Let @dansinker.com know when you want whistles.

Breaking news: Moldovan oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc, who ruled the country from the shadows in 2016-19, has received a 19-year prison sentence for bank fraud, money laundering, creating and leading a criminal organisation

www.zdg.md/stiri/ultima...

When they received the call to respond to an Israeli airstrike in the city of Mayfadoun, in southern Lebanon, most of the paramedics held back, having previously seen colleagues killed by double-tap attacks targeting rescuers. But the medics from the Islamic Health Association (IHA) rushed to the scene. By the time the other emergency workers arrived at the site, they found the IHA medics had indeed been caught in a second strike. They started evacuating their wounded colleagues, only for their ambulances to be hit in two further attacks. One of the paramedics covered his ears and screamed, convulsing in pain as shrapnel shattered the back window of the ambulance. The rescue mission on Wednesday afternoon had turned into a nightmare as Israel carried out three consecutive strikes on three sets of ambulances and medical workers.

Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics.

Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

There's no legal basis for these boat strikes, and US officials involved in them should be prosecuted for attempted murder and murder. The OLC memo green-lighting the strikes is still secret, but there's nothing it could say that would make these strikes lawful. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

QUICK! While the Hungarian guy is out, but before the Bulgarian guy comes in!

Ok then

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges Todd Blanche announces 11-count indictment over payments to informants in extremist groups including Ku Klux Klan

So, first the Trump DOJ diverts law enforcement resources away from monitoring white supremacist extremism. And then targets one of the organizations most committed to monitoring the white extremist threat. Message received. Loud and clear.

Two faces of death: fatalities from disease and combat in America's principal wars, 1775 to present Vincent J Cirillo. Perspect Biol Med. 2008 Winter. Show details Full text links Cite ••• Abstract Throughout America's first 145 years of war, far more of the country's military personnel perished from infectious diseases than from enemy action. This enduring feature of war was finally reversed in World War Il, chiefly as a result of major medical advances in prevention (vaccines) and treatment (antibiotics). Safeguarding the health of

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18192771/

This is just about America’s wars, in which disease killed far more soldiers than combat until vaccines changed that in World War II. But this has been true for all of mankind’s wars, going back to Mesopotamia.

Does anyone know who is responsible for this page tracking LLM-linked deaths? It seems like a useful resource for tracking this stuff. llmdeathcount.com

Feel like it should be a bigger story that Howard Lutnick's firm (run by his kids) created a financial product to buy up tariff refund claims at a major discount, and will now be cashing in on the higher costs passed onto consumers.

Oy

Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detection CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.

TIL from @lyz.bsky.social that Dominique Pelicot isn't "that guy who drugged and SA his wife for online jollies," he's "one of those guys who." Dudes rock. www.cnn.com/interactive/...

What a coincidence. Newly released bodycam video shows Chicago cop waited 90 seconds to check on the partner he'd just shot. She died.

Wall plaque with five long narrow columns of text reading "Jane Doe" repeated up and down the wall. A flower arrangement is set in front of it.

Wall of Jane Does - memorial to the thousands of women who died of illegal abortions (1989)
Photo: Owen Brewer / Center for Sacramento History

Addiction isn’t a moral judgment — it’s a security clearance nightmare.

If you can’t master your own demons, you have no business running the FBI or the Pentagon.

Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth are liabilities, not leaders. Suspend them and investigate. Immediately.

In Chicago today—what was supposed to be a simple off-street cleaning at Eugene Field in Albany Park turned into an encampment sweep that lasted for hours.

City workers destroyed two unhoused residents’ belongings and shelter.

Worse than murdering children and aid workers apparently.

If you want to destroy my sweater . . .

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

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

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Spanish PM Sánchez (Socialist Party) announces that this Tuesday the Spanish Government will bring to Europe the proposal that the European Union break its association agreement with Israel: "That government that violates International Law cannot be a partner of the European Union"

This is ... not new

He’s the grandson of one of the most famous architects of the 20th century. He went to Hotchkiss.

Post the wins.

This might be a bigger win than it appears.

I can't help connecting this to ICE buying up every empty warehouse to turn into a Gulag, and local politicians denying them water, power, sewer access.

Argh.

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Locked in his office, Pete Hegseth pours a sixth bourbon, giggles, and turns another page of the Atlantic.

Gotta love their stylish calling cards, though.