Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.

It's easy to succumb to outrage fatigue. But this was four days ago. 2,000 killed. 1.2 million displaced. Entire villages demolished. A 40km 'buffer zone' (10% of Lebanon's territory) annexed. It's barely raised a resigned shrug, but it meets the criteria for war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you watch anything today, make it be this clip of @bencollins.bsky.social talking about what real strength is:

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.

What we already know about Jared Kushner is infinitely worse, from any possible angle, than anything we ever learned about Hunter Biden. And yet the media is completely ignoring it. Open corruption is tolerated from one of the two parties. But only one.

👋 Hi tariff paying companies who are able to get their tariff money back, you could get enormous good will for years if you pass some of this $$$ to your customers from 2025-early 2026 who paid tariff-inflated prices. Refunds, discount codes, reductions in prices. Get creative. 💰

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

👀

"BP’s first completely new oilfield in the Gulf since the company’s Deepwater Horizon disaster 16 years ago. It will be deeper than Deepwater Horizon, and in riskier waters... drilling 6 miles below the sea floor, deeper than the height of Mt. Everest" www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2026/04/grou...

Judge Hurson says DHS's planned conversion of a Maryland warehouse into an immigration detention facility ignored some basic environmental impacts — like how adding 100s of people to a place that currently has 4 toilets might impact the sewer system storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Education and re-skilling workers” is what people talk about when they think they’re going to get people who have had good jobs in manufacturing to take bad desk jobs at a newly built data center or something instead, and *this doesn’t work*.

Anger over the data center boom has spilled into politics with voters unseating local politicians who support them. It's become an issue hard to ignore in the midterm elections. n.pr/3QfF8I1

This is exactly right. It’s not a dilemma though. It’s a line in the sand that will at once once collapse what remains of the rule of law and regulatory infrastructure designed to protect the public.

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

They run back the same playbook with the same players every Sunday.

DOJ is being weaponized against our elections AND Trump's opponents. They are just getting started.

BREAKING: New data shows ZERO oil tankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz today, signaling what appears to be a complete shutdown of the Strait for the first time in history. The Strait normally carries about 20% of the world’s oil supply.

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

We have an apparent cure for most people with pancreatic cancer—a profoundly swift, deadly cancer—and the position of the U.S. government is that it should be banned. This is real fall-of-empire stuff.

Genuinely insane this is legal

CALIFORNIA: Those scare ads for legislation limiting medical settlements that quote the LA Times are paid for by Uber because they want to limit how much they can be sued for when they hit you with their cars. calmatters.org/economy/2026...

This is looting of a government by its leader and his family in such a bold and open way that a Boss Tweed or Huey Long would have stood righteously opposed and explained to underlings that they should dare. It's stealing in plain sight. And everyone involved will need to be one day prosecuted.

Some people have misunderstood this. We literally saw how Claude itself, coded by Claude, turns one API call into a DOS of thousands upon thousands of API calls done in the sloppiest fucking way possible. This postmortem shows Bluesky vibecoded a function to DOS itself, in a similarly stupid way.

Chrono Trigger FORM-ISM 'Marle' and 'Crono' figures on display at the Square Enix pop-up shop in the Ikebukuro PARCO in Tokyo, Japan through May 10, 2026: en.ikebukuro.parco.jp/event/detail... 📸SQEX

Judge Neomi Rao called the criminal contempt investigation into the Trump administration “improper,” “unnecessary,” and “a clear abuse of discretion" Meanwhile, the Trump administration: ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

RFK Jr: People come up to me and say, 'I've lost my health insurance,' and I talk to them CASAR: And what did you say to them? RFK Jr: I point them to other options

TMZ setting up in DC to follow politicians around is FINALLY the appropriate lowbrow "news" coverage this administration has merited all along.

Trump has launched three more boat strikes this week, bringing the total death toll to 177. Remember: No judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're taking Trump's word for it. This is murder. We must not lose sight of this lawlessness.

This dude eats dead raccoon dicks. The idea that he's in charge of anything is proof that we are living in a broken world.

"The Trump administration cut the agency deeply last year, leaving some forecasting offices short-staffed... “You’re missing data from the Four Corners region, the northern Plains, part of the central Plains, and that’s where the storms were developing,” he said..." www.nbcnews.com/weather/torn...

bluesky: we are pivoting to AI [site catches on fire] bluesky: this was not the fault of AI

It's hard to articulate the level of anger & rage I have about watching this happen. I first saw weev doxx people I love *TWENTY* years ago. I spoke to founders of multiple social networks about the risk of these people over 15 years ago. I wrote about it all a dozen+ years ago. They let it happen.

Asking the forbidden question

we know

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

TurboTax and H&R Block spent $7 million lobbying the Trump administration to kill Direct File. Both companies donated to Trump's 2024 campaign and inauguration committees.

MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.

Karoline Leavitt, with a straight face: "Look at how gas prices decreased over the past year since this president was in office."

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

It bears mentioning that if one of these black men hadn't had his own gun on him, these racist fucks would probably have killed three black men that night. www.wcia.com/news/edgar-c...

So the big studios are abandoning the US and turning the staff workers into contractors to get out paying for healthcare. The United States is losing one of its defining industries because of not having universal healthcare and the people are going to be even more vulnerable to the industry.

In perpetual search for AI to answer questions no one has asked.

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public' IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

WAT

Despicable fucking government.

"I can tell that the Woke 2™️ tide is rolling in and desperately need to try and cover up how aggressively transphobic I have been for most of a decade"

Proof is an absolutely superlative investigative podcast. This season is devastating.