🚨 🚨 ABC News confirms that Iran used advanced, passive infrared detection to shoot down the American F-15E fighter jet. Passive infrared detection does not emit radar signals. As a result, it cannot be detected or jammed by American electronic warfare systems. That leaves our aircraft vulnerable.

An update: in February 2026, *every single one* of the 1,507 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 3,155 white South Africans, three Afghans, and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

This is so, so well-articulated.

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

exonerated after FORTY THREE years in prison, only to end up falling in ICE detention immediately www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

Oopsie. “After taking office in January 2025, administration officials dismantled government departments dedicated to fighting foreign influence operations.”

Poland PM: 🇵🇱

most helpful summary www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

What could possibly go wrong? #CDC pauses support for states on testing for #rabies & #mpox because it doesn't have the personnel to do the work. 2 pathogens you really don't want to mess with, rabies & mpox. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/h...

No, there's neither a "messy and complicated debate" nor "profound ethical questions." The President has no more power to make the federal government give him $10 billion than any other federal employee. That's not a thing, it's illegal, federal employees go to jail if they try it.

Class-action suit against FBI and justice department alleges agents were wrongfully terminated for investigating Trump

Now imagine what being surrounded by sycophantic humans for your entire life does to your brain.

Outstanding piece this morning from @jamellebouie.net. Gift link below. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

This is all too real. These days, satire is just news but in teaser format.

Two young boys were locked up inside ICE's notorious detention center in Texas. Then Ms. Rachel shared their stories.

RFK Jr. did not come up with idea that diet is important to health. This has been promoted for decades, including, famously, by Michelle Obama. In fact, he doesn’t even believe it himself. If he did he’d be busy making sure kids in the U.S. had enough to eat, instead of cutting food benefits.

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

ggCaller v1.5.0 is out! We've removed the integrated clustering to enable users to benefit from new Panaroo features. Now, ggCaller generates GFFs that can be used with any clustering method. But for fans of an integrated ggCaller pangenome workflow read on... github.com/bacpop/ggCal...

BREAKING: Spain closes its airspace to US planes involved in the Iran war. Important as the UK continues to welcome and host B-52s on their daily bombing raids into Iran.

“If you’re gay or transgender, I love you. And if anybody gives you shit, tell ‘em Charles said fuck you.”

NYT - US Coast Guard allowing a Russian tanker full of crude oil to reach Cuba. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/wo...

LAPD shoved someone, he dropped a beer bottle in his hand, went to grab it, they shot him with less lethals are near point blank and arrested him. Shit’s getting chaotic again, will post when able

"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law"

WSJ - An American E-3 Sentry was among the aircraft damaged at the Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia on Friday. www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran...

First time I’ve seen a protest sign that cited the specific file number from the Epstein files

Women having to prove they are female is not a win for women.

Thanks to @marisakabas.bsky.social for covering a story the MSM has ignored. With #USIP, as with everything: ♦️Trump does something utterly lawless. ♦️Months later, a judge tells him to stop. ♦️He doesn't. ♦️And nobody makes him. ♦️News cycle has LONG moved on. ♦️So nobody cares.

Trump: "We have a thing called a war, or as they would rather say, a military operation. It's for legal reasons. Because as a military operation, I don't need any approvals. As a war you're supposed to get approval from Congress. Something like that. So I call it a military operation."

Gutter racism. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

Jaw-dropping admission by DOJ to court. DOJ admits to having repeatedly made "material mistaken" representations to judge - ICE never had authority (under 2025 Guidance) to conduct arrests at immigration courthouses! DOJ admits court "relied on...prior misrepresentations." DOJ blames ICE (page 2)

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

Afghanistan announces release of detained US citizen

I’d rather live next to wind turbines and solar panels.

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

Things even I can't make up: the person in charge of investigating the LaGuardia plane crash was delayed because she got stuck in a TSA line in Houston for over three hours. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

Republican Senator John Kennedy just blamed Trump for the shutdown: “The Democrats offered a deal. We said accept it. Trump said no.” That deal would have ensured TSA agents got paid this week.

This is a recurring pattern of suspicious trades. It would be really great if the SEC and DOJ could function well enough to identify and discipline those involved.

ICE detain mother at airport—traveling with young daughter. First reported kidnapping at airport since Trump ordered ICE agents to report—refuse to show ID. "I don't know who you are!" witness yells. "You could be someone kidnapping her!" San Francisco International Airport Gate E2.

Nine people hospitalised and airport closed after landing plane hits fire truck responding to separate incident

A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement

Entering the SIXTH hour in the TSA line

Another thing about sending ICE to take the place of the TSA agents Republicans refuse to pay is, expect even longer delays. The number of immigrants that work at airports is significant. So you’re going to get sick-outs, malicious compliance, etc. Air travel will get worse.

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

🐶 This dog was chained in Druzhkivka while people nearby fed him. When glide bombs, Shaheds, and artillery hit, people run. A chained dog cannot. Now he is safe with 12 Vartovykh. The video shows only seconds of the talk that made this rescue possible. #alinacollects5 #animals #dogs