Trump vs. Earth, by @timdickinson.bsky.social at @contrariannews.org: "For more than half a century, Earth Day has been a moment to mark progress. This year is different."
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To be clear what happened the last couple of days:
Iran refused to hold a second round of talks Trump announced w/o telling him and then, because the ceasefire was set to expire today, Trump unilaterally extended it.
Absolute failure
Justin Sun alleges World Liberty Financial installed tools to prevent sale of his tokens after they became tradeable
US House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer says some panel members are open to Donald Trump pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell to secure her cooperation in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. (Reuters)
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Linux and LibreOffice user here and I love this so much
Food insecurity is one of the biggest issues on college campuses, yet is often invisible, experts say. Almost every college campus in Ohio has a food pantry, but each one is different and a bipartisan bill would create a new hunger-free campus program ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/22/f...
yet another conservative who thinks he can cheat without the opposition fighting back. still more lessons to be learned even after California and Virginia
Just saw this. Another theory. bsky.app/profile/hele...
The US Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, a businessman and art collector who has never served in the military, flew at least twice on Epstein's plane with Jean-Luc Brunel, and got his job by donating millions to Trump's campaign is apparently stepping down. No word on why yet.
"Adam Przeworski has suggested that democracies are systems in which 'parties lose' (presumably incumbent ones specifically). In this sense America’s federal government is still a democracy, as both parties have lost regularly nearly every two years for most of the 21st century so far."
They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files.
Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas.
You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.
Ossoff: "When you throw people off their health insurance and drive up their premiums and gut the Medicaid program in order to cut taxes for the wealthiest people in the country, that's also corruption. That's the corruption that's endemic in our political system and predates Trump."
RETURN OF A "NATURAL" KILLER
Wellness influencers are pushing nicotine patches, gums, lozenges, and pouches to treat Alzheimer's, cancer, Parkinson's disease, "male vitality".
RFK, Jr. openly pops the pouches.
Now a former tobacco executive is joining the CDC
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“A scion of one of the state’s most storied political dynasties, Kean’s team says the two-term congressmember is facing unspecified health issues. The New Jersey Republican hasn’t voted since March 5 and has missed almost 50 roll call votes.” www.politico.com/live-updates...
“We have heard your concerns and we have dismissed them” is basically what NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger says here in response to a question that raised concerns over biased trans coverage. glaad.org/releases/mot...
Truth
What the data shows for certain is that families have been struggling for some time to keep up, and it’s going to get harder for them to do so, especially under President Trump. trib.al/UgMc0zD
“[Families] feel like they’re operating without a net. And you actually do see that in the data."
How desperate do you have to be to post ratings from a TV show from 22 years ago?
The House Ethics Committee released a decade’s worth of investigations into members of Congress.
NOTE: The Senate is even less transparent about misconduct allegations than the House. That should concern folks.
I wouldn't give the coal companies any ideas if I were you Chris 😄
I really want a senator, rather than explaining the math, to just say "We all know what's going on here, Mr. Secretary. Trump said a moronic thing and now everyone in the administration, including you, has to pretend it's real. You know it isn't real. But you can't say that because you're a coward."
Don't miss what the NYT did here to try to spin the VA referendum as an unprincipled move by Dems:
The commonwealth’s voters just gave Democrats four more House seats—and dealt the Orange One a humiliating defeat in a fight he started. trib.al/hWo8PhB
Yes, Virginia!
Yep.
That’s one of the reasons Trump is so hesitant to resume the war, aside from the crippling unpopularity.
Iran has had two weeks to prepare, and the assessment is that Israel and the Gulf States would likely be facing large retaliatory salvos.
For more than 50 years, Earthjustice has delivered landmark victories for clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet — and it’s all possible because of you. #EarthDay
2. Focus on the mission. In 2016, departing from its traditional emphasis on the creation and dissemination of knowledge, Yale expanded its mission statement to include “improving the world today,” educating “aspiring leaders worldwide,” and fostering “an ethical, interdependent, and diverse community.”49 These are all worthy goals. But they are not what makes a university a university. We recommend that Yale adopt a focused university-wide mission statement such as the one currently articulated in its own Faculty Handbook: “Yale University’s mission is to create, disseminate, and preserve knowledge through research and teaching.”50 This statement serves as the basis for the recommendations that follow in this report. At a moment when higher education is being buffeted from all sides, it is imperative to understand what we are here for and what universities do best. That requires clarity, not diffusion, of purpose.
Now a @yale.edu panel fawns over GOP political ops like Buckley Institute and suggests the school drop from its mission “improving the world today” and "fostering an ethical, interdependent, and diverse community."
Make the world worse, unethical homogenous Yalies!
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