i’m assuming what happened is bibi told trump that iran had enough uranium that, if fully enriched, would suffice to produce as many as 11 nukes, and then trump’s majestic brain played its usual internal game of telephone and decided iran had 11 nukes
The amount of federal government involvement in US business in the past 14 months is quite something.
This is your periodic reminder that Democrats introduced legislation in 2021 to ban gerrymandering nationwide and every republican voted against it except two who were absent.
AI. Makes. Up. Its. Answers.
It's all a fifth grader trying to do an oral book report cobbling together half-remembered other books. That's it. The whole joke.
while RFK Jr is dining out on an undeserved reputation and a lot of lofty rhetoric about big corporations and chemicals and protecting people, the administration is handing the reins of chemical safety over to chemical manfucaturers
UPDATE: The CDC will not publish the report.
Suppressing reports and hiding the data doesn’t change the facts: the COVID vaccine is safe and effective.
RFK Jr.’s baseless, conspiracy-driven agenda will make Americans sicker.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
setting aside the whole "putting all the men in front" thing, seven of the 11 women in this photo are from a foreign country here on a student visa, the very kind the Trump administration is trying to eliminate
NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math.
less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)
"logic of Musk’s empire is total. X shapes the discourse. Grok automates it. Grokipedia rewrites the historical record. Starlink can deliver it all, everywhere, to everyone. Each layer reinforces the others. It’s not about winning arguments in the public sphere. It’s about building a replacement."
"Mr. Rice hit Ms. Stagi’s hand, knocking her phone away. When Ms. Stagi ran after the officer and touched his back to get his attention, he grabbed her by the hair, put her into a chokehold and threw her down an embankment." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...
The Supreme Court of Virginia should declare a *checks notes* state constitutional amendment unconstitutional.
Fisherman. We're blowing up fishing boats.
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.
Nobody is safe as long as this man is in office. Impeach now.
I took an undergrad class called "The Scientific Study of War" and at least back then, we called a one-sided ceasefire after failing to achieve any of one's war aims a "surrender."
The apparent theory here--SPLC was defrauding donors by paying right-wing extremist org informants, and also took completely legal steps for obscuring the money trail for very obvious reasons on this totally legal thing to do--is ludicrous even by the notoriously malleable standard for wire fraud.
The attorney placed in charge of this investigation, well known as an attorney for Russian intelligence assets, is now seeking a much deeper reach for US intelligence about Russia... and there's little room for doubt about this. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...
meta has been crashing out left and right for years so i have no doubt this blow up in its face
She is awful and should be fired but man that is three women out of the Cabinet and not a single guy
We must use US taxpayer dollars to backstop the UAE
Which is facing economic problems caused by the war Trump started and doesn't know how to win
A war encouraged by leaders of the UAE
Who have given hundreds of millions in bribes to Trump, his family, and associates
“Education and re-skilling workers” is what people talk about when they think they’re going to get people who have had good jobs in manufacturing to take bad desk jobs at a newly built data center or something instead, and *this doesn’t work*.
in general, & across the world, the political gender divide really opens up around 2016
wonder if something happened then?
They can approve the design all they want, the Commission of Fine Arts can't fund and authorize anything.
Weird how they never do this in areas where Trump won!
DOJ Office of Civil Rights seem very focused on districts with a lot of Black voters.
The technological right has to bend toward explicit eugenicism and a belief that all human difference is natural and innate, to deal with their anxiety that they do not deserve what they have and that the public could take it from them at any moment.
Actually got choked up remembering having a president like this.
Meta layoffs: "The Facebook and Instagram owner will lay off about 10% of its global workforce, or close to 8,000 employees, in that initial round, one of the sources said."
In the months leading up to the midterm elections, hundreds of accounts have emerged on social media featuring A.I.-generated pro-Trump influencers posting at a rapid pace. Several accounts have already amassed thousands followers. Some of the posts have more than half a million views.