Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).
Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.
And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.
Remember this.
This is a good moment in @donmoyn.bsky.social's dive into the tech broligarchs: They keep talking about the "west" in order to feel like world-historical sages but they're just echoing warmed over white nationalist inanitites at this point:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...
Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.
LILLEY: Ford caves to mob driven by petty jealousy, sells government jet
Sure, Brian. The jealous, woke mob took the premier's plane away.
Meanwhile, in America, Democratic "leader" Chuck Schumer takes chummy photos with war criminal Netanyahu.
www.politico.eu/article/pete...
If I represented the Atlantic, I’d lock in the earliest deposition date on the calendar. Call Patel’s bluff. He has zero interest in putting any of this under oath.
Whether it's JD Vance telling the Pope not to stick his nose in Theology, or Pierre Poilievre claiming that Mark Carney is bad at Economics, we are truly living through a Golden Age of self-entitled mediocrities whose only move is projecting their own inadequacy upon their critics and opponents.
For those unfamiliar: DiGenova and his wife and law partner, Victoria Toensing, have played roles in nearly every GOP pseudoscandal since the Clinton era, including Benghazi and the Ukraine disinformation plot, and are longtime fixtures in right-wing media.
Trent Pool, who worked for RFK Jr.'s presidential campaign, got his Manhattan criminal charges dismissed. He was accused of assaulting and choking a 25-year-old woman at a hotel in 2024. /
"BP’s first completely new oilfield in the Gulf since the company’s Deepwater Horizon disaster 16 years ago.
It will be deeper than Deepwater Horizon, and in riskier waters... drilling 6 miles below the sea floor, deeper than the height of Mt. Everest"
www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2026/04/grou...
Very serious point here — media vastly overreport what Trump says rather than clarifying for the reader the actual strategic situation.
Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October.
Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year.
Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce.
Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.
Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.
This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon
Banning algorithmic pricing ought to be a no-brainer call for any government: people don’t like to be ripped off, surveilled, or treated differently from their peers.
Algorithm pricing does all three of those things.
Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon wouldn’t do any “climate change crap.” It’s still fortifying bases against rising seas and stronger storms.
Senate Dems say a 27-year-old died in ICE custody on Sun. Just one day prior, a 47-year-old Mexican national also died. Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has blasted “serious deficiencies in ICE detention centers,” calling them “incompatible w/human rights standards and the protection of life.”
The cadets are fundraising at my local grocery store. If you see some, give ‘em your money because one day they might be protecting Canada from you-know-who.
Satellite images reveal the scale of devastation across Gaza since October 2023—entire neighbourhoods reduced to rubble. What does recovery even look like?
In other news, Zelensky says Belarus is getting ready to enter the war on Russia’s side…
If they settle, I think it's an impeachable offense for both him and the AG.
Judge Millwood wrote in her ruling that she believed that Mr. Ross’s younger son, Tony Ross, who she said was a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse in Anniston, had used his position as a government employee to have Ms. Ross-Mahé arrested. The son testified in probate court that he had not asked co-workers to have Ms. Ross-Mahé arrested. But, Judge Millwood wrote, law enforcement officers told Tony Ross a day before Ms. Ross-Mahé’s arrest that she would be detained, and he also received a text confirming the arrest less than an hour after it happened. Two hours after her arrest, the judge wrote, Mr. Ross’s other son, Gary, went to their father’s house and changed the locks.
The sons say they were not involved in their mother-in-laws arrest by ICE, but the Judge clearly does not believe them. They had advance notice of the arrest, and then locked her out of her home. Previously they had changed her mail forwaring, so she missed immigration mail.
Grotesque: In a dispute over a will, two brothers including a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse, appear to have gotten their mother-in-law arrested by ICE.
Using the state to remove disfavored family members is the sort of thing that happens in totalitarian regimes.
🚨BREAKING: The North Carolina State Board of Elections’s Republican majority voted to move forward with using a federal immigration database to check the state’s voter rolls — an escalation in the board’s ongoing effort to scrutinize voter rolls that could put eligible voters at risk.
J. D. Vance has decided he’s a more accomplished theologian than Pope Leo XIV—and in doing so, Vance showcases what another pope once called “the queen of all vices”: the deadly sin of pride, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues.
Happy beagle!
A black brown and white beagle sits in sand between n s decaying long and a large stone
Guess where we are! Muggy & close out here 🐾
6. A problematic neighbour.
