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Kevin Warsh wants to lead America’s central bank.

Why does he have more than $100 million in undisclosed assets?

Pentagon press briefings now include:
• Bible passages
• Comparisons of journalists to enemies of Jesus
• Monthly Christian-only prayer services led by the SecDef
This is not normal. This is a theocracy.

ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”

Nine chances to lower health care premiums. Nine votes against it.

Missouri's murder rate is 73% HIGHER than California’s.

No amount of right-wing spinning can change reality: our state is investing in prevention, enforcement, and is holding criminals accountable.

The U.S. Senator from Missouri should fix his own failed policies before lecturing us.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Just War Doctrine.

Salty, Oily Drinking Water Left Sores in Their Mouths. Oklahoma Refused to Find Out Why. State regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to fin...

Oklahoma regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water.

But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to find the culprit — then closed the case.

(Published Feb. with @readfrontier.bsky.social)

Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detection CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.

www.cnn.com/interactive/...

This is beyond disturbing; I suppose I assumed, or maybe hoped, that Gisèlle Pelicot’s situation was unique. Now I wonder if it’s happening to the women around me. Or to me.

Tarantino might be better than Hegseth, worth considering

Pete Hegseth was 14 when Pulp Fiction came out and I’m sure he thought it was the coolest thing ever and consumed it exactly like a modestly able 14 year old

A Pillar of the Economics Establishment Admits That It Was Wrong In a new report, the World Bank thinks better of its old free-market absolutism.

“Government intervention, when done right, can actually be an essential ingredient of economic success. Industrial policy “should be considered in the national policy toolkit of all countries,” — The World Bank finally wakes up from stupor of stupidity.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

When CEOs claim innocence based on ignorance, we must question why they are paid so much … too often ‘having what it takes to lead’ actually means ‘having what it takes’ to abuse the trust of the stakeholders, employees, contractors, and customers. Willful ignorance = incompetence.

Opinion | A Stunning New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality

The boss said he didn’t know he was paying terrorists- A Stunning New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/o...

With everyone watching Iran, the Trump administration is still quietly carrying out extrajudicial killings at sea. Since September, at least 178 people have been killed in U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.
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It’s the spoils system, even though we outlawed that. Where is Congress, where is the oversight? Let me repeat… where is the oversight?

Opinion | A Stunning New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality

A Stunning New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/o...
It’s Time to bring true corporate accountability to the US too

Book titled The Christian Past That Wasn’t

Glad to see this important book from my old pal @wthrockmorton.bsky.social, who I got to know fighting US Christian right backing for Uganda’s “kill the gays” bill. Warren, a conservative Christian teaching at a Christian college, was a hero. He’s been fighting the good fight ever since.

‘He Just Lied to America’: Russ Vought Denies Violating Impoundment Laws, Prompting Sharp Response Despite his central role in the Trump administration, Office of Management and...

“They absolutely impounded. He just lied to America,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, told TPM in response to Vought’s remarks.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/he-just...

Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...

In February 2025 alone, the DOJ dropped nearly 11,000 cases — the most in a month since at least 2004.

The previous high was just over 6,500 cases in September 2019, during Trump’s first administration.

WATCH: Sen. Merkley questions OMB chief Vought in Trump budget hearing Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Fellow Americans - it is worth your time to hear Senator Merkley about the proposed budget

It does not matter what party you are from, the budget affects us all - and this one is astronomically high

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Opinion | We Are Gambling Away Our Future

"Putting it all together, and we’ve devised a grim reality for younger Americans. If you want to watch porn or place a prop bet, the wind is at your back. If you want to go to college or start a business, the wind is in your face." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/o...

Historical Moments When Stocks Soared Right Before the Market Crashed—and When You Should Worry Market history reveals a pattern: euphoric gains, excessive leverage, narratives about this being a new era, followed by sudden shocks. Learn the warning signs for when rallies turn to crashes.

www.investopedia.com/when-stocks-...

A rising stock market average does NOT mean that no crash is coming — please stop pointing to rises in the stock market as meaningful insight into underlying market stability

This quote from Gingrich about politics seems to apply to Trump as well: “It probably attracts those who in part get their ego needs from a larger audience because they’re too frightened to get it from a smaller audience” (from John M. Barry’s The Ambition and the Power, p. 162)

A black-and-white studio portrait of Josephine Baker (1906–1975), the legendary American-born French dancer, singer, actress, and civil rights activist who became one of the most celebrated performers in Europe during the Jazz Age. In this iconic, high-contrast photograph, she is captured in a dynamic, theatrical pose radiating exuberance and glamour: reclining slightly against a dark curved backdrop, she leans back with one arm gracefully raised and bent behind her head, fingers lightly touching her hair, while her body twists toward the camera with joyful abandon. Her face turns to the right of the viewer with a wide, radiant smile revealing bright teeth and sparkling eyes enhanced by dramatic stage makeup. She wears an extravagant, voluminous white feather costume—a massive swirling boa of long soft plumes that cascades dramatically across her shoulders, chest, and arms as if caught mid-dance—paired with a matching oversized feathered headdress and an ornate headpiece of small white flowers or jewels crowning her sleek dark hair. The overall composition is bold and energetic, with strong diagonal lines created by the flowing feathers and her angled pose, the lighting emphasizing the texture of every plume and the smooth tone of her skin against the deep black background. The mood is one of unapologetic joy, sensuality, confidence, and show-stopping charisma, powerfully symbolizing Baker’s groundbreaking rise from humble beginnings to international stardom as a trailblazing Black woman who shattered racial and cultural barriers on stage while using her fame to champion civil rights.

American/French dancer, singer & actress Josephine Baker died #OTD in 1975.

DYK: In Nazi-occupied France, Baker was a French Resistance operative. She used her celebrity status to gather intel on German troop movements & smuggled the information using invisible ink on sheet music.😮

#WWII #histsky

“Join with us in choosing hope over fear, democracy over authoritarianism, the rule of law, lawlessness, ethics over unbridled corruption. Resistance over complacency, truth over lies, unity over division, and peace over war.”
-Bruce Springsteen in Los Angeles

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A black-and-white vintage portrait of a young Dr. Fayza Haikal in her graduation regalia. She is smiling softly at the camera, with short, voluminous dark wavy hair. She wears a dark academic gown with a striped sash in the colors of the Egyptian flag (red, white, and black) draped across her shoulder and chest. The background consists of dark, vertically pleated curtains, creating a formal and timeless atmosphere.

A close-up, chest-up portrait of Dr. Fayza Haikal, a pioneering Egyptian Egyptologist. She is an older woman with a warm, beaming smile, looking slightly off-camera. She has short, dark brown hair and wears rectangular rimless glasses and a bright lime green and white vertically striped collared shirt under a dark jacket. The background is softly blurred, showing a warm, indoor setting with books on a shelf and a hint of a dark wooden chair.

Pioneering Egyptologist Dr. Fayza Haikal:

+ First Egyptian woman to earn a PhD in Egyptology, Oxford, 1965
+ Established the Dept of Egyptology, American University in Cairo, 1984
+ First female president, Internat'l Association of Egyptologists, 1991-2000

She was born #OTD in 1938. #WomenInSTEM

A color portrait of an older Poppy Northcutt outdoors. She is smiling warmly at the camera, leaning her arms on a sleek, metallic railing. She has fair skin and light-colored hair pulled back into a soft updo. She is wearing a lavender-colored blazer over a white lace top, accented by a patterned silk scarf tied in a knot around her neck, featuring shades of purple, brown, and white. The background is a slightly blurred city setting with greenery and modern glass buildings, giving the image a bright and professional feel.

After NASA, she became a lawyer & Houston’s first Women’s Advocate--a high-level city official dedicated to dismantling systemic gender discrimination within municipal government and public services. #WomenInLaw @poppynorthcutt.bsky.social

A black-and-white historical photograph of Poppy Northcutt, the first female engineer in NASA’s Mission Control, seated at a console during the Apollo era. She is a young woman with long, blonde hair, wearing a dark top and a large communication headset. She is looking toward a male colleague seated next to her, her hands resting on open manuals and documents. The workstation is filled with period-appropriate technology, including a large console with numerous buttons, dials, and small monitors. In the background, other male staff members are visible at their own stations, creating a busy, professional atmosphere.

On this eve of International Day of Human Space Flight🚀 meet Poppy Northcutt.

As the first woman engineer in Mission Control, she didn't just break a glass ceiling—she calculated the Trans-Earth Injection that brought Apollo 11 & Apollo 13 home. #WomenInSTEM #Apollo11 #NASA (1/2) 👇

Dude when your wife wants to jump out of the plane because you’ve been talking to her about Western Civilization for three hours that’s not ”skydiving”