My latest for @orlandosentinel.com: #Magic can close out Pistons at home, but won’t have Franz Wagner Friday: “It was nothing that they did that caused us to lose that game,” Wendell Carter Jr. said after Game 5. “So, we’re confident going back to the crib.” www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/04/30/o...

OldaVista is a search engine model designed for searching "the old internet" i.e. website hosted on Geocities, AOL Hometown, Xoom and on blocks of stone written in cuneiform.

Oscar belonging to co-director of Putin film missing after TSA makes him ship it

Thank god for subtitles. The buffet of accents in this show is hard to digest youtu.be/gh57qttlTj8?...

If you watch only one video today, make it this one. Jon Stewart, better than ever. @thedailyshow.com youtu.be/X_JEZMEw_-Q?...

Trump and Hegseth are planning the dumbest possible version of D-Day right now

"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

you couldn’t really find a more apt metaphor for elite politics in Trump II. Something absolutely crazy occurs, there is a momentary burst of panic, and then the people present at the gala go back and pretend like nothing happens. the gala itself is an attempt to paper over crazy

The best indication so far the WHCD Trump shooting wasn't staged? No evidence yet of huge insider bets just before it happened on Polymarket or Kalshi :-)

What? You had an epiphany?

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Mike Budenholzer had Quin Snyder, Jordan Ott, and Taylor Jenkins on his coaching staff in Atlanta 12 years ago Hawks fired Bud, Snyder is the head coach now Bucks fired Bud, Jenkins is the head coach now Suns fired Bud, Ott is the head coach now

Inside Palantir, people are finally waking up to the fact that they might actually be the bad guys Great reporting once again from @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

Are people waking up?

Russian Duma warns that only emergency measures can prevent violent revolution in 2026. youtu.be/OSirD0FoFgk

The world coming out the backside is actually a perfect description for this era.

Unreal levels of Cop Excellence here.

"It's like lying down with a thick slab of rock on your chest that you cannot squirm out from under. Any movement only heightens the sensation of being pressed, as does any increase in heart rate or aerobic activity. You just have to lie there." defector.com/the-scariest...

Erstaunlich, wer alles mitliest www.faz.net/aktuell/spor... Diesmal Norsk rikskringkasting (kurz NRK; deutsch „Norwegischer Rundfunk“, öffentlich-rechtlich). www.nrk.no/sport/new-je...

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

This is very good from Alex. I don't understand why Americans are not far angrier. "Eternal vigalence is the price of liberty" and Americans should be panacking. If this were a nuclear reactor every single light on the control panel would be flashing red.

New Jersey’s NJ Transit has this week discussed pricing for a return rail ticket close to or around $150 for a round-trip rail ticket from Pennsylvania Station to MetLife Stadium for World Cup games. The rail journey ordinarily costs $12.90 for a return ticket. More from @adamcrafton.bsky.social

Not enough has been made of this: the World Cup's no.1 tout is Fifa itself, which takes 30% of the resale value of its *own tickets* in the USA and Canada. All perfectly legal, of course, or, if you prefer, "deregulated".

Vor einer Woche noch unbesiegbar. Auf einmal ein unsortierter Laden. #BAYRMA

one of the best NYT headlines ever. We have newly baptized JD Vance telling the "infallible" Pope how to do the religion part of his job I'm as lapsed as a Catholic can be (don't tell my mother) but even i know that is not how it works

Here's one that slipped under the radar "Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada on Monday gained a majority in the House of Commons after special parliamentary elections, solidifying the Liberal Party’s hold on power." Free read

As Trump’s foolish defamation case against the Wall Street Journal gets thrown out of court, there’s a larger lesson here: Those who push back against his abuses — news organizations, law firms, universities, et al. — succeed, while those who try appeasement fail. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Dazu mein Text in @faznet.bsky.social von heute.

This is a reminder that those campaigning for Victor Orbán were in fact campaigning for russia: Rob Schneider (MAGA), Mateusz Morawiecki, Marine Le Pen, Alice Weidel, Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini, Benjamin Netanyahu,Andrej Babiš, Herbert Kickl,Santiago Abascal,Aleksandar Vučić and Javier Milei.

Um Gottes Willen. Was für ein Driss.

JD Vance kiss of death continues to be the only effective part of the Trump administration

Wenn ich doch bloß mein altes Album mit den Auslandsbriefmarken finden könnte. So viele schöne alte Stücke (ohne finanziellen Wert). An einem Tag wie heute muss ich besonders an die mit der Aufschrift „Magyar Posta“ denken. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postges...

Hell yeah. Going to go down this rabbit hole today. There's some really good stuff here (if you had the same taste in music I did when I was in high school, so maybe not) archive.org/details/mysp...

Lava bursts forth as Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts

Eine feine kleine Nachtmusik. Mehr als 50 Jahre alt und immer noch frisch. Robert Plant mit “Ramble On”. youtu.be/Ca3VI4aGDjc?...

Tons of stuff in here -- as well as Neil Innes there's also Ray Davies, Tav Falco's Panther Burns, the Bangles, the Sugarcubes, TMBG, Jonathan Richman, the Replacements, Kirsty MacColl, Nick Cave, Continental Drifters, Mojo Nixon, Alex Chilton, Jad Fair, Roky Erickson, Robyn Hitchcock...

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

British libel law doesn’t support the right to know and works as a sledgehammer to make those who investigate and produce transparency cower before bullies.

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Tinder. Yes. Tinder. An investigative tool to bring down MAGA-men with guns and Viagra in their pockets.

French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot raises painful questions surrounding the secret dealings between Viktor Orbán and Vladimir Putin, and uses a stunning word: this is treason against the EU. www.lefigaro.fr/internationa...

The most horrifying part of this is buried at the end. Like half the “citations” are just slapped on to give a false veneer of credibility.

If you were looking for the pope to come to the United States this year, that is now canceled. After receiving threats from the president of the United States, the Vatican feels it is not safe. Let’s just sit with that a little while.

@michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social what’s your next move? This sounds like backhanded defamation you might want to address.

If I were a deep pocketed asshole, I would demand all paperwork about Melania's "Einstein" visa, citing Epstein Transparency Act.

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...

Es ist wirklich nicht lustig www.nzz.ch/sport/nach-d... Aber Golfer haben einen etwas schrägen Humor www.threads.com/@brendonkill...

Empfehle dazu dringend diesen aktuellen Text von @americanarena.bsky.social. Das alles ist genau so gewollt. Es ist die Zersetzung demokratischer Strukturen der Zivilgesellschaft, auch auf Kosten der Gesundheit, zur Maximierung des (eigenen) Profits. www.faz.net/aktuell/spor...