Hey businesses using AI for customer service-it SUCKS!! Either make it easy to get to human or lose my business! Tired of wasting time w/AI chat/phone “customer service” that can’t solve problems & won’t get me to human. Have better things to do in life than fight w/stupid AI “customer service.”

This story is a part of "Power Hungry," our latest package on the AI oligarchs who are upending communities over their plans for massive data centers across the country. Check it out:

Did you pay your taxes? Then you gave $4,049 to war and weapons. According to the Institute for Policy Studies, taxpayers contributed more to Pentagon contractors ($1,870) than to troops' pay ($770), and more to militarism than programs like school lunches ($124) or the Postal Service ($19).

So many upsetting stories in the news, so I’m going to post a picture of Butterscotch peacefully sleeping and then go to sleep myself. Goodnight everyone. 💙

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020. She missed these trials by a few months. One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here. I feel such a hole inside. In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

Sam Altman’s Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Company Gets in Bed With Zoom and Tinder Will your boss require an eyeball scan the next time you need to jump on Zoom? gizmodo.com/sam-altmans-...

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Just watched Trevor Noah’s special on Netflix. He is really great and I found myself remembering being with him as we talked for two hours on his podcast, What Now? He opened up with recounting how Trump dissed him when he hosted the Grammys. Worth www.netflix.com/us/title/820...

Their friends called the couple “The Huxtables.” When scandal derailed him, she assumed nearly ever single family duty. Then he disintegrated. They were at the 11th hour of a divorce when he killed her and then himself. free to read: wapo.st/4eselSC

The "Dog/Puppy Dstribution System" at work.

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Important story from the Times on the rise of AI influencers for Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

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Please don't fall for quacks pushing bad drugs. Dr. Hotez warns about the scam.

With Trump you don't know this is because he's so detached the reality of everyday people, or he's just losing his marbles and can't remember words and phrases anymore.

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

Candace was right — “According to Secret Service, no ‘credible threats’ tied to the event, officials considered the site secure.” Erika Kirk bailed because ticket sales were awful for her TP USA event with JD Vance— then claimed there were threats. 🤔 starmagazine.com/secret-servi...

It should be mandatory for every Republican in Congress & the admin to write out one week of groceries for a family of 4 - everything they need - then drive to a grocery store and put each item in a cart, then pay for those items with their own money, then get a full tank of gas.

Trump rants his ballroom will feature "Bomb Shelters, a State of the Art Hospital & Medical Facilities,Top Secret Military Installations, Protective Missile Resistant Steel, Drone Proof Ceilings, Military Grade Venting, & Bullet, Ballistic, & Blast Proof Glass" Dafuq kind of ballroom is this?

California - Governor Polling: Hilton: 17% Bianco: 14% Steyer: 14% Becerra: 10% Porter: 10% Mahan: 5% Villaraigosa: 3% Emerson / April 15, 2026

BREAKING: The House of Representatives passed a bill that will provide a 3-year period of protection and work authorization to Haitians, after the Trump administration illegally terminated Temporary Protected Status for thousands of our loved ones and neighbors who fled Haiti.

Update: Alabama No Kings protestor arrested for “dick-tator” costume found not guilty on all charges. mynbc15.com/news/local/f...

“what is vivek ramaswamy up to these days” -no one, ever

The Trump Admin has abruptly canceled an $11M contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship between the Catholic Church and the U.S. government dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.

"The Pentagon is interested in enlisting the companies to use their personnel and factory capacity to increase production of munitions and other equipment as the wars in Ukraine and Iran deplete stocks."

I do not like to talk about someone’s looks but if I were Stephen Miller’s wife I would not be making this comment!

South Korea says secures 273 mln barrels of crude via routes outside Strait of Hormuz reut.rs/41AfWOJ

The U.S. Treasury's bank regulation agency has terminated the lease for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Washington headquarters after 14 years and agreed to pass the premises to the federal government's general real estate management agency, records obtained by Reuters show.

A sanctioned Iranian supertanker - with its tracker on - has sailed through the Strait of Hormuz into Iran without interference. (Fars) Looks like the US blockade is just hot air. Who would have guessed.

The US is sending 10,000 extra troops and multiple warships to the Middle East to increase pressure on Iran, WaPo reports.

Vance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration. ​I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro.

I can never forgive Republicans for delivering Trump to the American people. Killing hundreds of thousands because of his handling of COVID. Gun policy deaths. Any fuckers talking about policy similarities between the parties instead of the life changing differences has their head up their asses.

I will never forgive Republicans for the deaths & destruction of immigrant families with their policies. The murder of citizens. The cruelty and murder of poor people who had to watch relatives and friends die because of lack of health insurance. The murder of our soldiers because of stupidity.

A review of official statements shows that the public account does not always align with what can be observed through open sources. Bellingcat reveals a number of instances where authorities downplayed damage and mischaracterised interceptions. Read more: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04...

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This is why Russia is still fighting, why the war continues and why people are dying: Because Trump and Vance encouraged Putin to believe he could win

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Sanctioned Iranian supertanker broke US blockade - Iran's Fars

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

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...

TONIGHT: @markwarner.bsky.social joins @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

An idea whose time is so overdue it's grown mold. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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President Donald Trump has nominated a former Korean American lawmaker as the new U.S. ambassador to South Korea, the White House announced this week. www.stripes.com/theaters/asi...

It was carrying about 250,000 barrels of methanol, and its crew consisted of Chinese citizens. Another ship under sanctions, Murlikishan, which previously transported oil from Russia and Iran, is heading towards the strait. 3/4

I wish some Republicans with integrity and courage would go into the deep red communities and convince the people to vote for their country, not for a traitor who's doing everything to destroy it.

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