Israel alone killed over 75 journalists in 2025, something many of the people I'm currently reading breathless posts from have still said nothing about.

Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

tbh Elon Musk might be one of the worst people ever to live 1. He helps put an insane person in power 2. Because he wants to buy a government job from said insane person 3. Uses that government job to revoke lifesaving aid from tens of millions 4. Inflict huge institutional rot along the way

Many are saying @somemorenews.bsky.social

I actually think it's bad for the government to be surveilling its citizens inside their private vehicles, regardless of what veneer of legitimacy you try to put on top of it

After being sworn in, anybody testifying before Congress should be asked who won the 2020 election. If they won't say "Biden," then they're dismissed. Why would we want testimony (or the confirmation of) somebody who is unwilling to state this basic fact?

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

Backers of the massive data center campus say at full buildout it will consume 9GW of electricity, more than double the entire state of Utah’s current energy use. They say they intend to burn fossil fuels on site to make all that electricity. Box Elder County will vote on the proposal Monday.

one reason I'm increasingly intolerant of "data centers gave me lyme disease" type fear mongering is it spreads www.propublica.org/article/mich...

AI identified her as the suspect in a crime spree in states she had never been to. she was in jail for six months before she even got to speak with an officer and they instantly were shown they had no case. she lost everything—her house, dog, car, and was left stranded in north dakota.

“Lethal kinetic strike” being the administration’s preferred euphemism for murder.

A workaround funded the Department of Homeland Security by executive order. Another workaround is intended to fund ICE and CBP for several years. Congress exists mainly as the thing that you work around. From me: prospect.org/2026/04/24/c...

The Department of Homeland Security has begun the process to deport Zoila Guerra Sandoval, who had a child with a man killed in the 2024 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. www.npr.org/2026/04/23/n...

NEW: Public records detailing Palantir’s IRS contract, obtained by the nonprofit watchdog group @weareoversight.bsky.social and shared exclusively with @theintercept.com, reveal the immense volume of data plugged into the military contractor’s software.

I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.

Official data is in today, and US solar power generation continues to grow rapidly, up 25% compared to this time last year!

The attack-the-academy movement was never, ever about freedom and diversity of thought in the academy. It was always going to play out this way. It’s never been “nobody should dictate thought,” it’s always been “WE should dictate thought.” www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

The stock market is higher now than it was at the beginning of the war. Considering the real and lingering destruction to the economy that is already playing out and won't be fixed for a while, that is absolutely delusional. It's in my latest edition of Aftermath. prospect.org/2026/04/23/a...

repeat after me it is not a person and it is incapable of reason

The Perfect AI Analogy w/ @edzitron.com Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/4b14ddDPVQ0 @codyjohnston.bsky.social @katystoll.bsky.social @jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social

Remembering Amal Khalil

and perhaps more importantly, they don't actually give a shit about bringing down drug prices

Alex Jones yesterday, April 22nd of 2026, is once again saying the Sandy Hook massacre was a false flag done by "professional shooters." It is imperative we take over that studio as soon as possible.

518,428 children have died preventable deaths in the year since Musk dismantled USAID, saying, “Time for it to die.”

The NSA and FBI have been spying on you without a warrant using section 702 of FISA for decades. Trump wants Congress to renew the law. Here are concrete examples of how this law has been abused – across administrations – and why Congress shouldn't rubber-stamp it.

This is really something. Fox News poll finds a solid majority of voters say Trump lacks the mental soundness to be president.

The fact that the US Secretary of Health denies that pathogens cause disease should always be a much bigger story

Prosecuting every one of the people involved in this is the moderate position and voters need to be reminding every single Democrat running that this is how it is.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

Jay Bhattacharya pulls a study because he doesn’t like the conclusions. I cannot explain how bad this is and how it reeks of the stench of ideological zealotry and has no basis in science. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

A new wholly corrupt settlement handing your money to Trump cronies. It’s notable for several reasons: /1 www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

It's estimated that these extreme cuts to NASA science would cancel more than 40 missions. That's lost science, lost discovery, lost innovation, and the end of careers. Some of these missions are already in space, doing good science, and would simply be abandoned. www.planetary.org/articles/82-...

People with preexisting conditions also don’t deserve to die

There's no legal basis for these boat strikes, and US officials involved in them should be prosecuted for attempted murder and murder. The OLC memo green-lighting the strikes is still secret, but there's nothing it could say that would make these strikes lawful. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Support for impeaching Trump is at 55%, according to a new Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight.io poll, with 37% of adults opposed. Crucially 1 in 5 of Trump’s own voters support impeachment. Read and share: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22...

i think it is cool that the president of the united states routinely slurs black people as biological inferior

A reminder that there is a cottage industry of pundits, academics & "influencers" depicting themselves as Knowers Of Electability™ - but they know nothing and neither do I, you, or anyone else. The Democratic-voter-as-electability-pundit idea has been an absolute disaster. Just stop.

They think you're stupid.

The primary reason we will get through this is the people finding that we have power when we join together in a very storybook fashion. The secondary reason is that the fascists are really stupid in a very storybook fashion

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @noahshachtman.bsky.social & me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/madiso...

Nobody has given more aid and comfort to health and welfare fraudsters than Donald J. Trump, a new Protect Our Care report shows. He's pardoned executives responsible for more than $3 billion in fraud. prospect.org/2026/04/21/t...

surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

Amazon saw lower prices at competitors and urged the brands to pressure those competitors to raise their prices, which they did. In writing. @robbonta.bsky.social has the receipts of this cartel behavior. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/t...

"B-b-but the people who sat out DID cause this! They DO deserve our scorn!" Have you all ever heard the question, "Would you rather be right, or happy?" This is that, electoral edition: would you rather be right, or would you rather win?

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Suddenly pushed by Gavin Newsom and the establishment the moment Swalwell withdrew. Some red flags never fail Obviously better than a Republican winning, but his record doesn't bode well

💢 NEW: Israeli Forces Burn Ambulances, Shell Villages & Claim Kills During Lebanon Ceasefire Israeli military attacks continued across southern Lebanon Mon. evening despite a 10-day ceasefire in effect. 🔸 Israeli troops entered the Imam al-Sadr sports complex in the border village of Mais...

The murders continue. The U.S. Has Now Killed More Than 180 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them. The graves of multiple children have been defaced. One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.