If you ever meet an Air Force PJ, buy them a drink. They’re some of the bravest MFs you’ll ever meet. They’ve been at this all day trying to find the WSO, despite taking fire every time they go out. “These Things We Do, That Others May Live”

Sad Chinook.

NASA just released the first photos taken by astronauts aboard Artemis II-- the first crewed mission to the moon since 1972. The images show Earth from space, in one photo swathed in clouds and in another almost obscured in darkness.

People need to pay close attention to this OLC opinion on the Presidential Records Act. As @joshgerstein.bsky.social points out, nothing less than our own history is at stake. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Smith: Nobody wants to work with this guy because he's a jackass. We, the American people, are paying the price for Trump's stupidity.

Also Macron, speaking for many, has this explanation: "When you want to be serious, you don’t go around saying the opposite every day of what you just said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn’t talk every day.”

Large blast in the Iranian capital, Tehran after US-Israeli strikes

"A new report claims George was removed because he and Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll refused to remove two Black and two female officers from a list of military members to be promoted to become one-star generals." Left only white men. www.msn.com/en-us/news/n...

New video episode! Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Attack and the Blueprint Behind Project 2025. With @davidsirota.com @johnfugelsang.bsky.social youtu.be/F24LeI_cdQM?...

Cartoon by @chrisbritt.bsky.social

Jeanne Shaheen can be a PITA, but (unlike Fetterman) she at least understands policy. She and Roger Wicker wrote a letter to Bessent and Rubio asking why the fuck they let sanctioned Russians into DC last Friday. They do cite RU targeting help to Iran. www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

The notion of targeting an individual rather than a crime is supposed to be anathema to the ethics of career federal prosecutors, who, in the words of former Attorney General Robert Jackson, have “more control over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America.”

“Three Hundred Habeas Cases in Which the Government Has Defied Court Orders” An extraordinary database of non-compliance, from @katherinepomps.bsky.social and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org for @lawfaremedia.org. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/thre...

The U.S. A-10 that crashed earlier today was hit by Iranian fire while providing close air support for a search-and-rescue mission for the downed F-15, a U.S. officials said. The aircraft made it to Kuwait before crashing, the pilot ejected safely.-ABC News

"We have known for more than a decade that Roy Black, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s defense attorneys, ordered the removal of computers from Epstein’s Palm Beach home about 12 days before Palm Beach police searched Epstein’s home on October 20, 2005."

Trying to get news that might be bad out of the Pentagon is a lot like trying to get Epstein files from DOJ.

Update 1. The last 36 hours (CENTCOM AOR): F-15E lost, pilot rescued 2x HH-60W damaged A-10 down, pilot ejected (allied) Wing Loong 2 down, Shiraz Likely MQ-9 down, Shiraz Possible MQ-9 lost on CSAR mission. F-16 Squawk 7700, Iraq (safely back) 2x KC-135 Squawk 7700, Israel

Some powerful people have paid a price for their Epstein ties. Others haven't. The difference? How close they are to Trump.

Your federal government on Trumpism: "More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May 2025, when the Trump administration shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program... "Another 90,000 vets are heading toward foreclosure..." www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

Thanks @democracydocket.com for citing my reporting on this. My piece from earlier this week: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/fult...

“They were going to come. It was going to be a big thing. We were going to go to the beach right after. All those plans had to go out the window because they said ICE would be here."

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The DHS inspector general - Cuffari - is pretty corrupt. I imagine he will do whatever Trump wants him to do. So I think this boils down to whether Trump dislikes Lewandowski.

😎💥Video of the successful work of the mobile group of Cherkasy Territorial Community

“They were going to come. It was going to be a big thing. We were going to go to the beach right after. All those plans had to go out the window because they said ICE would be here."

Trump Epstein co-conspirators are real.

A Russian teacher filmed his school being militarized by Putin's propaganda:

CNN Pentagon Correspondent Haley Britzky: "One of the 2 crew members has been rescued and is in US custody," per their sources. "The crew member is alive and receiving medical treatment."

The F-15E pilot downed over Iran is alive, in US hands, and receiving medical treatment. The search for the WSO is still ongoing.-CNN

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

In other news, my screenshots were used by the Twitter account of Esmaeil Baqaei, the Spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with regard to allegations of direct military involvement of Gulf Coast Countries (GCC) - particularly the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

And thus the US government badmouths Ukrainian systems that are battle tested and work. Warmongers is an old-fashioned word but it fits the Trump crew very well.

Notes from the much larger and more significant war: in March Russia gained no net territory in Ukraine, and lost more soldiers than it was able to replace.

@jd-vance-1.bsky.social Why does pete hate Catholics ?

Why does he hate Catholics?

A viral clip posted to X on Thursday showed Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback blowing up at a Black voter and telling him he should be "lynched" for asking about the allegations of inappropriate behavior with teenagers.

How corruption works. Daddy asks for $1.5T. His top campaign donor asks for $1T. His spawn enter the defense contracting business.

Sexual tourism is common among in the US Border Patrol. Agents now dropping the dime on Chief Banks have known abt this for years. Why are they just now complaining? Smells of internal power struggle. Here’s another case but the agent was killed: lacartita.com/tales-of-med...

US Border Patrol bans Christian church parishioners from praying at border wall. www.theborderchronicle.com/thou-shall-n...

Video of what appears to be a C-130 and two Blackhawk helicopters conducting SAR operations near the 3 Balotak cable bridge in Khuzestan Province, Southwestern Iran. Source: t.me/c/2213359076...

ASTRONAUTS ARE INSIDE THE MAGNETOTAIL: "The crew is now inside a part of Earth's magnetosphere that humans have not visited before: the magnetotail--a comet-like extension of the our planet's magnetic field that stretches millions of kilometers..." Spaceweather.com

NYT: “Iran shot down an Air Force F-15E fighter jet over the country… The fate of the 2 member crew was unclear, as U.S. forces scrambled to mount a search and rescue operation before Iran could get to any survivors, officials said….” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Todd Blanche “has never stopped seeing himself as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer” and used his position “to illegally fire career employees, smear whistleblowers and attack the judiciary,” says Stacey Young of Justice Connection.

A US fighter jet has been shot down in Iran. The crew is now missing and a search is underway.

Around the same time this pilot was going down, Whiskey Pete was busy firing competent officers, bc he didn't have anything better to do with his time except purge competence.

Seems like Hegseth is taking out more generals in the US than Iran.

“Trump and Hegseth have been on a clear mission to politicize the U.S. military, and to turn it into an armed extension of the MAGA movement.”

“Her problem turned out to be that it remains very difficult to convict Americans of a crime they did not commit…”

Pentagon added Operation Epic Fury to its online database of U.S. military casualties. As of April 3, a total of 365 have been wounded in action: • Army = 247 • Navy = 63 • Marine = 19 • Air Force = 36 Death toll remains at 13 dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/con...