Alternative angle of Trump and others being rushed off stage at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

this has to be disqualifying, not just for judicial nominees but for anyone who wants to be taken seriously in civilized society

It’s honestly insane to watch American conservatives pretend that the energy transition just is not happening. Batteries are bridging the gap in California. Many countries in Europe get the majority of their power from wind and solar. It’s just… here.

"11 data center campuses around the US have the potential to create more greenhouse gases than the country of Morocco emitted in 2024." Morocco has a population of over 38 million people. #ClimateSky www.wired.com/story/new-ga...

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Has Already Spent at Least $4.7 Billion Attacking Latin America It’s not cheap to attack Venezuela and capture its president or conduct dozens of strikes on civilian boats. theintercept.com/2026/04/23/c...

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“The new owner of CBS and the editor-in-chief of the news division set an explicit objective of appealing to the center right and the center left. That is a political goal. It is not a journalistic one.” — Marty Baron, former top editor at the Washpost ethicsandjournalism.org/2026/04/15/o...

Priceless post from the official White House social media

The WaPo editorial board when Republicans gerrymander in Texas versus when Democrats gerrymander in Virginia.

This morning's best read: "Under the Roberts court, it won’t be enough to rewrite the rules of the game. The umpires are the problem."

“For my friends everything; for my enemies the law.” DOJ has become an instrument of authoritarianism. No more laments for what it was; or talk of “abuses”; or wishful thinking about how they can’t get away with it. They can, if not confronted across the board. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-l...

We all know Trump lies about everything ceaselessly and with impunity, but this is especially galling since it's been so obviously false for decades and because it's so dangerous to the entire planet. #climatechange #climate

Yes, the Republicans -- every single one -- are environmental pillagers, happy to destroy rare ecosystems for a fast dollar.

Why do we have lawmakers in Congress who are willing to hold fellow members of Congress accountable for sexual assault but not a President?

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Meanwhile, the lawless killing spree at sea continues.

The Constitution forbids any “establishment of religion“ by our government. But Christian extremists are hijacking our political system and using our tax money to foist their beliefs on us. It’s an obnoxious assault on American values.

This is how it's done! "a core reserve where fishing is banned outright, surrounded by a buffer zone that allows some artisanal fishing — designed to allow local fishing communities to retain their traditional livelihoods" www.conservation.org/news/brazil-...

Trump accepted $37 million worth of donated foreign steel for his White House ballroom from a corporation based in Luxembourg. Just days later, the Trump administration made major cuts to tariffs on steel imports that could significantly benefit that corporation. "America First."

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

Again, there is simply no comparison in how Biden's not-100%-surgically-clean implementation of Donald Trump's barely planned timetable to end the Forever War in 🇦🇫 was covered vs how this totally lawless authoritarian omnishambles is being portrayed on the front pages. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The cackling you hear is coming from Xi Jinping.

Buried in the FBI’s 2027 budget is a funding request to hunt so-called domestic terrorists: "Anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity ... extremism on migration, race, and gender. And hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality."

More than 2 million low-income Americans, overwhelmingly women, access birth control and STD screening through Title X programs.

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

Commentary: Ohio has already faced two outbreaks of measles in 2026, a disease once considered eliminated in the U.S., as RFK Jr. has rolled back longstanding vaccine recommendations. While Ohio doctors have raised alarms, Ohio leaders have stayed silent ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/02/a...

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

Astonishing how far the NYT will go to troll its own readers. This is inexcusably bad. (And yes, it's real.)

Hegseth's repeated moves to purge the military of anyone not judged a Trump loyalist should set off major alarms. But, because Hegseth presents as such a buffoon, his role in Trump's authoritarian project is underrated. wapo.st/3OfHHck

Trump was warned this would happen. He did it anyway. Now, over 10,000 Veterans lost their homes. 90,000 more are on track for foreclosure. On top of cutting jobs, slashing benefits and throwing our heroes into an unnecessary war. The most anti-Veteran President in history.

Beyond absurd.

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

"Nationally, the number of young people who have died from firearm-related injuries has gone up by 68%...." tinyurl.com/45nsm8au

jesus christ

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

We have a bombshell report from the Financial Times that Sec. Hegseth’s broker tried to invest for him millions in major defense companies in the weeks before the war started—presumably so Hegseth could profit financially from the imminent shedding of American soldiers’ blood. trib.al/7nqYLFc

Still working on Real Solutions for the Real Problems that Real People face.... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

German climate activists stood on melting blocks of ice with ropes around their necks, warning that “time is running out.”

"Pentagon insiders describe the atmosphere as chilling. An anonymous Department of Defense source characterized the environment as "terrifying," noting that personnel working under Hegseth fear being punished or fired for failing to embrace his Christian nationalist worldview."