Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.

The News You Need on Tuesday, April 21st, 2026. The news you need today from Scott Horton and Charles Kaiser. Elon must answer for AI porn on X, Kash Patel is MIA from the FBI and European fascists and conservatives are ditching Trump.

The News You Need on Apr 21, 2026 from
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• Elon Musk Subpoenaed in French Porn Query
• Ukrainian Drone Supremacy Is Clear
• Eye on the Milky Way
• The War in Iran: A Précis
• Conservatives Bid Farewell to Trump
• The FBI Director is MIA
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Alan Dershowitz, Donald Trump's favored "constitutional lawyer," announces that he's really a Republican... an announcement he confidently made to friends twenty years ago.

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Dismissed on summary judgment. Devin Nunes hired him to sue Esquire for implying his Iowa dairy farm used undocumented labor…and discovery proved the farm did use undocumented labor.

Kash Patel: The Drunk In The Poodle Room He’s a drunk, he’s panicking, and his lawyer is a punchline.

“Binnall isn’t just a bad bet. He’s a legal losing streak with a law degree. His defamation suit for Mark Robinson against CNN over the ‘Black Nazi' story Robinson withdrew it himself, calling it a ‘futile effort’ before the judge could even rule. His case for the Flynn family against CNN?

Louisiana gunman had sought mental health treatment, relatives say The man who killed eight children and wounded two women in Louisiana had sought mental health care from Veterans Affairs.

The deadliest mass shooting in two years and it’s in Mike Johnson’s backyard.

Ross Douthat's column on the fall of Orbán persuades me that Ross (1) knows nothing abut Orbán, (2) knows nothing about Péter Magyar, and (3) knows nothing about Hungary. Otherwise it's an interesting piece.

It seems from this that there is as of yet no agreement to have negotiations in Islamabad or anywhere else.

Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press

Domenico Tintoretto, Judith and Holofernes (Venice 1600)
Judith was one of the biblical heroines. The Old Testament narrates how this beautiful and honourable Israelite widow freed her people from the subjugation of the Syrians by seducing general Holofernes and then killing him while he slept.

Penis costume protester prevails in court Alabama officers said the woman's costume created a public safety threat and arrested her at an October

The law prevails in Alabama, remarkably.

The Trump regime is a magnet for creepiness and corruption.

The explanations offered by the Trump administration for the incident make no sense.

Mexico's Sheinbaum demands explanation after U.S. officials die assisting in operation in Chihuahua Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says she was unaware of any collaboration between the U.S. and local authorities in Chihuahua after four officials died in an accident over the weekend.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday she would demand explanations after four US and Mexican officials died in an accident over the weekend, adding she was unaware of collaboration between the US and the local government in northern Chihuahua.

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Global soil pollution by toxic metals threatens agriculture and human health Toxic metal pollution is ubiquitous in soils, yet its worldwide distribution is unknown. We analyzed a global database of soil pollution by arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, nickel, and lead...

As many as 1.4 bn people live in areas with soil dangerously polluted by heavy metals like arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, nickel, and lead. The results reveal a global risk, but also a previously unrecognized high-risk, metal-enriched zone in low-latitude Eurasia. scim.ag/48MrXEA

USA und Iran: Wer gibt zuerst nach? Verhandlungen in Islamabad stocken Donald Trump kündigt Verhandlungen mit Iran in Islamabad an, doch diplomatische Bemühungen stocken nach Zwischenfall im Golf von Oman. Die Lage beeinflusst globale Rohstoffmärkte.

There is only one feasible conclusion to draw from the pool of incoherent, contradictory social media posts by Trump about the Iran War—and that is that Trump is desperate for a deal, while the Iranians could care less. Never has America been more humiliated. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/usa-...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Labor Secretary Steps Down Amid Misconduct Investigation

Was Lori Chavez-DeRemer trying to turn the Department of Labor into a bordello? Since she has resigned, she won't have to answer questions from the inspector general about what she meant when she told young women who worked for her that they needed to pay close attention to her father and husband.

Why America Has the World's Oldest Politicians How our creaky electoral system created the most advanced gerontocracy on earth.

It's not just Trump. America is now led by octogenarians.

Why America is falling out of love with Israel Public opinion and elite sentiment has turned decisively against Netanyahu

Ed Luce: "There should be no mystery why younger Americans are as pro-Palestinian today as their forebears were once pro-Israeli. Rabin staked his life on peace. What will posterity say of Netanyahu?" My column on why America is falling out of love with Israel. www.ft.com/content/353e...

Words & Phrases We can agree Iran has not agreed to anything

‪Jen Rubin:‬ To the Iranians, Trump's fantasy deals signal his desperation to reach a deal that he can tout. They could reasonably conclude all they need is some gauzy window-dressing to keep Trump happy. This is dotard diplomacy.

goes on, the greater the costs for everyone involved. We are in this situation for two reasons: rising temperatures and groundwater depletion. Rising temperatures are the result of greenhouse gas emissions—methane emitted from cattle has roughly 80 times the warming potential of CO₂ over 20-yrs.

The US cattle industry is eating its own tail From rising temperatures to water shortages, ranchers need to be thinking about a plan B

The US cattle and beef industry is in a bad way. The megadrought currently plaguing the western states has been going on for 22 yrs, with no signs of abating. The quality of grazing land has declined, raising feed costs and driving the cattle herd to its lowest numbers since 1951. Meatpackers are

pitched as an alternative to the sector’s old guard. Less than a decade later MBaer Merchant Bank is in liquidation, its fate sealed by US Treasury’s Feb invocation of “Sec 311”, a power allowing banks deemed a “primary money laundering concern” to be cut off from the American financial system.

‘Kiss of death’: how the US killed a Swiss merchant bank MBaer survived years of scrutiny at home — before Washington stepped in to seal its fate

Michael Bär has long said banking is in his genes. A great-grandson of Julius Baer’s founder, he grew up during the heyday of Swiss private banking when secrecy and security drew in the world’s wealthy—including those with nefarious motives for avoiding scrutiny. The business he launched in 2018 was

Important investigation- national policy bends to the will of billionaires if the Trump clan will make $ from it

My forthcoming book, “The Fix,” dissects the mob-like tactics of the Trump regime and proposes ideas to reclaim our democracy. Available now for pre-order here.
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