My G-d The Navy goes from an incompetent in John Phelan who was appointed because he was a Trump donor To Hung Cao-the apparent king of stolen valor who believes parts of America are being overrun by..witches and wiccans Heaven help our sailors fighting Iran-on active duty in the Strait of Hormuz

If you’re attending Coachella, you’re funding MAGA. If you’re performing or “influencing,” you are absolutely MAGA.

Note that no action is needed for this fix to protect Signal users on iOS. Once you install the patch, all inadvertently-preserved notifications will be deleted and no forthcoming notifications will be preserved for deleted applications.

Apple’s advisory confirmed that the bugs that allowed this to happen have been fixed in the latest iOS release. You can read more here: support.apple.com/en-us/127002

whew!

Great news. A couple of weeks ago we learned that the FBI used the iPhone notifications database to harvest Signal messages after they had been deleted. They just fixed that bug! ✅ Upgrade to the latest iOS version now: 26.4.2 (Settings > General > Software Update) (Pass it on)

Trump’s proposed 2027 budget would almost double the budget for plutonium pits, the chemical filled metal sphere inside a nuclear warhead that kicks off the explosion in a nuclear weapon. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/trump-2027-b...

Learn more ⤵️ www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...

🚨🙌The Court of Justice of the European Union ruling on April 21, 2026, against Hungary’s 2021 anti-LGBT law is an important rejection of efforts to stigmatize LGBT people. HRW calls on Hungary’s new government to act without delay to repeal the discriminatory law.

Below is a statement from the unionized workers of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

"At his confirmation hearing, Roberts famously promised 'to call balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat.' The memos show something different: a justice with a rooting interest, and a strike zone that shifts depending on who's up." bit.ly/4vQWP0W

This seems like as good a time as any to remind everyone that throughout recorded history, troops in combat are more likely to die from disease than combat injuries. And it’s not even close. The major killer over time has been diarrhea.

8)Climate is perfect for legitimacy laundering bcuz “delay” can be packaged as prudence:feasibility doubt,cost panic,grid fear,“just asking questions.”It sounds responsible until you notice identical frames repeating across nodes. Climate denialism became climate delay www.desmog.com/2026/01/26/a...

6) The tell is personnel reuse: the same small set of names rotate roles across “think tank,” “civil society,” “media guest,” and “advisor.” Map repeat guests and bios across outlets instead of arguing each segment in isolation. www.thenewsforum.ca

5) Watch the policy endpoints: when a claim travels from panel chat to policy brief to legislative framing, & across the oceans, it stops looking like ideology and starts looking like “what serious ppl think.”That’s the laundering cycle completing. This is the strategy www.desmog.com/2023/12/09/a...

4) A key laundering move is consortium cover: a Brussels “network of networks” can present coordinated messaging as plural, local, and technical. It shifts debate from values to “policy expertise,” where scrutiny drops. multinationales.org/en/investiga...

3) The origin story matters because it shows intent: build institutions designed to “seed, staff, coach” and scale influence through local partners. Once the network exists, it can generate endless “neutral” commentary on demand. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

1) Legitimacy laundering is when advocacy puts on a lab coat. A network creates “experts,” places them in trusted venues, then repeats same frames until they feel like baseline reality.The trick is venue & repetition, not winning arguments #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy #AtlasNetwork

As @ottergoose.net noted, it is likely Delta transported all of the families sent to Dilley. They are the only commercial airline that does nonstop flights between Minneapolis and San Antonio, and we know they transported Liam Conejo Ramos. gillianbrockell.com/video-proves...

The physical and emotional pain our government inflicted on this mother is unbearable. We must spend the rest of our lives repairing the damage done with our tax dollars. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social. 70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge. 30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation. 7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

we ALREADY disbanded this type of thing before we can do it again bsky.app/profile/lisa...

When Black Women Used Hair Braids to Escape Slavery A history lesson in brilliance and resilience lessons we could use right now jeffreykass.medium.com/when-black-w...

If they spent the last 50 years trying to tear it all down? We just have to spend the next 50 years building it back up. We don't let them win. Ever. Even if it looks like they are in charge & things are bleak. If we don't give up they have not won at all.

Elon Musk got brain-captured by the reheated John Birch Society conspiracy theories of Mike Benz and went on tilt against USAID.

Black people prove once again that we are sophisticated and strategic voters who not only know how to navigate a political system trained against us but can defy mis- and disinformation. Thank you, Virginia.

What do Levi’s, Hanes, and Chewy have in common? California AG Rob Bonta just revealed evidence alleging that Amazon used its power to pressure them, and countless other brands, to inflate prices of listings on rival online marketplaces as part of wide-ranging price-fixing scheme.

1. The central claim in the indictment of SPLC is a lie. The DOJ/FBI accuse SPLC of lying to donors about seeking to “dismantle” extremist groups while secretly funding them. But the funds were used to infiltrate & help law enforcement dismantle these groups. Kash Patel knows this is the truth…

12. One thing I’ve learned studying extremism these past 25 years: cognitive dissonance among extremists is very real. They’ll simultaneously celebrate an action while blaming their perceived opponents for it: “The 2020 election was stolen, January 6th wasn’t that bad, but the deep state did it!”

An influential Trump-aligned think tank goes after hospitals www.axios.com/2026/04/22/t...

📍 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐀: Farmworkers say threats of deportation are rising across agricultural communities — making workers more afraid to report labor abuses or speak out, as immigration enforcement is increasingly used to intimidate and silence them. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

"Gone is the notion that striving will result in a better station in life (for you). Gone is the accumulation of wealth and property (for you). Gone even is very the concept of ownership (for you). Those things exist only for us now. They are our cross to bear."

EXCLUSIVE: The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche. Another dark day for DOJ. Tonight, at Law Dork:

6) If you want to track this system like an investigator, ignore the shiny “AI” language and watch the connectors: which databases get linked, who defines watchlist categories, what agencies gain access, and what new laws make those links permanent. We need to pay attention to the Palantir/Oracle's

1) “800 million cameras” is the headline, but the story is the architecture. China’s surveillance state works like a full stack system: cameras, biometrics, databases, and rules that make identification routine. It is governance by continuous ID checks. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Hundreds of workers at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard just lost their union protections with the stroke of the President's pen. It is an outrageous act that should concern us all. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/04/21/y...

That’s why you’re hearing women say they don’t want to date. Don’t want to marry. Don’t want to gamble their safety on potential. It’s not bitterness, but calculation. So when women say they’d rather be alone, what they’re really saying

More detail in this article: www.conspirator0.com/p/these-fire...

In recent weeks, various alleged firefighters and home inspectors have been running fearmongering Facebook ads for carbon monoxide detectors sold by dubious websites. There are, however, multiple problems; for example, many of the pages running the ads are renamed accounts with AI-generated avatars.

The message of the Right reacting to Virginia is the same as the message of "2020 was rigged": no victory by anyone but us is ever legitimate. We are the only ones allowed to win. These people are cartoon villains entitled to no respect and no trust. Rabid dogs.

“Algorithmic conspirituality”- what a fantastic and terrifying phrase, and a desperate search for meaning. Makes more sense that tea leaves fortune telling.

These are eight of the most high-impact, cost-effective, evidence-based organizations. You may not have heard of them. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

The number of angry messages I got from insecure men on my article demanding men be accountable for rape culture & 'Rape Academy' reminds me to share my article repeatedly. Men: Stop being insecure. Stop being pathetic. Start holding rapists accountable. qasimrashid.substack.com/p/men-we-nee...

They’re framing this as if Ferguson is just a standalone place when it’s actually nestled alongside other small municipalities. Soooo essentially North County is on the brink of getting a data center. This is crazy. www.firstalert4.com/2026/04/20/n...

As for me, I'll be talking about our work on building community resilience in the face of extreme events and disaster at the Sustainability Symposium at AU then joining colleagues at the Brookings Institution to discuss Climate Policy to rebuild the middle class. cece.american.edu/office-of-su...

🌏 Happy Earth Day 2026 🌎 I hope everyone is taking today to think about the wonders of our blue marble and how we all work together to protect it.

Amidst all the GOP whining tonight, a reminder that the Democrats would currently control the House were it not for the late, illegal GOP gerrymandering in GA & NC in 2024.

Protesters gathered outside SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas as the company hosted Wall Street analysts ahead of a highly anticipated initial public offering.