F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend

Paywalled

But the headline says it all.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Stop managing NATO. Start rebalancing it. Three reforms can strengthen the alliance for its next era.

"NATO requires rebalancing: a more credible distribution of responsibility, capability, and strategic weight across the alliance."

IOW, the USA ain't top dog anymore.

www.defenseone.com/ideas/2026/0...

This. Metaphor. Is. ON. POINT.

Republicans are pissing all over us. They think it’s funny.

It’s not.

War. Inflation. Gas prices. Climate. All they care about is their donors.

#EarthDay

In reversal, Justice Department withdraws subpoenas in John Brennan investigation, AP sources say The Justice Department has withdrawn subpoenas issued in the investigation of former CIA Director John Brennan, with officials asking for voluntary interviews instead of testimony before a grand jury.

Looks like the DOJ decided that witnesses telling the truth would be bad for their case...

apnews.com/article/just...

"Warner Bros. - a wholly owned subsidiary of the Acme Corp." is the best dis ever.

For all the Americans out there, 10cm is almost 4 inches!

Quote of the Day:

"World War Me" - Bobby Jones & Sam Osterhout

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

"One of the first—and most notorious—examples on this list is in Memphis, Tennessee. xAI made national headlines in 2024 after it began to set up gas turbines at its first data center campus in the city, Colossus 1, to quickly develop Grok"

www.wired.com/story/new-ga...

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.

Mission Accomplished!

Pay Later Grocery Loans are Surging A new report shows that many Americans are using Buy Now Pay Later loans for everyday expenses like groceries, complete with late fees and credit reporting.

What could possibly go wrong?

"According to a poll from AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research last August, about 4 in 10 Americans under the age of 45 say they’ve used “buy now, pay later″ services when...paying for essentials like groceries or medical care."

open.substack.com/pub/shero/p/...

Some countries have sense.
Some countries don't.

Some countries willfully lose all sense of decency, unfortunately.

"A Department of Homeland Security attorney who spoke to me on the condition of anonymity said of the ICE Glasses project, “It might be portrayed as seeking to identify illegal aliens on the streets, but the reality is that a push in this direction affects all Americans, particularly protestors.”

Exclusive: ICE Glasses Homeland Security is making “smart glasses” to collect intelligence inside the U.S.

"These new ICE Glasses, building on available glasses that allow video recording and heads-up data display, will be able to pulse vast federal holdings of biometric data — from facial recognition to walking gait — to identify people in real-time."

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

bowdlerize - verb
bowd·​ler·​ize ˈbōd-lə-ˌrīz ˈbau̇d-

1 - to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar

2 - to modify by abridging, simplifying, or distorting in style or content

*"Bowdlerization" is a system routinely used in the White House.

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

BBC news "found a consistent pattern of spikes just hours, or sometimes minutes, before a social media post or media interview was made public."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

If this keeps up, recession may be the best case scenario.

Is anyone prognosticating a depression yet?

🎯

Eat it.

Then it won't be there to seductively tempt you anymore.

They must taste really good to have needed to develop camouflage that deceptive.

G - America is run by Republicans.

O - Republicans LOVE guns.

P - Republicans are never going to do anything about the guns.

Then DO SOMETHING about the guns!

Not just EIGHT, but eight CHILDREN!

And not in a school.

Yum.

Capitalism hates democracy.

Poor people pay. Rich people play.

Sonogram images of a baby lie among the rubble of a destroyed building that was hit a week ago in an Israeli airstrike, in central Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, April 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

This is the reality of war.

"Sonogram images of a baby lie among the rubble of a destroyed building that was hit a week ago in an Israeli airstrike, in central Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, April 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)"

What say ye now, Right-to-Lifers?

A nomadic girl gives water to her sister as they pause with their cattle (goats actually) on the outskirts of Jammu along the Jammu–Srinagar highway in Jammu, India, Monday, April 13, 2026, as they continue their seasonal migration between mountain pastures and the plains. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

"A nomadic girl gives water to her sister as they pause with their cattle on the outskirts of Jammu along the Jammu–Srinagar highway in Jammu, India, Monday, April 13, 2026, as they continue their seasonal migration between mountain pastures and the plains. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)"

Cattle?!?

"When you're a star, they let you do it."