First deportees from US arrive in Congo capital, sources say reut.rs/3Qjny5M

this is just fox news culture war bullshit that frames folks who work in academia or entertainment as the elite in order to deflect anger away from billionaires. once you accept that the nyt is just a bog standard republican paper, it falls into context and makes perfect sense.

seriously hope when dems get back in power they go after every single fuck involved with DOGE

I think it is preferable to have politicians who have, at some point in their lives, lived like a normal person

to summarize, this week jd vance laysplained st augustine of hippo to the augustinian pope, while the pope visited hippo

This man must never become president.

To somehow live long enough to see your world die but not long enough to see that the new one is born, if at all.

The Republican Party is essentially just a giant criminal enterprise for sexual assault

From anti-transgender narratives about Olympic swimmers to fabricated comments from right-wing politicians, a slew of Facebook pages managed from Vietnam are capitalizing on Australia's inflamed politics to promote AI-generated articles u.afp.com/SEmj

It’s my pleasure to announce the 2026 Makers Madness Champion for Coolest Thing Made in Illinois — the NASA Standard Initiator by Chemring Energetic Devices in Downers Grove. It played a critical role in the Artemis II mission, literally taking Illinois innovation to the moon.

one of the biggest technological revolutions in history and it has nothing to do with crypto, AI, metaverse or any of the things the media relentlessly hypes

One person has been killed and at least six injured following a Russian strike on a residential area, according to Interior Ministry head Ihor Klymenko (reported via regional officials). The missile hit a nine-storey apartment building, turning homes into a strike zone. 🙏🇺🇦

April 2: guards cut all phone access in the housing units without warning. When detainees protested, CRS officers allegedly punched a man, threw another to the ground, kicked him in the head, and pinned him by the neck. A third detainee's wrist was broken. The entire cage was pepper-sprayed.

#BREAKING Death toll from Turkey's second school shooting in as many days now stands at nine: interior minister

I don't know if young people these days understand that this kind of grotesque gutter racism was simply not acceptable in public... not that long ago!

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started. Just. Tax. Them.

prohibition but for sports gambling, now you’re only allowed to do it if you go to a dingy bar and place your bet with a guy named vito four fingers who makes it extremely clear that if you welch on him you’re going to join him in the four fingers club

everyone involved in the dismantling of USAID should be forced to spend their lives watching graphic videos of what they have subjected people to in their callousness, clockwork orange style

This evening marks Yom HaShoah, where we honor and remember the six million Jews who were killed and the survivors whose lives were never the same. We say their names and tell their stories. We must stand united to fight antisemitism and hate in all its forms.

"Today, there are so many wealthy people who can afford luxury cars that it simply isn’t that profitable for companies to produce cars for the bottom 40 percent of Americans by income." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

6 million Jewish people were murdered during the Holocaust. On Yom HaShoah, we honor their memory. It is our responsibility to fight back against antisemitism, violence, and hatred in all forms. Never again.

Looks like a tacky airbnb

Communal kitchens ⁠are increasingly unable to meet rising needs, while major donor funding cuts are impeding aid agencies' abilities to respond, the report said. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Polls have closed in Hungary. A record 77.8% turnout. No exit polls, but shouldn’t be long till the actual results roll in.

In fact, the question of whether Chinese ships will comply - or be forced to comply - is a very immediate one, that will play out over the coming hours and days.

call me a liberal nationalist but I feel proud to export an American culture of space exploration, multicultural immigrant cuisine, the Black American music tradition, football basketball baseball, NY Jewish comedy, land grant universities, and social libertarianism

For Operation Dildo Blitz in Broadview, activists have made themed art of former Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino.

did the obsidian order interfere in the federation election

An avowed bad-faith republican can co-host a news show for a major network as an alleged journalist because the intent of corporate media is to support the republican party

Undersecretary Michael’s profits in xAI — reportedly up to $24 million — get some scrutiny. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

lols

Iran's new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei: We will enter a new phase in the management of the Strait of Hormuz.

some people may argue that The Beekeeper not high art but it contains a scene in which a scammer tries to bribe Jason Statham with NFTs and is immediately tied to a truck and driven off the bridge so who’s to say it is not the greatest cinematic accomplishment of our times

Nice post from Arin. Raising the minimum wage in Florida, Arizona, Nebraska and Missouri led to higher wages for workers and had no measurable effect on employment arindube.substack.com/p/these-repu...

now that the New Yorker article is out, go back and look at how access journos (like Kara Swisher) reacted to the OpenAI board saying Sam Altman was an opportunistic liar (via @garymarcus.bsky.social in '24) "A clod of a board stays consistent to its cloddery" she said in a since-deleted tweet

RETVRN

Beirut yesterday

No way......

Awful. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

It's giving Israel doesn't want this war to end

Almost every day for the last month, Hussein Saleh has made a somber pilgrimage to the plot of land in south Lebanon where his home once stood, scouring the earth for trinkets that belonged to his wife, daughter and six other relatives killed in an Israeli strike reut.rs/4bZVH2Y

lol

Not now!

Nepal vows to stamp out insurance scams involving unnecessary helicopter rescues of trekkers. Police say some operators have for years orchestrated fraudulent evacuations for insurance payouts, and 32 people have been charged after an investigation in an alleged $19.69 million scam u.afp.com/Sb9i

I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine