Trump approval falls to 35% as rating on handling prices hits a record -46 Our new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds the president's overall job approval at a new low, Democrats leading by 7 on the generic ballot, and a majority says the Iran war is not worth the cost

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-21...

This is very good

A must-read guide from @taniel.bsky.social about this year's state Supreme Court elections from coast to coast.

'The chances of you living 50 years are very small': Theoretical physicist explains why humanity likely won't survive to see all the forces unified Live Science spoke with Nobel prize-winning physicist David Gross, who recently received the $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, about the quest to unite all the forces and w...

Well that's depressing. But I can't really argue with him.

www.livescience.com/space/cosmol...

Mets @ White Sox in August. 👀

Maybe the White Sox should move to Sacramento. The sure do look like they like this ballpark.

The Destroyed Remnants of a Lost World Are Falling to Earth, Scientists Discover A rare class of meteorites called angrites likely come from a strange protoplanet that was catastrophically destroyed in the early solar system, leaving only fragmentary remnants.

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Witnesses detail deadly Israeli strikes on medics in Lebanon The three strikes, which killed four paramedics and wounded six others, is the latest example of Israel's willingness to target Lebanon's health sector. The attacks on the ambulances have drawn condem...

Israel's attacks on the ambulances have drawn condemnation, including from the United Nations' human rights office, which said it was "shocked" and warned that intentionally targeting medics constituted a war crime. https://to.pbs.org/4dQHW89

Occam’s Kazoo: shamelessly pinched from FB!

CNN: “It’s a blowout… not even close… Pope Leo absolutely crushing Trump when it comes to how popular they are.”

That should read "structural change I've read that I like...."

Not that I don't like other changes but I like that the most. Expand the court ending current right wing dominance. Rotate justices ending political gaming of the Supreme. It'll still happen at lower levels requiring other solutions.

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This is a good piece. I like Platner. I'm concerned (Yes, I know we are talking about Maine here) about some of the things he said, particularly his 2013 comments about women and rape, but overall I like what I am reading here and think the contrast with Mills is right on target.

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This isn't a question. As I've been saying for eight years now, Trump is the symptom not the disease. Yes, the symptom needs dealing with but it won't really be dealt with until we deal with the underlying disease.

I’m a Maine reporter who went to high school with Graham Platner. Here’s what explains his success Platner is not just running ahead of Gov. Janet Mills for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He’s possibly the most remarkable political story in the country.

"Since 2016, Democrats have debated whether or not the fundamental problem is President Donald Trump himself or the circumstances that produced him."

www.pressherald.com/2026/04/15/i...

Speaking of "riding the circuit." The best structural change I've read is to alternate one justice from each of the 13 federal circuit courts to sit on the Supreme Court for a few years before being swapped out for another one from that court.

New euphemism for "pure, unadulterated horseshit" just dropped

Munetaka Murakami's GRAND SLAM (6) | 04/17/2026 Munetaka Murakami crushes a grand slam to straightaway center field to give the White Sox a 9-1 lead in the top of the 7th

Dead center... over the batters eye. He crushed that ball.

www.mlb.com/video/muneta...

Churchill: Why won’t the county pay its speeding tickets? The county, acknowledging that employee speeding is a problem, will pay will pay $52,318 to install tracking devices in its vehicles.

www.timesunion.com/churchill/ar...

This greatly improved my mood: bsky.app/profile/theg...

Say you're a Christian one more time!

Yeah, both the Senate and Governor candidates for the Democrats seem to be in the lead so hopefully that carries the Democratic house candidate over the line. I guess there are four candidates. news.ballotpedia.org/2026/04/16/f...

Last polling I saw showed him in the lead though it is close. It is a Republican leaning district. But hopefully you are right and when it comes down to election day undecideds will say way to bringing him back again. What a shitshow he would be.

Thankfully Golden is not running again. He earned himself a Democratic challenger and decided not to run. Unfortunately, LePage is running to be the Republican candidate.

Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detection CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.

This is... horrific. I just don't understand.

www.cnn.com/interactive/...

Trump's polling is terrible and getting worse His second term is already an unambiguous failure.

www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-appr...

Pope Leo XIV: Jesus told us, blessed are the peacemakers. But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.

Is bluesky acting up for other people? Can't access the discover feed or my notifications.

You shall know them by their fruits.

Plus he's a table setter not a power hitter and the only thing Benintendi can occasionally do for us is hit a homerun... so they bat Benintendi first and put Antonnacci in the 5-hole???

I like Venable but that makes no sense whatsoever.

Wetherholt or Griffin!