All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

I’m working on a story about this claim and I’ll give you a spoiler: it’s not true

How Chris LaNeve came to be Hegseth’s military assistant and then VCSA (and now acting CSA even he isn’t picked as George’s successor) “LaNeve got Trump’s attention in the hours after his inauguration, when LaNeve called into the Commander in Chief’s Ball with his troops from South Korea.”

Whoops, here is the link:

And, just in case you were thinking of steaming through the Strait any time soon: "The intelligence, compiled in recent days, also showed a large percentage of Iran’s coastal defense cruise missiles were intact....Those missiles serve as a key capability allowing Iran to threaten shipping traffic"

So, THREE top Army leaders fired immediately: Chief of Staff, four star TRADOC (now TATCOM?), and two star head of the Chaplain corps

“May be”?!

does the fourth amendment exist

China "has captured the majority of newbuilding orders since the beginning of the year"

Yeah ok but what about the ones in the US

I’m fucking crying dude. Asking “pretty please do not introduce a security vulnerability”.

LMAAOOOOOOOOO Lejeune on a Friday night just got spicier

Perhaps no other incumbent four star was more all in with this admin than General George and it got him nothing.

Get rekt

Ok but look how competently DoD is run now that black people and women are being purged from the higher ranks and merit is the only criteria bsky.app/profile/empt...

Last month I reported in this NYT Magazine story that CIA paramilitary operatives who advised the CTPTs were in fact the perpetrators of some of the prisoner executions that have been attributed to the CTPTs, and in other cases ordered CTPT personnel to carry them out www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/m...

This is a SkySat image from @planet.com from Feb 22, 2026 showing the status of the B1 bridge that was bombed today. It's still very much under construction a week before the war started. According to @barakravid.bsky.social, U.S. officials say Iran was secretly transporting missiles over this?

Two things that are simultaneously true. 1. Pam Bondi & Kristi Noem are evildoers who deserved to be fired. 2. The only high-profile cabinet members to be fired, in a cabinet filled with incompetent evildoers (such as Pete Hegseth), are women. Trump is the triple-lindy of putrescence.

People sometimes compared what Iran was doing in Iraq with EFPs to what the US had done in Afg with Stingers. But the Quds Force could have put ATGMs, MANPADS, and RPG-29s in the hands of every Mahdi Army battalion and really transformed the war—the weapons it was giving Hezbollah—and it didn’t.

As Iranian drones target the UAE, Bellingcat reveals a number of instances where authorities downplayed damage and mischaracterised interceptions. Meanwhile the UAE’s attorney general warned that publication of images or videos of strikes is illegal. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04...

🎥 Donald Trump posts a video that appears to show the aftermath of a U.S. attack on civilian infrastructure in Iran.

Oh, well, in that case

Irony, it turns out, is also a victim of genocide.

Reports Israel bombed the Pasteur Institute in Iran, a medical research center. Founded in 1920, its vaccination programs helped eradicate smallpox in the Middle East. During the pandemic, it played a key role in covid management & vaccine development. [NIH link pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38224028/]

Bleakly funny that Saudi Arabia could have funded another East-West pipeline *and* a multi-country one for the amount of money MBS frittered away on The Line and still had around $20bn left over.

It’s also notable that the CENTCOM commanders etc. we most associate with pushing for confrontation with Iran, like Mattis, McKenzie, and Kurilla, didn’t actually command units that squared off with Iranian partners/proxies in Iraq. They didn’t lose their own soldiers/Marines to EFPs. Whereas…

This is probably true, but there’s also a structural issue having to do with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars being taken out of CENTCOM’s direct control and placed in the hands of new 4-star theater headquarters 20+ yrs ago, leaving CENTCOM with little to do *but* plan for confrontation with Iran.

UN experts said the targeted killing of three Lebanese journalists constitutes another egregious attack on press freedom by Israeli forces and must be promptly, fully and independently investigated by an international body. Read the statement ⤵️ www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... 📷 AP/Mohammed Zaatari

“I may not have studied the Geneva Conventions, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.”

Tfw you fake your death for a lark but everyone celebrated instead of mourned

Finally, a job opening for Ted Nugent

in the past week alone we have had... -- a 12-ton KitKat heist -- a highly organized Italian art heist -- reports of criminals robbing trucks using a technique called "the Romanian rollover" i blogged it type-click-type.ghost.io/what-a-week-...

i don’t think any of them have read the treaty or even understand how or where article 5 and it’s friend article 6 apply. it does not cover the middle east and never has. it also doesn’t cover a country starting a fight itself www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

seems like we are thinking similar thoughts (great company to be in): www.kff.org/public-opini...

"Grocery inflation also ‌often follows energy inflation: transportation accounts for 20% to 40% of final food prices, according to Bank of America, and gas is a key input for fertilizer production. Prices of rice, cotton, palm oil and sugar, among other commodities, have already risen," Reuters said.

More data on this front:

In space no one can hear you on Teams

Goldman says Japan has about six weeks. (h/t Sozzi)

Iranian Nobel laureate suffered suspected heart attack in prison, family says

This one is also quite thorough: kuber.studio/blog/AI/Clau...

Eryk's been doing really great work around why "it's useful for problem Y" isn't remotely reason enough to embrace these systems as they stand

I made it my life mission to reference this as many times as I can

Burkina, Mali troops kill more civilians than jihadists do, data shows reut.rs/4v7d5u4

Anthropic sending people copyright takedown notices to forbid using their code, and irony is rolling in its grave.

NO president is "our commander-in-chief" or CiC of the U.S. Stop it. U.S. Const., art. II, sec. 2: "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States."

“As B’Tselem showed in its 2025 report Our Genocide, the dehumanisation of Palestinians is a long-term process. The debate is not about facts. It is about recognising Israel for what it is: a state that systematically kills Palestinians with impunity & erodes international law & basic moral norms.”

A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history. www.wired.com/story/border...