This is *fantastic* news.

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

"Orange man bad" was true & sufficient from the very beginning. Here we are, over 10 years into this shit, and the supposed adults in charge of US elite politics & media just keep ... discovering it. Again & again. Exclaiming. "Gosh, y'know, he really does seem bad!" No shit you f'ing lumps.

ProPublica and @frontlinepbs.bsky.social found more than 300 protesters and bystanders who were arrested on charges like assaulting an immigration agent or interfering with law enforcement. Over and over, the accusations fell apart under scrutiny.

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán are quantum-entangled fascists 7,000 kilometers apart— a long-distance bipartite mixed-state spin entanglement. They are losing momentum and energy simultaneously, heading for decay, possibly annihilation.

The share of Americans who say their financial situation is worse now than a year ago due to high prices spiked to 54% this month, up from 47% just last month. Higher than mid-Biden—in fact, highest ever. Note: also works as a chart for House & Senate Republicans’ panic levels.

I feel like there's a shorter way to say "a different approach than not being corrupt."

Worth watching this video. Why is this true? I think it has less to do with anything about Americans in particular & more to do with the baseline status quo bias & system justification common to all humans. Humans are generally, as a rule, small-c conservative.

You get cred on social media for saying "this shit sucks." If you say, "well, it's complicated, this isn't as good as it could have been in other circumstances, but given where we are, it's a substantial step forward & worth celebrating" ... no one cares. No one clicks. It vanishes w/out a trace.

The thing is, the miasma of social media & the negativity it fosters *also* insured that almost no one was aware of the incredible advances in climate & energy policy under Biden. It's not *just* the economy. It's everything. That's the point: the info environment rewards doom & resentment.

We are teaching all these kids, in their most vulnerable and impressionable years, the lesson that their worth in this society is entirely tied to their ability to attract attention and clicks—to live in a way that is pleasing to an audience. God it's so toxic.

Parenting for clicks is just so deeply f'ing horrific to me. I lack the words. These kids are going to be so broken & dysfunctional.

We're throwing innocent people in concentration camps and letting them die, including children. Our government, in our names, with our money.

The war is pushing the EU to accelerate its plans to shift away from fossil fuels. I suspect this is true for pretty much every country in the world that isn't a major FF producer, which is most of them.

Cartoon by @truant-cartoons.bsky.social

Election officials warned SCOTUS' pending decision on mail ballot grace periods could disrupt the 2026 midterms and asked the EAC for assistance. @jaknutson.bsky.social is currently one of two reporters in Chicago covering the EAC Local Leadership Council Annual Meeting. Stay tuned for updates.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social on the obligations of the House, Senate, and voters as Trump deteriorates in plain sight: "America cannot keep ignoring the dysfunction of the commander in chief, the sole steward of the codes to a massive nuclear arsenal." 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The index of consumer sentiment isn't broken; models that try to predict it just don't have the right input variables. I fix that and find that, yes, high nominal price levels explain why the vibes are so off. It's the prices, stupid www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-14...

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man, this is such a bad asymmetry. eventually Ds are going to get so black-pilled by the double-standard that they give up the standard entirely (cough maine cough). and frankly i'd understand the impulse. media is allowing this to happen - facilitating it, in fact.

If Stephen King had written, “Cujo Takes the White House,” it wouldn’t have been half as frightening as the reality of what’s happening today.

“Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: ‘I don’t want…Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.’” @propublica.org 10/17/25… 1/ www.propublica.org/article/russ...

For the second year in a row, President Trump's FY27 budget would cut $1.4 billion in WIC fruit and vegetable benefits for about 5.4 million parents and young children, making it harder for families to afford healthy food. www.cbpp.org/blog/for-sec...

Opinion | Trump Is Turning America Into a Psychotic State - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/o...

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you haven’t read already, this is perhaps the most incredibly assembled trail of breadcrumbs I’ve read. All paths lead back to…. 👇🏼

I wish it were not so, but: billionaire-funded, think-tank-organized, elite-targeted right-wing propaganda really, really works. It's incredibly effective.

This story is fascinating for lots of reasons. Basically, this town council was brain poisoned by RW propaganda & passed a ban on clean energy before anyone knew what was happening. Now supportive residents face an uphill slog, collecting signatures, spreading accurate info. Sigh.

Since Trump took office, 365 clean energy projects have been canceled, delayed, or are laying off staff.

Ugh. This is the GOP's work.

Meanwhile, in non-backward countries ...

Never has a presidential administration refused to take responsibility for a single thing they wreck or bad decision they make. Republican party & Trump regime daily tell the American people & the world that they are incompetent & unqualified to lead. Victims of Biden & every person on the planet

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

Huge poll explodes the growing contention that #netzero should be dropped as unpopular. Most Europeans want #renewables expanded even if they cost more (which they don’t). Few would go for fossil fuels even if they were cheaper which they aren’t). www.politico.eu/article/poll...

... but perhaps it would have been apropos to mention somewhere that the current US administration is dramatically slashing back research on curing cancers exactly like Sasse's. Neither of these conservatives want to wrestle wth that?

Farmers are realizing, oh, gosh, they're deporting our workers too! Gosh! Golly fucking gee!

Interesting. An international conference specifically about transitioning away from fossil fuels. This is a way for countries that get it to cooperate outside the sclerotic UNFCCC framework. Worth watching.

This is a really great piece. I gotta say, though, at the end of the day, this is just *embarrassing*. We have united all the country's worst, dumbest, most internet-poisoned dipshits into one organization & they are genuinely just embarrassing to contemplate.

Still on pace: one death roughly every six days in ICE custody. Reminder: gov't thugs are plucking innocent migrants -- often legal ones! -- off the street, kidnapping them, putting them in concentration camps, & allowing many of them to die. On our watch, in our names, with our money.

EVs are winning. They're obviously going to win. The US is punching itself in the dick by clinging to ICE vehicles.

All of this X 100.

At a town hall, a constituent told Lawler, “You say that when you disagree with Trump, you will tell him so, but that's not enough... The Republican Party and you are enabling him. You're all cowards, and you're spineless." The man was then pulled out of the auditorium www.lohud.com/story/news/p...

"Public interest capacity matters to the credibility of democratic systems. The ability of government to competently help the public broadly reinforces liberal democratic systems."

A long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers describe as the primate equivalent of a "civil war." n.pr/4mwfLOe

MOSCOW, Idaho (FāVS News) — During a town hall at an Idaho University, Wilson and his fellow pastors pitched a vision of America with no LGBTQ+ rights, no divorce and no voting rights for married women. Wilson has gained notoriety for his Christian nationalist views and his ties to Pete Hegseth.

“Of all the prevailing media narratives around @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, the one that is most conspicuous by its absence is how under its two-term governor California became the top performing economy not just among its 49 siblings but also any developed nation.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Seems as good a time as any to re-up the #$DJT 10-K.

Now China and Russia get to compete to be the first to humiliate Trump (and thus the United States) by sending a ship through Trump's "blockade," both knowing that he won't sink it and if he did that'd just be a perfect excuse for them to ramp up their own imperialism.

In Donald Trump’s America, the rich get tax cuts, the well-connected get stock tips, and everybody else makes sacrifices.