Air Canada will suspend flights to JFK for nearly 5 months as jet fuel costs soar Air Canada will suspend service to New York’s JFK International airport over the summer, the latest move in an industry struggling with high fuel costs and falling supplies.

Air Canada will suspend flights to JFK for nearly 5 months as jet fuel costs soar

Ok to explain why this is important:
1) doing this under cover of exercise confirms what a lot of folks have thought: larger exercises are precursors for an invasion
2) it reveals a confidence in PLA SOF not previously seen in public
3) makes deterrence even harder if operators are already on ground

Ukraine brings back nearly 20 children from Russian-occupied territories over past week "Each of them has endured pressure, intimidation, and attempts to undermine their identity. Today, they are finally safe," a statement read.

⚡️Ukraine brings back nearly 20 children from Russian-occupied territories, Russia over past week.

"Each of them has endured pressure, intimidation, and attempts to undermine their identity. Today, they are finally safe," a statement read.

Absolutely

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said.

I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

@disabilitystor1.bsky.social

oh goody this one is gendered female

and named after the history of science’s Patron Saint of Having Your Work Ripped Off and Unrecognized By Dudes

So at the risk of maybe overreading this and making an educated guess, I think I can guess what specifically Wyden is talking about.

I think it's about use of AI (LLMs) by FBI to surveil American communications without a warrant

Russia uses video games to recruit kids Russia has turned the internet into another battlefield. From messengers to game servers, its agents try to shake Ukraine from the inside by luring youth into serious crimes.

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

Russia targets Ukrainian kids online. Security trainer Vasyl Filonenko teaches children to spot and avoid Russian online traps.

Prominent leftists are mourning the Soviet demise, so let me re-share this article and stress why, imo, we're misinterpreting the 1990s economic crisis. Conceptualizing 1991 as collapse instead of liberation helps them to twist it into a tragedy narrative.
www.eurozine.com/liberation-n...

Ukraine's Deep-Strike Drone Campaign Against Russian Oil Infrastructure How Ukraine is systematically degrading Russian energy export capacity — and what it means for the war

Maybe not an inflection point, but a remarkable moment. "By some estimates, Ukraine launched more long-range drone strikes than Russia [in March], employing over 7,000 systems, some reaching as deep as 1,500 kilometers into Russian territory." missilematters.substack.com/p/ukraines-d...

Exclusive: Pentagon ramps up planning of possible military ops in Cuba Pentagon plans for a possible Cuba operation have accelerated as officials prepare for a potential order from Donald Trump, USA TODAY has learned.

The Anti-War President prepares to invade his third country and/or bomb his eleventh.

In 15 months.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...

On April 15, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear

Despite the administration’s rhetoric and bogus legal theories, the supposed armed conflict with “narco-terrorists” appears to be entirely make believe.

Murder is the general term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, nobody makes this argument vis a vis the Bengali famine (that is, arguing that anyone who brings up unpleasant facts about Churchill is a Holocaust denier). Which really gives the game away that the point is Stalinist apologia.

I said this before and I will say it again: if you have a disputed status, do not fly at all, the Mobile Fortify database used by ICE and CPB, is built on the pre-existing TSA database. And if I were the Democrats: I would refuse to appropriate DHS through regular order until 2028.

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.

But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

The heavens are testing me again to not spew venom at Americans who say the most psychotic things about Eastern Europe you've ever seen.

Hungarian Prime Minister-designate Péter Magyar is going for the jugular immediately.

The price will continue to rise until demand matches supply. The only thing eliminating the gas tax does is make sure none of that final price goes to the government

Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting. She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said. ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities. After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

If you zeroed out the entire defense budget and put it to other things, setting aside how much of that is payroll and healthcare costs which would have to be offset (like ~30%), you would have enough additional money to.......double the annual Medicare spend, and nothing else

Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.

'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

Last week, a worker one of Amazon's Portland area facilities died on the warehouse floor. Employees were told to look away and keep working.

A new story by @ryanjhaas.bsky.social for @thewesternedge.bsky.social - reporting this news first.

www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-i...

No infantry: For first time, Ukraine captured Russian position using only drones and robots Such systems conducted 22,000 missions in three months.

For the first time in this war, Ukraine captured a Russian position without a single soldier crossing open ground. Drones and robots did it alone

Ground robots have completed 22,000 missions in three months euromaidanpress.com/2026/04/13/n...

Well, at least the missiles were used for...killing children?

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/w...

Photo of an old-ish beige European building with a cobbelstone street in front

Thanks for sharing! The piece in there on sequence analysis in molecular genetics was written by my grandfather, who also worked with Ulam on the H-bomb. And should you ever find yourself in Lviv, you can still go to a restaurant in the same location as the Scottish Cafe discussed there.

Hormuz Strait closure could have ‘profound’ mining impact: Friedland With about 50% of the global seaborne sulphur supply cut off, the markets are becoming extremely tight, the Ivanhoe founder said.

Closure of the Strait of Hormuz has cut off access to 40% of the world’s sulfur. That sulfur is used to make sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid that is used in mining for refining metals (and a lot is also used to make fertilizer).

www.mining.com/prolonged-ho...

The earliest one listed is "Pius XII and the Holocaust."

Mind you, for a thousand years, Popes were actual political rulers, and for much of that time they were involved in the selection or deposing of some of the most powerful crowned heads of Europe. Then for sixty years...

Remember when Trump threatened to wipe out a whole civilization? And then backed out of that and talked about forming a deal with Iran? And then dropped that and went to a UFC fight as negotiations fell apart? And then unveiled a triumphal arch and a photo of himself as Jesus?

That was this week.