Trump Trifecta! MAGA Hat Trick! Misappropriation, affair, drugs/alcohol. All his cabinet members seem to aspire to do all three but most fail (although give them time).

As someone who’s fought hard for open data, I also really hate that paper mill bullshit like this - grab a random open dataset, shove it through a barely-understood AI model, PUBLISH! WHEE! - is going to make it unsustainable to publish using open datasets. Publishers are already restricting it.

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

Important story from the Times on the rise of AI influencers for Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto

The problems with our tech philosopher kings

An important analysis to understand and take seriously!

open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Karp should be on the front line leading in the Conscripts armed with a flag.

“The Woman Who Knows Too Much”

Amanda Ungaro says Paolo Zampolli abused her, seduced her underage, recruited girls for Epstein, had a hold on Melania (who worked undocumented for years)

He had her deported as they battle for custody. He still works for Trump.

She is willing to testify.

Summary of CA Governor polls from California is Not For Sale Committee Hilton 20% (-2) Becerra 15%(+11) Steyer 15%(+3) Bianco 14%(+1) Porter 13%(+2) Mahan 6%(+1) Villairagosa 3%(+1) Yee 2% Thurmond 2% +/- vs 4/6 poll Undecided (not shown) 10%

Create Strategies poll +/- vs 3_23-3_29 Hilton 18% (-1) STEYER 16% (+3) Bianco 14% (+4) Becerra 10% (+8) Porter 8% Mahan 4% Swalwell 3% (-10, dropped out) Yee 2% (-1) Villaraigosa 1% (-1) Unsure 23%

🧵Two new CA Governor polls - numbers vary but both show, consistent with last week's Emerson poll:

*Real, large surge for Becerra post-Swalwell: +11, +8 in the other
*Steyer, Becerra in the top two Dem spots
*Lower chance of Dem freeze out in November

Big move for @becerraforca.bsky.social

Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures | TechCrunch Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of "the West."

Any candidate that takes money from Palantir should not receive your vote.

Co-founder Joe Lonsdale is pouring millions into a PAC to buy off Democrats, especially in California.

techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/p...

“Reverse emails,” Jared Kushner corruption edition

He also holds no Senate-confirmed Cabinet or senior government position & employing family as White House advisers violates every norm ever, but this, too, has been erased from the headlines. After years of HUNTER BIDEN, it’s shameful.

I want to know who are the 37% who approved of a sex offender, narcissist, racist idiot running the country.

This Day in History...

April 20, 1871: "Ku Klux Klan Act" passed by Congress authorizing President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law and use military force to suppress the KKK.

Or, as Trump supporters would call it today, "cancel culture."

No Presidential Pardon will restore a disbarment.

ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.

I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026:

Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org

It is like playing whack-a-mole with Putin owned politicians. We get rid of Orban and then we get another in Bulgaria. Until Putin's network of influence is completely dismantled Europe will not be safe

They were never as popular as the Fighting Fantasy series.

suspicions?!? certainties. He makes Grant look honest. He is the new Bernie Madoff. He is making off with everything he can get.

Just the thought of Starmer resigning and being brought down from a huge landslide is incredible to me. He is a new Burnside snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. But as Have I got News for You showed a tub of large could be more effective and successful than some Labour politicians.

This reminds me of the famous (probably apocryphal) story of NASA spending millions to design a pen to write in Space. Meanwhile the Russians used a pencil. AI in its current state is horrendously wasteful and inefficient and most of what we ask it to make is pointless.

Starmer was a barrister. Imagine going into court with this level of preparation and due diligence. It beggars belief. There is incompetence and there is Starmer.

Did Starmer somehow miss the day when you get taught the first lesson of public administration; "don't pick a fight with the guy who approves the minutes"?

Ex-Virginia deputy governor Justin Fairfax kills wife and himself, police say Investigators say Justin Fairfax shot his wife, Cerina, multiple times before turning the gun on himself.

I wonder why other countries don't have quite so many domestic disturbances quite like these. 🤔

www.bbc.com/news/article...

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ive said it all along.

Starmer is a moral vacuum in a Saville Row suit.

The Trump administration won’t face contempt of court charges for deporting immigrants to El Salvador last year in defiance of a court order. trib.al/O1EN5xd

With friends like that who needs enemies

This is all John Roberts’ fault Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.

Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.

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Trump continues to crater. New NBC poll has his approval down to 37-63, which is 26 points underwater.

Crucially, 50% disapprove *strongly.* Has any other president had half the country strongly disapproving?

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Democrats should hold themselves to higher standards than Republicans. That’s how we build a party that people actually believe in.