As I wrote this morning… www.stevevladeck.com/p/227-were-a...

As driverless cars threaten to slowly replace taxi drivers, Big Tech is yet again destroying human interaction and calling it “convenience,” Xochitl Gonzalez argues.

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Rubio doesn’t come across as the biggest monster in this administration, but there’s a valid argument that he is. Demolishing USAID was a slow moving atrocity. He must never be freed of responsibility for it.

His whole life, all Donald Trump has ever done is involve himself in things he barely cares about or understands, drive it into the ground through his own avarice and corruption, and leave a trail of misery in his wake. But the fact he’s now pulling that off with American Christianity is impressive.

‘My “this is not a golden calf” t-shirt etc.’

If not idolatry, why idolatry shaped?

If you’re wondering why air travel in the US is a mess these days?

They need to all go to jail for the rest of their lives. The magnitude of the crimes are unprecedented & we have not internalized the scope & scale of criminal authoritarianism that letting boys with toys access all the data & destroy the government by end-running around Congress represents.

We are living through a Jim Crow-ification moment in Black representation, but it's happening much faster than it took to consolidate actual Jim Crow. For the democratic backsliding observers out there, race was always the beating heart of American authoritarianism—this was always how it'd go here.

Every time.

This headline is incredibly irresponsible - just the uncritical acceptance of this man's ignorance! - especially considering that partway through the piece, you run smack into this tidbit: "No major medical organizations were represented at the gathering."

Hate to brag but my intelligence also suggested that.

This reporting is bonkers. The "status quo" before the war was that the US Navy *did not* have to spend billions a week to secure safe passage for other countries' oil through the Strait of Hormuz.

a “what does tucker carlson believe” story should be one sentence long and the sentence is “he will say literally anything for money, we saw him admit it in the texts released in the dominion lawsuit”

The rich people of today only have two ideas: 1. Let’s kill everyone 2. I need a bunker so after we kill everyone I can emerge from underground, spread my wings like a peacock, and continue to be rich

“What the Roberts Court is making possible,” @adamserwer.bsky.social argues, “is a country where white people can maintain their political dominance at the expense of Americans who are not white.” He examines what to expect following the Voting Rights Act ruling:

The right-wing majority on SCOTUS are MAGA political operatives. They have the same goal as Trump: ensuring that elections are longer free or fair.

Justice Kagan: "I dissent. The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—'one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation's history.'

Yep. Even that guy.

What’s despicable, ma’am, is not that people have recognized similarities between Trump and Hitler, but that those similarities exist.

One cognitive structure that Trump and MAGA have built is the idea that if a lot of people are yelling at you, its because you are right and brave, and they are woke and intolerant. This helps to resolve the cognitive dissonance of abandoning your principles for obviously self-interested reasons.

Another Silicon Valley guy who protested the first Trump administration is now aligned with him. The pattern has been extraordinary. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...

It's just so funny that their egos are so inflated that you can't even tell them how math works.... they know better.

BREAKING: Sean Hannity announces he no longer supports math after it explains why Trump and RFK Jr are wrong.

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

Scenes from a personalist regime: Congress appoints a position to provide accountability for state media - Trump removes her for not being sufficiently supportive.

My daughter is 17 and regularly shops at that mall. It could have been her. It could have been her. It could have been her.

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...

Under U.S. law, that is not just a Hungarian problem. Foreign governments are barred from spending money in American elections, and Americans are forbidden from soliciting or accepting it. If these allegations are true, this is a direct attack on the integrity of American democracy.

These are empty threats. The Iranians surely know by now that they are free to do pretty much whatever they want with the Strait. Trump has taught them that control of that waterway is a great new substitute (or complement) for a nuclear program. Why would they give that up at this point?

It’s his bunker for when he doesn’t transfer power in 2028.

2011 epic bacon Reddit-ass administration. Have you ever seen Boondock Saints-ass administration. Keep calm and chive on-ass administration.

“The average new car now costs $50,000. The median home price is $100,000 higher than 2020. You gotta pay $7 for a bag of f—king Doritos now. Prices are too damn high, and they won’t come down until Trumpism is replaced by a functional, responsible government.” www.sfgate.com/sports/artic...

I don’t think non physicians realize how for real physicians, vaccines is a controversy like flat earth or creationism or birds aren’t real "No true Scotsman" actually holds here it's hard to really describe how baffling this is, how frustrating its been to see grow and how high the price will be

this really is a significant blow to the global far right. Hungary under Orban was more than a financier and place to host events: it was a proof of concept

I feel like there's a shorter way to say "a different approach than not being corrupt."

Too early for Halloween? lol

Finally we the official legend for the various elements in this magnificent Trump icon

To be fair this is a photograph of my actual doctor.

the way that basically everyone (including myself) sees shit like this all the time and goes "huh. well," and moves along with the day, and that basically gives Trump a superpower, is sure grim

A must for whoever runs in 28

Maybe JD Vance should stick to something he is good at like explaining Catholic texts to the pope.

Has anyone tried maybe sending a couple of experts in diplomacy along with some people who know the language and have studied the culture and politics of the region carefully for a long time?

Trump doesn’t care if a deal gets made (because he’s a malignant narcissist)

“What Trump’s statement revealed was not just a negotiating tactic but something more disturbing: a president who recognizes no legal, constitutional, or moral limits on his conduct. He is unfit for office and should be removed immediately.” www.theunpopulist.net/p/america-ne...