I don’t think reporting has made clear how badly US bases in Gulf have been hit by Iran already.

I do not know if an updated COVID19 vaccine will be available for Fall in the United States. All because little men got their feelings hurt because their ideas are fucking dumb and thousands of scientists told them that. firstwordpharma.com/story/7157141

Pfizer has ended its large Phase III Trial of an updated COVID19 vaccine. They were not able to enroll enough people to meet their goal. A major problem is the FDA’s wholly unreasonable demand that people with chronic conditions, who benefit most from the vaccine, not be allowed to participate.

Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.” (Published October 2025)

Trump started a pointless and illegal war with Iran, he lost it almost immediately, he crushed America's economy and America's partners while making Iran and our rivals much stronger. He did it for no reason he can articulate. In any decent nation, he'd be forced to resign immediately.

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.

Of course. Trip Gabriel, NYT

'Senior Army officers reacted with anger...to the news of General George’s dismissal' The reason for the dismissal? Gen. Randy George disagreed with Hegseth blocking the promotions of 2 women and 2 black Army officers. Arguably the more consequential firing today. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Incompetence at the top of the FBI has devastating consequences.

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

Trump signs order imposing 100 percent tariff on brand name drugs #TheHill

It’s great that the Supreme Court sided with the Constitution on tariffs and appears poised to do so on birthright citizenship. Ruling against the Constitution and inverting the plain meaning of the text on insurrectionists holding office and presidential immunity remains unforgivable. Forever.

Hegseth's military purges are what I call "ethics cleansing." He's getting rid of people who might not support his war crimes agenda and might think twice if he orders American troops to attack the American people.

Intelligence agencies assessed that Iran was not working on a nuclear weapon before the war.

The US conservative movement has established an informal nationwide network whereby, if you do something horrible or crude or violent or racist,& face some accountability ... they will crowdfund for you & make you rich. Very explicitly encouraging & rewarding shitty anti-social behavior.

Bondi's worst legacy is her destruction and perversion of DOJ's storied Civil Rights Division, and the resulting impunity of federal agents who have not had to fear prosecution for wide-scale abuse and even murder. But she did all that in service to Stephen Miller, and he's still there.

Very intriguing political philosophy from the “Third Way” think tank: There’s Democrat. There’s Republican. But now there’s a Third Way: Republican.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down, sources say.

The U.S. military today attacked major civilian infrastructure in Iran for the first time, hours after President Trump threatened in a prime time address to bomb the country "back to the stone ages."

Regarding Todd Blanche: It is probably a good time to recall that he literally ordered up the kidnapping of the Mayor of New Jersey's biggest city. emptywheel.net/2025/09/30/s...

One of Trump’s fundamental weaknesses is A. His existential need to have an AG willing to break laws, lose their bar license, & go to prison B. The small pool of people, seeing Trump so weak, who are willing to break laws, lose their bar license, & go to prison, who could plausibly be confirmed

A new lawsuit today asks a federal judge to end a recent policy shift at DHS, under which ICE agents have used their own administrative warrants to force entry into peoples’ homes without sign-off from a judge. It brings together three families whose homes were raided and claims clear 4A violations.

It's so clear to me that Trump placed women high up in the most corrupt portions of his Cabinet - Noem with DHS, Tulsi as DNI, Bondi with DOJ, Leavitt as WH press sec - to take the fall for more powerful men. That they don't see they're pawns is fascinating.

With Pam Bondi’s ouster, Todd Blanche is now the interim AG. Here’s our story on him from December: Todd Blanche Shut Down Crypto Enforcement While Holding Crypto Assets

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.

100+ year old Pasteur Institute in Tehran was a premier infectious disease research institute and vaccine manufacturer It is a reason Iranian kids like me born in 60s had access to measles vaccines soon after they were developed in the west

"in 80% of the cases when participants chose to consult ChatGPT, they went with wrong answers without stopping to scrutinize them"

All 3 of them are obviously awful, but it isn't an accident that the first 3 likely casualties in this abysmal administration, Noem, Bondi and Gabbard are all women. The incompetence, racism and petty vengeance of this POTUS is matched by his rampant misogyny.

“I’ve been hearing that the industry can solve the methane problem since the early 2000s,” she [@txsharon.bsky.social] said. “But it hasn’t happened, and methane keeps climbing higher and higher. The only way methane levels will come down is to stop permitting new wells.”

Here is what the dismal snowpack means for California's water (present and future). Op-ed from me. (Gift link) #climate #climatechange www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

The MAGA project is in a very real sense about undoing the 14th Amendment. newrepublic.com/article/2084...

A day after Mike Johnson and John Thune put out a joint statement declaring a "deal" to fund DHS, the Senate voted early today to pass its bill to reopen DHS and House Republicans... chose not to vote on it. DHS shutdown continues! www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

The Big Bend region is one of the remotest areas in the lower 48 and is also a biodiversity hotspot. No locals want a border wall here, and it's also one of the least frequented sections of the border. The Trump admin still wants to militarize it and build a wall that would sever communities. 🌎

What would the world look like at $200 a barrel of oil? english.elpais.com/economy-and-....

"Puente rolled down his window and pointed his grenade launcher at a man. 'Get the fuck out of the way!' he yelled, aiming his muzzle at the civilian." Incredible reporting from @regret.bsky.social and @awinston.bsky.social unmasking violent Border Patrol agents www.wired.com/story/border...

Hitler’s Edifice Complex www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It’s increasingly clear that Donald Trump has declined in alarming ways. His vocabulary is shrinking, his cadence is slowing, his speech is often slurred. Nothing in his recent appearances suggests the capacity expected of a president. The only question is whether those around him will confront it.

I hate that teaching has become policing and surveilling. I hate that learning has become evasion and shortcuts. I hate how AI papers say nothing at all; they have no capacity for originality, contribution, or social change.

Trump is mad Bondi has failed to successfully prosecute his political enemies, which is a function of prosecutors having no real cases against said enemies, so why does he think that a possible replacement, whose previous legal experience was as an attorney for the Port Authority, would be better?

Be hilarious if his complaint is that all his enemies aren't yet in prison. The issue there isn't necessarily Bondi, it's that his enemies didn't do anything wrong and the legal system has rightfully rejected bogus prosecutions.

M 4.9 - 1 km ESE of Boulder Creek, CA Link: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75337442

They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. #USForestService

Awakened by an earthquake. USGS says magnitude 4.9, near Boulder Creek, CA, and deep, nearly seven miles down.

Market discovers that Trump is not serving TACOs tonight www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/04/mark...