Another unprecedented abuse of the Congressional Review Act. This is basically all congressional Republicans do anymore.

Offshore Accounts For Me, TurboTax For Thee While shutting down free direct filing for everyday taxpayers, the IRS is letting the ultrawealthy hide billions of dollars in foreign accounts.

🚨YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP: IRS data show 164 taxpayers with an average unreported foreign account balance of $1.3 billion were identified for examination - but only 12 were audited.

The agency didn't do more audits even after they discovered $39 million of taxes owed among the 12.

Just noting that the wild popularity of The Pitt, Project Hail Mary, and Artemis 2 are all signs of a culture that's overwhelmed by anti-science quackery, ignorant influencers, AI-pilled slop, and decreasing literacy, clearly starving for examples of expertise, knowledge, and expert leadership.

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

The richest 1% will get $117 billion in tax cuts this year, thanks to Trump.

That’s more than the combined budgets of eight federal agencies, including the Department of Education and the EPA.

Meanwhile, the bottom 95% will see their taxes increase.

It’s clear who he governs for.

Nations tried to impose a digital fog of war in Iran. The results are mixed Governments are blocking the internet, banning social media posts and cutting access to commercial satellite images. But experts say that efforts to censor information have had mixed results.

NEW: Governments on all sides of the Iran conflict have sought to censor information coming out of the war. Here's an in depth look at those efforts (and whether they're working).

www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

I did get an e-mail about this class-action settlement... routed to my spam folder. Search for "federalcellularclassaction.com" to see if you received your own notification.

Someone said "invent a blow-job machine" and they took it too literally.
Or did they?
(No really, I can't tell. That image is disturbingly confusing.)

Unprecedented corruption

Amercians: The Constitution prescribes a separation between Church and State.

Trump: I’m going to invade the Church if they don’t do what i want

Americans: Which church?

Trump: The big one

Really begging folks to find the link if they're going to tweet the headline.

Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story "The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."

Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story: “The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."

Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Are Fighting for Jesus. The Pope Disagrees. In sharp contrast to the Trump administration's calls for Christian prayers for the war effort, Pope Leo XIV says military domination is "entirely foreign to the way of Jesus Christ." [photo of Pope Leo with this caption] Pope Leo, during the Holy Thursday Mass in Rome, said the Christian mission had often been "distorted by a desire for domination." Vincenzo Livieri/Reuters

the defense secretary who was plucked off a couch at fox news is arguing about jesus with the fucking POPE in case you’re wondering how things are going

This is so, so well-articulated.

Two of the officers targeted by Mr. Hegseth are Black and two are women on a promotion list that consisted of 29 other officers, most of whom are white men. Mr. Hegseth’s highly unusual decision to remove the officers prompted some senior military officials to question whether they were being singled out because of their race or gender, officials said. Mr. Hegseth had been pressing Mr. Driscoll and General George for months to remove the officers from the promotion list. But Mr. Driscoll and General George refused, citing the officers’ long records of exemplary service.

Hegseth firing Generals who wouldn't go along with his purge of Black and female officers
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

yep, this is a case of hegseth wanting a whites-only military bsky.app/profile/nanc...

The US reportedly waited to strike the bridge in Iran a second time until rescue workers and others in the area gathered to help the wounded, which then killed at least eight people. Authorities in Iran are describing it as an act of terrorism.

Dedra Meero from Andor in prison

Checking in on Pam Bondi:

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

$3.99 here in upstate NY.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today.

That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Holy New York.

A photo of the gigantic No Kings crowd in Atlanta, Georgia.

Atlanta is showing up to say no ICE, no war, No Kings. #NoKings

Events are underway across the U.S. in today’s historic protest! #NoKings ❌👑

Find yours at NoKings.org

I made a version of MasterMind in HyperCard. I loved HC.

But his emails...

(Not using passkey authentication on a personal account--a completely avoidable oversight that it appears our bro-tastic FBI director committed--should be a firing offense for any senior government official.)

What a snowflake.

Trump calling the war already won is “mostly hyperbole,” said a senior White House official granted anonymity to speak candidly about the administration’s thinking. “It’s part [of Trump] just wanting to declare victory and move on.” That impulse, the official said, has become more pronounced in recent days. “[Trump] is getting a little bored with Iran,” the official said. “Not that he regrets it or something — he’s just bored and wants to move on.” A second White House official who was granted anonymity for the same reason told MS NOW that Trump has begun to “move on” from the conflict and has started shifting conversations and personal focus towards the economy, domestic issues and the upcoming midterm elections.

good piece on MS-NOW confirming the WSJ report from two days ago

Trump has lost interest in his war

but unlike with the tariffs, that alone doesn't end the war or fix the crisis www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

New IOC policy bans trans women from women’s Olympic events The decision by the International Olympic Committee follows a demand President Donald Trump issued ahead of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

NEW @ms.now: There’s a lot of context to the new IOC policy banning trans women from the Olympics that's not being reported. 👀

The researcher who came up w/ the genetic test that will be required for female athletes opposes this use of it — partly bc it produced false positives at the 1996 Games.👇

“The athletes who’ll actually be barred are cis women who’ve never heard of the SRY gene.”

LOUDER