Trump Org banked some coin again today. Note the time stamp, 9 minutes after the close of trading. This is so obvious, you can’t tell me Comer and his fellow R 🤡s on the House Oversight Committee can’t see what is going on.
I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"
President urges Iran to start peace negotiations by releasing non-existent, AI-generated women some rando posted about on X
I’d make a deal with Ted: “I’ll vote for that if you also include indexing the Minimum Wage to inflation.”
The Minimum Wage has not been raised in 17 years.
www.usinflationcalculator.com
A post claiming that America's failure to fulfill the Budapest agreement created a mic drop for the Iranian negotiations.
I'm deleting this post, I think it made a good point but the concerns about AI are important.
CATL and BYD have both done amazing r&d work on battery technologies. What impressed me most with this development:
“After 1,000 ultra-fast charging cycles, the battery maintains a State of Health (SoH) above 90%.”
As an older, lived mostly in the 20th century male, I have thoughts:
* The need to feel honored is antithetical to manhood.
* These boys need to move from “I-ville” to “You-ville”, ie grow up.
* OTOH one could make the case for these guys having a clinical personality disorder.
“In the past there was a group called ‘Dire Straits.’ It’s a dire strait now, and it is going to have major implications for the global economy. And the longer it goes, the worse it will be for the economic growth and inflation around the world."
Polisky, if I’m not mistaken, someone once shared an overview of null findings on what does not drive far-right / radical right voting.
If such a collection exists, or if you’re willing to share other important null results, I would greatly appreciate it!
Plus you get to dig your rockets and launchers out of those underground shelters we bombed the entrances to closed.
Maddow: "Do we think our servicemen and women are in good hands? Do we think that there is care being taken in terms of what they're risking their lives for?"
Did you know that, at least theoretically, if you could set up a pair of Bose-Einstein Condensate plasmoids made of Rubidium(iirc) atoms, you should be able to cohere neutrinos into a “neutrino laser”? [Don’t ask about what you would do with it]
Just going to leave this here for everyone hating on those Dem Senators that voted to confirm Patel. How about NONE.
abcnews.com/Politics/sen...
#JournoRequest I am working on a story for @iflscience.com on the NASA cuts in Trump's budget proposal 🔭🧪
Is your mission directly affected, or will your research be affected if a mission is ended or cancelled? I want to hear from you; we will keep you anonymous.
DM me or signal: DrCarpineti.59
The new report on FBI Director Kash Patel cites more than TWO DOZEN sources describing his leadership as a “management failure” and national security risk.
The White House and DOJ didn’t deny the allegations, but deflected.
Patel was the only one who issued a direct rebuttal.
That speaks volumes.
Up Next?
Comedy Central buys Fox News off of Rupert Murdoch.
Did some traveling the past week up and down PA/NJ/NY/CT - high price was at a station just north of Woodbury, CT @ $4.29; low was at a station in SE PA near the MD border @3.85. Both places were minor marketers(Fuelco and Liberty). Major marketers clustered between 3.91-3.99.
NEW from @gwec.bsky.social:
WIND IS ALIVE AND KICKING🔥🔥🔥
40% more wind was installed in 2025 than 2024
Always follow the money.
“…holds business interests in industries including electronic and print media, property, gas, oil, mining…”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_S...
Well, if Russia can gift Lukashenko nuclear weapons to use as he pleases…
Years before the figure skater became an Olympic superstar, a Chinese operative tried to stalk her father and monitored other US residents deemed dissidents against China. And that’s just the beginning. www.wired.com/story/the-we...
Waiting to hear a Trump Admin talking head say this is bullish for the US stock market(the destination of a fair % of Persian Gulf petrodollars).
www.wrightresearch.in/blog/fall-of...
Came for the Akhenaten, stayed for the Ahura Mazda.
Storm God of Midian held his peace.
So Rod Dreher will go from Budapest to Vienna, and thence to…
Self fueling bio-drones directed by their massively parallel neural processing unit to have fun at the expense of a lower life form.
With his penchant for suits, ties and sweater vests, Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh doesn’t share the rumpled look of many of the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs he calls friends. But they still count him as one of their own. “You wouldn’t be hanging out with us if you were as normal as you claim to be,” Palantir CEO Alex Karp told Warsh on a podcast in 2022. If confirmed by the Senate, Warsh wouldn’t just be the wealthiest Fed chair in history, he would also be the most tech-savvy and the closest to the tech-bro community to ever sit in the office. Warsh’s connection to Karp and other titans of Silicon Valley such as reclusive PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Yahoo founder Jerry Yang and prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen go back decades — to college at Stanford and to investments made alongside some of them beginning soon after Warsh resigned as a Fed governor in 2011.
Kevin Warsh ran a tech-focused VC fund for 15 years and counts Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen and Alex Karp among his friends. No wonder he's an AI evangelist.
@steveliesman.bsky.social and I wrote on what it would mean to have the first tech bro Fed chair. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/20/f...
Pope Leo XIV (C, R) waves from the Popemobile to the crowd as he arrives to lead a Holy Mass in Kilamba, Angola on the seventh day of an 11-day apostolic journey to Africa, on April 19, 2026
🇦🇴 🇻🇦 Tens of thousands gathered outside Angola's capital Luanda for a giant open-air Sunday mass led by Pope Leo XIV on the second day of his visit to the resource-rich country marked by deep poverty ➡️ u.afp.com/SEEs
A view through the trees capturing the long shadows over a forest of bluebells.
"... It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world". Mary Oliver Poet.
#ImageandVerse #Stunday #bluebells #woodland #photography #ECK #Nature
