Drawing of a book with a desk printer on the cover with the title "The printer that simply worked and other fairy tales"

Christopher Walken says bugs bunny is one of his favorite actors he told Ben Stiller that "a lot of times i've played roles as if I was bugs bunny... but nobody knew"

dudes rock

Texas court interpreter detained by ICE at airport says she's been 'humiliated and treated like a criminal' A longtime Texas court interpreter who was detained by federal immigration officers says her arrest and detention has been a "degrading" experience.

Texas court interpreter detained by ICE at airport says she's been 'humiliated and treated like a criminal'

AOC is all sensible Americans right now, Americans who have completely lost patience with the wildly incompetent, lying loons currently running things who undermine our sanity, wealth, and wellbeing.

a map showing a Mississippi where all 82 counties are shades of red

A map showing Mississippi's 82 counties, many shaded red and pink, many shaded blue and purple.

Left: How people think Mississippi votes

Right: How Mississippi actually votes

These losers do this all the time in Washington too. People from rural counties that have, like, eight people and fifty cows in them complaining about being "ruled from Seattle."

I don't know what to tell you, bud! 52% of the state's population lives in the Seattle metro! That's democracy.

US Department of Justice charges Southern Poverty Law Center with fraud over paid informant program • Nebraska Examiner The DOJ accuses the Montgomery nonprofit's paid system of gathering intelligence on extremist groups as effective support for them.

SPLC LAWSUIT: A grand jury indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering by the Justice Department, which alleges payments to informants supported the groups.

From States Newsroom:

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As an old-school software dev, brought up on detailed code reviews, exacting standards, and precise documentation, seeing the new world of vibecoding is completely baffling. That it also doesn't work makes it double baffling. I'm used to "stupid but it works" but "stupid and also crap" is 🤯

Testing finds toxic metals where Tesla discharges wastewater The drainage district that commissioned the testing has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company, which says it is in compliance with all requirements for its state wastewater discharge permit.

I’m shocked. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/21/t...

Kansas policymakers lag on updating public school funding formula • Kansas Reflector A Kansas task force is running out of time to craft a new public school funding formula, which the Legislature and the state’s next governor must agree upon before the current framework expires.

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The paper chase: How 4 Calgarians made their cities better with bookstores | The Sprawl A trip into Western Canadian book culture.

"I think people are actually really hungry for analog, ad-free forms of reading." These 4 booksellers all grew up in Calgary. We talked to them to find out more about where they came from—and what bookstores mean to a city today.

I have seen the concerning footage of Council Member Chi Ossé's arrest earlier today and am in touch with Commissioner Tisch about the nature of the arrest. It is a pleasure to work alongside Council Member Ossé, a leader in his community and a partner in building a safer and more affordable New York City. I am grateful he is out of custody.

Earth Day reminder that Trump’s EPA rolled back regulations governing clean air, water, wildlife, and toxic chemicals.

He’s pushed to open public lands to drilling and mining.

And he’s gutted clean energy programs while promoting dirty fossil fuels.

He’s a danger to our planet and our health.

Politico: Exhibit A for term limits’: Some Democrats question Rep. David Scott’s reelection bid The decision by the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee to seek a 12th term sets up a clash over who will oversee farm and anti-hunger policy for the party next Congress. Rep. David Scott asks question during a House Financial Services Committee hearing. Rep. David Scott’s reelection bid sets up a major clash over who will lead Democrats on the Agriculture panel next Congress. | Pool photo by Bill O'Leary By Meredith Lee Hill and Garrett Downs 02/21/2024 05:00 AM EST

AJC Politics: Georgia U.S. Rep. David Scott has died The Atlanta Democrat was 80 years old and had filed to run for a 13th term in Congress. 22 Apr 2026

First article is from February. Second is today. The math is simple. Democrats need to be less polite and deferential toward seniority and instead focus on seizing, holding and wielding real, durable political power.

ONCE AGAIN, this demonstrates the party's lack of commitment in that regard.

The Secret Behind High Gas Prices Energy prices are soaring. So what is Trump doing about it?Gutting clean energy projects while showering his Big Oil don

High gas prices caused by Trump’s war on Iran are boosting Big Oil profits at your expense.

And they’re still getting billions of dollars in tax breaks every year — meaning you’re effectively getting charged twice.

Here’s what you need to know about Big Oil’s one-two punch.

There's only one perfect photo for this year's Earth Day, and it's this one that the Artemis II crew took. Happy Earth Day.

Something Is Brewing in the Pacific That Nobody in Washington Wants to Talk About A super El Niño is forming in the same week federal climate policy is being dismantled. The atmosphere doesn't care about the politics.

This is an excellent over view of the dangerous warming period we’ll likely be entering in the next 12 months.

Share it widely.

Corp news will not acknowledge this increased danger until it’s too late in order to keep markets stable. That is their sole job.

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You can’t do that to rural voters! What are they, black people? bsky.app/profile/coll...

Apple announces new CEO, deliberately slows down old one

Watchdogs say the previous CEO model suspiciously started slowing down immediately after the announcement
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Spain launches €7bn housing plan to tackle rent crisis Spain's government on Tuesday approved a sweeping plan to alleviate the country's housing problem, one of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's main political vulnerabilities ahead of next year's elections.

Well done Spain.
"The new plan, worth €7 billion, triples government investment in public housing over the next four years. It ensures that subsidised housing cannot be reclassified after a few years. It also includes help for young renters and home buyers"
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Hearing on Trump's Mass Deportations and ICE & CBP Attacks on U.S. Citizens (Minority Day Hearing) | House Committee on Homeland Security The Official Website of the House Committee on Homeland Security

Looks like Rev. David Black, the Presbyterian pastor who was shot in the head and body with pepper balls by DHS agents as he was praying outside an ICE facility in IL, is back on the Hill today.

He's testifying at a Homeland Security committee hearing on "ICE and CBP attacks on U.S. citizens."

Elon Musk's growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies Los Angeles entrepreneur Elon Musk has built a multibillion-dollar fortune running companies that make electric cars, sell solar panels and launch rockets into space.

Our government has been giving Musk BILLIONS of our tax dollars for over a decade to work on EVs, solar panels and such, but he chose to buy himself elections and destroy our Democracy with it.

It made him a billionaire, and so NO ONE can stop him now...

WE lost.

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Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

“For hundreds of years Germany was good enough to receive these elements, although they possessed nothing except infectious political and physical diseases”.

-Hitler, speaking of the Jewish population in a speech to the Reichstag, January 30, 1930.

RFK Jr. just said that immigration is to blame for the outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S., not him.

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

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.

NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math.

less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)

The Texas legislature rammed through a gerrymandering bill at the request of Trump.

Virginia actually voted in favor of redistricting to counterbalance what Texas and other Republican-controlled states have done.

Yet only one is considered a "power grab."

Oligarch-owned media in a nutshell.

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

Did JetBlue admit to surveillance pricing?

Even though they denied it, multiple companies have been caught red-handed using the shady practice.

Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbtUYshYM8

Lina Khan has successfully taken on Big Tech and monopolies across industries...and you can too.

RSVP to tune into our virtual event on 4/29 at 7PM ET with Lina Khan, interviewed by @jackcocchiarella.bsky.social!

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