Texas GOP candidate bet on his own election on Kalshi Zeke Enriquez, who ran in the GOP primary for Texas’ 21st Congressional District, was fined and barred from the prediction market platform for five years. Two candidates in other states were suspended...

How Texas Republican Zeke Enriquez bet on his own race for the TX-21 house seat, and got caught doing it. A very Texas GOP thing to do.

You mean Iran, which earned their way into the World Cup, and Italy, which did not?

'What the hell is going on?' Firestorm as Navy secretary ousted while Iran war rages The sudden and unexplained departure of Navy Secretary John Phelan, appointed by Trump last year, has left observers baffled and outraged, especially as war with Iran drags on with dueling naval blockades. "We’re in the middle of a pretty important naval blockade standoff with a country we’ve threat...

The sudden and unexplained departure of Navy Secretary John Phelan, appointed by Trump last year, has left observers baffled and outraged, especially as war with Iran drags on with dueling naval blockades.

Prediction market Kalshi docks three US candidates for betting on own races Penalties come amid calls for greater oversight; company pledges to proactively police 'insider trading' on platforms.

Penalties come amid calls for greater oversight; company pledges to proactively police 'insider trading' on platforms.

Former NASA astronauts launch new group to promote U.S. constitutional values More than 100 NASA astronauts have signed on to a nonpartisan effort to promote “the principles that have propelled our nation for 250 years”

"the rule of law, checks and balances and the peaceful transition of power..."

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ex-n...

Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.

Everyone born after 2008 to be banned from smoking Health Secretary Wes Streeting has hailed a "historic moment for the nation's health" after a law to create a "smoke-free generation" cleared parliament.

Everyone born after 2008 to be banned from smoking

who DOES that?! 😒

Texas revolt erases hundreds of miles of Trump border wall "I wish the president would be more informed as to what's going on," one sheriff said.

It's taken a while, but some Texans are resisting appropriation of their lands for the border wall www.axios.com/2026/04/09/t...

In other shocking tech news, cars move faster than people or mules

that's 3

Not like he has a vested interest in this or anything, in a battle for the Senate Republican nomination 🤷‍♀️

Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman John Ternus to become Apple CEO Apple announced Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors and John Ternus will become Apple’s next CEO.

Apple turning to a hardware executive as its next CEO www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT): "Jeffrey Clark was indicted in Georgia, pushed out of DOJ for his unethical conduct, and the D.C. bar has recommended he lose his law license. The best they’ve got is a conspiracy theorist…it’s a joke.”

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

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Blue Origin's New Glenn put a customer satellite in the wrong orbit during its third launch | TechCrunch The first major failure of Blue Origin's new heavy-launch system could create delays to its ambition to help NASA and the Trump administration return to the Moon.

The first major failure of Blue Origin's new heavy-launch system could create delays to its ambition to help NASA and the Trump administration return to the Moon.

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

More research is necessary but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalised vaccine are still alive six years later.

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The question is why the market hasn't seen through the manipulation. It's almost like it's desperate to believe because it senses fragility.

Add this to NASA moon joy, Alysa Liu skate joy, BTS ARMY joy to 2026 things that give me joy

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama read a picture book to a group of children.

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh with a group of children.

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh.

Children hug Mayor Mamdani.

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx. 

In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

one thing about Mamdani is that he does class politics, but he doesn't really do populism, in the sense that he doesn't generally rail against "elites" as such. 1

Yet. 😊
Watching AI and related tech sector closely.

Having lived in both places, I can tell you that Europe understands the US better than the US understands Europe.
I would venture to say that Europe understands the US better than many Americans understand the US.

China's electrification bet is paying off. Electricity now accounts for 30% of its energy consumption - 50% higher than the US or Europe.

With 1/3 of global renewable energy capacity already installed, China is structurally more insulated from rising oil prices than most Western economies.

That can only last so long because economic reality will sink in for actual businesses employing actual people and both earning/spending, or not, actual $. With the top 1% driving spending, and only a couple sectors driving the market, a few key company or sector implosions and bye market bubble

The president thanked Iran for opening a strait the US was still blocking, Gospel believers argued with the Gospels, a shoe company made $ by not selling shoes, and the man who didn’t believe he’d won a Picasso was the only person all week wrong to be suspicious. open.substack.com/pub/johnfdic...

Some reporting - and some people - have a complicated relationship with the truth.

The word the original report used is progresista, or progressive, not "leftist" (which has so many historical connotations I can't even)
Again, if progressives are the ones defending democracy, it's quite the thing. bsky.app/profile/efe....