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Disqualifying

89 candles would have set off the sprinklers, so we settled for one — and one perfect slice of cake (with @bradtakei.bsky.social on ice cream duty). Thank you to every friend, fan, and fellow traveler who has made these 89 years such a joyous voyage.

Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 300% Allbirds announced a deal with American Exchange Group to sell its intellectual property and other assets for $39 million in March.

I simply refuse to take the U.S. business community seriously

Opinion Editorial Board America’s income tax is progressive The rich already pay more than their fair share

Unbelievable stuff from the Washington Post on behalf of Jeff Bezos today.

Yeah that will definitely save them from their sinking ship. These GOP morons are so up Trump’s ass that they forgot who elected them in the first place.

By the way - 4 months have passed since the deadline and they still haven’t released the Epstein Files.

> @themaxburns.bsky.social

Long term gain will be seeing your cowardly republican party wiped out in the midterms asshole.

Donald Trump’s America Is Deeply Unwell, and It’s Time to Say So As Trump reveals his unfitness in stark new ways, a political theroist argues that our election of this man to the presidency twice should prompt deep introspection about what we’ve become.

"Trump presided over catastrophic mismanagement of a global pandemic. Then he led an insurrection. And then we put him back in power again...that's damning."

On the pod, @aselrod.bsky.social is great on what Trump's colossal unfitness says about our country:
newrepublic.com/article/2089...

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We’ve hit the icarus stage of Trump’s presidency

photo of pope leo on a plane holding a baseball bat

say i’m weak one more time, say it, SAY IT MOTHERFUCKER

Orban, Bolsonaro, Trump, and all the rest of these goons want you to believe they are inevitable and, once in power, invincible. They are not.

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(AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán conceded defeat on Sunday after what he called a ″painful″ election result, ending 16 years in power for a powerful figure in the far-right movement allied with U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

apnews.com/article/hung...

Asha Bhosle, the voice of Bollywood, has died aged 92 The Bollywood legend was one of the world's most recorded artists — who, by her own reckoning, made more than 12,000 songs.

The Bollywood legend was one of the world's most recorded artists — who, by her own reckoning, made more than 12,000 songs. n.pr/4vqsi9U

Asha Bhosle - Dum Maro Dum (1971, Video) YouTube video by Asha Bhosle Italy

RIP Asha Bhosle - one of the great Bollywood singers of all time. Check out this funk track from 1971 with pumping bass.

Let me tell you something about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, make some soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

Good morning from F Scott Fitzerald

Notice how the most celebrated and successful space mission in *decades* was run by at least 50% “DEI hires”—not all white men? And not even all Americans. Maybe diversity *is* strength . . .

😭It’s even worse than @atrupar.com says

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The top part of the Moon is illuminated. The gray cratered surface stands out against the blackness of space. The Earth appears in the far distance as an upside-down crescent moon shape. There is some lens flare in the top part and center of the image. Credit: NASA

okay i change my mind, THIS is one of the best and most beautiful images from artemis ii

This Ben Sasse sitdown is harrowing.

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/o...

Approaching the one-year anniversary this weekend:

@atrupar.com

Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️

5D chess, amirite?

I predicted someone like Trump many years ago, in THE DEAD ZONE. So now I'm saying this--in the next 12-16 months, we're going to find out if the two machines for the removal of a man unable to fulfill his duties actually work. They are impeachment and the 25th amendment. He is deeply unwell .

“Worse than Nixon”

URGENT: Call your Senators now, (202) 224-3121 - we the People must stop Trump - it is a war crime threatening to destroy a civilization! REMOVE THIS INSANE MAN NOW - Demand articles of impeachment now! This is crucial. SILENCE IS COMPLICITY! We are not safe!