Meadows? Eastman? Stone? Bannon? which of the other coup plotters will be deposed?

California’s Blue Armageddon One of the most liberal states in the country can’t find a Democrat to lead it.

"A bottleneck of B-listers": How California Democrats may lose the governorship of America's biggest blue state. "The glaring lack of candidate talent, political skill and personal appeal...has been the defining quality of the race" says @markleibovich.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

There will never be a better day for @schumer.senate.gov to pass the torch. Every day from now will be worse. The mid-terms are coming. People want new leadership. We just went through Biden. Give the people what they want!

Five Trump Scandals You’ve Probably Missed Swirling scandals—from the Pentagon to DHS to the IRS to the Labor Department—that represent basic betrayals of public office, trust, and confidence-in-leadership that should be the table stakes of go...

Washington can only pay attention to a scandal or two at a time, which means in the Trump age there are all sorts of should-be-big-deal scandals that don’t get the oxygen or media focus that they should.

I'll bet you've missed at least three of these: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-trump...

Global EV sales spike on fuel crisis India saw purchases jump 87% year-on-year in March, and the UK saw a record number of EVs sold the same month.

Global EV sales spike on fuel crisis

www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

If you love American music, this is monumental. The clarity on this discovered test pressing reveals Johnson's genius to an even greater degree than the '61 re-release of his 29 songs. You can hear the stabbing slide and delicate fingering on every string. Amazing.

@mattgertz.bsky.social Gee, maybe a party that lost disastrously to Trump, that is viewed negativily by the country, and is plagued by gerontocracy should appoint new leadership before the mid-terms.

Pennsylvania's motor-voter system effectively screens non-citizens from voter registration • Pennsylvania Capital-Star The audit also revealed problems with PennDOT’s data security protocols and recommended tighter internal controls.

Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote.

They found one. One.

And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.

Vietnam plans to extend tax incentives for EVs until 2030 Vietnam plans to extend a special ​consumption tax cut on electric vehicles by nearly ‌four years to the end of 2030 in a bid to boost EV sales and reduce emissions, the parliament office said ​over the weekend.

Vietnam plans to extend tax incentives for EVs until 2030 reut.rs/4dTeFd1

A world-first conference on phasing out fossil fuels will be held in Colombia as the Iran war underscores how dependent countries remain on planet-heating coal, oil and gas.

The world's biggest coal, oil and gas producers - US, China, Saudi Arabia and Russia - are skipping the event

u.afp.com/SEaE

Enduring mystery why every non-Healthcare Fortune 500 company isn't lobbying like crazy to get their workers' healthcare off of their books.

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

The Only Chocolate Bars Worth Buying We asked 43 experts to tell us their favorite brands available in the United States. Here, their top nominations under $25.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

DOJ demands Detroit-area 2024 ballots, escalating election scrutiny DOJ official Harmeet K. Dhillon wrote that she is seeking ballots to investigate election law compliance. Democratic state officials call the request baseless.

Breaking WaPo:

The Trump Justice Department is now demanding all ballots from the 2024 election in the Detroit area — a highly unusual move that comes shortly after prosecutors seized 2020 ballots in Georgia and obtained 2020 election records in Arizona.

Thank you. And do feel free to post the reading lists for the other 5 courses you want to teach next...

@kairyssdal.bsky.social @bgrueskin.bsky.social Don't sell Megalomania and Malignant Narcissism short! Not a madman in that he's not disconnected from reality but he is a seriously ill individual, not just an asshole. He will burn the country to the ground for his ego.

Who did you most want to have Jack Smith put on the stand? Many more should have been charged with seditious conspiracy.

More than 40% of ships globally transport fossil fuels. Nearly all of them run on fossil fuels too.

Oh no. The most inept negotiators ever are being sent to strike a deal with Iran. The same guys who haven’t been able to end the Russian war in Ukraine and whose blundering at the negotiating table led to the war with Iran. I’m sure this will go really well.

We asked for your Prince stories. Here's what you shared. From quick brushes with him at First Ave to being accused of stealing his pie.

To the world, he was an enigmatic and elusive celebrity and artist. To Minnesota, he was a neighbor.

Buy, Borrow, Die: How America's Ultrawealthy Stay That Way YouTube video by ProPublica

In the second season of Beef on Netflix, Oscar Isaac's character references "Buy, Borrow, Die" — a tax-avoidance method used by the ultra-rich.

As part of @propublica.org's Secret IRS Files series, we put together this animation back in 2021 to explain how it works:

Largest renewable project in U.S. history - 3.5 GW of wind in New Mexico - begins delivering power to California and Arizona.

@CaliforniaISO has taken operational control - will count as in-state wind

Will speed up California's push for 100% WindWaterSolar

www.eenews.net/articles/lar...

The Last Time Everyone Watched the Same Thing At the 2014 Oscars, best supporting actor nominee Bradley Cooper took a selfie with host Ellen DeGeneres and a bunch of A-listers, among them Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep, Lupita Nyong’o and Jennifer Lawrence. DeGeneres’ Twitter account posted it immediately afterward, and it became the most retweeted post in the platform’s history at the time.

No one knew it at the time, but 2014 — more precisely, Ellen DeGeneres' star-studded selfie moment — marked the peak of pop culture that no longer exists. The numbers show a long decay ever since.

And people keep insisting there's more than enough talent for expansion 🤣

More than 15m oysters to be released in the North Sea for UK rewilding project Exclusive: Experts say scheme will help repair damaged marine ecosystems while sequestering large amounts of carbon More than 15m juvenile oysters are to be released into the North Sea in one of the biggest rewilding projects in UK waters. The scheme, which will use a unique rearing process, hopes to re-establish a huge oyster bed around Orkney that experts say will create a “trophic cascade” of climate and ecological benefits. Continue reading...

More than 15m oysters to be released in the North Sea for UK rewilding project

Counterpoint: I use em dashes with abandon and will not let "AI" steal them from me. I was overusing them first and will continue to do so long after "AI" is a crater in our financial system, or our merciless overlords, or both

Iran War Pushes Asia to Think Twice Before Doubling Down on LNG A record wave of new liquefied natural gas supply was meant to usher in a prolonged period of lower prices. Governments from India to Southeast Asia crafted energy strategies that would allow them to ...

Asia was supposed to be an enormous growth market for LNG.

Not anymore. Shortages, spiking prices, massive uncertainty. Asia is moving to renewables instead

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Peru’s Sanchez to face Fujimori in runoff as rival signals protests over fraud Left-wing candidate Roberto Sanchez moved into second place in Peru’s presidential election, setting up a June runoff with conservative Keiko Fujimori, as a rival threatened protests over alleged frau...

Fujimori led with about 17%, followed by Sanchez on 12%. If you think your country's politics are a mess, just take a look at Peru. www.france24.com/en/americas/...