Just a reminder that we can fund science, and save the earth, and feed everyone, and have health care and housing too. All those things are within our reach, together.

My husband, repeatedly: “How can they do this? How can it be so precise??” SCIENCE. Publicly funded science.

We fought and lost a war in Iran so that both the Iranians and the Russians could make far more money from oil—the Iranians from tolls, the Russians from higher prices and the end of sanctions. That isn’t just strategic defeat; it’s self-destructive foolishness at a level unknown to military history

In his tirade against MAGA war critics, Trump blasted Alex Jones for calling Sandy Hook a hoax. This seemed odd. So I went back and checked. At the time Trump hailed Jones as "amazing" and rebuffed demands that he denounce lies about the shooting. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2089...

I hope all these companies that threw in with Trump get bitten in the ass

There is a reason we are seeing white men exposed as predators every day. It cannot be overstated how normalized preying on children is in that culture. Trump is not an accident. He's a symptom.

For over 8 million Americans, Trump wants to collect: "Medical and pharmaceutical claims, diagnoses, treatments, visit length, provider information, doctor’s notes or after-visit summaries..." All "with identifying information, such as names and birth dates" kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

good thing trump always keeps his promises, wonder how confident pam bondi and kristi noem are feeling about that promise right now

Trump is so excited about giving a fellow dictator your money!

My plan to reform the presidential pardon power as part of a series of constitutional amendment provisions: Prohibitions on pardons for family members, donors affiliated with the president, persons who carried out illegal Executive Branch orders

Wow, great news: the CDC has a study proving COVID vaccines slashed hospitalizations by 55%. Bad news: RFK Jr.’s team killed it before publication because facts were inconvenient. They are literally hiding data that could save your life. #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/208886/...

The annoying low battery beep of the fire alarm that America refuses to deal with.

Trump is playing 4-Dementia chess.

No way. You mean he's prolonging his/Trump's illegal war to avoid criminal court? Where'd he ever get an idea like that?

(Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked to postpone giving testimony in his long-running corruption trial that was set to resume next week, citing the ongoing security situation in the region, Netanyahu's lawyer said in a court filing on Friday. @reuters.com

In recordings obtained exclusively by the Daily Beast, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein bragged about his close friendship with both Donald and Melania Trump.

. If I dangle you over the edge of a building and then pull you back up, I didn’t save your life. I almost killed you. And that is what Trump just did to the entire world. .

Dear international friends, Do not travel to the United States this summer for the World Cup. It isn't safe for us, and it's absolutely not safe for you. Sincerely, An American citizen

Heat batteries are a game changer for decarbonising heat. Polar Night Energy and Lahti Energia Oy have partnered to construct what is expected to become the world’s largest sand-based thermal energy storage system, to be built in Vääksy, Finland. www.environmentenergyleader.com/stories/worl...

April 9, 2026

Wow. Your ending sentence in this is particularly brutal. "But it is hard to miss that hours after his wife gave an unexpected press conference about Jeffrey Epstein, Trump posted a video of a woman’s murder." Damn. Way to bury the lede.

"The emperor penguin’s move to endangered is a stark warning: climate change is accelerating the extinction crisis before our eyes. Governments must act now to urgently decarbonise our economies.” - Martin Harper, BirdLife International 😢 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"A recent survey conducted by the Manhattan Institute found that more than half of male Republican voters under fifty thought that the Holocaust was exaggerated or hadn’t happened as historians described." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Melania is bringing up the Epstein files to distract from the Iran War which was started to distract from the Epstein files.

"The very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.... None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing." —Toni Morrison

Yesterday, the ProPublica Guild walked off the job in the first strike by a major U.S. newsroom over, at least in part, AI protections. I spoke with striking journalists and union leaders on the picket line in New York for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/prop...

I did not know Epstein on a boat I did not know Epstein with a goat I did not know Epstein in the air I did not know him anywhere!

5/5. Orbán is down 23 points in the latest independent polling. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/o...

4/5. When Orbán loses, that exposes the weaknesses of MAGA: talk of peace but need for war; talk of prosperity but fleecing of the working classes; talk of the nation but dependence on an international oligarchical network.

1/5. Orbán pioneered a model whereby oligarchs trade the fascist memes and electoral tricks they use to stay in power. He made Budapest a node between Moscow and Washington of the international far right.

if the world wasn't on fire we would be studying this guy on a petri dish to understand how it is even possible to generate an anti charisma field of this magnitude, he might be the first mutant

(anyway maybe if we'd held the traitors who launched a war to break up the Union in order to keep enslaving human people to real account, we wouldn't be where we are today Happy Appomattox Day)

Trump’s Pentagon left American cadets trapped on ships as bombs hit Iran, with no warning whatsoever. Senator Blumenthal demands answers.

15 people have died in ICE custody JUST THIS YEAR. That is 1 death a week. Under this regime, 2026 is set to be the deadliest year for ICE detention EVER. The need for guardrails and meaningful oversight could not be more urgent.

First you make #prison conditions bad enough for people that they try to burn themselves alive by starting electrical fires in the cells they are locked into. Then, to stop them from doing that, you make conditions worse for them.

Unprecedented corruption

GOOD wdsu.com/article/new-...

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

"i could probably pilot a ship through the straight of hormuz" -next big thing 80% of men secretly believe about themselves

The Hungarian election is about Russian oligarchy and its support of the international far right. That’s why Vance is there. He is a node in that network.

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at

A commenter notes that "Trump managed to be both Hitler and Chamberlain in the same negotiation. An unprecedented feat." 😭

Just watched the New Orleans Historical District Landmark Committee public meeting on the proposed demolition of Ted's Frostop to turn it into a Tulane dormitory. The public was 98% against it, the committee ruled unanimously against it. #nola #nohdlc #nolasky

“This is a trans-national effort, funded by Russian oil, to replace Western liberalism with a pro-Russian ideology... Orbán is not just the puppet that gives this packaged ideology a European face... he oversees the money laundering vehicles to fund the larger network” emptywheel.net/2026/04/07/p...

Between oil futures, prediction markets, and the new “joint venture” with Iran, someone needs to find out exactly how much money the Trump family might be making off of this war while American soldiers take casualties.

Also, I think “President and VP agreed to ceasefire without reading its explicit terms” is probably the headline here, not “Tensions endanger peace.” Like there’s an agent of this rolling catastrophe and it’s verifiably them

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.

Indeed, losing for others is Trump’s superpower. His magic is that his people stick to him like gamblers, thinking that somehow each loss signals the next win. (11/14)

It was always incoherent to back Russia while fighting Russia’s ally Iran. The end result is that Russia and Iran emerge stronger and the US emerges weaker. (9/14)