Russia: Ukrainian officer infiltrated a Russian military recruitment drive for college students to sign contracts as drone operators at the Kuban State Agrarian University.

"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

Trump is once again proposing significant cuts to NASA and its science programs, which supports thousands of jobs, including at JPL in my district.

You ever have a jam sandwich? Jam sandwich? Yeah, that's when you take 2 pieces of bread and "jam" them together.

Rock In Peace Dave Mason, singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as a founding member of Traffic, and his solo career and work with George Harrison, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Fleetwood Mac, Leon Russell, and more. Gone to the big gig in the sky.

And then I ate their face... Which was nice.

Another coonskin on the wall for Gov Abigail Spanberger. When potential candidates are envisioned for 2028, Spanberger is not only delivering, but is providing an object lesson in dismantling a dysfunctional fascist regime that preceded her. Mark my words,THAT will resonate w Dem voters

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All eyes on the sky for the Lyrid Meteor Shower! ☄️ The Lyrid Meteor Shower is gearing up for its big show, and you don’t want to miss it! Peak viewing is today, April 21, and tomorrow, April 22. Expect up to 20 meteors per hour streaking across the darkness. 🧪 🔭

Venus 2026-04-21 Acquisition details and full resolution: app.astrobin.com/i/8n99pe #Astrophotography

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NEW: Three rulings in the past week show the scope and breadth of efforts to fight anti-trans attacks. A Montana Supreme Court decision protecting birth certificates, a ruling on Trump's anti-trans prison policies, and final judgment vacating RFK Jr.'s anti-trans "declaration." Law Dork:

Queue Curb Your Enthusiasm music…

For those attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend, a small question: When you're sitting there at your table, do you think it'll cross your mind that the guest of honor is actively covering up his role in a massive child sex trafficking operation?

Gatekeepers like this are freaking exhausting. Hard to miss their sense of absolute moral superiority over the rest of us unwashed common folk.

MY LATEST @latimes.com ESSENTIAL CALIFORNIA NEWSLETTER: A Tejano tries King Taco for the first time. Share, porfas!

This is amazing and it does make the hair stand up on the back of your neck. We've all heard plenty of dead men's voices but this is *Robert* *Johnson*.

no basketball player - maybe no sports player - has ever had the hype that LeBron James did as a kid he came into the league with his expectations set at “if he doesn’t finish top 10 all time he’s a bust” he somehow exceeded them

Nine Inch Nails at their most terrifyingly dystopian

Back when I was a prosecutor we used to call this — telling everyone you were probably going to lose — ”laying a mattress.”

At @io9.com, I spoke with Rick Veitch, Tom Mandrake, Vince Locke, and more for an oral history of the most heretical DC comic of all time, now rising from its tomb after 40 years.

There's only one person who can get Bluesky working again:

Let’s see what Graham Platner had to say about Jared Golden on Reddit, shall we?

Mets @ Dodgers April 15, 2026: Dodgers look for a sweep with Ohtani on the mound on Jackie Robinson Day

Got asked an ideology question during my talk at Chicago and shared that my first question is always "Which viewpoints are y'all looking for? Folks who say I'm not human because I'm Black?" Say it with your whole chest. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Drop your crime fighting Catholics

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasse... nothing new under the sun

this is a microcosm of the world as conservatives want it, where “merit” means an unrestricted good ol’ boys club

Stolen from the group text hivemind: "Seb Gorka is why people who pay for their own PhD have the reputation they do."

glorious intro from Marina Hyde: "You hear such a lot from Maga Republicans about how liberals think Trump voters are stupid. But not nearly enough about the far more salient point: that Donald Trump thinks Trump voters are stupid." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Google funds Internet Archive web scraping tools so that Google can profit from everyone's works. It is Google that is the cause of this. Tech Giant enriching themselves at the expense of everyone else. So focus your target of vitriol to the right source. Google.

“Del Vecchio understood something that would fuel the next thirty years of expansion: if you put a fashion label on a medical device, people will pay twenty times what it costs to make.” www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-glass... HT @nextdoorsv.bsky.social

ANTHEM TIME

IF THE DOW HITS 50,000 AGAIN, PAM BONDI GETS HER JOB BACK.

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. What are we doing here? It’s not journalism, whatever it is.

The US Postal SERVICE does not lose money because the Postal *SERVICE* is something that the government provides America's residents based on the clear wording of the Constitution, which absolutely does NOT require the Postal ^~*SERVICE*~^ to record any profits whatsoever.

It’s because we made huge progress towards ending teen pregnancy, which is good.

Any number of Americans are willing to make clumsy bad-faith arguments in an effort to unperson and unstate millions of human beings. Some of those Americans are throne-sniffing prominence-chasing law professors. Decent people should treat them with contempt. That’s MY free speech culture.

“At least seven prominent law professors.” As I suggested on Monday, this is just like Justice Gorsuch’s “battle of law reviews.” It’s not about the frickin’ scoreboard: www.stevevladeck.com/p/219-drunks...

They don't fear him. They rightfully disdain him, because he's a fucking idiot, and a racist/sexist bigot on top of it all.

On AANHPI Women’s Equal Pay Day, we reflect on the persistent wage gap that continues to impact our communities. For every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men, AANHPI women earn just 83 cents.

This week's edition of the UK's New Statesman magazine isn't pulling its punches.

Because the employees as a group want enforcible guarantees that the routes/work will be adequately staffed so they need not worry about bearing the costs of working for an understaffed transportation company. The penalty is a mutually agreed deterrent, not a real contemplated pay scale.

The more I think about the 70,000 ICE incarcerated without due process the more I think we are underreacting. People are literally trapped inside for profit prisons. We need to do something.

Garvey-Lopes-Russell-Cey will always be the LA Dodgers infielders

anyway vance and his ilk sees the presence of any black (and most brown) people in elite or coveted spaces as on its face evidence of “anti white discrimination”

new Normal Men! @ed3d.net Yaks it up, @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social goes back to the USSR, @peark.es gets lost in the maize, and @proptermalone.bsky.social breaks free of Bondi.