"BP’s first completely new oilfield in the Gulf since the company’s Deepwater Horizon disaster 16 years ago.
It will be deeper than Deepwater Horizon, and in riskier waters... drilling 6 miles below the sea floor, deeper than the height of Mt. Everest"
www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2026/04/grou...
"Nice book you got here, McQuade . . . be a shame if anything happened to it."
- Robert De Niro, on "The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government"
"Will Wins Wars. We’re Forgetting That."
from The Bulwark, by General Mark Hertling (ret.).
No paywall. Free to read for all.
A too-politely-written denunciation of the Trump/Hegseth/Vance Axis of Incompetence.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
I hate that AI has taken the joy of discovery away from us. Now when I see something wonderful I’m immediately suspect and have to research it to ascertain if it’s real. Only then do I feel relief. No more joy, just relief.
Al Gore:
“This is the most corrupt administration not only in American history, but more corrupt than I could ever have imagined a president would be able to get away with to the extent that he has. It’s shocking to me.”
With a final tally of 213-214, the war powers resolution to disengage US forces from the war on Iran failed by a single vote.
Representative Jared Golden of Maine was the sole Democratic lawmaker to vote against the measure. Had he voted for it, it would have passed, handing Trump an historic loss.
We can never forget!😢And, when sanity returns to our federal government, accountability must prevail.
I Completely Support This Petition….
The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history
I called him Bambino when I found him on the side of the road because he was so small.
After fighting injury and growing up you should see him now ❤️
We Forget About ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ at Our Peril
(There is something sick and venal about people who don’t understand that it is only good fortune that separates the people inside these inhuman cages from those outside the cages.)
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Trump has stacked the government with his favorite election deniers... and they are working hard to corrupt the next elections.
- ProPublica
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Russia and China are helping Iran but Trump is angry at... Europe
Iran used Chinese spy satellite to target US bases - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
Hey moms! Turn your pain & fury into action with 10,000 fellow moms to speak out on whatever platform you've got about Dilley. Heroic efforts have gotten individual kids and caretakers out but we must do more to Close the Camps and Bring Them Home.
actionnetwork.org/forms/10000-...
Ready to go the extra mile? After the April 16th social media storm, moms are caravaning to Dilley to free the families on April 18th.
actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
youtu.be/_pKNP9hNJps?...
Wat is dat toch met die VVD’ers. De één heeft nog engere opvattingen dan de ander
‘Although The Political Vise has little value as analysis, it offers a harrowing glimpse into how ordinary partisanship, when trapped for too long in an airless chamber of propaganda, metastasizes into outright authoritarianism.’
Sophist Originalism: The Fraud at the Heart of the Federalist Society
YES!
open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
'Realistisch buitenlandbeleid'
"Hoe erg is het dat de EU zaken gaat doen met Afrikaanse dictators om de migrantenstroom tegen te houden? Het zal wel moeten, schrijft VVD-Kamerlid Han ten Broeke in een manifest. Liever realistisch buitenlandbeleid, dan geen invloed kunnen uitoefenen." (2016)
GIFT article.
Love Jonathan Chait's scathing review of a book by a MAGA hack.
"The conservative movement... sealing itself into a radicalization silo... The effects of this unhealthy information diet upon Tillman’s critical-thinking skills leap off every page."
www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
Love, love, LOVE the columnist Connie Schultz!
Here, she emerges from her funk....
open.substack.com/pub/conniesc...
GIFT article NYTimes.
Amounts paid to African countries to take and torture asylum seekers from the U.S.A.
$5 million to El Salvador
$7.5 million to Equatorial Guinea
$5.1 million to Eswatini
$85 million to Central African Rep.
Trump is evil, sick, an abomination.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/w...
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
GIFT article NYTimes.
Amounts paid to African countries to take and imprison asylum seekers from the U.S.A.
$5 million to El Salvador
$7.5 million to Equatorial Guinea
$5.1 million to Eswatini
$85 million to Central African Rep.
Trump is evil, sick, an abomination
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/w...
You win on offense. Just being anti harms & horrors, which we must, not enough. We must loudly, proudly make affirmative case FOR immigrants - and this is beneficially morally & electorally. Taking down the right requires puncturing their scapegoating story.
newrepublic.com/article/2080...
Catherine Rampell: "Slaughtering our golden goose: massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration" Jamelle Bouie replies: what are your thoughts on why russell vought seems intent on destroying scientific and medical research in this country?
Vought is appearing before House Budget on Apr. 15. @repbrendanboyle.bsky.social or other @housebudgetdems.bsky.social members should ask him @jamellebouie.net's question.
Triplet Tropical Cyclones being birth in the Western Pacific! Yes it’s far away, but it’s a sign of a rapidly evolving tropical Pacific pattern shift and will have a big impact on global weather by accelerating the transition to El Niño through bursts of westerly winds propelling warm water east… 1/
