"A Masterclass in Manipulation" | @hankgreen.bsky.social debunks right wing Koch-funded (www.desmog.com/reason-found...) @reason.com's latest disinformation efforts on climate (including their incoherent attack on the #HockeyStick: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSgD...

What’s everyone reading? Is it this?

Apple is shuttering a retail store in Maryland that was the ​company's first to unionize, and preventing workers there from transferring to other locations in retaliation, a union ‌alleged in a complaint filed reut.rs/422S1Yv

Literally we spent the last six months being told private donors were paying for this thing

Scoop: Kid Rock flew to Fort Belvoir this morning on his private jet & took a little joy ride on 2 Apache helicopters w/ War Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to multiple Army sources, & backed up by flight data. Apaches typically have 2 pilots, but they went up w/ 1 so the boys could each ride...

The "I'm just a little guy and the Democrats' harsh rhetoric :/" play doesn't work when you're constantly yelling from the rooftops that you are doing evil stuff and you love it! Being gleefully instead of reluctantly evil is the major thing that separates this admin from a pre-Trump Republican one!

BREAKING: The plaintiff in the lawsuit challenging Donald Trump’s $400 million ballroom has rejected a demand from the DOJ to drop the case. “Your assertion that this lawsuit puts the President’s life at ‘grave risk’ is incorrect and irresponsible,” wrote Gregory Craig, a lawyer for the plaintiff..

I’ve been thinking about this for 2 weeks now: at the marine biology talk I went to about bioluminescence, a girl in her 20s stood up to ask, “why study this? Is there a product you can make out of it?” I was irate. You study it because it’s fascinating. You study it to understand our world!

Ready-made campaign ad for midterms

Let me get this straight. The DOJ is indicting someone who allegedly broke through security with intent to kill leaders including the VP & Speaker of the House. Has EVERYONE forgotten that Trump pardoned convicted felons who stormed broke into the Capitol with intent to kill the VP & Speaker? 1/

Given this argument, I assume it's too dangerous for the President to go golfing anymore, right?

To figure out why Cole Allen did what he did, I obtained a copy of his resume and talked to his former friends. The portrait that emerges is unlike what the White House is saying: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/assassin-w...

Seems they got their marching orders 🫡 👇🏽

Conservative social media personality Debra Lea says security was lax at the event

fuuuuuuck

American Republicans are waging war against police and peace with the same bombs.

This wild document is the basis for the State Department's decision to cancel the visas and green cards of tech researchers who study the social media platforms and of tech regulators who enforce privacy and transparency laws. Disclosed to us last night in @thecoalition.bsky.social v. Rubio.

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

A vibe check from commodities pros - www.ft.com/content/b5e2... via @robarmstrong.bsky.social It's worse than the headline numbers suggest:

SLAPP is a topic I, and @kathkrueger.bsky.social, know well from our respective experiences with thin-skinned right-wingers

We are, to my knowledge, the only city that lets the police just joy ride over the city in helicopters when there is no emergency

At least Nixon had the tiniest amount of shame and knew he had to keep it secret. Now they shout it out to the media.

If you're a shareholder, vote no on the Paramount & Warner Bros. Discovery merger up for vote his Thurs April 23 to keep the Ellisons from consolidating their media power & censoring truth in news reporting & content in film & tv that does not align w/ their MAGA agenda. www.wbd.com/news/warner-...

So uhhhh Reuters quietly shitcanned its climate team right around the same time WaPo did. Except maybe even more cowardly because they kept it under wraps. Not a great look given the abundance of oil money they take in between sponsored content and events. drilled.media/news/drilled...

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Erases Wounded U.S. Troops From Iran War Casualty List: “Definition of a Cover-up” The U.S. government altered its tally of American casualties — inexplicably scrubbing 15 wounded-in-action troops from the count. theintercept.com/2026/04/22/i...

When @MarshaBlackburn talks about Trump cutting taxes, this is what she counts on us all being too dumb to understand

If you are in SC, call your reps. A vote is expected soon.

“Bezos and two of the world’s other richest men—Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk—have clearly left the world of consequences behind. They float in a sensory-deprivation tank the size of the planet, in which their actions are only ever judged by themselves…” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

when Musk bought Twitter I mentioned repeatedly that a BIG part of it was right wing information warfare and I got a lot of odd, cocksure replies about how I was "overthinking it," "it's not 4D chess," "he's not that smart" "he tried to back out, so how could it be true," etc. weird shit

PATHETIC HUMAN

Weird how seemingly everyone in and around power has some kind of investing connection to Epstein, I'm sure it's just a coincidence

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Dozens of US military veterans were arrested at the Capitol today during a protest against the Iran War. Photos via @frankthorp.bsky.social

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central Cartoon Network And more... This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped. State AGs must step in and block it.

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

thank you, wife

Palantir’s investor base is public, but its multi-class stock structure gives the founders total control of the company. In The Social Costs (and Benefits) of Dual-Class Stock, I argued that model has powerful consequences for society, not only shareholders: law.ua.edu/wp-content/u... One solution…

I've set out the framework I'm using here in an earlier thread, on VDA, the Arc of Democracy, and the moral-epistemic stacks idea, what follows applies that framework to the Palantir document directly. skywriter.blue/@eliothiggin...

NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about. This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.

the strait of hormuz needs to have regular, predictable open hours or frankly they are going to lose me as a customer

@housedemocrats.bsky.social this is no longer a game guys. It might be time to talk to your donors and tell them that this is not going to be an acceptable path for this nation or the world. How does this get us to good? How will this plan get America somewhere good?

Do the other victims of the IRS leak also get rewarded $10 billion each? My understanding is that there are about 400K and I'm wondering if I'm in that group, because I could sure use the money.