How we gave up on forgiveness What was once seen as a virtue is now viewed as a moral weakness — leaving a society mired in toxicity

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Just a deeply unpleasant man.

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The best explanation why millions of Americans worship and support a convicted felon and sexual predator...

The second F-15 pilot was successfully rescued deep inside Iran. He is wounded but stable.

U.S. forces used a remote airfield during the operation, destroying two C-130s on-site, likely due to damage.

Most importantly, the pilot is safe 💪🏻

3/ Two MC-130J Commando II aircraft, sent to extract the pilot, were damaged under Iranian fire and became stuck in the sand. U.S. forces destroyed them on-site to prevent the aircraft from falling into enemy hands.

Russia's most popular bloggers all progressively getting on the same page, talking up a new invasion of the Baltics as a "more promising direction than Ukraine".

Weekend Update #179: Russian Losses In March And UAVs, A Shocking Statistic Why Do You Need To Disable A Whole System? Think "Clogging" Effect; More UGV Stories

Hi All, just sent out my free weekend update a little early so as to not disturb Easter. I start with the extraordinary story of Russian casualties in March, 95% of which were caused by Ukrainian UAV. And the Ukrainians believe this is only the start. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

‘I was beaten and tortured’: how a British father and son made a fortune in Dubai then became wanted men As the Middle East is drawn into war, expats and influencers are under pressure to only share the positive side of the UAE. In reality many are at risk of being put behind bars, and often find the UK government has little interest in helping them get out

‘I was beaten and tortured’: how a British father and son made a fortune in Dubai then became wanted men

Multiple weapons experts have disputed a US claim that Iran may have been responsible for a deadly strike on the town of Lamerd on the first day of the Iran war, which killed 21 people.

Weapons experts say a US PrSM missile was likely used in the strike.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More than 400 hospitals are now at high risk of closing or cutting services because of the Medicaid cuts Republicans passed in the Big Ugly Bill. Together, they serve nearly 7 million patients.

"Marmelada" is a Portuguese word borrowed into English, and originally means a kind of quince paste. From "marmelo", a quince. So there's that.

Trump and Hegseth halted funding for research to get blood to wounded U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy sailors:

"When someone is wounded and survival depends on the availability of blood, this software would have made that survival more likely. Now it will not."

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...

Russian oil terminals under attack unable to accept shipments for second week, sources say Russia's Baltic oil export hubs at Ust-Luga and Primorsk remain unable to handle shipments after a series of ​Ukrainian drone attacks, prompting the country's refineries to find ‌alternative routes for export, industry sources said on Friday.

Russian oil terminals under attack unable to accept shipments for second week, sources say reut.rs/4bS4cND

Some Marines graduate without their parents' presence amid ICE fears News that ICE would be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events upended family plans, elicited national reaction and drew out protesters, including Marine veterans.

“They were going to come. It was going to be a big thing. We were going to go to the beach right after. All those plans had to go out the window because they said ICE would be here."

Trump was born an idiot, raised an idiot, and will always be an idiot. America is being destroyed because idiotic Americans elected someone just like them.

Hegseth just fired the Army Chief Gen Randy George. Immediately. Gen George the most competent and experienced combat leaders I have ever encountered. Courage. Integrity. Takes care of soldiers. A government of gangsters.

Maybe Trump Should Not Have Given This Speech His address raised more questions than it answered about the war in Iran.

Maybe giving this speech was a bad call. (And who wrote this mess?) Trump is clearly lost; admitting it to the rest of the world is a bad idea.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump says US has plenty of jet fuel for Europe, market disagrees President Donald Trump this week told countries struggling to get jet ​fuel due to Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz to buy from the U.S., but analysts say there is ‌a major problem with his advice: the U.S. can't cover the global shortfall.

Trump says US has plenty of jet fuel for Europe, market disagrees reut.rs/487xaqi

Global super-rich may have hidden $3.55tn from tax officials, says Oxfam Charity calls for a levy on the very richest and the closing of tax loopholes in its report on offshore wealth

Imagine being so rich that you spend your cash avoiding tax…depriving society of decent roads (but you use a helicopter), decent healthcare (but you have insurance), decent social care (but you hire live-in help), a decent diet (but you have a private chef) etc

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

unlike education, health care, child care or parental leave which is woke bull shit

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The father of deceased Tech. Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons said this is not true:

"When he spoke to me, that was not something we talked about."

Polymarket and other prediction platforms driving oil market, traders say Datafeeds from platforms being used to create algorithms that determine multimillion-dollar trades on global market Energy traders say online betting platforms are directly driving the global oil market as they increasingly rely on anonymous prediction markets to determine multimillion-dollar trades. Market experts have said that datafeeds from prediction platforms such as Polymarket are being used to create the algorithms that influence trading in the global Brent crude futures market. Continue reading...

Polymarket and other prediction platforms driving oil market, traders say

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In conclusion, the U.S. is now locked into a ”mowing the grass” strategy with Iran.

My three-year-old was watching the president's address when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why can't I understand what the nice orange man is saying?" And when I told her "Because America elected a narcissistic sociopath in steep cognitive decline," she started crying.

Not the main point but did she just walk off the set of a remake of Caligula? What’s with that dress?

Rationale for Iran war questioned after Trump says ‘I don’t care’ about regime’s uranium stockpiles US president’s apparent decision to leave highly enriched uranium in hands of regime creates a more risky scenario than before the war began, experts say * Middle East crisis – live updates Donald Trump has said he does not care about Iran’s stock of highly enriched uranium (HEU), arguing it was deep underground and could be monitored by satellite, raising questions about one of the key US justifications for the war. Experts said that if the US-Israeli offensive against Iran concluded with the Tehran government still in control of its 440kg HEU stockpile, it would be significantly closer to the capability of making nuclear warheads than if the US had pursued a potential negotiated settlement that was on the table at the time the US and Israel launched the war on 28 February. Continue reading...

Rationale for Iran war questioned after Trump says ‘I don’t care’ about regime’s uranium stockpiles

“It will just open up naturally,” Trump says about the Strait of Hormuz. He also once said, at the beginning of the pandemic, that COVID would end by itself. "One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear"