“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Insane story: Using facial recognition technology, The New York Knicks apparently tracked the movements of a transgender woman attending a game at Madison Square Garden to ensure she never appeared on the game's televised broadcast

Grotesque: In a dispute over a will, two brothers including a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse, appear to have gotten their mother-in-law arrested by ICE. Using the state to remove disfavored family members is the sort of thing that happens in totalitarian regimes.

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

An alert from Denver’s gunshot detection system prompted officers to swarm a Montbello woman’s 70th birthday party with guns drawn and detain Black partygoers for nearly an hour — even though the ShotSpotter alert was for another address and likely triggered by fireworks, according to a lawsuit.

NEW: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson unloads on #SCOTUS handling of emergency/'shadow' docket, saying it often seems 'utterly irrational' & can lead to 'zombie' proceedings. KBJ rejects Kavanaugh's 'interim docket' label, calls for focus on real-world harms www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Oh: A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

This will be another "Does the Senate exist" test

a small price to pay for speed and convenience.

The NAACP sued Elon Musk’s xAI Tuesday, alleging the company’s efforts to power its data centers in Tennessee and Mississippi are creating a health risk for local residents.

Breaking NYT: Trump is now threatening to fire Jerome Powell if he does not resign from the Federal Reserve. Powell's term as Fed chair officially ends on May 15, but he can stay on as a governor until 2028 and has said he would not leave until the criminal investigation is over.

GOVT ASKS DC CIRCUIT TO VACATE CONVICTIONS AND REMAND FOR DISMISSAL IN OATH KEEPERS AND PROUD BOYS CASES. Stewart Rhodes, Ethan Nordean, everybody. ... www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

JUST IN: Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales formally submit resignations from Congress

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

NEW: Raskin, w/ 50 House Dem co-sponsors, formally introduces a bill which would create a commission to assess Trump's fitness for office under the 25th Amendment. Bill text here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Story TK

Lawgeeks, here is the complaint --> assets.aclu.org/live/uploads... The c/as are Fourth and Fifth Amendment violations pursuant to the Maine Civil Rights Act, with Bivens claims tacked on.

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

Breaking news: Hampshire College, the liberal arts university in Amherst, announced that it would close after nearly six decades.

Breaking News: War in the Middle East has upended the global economy, the International Monetary Fund warned in a report, raising the possibility of a worldwide recession.

TONY GONZALES SAYS HE WILL FILE HIS “RETIREMENT” FROM CONGRESS TOMORROW

*SWALWELL RESIGNS FROM CONGRESS

I wrote with @mattfavas.bsky.social on the US blockade of Iranian ports. We think Iran can endure a blockade for many months—it survived a big slump in exports in 2020. Meanwhile oil prices are likely to spike again. Can Trump hold his nerve for that long? www.economist.com/middle-east-...

CHINA-BOUND TANKER COMPELLED TO TURN BACK AMID US NAVAL BLOCKADE - VESSEL TRACKING DATA

NEW: A large swath of civil society is warning Meta against rolling out a face recognition service that will predictably be used by sexual predators.

the verdict is in- gas prices are likely to return to climbing with Trump's new Strait block- with price cycling states likely to hike gas prices very soon- as early as tomorrow- for many areas as oil prices surge past $100/bbl again. RBOB pointing to big surge in wholesale tmrw

* NATO Allies Refuse to Join Trump's Strait of Hormuz Blockade (Reuters) - The United States' NATO allies said on Monday they would not get involved in President Donald Trump's plan to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, further ratcheting up tensions within the increasingly fragile alliance.

POTUS calls the Pope weak on crime where does this fit in the constitutional order even

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

an all-timer for "imagine how JD Vance would react if a democrat said any of this"

#BREAKING Rep. Eric Swalwell announced he suspended his campaign for California Governor on Sunday, after sexual assault allegations against him. nbcbay.com/aInzWfR

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces will begin implementing a blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports on April 13 at 10 a.m. ET, in accordance with the President’s proclamation.

The polls have closed in Hungary - and it appears that turnout will approach 80%, a post-communist record.

How… is this going to work

Best and final offer on Day 1?

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

🚢 Strait of Hormuz transit tracker

Entirely plausible: "Iran has been unable to open the Strait of Hormuz to more shipping traffic because it cannot locate all of the mines it laid in the waterway and lacks the capability to remove them, according to U.S. officials." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/u...

“.. I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval,” Trump said in a recent meeting to laughs .. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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An eye-popping 0.9% *monthly* rise in the CPI was driven mainly by rising energy prices. Core inflation rose a more sedate 0.2% in March.

Meta Platforms said on Thursday it is pulling ads from Facebook and Instagram aimed at recruiting new plaintiffs for ongoing litigation accusing it and other social media companies of designing their platforms to be addictive to young users.

> @reuters.com

"One paper’s acknowledgements thank 'Professor Maria Bohm at The Starfleet Academy for her kindness and generosity in contributing with her knowledge and her lab onboard the USS Enterprise'."

US HAS LOST 24 MQ-9 REAPER DRONES IN IRAN CONFLICT (8 SINCE APRIL), COSTING APPROX $720 MLN - CBS

Kolanovic.

“.. The Iran war increasingly looks not only like another shocking humiliation but perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in American military history.” @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2087...

New from 404 Media: the FBI was able to extract incoming Signal messages from a phone even though the app was deleted. Why? Because parts of messages were stored in the iPhone's internal notification database. Shows how secure chat data can come from unexpected places www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

So if we can automatically register people for selective service with no ID issues, why can't we do the same with voting?

Iowa sues Instagram over harm to youngsters www.courthousenews.com/iowa-sues-in...

RAPIDAN sees 85% odds the ceasefire “fails to take hold” .. “.. neither side is under enough pressure to make the painful concessions required for a .. meaningful reopening of Hormuz. We expect the Strait to remain functionally closed and for military strikes to resume in the coming days ..”