15 companies backing a corrupt and increasingly authoritarian regime.

Is it just me, or have online weather forecasts become increasingly unreliable?

Climate groups sue US government over approval of new BP project in Gulf of Mexico Advocates expressed alarm as new project drills deeper into ocean bed, pointing to company’s failures at Deepwater Horizon spill

The perpetrator of the worst oil spill in history is baaack.

Patel just sued the @theatlantic.com for $250M (lol) for defamation for its article suggesting, among other things, that his drinking is affecting his behavior and ability to function as FBI director. With defamation suits, I always first ask, can this person be defamed—or has he defamed himself?

2025 Hillman Prizes The Sidney Hillman Foundation honors journalists who pursue investigative reporting and deep storytelling in service of the common good.

Congrats to our friends at @wired.com for their excellent DOGE coverage, which just won them the Sidney Hillman Prize. Well deserved!

Sam Altman has said shit like this about AI eliminating human toil. It's like, okay, great, but how are people supposed to live?

Here's how your vacation came to be A brief history of leisure.

Sound familiar?

1931: Economist John Maynard Keynes predicts technology will result in a 15-hour workweek: ”For the first time since his creation, man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem,” he wrote, “how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won?”

Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT): "Jeffrey Clark was indicted in Georgia, pushed out of DOJ for his unethical conduct, and the D.C. bar has recommended he lose his law license. The best they’ve got is a conspiracy theorist…it’s a joke.”

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

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How the American oligarchy went hyperscale The AI boom is fueling a literal and metaphorical power grab by tech billionaires—and forcing a reckoning.

Please take the time to read this award-worthy @motherjones.com article on the AI oligarchy, if only to experience great writing in an era of AI slop.

If the bots can ever write as well as my colleague @timothymurphy.bsky.social, we are surely cooked.

Cocaine pollution in rivers and lakes may disrupt behaviour of salmon, study finds Fish swam further and dispersed more widely after exposure to environmental levels of drug and main metabolite

Don Junior has been at it again, apparently.

Everybody hates Cory Sex workers, bankruptcy, stolen valor, a restraining order, and Trump's “Complete and Total” endorsement for Congress.

Guess who just avoided arrest for allegedly assaulting a woman after some in Trump's DOJ reportedly intervened? In any case, it's sad that Americans keep electing sleazebags to represent us in Congress.

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

I don't see how Patel survives this, but for Chrissake, the red flags before he was confirmed were epic. The Senate needs to get its shit together and start saying no to every dubious nominee.

Podcasters, presidents, and psychedelics: How Joe Rogan got Trump into ibogaine Billionaire Peter Thiel also stands to benefit from the executive order signed on Saturday.

This is fine in terms of the outcome, but it also drives home how Trump doesn't do a damn thing that isn't transactional.

If you ask me, Sen. Jon Ossoff is sounding more and more like a potential 2028 presidential candidate.

Makes me sick.

Car reviewer tears into the Cybertruck for 20 minutes Yes, everyone knows the Cybertruck is bad. I guarantee nothing will make you understand how bad more than this extended review, though.

but was it a spacex edition? /s boingboing.net/2026/04/17/c...

Cover of Mother Jones with an image of fingers pointing at John Roberts and the coverline "Blame John Roberts for Everything"

The NYT big expose on SCOTUS today pairs well with @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's cover story on how ~everything wrong with this country today can be laid at the feet of John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Homeland Security's new task force website sanitizes Trump's deportation agenda With help from Edward "Big Balls" Coristine and other usual suspects.

No mention of immigration. But it talks about going after cartel and terrorist money laundering operations, even though Trump neutered those laws to protect wealthy US tax evaders. It also talks about protecting children—though ICE has been locking them in its detention centers. Lipstick on a pig.

He's got NASA by the balls, basically.

The @nytimes.com just revealed a massive power grab by the Supreme Court under Justice Roberts, which has mainly been used to support conservative policies and quash liberal ones, without sound legal justification or even explanation to the public.

Rep Justin Jones made a statement entrance, walking into the Tennessee legislature with an"Abolish ICE" flag. No subtlety. No backing down.🔥🔥

Donald Trump’s restitution scheme is among the greatest heists in US history Bogus claims of malicious prosecution could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions.

The DOJ already paid off Michael Flynn. These people are all crooks.

No, no, no, no, no!

Orbánism was, more or less, a model for what Trump and the Republican Party are trying to do in the United States. The Trump administration was so desperate to prevent Orbán’s defeat that it sent J. D. Vance to ask Hungarians to “stand for Western civilization” and “freedom, for truth and for the God of our fathers.” Few vice presidents have more consistently debased the office, to the point that most people hardly noticed that Vance had praised as godly a man who publicly condemned “race mixing.”

It's not the MOST pathetic thing Vance has done, but him going to Hungary to applaud man who condemned "race mixing" is absolutely wretched (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Norm McDonald - Moth Joke [napisy PL] YouTube video by StandUpy PoPolskuPowróciły

I know you need a laugh today to prepare your mind for the weekend. So watch this. (Or rewatch it.) He's so good.

Former molecular biology grad student here! This is mad hubris. These rich "geniuses" have no clue how to engineer human intelligence—not to mention that AI is advancing so much faster than our knowledge of how genes affect complex traits that we'll all probably die soonish. Worth a read, though.

Republicans exploit an obscure law to open this pristine Minnesota wilderness to mining Their use of the Congressional Review Act could drastically reshape public lands protections, experts say.

Seriously. What won't these people destroy as a political favor for wealthy pals. Reporting from @grist.org via @climatedesk.org

Why Pete Hegseth's Tarantino blunder wasn't the least bit surprising America's defense secretary is fixated on a fringe, violent version of Christian Nationalism.

The Hegseth Pulp Fiction things is both the funniest thing I've heard all week, and also among the most disturbing, when you consider that, as my friend @kieraevebutler.bsky.social writes, it wasn't at all surprising.