Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.
Are we underestimating the economic costs and consequences of Trump’s Iran catastrophe? Rhetorical question. Answer:,Yes. And by a lot.
I’ll support any Dem that moves to kick Palantir off the public dole and out of doing business with the US.
“A small number of extreme users constantly post fringe opinions, which creates the illusion that these views are far more widely held than they really are.”
This is a critical concept.
The most powerful tool for deception today is “selected speech” — billionaires boosting ideas they like…
The world’s richest man and a kid named “big balls” brought 6.7% unemployment to DC, put uniformed Fed troops in the streets and per conservative estimates cut programs that’ll result in the deaths of millions of people: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...
Court documents show President Trump knew he was going to tear down the East Wing at least two months before doing so, but he never told the public.
Read more on what we learned here:
They think you're stupid.
Everyone knows the way you change the Constitution is to have six people in robes make up a new Constitution as they go along.
The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.
Democrats did not step back. We fought back. When they go low, we hit back hard. We won Prop 50 in California, reclaimed a seat in Utah, pushed back extremists in Ohio and halted toxic GOP efforts in Indiana, New Hampshire, Nebraska and Kansas. Tonight, thanks to the relentless work of Virginia Democrats, led by Governor Abigail Spanberger, Speaker Don Scott, State Majority Leader Scott Surovell and President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, “YES” won and Donald Trump lost. Virginians spoke with a crystal-clear voice, voting to stop the MAGA power grab and protect the integrity of free and fair elections. This war is not over. Next week, Ron DeSantis is hauling the Florida legislature back into a special session to redraw maps because Republicans know they are on the verge of an epic defeat in November. DeSantis is clearly more interested in illegal gerrymandering than lowering the high cost of living or fixing our broken healthcare system. Right now, nearly 5 million Floridians are facing higher premiums because Republicans failed to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. If Florida Republicans proceed with this illegal scheme, they will only create more prime pick-up opportunities for Democrats, just as they did with Trump’s dummymander in Texas. We will aggressively target for defeat Mario Díaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills and Brian Mast. We are prepared to take them all on, and we are prepared to win. Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.”
Hakeem Jeffries puts out a FAFO:
"We will aggressively target for defeat Mario Díaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills and Brian Mast....
Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time"
Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.
This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.
Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...
Imagine working for Meta and being told the company is going to spy on you to train your robot replacement
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
These seem like good resources? nlgmltf.org/military-law... and www.court-martial.com/orders-lawfu...
Has any columnist in the U.S. written like this?www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/artic...
Like I said here, “Even if the political climate is not ripe for Trump to be stopped in some way, the urgency is still there.” presswatchers.org/2026/04/acknowledging-tr...
Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."
This is advance warning to every state’s AG. These fringe “conservatives” (radicals) are coming for ballots in every state. The Stop The Steal movement was a pre-cursor to actually stealing elections. Read the whole piece then consider how we fortify polling locations. calmatters.org/investigatio...
They changed the headline from "There is a Contest Trump is Winning" to "‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’".
Trolling, deceptive NYT headline for a column about how “The damage President Trump has inflicted on the United States and the world is so enormous and wide-ranging that it is hard to grasp.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
Israel kills more than 780 Palestinians in Gaza since ceasefire began, ministry says - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-upda...
They not only won’t cancel; they’ve handed the entire event over to the fascists.
Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth are sitting at CBS’ table.
FCC’s Brendan Carr has actually been invited, while he’s trying to take away press freedoms.
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Some historians credit England's better management of scurvy for their defeat of the Spanish Armada
Another reason I kinda wanted to talk about how hard COVID was for so many people: I think recalling those memories is HIGHLY relevant to the vibecession discussion.
Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).
Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.
And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.
Remember this.
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."
How do we turn it off. Hate them all
Truth Social post: "Israel never talked me into the war with Iran, the results of Oct. 7th, added to my lifelong opinion that IRAN CAN NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON, did. I watch and read the FAKE NEWS Pundits and Polls in total disbelief. 90% of what they say are lies and made up stories, and the polls are rigged, much as the 2020 Presidential Election was rigged. Just like the results in Venezuela, which the media doesn’t like talking about, the results in Iran will be amazing - And if Iran’s new leaders (Regime Change!) are smart, Iran can have a great and prosperous future! President DJT"
Attending this year's White House Correspondents Association dinner is a decision to honor this man.
