Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing.

(image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

Is Climate Change Causing Sharks To Bite Humans? Metro Thinks So Taking public transit reduces greenhouse gas emissions. But does it change shark behavior? Scientists are dubious.

Is Climate Change Causing Sharks To Bite Humans? Metro Thinks So | Happy Earth Day, here’s your reminder about how I had to walk by billboards that misstated my own research on my way to my job combating pseudoscience.

Iran’s consulate in Hyderabad just posted this video mocking Trump and his “ceasefire extension”

Maybe Trump Shouldn’t Visit Xi After All When Donald Trump visits his Chinese counterpart in Beijing next month, “President Xi will give me a big, fat, hug,” the American president predicted the other day. “Doesn’t that beat fighting??? BUT REMEMBER, we are very good at fighting, if we have to — far better than anyone else!!!”

Trump can't ask Xi to concede anything big. But Xi will ask Trump — and Taiwan could end up the loser (via Bloomberg Opinion)

The icing on the cake in Trump/Abbott’s gerrymandering scheme will be when a couple of Republicans lose their elections in Texas in the midterms specifically because their districts were weakened by the dummymander.

Former Trump adviser Stephen Moore says Americans “eat too much,” framing rising food costs as a matter of personal consumption as inflation tightens household budgets—drawing sharp backlash.
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People who were openly rooting for a president-for-life a year ago mad about gerrymandering sounds like you’re just losers who don’t like losing

huh

If we have no Irish ancestry but memorize some Yeats poems, are we eligible for citizenship?

A 3D Printer Brought More Broken Promises to Cairo, Illinois I spotted the printer abandoned off a country road. Finding out how it got there is a whole other story of tangled politics, tiny banks with big business deals, and the future of a town some say canno...

NEW: Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer.

That didn’t pan out. When reporter Molly Parker started to investigate what went wrong, she found the printer disassembled on a flatbed truck at a country repair shop.

Then things got weird.

With @capitolnewsil.bsky.social

I know I shared this yesterday but this one stands out in the steady stream of sanctions for court filings with errors due to AI use. It’s both mind- boggling and unsurprising at the same time.

A.I. ‘Hallucinations’ Created Errors in Court Filing, Top Law Firm Says

"The firm provided a ledger of the errors, which spanned three pages and totaled around three dozen. A number of them involved the citation of seemingly imagined passages from real cases."

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Incredible thread. The level of in person community-building and mutual aid that came out Minneapolis is unprecedented in modern American times.

Gaza’s yellow line creeps forward as Israeli forces expand zone of control Residents waking to find line has moved overnight and they are now in free-fire zone as army takes more territory Israeli forces have been moving an agreed truce line in Gaza westwards over the six months since the ceasefire, expanding their zone of control and making the state of limbo ever more dangerous for Palestinians. The “yellow line” agreed in the US-brokered ceasefire in October was supposed to be temporary pending further Israeli withdrawals, but the partially observed truce has stalled after its first phase amid disagreements over the disarming of Hamas, and continued Israeli bombardment of Gaza. Continue reading...

Gaza’s yellow line creeps forward as Israeli forces expand zone of control

My spouse has two ancestors who fought in the Civil War, both on the Union side. For reasons, I recently read all the government documentation that survives about each of them—hundreds of pages. 1/3

Republicans— the most corrupt politicians in world history— gerrymandered TX to ensure they’d retain control.

Dems— fighting back for a change— did the same thing in CA and VA, with voters’ approval, and now the GOP is crying because we didn’t roll over & play dead.

Fuck them.

So the Justice Department admits in its own filings that the following groups are extremist groups. Can someone ask Patel and Blanche how aggressively DOJ/FBI are monitoring them, considering how dangerous they are? Are they screening gov employees for affiliations with these groups?

It’s a new day.

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When the hell is their next election - soon I hope 🤞🤞🤞

Investigating the Good Guys DOJ claims the Southern Poverty Law Center was "paying off" the Ku Klux Klan. The group's track record and common sense suggest otherwise.

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...

Women's hands in handcuffs with a trans flag behind them. Headline reads: Oregon to pay $295,000 settlement to trans inmate in men’s prison after alleged abuse

Oregon to pay $295,000 settlement to trans inmate in men’s prison after alleged abuse ➡️ https://bit.ly/4e2LIeG

Q: Can you explain the computer log in issue? Your lawsuit contends you were not able to log in

PATEL: Survey -- how many of you people believe that's true?

Q: Did you communicate that you thought you were fired?

PATEL: It never happened. You are lying.

Q: The lawsuit says the opposite!

Trump still has these massive PACs that have continued to raise obscene amounts of money every day since the 2024 election and he spent none of it on the Virginia redistricting referendum.

Should Barron Trump be drafted – or left alone to keep building his $150m fortune? | Arwa Mahdawi Prominent Maga bros have suggested the 20-year-old son of the US president should be called up this year, writes Arwa Mahdawi. Why does this seem so vanishingly unlikely?

Should Barron Trump be drafted – or left alone to keep building his $150m fortune? | Arwa Mahdawi

Nice job, Devin.

At least 34 tankers linked to Iran, including vessels carrying crude oil, have successfully bypassed the U.S. blockade, per FT

#EarthDay

For the record: The Washington Post can go fuck itself.

Support pro-democracy media that doesn't have its head stuck up Donald Trump's ass. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

🚨 Iran's Revolutionary Guard Navy says it has seized two ships in the Strait of Hormuz "which had endangered maritime security without the necessary permits and by manipulating navigation systems" and has escorted them to the Iranian coast