Just saw an ad for a Republican running against Landsman that goes after Biden.

They know he isn't president anymore right?

shhh

RFK Jr is launching a podcast to expose 'lies' that have made Americans sick Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is launching a new podcast called “The Secretary Kennedy Podcast.” It aims to bring “radical transparency in government.”

All my votes to whoever bans podcasts. apnews.com/article/rfk-...

Tbh I think there comes a time in most men's life where they think "maybe I should write a manifesto" for most of us something more interesting stops us from putting pen to paper

The Forces of Scarcity Hitting Asia May Soon Spread Across the World

>Countless businesses are verging on insolvency. Governments are taking on enormous debt to slow inflation. By year’s end, in the most dire projections by the United Nations and others, millions across Asia could be pushed into poverty. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/w...

>Most claim to hail from various American states but use stilted or ungrammatical English. Mr. Trump is their favorite “presidont,”

I will be using Presidont from now on.

It is sort of amazing and depressing that the cause of so much political slop is not attempts to influence elections but instead people just trying to make money off American rage.

>TikTok said in a statement that it conducted a careful review of the 304 accounts and found “zero indication of covert influence operations.” The company concluded instead that the accounts were spammers attempting to mine engagement

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

>The New York Times began tracking MAGA-boosting, A.I.-generated TikTok posts in January and discovered at least 304 accounts sharing the content, some of which have since disappeared. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

What does winning a war by a lot even mean?

Missouri keeps electing Trump, Hawley & a GOP supermajority - yet voters passed Medicaid expansion, abortion rights, paid leave & marijuana legalization. All through direct democracy. New research on why. Find us at #MPSA2026, Thu April 23, 3:20 PM! #DirectDemocracy #Federalism #MissouriPolitics

Everyone is busy, it is a question about priorities.

My 8:30 is the worst at this. Just the worst.

If you could create a universal policy that would apply to _all_ classes at your university what would it be?

Honestly, I'd like a single policy on late work. Clearly I have the best one already, but would be open to alternatives.

A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"

ghoulish

Update on this. It was the police chief of Gratis, Ohio a town of <1,000 who decided to go to Cincinnati and do ICE "wellness checks" at several schools. www.wcpo.com/news/local-n...

The U.S. military struck another boat in the Caribbean, killing three people.

From meme about Obama to Trump reality

This Day in Labor History: April 20, 1949. United Steelworkers of America members severely beat Maurice Travis, the president of the leftist union Mine, Mill, costing him an eye. This is perhaps the most grotesque incident in the sordid history of the CIO kicking communists out of the labor unions!!

Arbitrage opportunity

I have no evidence of this but I can't not think there is a relationship with Bush pushing abstinence only education.

Protecting Trump from Trump

Kash Patel might file a lawsuit just for show, but he’ll never stick with it. Discovery would be devastating.

Here are some of the day’s top developments: Trump has said that US forces have taken custody of an Iranian-flagged vessel that tried to get through the US blockade of Iranian ports. Iran’s military confirmed an attack claimed by the US military on a ship returning from China, vowing it will “retaliate soon”. Iranian state media is reporting that Tehran is not currently planning to attend talks with the US, citing the ongoing blockade as well as Washington’s shifting positions and “excessive demands”. It comes after Trump ordered US negotiators to travel to Pakistan on Monday, just days before a two-week ceasefire expires.

I'm starting to think this is not going well guys

Unions can also potentially organize out of ERGs, which is actually a strategy that goes back to the yellow unions of the 1930s.

Someone should look at when "smirks" are mentioned in police reports

All Miami departments to integrate AI into curriculum Miami University will begin integrating teachings about artificial intelligence into all academic departments’ curricula starting with the 13 that volunteered for this fall.

Miami officially has an AI mandate

www.oxfreepress.com/all-miami-de...

Man, I thought stats was bad but understood a bit. Anatomy is just wild.

Trump says US seized Iran-flagged ship trying to get past Hormuz blockade US president says his country's ​forces ⁠stopped cargo ⁠ship Touska by 'blowing a hole' in ‌its engine room.

US president says his country's ​forces ⁠stopped cargo ⁠ship Touska by 'blowing a hole' in ‌its engine room.

University of phoenix Stats class have to take stats for the nursing program through my local college, the workload from professors is insane. But I need 5 credits. UOP is 3, so I need 1&2. Has anyone ever taken these classes through them?

An under discussed issue in higher education is how students avoid hard classes by taking them through online quasi-diploma mills and transferring them over