The guy running P*lantir is one of the richest men on earth and without radically restructuring society he will not be the last guy to want to exterminate most of us who gains that much power.

I regret to inform you that “drunken idiot who isn’t interested in working” is the best case scenario for FBI director in a Trump regime.

"Ireland is uniquely placed to offer a valuable perspective as a neutral, post-famine, post-colonial republic. At this crucial moment, we must work with all those who share our views to deepen international cooperation, and to nurture and develop conditions for lasting peace.”

- @president.ie

Notice how the progressive councilors have passed the most legislation and yet none of us got a shout out from the mayor at the state of the city address for our work delivering for Portlanders 🙃 just in case the alliances weren't clear! 😉

Girl just worry about the transportation package, city councilors can’t even ask their colleagues to sponsor a bill without breaking quorum because of this extremely bad policy 😭

South Korea is doing quote-post diplomacy President Lee drew a parallel between occupied Korea and Palestine

Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...

Award-winning Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been in Kuwaiti detention since March 3 for simply sharing publicly available, verified footage. Journalism is not a crime.

Join us in calling to #FreeAhmed

Look I have many thoughts about blockade and some v hot takes re: blockade & naval warfare.

But it is perhaps the primary rule of a blockade (beyond notice) that it must be "effective" to be valid. So...

Democrats planning to run in November’s midterm elections have been advised not to antagonise pro-AI campaign groups that have amassed more than $300mn to fight for the industry’s priorities. The warnings by top party consultants, corroborated by people close to four different campaigns and party strategists speaking on the condition of anonymity, come despite internal polling for Democrats showing widespread public support for tougher AI rules.

They're calling it the best democracy ever.

www.ft.com/content/7529...

Just reading the headline you’d have no idea that it was a driver that killed him and not that he crashed his bike

Australia’s ‘Most Decorated’ Soldier Charged with Five War Crimes of Murder [Melanie O’Brien is Professor of International Law and Deputy Head of School (Research) at the University of Western Australia Law School; and visiting scholar with the University of Minnesota Law …

My piece in @opiniojuris.bsky.social on the arrest & charging of Ben Roberts-Smith for 5 #warCrimes of murder. An incredibly significant legal development in #Australia, but also in the general global fight against impunity for international crimes. #intLaw #IHL opiniojuris.org/2026/04/15/a...

How does it feel to be an Iranian right now? 🧵

If you were outraged when Trump tried to silence Jimmy Kimmel, you should be outraged by what they're doing to students who spoke out against the war in Gaza.

Now they're firing immigration "judges" who refuse to go along with their illegal scheme.

Defend free speech! ⬇️

Light technical vehicles used widely by the RSF in battle, about 120 seen here before being delivered to the RSF. December 29th 2025.

About 200 light technical vehicles seen on February 18th.

RSF fighter aboard a technical

Short thread containing satellite imagery of Emirati weapons smuggled to the genocidal RSF militia in Sudan, with accompanying file photos. Snapped at a secret RSF logistics base in western Ethiopia (10°05'55.5"N 34°34'50.9"E).

Wednesday marked 3 years since the start of Sudan's brutal civil war.

today, her brother decided he, too, should get an adventure, followed her out and then went all the way to this bunny patch we often walk to. on his own!

i guess they have decided that, at 12, they should not require human minders.

two pitties lie side by side on a bed looking up at camera. the dog on the right is a brindle pittie with slightly milky eyes and a graying snout but still very handsome. the pup on the left has a nearly fully white face but her ears, cheeks, and nose are red-brown. she looks uncertain but v cute.

anyone else's senior dogs decide that they suddenly love to escape and go on little adventures?

rosa sneaks out and simply pushes her way into her favorite neighbor's yard like a friendly neighborhood cat. 😅

fortunately they seem to enjoy her.

i do hope job adverts for PBOT mention exciting possibilities like 'investigating the void'

These aren’t AI firms, they’re defense contractors. We can’t let them hide behind their models | Avner Gvaryahu From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. The cost of failing to regulate AI warfare is already too high

"Gaza was the laboratory. Minab is the market. The result is a world in which the most consequential targeting decisions in modern warfare are made by systems that cannot explain themselves, supplied by companies that answer to no one," writes Avner Gvaryahu

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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hell yeah. grateful to have these four champs and Avalos and Dunphy.

the people's business!!!

leftists are always gonna be held to different standards.

maybe that's unfair! but, also, those who aim to tax the rich and serve communities actually do have the obligation to ensure every dollar is spent with integrity.

& pork belly hand outs are not it.

Keep Socialist Housing We are communicating with DSA endorsed elected encouraging them to avoid compromising on Rent buy downs and social housing.

help keep the pressure on our champions.

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actionnetwork.org/letters/keep...

it's an open secret Smith is trying to sneak handouts into tonight's social housing package.

this is bad governance.

and i expect our DSA champions to hold the line against it.

@councilormorillo.bsky.social @councilortkl.bsky.social @councilorkanal.bsky.social @councilorgreen.bsky.social

PORTLAND CITY COUNCIL: PASS THE TAO INTACT! EUND SOCIAL HOUSING RENT BUY DOWNS RENT ASSISTANCE!

Big vote tonight at city council.

Last week, the council advanced a millions toward rent assistance, rental buy downs, & social housing.

Councilors are facing pressure to make last minute carveouts for unvetted developments.

Tell your councilors you want this generational investment!

Big test for the city council tonight to see if they will hold the line for social housing, rent assistance, & rent buy downs or cave to pressure to fund unvetted one off developments.

Are we doing business as usual or are we turning a corner?

Let your councilors hear what you want.

UN experts condemn Israel’s unprecedented bombing in Lebanon after ceasefire announcement, demand immediate halt to hostilities GENEVA — UN experts* today condemned Israel’s illegal aggression and indiscriminate bombing campaign against Lebanon on 8 April, only hours after a ceasefire agreement was brokered by Pakistan between...

“This is not self-defence. It is a blatant violation of the UN Charter, a deliberate destruction of prospects for peace, and an affront to multilateralism and the UN-based international order”

UN human rights experts condemn Israel’s attack on Lebanon

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

2 men charged with attempted murder, hate crime involving Danville alderman PARIS, Ill. (WCIA) — Two people that were arrested following a “disturbance involving a firearm,” in Paris earlier this month are now being charged with attempted first-degree mur…

3 white men in their 20s attempted to lynch 3 Black men for....fishing last Friday. The only reason it's an attempted murder charge is one of the Black men was armed and a better shot. It's not about the year someone was born, it's about the racism

www.wcia.com/news/edgar-c...

“only 41,714 aid and commercial trucks have entered Gaza over the past six months.. a mere 37% of the 110,400 trucks stipulated under the ceasefire agreement. The fuel situation is even more critical, with only 1,366 fuel trucks entering out of a promised 9,200 – an abysmal 14% compliance rate.”

There is a very common, if false belief that pretty much anyone can get citizenship if they're in the country for long enough. Unfortunately, most people who are undocumented have NO path to permanent legal status.

And in her case, the old removal order (which was withheld) makes it even harder.

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.

But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.