lovely pup

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.”

two adult cats regard a quarantined kitten through a glass door

kitten has to isolate until after vaccinations, but the other two are very interested

Breaking Free From Alex Jones A former Infowars employee on radicalization, lies, and getting out

I say this a lot but today’s pod is worth your time. It’s with Josh Owens who worked for Alex Jones/Infowars for 4 years in the 2010s. It’s a conversation about how the conspiracy machine works from inside, about radicalization and, crucially, about the hard, unscalable work of deradicalization

Italian government to Trump…

The Banality of MAGA-fication A new book by an unremarkable Republican accidentally illuminates the devolution of the party.

A new book by an unremarkable Republican accidentally illuminates the process of GOP self-radicalization. Jonathan Chait explains how the mainstream went MAGA in two easy steps:

Been quite the week for JD Vance - he's managed to ensure the fall of Viktor Orban and then confirmed Iran's control of the Straits of Hormuz. Poor chap needs a day off.

Nikita Bier & @nikitabier X.com All aggregators had their payouts reduced to 60% this cycle. We will add another 20% deduction in the next cycle. It became abundantly clear: flooding the timeline with 100 stolen reposts and clickbait everyday crowded-out real creators and hurt new author growth. The next step is to assign a permanent deduction to habitual bait posters who use 66 BREAKING"on every post. X will never infringe on speech or reach— but we will not compensate for manipulation of the program or our users. 2:18 PM • 4/11/26 • 3.3M Views

lmfao

Since we’ve stumbled backwards into a naval strategy and this is getting reskeeted, I want to clarify: 1) Best option was not to start the war in the first place; 2) this is the least bad option now: 3) it still might not work!

One thing that hasn‘t seemed to sink in, or been adequately accounted for, is that the U.S. occupied two countries on either side of Iran—one for two decades—and they‘ve been able to watch how we work, up close, during that time.

"i could probably pilot a ship through the straight of hormuz" -next big thing 80% of men secretly believe about themselves

The American military can deploy a fully operational Burger King within 16 hours so I see why he thought they were more effective than they ended up being

It must be almost boring to Putin, the way he’s able to play this oaf like a cheap fiddle

I feel like this is maybe not the combination of traits we want in the guy running the biggest AI company in the world

You never miss professional diplomats until they're gone

this was a bad idea from people that are unbelievably high off their own supply

see Cheryl Rofers excellent post on the practicalities bsky.app/profile/cher...

“Ceasefire” update

1. This war is obviously a downstream consequence of the deprofessionalization of U.S. foreign policy — which has been amply chronicled by @profsaunders.bsky.social, as well as discussed in @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social and my “Age of Kleptocracy” article in @foreignaffairs.com

Trump to discuss leaving NATO in meeting with Rutte: White House US President Donald Trump will discuss the possibility of leaving NATO when he meets with the alliance's chief Mark Rutte on Wednesday, the White House said, accusing Washington's partners of "turning...

Could be huge, could be nothing, who knows.

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Over a hundred registered so far, but there’s still room!

Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news

Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts The OpenAI CEO reportedly confuses basic coding and machine learning terms, numerous insiders have admitted.

"I think there's a small but real chance he's eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer."

Nobody assumes the CEO of Toyota must be some sort of brilliant engineer, but we have for some reason developed this collective notion that being a successful tech CEO must make you a tech genius.

I think Bibi has pitched joint strikes on Iran to every US president since the 90s. Only one president was stupid enough to listen.

What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses? Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists

Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right

Well worth a read
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

Artemis ll is fake and gay. The crew are being sequestered in some ritzy hotel, ready for their make up team to make them look skanky for the staged scenes where they are recovered from the ocean. Then they'll lie for the press conference. And hate themselves for ever after.

Meanwhile, Boris Johnson's former best friend and Spectator journalist, James Delingpole, is speculating on Artemis 2 being fake.

Quite how he still has a career is something of a mystery.

Edinburgh Live removes ‘racist’ ads after reader backlash Promoted posts about ‘rich immigrants’ are taken down from Edinburgh Live website after complaints the ads were ‘racist’ and ‘encouraging division’

Reach website Edinburgh Live has removed several "racist" adverts about immigration that came via a "partner's automated programmatic advertising" and said it is taking steps to improve its guardrails www.edinburghminute.com/edinburgh-li...