A little background on who the Southern Poverty Law Center is and what kind of work they’ve been doing for decades makes it clear that DOJ’s indictment (which is of the center, not of any individuals) is vindictive & malicious, an attack on civil rights work itself. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
I had a great time talking with @jjwalsh.bsky.social . A few technical glitches on my end but the conversation continued.
I’m looking forward to joining Joy Walsh on her Seek Sustainable Japan podcast in a few minutes, at 9am JST. We’ll talk about minka and other related subjects. It's always a lively and fun discussion, please join if you can.
Link for livestream and playback later:
www.youtube.com/live/e-zR4yw...
Other false media statements identified in the Kash Patel complaint:
1. Special Agents do not, in fact, refer to him as “J. Edgar Shart”
2. Patel did, in fact, know that the FBI is part of the Executive Branch and that Wyoming is a state. He just always looks surprised when you tell him things.
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Iran is being coy about whether it will participate in talks after signaling that it would not.
Interpretable (at least) as either/both coercive bargaining and/or Iran-internal divisions & debates over government & policy.
I just read Alex Karp's 22 points, and what most stood out to me was the ignorance about many things.
I totally agree. It’s like Karp played a lot of video games and believed he was learning history.
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
Absolutely incredible.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.
Watch with sound on.
The best possible explanation is that Peter Thiel is a barrow wight
The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar.
Apparently like every day.
Hahahahahahahaha
Oh my!
Is this an opening para or is this an opening paragraph?
This alone should end any normal human cabinet secretary.
PALLETS OF CASH TO IRAN?!?
Iran did not have a stockpile of highly enriched uranium until after Trump withdrew from the JCPOA because Iran was prohibited from doing so and under monitoring, Trump is the arsonist taking credit for putting out the fire he started.
I've been threatening to write this post. I hope to write another in which I consider specific nations.
The integrity space capsule from the Artemis II lunar flyby mission floating safely in the ocean after re-entry.
Yaay!
This @nytimes.com piece on Iran's propaganda war is amazing, BUT it leaves out a very important detail:
In the incident involving the U.S. F/A-18 Hornet was not faked. At least not entirely.
The plane was ALMOST shot out of the sky....
A short🧵
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The simple answer is that it works as was shown in "House of Dynamite." A military officer accompanies the President at all times with the Presidential Satchel, also known as "the football."
The football contains communications equipment and a book of options for nuclear attacks. 1/
I think Tuesday we get to find out whether the chairman of the joint chiefs, the CENTCOM commander and others are willing to carry out illegal orders.
Morally, legally, economically the war on Iran is disastrous and the disaster goes on for years no matter what happens now. But what cannot be overstated is that in pure national security terms it is also an unmitigated catastrophe.
A great and memorable film.
A satellite image with a base depicted (with an inset picture to the right showing that the image is from Bahrain). There are 7 strikes on the image marked with circles. Text: In response to an NPR request, a Navy spokesman acknowledged that 1,500 sailors, their families and several hundred pets were relocated back to the U.S. from NSA Bahrain.
This NPR story is getting a lot of attention bc of the plight the 1,500 sailors evacuated are facing. But how many other facilities in the ME have been evacuated and where are those personnel?
www.npr.org/2026/04/03/n...
Just had this from Planet Labs, the US government have asked satellite imagery providers for "voluntarily" restrictions on access to satellite imagery. Given a lot of them provide satellite imagery to the USG we can probably guess the outcome of not acquiescing to that request.
The Putinisation of America. The Dear Leader is fed information that will please him by talentless minions promoted for their loyalty who fear the truth will see them purged.
Government officials who lie about almost everything should be nowhere near the conduct of a war. Nothing they say can be taken as truth.
As Iranian drones target the UAE, Bellingcat reveals a number of instances where authorities downplayed damage and mischaracterised interceptions. Meanwhile the UAE’s attorney general warned that publication of images or videos of strikes is illegal. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04...
Live cameral image from inside the Artemis II Orion capsule. The control screens shine brightly inside the darkened capsule, and two astronauts can be seen,
NASA's Artemis II livestream from the Orion capsule is pretty cool:
www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBt...
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
