This is absolutely fantastic. ht: @maddenifico.bsky.social

🚨 BREAKING: H5N1 Bird Flu in Cattle Now Replicating in Human Lung Cells Scientists Warn of Dangerous Mammalian Adaptation and Increased Spillover Risk

Canadian family of five living in Martha's Vineyard are BANNED from re-entering US after weekend skiing in Quebec trib.al/T16hJ4e

I’m not sure Todd Blanche can run the DoJ when most of his time is spent making sure Ghislaine Maxwell doesn’t release more of her Epstein files to the WSJ.

It’s almost as if this war in Iran is being run by a drunken frat boy and a geriatric drug addict who wants the world to keep pretending he’s not a senile pedophile owned by Putin.

A quiet Good Friday / Passover here on Bluesky.

Moulton: One thing that came out of the president's speech the other night, besides the fact that he's senile and falling asleep, is that there's no plan, there's no plan whatsoever…

MacFarlane: It was really striking that Todd Blanche said, “To the extent the Epstein files were a part of the past year at the Department of Justice, they should not be a part of anything going forward.” The survivors would vehemently disagree.

APNewsAlert: WASHINGTON (AP) — One crew member has been rescued after American aircraft went down in Iran, US and Israeli officials say.

Eek! Look how thin the atmosphere is. An onion slim between us and endless space 😬

Awesome view from Artemis II this morning.

The upshot: The FDA demanded new placebo studies in order to approve a 2026-2027 shot for folks aged 50-64 who aren't high-risk. But Pfizer and BioNTech needed to recruit ~ 25,000 to 30,000 study participants who weren't high risk, & they couldn't get enough... 🧵 www.reuters.com/business/hea...

ALERT: Epstein survivors demand answers after Trump OUSTS Bondi youtu.be/yao9BKAAdxM?...

Horrible. Then they attacked a vet clinic in Kyiv killing animals.

The $1.5 trillion military budget request from Trump today is an obscenity. The defense budget in 2024 was $841 billion.

This will not end well 💔 Iran shot down a US fighter jet, US officials & Iranian state-affiliated media said. The fate of the plane’s crew was unclear, as American officials scrambled to mount a search & rescue operation before Iran could get to any survivors. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

NEW: Bondi's portrait already in the trash at DoJ per a photo shared with @msnowreports.bsky.social www.ms.now/news/pam-bon...

Trump is now basically following what Putin has done in Ukraine. In the process he’s also making America into a rogue nation and an international pariah that routinely commits war crimes

People say Trump has no war strategy, but his strategy is quite clearly a criminal one of destroying Iran's civilian infrastructure (and killing a bunch of people in the process) unless they capitulate. We -- the United States of America -- are a rogue state and global pariah.

"Everywhere you look, America is on fire, and Trump is the guy holding a box of matches. Rs are sitting there going, 'Gee, did we hitch our wagon to the wrong star?'" On the pod, @djrothkopf.bsky.social is great on Trump's Iran fiasco and Rs realizing they're fucked: newrepublic.com/article/2085...

APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Affiliate of #Iran state TV claims a US fighter pilot ejected from an aircraft in southwest Iran.

Iranian state media is claiming the pilot may have been captured, but they aren’t saying that definitively yet.

🚨 Iran reportedly shot down a USAF fighter jet near Tehran. Reports on the status of the crew are conflicting and unconfirmed.

NEW: Bondi's firing WON'T turn the page on the Epstein Files controversy for Trump Admin. Survivors letter: "Pam Bondi failed survivors.. Accountability should not depend on power, position or influence" My daily editorial note: open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...

CNN: Sources are telling us that recent U.S. Intelligence assessments found roughly half of Iran's missile launchers are still intact and that thousands of one way attack drones are still in Iran's arsenal tonight. That's despite daily U.S. And Israeli airstrikes.

My favorite Perry Mason moment from the new Acting Attorney General: "You went on TikTok and called me a 'crying little shit,' didn't you?"

Pam Bondi is fired … but leaves behind a legacy that includes a new genre of “attacking the questioner personally” at Congressional hearings W/ @glennkirschner.bsky.social ===> substack.com/@macfarlanenews

MacFarlane: What do you think is Bondi’s legacy? Raskin: She leaves a legacy of absolute sycophancy and invertebrate servitude to Donald Trump. What a terrible way to squander your reputation as a lawyer and to essentially ruin a legal career that I understand was once promising.

"UK economist Michael MacKay:“Trump is an imbecile told he’s a genius.He’s a traitor told he’s a patriot. He’s a heathen told he’s the Messiah.He is evil told that he’s good.Trump is despised and told that he’s loved.Trump was crafted to be the worst human imaginable and then given unchecked power.”

NEW: Pam Bondi did almost everything Donald Trump asked. It wasn’t enough. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

SCOOP: Senator probes DOJ's deal to end historic Iran sanctions case Giving a pass to a record-breaking Iran sanctions-busting scheme during the war smacks of "rank incompetence" — or worse, Sen. Wyden told Scott Bessent. buff.ly/NAswRNO

Trump's DOJ just ended its prosecution of the bank that helped Iran dodge U.S. sanctions, as what looks like a favor to his dictator buddy Erdogan. Trump sacrificed U.S. servicemembers' lives and spiked gas prices to attack Iran, but he lets Iran's bankers off scot-free. It's all a grift.

US State Dep has launched an official Russian language account on both Instagram and Telegram to share the updates in Russian

A reminder that last week, Pam Bondi accidentally released a Jack Smith memo revealing Trump’s motive for stealing and illegally retaining classified documents.

Turns out covering up for pedophiles isn't a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

Pam Bondi is leaving to spend more time with her face-eating leopards.

What if Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are actually agents of an alien AI, infected with a virus that makes them want to replace humanity with machines? Would they act any differently than they do now? I wrote a short sci-fi story about it. www.mind-war.com/p/special-in...

he's bat shit crazy

He's crazy

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD): “Today President Trump has sacked Attorney General Pam Bondi, ending a tenure that will be remembered as a profound betrayal not only of the Department of Justice but of the American people the Department exists to serve." "For the record, the DOW was under 50,000"

🚨 JUST IN: Taiwan Confirms First Local Human Case of H7 Bird Flu Bird-to-Human Transmission Detected 33 close contacts identified; some receiving preventive antivirals as authorities monitor for further spread. www.cdc.gov.tw/Bulletin/Det...

Iran's ​foreign ‌ministry spokesperson ​said ​President Trump's ​statement on ​Iran ​requesting a ‌ceasefire ⁠”was false ​and ​baseless”, ⁠Iranian ​state ​TV ⁠reported ⁠on ​Wednesday.

Story on Bondi’s firing here: www.foxnews.com/politics/pam...

The vast majority of Americans are birthright citizens. Unless you naturalized or were born abroad to an American parent, you are a citizen because of the 14th Amendment. There is nothing constitutionally distinct about Americans born here to non-Americans. We are all literally equal citizens.

We’ve had presidents who didn’t understand economics, foreign policy, diplomacy, and lacked knowledge of historical lessons. But they were advised by people who did and listened to them. Now we have a president who doesn’t understand anything and won’t listen to people who do.

Moulton: I’m not a child psychologist so I can’t understand the mind of Donald Trump.

We all have to pay more for gas and every product transported on airplanes, ships and trucks while paying tens of billions to replenish depleted weapons so Hegseth can blow things up and Trump can watch videos every day of things getting blown up.

Per Guardian, UK will convene 35 countries – excluding the U.S. – to explore ways to reopen the strait of Hormuz. Starmer said the next phase of discussions in joint British-French efforts would be held on Thursday, with Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper, alongside int leaders.