The picture also shows where the bull was mauled by the Matador. Talk about a comeuppance!

Senator Slotkin says new NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center likely includes CIA and NSA, for "looking at...people who may just take a very different view on the world than the president."

a lot of people until pretty recently took sparta as 'abstract representation of thrift and civic duty' lol

As a kid, book fairs seemed like a bit of a scam, and not good value. I think, maybe, don't worry about this one.

The White House: Text: One-person-one-vote

Virginia becomes the 19th State to enact the National Popular Vote for President. Why? One-person-one-vote in presidential elections makes EVERY VOTE EQUAL. It’s time to be counted. Learn more: nationalpopularvote.com @lwvus.bsky.social @lwvva.bsky.social

📌 Israeli Media Sold the War to the Public, as We Ran to the Bomb Shelter Like Sheep
By Yossi Klein
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...
“They knew as well as I did that the speeches by U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were pure bullshit. 🧵

Stronger higher prices

They are preparing to storm the Strait. That is the only logical explanation and I think they will do it very soon.

Really Late Night: Is Swalwell Going Down For His Sins? The tide turns quickly in politics. He’s in trouble. We don’t know why all this information is coming out now, but it’s coming and looks to keep going. Is this an attempt to exact some

"The tide turns quickly in politics."

politizoom.com/really-late-...

HUGE: J Street now backs blocking all aid to Israel, including for “defensive” weapons like iron dome. Just weeks ago this was a controversial position for Democrats, now J Street is backing it. A few years ago a Democrat could get censured for holding this position. @AOC moving on this moved the field.

Sruli Fruchter @SruliFruchter 🚨 SCOOP: J-Street supports ending U.S. aid to Israel — **including** Iron Dome https://jewishinsider.com/2026/04/j-street-support-ending-missile-defense-aid-israel/

HUGE: J Street now backs blocking all aid to Israel, including for “defensive” weapons like iron dome

Just weeks ago this was a controversial position for Dems, now J Street is backing it. A few years ago a Dem could get censured for holding this position. @aoc.bsky.social moving on this moved...

Telegram is still banned in Iraq and cannot be accessed without VPN. Militant Shi'a factions in Iraq use Telegram to communicate.

He doesn’t understand what “defensive alliance” means…

Netanyahu's campaign in Lebanon is one of calculated cruelty. He says it's a war against Hezbollah, but the conflict has claimed millions of victims, and only a small part of them are Hezbollah. Those are simple facts. www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/isra...

Vincent van Gogh, 1889. “Field with Poppies”

#painting #1880s #VincentvanGogh

Another day of Israel disregarding international law as it continues to commit genocide across Palestine and Lebanon and yet the world's leaders (except Spain) remain silent.

Israel is a rogue terrorist state, it must be dismantled, it's leaders imprisoned and the land returned to Palestinians

Netanyahu just said the quiet part out loud. On live television, he described Israeli control stretching through Gaza, into Lebanon, and across Syrian territory, framing long-term occupation as policy, not a temporary wartime measure.

Netanyahu just said the quiet part out loud. On live television, he described Israeli control stretching through Gaza, into Lebanon, and across Syrian territory, framing long-term occupation as policy, not a temporary wartime measure. www.threads.com/@teesferalmi...

Prior to this, some Iranian ships and some others were passing through. Like 10% of overall traffic at least. 10% to 0% is significant. Now is worse.

The question is semantic and indicates the irreconcilability of shifting hopes for a two state solution that was possible in '48, '67, or '93 (that preserves a Jewish state alongside a Palestinian state) with today's fantasy of a two state solution that is pit up against an utterly brutal reality.

Most mainstream reporting atm omits Israel from the picture entirely.

Very happy and relieved it’s TACO Tuesday.

Even if it lasts for one night the last month has been horrible.

Thank you for all the support in the replies below.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

"If you remove him you get Vance." You're familiar with Donald J Trump's foreign policy where we remove a country's leaders one by one until we get to one we can do business with? No reason impeachment can't work the same way

Heard on non-political, non-news radio this morning (in an off-hand way) that Iranians "don't value life as much" as people in the US. The ideas this piece are sending up are very much alive. Dehumanization is alive and well.

obligatory classic theonion.com/study-iraqis...

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Pete Hegseth belongs to an ultra right-wing Christian denomination that says women shouldn’t vote and the US should be an explicitly Protestant nation. His preachers have been going to the Pentagon to lead monthly prayer meetings. lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

Used to also just be sleep pills.

Get Up Offa That Thing

Everything sucks but have you tried getting up offa that thang?

open.spotify.com/track/3whRKA...

Oral vaccine cuts up to 80.6% of E.coli-triggered diarrhoea cases The oral ETEC vaccine will now enter a pivotal Phase III trial across different countries and populations.

This could be a game changer!!

Diarrhea is global health's least sexy challenge, but it remains a top killer of children.

E.coli is present in 98% of water sources in Guatemala, for example, and systematic water purification is incredibly challenging for low-resourced contexts.

The True dwelling of the holy.