This part is so funny

The year is 1969. Man lands on the moon. Back on Earth, the Concorde flies its first test for a commercial supersonic airline.

The year is 2026. Man circles the moon and will, a few years later, land. Back on Earth, there is a concept of a plan for commercial supersonic flights.

A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"

ghoulish

at which point they will promptly pass along refunds to the consumers

'Bell removed Romeo and Juliet from his syllabus because “in Act III, Romeo and Juliet have sex, and that falls under this very broadly defined sexuality [topics ban].” He also didn’t teach about Joan of Arc this semester.'

What an actual lack of freedom of speech looks like in universities. 3/3

Boots on the Groundhog Day

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Quand la guerre en Iran menace le sacro-saint fish and chips britannique Le blocage du détroit d’Ormuz provoque des réactions en chaîne qui vont du prix des hydrocarbures à l’envolée des cours des engrais. Les pêcheurs britanniques sortent moins et moins loin, ce qui pourrait amener à modifier la recette.

Pour les pêcheurs britanniques, déjà en difficulté depuis le Brexit, la crise dans le détroit d'Ormuz complique tout. Conséquence : le prix du fish and chips augmente ou la recette change pour des poissons moins chers.

Reporter: If you don’t have a deal by Wednesday, will you extend the ceasefire or restart attacks? Trump: Maybe I won’t extend it… and we’ll have to start dropping bombs again.

Peace when markets are open

War when markets are closed

Trump’s lawyers are in talks with the IRS to resolve president’s $10B lawsuit Trump’s lawyers, IRS are negotiating a resolution to the $10 billion tax leak lawsuit.

The IRS, which of course is a federal agency within the Trump administration, is “in talks” with Trump about settling his $10 billion lawsuit.

www.denverpost.com/2026/04/17/t...

or think of them not as politicians, but as legislators, enforcers, judges

a matter of life and death for women who cannot access care. Share

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social it’s none of my business, but…fully endorse west side story (either version) to indoctrinate kids into movie musical life

Rümeysa Öztürk. Text on the card reads: “Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey”

Breaking news: Tufts University graduate Rümeysa Öztürk, who was arrested by masked immigration agents last year, has returned to her home country of Turkey, citing the "state-imposed violence and hostility" she said she experienced in the United States. trib.al/7GKyEiz

Alligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began, court docs say Attorneys say the Trump and DeSantis administrations are disregarding a court order requiring access to phones and attorneys for detainees.

April 2: guards cut all phone access in the housing units without warning. When detainees protested, CRS officers allegedly punched a man, threw another to the ground, kicked him in the head, and pinned him by the neck. A third detainee's wrist was broken. The entire cage was pepper-sprayed.

Train tickets to MetLife Stadium from NYC set to cost more than $100 during World Cup A return ticket via NJ Transit for the 18-mile journey from New York Pennsylvania Station ordinarily costs $12.90.

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: New Jersey Transit is currently planning to charge more than $100 for return rail tickets from Penn Station to MetLife Stadium for FIFA World Cup games.

The 18-mile rail journey ordinarily costs $12.90 for a return ticket. nyti.ms/4tRnBV8

imagine if you hit powerball. imagine if you find out youre the secret heir to genovia and youre really anne hathaway. imagine dragons

When you add it all up, the collapse in immigration looks like this: a decline of roughly 50K for illegal (even including the people arrested and not released) and a decline of about 132K for legal. Over 70% of the cut in immigration has come from LEGAL immigration.

a separation, if you will.
could he be onto something?

We filed a notice in federal court that officers at Florida's “Alligator Alcatraz” are failing to comply with a court order to give people access to attorneys.

Guards cut off phone access for a day without warning and brutally beat and pepper sprayed people who spoke up.

This can't continue.

All they have is the oil, the land above it, the waterway down which it must float, a country full of people who hate the U.S. for all the times we have done exactly what we're doing now, and an opponent who is among the dumbest people ever to walk the earth.

what the fuck is even going on

ok NOW i bet Zelenskyy will thank JD Vance

and that’s diplomacy, baby

series of headlines detailing "marathon talks"

series of headlines detailing "marathon talks"

series of headlines detailing "marathon talks"

series of headlines detailing "marathon talks"

Marathon talks? Compared to what? It took years for Obama to deliver a detailed Iran deal. The Trump admin are packing it in after 20 hours.
(H/T @bgrueskin.bsky.social)

Headline reads: White House budget seeks to scrap 54 major NASA science missions. Over an image of Jupiter.

Experts found that the White House budget request for the upcoming fiscal year could defund 54 NASA science missions, including a spacecraft currently studying Jupiter and two planned Venus missions: www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

For perspective, the Jefferson Memorial statue is 19 feet tall and the Lincoln Memorial statue is 30 feet tall. The statue on top of the Arc de Trump alone will be 60 feet tall!

Secret docs: Neo-Nazi group's newest member is ex-Navy SEAL tied to war crimes case Records from the white supremacist group Patriot Front show one of its newest recruits is Corey Scott, who once testified that he killed an unarmed captive in Iraq.

Secret docs: Neo-Nazi group's newest member is ex-Navy SEAL tied to war crimes case

“A Slap in the Face”: Trump’s DOJ Plans to Settle Predatory Lending Case Without Compensating Victims The Biden administration sued a Texas land developer accused of duping tens of thousands of Hispanic residents. Trump’s DOJ is now offering an unprecedented settlement that experts say could target th...

NEW: The Biden administration sued a Texas land developer accused of duping tens of thousands of Hispanic residents.

Trump’s DOJ is now offering an unprecedented settlement that experts say could target the very people who were harmed by the developer.

w/ @texastribune.org