JPMORGAN: “.. GOP House members are abandoning ship at a record pace. The midterm challenges for the GOP include declining blue-collar employment, soaring ACA premiums, a surge in commodity prices, rising inflation expectations and some unorthodox choices at the Department of Justice.”

The EU AI Act, the most comprehensive AI regulation to date, was not written with agents in mind, write Kathrin Gardhouse and Amin Oueslati. They analyze five governance challenges AI agents pose and identify key gaps for the EU to address.

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Hegseth responds to critics who say he has no strategy: "The strategy remain laser focused"

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins blames Biden for high beef prices and calls climate change a "hoax"

The first question we should ask ourselves in these and all other elections is: Which candidates oppose the inordinate power of the ultra-rich, and which ones accept or encourage it?

“.. More than 4 in 10 of respondents in the 18-24 age range blamed the president, while one-third faulted corporate greed and large companies.” @thehill.com thehill.com/business/586...

This is fucked up on so many levels.

Lambert: The Strait of Hormuz is going to be open and we’re going to control it. Mockler: In two weeks? Lambert: It doesn’t matter if it’s two weeks or two months. Mockler: It does actually matter because economists are saying if it's closed for a few more months, we're going into a recession

This describes WRDSB classrooms very well. And Doug Ford cut the extra resources that could have helped to reduce bullying. Again, I have no idea why student attendance has dropped so dramatically at Ontario public schools. theconversation.com/bullying-is-...

Peter Navarro: "One of the biggest problems we have is inflation in beef. And one of the reasons has to do with just the way nature has been for the last decade or more. There's not much we up here can do about that. But Joe Biden ... "

Updates on the hantavirus situation from WHO (which we, beyond belief, are no longer part of). Seven suspected cases, three deaths. Case 1 boarded Apr 1, got sick Apr 6, died Apr 11. Likely Andes virus, given Argentina link. Consistent with infection before boarding. www.who.int/emergencies/...

Prayag Jain wants you to meet Drawy, KDE's new infinite whiteboard. Ideal for training, presentations, and education, Drawy provides a simple-to-use space for you to develop and show your ideas. prayag2.github.io/posts/meet-d... #education #teaching #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

JPMORGAN: “.. In 2025, US farm bankruptcies rose by ~50% y/y due in part to tariffs raising the cost of steel, equipment and herbicide inputs, tariff retaliation which reduced export markets, and immigration policy reducing the supply of undocumented farm labor.” 👀

Bezos “obeyed in advance” so hard that it’s gonna be hilarious when he pretends he never supported any of this.

Blue-collar employment. No bueno. (via JPM)

FOX BUSINESS: The EPA is allowing extension of gas flaring for gas operations, and that some argue is not great for emissions. Can you point to something where you have actually tightened regulations to make sure we have clean air? ZELDIN: So, we, uh, um ...

JPMORGAN: “.. While the Trump 2.0 DoJ increased prosecution of immigration cases, it also terminated pending investigations involving organized crime, white collar crime, corruption, labor racketeering, violent crime, healthcare fraud and national security at a record pace.”

This is happening under the "I said, you gotta clean your floors, you gotta clean your forests" Use-Rakes-In-The-Forests President.

good thing this is only constrained to the realm of classical music

I'm sure one more lane would fix it. www.cp24.com/local/peel/2...

Trump: "When I get out of office in, let's say, eight or nine years from now ... "

We are losing our best and brightest. Trump’s immigration policies will have an effect on immigrant scientists like Shirley Meng. She is stepping down as director of Energy Storage Research Alliance and will be relocating to Singapore. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

After the White Nationalist Trump Government destroys the legitimate and experienced disaster response and relief infrastructure. See how that works?

Trump claims "consumer confidence is *way* up." In fact, consumer confidence recently hit an all-time low.

🚨BREAKING: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has signed an aggressively gerrymandered electoral map into law, the final step in a bid to flip four more seats in Congress to Republicans. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Democrats need to tone down the political rhetoric?

just a wee lil war. as a treat.

“.. Palm Beach County commissioners will take their first public vote Tuesday on the renaming of Palm Beach International Airport after Donald Trump, now that county officials have reached a tentative trademark deal with the president’s companies .. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

🚨BREAKING: Alabama lawmakers will convene Monday afternoon for an astonishing eleventh-hour special session to prepare the state to use a gerrymandered map that dilutes the power of Black voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I'm utterly fascinated by the modern art of journalistic simulacrum at no point do this piece's four authors consider wandering anywhere close to the idea of corruption, or that Trump says a lot of things that are utterly meaningless, or that our regulators no longer function in the public interest

Someday soon people like Jeff Bezos will pretend they never supported Trump, that they were against this the whole time ——- NEW: Generic ballot 2026 among independents: 🔵Democratic: 52% 🔴Republican: 32% Washington Post/Ipsos poll | April 24-28

big scoop from @jamieson.bsky.social and @mattshuham.bsky.social

NEW: In a brief filed with SCOTUS, civil rights groups contend that under the court’s own history of applying “the Purcell principle,” it is too late into the election season to suspend it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

PETERSON FOUNDATION: “.. CBO projects that ratio will climb dramatically — reaching 175 percent of GDP in 2056.” www.pgpf.org/article/nati...

A new report this morning revealed historic levels abuse by ICE against detainees. And the government was documenting it all. www.adamkinzinger.com/p/top-news-c...

Trump is crazyposting at 3pm

a very confused Trump: "I could with one swipe of the pen say, 'Let's have no employment,' and I'll hire a million people or two million people and we'll have absolutely no employment."

Trump says the US will be "taking over Cuba almost immediately"

In the now all-too-common category of things that are completely unsurprising and yet utterly shocking, Republicans have completely memory-holed the killings of the Hortmans and shootings of the Hoffmans in Minnesota. As far as they’re concerned it just never happened.

move over, D-Day

Trump’s speech describing affordability as a “line of bullshit” should be one of the focal points in Dems midterm advertising

After the Supreme Court gutted a key provision in the VRA, President Donald Trump insisted over the weekend that Republicans should rig political maps in their favor ahead of the upcoming midterms — even if that means scrapping active elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

WATCH: The freedom of information changes are now law and the government is sending out new rejection letters much quicker than it ever answered requests. Plus, a court challenge? #OnPoli

Morning Joe put together a supercut of Sen. Blumenthal asking Trump's judicial nominees who won the 2020 election, and each of them refusing to acknowledge that Trump lost

Trump describes his war on Iran as a "military operation" and "a little detour, and it's working out very nicely"

just seconds after describing his war on Iran as "a military operation," Trump slips and calls it a "war"

Sen. Coons: “Anybody brave enough to say that the Constitution of the United States prevents President #Trump from seeking a third term? Anybody willing to apply the Constitution by its plain language in the 22nd Amendment? Nobody..”

Trump’s escalation just backfired. Iran has now struck a major UAE oil port, along with hitting multiple ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Now? No ships are moving. A critical oil hub is burning. And we are waiting to see if full hostilities resume.

“.. The U.S. cost of primary aluminum from smelters is nearly 90% higher than a year ago. @wsj.com #$F www.wsj.com/business/aut...