In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.

I still want VARCHAR as a license plate on the Civic but Mr. View drives it sometimes and it would break his "never admit you've heard of the computer" rule

The Garden of Monet at Argenteuil - 1873 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8219

The Trump administration is sabotaging the US economy Slowing nominal wage gains and rising prices mean negative real wage growth is now in the cards for most workers in 2026

💥Heroes’ Square in Budapest is hosting the “anti-regime grand concert,” with tens of thousands bracing for the end of Viktor Orbán’s rule on Sunday. Chants of “Russians go home” are heard, while performers mock Viktor Orbán and Péter Szijjártó as servants of Vladimir Putin. 📸 444.hu

The U.S. offshore wind industry is finally catching a break as the Trump administration quietly gives up its chance to appeal court rulings. From @grist.org:

OpenAI wants to be off the hook if its frontier AI models go rogue and cause 100+ deaths or more than $1 billion in financial damages. from @mzeff.bsky.social

Fun Fact: Inflation rose at a 4.1% annual rate in the last three months. It's getting higher, not lower, and this is before the war!

Because we all need something amazing today. #artemisII

Saw this play the other night, heavy but worthwhile and it stays with you (laudatory)

If you want to have what looks like a conversation and there is no need for anything said to be correct about anything, LLMs are incredible. But if factual accuracy matters at all, they are the last tool you should use.

BREAKING: Iran includes "acceptance of enrichment" in the Farsi version of its ceasefire plan, something missing from English versions.

In honor of Vance's visit to Hungary, where he will campaign for Viktor Orban, I am reposting my article from last year. I argued that Orban's Hungary is one of the poorest countries, and certainly the most corrupt and least free country, in the entire EU. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

Ways to get there: - 25A (by far hardest, useless) - Straight impeachment (H. majority + 2/3 S.) - Fund nothing until he's gone (fewest votes needed, just a willing majority in either house, but takes the longest) - Congress declares him 14AS3 disqualified (simple majorities) - uhh... [redacted]

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

I hate the too-cool-for-school attitude of dismissing this with a "but they won't." That is surrendering in advance. The pressure should be put on them, the message should be unrelenting that this is what must be done and they're the ones refusing to do it. Don't act like they don't have agency.

BAGHDAD (AP) — American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was kidnapped in Baghdad last week, has been released, an Iraqi official says.

If I was a member of the cabinet or Congress. I would be asking myself what I would say to my grandchildren when they asked, “what did you do when the president of the United States threatened to destroy a whole civilization?”

When your allies stop believing you’re predictable, they stop believing you’re dependable. That’s the real story unfolding right now.

Ukrainian drone forces struck Russia’s main Black Sea oil terminal in Novorossiysk, accounting for about 20% of Russia’s crude exports in wartime. Operations are now shut down. www.kyivpost.com/post/73343

NEW: Watch this apparent North Korean fake IT worker refuse to say "Kim Jong-un is a fat ugly pig." We know this trick works sometimes, but it's very funny to see it work in a real life scenario, on camera. techcrunch.com/2026/04/06/w...

💥ICYMI: We have evidence that Orbán’s foreign minister Péter Szijjártó acted on behalf of the Kremlin, making efforts to delist sanctioned Russians. He also talked about doing his best to repeal an EU sanctions package and offered to try to save Russian entities from sanctions. @vsquare.bsky.social

No real problem with ordinary folks asking about the 25th, but every time a congressman asks for the cabinet to remove a president you should read that as them abdicating their own duty to pursue impeachment through congress

*werner herzog voice* one day the eggs will hunt you

I can't get enough of these photos from Artemis II. That's home. That's us. Taken earlier today by one of the crew. Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew

NEW RESEARCH: Yesterday, our team at @domaintools.bsky.social Investigations published a holistic analysis of DPRK malware trajectories, providing a cross-connected understanding of the adversarial landscape in Pyongyang. #infosec #cybersecurity #threatintel dti.domaintools.com/research/dpr...

ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!

It’s unreal how bad NYC condo vs. house property tax disparity is. $2.15 million house in Bed-Stuy, taxes are $490/mo.: streeteasy.com/sale/1811884... $1.16 million 2BR/2BA condo in FiDi, taxes are $2,099/mo.: streeteasy.com/sale/1811603...

IDF officials are coordinating with Russian counterparts to ensure the safe passage of Russian experts departing from the Bushehr nuclear plant in Iran, according to a diplomatic source. -Kan News

The next tipping point in the energy transition is approaching. Overall, solar has already been cheaper than fossil power for a while, but upfront costs used to be higher. That's no longer the case. Solar is now competitive upfront AND has vastly lower operating costs (no fuel).

Spain accounted for 40% of the total economic growth in the EU last year, and their green transition has been a very important factor in that.

I’ve wasted so much breath trying to explain to white people how not-white they ultimately are to real white suprematists. Catholics, Slavs, Irish, Poles, Italians - none of you are white. You were just convenient to help them deal with the visibly non-white. Your time is coming.

Going to try and find my Irish grandparents at Ellis Island this weekend, it’s been decided

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth…”

Our Congress ordered all presidents after 1978 to preserve records of their acts. That law obviously responded to crimes by a president, crimes he tried to conceal by destroying records. The current US president just issued a diktat: he will now proceed to destroy records in violation of the law.

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The lane is open for a 2028 candidate to pledge to accept jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court

It seems we just bombed some residential buildings in an attempt to kill a former diplomat who was trying to facilitate negotiations. A civilian trying to *end* hostilities, surrounded by other civilians in their homes. We are completely lost.

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

trump rapidly heading for an approval rating among all adults that starts with `36` fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...

The clerb is alive and well today outside on my block, maybe this is my sign to go outside on a walk and pause work

"Many fear that the current war could itself turn into a prolonged war of attrition, and the eight-year war is often recalled as an example of Iran’s ability to sustain such conflicts if imposed upon it." alhurra.com/en/17457

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump to attend Wednesday Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship in unprecedented move for a sitting president.

As civ mil scholars point out often, it’s a shame that this subject gets short shrift in mainstream academia because it’s really really f-ing important to constitutional governance

Profoundly apologize for my hustle culture mind but only 6% tech bro I can live with that amiatechbro.com

The significance of attacking Tofigh Daru is that it is the main research centre and producer of chemotherapy medication in Iran, as well as the medication to slow down the progress of MS. It is not IRGC connected & is in fact mostly owned by the the National Social Security system (Iran’s NHS).

This is what I get for not logging into this website for four hours