Prosecuting every one of the people involved in this is the moderate position and voters need to be reminding every single Democrat running that this is how it is.

I bet none of those executives publicly blamed DT for his ill-advised war.

One again reminded about how basically all reporting on AI emphasizes how this great new technology is actually going to make your life harder and there's nothing you can do about it

Africa, Southeast Asia drive China solar panel exports to record in March China's solar panel exports soared to a record in March, China customs ‌and industry data showed, as Southeast Asia and Africa stockpiled ahead of expected price increases and fallout from the Iran wa...

"China's solar panel exports soared to a record in March, China customs ‌and industry data showed, as Southeast Asia and Africa stockpiled ahead of expected price increases and fallout from the Iran war boosted demand."

China won the war.

Watch Howard Lutnick's soul leave his body

the Sleepy Joe edition of "every accusation is a confession"

Even President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho would blush

Global energy markets are on the verge of a disaster Scenarios now range from bad to awful

The Economist gets it. Look around at US media & elites. Do they seem to get it? Do markets seem to get it?

The Water Lily Pond - 1917/1919
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110523

Michigan court tosses GOP bid to disenfranchise overseas voters Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) cheered the ruling for rejecting a “disgraceful, coordinated attack against eligible Michigan voters.”

💥 NEW: A Michigan court just shut down the GOP’s latest attempt to strip voting rights from Americans abroad.

Yet another loss for their growing campaign against overseas voters.

The dam has broken. This is horrifying.

@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social understands the brief: bsky.app/profile/bill...

Buy the book

China has more strategic oil reserves saved up (for a war or crisis) than the rest of the world combined.

The Gerrymandering Fight Should Be A Dress Rehearsal For Court Packing Inside the mailbag: Joe Biden ... Pope Leo ... Abdul El-Sayed

Dems don't need to hide behind polling to push for #SCOTUS expansion when they get back in power.

Good reflections from @brianbeutler.bsky.social on how many here on bluesky and elsewhere have already done the leg work. Dems just need to move on it.

"Now to the question: The main thing I want to do here is stress-test the premise that “[t]o make reforms up to and including court expansion is going to require a level of public support or even public demand.” Obviously if court expansion were toxically unpopular, and a highly salient issue, it would be a pipe dream. But assuming you mean something more like, “Democrats can’t do this until it’s popular and there’s a large clamor for it,” I don’t agree. To my eye, the urgency of court reform looks more like the urgency Democrats faced after Donald Trump ordered Texas to re-gerrymander its map last year. That confronted Democrats with a binary choice: respond or accept your status as a second-class party in our two party system. There wasn’t some huge national clamor for state-by-state gerrymandering in 2025. Most people probably couldn’t define gerrymandering if you asked them to, and idea didn’t poll well in the abstract. But it had to be done, and in the context of “fighting back” the public rallied behind Dems. By analogy, Republicans and their justices have confronted Democrats with no shortage of provocations, and Democrats should accept that if they don’t expand the Court, they’ll be dooming themselves—just the same as if they hadn’t responded to Trump’s gerrymandering provocation in Texas. The good news is, what you (and I) want has already happened for the most part. Between the theft of the Merrick Garland seat and the Amy Coney-Barrett power grab and the Clarence Thomas revelations and the Dobbs ruling and the presidential immunity ruling, the liberal public has developed a pretty clear sense of what’s up with the GOP justices."

"the urgency of court reform looks more like the urgency Democrats faced after Donald Trump ordered Texas to re-gerrymander its map last year. That confronted Democrats with a binary choice: respond or accept your status as a second-class party in our two party system." @brianbeutler.bsky.social

Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.

John Roberts’ Wife Made Millions From Bribes

Roberts accepted $10 Million in bribes disguised as recruiting fees from Law firms with cases pending before the Supreme Court.

www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

Jane Roberts—wife of Chief Justice John Roberts—made over $10 million in commission as a legal recruiter for the nation’s top law firms, according to a whistleblower complaint covered by Insider.

You know when you read those historical accounts of indulgent masquerades and hedonistic parties the aristocracy threw while all the peasants were starving, and then after the fires and rioting died down the survivors were all “but who could have seen it coming??”

To Protect And Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets Yet Remains On The Force - Streetsblog New York City One of the city’s most-dangerous drivers is an officer with the NYPD, which does nothing to stop his reign of terror on Staten Island.

Staten Island traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022.

The truck belongs to James Giovansanti, who lives and works there as an NYPD officer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/t...

Also, four out of the five deaths this Congress were Democrats. Even if they had won the House in 2024, they likely would have lost it again due to the deaths.

There came a point when the Roman empire couldn't keep the sea lanes open and free of piracy anymore. If you're keeping up on your bingo card for what the collapse of a decaying superpower hegemony looks like.

Once again I think the corruption is so obvious that people/voters just don't believe it. They only suspect something when it seems kinda shady and in code. They just can't fathom it being so obvious and out in the open, and so they dismiss it as being not true or not being as bad as it seems

Warner Bros shareholders back $110 billion merger with Paramount Skydance Warner Bros Discovery shareholders on Thursday backed the company's proposed $110 billion merger with ​Paramount Skydance , but cast an advisory vote against executive compensation ‌plans tied to the ...

NOT A DONE DEAL
WBD shareholders just rubber-stamped Paramount megadeal—but even THAT showed stress: they rejected Zaslav's $886M golden parachute

The real gatekeepers now? State AGs
& @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov & other state AG's are already investigating

This merger has a long road ahead

I'm shocked! said no one.

Originalist Judges Are Spitting On the Constitution and Think You Won’t Notice A law in Texas requires every public school to display the Ten Commandments in every single classroom. No problem, says the Fifth Circuit.

Texas Republicans passed a law that requires *every classroom in every public school in the state* to display the Ten Commandments. According to Kyle Duncan and the Fifth Circuit, this is perfectly constitutional, and actually, you're stupid if you think anything different.

The plan is to blame Biden for Trump's catastrophic fuck-up.

‘A punch in the gut’: After years of waiting, many opioid victims will be shut out of Purdue settlement Nearly 140,000 people filed claims against Purdue for the harm they said its opioid drugs caused. Fewer than half of them will get any compensation from the company's $7.4 billion settlement.

Nearly 140,000 people filed claims against Purdue for the harm they said its opioid drugs caused.

Fewer than half of them will get any compensation from the company’s $7.4 billion settlement.

Read ProPublica (@propublica.org ) and The Inquirer’s report ⤵️

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