Hegseth channels his inner Tarantino with fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction

The defense secretary said his prayer drew on Ezekiel, but wording closely matches Quentin Tarantino dialogue

Hegseth devoutly stupid, devoutly vicious.

Is Bluesky on iPhone’s currently down?

This is right round the corner from me, and it really does bring it home when species survival is being threatened on your doorstep.
Luckily, locally, there is an absolute force of and for nature fighting for these swifts.
And Hannah, too - an absolute treasure!

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Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.

Glad Meta's plan for #FacialRecognition in #SmartGlasses is getting attention, but even if Meta doesn't add it to their glasses, what's to stop one of the growing number of rival AI glasses producers allowing it on their products? This is regulation/governance failure.

www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

Swifts come back! Swifts are iconic birds in our cities. They appear every spring, fulfill the skies with life and sounds, and show their majestic falcon-like crescent silhouette. This project is aimed to gather the fi...

There's a new project on #iNaturalist called 'Swifts Come Back':

• This #project is aimed at gathering first sightings of #swifts returning from #migration.

NYC, by 13Apr’26, has yet to record a #migrant on either #iNat or #eBird.

#ChimneySwift #ChimneySwifts

www.inaturalist.org/projects/swi...

After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇

Run For Something Civics Run for Something Civics is a non-partisan 501c3 that helps young leaders deepen their political engagement and lay the groundwork to run for local office.

I’ve always believed that one of our jobs as leaders is to pass the baton on to the next generation — and to give them the resources and support they need to lead us forward. On National Run for Office Day, check out runforsomethingcivics.net for the resources you need.

Accountability brings consequences.

And consequences are the only language corruption understands.

Money and political power do not outrank the Constitution.

They just need a wake up call and it’s coming at the midterms.👇

DHS says it has body-cam footage related to Pretti shooting in Minneapolis The lawsuits aim to prevent federal officials from destroying evidence related to Alex Pretti’s killing and to end the surge of immigration officers in Minnesota.

It's been 66 days since agents killed Alex Pretti.

DHS has body-cam footage.

They haven't released it.

66 days and counting.

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Orbán Will Lose Hungary’s Election in Two Weeks—If It’s Clean Péter Magyar is a seemingly unstoppable force—but don’t expect the embattled Orbán to give up without a fight.

"If animals can sense an impending storm through a drop in barometric pressure and other changes to the air, perhaps in politics people can feel a tidal wave when it is approaching."

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans:

1940: 81%
1950: 84%
1960: 91%
1970: 72%
1980: 70%
1990: 28%
2000: 40%
2010: 35%

For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

Man. Bruce Springsteen is on an absolute mission with this tour.

Called this a Treasonous and corrupt regime, and welcoming in fans to the Land of Hope and Dreams your, asking to choose peace over WAR, and launching into a blistering version of “war”.

Here. For. It.
✊🏼 🎸 🔥 👊🏼

Opposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life For months, lone vibe coder Rafael Concepcion has obsessively built tools to counter the federal immigration crackdown—pivoting as he’s been outmatched. He’s also lost his job and become a target.

elegant, important pieces like this -- at WIRED -- show that the glory days of american magazine writing are not behind us:

www.wired.com/story/opposi...

The worst people you know keep making great points

H/T @amysiskind.com

Beauutiful Red tailed hawk shown from mid chest up.

Not documented - the fight this guy got into with another hawk in The Ramble this morning #birds

Boyle: The situation is bad. It’s getting worse. And we have a president who, frankly, only cares about putting his signature on currency, illegally etching it onto the Kennedy Center, and building his big, beautiful ballroom—and frankly couldn’t give a shit about the American people.

@timmiller.bsky.social with a message to Democrats: "This is the moment to go on Fox and say to people, 'you signed up for this—for no new wars, for lower costs. And we're in the stupidest war I could possibly think of, and everything is costing more, and it's about to get worse.'"

10 years ago, Bernie Sanders warned America of the unintended consequences that could emerge from a regime change war with Iran. Watch.

This is going to be the easiest case ever for The Hague to prosecute.
Idiot in Chief made a whole list of crimes he intends to commit.

Wherefore Art Thou Congress? Or: Does Congress have a pulse?

When the executive is eager to ignore Congress is precisely when Congress most needs to step up.

Australia just completed a 4,000-kilometer renewable energy transmission line — the longest clean energy highway ever built — connecting massive outback solar and wind farms directly to coastal cities that need power most.

Just being on Bluesky makes me feel like more people read books than I ever thought possible, so thanks for making a librarian happy. #BookSky

The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan) Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off?Well, they may already be doing that thanks t

Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off?

Well, they may already be doing that thanks to a shady tactic called “surveillance pricing.”

Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains what we can do about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbtUYshYM8

SCANDAL ERUPTS: A broker for Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth explored a multimillion-dollar investment in defense stocks just weeks before the U.S.-Israel strike on Iran, according to the Financial Times.

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DOGE Targeting Nuclear Safety Brings Back Memories of Three Mile Island I was a reporter on the ground during the 1979 nuclear crisis—and news of DOGEbros messing with nuclear regulation is setting off familiar klaxons in my mind.

"I was asked a few years ago to name the biggest story I’d ever covered as a journalist. That nuclear power plant accident on March 28, 1979 is still in the running for number one."

I mean there it is.

The President of the USA threatens to commit war crimes. Stock markets rise sharply.

We're fucked.