There are substantial number of runners who are still walking around with their yesterday’s Boston Marathon medals today :)

When good men and women from both parties feel terrified to speak basic facts, democracy has ended.

Democracy requires the ability to state without fear that Z comes after A, and the Pope is Catholic. Like the brain requires oxygen.

That he shouldn’t have even been considered for let alone getting it in the first place…!

What don't you get? This is a rogue government. It has no interest in the Lebanese negotiations. It repeatedly spits in the face of the EU.

European Union officials and foreign ministers should call for a full or partial suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement during the upcoming Foreign Affairs Council on April 21.

Read CPJ’s statement⤵️
cpj.org/2026/04/eu-m...

… great to be here as a spectator!

Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.

He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).

Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.

And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.

Remember this.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

✍️Tan Oral çiziyor...
t24.com.tr/yazarlar/tan...

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Let’s just hope it is that simple reason…

It can’t be anything but preparation for mid-term results. Probably working on the narrative not to conced despite landslide results.

More serious thoughts on this in this thread
bsky.app/profile/elio...

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Evrensel ayni saatlerde: “ Doku soruşturmasında gözaltına alınan dönemin Tunceli Valisi Tuncay Sonel’in yakın koruması Şükrü Eroğlu, “kasten öldürme” suçlamasıyla tutuklandı. “

Vali Olgunun cinayetini korkmasına yüklendirmis?

Iran war update, tldr:

Trump: I’ll just be TACOing off, proclaiming victory, see ya later.

Iran: Not so fast. Here in the Middle East, it takes two to TACO.

This made me chuckle in a very quiet place… I couldn’t help and couldn’t stop laughing for a while! Thank you !

Archaeologists in the Holy Land just uncovered a 3,000-year-old Israelite tablet…

It reads: “Iran is only weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.”

MEB’in önünde değil #RTÜK ‘ün önünde yapılmalı protestolar ! @avmahmuttanal.bsky.social

MEB değil #RTÜK önünde olmalı protestolar! @avmahmuttanal.bsky.social

conservative free speech is when they speak and you listen or suffer the consequences

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social i am going to unsubscribe now..

And it's a bit concerning that he is a major investor in Substack.

Marc Andreesen is shaping media into his vision and some of y'all are just letting him. You are letting SS use your left leaning journalism to launder right wing extremism. It's making me nuts.

you're putting your journalism behind a paywall, handing 20% of your revenue to Substack, and requiring people to hand some of their hardearned money (which they're paying to you as a subscription fee) to nazis and sex traffickers in order to read what you have to say.

that is profoundly fucked up.

Paris Marathon Lost The Plot With Its No Water Cup Policy The Paris Marathon’s brazen decision to remove water cups from its course to reduce its carbon footprint was horribly misguided.

“We‘ve properly lost the plot.”
This exactly what I thought after running #2025SchneiderElectricMarathondeParis & I am glad Alex Cry has called a spade a spade ! If it wasn‘t this idiotic new policy I probably would have ran it under 4 hours… I came in 4:4 min.
marathonhandbook.com/paris-marath...

Footage from Israel shows dozens of Palestinians being tightly packed and transported into custody in a garbage collection vehicle.

PR desteği ??

Planes used by officials have begun taking off from Budapest. We will likely see more than one flight to the UAE and onward to other destinations.

Found Suleiman the Magnificent's alt:

Pinochet, a dictator, was deposed by votes.
Jaruzelski in Poland.
Milošević in Serbia.

The ballot box has ended several authoritarian regimes.

Because the regime was incompetent and self-deluded, not because it nurtured democracy.