Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.
When I covered Trump's tariffs, I discovered that orange crops have cratered in FL.
This explains all the reasons--disease, climate change, overspraying, finance--why.
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Did not miss any of these (tho admit the Whiskey Pete thing didn't make it far beyond FT), but strongly applaud this kind of summarizing.
It's REALLY hard to keep up with all the corruption. Really hard.
One reason that we cannot have professional diplomats representing the interests of the United States is that it would disrupt a pattern of personal enrichment for the Presidents allies and families.
Todd Blanche Puts Dmitry Firtash's Onetime Lawyer In Charge of Criminalizing the Russian Investigation
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“Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now ***
WIRED tracked down some of the most prominent figures of last year’s DOGE invasion. Here's where they are now—in government and beyond.” 4/16/26 www.wired.com/story/where-...
Congratulations to "Squeezed Light: Breaking the Quantum Limit" on its success in the Physics on Film Festival
AWARD! In the first festival for our new @ligo.org film, “Squeezed Light: Breaking the Quantum Limit,” we won the Finalist Award for Best Documentary at the Physics on Film festival in London TOMORROW! And it’s on the program with INTERSTELLAR!! 🧪 #LIGO
Orbán rode to power on resentment over the economic stagnation that developed under center-left governments. But he leaves office with Hungarians facing falling wages and higher inflation than similar countries are experiencing. Orbán’s sectarianism and intolerance have sparked neither a religious revival nor a fertility bump; Hungary’s population is shrinking and has become more irreligious, even as Orbán has demonized LGBTQ people, “Muslim invaders,” and Jews. Orbánism, in short, did not make Hungarians more rich, Christian, or free—unless you happened to be one of Orbán’s buddies, in which case you may have gotten rich. As most Hungarians felt their economic circumstances worsen, Orbán provided them with relatively powerless targets to hate.
Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The AMOC is the current that keeps Europe’s climate significantly milder than N America at the same latitudes, and that supports the marine ecosystem (i.e., fishing) of the N American Atlantic coast.
A collapse would be catastrophic.
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As a result of our lawsuit, guards at "Alligator Alcatraz" are required to allow people detained at the facility to call their lawyers, in accordance with the Constitution.
Yet when our clients asserted their right to access phones, guards brutally beat them. ICE must be held accountable.
As someone who was in the FBI while the investigations were ongoing, and who now works at @lawfaremedia.org I cannot overemphasize how thorough the site’s coverage of the events truly was — and is.
Again, every Democrat needs to brand their COLLEAGUES with this failure too.
The Republican Party, from top to bottom, are giving adjudged terrorists the ability to rearm.
The GOP is pro-terrorist and need to be called on it.
The staff writer Anne Applebaum explains why Viktor Orbán’s loss in Hungary is a turning point for world politics; the Hungarian journalist Veronika Munk shares her view from the streets of Budapest.
Listen to “Radio Atlantic”:
Film poster for “Squeezed Light: Breaking the Quantum Limit”
AWARD! In the first festival for our new @ligo.org film, “Squeezed Light: Breaking the Quantum Limit,” we won the Finalist Award for Best Documentary at the Physics on Film festival in London this coming weekend. And it’s on the program with INTERSTELLAR!!
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Your regular reminder that Trump v. United States’ grant of criminal immunity to presidents is an embarrassment and an insult…
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Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.
King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
My father, Ed Guthman, won a Pulitzer Prize the same year as a young reporter at @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social for exposing the same lies, but by a “McCarthy” committee in the Washington State legislature.
"An Ember report published this morning shows the impact of solar and wind generation [in the UK] saw savings of £700 million a day during the conflict in the Middle East." (Via Solar Power Portal)
Mayor Mamdani listens through headphones as a DEP employee demonstrates a leak detection tool.
Mayor Mamdani stands near an open water pipe while DEP employees explain the leak detection process.
For my last stop, a little after 1 AM, I met with the DEP Leak Detection team. They listen to the city’s pipes, block by block, to catch leaks before they become major breaks.
Poster of the Physics in Film Festival at the Institute of Physics in London April 18
What a special honor to have the first showing of our new @ligo.org film “Squeezed Light” on the program with “INTERSTELLAR” at the @iop.org Physics on Film Festival in London April 18. @mitphysics.bsky.social 🧪
Feynman diagrams, path integrals, and electron orbitals all made clear.
#BrianCoxTalks #STEM #Universe #AmazonAffiliate #ad #paidlink
The federal government is defying court orders in immigration habeas cases.
Lawfare's new interactive tracker, updated regularly by @katherinepomps.bsky.social, documents what is known—and what still remains unclear—about government non-compliance in habeas corpus proceedings.
NEW: "If they don't make a deal and fast, I'm considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil," President Trump told me. President Trump added that he believes he'll be able to get a deal with Iran by tomorrow.
Trump to Fox News: "If they don't make a deal and fast, I'm considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil.”
New York’s memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto of WW2 Riverside Park along the Hudson River
As Trump tries to destroy NATO and Israel invades Southern Lebanon, while seizing the West Bank, after bombing Gaza back to the Stone Age, New York’s lovely, if hidden, memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto in WW2 blooms in Riverside Park. A poignant reminder of their betrayal.
Poster of the Physics in Film Festival at the Institute of Physics in London April 18
What a special honor to have the first showing of our new @ligo.org film “Squeezed Light” on the program with “INTERSTELLAR” at the @iop.org Physics on Film Festival in London April 18. @mitphysics.bsky.social 🧪
This is getting worse, faster, than any other event in my lifetime.
And:
-100% self-inflicted, by Trump.
-99% foreseeable, by everyone except Hegseth and Trump.
I highly recommend putting this NASA #Artemis II mission livestream on and just leaving it playing as you go about your weekend. Live views of the spacecraft, occasional visualizations of the current config, views of the control room, space-ground radio audio. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...
It is probably asking too much for the lardasses at Post Opinion to do actual reporting, especially after Bezos eviscerated the newsroom’s foreign staff.
So here’s a @nickkristof.bsky.social piece from last year about the devastation wrought by the DOGE cutbacks
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