Will there be midterms?
I’m not joking

Headline in the NYTimes today: "The Trump Administration Is Coming After Birth Control Access in a Terrifying New Way"

Repubs want to increase birth rate...

...by eliminating access to birth control

Friday: Trump said the Strait of Hormuz is "completely open for business." Sunday: USS Spruance fired on an Iranian cargo ship trying to use it. Iran accused the US of breaking the ceasefire. Oil surged 7.5% The ceasefire expires tomorrow. The war was "totally obliterated" in June 2025 is still on

the day i open the mls website without messi on the front page is the day i enjoy mls again

Tax Day 2026: The Average Taxpayer Paid $4,049 for War and Weapons - Institute for Policy Studies Tax Day 2026: The Average Taxpayer Paid $4,049 for War and Weapons

"The average taxpayer in 2025 paid: $4,049 for weapons and war, vs. $2,492 for Medicaid, which provided health insurance to 68.5 million Americans in 2025 — about one in five Americans."

Humans are not part of shark diet and sharks do not hunt humans
Most shark bites are cases of mistaken identity—where swimmers or surfers resemble seals or fish
Yet Hollywood has never made one movie telling the true nature of sharks
Spielberg made millions for portraying sharks as monsters

Marie-Thérèse Ross is 85. She married a US Army captain in Alabama last April. He died in January. ICE detained her weeks after she buried him. France's Foreign Minister called ICE's methods "not acceptable" and cited "violence." France intervened diplomatically to free an American soldier's widow.

Caturday!

Lynx point cat draped over a blanket and his human’s legs.

Tesla paid $1 billion in taxes to China & $0 in federal income taxes to the US. At least 88 highly profitable corporations paid $0 federal income tax last year while bringing in $ billions. Disney, CVS, Palantir, Taco Bell & others are making massive profits, paying executives enormous ⬇️

A great example of FAFO

A very tiny bright orange baby salamander. It is extraordinarily cute, lying happily on moss.

We saw our first little red eft of the year today. If you see one please do not pick it up! Their skin is highly porous and the salt, oils, lotion, sunblock, bug spray, etc. from your hands can make them sick. Use a leaf to move them if they must be relocated for their safety. ❤️

even better than using existing farmland which (duh) reduces farm output

Headline in Seattle Times today (rerun from Bloomberg article by Subrat Patnaik): "Allbirds soars 373% after sneaker firm rebrands as Al stock"

LOL!

To continue to make shoes and such, "rebrand" yourself as an AI company that makes computing infrastructure

Ridiculous. It's hard it is to make servers, data centers, etc., especially with performance and power getting more and more critical

Who ever ran this stock up is in for trouble

@rmckee.bsky.social

Headline in NYTimes today: “JD Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology”

This is such a hot take from JD, I’d call it “f****ng the couch”

Quoth the raven…

Sheeple

Image screenshot from earthquake app showing earthquake epicenter 12 miles ESE of Siver Springs Nevada with strength 5.7 on the Richter scale at ~6:30pm Pacific time

Saw this and sadly the first thing that popped in my head was “underground nuclear tests”

Headline in NYTimes today: "Trump's Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate ...Some former allies and advisers are questioning whether President Trump has grown increasingly unbalanced, describing him as a 'lunatic' and 'clearly insane.' "

Sheesh. You think???
Between the "annihilation" threats and the posts against the pope, how could you think otherwise?

...The single most powerful person on Earth...

Scary

Trump Said Other Countries Would Help Blockade Iran. So Far, There Are No Takers.

Trump Said Other Countries Would Help Blockade Iran. So Far, There Are No Takers. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/w...

Headline in NYTimes today: “Israelis Don't Feel Much Like Victors in War With Iran …The regime in Iran has not changed and the nuclear and missile threats have not been eliminated, leaving many Israelis to wonder what this was all for.”

Gee

I wonder how Americans feel

Trump attacks the pope calling him weak. He has a lot of nerve!

wow. what a first class loser.

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Recall that Mar-a-Lago is the most mentioned location in the Epstein files, not the island, not the apartment, not the Lolita Express…

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Trump proposes steep cut to NASA budget as astronauts head for the Moon Congress will likely reject the White House's NASA cuts, just as it did last year.

arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...