Russian economy faces 'financial disaster,' Sweden's spy chief warns as Moscow hides true deficit Stockholm believes that Moscow is "living on borrowed time," Sweden's military intelligence chief Thomas Nilsson said.

Sweden's spy chief Nilsson: the Russian economy is set for disaster.

The new acting Secretary of the Navy, Hung Cao, who is replacing John Pelan, is a theocratic loony who thinks California is infested with witches. The only thing the Trump administration shows *any* aptitude for is filling its job openings with unqualified kooks.

Lawsuit: Blaze’s Crackpot Reporting Prompted a Wild, Unnecessary FBI Raid Quickly debunked reporting based on “gait analysis” was enough to get the feds to descend with a helicopter on a falsely accused J6 pipe-bomber’s home.

New: Kash Patel's FBI launched an unnecessary raid on the home of a former Capitol Police officer, based on Jan. 6 conspiracy theories from right-wing media outlet The Blaze.

Food Safety Complaints for Meat, Poultry, and Eggs Spiked 40% in 2025 to Historic High Foreign objects were the most common type of complaint, including wood in corn dogs.

Food safety complaints for meat, poultry, and eggs spiked 40% last year.

Shocking, simply shocking, that shredding US food safety practices would lead to a 40% increase in food safety complaints.

LOUDER FOR THE FOLKS IN THE BACK.

Takeaways From the Big Long COVID Clinical Trials - Health Rising Only 10 major long COVID clinical trials have been published thus far but that's enough to come away with some interesting takeaways. They include treatments that prevent long COVID don't necessarily ...

Health Rising: 'Takeaways From the Big Long COVID Clinical Trials'

'With estimates suggesting that 20–25 million people in the U.S., ~2–3 million in Canada, and ~20–40 million in Europe are currently living with long COVID, long COVID’s impact has been huge.'

www.healthrising.org/blog/2026/04...

This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig...
The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.

The words “beef tallow” immediately make me think I am smelling rotting meat.

BREAKING: A GOP-appointed Virginia judge has struck down the Democratic-backed redistricting amendment in full, ruling it unconstitutional and “void from the start.”

AG Jay Jones says he will immediately file an appeal.

Ugh. UGH. I know that kind of week.

CISA director pick Sean Plankey withdraws his nomination Sean Plankey, the long-sidelined nominee to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, asked President Donald Trump on Wednesday to withdraw his nomination.

CISA director pick Sean Plankey withdraws his nomination cyberscoop.com/cisa-directo...

Greg Sargent notes that the NY Times accepts the bogus "everyone loves their own gerrymandering" idea when Democrats have tried for years to end *all* gerrymandering. Republicans have blocked reform, leaving Dems with the options of gerrymandering or unilaterally disarming, i.e surrendering.

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

NY Times map of the new Virginia congressional districts, which favor Democrats 10-1.

Wow, check out Virginiachusetts.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

Whoopsie!

Tensions on the bench are palpable at SCOTUS. Roberts stepped in today during Sotomayor's questioning of the government's attorney. And Jackson and Barrett now seem to be routinely butting heads whose turn it is to ask a question.

2025 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism Winners Now in its 22nd year, the Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism recognizes the best of health care journalism across all platforms.

BREAKING: Our #LongCOVID clinical trials series for @thesicktimes.org won an award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism! Many thanks for the recognition, AHCJ, and congrats to all of the awardees 🙏

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Every once in a while, I peer back into the world of campaign finance and am amazed to rediscover what a cesspool it remains. The corruption wrought by money in politics is easily one of the most illegitimate features of American politics.

It’s amazing how many bullies become deeply principled pacifists the first time they get punched back.

what doesn't kill u just gives u a very expensive new health insurance tier mybodyistryingtokillme.com

New poll: 55% support impeaching Trump Support for impeachment rivals levels during Donald Trump's first presidency, when he was impeached twice, and for impeaching Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal

Most Americans want Trump impeached. Impeachment polls at +18. These are Watergate numbers. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22...

Exercise advice for long covid may be doing more harm than good Exercise has been touted as a tool for managing and treating long covid, but much of the evidence has neglected one of its most debilitating symptoms: post-exertional malaise

Exercise is always a good thing, right? Well, maybe not. For people with long covid or ME/CFS, it can be devastating. And science needs to catch up (all views my own blah blah blah) www.newscientist.com/article/2523...

"🎶I am the very model of a trained exsanguinarian
🎶My friendships they are legion though my manners are contrarian
🎶I also am augmented in a manner biological
🎶From fontanelle to cuboid bone with metal astronomical"

"🎶I'm very well acquainted too with matters biographical
🎶From Westchester to Madripoor in classes geographical
🎶A stirring, winding saga of provisos and parentheses
(Parentheses)
🎶And many numbered lists about the status of my enemies"

Exactly. Disability justice activists told us from day 1. Knew the history, had receipts. Folks won’t listen.

Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.

1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care.

The judge also blocked "any similar policy."

Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws.

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Number go up Our charts tell the story of oligarchy in overdrive.

AI lobbying is skyrocketing. Meta spent more on lobbying in 2025 than America’s three largest oil and gas companies combined.

By 2030, data centers will consume as much energy as 41 million US homes.

The models are about to be exposed to a lot of naughty word used in contexts they’ve never even hallucinated before.

Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt · 3h Trump, the biggest failed strategist in US history, has plunged America into a strategic catastrophe. During his self-proclaimed “victory parade” against Iran, he squandered at least 45% of the US's precision-guided missile arsenal in just seven weeks—including half of all THAAD missiles and nearly 50% of Patriot interceptor missiles. This isn't some fake news blog reporting this, but CNN, citing a CSIS analysis and internal Pentagon data. The result? An “imminent risk” of munitions depletion should a real conflict erupt in the coming years—for example, with China. Trump has ruined the US defense capability for years to come. And for what? For nothing. No regime change in Iran. No destroyed nuclear program. No strategic breakthrough. Just a shaky ceasefire that gives the mullahs time to rearm while America stands naked. Trump, the great “Art of the Deal” master, has once again only produced hot air – and in doing so, burned through the most expensive and scarce weapons in the USA like a pubescent boy with fireworks.

This seems bad.

And I'm pretty sure our enemies are paying attention.