America seems to have lost its mind.

I’ll have a go: A lot of powerful jobs in Congress are still allocated based on seniority (or it is at least a factor). The oldest members often control the most resources and hence deliver the most stuff for their states/districts. Replacing them with younger people cuts off the flow.

Two things are true on Earth Day 2026:
1. We have a long way to go, especially on carbon emissions.
2. The progress since the first Earth Day in 1970 is staggering: U.S. air pollution down 60-95% through policy, innovation, and action.

Pessimism isn’t more honest than optimism. Both are choices.

DAMN, SON!
Reinventing how a thousand year old instrument is played!

Black children in England and Wales almost eight times more likely to be strip-searched than white peers – report Demographic also overrepresented when police officers use force such as handcuffs, firearms or Tasers, says children’s commissioner

#Black #children in England & Wales almost eight times more likely to be strip-searched than white peers. Demographic also overrepresented when #police officers use force such as handcuffs, firearms or Tasers, says new report by England's children’s commissioner | www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend

"The F.B.I. began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about the bureau’s director, Kash Patel, using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation"
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a group of women in red robes are walking down a street with the words under his eye above them ALT: a group of women in red robes are walking down a street with the words under his eye above them

Does Reform yearn to establish Atwood’s ‘Gilead’?

French soldier dies of wounds after attack on UN force in Lebanon President Emmanuel ​Macron said on Wednesday that a second French soldier had ‌died following an attack on United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon last week, which he said was carried out by Iran‑backed Hezbollah.

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I’m currently listening to Gisèle Pelicot’s book. It’s very moving as well as interesting.

Very disappointing to read this post today.

Remember when Richard Feynman, Nelson Mandela, Stephen Hawking, Tom Stoppard, and Tim Berners-Lee used to routinely begin conversations with “As everyone knows, I am an extremely brilliant person …”?

The horrors of the online “Rape Academy” If you thought the rape of Gisèle Pelicot was a unique story, you were wrong

The horrors of the online “Rape Academy”

If you thought the rape of Gisèle Pelicot was a unique story, you were wrong

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F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend

The FBI launched an investigation into a New York Times reporter for covering Kash Patel's country-singer girlfriend's use of FBI resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

How can the Democrats not like how the U.S. Supreme Court votes. The Democrat Justices stick together like glue, NEVER failing to wander from the warped and perverse policies, ideas, and cases put before them. They ALWAYS vote as a group, or BLOCK, even that new, Low IQ person, that somehow found her way to the bench (Sleepy Joe!). The Republican Justices don’t stick together, they give the Democrats win after win, like a 159 Billion Dollar pile of cash on a completely ridiculous Tariff decision, and nasty, one sided questions on the country destroying subject of Birthright Citizenship, something which virtually NO OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD IS STUPID ENOUGH TO ALLOW. It was meant for the babies of slaves, not for the babies of Chinese Billionaires. No, certain “Republican” Justices have just gone weak, stupid, and bad, completely violating what they “supposedly” stood for. Handing over 159 Billion Dollars in Tariff refunds to people who have been Ripping Off our Country for years, is unexplainable. One little sentence would have stoped this record setting payment from having to be made. It is a travesty! Their Tariff decision was an unnecessary and expensive slap in the face to the U.S.A., and a giant victory for its opponents. If they rule against our Country on Birthright Citizenship, which they probably will, it will be even worse, if that’s possible. It will cost America massive amounts of money but, more importantly, it will cost America its DIGNITY! No, the Radical Left Democrats don’t need to “Pack the Court,” it’s already Packed! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Trump refers to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as "that new, Low IQ person"

Sir David Amess' daughter wants Reform UK candidate to be suspended Katie Amess says

Murdered MP's daughter wants Reform candidate who called for violence against politicians to be suspended
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Live updates: Iran attacks 3 ships in the Strait of Hormuz as Trump indefinitely extends ceasefire Iran’s Revolutionary Guard fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. is indefinitely extending its ceasefire with Iran.

The body of a Lebanese journalist killed in an Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon has been recovered hours after the attack. The daily Al-Akhbar newspaper confirmed that its reporter, Amal Khalil, was killed in the strike.

Asia’s longest free-flowing river contaminated by arsenic linked to Myanmar mines MAE HONG SON, Thailand — Saw Si Paw Rak Salween guns the wooden fishing boat’s engine and steers along the river that inspired his family name. He is ethnic Karen — his parents migrated from Myanmar’s...

Mining continues across river basins in Myanmar - "arsenic levels at every monitoring point were more than double safety levels"

#PoisonedPlanet
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Given some of these comments, and the parties lack of plans around childcare, it’s easy to see why proportionally fewer women are voting for a Reform than any other party.

Palestinian killed in terrorist settler attack in W. Bank town A Palestinian young man was martyred on Wednesday evening, succumbing to serious injuries from live bullets fired by armed Jewish settlers during their terrorist attack on the town of Deir Dibwan, eas...

"...29‑year‑old Atef Awawdeh died... from wounds sustained when settlers shot him in the back...

Eyewitnesses reported... [ #Israel 's] armed settlers attacked the outskirts of Deir Dibwan, firing live ammunition at residents, critically wounding Awawdeh."

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#BDS

The Trump administration is removing protections for over 59 million acres of the National Forest System, opening untouched land to logging.

Weird the Epstein estate and all those banks paid settlements to women who weren't trafficked to anyone.

Medical official: Gaza health system operating as “empty shell” A senior medical official in Gaza has warned that the territory’s healthcare system has effectively collapsed, now functioning as a “formal structure without real substance” amid severe shortages and ...

"Bassem Zaqout, director of medical relief services in southern #Gaza, said the system is facing unprecedented deterioration, with widespread diagnostic paralysis and growing inability to provide basic care."

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#GazaNews #Israel #News #Palestine #WorldNews

"Education is not a right" - Javier Milei

Milei wants to take Argentina back to 1883 before Law 1420 was passed and Public Schools existed for all, and have education only for the rich.

Call me Cassandra, but if you make thousands of HEI staff either compulsorily or 'voluntarily' redundant and create conditions in which senior staff take early retirement in an attempt to save more junior colleagues' careers without significant new hiring, a critical loss is exactly what happens.

Authorities and security forces in Ethiopia’s contested Western Tigray Zone are arbitrarily detaining ethnic Tigrayans and imposing a discriminatory system that severely restricts their movements, employment, and access to services.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed an executive order banning state employees from using insider info to bet on prediction market apps like Kalshi and Polymarket, warning the unregulated boom “opens the door to insider trading and abuse.”

Flag Fen replacement roundhouse nears completion after fire The roundhouse replaces one destroyed last summer in a suspected arson attack.

📰 Great to hear that, following it burning down last year, the new replica Iron Age roundhouse at Flag Fen, Cambridgeshire is nearing completion!

🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via the BBC

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Drawing of a book with a desk printer on the cover with the title "The printer that simply worked and other fairy tales"

I mean I spent 29 years in markets and know that second-guessing them is frequently, even generally, expensive. But the last time I remember this level of refusal to acknowledge disaster would be 2007-08.

Federal appeals court blocks California law requiring federal agents to wear identification An appeals court has blocked a California law passed in 2025 requiring federal immigration agents to wear a badge or some form of identification.

BREAKING: A federal appeals court blocks a California law requiring federal agents to wear identification.

As I predicted last night, Trump is claiming the Virginia redistricting vote was "rigged." I'm no soothsayer. I just know that the most dependable thing about Trump is his dishonesty.