Viktor Orbán's false flag operation surrounding a supposed bomb planted on a gas pipeline near the Hungarian-Serbian border appears to have been fully coordinated with the Russian intelligence services as part of an effort to help Orbán win the upcoming Hungarian elections. This is evident from

Trump: "Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. They are lunatics, and you can't put nuclear weapons in the hands of a lunatic."

For all the increased speed and accuracy of AI-assisted targeting, the war with Iran is showing that the physical world still imposes major barriers to victory. Our experts Marc Gustafson and Justin Kosslyn explain for @nytimes.com:

Emoluments meets … Idiocracy 🤡 Wag the Dog 💰

Emoluments meets … Idiocracy 🤡 Wag the Dog 💰

President Trump had a middle-of-the-night meltdown over the Supreme Court—thinking if they watched The Mark Levin Show on Fox News, it would somehow make the justices finally understand his nonsensical arguments against birthright citizenship. trib.al/XeJiy38

Members of Elon Musk’s private security team were deputized as federal agents last year even though some of them lacked the required training and law enforcement experience, according to newly released government emails. nbcnews.to/4dBXjkR

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“Neither Mr. Trump nor Mr. Hegseth has been able explain how the war will end, short of the U.S. military battering Iran’s leaders into agreeing to concessions that, thus far, they have been unwilling to make.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/u...

"Secretary Rubio Revokes Green Cards of Foreign Nationals with Ties to Iranian Terror Regime" www.state.gov/releases/off...

Artemis II astronauts are more than halfway to the moon as they seek to break Apollo 13’s record

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

What it's like in Lebanon for people in need of medical care: A displaced patient with leukemia came to our mobile clinic. “I spend nights in a park, and I don’t know how I’ll continue my treatment." https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/israeli-attacks-lebanon-intensify-people-are-cut-care

Just a reminder that transgender people are not causing Americans to lose their retirement savings.

“Someday military academies will teach Trump’s Glorious Iran War as a case study in armed incompetence.” @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/our-low-iq...

AI companies don't disclose data about their safety teams. But this analysis suggests they're a tiny fraction of overall staff

Sources: Microsoft weighs legal action against Amazon and OpenAI over whether AWS can offer OpenAI Frontier without breaching Microsoft-OpenAI agreement (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The US is no longer a liberal democracy, according to the top global watchdog on freedom and democracy. We're falling fast, and are now classed the same as Guatemala, Colombia, and Peru www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

So now Joe Kent is doing Tucker Carlson’s podcast then Candace Owens’ podcast and I’m sure everything that goes down will be perfectly sane and normal.

The rise of Hitler salutes and chats on college campuses is reminiscent of the 1959-1960 swastika outbreak that spread all across the US and the world. newrepublic.com/post/207877/...

Erin Go Bragh ☘️☘️💪🏽 www.jfklibrary.org/archives/oth... ☘️

Q. What's the difference between Iran 🇮🇷 and Vietnam? A. Trump had an exit plan for Vietnam! 🇻🇳 🤡

Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating

Joe Kent received campaign contributions from Peter Thiel, went on Nick Fuentes' groyper show to discuss the ideal ratio white Christians to others in the US, and hired a Proud Boy as a campaign campaign consultant.

Iran’s oil empire has one fatal flaw — and the US knows it. The majority of its crude flows through Kharg Island, a tiny target with massive consequences. But is the risk worth the fallout? Peter Devlin takes a look

Iran launched fresh attacks on the United Arab Emirates, the kind of retaliatory strikes on US Gulf allies that President Trump said had not been expected, but which sources said he had been warned about before the conflict reut.rs/4uskunr

Back in 2024, the President did an interview at the Economic Club of Chicago and called Newsome “Newscum.” The interviewer said, “No CEO could call people names like that and keep his job, that’s childish.” Trump just said: “That’s what I call him.” (All this from memory)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation on Tuesday, saying he “cannot in good conscience” back the Trump administration’s war in Iran. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...

“America has been at war for nearly a week, but the president who started the war can’t explain why,” Adam Serwer argues:

Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."

Oil price shocks create many losers, but some winners too ft.trib.al/ZifUn27 | opinion

"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes." www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

US has burned through ‘years’ of munitions since start of Iran war www.ft.com/content/1471...

Talarico: "There's another war in the Middle East. There's a cost of living crisis. There's a secret pedophile ring & no one has been prosecuted. So the people responsible are trying to distract us with the same old culture wars ... what do the American people care more about -- pronouns or prices?"

Great day in Sacramento at our California Natural Resources Agency embracing #WomenOfCarbon during #WomensHistoryMonth 🌳 🏙️ vimeo.com/954551969 #Sustainability

Every dollar of investment in renewables creates 3x more jobs. The ‌International Energy Agency estimates that about 5 million jobs in fossil fuel production could be lost by 2030, while an estimated 14 million new jobs would be created in clean energy. Via United Nations: https://ow.ly/RMli50YrFqo

US seeks comment on Zoox petition to deploy robotaxis without steering wheels reut.rs/4s2q3HD

I just left another briefing on Iran. Here's the only part of Trump's plan that is clear to me: He won't spare a cent for the 15 million Americans who will lose their health care, but he'll spend a billion dollars a day bombing Iran.

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Support for the Iran war is at an abysmal 38%, per G. Elliott Morris's average of polls. That's the lowest initial support for a war in memory. Also, CNN finds 59% don't trust Trump to make right decisions with force in Iran. There's no rally-around-flag effect. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2074...

Remarkable: With support for the Iran war tanking, Trump is now throwing away the GOP's advantage on three core issues: Economy, immigration, national security. A year ago it looked like he might be popular on all three. He lit it all on fire. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2074...

The Coolest Gadgets From MWC 2026 https://gizmodo.com/the-coolest-gadgets-from-mwc-2026-2000728407

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Kamala Harris: "I predicted a lot about what's happening right now. I'm not here to say 'I told you so,' but we did see it coming."

Gas at $4 a gallon? Americans sour on Trump's economy as Iran war pushes oil prices up www.ms.now/the-last-wor...

Iran launches new missiles at Israel, interceptions reported over Jordan - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-launches-new-missiles-israel-interceptions-reported-over-jordan

Israel, US intensify Iran strikes, targeting homes, hospitals, stadium https://aje.news/olna4h

Neguse: “Where's Safe America Media headquartered?” Noem: “I don’t know.” Neguse: “I don’t know either. We can't find it…You want the American people to believe that this is all above board, that a $143 million of taxpayer money just happened to go to this one company that doesn't have a headquart

The dangerous remains of war.