"You can't let a bunch of lunatics have a nuclear weapon." Donald J. Trump, May 5, 2026.

Donald Trump is not simply stupid. His idiocy is a complex system of ignorance, narcissism, and xenophobia, wrapped in a web of insecurity and covered by a thick layer of self-loathing, afloat in a spiraling, ever-widening miasma of dumb.

While Farage and Trump rail against renewables (with big fossil fuel backing) "China installed three times as much wind turbine capacity last year within its borders as the rest of the world combined" Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...

1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵

Most of the cruel, racist stereotypes now being propagated about Muslims and immigrants were originally crafted as antisemitic attacks on Jews. The language and sources are in some cases exactly the same. Prejudice against any minority endangers all minorities. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A free press is the cornerstone of a democracy, and must be protected. To all those shining a light on necessary truths, we salute you 🫡 Happy World Press Freedom Day.

🔥 @votegloriaj.bsky.social : “We got official word from @GovBillLee — there will be a white power rally at the Tennessee legislature next week on May 5th… that is what this is. They want to take away that seat from MEMPHIS. This is white supremacy. We need you in Nashville making noise.”

EXCL: Reform UK’s leading figures have repeatedly promoted new pothole-fixing machine by construction company JCB, while party received £200,000 from British digger maker @rowenamason.bsky.social reveals www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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I’m George Conway, a constitutional lawyer and co-founder of the Lincoln Project. We’ve got to protect our democracy from Trump’s deranged, egomaniacal descent into authoritarianism. But Congress is doing NOTHING to stop Trump, and it’s time for a change.

Israel must release Zeteo contributor Alex Colston and the rest of the flotilla activists and crew. This is piracy:

Political donations make a mockery of democracy, and the government's solutions are hopeless. Here's a really simple means of fixing it. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

GrapheneOS is immune to the Copy Fail vulnerability due to the deep integration of SELinux in the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). AOSP only permits using specific types of sockets throughout the OS. It only permits the dumpstate process used to create bug report zips to access AF_ALG sockets.

The next release of Home Assistant is really big. Hard to believe all the awesome things the community has cooked up. Fixing bugs, speed improvements, adding whole new categories of devices and improvements to existing features. Our community is awesome and it's creativity and efforts are endless 🥰

Gift link. Great piece, remarkable embedded footage: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

The Voting Rights Act has learned its lesson. by Susan Collins

🚨BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court kneecapped the Voting Rights Act (VRA), the landmark civil rights law that restricted racial gerrymandering and racial discrimination in voting for more than fifty years. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Enten: "Trump's numbers on inflation aren't just the worst for him ever. They're the worst I've seen for any president. They're worse than Biden's worst & worse than Carter's pre-1980 election. On the cost of living, just 9% of indies & 39% (!) of the GOP say we're on the right track."

America has jumped the shark

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With the right skills, AI is great at finding vulnerabilities. Sentry developed Warden to automate this, and used Home Assistant as a test bed. Our admin/user role split has been a work in progress for years, and Warden just flagged all the places we missed. Neat! cra.mr/finding-vuln...

Just putting these out for no particular reason:

Most Memorable Quotes in Presidential History:

Elon Musk pilfered $500 million in loans out at SpaceX, a move that would have been illegal at a public company. It's just one example of the years of financial engineering at the helm of his companies, whose balance sheets he consistently treats as his private bank accounts.

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.

Sky Defense integrates Ukraine’s innovative air defense systems and protects civilian life. We are halfway in this campaign! Please donate if you can. u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...

Should Bitcoin investor Nigel Farage be promising to pass laws boosting crypto? Of course not, writes @sangitamyska.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/sangita-my...

NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

Let’s be clear: this does not warrant building a ballroom at the White House.

"It is almost impossible not to contrast the gravity with which Olly Robbins speaks with the slightly childish, faux outrage we saw from Keir Starmer." Has one sacked civil servant exposed every flaw in the PM's version of events over Peter Mandelson? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/how-...

every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen

If you think AI surveillance cameras aimed at drivers’ faces is a good idea (no matter how well intentioned the justification), you are a naive fool. This data will be harvested, sold to fascists, and used to imprison activists. Oh, and car companies will 100% use it for ads you can’t turn off.

Every day, I am more convinced that we are going to need to just turn everything off and start again. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/b...

TEASER! A new @thenerve.news has dropped into your favourite NHS contractor that’s also involved in blowing up schools in Iran. Any guesses which?

We can't survive another two and a half years with a Narcissist-in-Chief in the White House. If you can help us fight Donald Trump and ensure that Trumpism can never happen again, please chip in here: secure.actblue.com/donate/loc_g...

🖕🖕🖕 This lying POS started a war with Iran, murdered 165 elementary school students, wasted $3B on missiles, lied about it, got caught AND went GOLFING!!! AND NOW WE LEARN THE SCHOOL WAS THE TARGET!!! TACO TRUMP lost over 10 brave lives, and TWO $100M F-15 jets. HIS WAR will cost us over $1T 🖕🖕🖕

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

One sentence to destroy them all.

Introducing the Tommy Robinson fans, conspiracy theorists, and far-right activists standing for Reform in Norfolk hopenothate.org.uk/2026/04/23/i...

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

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

Another npm supply chain worm is tearing through dev environments

There should be a plan to seize all the assets of every traitor who is looting our country

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

Congratulations to @stephenking.bsky.social for this well-deserved honor!👍 (Novels/Novellas: Approximately 65 to 67 Non-fiction books: 5 books. Short Stories: Over 200 Pseudonyms: 7 novels were published as Richard Bachman. Frequency: He has published at least one book almost every year since 1974)