Connections
Puzzle #1045
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WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

The most hypocritical, ridiculous administration in history, and it’s not even close.

Cover of Mother Jones with an image of fingers pointing at John Roberts and the coverline "Blame John Roberts for Everything"

The NYT big expose on SCOTUS today pairs well with @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's cover story on how ~everything wrong with this country today can be laid at the feet of John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.

I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More Perhaps you've had the experience of moving to a new city and immediately being told that you've missed its golden age of live music. To an extent, this has happened in more or less every period of th...

10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More

How George Orwell Predicted the Rise of “AI Slop” in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) We've lived but a few years so far into the age when artificial intelligence can produce convincing stories, songs, essays, poems, novels, and even films.

How George Orwell Predicted the Rise of “AI Slop” in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

They Not Pious YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

youtube.com/watch?v=aNri...

Pope James David Vance the First The vice president has decided he’s a more accomplished theologian than Leo XIV.

"Vance's attempt to enlighten the pontiff revealed not only his arrogance, but his lack of knowledge about the just-war tradition itself."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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This is not something to celebrate. Those sailors are fucking miserable. No one should spend ten months at sea on deployment.

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public'

IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated

W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

April 15, 2026 (Wednesday) On the evening of April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln went to Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., to see a production of the comedy Our American Cousin. The Linc...

April 15, 2026

Trump Rages at Pope Leo, JD Vance Fumbles Iran Deal & Hungary Ousts Viktor Orban | The Daily Show YouTube video by The Daily Show

Jon Stewart realizes the guy Jesus Trump is healing looks a lot like him 😄 that part is about 3 minutes in but the whole thing is hilarious youtube.com/watch?v=g6k5...

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OK, NOW I fixed it.

#DonaldTrump #EpsteinFiles

Maxwell: We sued Florida for public records and got them … once again Scott Maxwell: The state of Florida has again paid to cover legal fees the Orlando Sentinel incurred while fighting for records that were clearly public. This time, they dealt with the state’s erasure...

Gift Link 🎁 Scott Maxwell of the Orlando Sentinel on the difficulty obtaining public records from the DeSantis administration www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/04/11/m...

Okay, who did this? 😂

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

Gaetz of Hell For the Nameless Ones

For those who are interested: over five years ago I wrote this piece about what it’s like to be someone victimized by an older man. It’s one of my most read essays ever.

The victims, the nameless ones, are the ones who deserve your support.

newsletterwithecm.substack.com/p/gaetz-of-h...

Look at the women at NASA.

They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points.

And they are doing it all with joy.👇

As aside, this is one speech Melania didn’t plagiarize from Michelle Obama.

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This president is the only president to negotiate with himself, in public, and lose collossally. This would be comical if his antics were not lethal and harmful

It's not credible that the USA will remain a party to this agreement; it's not credible that Israel will abide by it; it's not even credible that Iran will. But I'm enjoying the day off of missile watch.

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.