Hey, but the markets bounced, right?

Thousands of Mathematicians Protest International Conference in U.S. The U.S. is not safe for international mathematicians given the risk of detainment and harassment by ICE, they argue. https://bit.ly/4cewiRU #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

I've been mostly offline but seems like the GOP thinks by promoting their biggest imperial fuckup of a generation they won the midterms now and I don't think it's like that.

Have to wonder what China threatened Trump with and whether it was directly about Taiwan.

If you think this is exhausting, imagine being Iranian.

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

and while I know we are all on the “fuck Trump we absolutely deserve to be humiliated here” train (we do!) having the IRGC in explicit control of the strait is a bad outcome! ending freedom of transit on the seas is bad! that this involves Trump eating shit is nice and all but we don’t want this!

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I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

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Greta Thunberg "WTF is anyone even doing at this point, we have normalized Genocide and the eradication of an entire people." Greta is right as usual.

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Marg Leehane, part owner of Great Bear Lodge in Port Hardy, British Columbia, decided it was worth waking up the guests at 6 a.m. to show them two humpback whales in the bay. TT: bookofcabins

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The Arvada Press reported that city council members Ambrose and Moorman had issued a statement condemning ICE. In that same article it goes on to say that all the other council members were offered the opportunity to endorse the statement but declined to do so.

The antiwar movement in Israel is growing, says Israeli peace activist @alonlee.bsky.social, who was arrested in Tel Aviv on Saturday as Israeli police cracked down on a protest against the wars in Iran and Lebanon. Demonstrations also took place in Haifa and Jerusalem.

BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE custody, per required notification to Congress, marking 15 deaths in detention this year and 45+ since Trump took office again.

This is not who we should be—but ICE is so desperate for stats they detain a woman who is legally applying for her green card, a scholarship college student who teaches Sunday School. Trump would have us believe he’s taking criminal aliens off the streets. It’s a lie www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...

It is WILD how much Putin has benefited from both the heinous Gaza war and this attack on Iran. I know he's in business with Iran, but he and Netanyahu are some kind of soulmates.

There are only three "institutions" we can count on in these bleak moments, and one of them is Ms. Rachel.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

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Holy shit, never in my life did I think I would take the side of an Iranian extremist over the side of an American lunatic extremist. But here we are

I appreciate anyone who is willing to delve into the cesspool of x & other soc media so I don’t have to! 👏👏👏

❗️The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has rejected any involvement in the incident involving the discovery of explosives near the TurkStream gas pipeline in Serbia, stating that it is likely another Russian false flag operation.

I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualism in American Life and now every time a Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This is a deeply unwell man on a dangerous power trip, threatening possible war crimes. This is not how the President of the United States should be speaking about sending our servicemembers into harm’s way. Republicans should join Democrats to end this war immediately.

Am I doing the same post to be more viral? Maybe. But mostly because I'm just REALLY REALLY HAPPY about the situation.

There's a style of internet post where the subject "took years to get a shot!" and it's always "spent thousands of dollars to travel and have a guide take them to whale or tiger" and never "waited for ducklings to be born in a lake in a town away that didn't get eaten by herons the first day." 🪶 🐣

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Yes, same here. At least there is maydaystrong.org

We'll never know, because they do it constantly. Nobody thinks that presidential elections hinge on whether the NYT correctly quotes Donald Trump, but it's not absurd to think there's some rich guys who don't realize the President is a crazy person because their news whitewashes him.

I'm glad the US pilot is safe but the sheer discrepancy shown by most Americans of all political stripes between the value of the life a soldier who *literally signed up for this shit* and the value of the lives of thousands of civilians who didn't is indefensible under any coherent moral code

The Other Hostage Crisis emptywheel.net/2026/04/05/t...

Shut it down! #GeneralStrike #MayDay #NoKings

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The president is deeply unwell and threatening more war crimes against the people of Iran. Trump is lashing out because he’s historically unpopular and his regime is crumbling. Urge your Members of Congress to use their power to stop the mad king’s illegal war: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...

An example of how to filter it.

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Mohamed ElBaradei, a former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, on Trump's 48-hour ultimatum: "To the Gulf governments: Please, once again, do everything in your power before this madman turns the region into a ball of fire..."

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