Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

that looks exhausting.

RIGHT NOW -- Veterans are being arrested in #washingtondc after peacefully demanding an end to the War on Iran. @vetsaboutface

This should be a much bigger story.

The Trump administration is about to hand TotalEnergies, a French oil company, nearly $1 billion of your money to cancel its American offshore wind projects. And they are pulling the cash from an account they are not allowed to use this way.🧵

There's ONE thoroughly-discredited "study" of "National IQ" that is riddled with this kind of baseless assertion, and it just goes around & around the extreme right, because it affirms their priors. But it's a fairy-story.

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Big Oil Breaks Everything The planet, our democracy, our courts...

If you read one thing today ...
An essential article by the great @billmckibben.bsky.social
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Ukrainian cat activated. FPV drone eliminated. 🫡

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

Someone knew.
$760 million bet that oil would crash placed 20 minutes before it did. This wasn’t a fluke. It happened three times in six weeks.

The feds are investigating. The question isn’t whether someone had inside knowledge of U.S. war decisions. It’s who.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The U.S. Has Killed 175 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All. The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.

The U.S. Has Murdered 178 People in 52 Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All.

@theintercept.com is keeping count of all U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.

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Billionaire Opponent of Diversity Is Underwriting Mailers Targeting Black Voters in Virginia to Aid Donald Trump The front group trying to defeat new maps by using images of Barack Obama and MLK is fueled by Peter Thiel, the 40th richest man in the U.S.

Report: Peter Thiel is spending big against Redistricting in VA- targeting Black voters with racial messages
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ICE activity in Chicagoland has been on the rise with the temperature the last few weeks. These incidents don't have the spectacle that characterized Greg Bovino and Border Patrol's raids in the fall, but people are still being abducted by federal agents across the city and suburbs.

Just saw a trailer at the drive-in, but the rabid bikers in “I Eat Your Skin, I Drink Your Blood” lived in my nightmares for decades

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

[Via @itep.org]

“Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: ‘I don’t want…Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.’” @propublica.org 10/17/25… 1/ www.propublica.org/article/russ...

Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

The Vice President’s parents-in-law came to the United States as foreign students, at the University of California.

Khanna: "No. I'm not supporting new funding. The answer for every Democrat should be 'absolutely no.' It's $400 billion for a war we oppose? We could have universal childcare for that. We could have free public college for that."

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

British Museum photo of a Romano-British brooch in the form of a hare. It is seen in profile with head to the right, displayed against a black background. The brooch is cast from copper-alloy (bronze), now grey in colour. The hare has a long body inlaid with green enamel and decorated with four copper-alloy dots arranged within the enamel along the length of the body. Its back arches gently and its legs are represented by one back and one front leg, both bent, with feet curling slightly inward, giving a sense of motion. The head is small with a narrow snout and one long ear rises up and backwards. The head is decorated with a large, circular, green enamel inlay, at the centre of which is a copper-alloy dot for the eye. The hare has an incised mouth with a slight upwards curve as if smiling!

Happy Easter!

Here’s a lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare! 😍

Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD.

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#Archaeology

Paul Nash’s remarkably uncompromising poster for 1918’s Void Of War exhibition in London’s Leicester Galleries.

well hello there doppelganger 😂

Rain and thunder! Much needed

I don’t know who Don Lemon is interviewing, but this man is bright and articulate.

Have a listen.👇

Political cartoon

If the 14th amendment was only meant to apply to freedom of slaves, wouldn’t the 2nd amendment only apply to muskets?

Death of refugee found after being released by Border Patrol determined to be homicide Erie County, New York, officials said the cause of death was “complications of a perforated ulcer precipitated by hypothermia and dehydration.”

Please don't forget this story.

They deliberately dropped off Nurul Amin Shah, a blind refugee, in freezing weather miles away from home. Less than a week later, he was dead.

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