The consequences of closing the Straight of Hormuz has begun to strike food sources.

Prince Harry arrived to Kyiv for an unannounced visit.

The purpose of the visit is “to remind people back home and around the world what Ukraine is facing, and to support the people and partners who are doing extraordinary work every day, every minute, under incredibly difficult conditions.”

What I learned today: Panama Canal auctions some (30%) slots to ships. Due to blockage of Hormuz, Asian buyers seeking western crude push bids five times greater than pre-conflict level.
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A stunningly handsome floof! 🥰❤️

Prez:
Mar-Apr 21 - Masses army on 🇺🇦 border
July 21 - Writes 7000 word essay about how Ukraine shouldn't exist
Nov 21 - Re-masses army on 🇺🇦 border
Dec 21 - Promises "military technical solution if demands not met
Feb 21 - Invade after demands not met

Tankies: Literally no one could've foreseen this

'What Are You Doing?!': Video Shows Black NYC Councilman Being Thrown to the Ground By Cops While Protesting Elderly Woman's Eviction After Deed Theft "Shocking video captures NYPD throwing Black NYC councilman to the ground during eviction protest, sparking outrage and demands for justi...

Video footage shows the moments NYPD officers forcefully wrestle Brooklyn Council Member Chi Ossé to the ground and handcuff him on April 22.

There has been a total collapse of trust in anything that comes out of this Pentagon. They have lied freely, frequently and without shame. It means that on serious matters - like civilian casualty disputes or US casualty figures - no-one can trust what they say.

A catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it | George Monbiot Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is set to collapse. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny just doesn’t do existential crises, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

While we are transfixed by the antics of our supposed "leaders", a catastrophe of astonishing proportions has been creeping up on us. Climate scientists now believe it is more likely than not to happen, and soon.
This week's column.
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The list of countries that russia considers “unfriendly” is almost identical to the list of countries where you can drink tap water safely. Draw your own conclusions, but I think russians just don’t like clean water.

Gotta love Politico. This piece about the midterms casually refers to *a war* as a "distraction" makes up mythical "economic gains" (job growth has halted, inflation is up) and an "affordability message" (which doesn't exist). Beyond stenography & well into fan fiction.

Pentagon says navy secretary is leaving, marking another top leader’s departure Exit of John Phelan, navy’s top civilian official, comes a week after Pete Hegseth fired army’s top officer

Presidents who are winning wars definitely sack the guys running them www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Excellent! Congrats!💙

IDK, but none are Dems.

Was this on TV? Did anyone see it?

I'm laid up with a messed up foot and ankle, so I've had the TV on all day, and I haven't seen it.

A Whistle Audible to Deaf Dogs

He uses white supremacist ideas to prove there's no white supremacism:

"Their {White's} country and their culture is being decimated in regard to open borders. We're changing this country radically and culturally in a way that make {WHITE} Americans uncomfortable."

Is this the best they've got?

You're looking at a different set of villains.

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Influencers Are Spinning Nicotine as a ‘Natural’ Health Hack

RETURN OF A "NATURAL" KILLER
Wellness influencers are pushing nicotine patches, gums, lozenges, and pouches to treat Alzheimer's, cancer, Parkinson's disease, "male vitality".

RFK, Jr. openly pops the pouches.
Now a former tobacco executive is joining the CDC

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Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’ - Carbon Brief Renewable energy has overtaken coal to become the world's largest source of electricity in 2025, according to thinktank Ember.

Despite ignorant resistance, solar and wind keep on growing at the expense of coal

Glad to see the increased size limits, but this carousel thing is not an improvement, especially for people who don't see well. It's going to be annoying and hard on the eyes. Can we have an option to see them the old way?

Our Shared Ethical Compass - Ethics and Journalism Keynote address of the Peter F. Collier Awards for Ethics in Journalism, April 15, 2026 delivered by Marty Baron, acclaimed former executive editor of The Washington Post and The Boston Globe.

“The new owner of CBS and the editor-in-chief of the news division set an explicit objective of appealing to the center right and the center left. That is a political goal. It is not a journalistic one.”

— Marty Baron, former top editor at the Washpost

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The CDC staff are thorough and scientifically meticulous.

If they said the data on Covid vaccine efficacy was ready to publish in MMWR, it was solid.

Bhattacharya is a hack and a stain on medicine and public health 🤦🏻‍♂️

Carter Page was a legitimate target for surveillance.

If an American who has been on U.S. intelligence’s radar before is seen in Moscow telling people he has a special in with a major U.S. party presidential candidate and can sell access, that’s something U.S. counterintelligence should look into.

"The human mind is a gifted storyteller…and under pressure…it becomes a terrible one.

It takes a temporary disruption…and spins it into a permanent identity.

'This always happens to me.'

've lost my edge.'

'I don’t know if I can recover.'

That’s fiction. Dangerous fiction."

JFC. We are an international joke.

This map shows the land ceded to the U.S. government in the Treaties of 1866. The land to the east of it was designated to the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole nations. The "No Man's Land" to the west was part of the 1850s compromise that prevented Texas from entering the Union as a slave state, leaving the 168-mile-long, 34-mile-wide strip unorganized until it became part of Oklahoma in 1907. Image credit: blackpast.org.

After the Civil War, the U.S. government had forced the Creek and Seminole Nations to sell a portion of their land in Central Oklahoma as a penalty for allying with the Confederacy. The government originally used this acquisition, formalized in the Treaties of 1866, for resettling other tribes. /3

Painting depicting the beginning of the Oklahoma Land Rush on April 22, 1889. Artist unknown. Image credit: normanmuseum.org.

#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 1889: Some 50,000 settlers rush to claim nearly 2 million acres of “Unassigned Lands” in what is now Oklahoma. The Land Rush epitomizes the broken promises and treaty violations that prioritized westward expansion over Native American tribal sovereignty. /1

Sometimes this administration takes a break from trying to change the outcome of the Civil War and just tries to undo the Civil Rights Movement

Here's a link to the actual report. Air pollution is very bad for our health, and California still has a big problem with it. Especially with Trump taking away our right to regulate it.

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Nearly half of US kids live in dangerously polluted air as Trump guts EPA rules Close to half of the children in the United States—more than 33 million kids—live in counties with dangerously high levels of toxic air pollution, according to the American Lung Association’s annual a...

American Lung Association's pollution report is out.

The Trump admin has gleefully taken an ax to climate regulations—including air pollution standards—while aggressively promoting oil, gas, and coal, threatening decades of progress toward cleaner air and water.

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