Opinion | This is the scariest question about Putin — and Trump The Russian president's back is to the wall. That makes him more dangerous.

Russia's defense ministry warned it could strike European countries that supply drones to Ukraine...Germany, Britain, Sweden, Italy & the Netherlands. Europeans should check “addresses & locations” of companies supplying these drones, Russia growled. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Trump’s fixation on White House ballroom is increasing, Post analysis finds The president has publicly highlighted his ballroom project on roughly a third of the days this year.

according to a WaPo analysis of his public remarks & social media posts, he has mentioned the project on fewer days this year than topics such as tariffs and Iran but on about as many days as he has mentioned health insurance and “affordability.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

France is switching from Microsoft to Linux

"We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."

Péter Magyar victory speech:

"We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others."

He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

At a packed Budapest metro station, crowds of Hungarians are chanting: “Russia, go home.”

It’s our turn now. #Vote

The most complex part of Obama's Iran negotiations were (reportedly) on the nature, structure and limits of inspections and verifications.

Because there was no trust, the US needed a lot of "enforcement" (verification) to ensure Iran really wasn't enriching Uranium to weapon's grade.

a man with a beard is sitting in a chair . ALT: a man with a beard is sitting in a chair .

Very Ukrainian accent:

"Oh Mr Vance, is it hard to negotiate peace?

Is it difficult to come to a deal when both sides have fundamentally irreconcilable positions on key issues?

Does not being able to trust your counterparty make things tricky?

Why do you hate peace, Mr Vance?"

Trump Struts Around UFC Cage Match as Vance Flees Peace Talks While the president smiled ringside in Miami, the vice president shared that peace talks had collapsed in Islamabad.

The split screen of Trump and Rubio strutting around a professional wrestling match as Vance announces he's quitting negotiations with the Iranians without any agreement would lead any observer to conclude that Trump was never serious about peace talks.

Trump slammed for attending a UFC fight while Vance was negotiating with Iran last night. Negotiations have failed.🤷🏾‍♀️

When I was a freshman at Harvard I remember getting a training about how to avoid a cult and the two main pieces of advice is beware of people who try to control your money or cut you off from friends and family. I thought this was silly. But Epstein was around Cambridge simultaneously.👀‼️

Trump & Orban have a lot in common, They both are enthralled by Vladimir Putin and are far-right grifters. And of the first major chinks in Orban’s armor was a scandal involving the sexual abuse of minors. Similarly, it’s starting to look like the Epstein scandal might bring down Trump yet. #Amanda

THIS.

One of the things that absolutely disgusts me re: Epstein case (reported in FL newspapers in 2000s) -

his lawyers worked to discredit girls/very young women.

You can read later emails among US attorneys asking how best to shield girls bc lawyers were showing up ON THEIR COLLEGE CAMPUSES.

I would add that until you read the Epstein files and see how a guy can be guilty with literally hundreds of victims and dozens of testimonies of victims in literal repeated child rape, then see his consequences get whittled down to "13 months and I get to rape more kids besides", shut up...

The U.S. Attorney Who Should Have Investigated Jeffrey Epstein for Sexually Abusing 16-Year-Old Annie Farmer in 1996 in New Mexico Was Epstein's Personal POA for Zorro Ranch.🤯😠😡

US has let in 4,499 refugees since October - all but three were South African Trump has given priority to Afrikaners, a white minority group he says is being persecuted. South Africa has objected to his characterisation.

TrumpUnfit!

In the last year of the Biden administration, 125,000 people were accepted from 85 countries.

Last year, Trump halted all refugee admissions, including for applicants from warzones, but allowed Afrikaners, a white minority group he said was persecuted www.bbc.com/news/article...

Flip Chris Taylor Wisconsin Supreme Court

BREAKING: Judge Chris Taylor just FLIPPED a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court!

She has dedicated her career to protecting the rights of all people, and is ready to bring that same dedication to Wisconsin’s highest court and strengthen the pro-freedom, pro-democracy majority.

Hey, FIFA! You need to cancel all World Cup games scheduled to be played in the United States and redistribute those games to be played either in Canada or in Mexico. The US must be sanctioned!

#StopTrump

Gift link.

Germany Power Prices Turn Deeply Negative on Renewables Surge Germany’s power prices slid on Easter Monday as a surge in renewable energy collided with unusually weak demand, sending electricity costs to deeply negative levels.

I'm not good at math, is negative low?

‘Definitely a Sham’: As Tariffs Climb, Trade Fraud and Accounting Tricks Proliferate

If companies declare that their shipment is worth $50k rather than $100k, “you just cut your tariff bill in half,” he said.

Ryan Petersen flexport.bsky.social said he'd seen a surge in activity very likely facilitating this. “We’re seeing just total, rampant fraud.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

In Syria, Kidnappings of Women and Girls Fuel a Minority Group’s Fears

Syria: Many fear that their sect is being targeted as retribution for the brutality of Mr. al-Assad, who also belongs to the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

The government has denied that Alawite women & girls are being targeted by kidnappers
FREE article: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

Are you guys aware that ICE is funded through September 2029? That’s why a partial government shut down won’t affect them and why they’ll now be doing domestic terrorism at airports. None of this stuff is legitimate. It’s all illegal and unconstitutional. Don’t ever get confused about it.

The far right always ends up siding with Russia

h/t to @adammockler.com for pointing out this gem from 2016.

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash.

ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to.

The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty.

Budgets are moral documents.

All you need to know how bad this is for working people is that Rupert Murdoch’s editorial board loves the anti-union bill in Florida.

Florida Panthers, An Endangered Species In Limbo Nearly six decades after the Florida panther was initially recognized as a species heading towards extinction, state and federal wildlife officials continue to struggle to recover the big cats.

The revival of the #Florida panther marks the most dramatic comeback of an endangered species in U.S. history. But now those gains are jeopardized by new development. My new story for National Parks Traveler: www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2026/03/flor... via @parkstraveler.bsky.social

Quite a nice story by Alex. A few times every year you get the feeling that living in Boston is a special sort of experience. I'm not saying a newspaper in Baltimore or Houston wouldn't have a story like this, but one comes to *expect* it here...very touching (while making your blood boil).