This is insane, tinpot authoritarian shit.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Republicans have pulled their dangerous, egregious bill gutting the Endangered Species Act (ESA) from the House Floor 🎉

Happy Earth Day! 🌎

LUTNICK: It is outrageous that Canada will not put US spirits on the shelf. It is insulting and disrespectful to America


SHAHEEN: They won't do it because of the insults from this president and comments like yours

The drinking thing feels trivial compared to the story on The Daily today about how Patel has fired a bunch of competent career leaders and turned the FBI into a meme-generation machine for his social media feeds

Texas didn’t even get to vote for it. That’s hardball.

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. www.wired.com/story/new-ga...

www.rawstory.com GOP puts pressure on 'ruby red' state to make up for Virginia gerrymander loss

GOP puts pressure on 'ruby red' state to make up for Virginia gerrymander loss #RawStory

Original version

Updated version

The Times updated the article a couple hours ago.

It still doesn't mention Trump's business ties with the UAE.

🎁 🔗

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...

U.S. Considers Financial Support for Oil-Rich U.A.E.

Seems like NYT should have mentioned that UAE's spymaster bought 49% of Trump's World Liberty Financial and used $2B of its USD1 stablecoin, directing hundreds of millions to Trump.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt · 3h Trump, the biggest failed strategist in US history, has plunged America into a strategic catastrophe. During his self-proclaimed “victory parade” against Iran, he squandered at least 45% of the US's precision-guided missile arsenal in just seven weeks—including half of all THAAD missiles and nearly 50% of Patriot interceptor missiles. This isn't some fake news blog reporting this, but CNN, citing a CSIS analysis and internal Pentagon data. The result? An “imminent risk” of munitions depletion should a real conflict erupt in the coming years—for example, with China. Trump has ruined the US defense capability for years to come. And for what? For nothing. No regime change in Iran. No destroyed nuclear program. No strategic breakthrough. Just a shaky ceasefire that gives the mullahs time to rearm while America stands naked. Trump, the great “Art of the Deal” master, has once again only produced hot air – and in doing so, burned through the most expensive and scarce weapons in the USA like a pubescent boy with fireworks.

This seems bad.

And I'm pretty sure our enemies are paying attention.

Get this man on Fox News

If Republicans hate partisan gerrymandering they are welcome to join with congressional Democrats who are unanimous in support of banning it

The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche Another dark day for DOJ.

EXCLUSIVE: The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche.

Another dark day for DOJ.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

Trump media company replaces CEO, ex-congressman Nunes after stock plunge that wiped out billions The Trump business behind Truth Social is replacing a former congressman and big supporter of the U.S. president as leader of the social media platform after a stock collapse in the past year.

Sad

“After soaring shortly before Trump’s re-election in November 2024, stock in the company plunged 67%, wiping out more than $6 billion in investor wealth.”

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So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

What are you basing that on? You are alone in that call.

Attorney General Says He Hasn’t Even Read Damning Report About Subordinate Kash Patel: ‘Next Question’ Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Tuesday that he has not read the latest bombshell report about FBI Director Kash Patel.

Attorney General Says He Hasn’t Even Read Damning Report About Subordinate Kash Patel: ‘Next Question’
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Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

Exclusive: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture ​mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its ‌artificial-intelligence models, part of a broad ...

“Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture ​mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its ‌artificial-intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers”

Warsh hearing so far has been kind of frustrating. No one has asked the questions that seem most relevant to me:
1) is Trump's criminal investigation into Powell appropriate?
2) what would you do if Trump threatened retribution against you if he didn't like your actions/Fed policy decisions?

For example, when asked in a Politico interview whether it was "a litmus test that the new chair lower interest rates immediately," Trump said "Yes."
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

@gallego.senate.gov pressed Warsh on Warsh's statement that Trump never told him to cut interest rates; Gallego cited a WSJ story reporting otherwise.
Warsh said story was wrong, reporters had bad sources. OK...but what about Trump's *public statements* saying that was a requirement for the job?

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "I'm pretty confident coal will lead the world in global electricity production when I die"

Key evidence disappears from Tesla involved in bizarre crash The network card that stores and transmits crash data to Tesla's servers was physically removed from a Tesla Model Y involved in a violent 90 km/h crash in Bergen, Norway.

you might be surprised by how often Tesla's data recording systems randomly break, fail to function properly, go missing, or are otherwise mysteriously unable to perform their functions precisely when they are needed most

then again, you might not be surprised at all

electrek.co/2026/04/13/t...

The Fed relies on data and objective reality. Kevin Warsh’s refusal to acknowledge the 2020 election shows he’s more interested in politics than facts.

An independent Fed Chair needs a backbone, not a loyalty pledge. — Warsh is compromised. Hard pass.

Live Updates: Trump’s Pick to Lead Fed Faces Questions on Independence in Senate Hearing

Kevin Warsh, Trump’s pick to be the Fed chair, declined a straightforward answer when asked repeatedly if Trump lost the 2020 election www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

It wasn’t reported enough that just recently he repeated the claim that he was going to install a Delcy Rodriguez-like puppet leader in charge and take the oil.

Illustrating once again the extent to which the Venezuela raid emboldened Trump to engage in further military adventurism.

Tucker Carlson Says He's "Sorry For Misleading People" To Back Trump Carlson issued a mea culpa on his podcast on Monday.

Tucker Carlson Says He’s “Sorry For Misleading People” To Support Donald Trump, Says He’ll Be “Tormented By It For A Long Time”
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Alex Jones Goes on Wild, Shirtless, On-Air Tirade After The Onion Reaches Deal to Buy InfoWars: ‘They’re Body Snatchers!’ Alex Jones on Monday appeared on InfoWars shirtless to rage about The Onion reportedly reaching an agreement to buy his company.

“The whole thing’s about defaming me.”
Said a shirtless Jones.
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