Shared 👇 comment: 🤔 He staged it and let someone else bite the bullet. 😡 #tRumpLied

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–" yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

The Japanese scientist who painstakingly reconstructed 1,200 years of data on peak cherry blossom blooms in Kyoto to show the effects of climate change has passed away; fortunately, another scientist has volunteered to continue his project.

The US appears to suggest one can have a cease-fire and a militarily enforced blockade at the same time. It is worth reminding everyone of the Definition of Aggression (1974): the blockade of another state's ports is an act of aggression. hrlibrary.umn.edu/instree/GAre...

The corruption is just stunning. www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

"Meta spent more on lobbying in 2025 than America’s three largest oil and gas companies combined" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

The crucial thing to understand about Peter Thiel is that he adores "The Lord of the Rings" and no one in human history has ever so utterly completely missed all the salient points of what a book is about.

There's no call for how invested I got in this.

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Keir Starmer should go immediately... ...to the shops to buy me some cat treats.

Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.

The date of when cherry blossoms in Kyoto bloom has been tracked for 1200 years. Certainly one of the most beautiful data points confirming global warming. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/c...

This video of a Ukrainian Yak-52 crew taking down drones with a shotgun is incredible, but the music is deeply, and profoundly inappropriate. There was really only one option. So I've fixed it.

BREAKING: In just the 16 months since Trump was reelected, the collective fortune of billionaires has grown by $1.96 trillion. More than half of that growth comes from just the top 15 billionaires, who alone grew their collective wealth by over $1 trillion.

The same people who argue with climate scientists about who knows more about climate are naturally going to argue with the Pope about who knows more about Jesus.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

When you feel imposter syndrome sneaking up on you, just remember that JD Vance lectured the Pope on theology.

AI went viral among attorneys. We have the numbers on what happened next

This is culturally really dangerous. Functioning societies depend on most people mostly following the rules even when they could probably get away with not doing so. That breaks down very fast once a critical mass decide that makes them saps and suckers.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

They really think no one can build a guillotine anymore.

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.

A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place. This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism. Here's why.

The great military historian Lawrence Freedman with an excellent summary of the causes of US defeat in Iran. Please read consider following. @ldfreedman.bsky.social samf.substack.com/p/the-causes...

He’s fine. Everything is fine.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

We have entered the “you can’t kill me if I commit suicide” phase of American Decline

Obviously it's completely unseemly that they're hoping to bribe Hungarians to vote for Orban. But it's also just bizarre - Orban does nothing for America, but he does a lot for Russia. Why is this Trump's priority? (It's okay, you don't need to answer.)

The irony of using the orange gobshite who's responsible for all this on the poster. Also - I really, really hate the look of AI generated "art". Real sense of uncanny valley off it.

One signal forecasters look at to determine the development and potential strength of an upcoming El Niño is subsurface warmer than average water. Thanks to this great cross-section of depth in the Pacific Ocean by @cyclonicwx we can see… 1/

Murderous fascist ghouls

The á is interesting here. Suggests to me that this has been copied and pasted.

“Oh but Republicans would…” Lemme stop you right there. I know that Republicans are okay voting for men accused of sexual assault. Republicans are also okay with voting for racists, child rapists, genocidal maniacs, and whatever the fuck pathology is a “Ted Cruz.” So miss me with that argument.

Measurements by buoys at four latitudes in the western Atlantic provide the strongest evidence yet that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is weakening

It really is just a compliment machine, made by and for guys who weren't getting compliments anymore.

Another way SUVs endanger everyone else.

how much money does the marine corps lose

The combination of a very strong #ElNiño - which should reduce harvests across Asia, Australia, Africa, and parts of the Americas - with soaring fertilizer and fuel prices, owing to the ongoing closure of the Strait of #Hormuz, could make for a devastating year of food shortages and social unrest.

Fascinating, Zelensky coming out publicly more and more and saying that Trump is working with/for Putin. The Ukrainians seem to have determined that telling the truth is preferable to lying to please Trump.

Fun fact: every five months, the world builds as much solar power generation as all the nuclear power that has ever been built. And still some people dream of a ”nuclear renaissance”. That train has left the station long ago…

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

According to the FB pages of a number of the fuel protest big mouths, Dublin City centre is a crime ridden hellhole filled with nefarious foreigners and drug addicts who'll rob and stab you within minutes, but they also left their big expensive machinery unattended there all night no bother

Interview on Newstalk with the moron leading the Westmeath fuel protests… “We have people coming over from England” “We are the people of Ireland”. Every text read out mentions foreigners. These creatures have been lapping up right wing hate for years and now they think they see their chance.

The Dow-Jones futures are up because Trump is promising a cease-fire. Don't investors ever learn? If his lips are moving, he's lying.