This is some of the most important reporting to come out of the war on Iran so far. And it's nice to see CBS doing it, i.e good reminder that bad leadership doesn't mean that every journalist there instantly stops doing their job.
I mean, this is just sad.
3 ships.
The Strait is not open.
We're due for another absolutely bugfuck prime time presidential address so Donald can tell us how we won the iran war and hormuz is opened and the ship captains need to have some balls and just go full blast through musandam.
NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal.
Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.
no idea where all the steel is going or if it will even get delivered, but it isn't going to build a fucking ballroom. the drawings i saw were of a marble or masonry building and you just don't need that much steel for marble sheer walls in a place like DC. gravity does 99% of the work there.
(Technical note: Obviously, there have been many Christian leaders/authorities/regimes that have enacted wanton violence at different stages of history while invoking their faith, but it's also true that Christian pacifism and theologies that fall in-between are very old, super common beliefs.)
On the one hand, this is a pretty normative Christian belief.
On the other hand, wild to hear MTG — a self-described Christian nationalist — take this position in this political moment, when other self-described Christian nationalists/those associated with the movement are arguing otherwise.
Has anyone ever wanted to be cool this badly and missed the mark so far
BREAKING: study shows men love having young ladies around, but men do not like it when mom, wife, or teacher tells them what to do
It basically combining George Lakoff’s "Strict Father Model" of conservative politics, combined with the trauma-bonding dynamics of a high-control group.
It explains everything in three sentences:
- loyalty
- obedience
- resistance to contradictory information
- resistance to changing position in the face of harmful actions taken by the high-control organization leader (i.e. health care access cuts, rising prices, attacks against democratic rights)
We have a paper just posted on the arxiv and I haven’t shared it here bc it seems…weird
I try and remember that finding joy is a form of rebellion, and sharing joy is how we build community that endures.
Too many of us (looks in mirror) learned it's ok to trauma dump, but sharing joy is bragging and wrong.
Share. Your. Joy.
(Reminder that you have the bestest cutest doggos also)
Trump last night: “In the meantime our great Military is Loading Up and Resting, looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest.”
FDR, June 6, 1944: American soldiers “fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
I feel a lot better after this deep dive than I did from all the superficial reassurances during briefings.
Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A ceasefire with still throttled (no more than 15 ships daily) Hormuz throughput well serves Tehran's strategic interest.
Iran's main leverage is a closed Strait + time, so building another 2 weeks of pressure on the global economy while not being bombed feels ideal from the Iranian perspective.
I started reading a lot of YA about a decade ago when my eldest was moving into chapter books, and what shocked me was not the smut (of which I found very little) but the graphic violence. There’s always been whump, and teens eat that shit up, but it’s gotten a lot more detailed in non-horror books
Imagine that
This is the difference between lettering, and lettering with a designer's eye. A character is waking up after nearly drowning. The top balloon is okay. It gets the job done. But the bottom balloon really SELLS the watery lungs.
Or that he'll keep doing them after he's elected.
It's worrisome that people keep saying Platner is most electable with apparently no consideration of the main worry: that he's done other things that haven't come out yet which could sink his candidacy. 1
This is now the 4th special motions panel in the DC Circuit that features Katsas and Rao together in 12 months. The odds of that are incredibly low. This is beyond straining credulity. I think the random assignment to the panel in the DC Circuit is fundamentally broken.
There are 4 Republican appointed judges on the DC Circuit out of 11 and Anthropic managed to pull a panel with all Republican appointees with Katsas and Rao. Why does this keep happening?
Page 1 of an April 8, 2026, United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Order in Case No. 26-1049 (Anthropic PBC v. United States Department of War). The order grants various motions to participate as amicus curiae, denies the petitioner's emergency motion for a stay pending review, and grants the request for expedition.
Katsas and Rao strike again on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. This time, they ruled that Anthropic's supply chain risk designation cannot be put on hold.
How the hell are these two on every single major decision in the DC Circuit. It's absurd.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
vance is so personally off putting that even foreign electorates want nothing to do with him
THREAD: The Massachusetts House just advanced a draconian and unconstitutional social media ban bill.
"This legislation would have kicked Greta Thuneberg off social media before she organized her first climate protest. How does that make kids safer?"
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04...
this would fix me
We warned that H.R. 1's SNAP cost shift could drive states to make it as difficult as possible to access SNAP, leaving eligible low-income families without the food assistance they need. In Arizona, that prediction appears to be coming true — with a heartbreaking human cost: