The Pentagon has launched a cover-up of the casualty count in the Iran War, The Intercept reports. 15 casualties are now not included and at least one reported death Major Sorffly Davius is missing from the official tally. The system tracking casualties may be omitting hundreds of injuries.

but no epstein prosecutions

NEW from me: According to USAID whistleblower Nicholas Enrich, the DOGE takeover was even worse than we knew, rife with conflict between political appointees who wanted an orderly "drawdown" and a DOGE team that wanted to flip the kill switch. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/usaid-...

To everyone saying, "How oh how do we stop Google Maps cut-through traffic??" ...I present to you the solution, which we've had for 50 years in Berkeley.

The party of national security & fiscal responsibility

Americans used to lord it over the former Soviet Union for all the long lines their citizens were required to stand in to perform simple tasks

Trees. Trains. Bike lanes

trees as cooling infrastructure! this is a fascinating story from @smaldo.bsky.social:

It's the same phenomenon I wrote about in the context of Pete Hegseth's inability to do a competent kettlebell swing. It's an entire far-right ideology built around public performance of what the kid from the old Star Wars Kid meme did in private. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mcb4y7vwqk24

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing. (image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

"The glasses would be only one more addition to the rapidly expanding surveillance state under the Trump administration, which is collecting massive amounts of data on people and organizations in the U.S.” newrepublic.com/post/209309/...

The message is don’t hire consultants, don’t rely on institutions, call Trump. He even says Cook got results “without a dime” going to expensive consultants. That is a public pitch for direct personal supplication as the route to favorable government treatment.

The next administration must make clear that any immigrant, refugee, or asylum seeker wrongly deported, exiled, or otherwise mistreated by this administration will be readmitted with an expedited path to citizenship. Send a plane to get them. We can't undo the damage. But we can do something.

The thing where everything he does has to be described in the most neutral tone possible like it's a weather event this is not how they talk about the effects of policy choices when a Democrat is in office

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

Trump desperate for a deal

It’s almost like

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

Exactly. We should fear a Trump who is smart enough not to pick a fight with the pope.

Bitch is the strait of Hormuz open?

Illustrating once again the extent to which the Venezuela raid emboldened Trump to engage in further military adventurism.

We have been lucky trump is dumb and lazy. Next time we won’t be so lucky

Do not welcome this or enjoy it, because all it means is that Tucker is setting himself up to run in 2028 on a platform to do all the terrible things Trump promised to do, only more so.

It’s high time for a grown-up conversation which acknowledges that the drug laws — by funneling untold riches to violent criminals — are more harmful than the drugs themselves.

The chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a political hack. We knew this in 2005 when he was nominated and confirmed. The shadow docket shows how. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift. Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.

Is this a Boris Johnson bus thing

Just prosecute traitors and white collar criminals

"Elon Musk cooked his brain online. Marc Andreessen and others seemingly struggled with being in virtual spaces where their ideas and status were challenged, and rewired their political beliefs as a form of cope." Good deep dive into tech broligarchy madness:

still boggles my mind that Trump’s drug use isn’t more of a story. his eyes look different kinds of fucked up all the time it’s common for his pupils to be the size of dinner plates So much redness and puffiness The guy does drugs.

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2092...

Most Americans know what it would take to fix our broken country - Abolish Citizens United - Outlaw foreign influence - End the electoral college - Tax the oligarchs - Reestablish rule of law - Strict separation of church & state It’s whether we have the courage to change our self-destructive ways

This is what "the power of positive thinking," Trump's actual philosophy, looks like in practice. Every defeat actually a victory, every obstacle will disappear, all the critics are just liars who are out to destroy me etc. Very dangerous!

what the fuck is going on with jared kushner?

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

Trump will always find a place in his administration for a woman who looks like his daughter Ivanka

the great semi-spoken fact is that there is an immense amount of unlicensed cannabis production in this country, and we’ve had a bloom in intoxicating hemp products too. there are definitely problems, but: feel absolutely confident stating that it has been 1/50th the damage of very controlled booze.

So, one part of the conversation needs to acknowledge complexity and be agile to evidence, but the other part we STILL need in the conversation is a change in tone, a decrease in stakes, we need to chill out. the evidence shows that “lots of loose weed” isn’t that bad for social cohesion.

I’ve said it before, but: cannabis is weird, at least in terms of a regulated product. It’s part commodity crop, part intoxicant, part medicine. The flower has a lot of applications, and (as “hemp” has shown) innovation is still pretty rampant. Putting it into any one field leads to new problems.

“Regulate cannabis like alcohol” was a noble rallying cry, but is practically flawed in some deep ways. Alcohol and pharma have complex sites for production, source control is much easier than something that can be grown and processed in a field/barn. Also booze isn’t part medicine, like cannabis.

On just a broad level: no one *knew* what legal adult cannabis would look like. We were all coming in from the cold, the “quasi-pharmaceutical, quasi-vice” arrangement we built was a guess, and a stab in the dark. We don’t have to be tethered to them, bold changes are still allowed, new frameworks.

I’m happy to go over any particular state, but: the decade-plus of adult-use weed has given us a lot of evidence to consider, and one of them is that every state goes through a boom-collapse cycle, about 2-4 years post launch. Some of this is federally imposed, but not all of it.

Happy 420. We need a new national conversation about legal cannabis in the US. The presumption that any of the early legalizing states’ systems were well-designed, or sustainable, has been disproven by the evidence. And it would help if policymakers admitted it.

whats so crazy to me is the only job that chatbots could actually eliminate right now is ceo, every company could save millions today right now by replacing their ceo with a computer program that just parrots what other ceos say

so I just read the whole thing and it as clear a distillation of fascism as you can get www.engadget.com/big-tech/pal...

What the fuck is going on with Jared Kushner?

The future is electric

I mean, if Biden had MISSED four terrorist attacks, and they happened, that would be a valid comparison. But that's not what happened.

a real testament to stefanik’s total lack of dignity that she is doing this AFTER trump totally threw her under the bus, backed up, and ran her over just to be sure