The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

You’ve seen this before but the BBC has put it all together.

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

Go for it, Mr. FBI Director!

I would really like to see what comes up in discovery:

Your actual schedule, your travel, your alcohol purchases and consumption, etc.

A mine despoiled the beauty of the rainforest. This Goldman Prize winner took action "We women are the land guardians and keepers," says Theonila Roka Matbob of Papua New Guinea, recognized for her efforts to repair the environmental and social harms caused by a copper and gold mine.

"We women are the land guardians and keepers," says Theonila Roka Matbob of Papua New Guinea, recognized for her efforts to repair the environmental and social harms caused by a copper and gold mine. n.pr/3QbDxTA

What is going to happen if/when ICE pulls up to voting booths? Is there a plan for that? Is there a STRATEGY for that?

Doesn’t violate a ceasefire if you bulldoze instead of fire

Yet another thing that travels through the Strait of Hormuz

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

TLDR: Chief Injustice Roberts killed our democracy over personal pride.

The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles.

That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org.

(All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).

The Election Performance Index Documents a Decade’s Improvement in Election Administration The major gains have been made. The next round of improvements will be subtler.

US Election administration has greatly *improved* in the last 20 years, contrary to some national rhetoric. MIT Prof. Charles Stewart has the receipts. substack.com/@cstewartiii...

Rainwater harvesting and eco-gardens: how one Colombian neighbourhood helped a whole city plan for climate change From rainwater harvesting to tree nurseries, communities in Medellín are taking steps to increase their landslide and flooding resilience

Rainwater harvesting and eco-gardens: how one Colombian neighbourhood helped a whole city plan for climate change

Here's Chinese kindergarteners learning how to socialise, work together, cook, garden, and do all kinds of fun stuff that little kids should be doing. Meanwhile, in western countries like the US, they can't even agree that their children deserve (free) lunch, let alone to not be murdered at school.

How Big Tech Lobbied the EU to Hide Data Centers' Environmental Toll The European Commission has adopted industry-drafted language shielding data center emissions data from public view, report Nico Schmidt and Ella Joyner.

Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their data centers, Investigate Europe reports in collaboration with Tech Policy Press and other media partners.

And the Lord spake saying: First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed…

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Under-rated factor: there's only around 100 large ocean-going USA flagged Jones Act civilian cargo ships in existence. A lot of overseas replenishment for the US military depends on them. There's 5 of them stuck inside the Straits of Hormuz for the last 2 months.

Thomson Reuters Shareholders Demand Investigation into ICE Contracts The shareholders explicitly cited multiple 404 Media investigations, including one that showed Thomson Reuters' CLEAR is integrated with a tool ICE uses to find neighborhoods to target.

NEW: On Wednesday shareholders in Thomson Reuters demanded the company’s board launch an investigation into whether its products have contributed to human rights violations, specifically with regards to Thomson Reuters’ ongoing sale of peoples’ personal data to ICE.

www.404media.co/thomson-reut...

I'm indebted to this fantastic study shared by one of my favs who probably doesn't want the credit and certainly deserves no blame for any errors I've made.

Bodycam video contradicts St. Louis police's earlier account in fatal shooting of 17-year-old Body camera video released Monday shows a St. Louis police officer shoot a 17-year-old in the back of the head as he fled, contradicting an earlier police statement that the teen pointed a gun at offi...

Emeshyon Wilkins mattered

Police said he pointed a gun at them. Body cam footage shows police shooting him in the back of the head as he ran away from them

apnews.com/article/body...

And sure you can pretend race isn't a factor, but the reality is that white people in every generation voted for this mess. And until we talk about that, we're going to be running in a circle.

very glad i'm not giving them more money. good lord what happened to the pleasant world where we all knew that assassination of other sovereign nations' leaders was bad?

Harmeet Dillon is the absolute pits. She’s already made it impossible for investigators to investigate Renee Nicole Good’s murder. Blood on her hands.

the first CEO to just be like "fuck the groupchat, we're going back to offering 2019 level of service" is going to see exponential brand growth for their org while their buddies open and close their mouths in outrage like hyperventilating goldfish

The image is a screenshot of the Cornell Lab BirdCast Migration Dashboard for Kings County, New York, for the night of Sunday, April 12, 2026.

Big night for migration last night on the eastern seaboard.

I ❤️ BirdCast's migration dashboard, it's maybe the only dashboard I've ever seen that sparks joy...

dashboard.birdcast.org/region/US-NY...

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

bsky.app/profile/dans...

oh my god

Wow. To see it visually like this.

Since Nuremberg in 1945, international law has established that the "wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity" is a punishable war crime.

No serious international lawyer would deny that this is what Israel is doing in South Lebanon.