Jay Bhattacharya falsely accused people of “censoring” him for years — including Stanford Internet Observatory. He has his job because of pretend censorship — he parlayed being a fake victim into a government appointment.

Here he is suppressing a paper because he doesn’t like its conclusions.

The Single Dumbest Conspiracy Theory of 2026 The “disappearing scientists” story is, in its way, a remarkable achievement.

This is worth reading. @engber.bsky.social on the birth of a new conspiracy theory: www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Exclusive: US turns to Ukrainian counter-drone tech after Iran attacks, sources say By David Jeans April 22, 202611:03 AM GMT+1Updated 1 hour ago A damaged U.S. E-3 radar aircraft at Prince Sultan Air Base A damaged U.S. Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control aircraft following an Iranian strike on the airbase, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia in this picture obtained from social media released on March 29, 2026. SOCIAL MEDIA/via REUTERS/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights

Turns out Ukraine not only had some cards, but the US has decided to use them.

😜

www.reuters.com/business/aer...

So Chris Wright isn't wrong about the history of coal.

But, um, either he didn't check the numbers in the scenario **he lobbied for inclusion in the @iea.org's reports**, or he's got a condition he's not telling us about.

A little checking-the-numbers video on Chris Wright's Final Destination:

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

“Even if the actual emissions from these power plants end up being half of the emissions numbers on the permits, they still could create more greenhouse gas emissions than the country of Norway emitted in 2024.”

CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. Photo collage showing smoke and data centers. PHOTO-ILLUSTRATION: WIRED STAFF; GETTY IMAGES New gas projects linked to just 11 data center campuses around the US have the potential to create more greenhouse gases than the country of Morocco emitted in 2024. Emissions estimates from air permit documents examined by WIRED show that these natural gas projects—which are being built to power data centers to serve some of the US’s most powerful AI companies, including OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI—have the potential to emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

"Even if the actual emissions from these power plants end up being half of the emissions numbers on the permits, they still could create more greenhouse gas emissions than the country of Norway emitted in 2024"

Wild new @mollytaft.com @wired.com piece:

www.wired.com/story/new-ga...

When historians write about our era, they will call it "The Stupidest Time in US History."

The "yet" will be understood.

'I know everything': Brazilian model Amanda Ungaro, Paolo Zampolli, and how the Epstein Network Brought Them Both to Trump's White House Flown to New York on Epstein's jet at 17, partnered for two decades with the man who brought Melania to the US, deported before she could post bail after a single phone call to a federal official, Ama...

In 2002 a 17 year old from Londrina, Brazil boarded Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet in Paris and was trafficked to New York. Around 30 girls were on that flight. Ghislaine Maxwell prowled the cabin. Some girls sat on Epstein’s lap. The teenager was Amanda Ungaro.

www.yacnews.com/amanda-ungar...

The Counterterrorism Czar Without a Counterterrorism Plan Amid Trump’s war in Iran and an exodus of intelligence staffers, Sebastian Gorka has asserted that a blueprint for fighting terror threats is “imminent” — but has not released it. Iranian threats have...

“This is the moment for the Trump administration to demonstrate that it recognizes the stakes. In counterterrorism, inattention can be deadly.” @hannahallam.bsky.social

April 20, 2026 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY SUBJECT: Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as Amended, on Domestic Petroleum Production, Refining, and Logistics Capacity [snip] Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (the "Act") (50 U.S.C. 4533), I hereby determine, pursuant to section 303(a)(5) of the Act, that: (1) domestic petroleum production, refining, and logistics capacity, including exploration and production… [snip] Therefore, pursuant to section 303(a)(7) of the Act, I waive the requirements of section 303(a)(1)-(a)(6) of the Act for the purpose of expanding such capability.

In Trump's invocation today of the Defense Production Act (DPA) to aid domestic petroleum production and delivery, he makes three determinations "pursuant to section 303(a)(5) of the Act", then says "pursuant to section 303(a)(7) of the Act, I waive the requirements of section 303(a)(1)-(a)(6)…"

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Palantir's Manifesto Is as Subtle as a MAGA Hat Palantir's 22-point manifesto is nonsense, writes Dave Karpf. But it at least it is short enough to be clarifying, he says.

So much of Silicon Valley has reached the conclusion that there is money to be made from American authoritarianism, writes Dave Karpf. With its ‘manifesto,’ Palantir wants to remind you that it reached that conclusion first, he says.

Trump’s DOJ tried a completely unprecedented legal maneuver to shield Big Oil from a massive climate lawsuit in Hawaii. A federal judge just laughed them out of court. Find out why Exxon and Chevron are panicking today... 🚨👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-is-l...

Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem thought they scored a massive win by coercing tech companies to censor their critics. What happened next backfired spectacularly. Wait until you see the court’s revenge. 👀👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-is-l...

Secretary of War Pete Hegs... # © • 39m The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

Make this make sense.

Underreported that 🇺🇦 has hit over 50%of 🇷🇺 oil refineries. Yet we don't hear anything about the damage to their economy?

Interesting @markjacob.bsky.social point here: Why not more stand-alone stories with heds like "Trump Is Dismantling Democracy"?

"Such a headline would be easy to support with facts that the NYT and other major media report in isolation every day. They’re simply afraid to hit the total button."

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Here in Spain, we are approving and advancing a process to regularise half a million immigrants.

“And I want to say to the Right and the Far Right who oppose this: Spain is the daughter of migration and will not become the mother of xenophobia.”

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.

Victoria Toensing @VicToensing Hubby being sworn in as Counsel to the Attorney General. 4:04 PM · Apr 20, 2026 · 6,199 Views Jason Reding Quiñones, the US Attorney in Miami, swearing in a much shorter Joe DiGenova.

Joe DiGenova, whose wife once solicited payments from foreigners to lie about Joe Biden in 2019, just got sworn in to investigate things those things he lied about in the past.

Over the weekend I laid out why this is so problematic.

emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...

I can think of at least half a dozen people who should be credited with saying similar things for the past decade, so it's hard to give too much credit for originality.
Still, it's good to see broader acceptance to help others get into the fight.

Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump Zelensky has written off the United States.

Phillips P O'Brien: “Using language that would until recently have been unthinkable, Zelensky has indicated that he no longer views the U.S. as a reliable ally and, even more astonishingly, that all of Europe needs to start moving on from the transatlantic relationship”

US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN Head of UN’s humanitarian agency frustrated that $2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets

Not said enough! 🙏

US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The “$2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets…”

Amazing Netanyahu seems to have learned this gambit from Trump (getting an invite by publicly announcing you have an invite, as Trump does every couple of days with Iranian negotiators) without learning that it's invariably self-defeating.

Conclusion I conclude, therefore, that although electronic apparatus can probably paralll! some of tne simpler activities of nerve and spinal cord, for we can already see the parallelism between mechanical feed-backs and Sherringtonian integra- tion, and mayv \et assist us. in understanding better the transmission of the special senses, it still does not take us over the blank wall that confronts us when we come to explore thinking, the ultimate in mind. Nor do I believe that it will do so. I am quite sure that the extreme variety, flexibility, and complexity of nervous mechanisms are greatly underestimated by the physicists, who naturally omit everything unfavourable to a point of view. What I fear is that a great many airy theories will arise in the attempt to persuade us against our better judgment. We have had a hard task to dissuade man from reading qualities of human mind into animals. I see a new and greater danger threatening-that of anthropomorphizing the machine. When we hear it said that wireless valves think, we may despair of language. As well say that the cells in the spinal cord below a transverse lesion "think," a heresy thlat Marshall Hall destroyed 100 years ago. 1 venture

to predict that the day will never dawn when the graciouLs premises of the Royal Society have to be turned into garages to house [he new Fellows. I end-by ranging myself with the humanist Shakespeare rather than the mechanists, recalling Hamlet's lines: "What a piece of work is a man How noble in reason how infinite in faculty; in form, in moving, how express and admirable ! in action, how like an angel ! in apprehension, how like a god ! the beauty of the world ! the paragon of animals ! " In that conclusion, if not always in my approach to it, I feel confident that I should have won the approval of that bold experimenter and noble character in whose remembrance this oration was foLunded.

If a guy named Geoffrey Jefferson can figure this out in 1949...

"The mind of mechanical man." British Medical Journal

doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK

“Good Law Project can reveal that the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation (RSLF) has received…more than 90% of its funding – from Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) since 2023. This private college based in Budapest has close ties to Hungary’s [former] …prime minister, Viktor Orbán.”
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I meant how many 'normal people' will be wrongly accused, not how many of the tech broligarchs will be held accountable

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Because I recently retired from a career in data integration, I always call out Thiel's psychopathic lack of concern for data quality. The lawsuit needs to find out how many people will be wrongly accused.

Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database Agencies are reportedly pooling immigration data, Social Security numbers, and more into a central database. FPF is suing to learn how deep it goes.

Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database
Agencies are pooling immigration data, Social Security numbers, and more into a central database. FPF is suing to learn far it goes.
If thos happens, your personal information will be used to help trump.
theintercept.com/2026/03/17/g...