill without breaking quorum because of this extremely bad policy 😭

Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...

Award-winning Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been in Kuwaiti detention since March 3 for simply sharing publicly available, verified footage. Journalism is not a crime. Join us in calling to #FreeAhmed

Look I have many thoughts about blockade and some v hot takes re: blockade & naval warfare. But it is perhaps the primary rule of a blockade (beyond notice) that it must be "effective" to be valid. So...

They're calling it the best democracy ever. www.ft.com/content/7529...

Just reading the headline you’d have no idea that it was a driver that killed him and not that he crashed his bike

My piece in @opiniojuris.bsky.social on the arrest & charging of Ben Roberts-Smith for 5 #warCrimes of murder. An incredibly significant legal development in #Australia, but also in the general global fight against impunity for international crimes. #intLaw #IHL opiniojuris.org/2026/04/15/a...

How does it feel to be an Iranian right now? 🧵

If you were outraged when Trump tried to silence Jimmy Kimmel, you should be outraged by what they're doing to students who spoke out against the war in Gaza. Now they're firing immigration "judges" who refuse to go along with their illegal scheme. Defend free speech! ⬇️

Short thread containing satellite imagery of Emirati weapons smuggled to the genocidal RSF militia in Sudan, with accompanying file photos. Snapped at a secret RSF logistics base in western Ethiopia (10°05'55.5"N 34°34'50.9"E). Wednesday marked 3 years since the start of Sudan's brutal civil war.

anyone else's senior dogs decide that they suddenly love to escape and go on little adventures? rosa sneaks out and simply pushes her way into her favorite neighbor's yard like a friendly neighborhood cat. 😅 fortunately they seem to enjoy her.

i do hope job adverts for PBOT mention exciting possibilities like 'investigating the void'

"Gaza was the laboratory. Minab is the market. The result is a world in which the most consequential targeting decisions in modern warfare are made by systems that cannot explain themselves, supplied by companies that answer to no one," writes Avner Gvaryahu www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

hell yeah. grateful to have these four champs and Avalos and Dunphy. the people's business!!!

it's an open secret Smith is trying to sneak handouts into tonight's social housing package. this is bad governance. and i expect our DSA champions to hold the line against it. @councilormorillo.bsky.social @councilortkl.bsky.social @councilorkanal.bsky.social @councilorgreen.bsky.social

Big vote tonight at city council. Last week, the council advanced a millions toward rent assistance, rental buy downs, & social housing. Councilors are facing pressure to make last minute carveouts for unvetted developments. Tell your councilors you want this generational investment!

Big test for the city council tonight to see if they will hold the line for social housing, rent assistance, & rent buy downs or cave to pressure to fund unvetted one off developments. Are we doing business as usual or are we turning a corner? Let your councilors hear what you want.

“This is not self-defence. It is a blatant violation of the UN Charter, a deliberate destruction of prospects for peace, and an affront to multilateralism and the UN-based international order” UN human rights experts condemn Israel’s attack on Lebanon www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

3 white men in their 20s attempted to lynch 3 Black men for....fishing last Friday. The only reason it's an attempted murder charge is one of the Black men was armed and a better shot. It's not about the year someone was born, it's about the racism www.wcia.com/news/edgar-c...

“only 41,714 aid and commercial trucks have entered Gaza over the past six months.. a mere 37% of the 110,400 trucks stipulated under the ceasefire agreement. The fuel situation is even more critical, with only 1,366 fuel trucks entering out of a promised 9,200 – an abysmal 14% compliance rate.”

There is a very common, if false belief that pretty much anyone can get citizenship if they're in the country for long enough. Unfortunately, most people who are undocumented have NO path to permanent legal status. And in her case, the old removal order (which was withheld) makes it even harder.

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

I actually found this the most surprising tidbit—judges calling HLS students to ask about other students? What???

I am exhausted from a day of book writing, but I had to see if this headline was accurate, and ... yeah, no, it isn't.

pulitzer grade journalism to assign the clavicular interview to a man who looks like that lmao

So is this website going to acknowledge that JD Vance was heckled repeatedly by antiwar protestors

AI executives can only promise to build a digital god that might destroy the world, declare that they're going to replace a vast swath of everyone's jobs, and work directly to subvert democracy for so long before people, some of whom *take their words at face value*, will decide to act.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin’s detention reflects a growing crackdown on media freedom across Gulf nations. The American-born Kuwaiti journalist of Palestinian descent has spent six weeks imprisoned in Kuwait without public charges. From @minnahfarshad.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/prominent-...

No joke: "Avraham Zarbiv, a state rabbinical judge known for celebrating demolitions that his IDF reserve bulldozing unit carried out in Gaza.... will light a torch at Israel's annual Independence Day ceremony" this month /1 www.timesofisrael.com/reservist-ra...

PDX Real -- supposed political moderate & frothing anti-houseless community fanatic -- has recently been promoted to full Republican Party operative, even hosting a debate in Hillsboro this Thursday. The moderate performance is apparently over after many years of pretend-time. For more fakers:

chef's kiss. theonion.com/man-who-thre...

proud of these teachers. www.kptv.com/2026/04/14/o...

26 years old from South Sudan. He has been in the US since age 13, when he was recruited to the country for basketball. Now being discarded as if he was human refuse. Shame on Syracuse for not intervening. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/04...

“Are people like Tucker and Marjorie Taylor Greene pro-Palestine or they're just anti-Israel? Two different things.” Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social take on audience questions live in Ask the Editor, moderated by @premthakker.bsky.social. Watch: zeteo.com/p/israeli-as...

Well, now we know why Brim-Edwards was in the secret behind closed-doors Moda Center meetings (Code name: Project Mt. Hood) before Wilson’s own city council knew what was going on. Business class political alliances over following the city charter.

Ladies, just going to throw out there that I'm one of the 48% who will not potentially gamble away our life savings

it is not inevitable or even likely that social media, as we know it, will exist for the rest of our lives. future generations will look much more harshly on this stuff than we do smoking.

It doesn't matter whether you are on twitter or bluesky, you will always see long threads of men arguing w/ each other about whether economic feelings are real without seeing anyone mention childcare costs, rising unsheltered homelessness or the fact that uncountable numbers of families live in cars

Fresh off his trip to Hungary where he begged Hungarians to back Viktor Orban, J.D. Vance has decided world leaders shouldn't meddle in other countries' politics.

If you haven’t heard about it yet, the youths are super into IRL human interactions, no AI, and “physical media” (vinyl! DVDs! tapes!) right now and it’s glorious. Like there are 20yo influencers that just read old paper books and talk about feelings.

Hungary's prime minister elect announcing that Orbán was funding CPAC and other Trump-related political activities (also Heritage Foundation's Project 2025), and this will now end.

Seen in SF

I blame Reagan for everything.

"Military lawyers ... may have become the lawyerly equivalent of a slowly boiled frog, so accustomed to justifying, normalizing, stretching and manufacturing grey areas and uncertainties, that saying no when saying no matters becomes exceptionally difficult, even unthinkable."

I wonder how it feels to be the u.s. government knowing your populace is vigorously sharing the Iranian government's memes absolutely owning you