X post by Xavier Becerra: "Steve Hilton appears in the Epstein files. I'm sure he'll explain himself." Screen shot of email from July 24, 2011 from Jeffrey Epstein to Ian Osborne, asking if David Cameron could be at a meeting - the email quotes Osborne who asks if Woody Allen could be present at a meeting with Epstein and Rohan Silva, head of then Prime Minister Cameron's policy unit and Steve Hilton, Director of Strategy.

🧵With @becerraforca.bsky.social surging in the polls, & @realtomsteyer.bsky.social doing well also, this is a good time to remind Californians that Brit Steve Hilton, Brexit fan, Fox News personality, & Trump endorsed, also appears in the Epstein files! No MAGA Gov for CA!

look everyone who agrees to serve in the Trump administration gets what they signed up for but it's wild how unsubtle the pattern of firing is even among the select pool of talentless synchophantic goons

My kid didn't sleep well for her first five years. Taught me why torturers use sleep deprivation

I teach bystander intervention for a living & I spend all my days thinking about building community care, breaking isolation, etc.

I wish more people understood how community banks, local grocery stores, door-to-door mail service, etc. are all tiny, but important ways that we build connections.

I was told that Patel was white....

Three women out. Not a single dude

I knew about 2 of these. And none of this is about Trump family profiteering

Dinesh D’Souza’s son in law.

a woman is making a funny face and saying `` i just wanna . '' ALT: a woman is making a funny face and saying `` i just wanna . ''

I hate security theater. Had go thru a second screening at the fame and almost left behind my cpap machine.

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.

It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

Canadian doctors obeying a U.S. executive order that doesn’t even apply to Canada is deeply offensive to both trans people and to Canadian legal sovereignty.

I had to be careful to wear a hat on this trip....

Add universities to this list.

if you have hair on top, you are ahead of the game.

I wish I had a liquor store near the White House. Jeez.

Thanks, Maddie

Thanks, you are most kind

Going home today so some thoughts on the bigger implications of what I have learned about Canada and the Indo-Pacific just before I cross ye olde Pacific saideman.blogspot.com/2026/04/mani...

bloodied Captain America: I can do this all day.

I am going home today, but I should stay in Manila. I keep waking up to good news. I just learned that I am to receive the 2026 Faculty of Global and Public Affairs Public Commentary Excellence Award. See, all this blathering on social media pays off ;)

the art is on the side of the helo based on the ship

Me in front of a helo based on the HMCS Charlottetown

My last daily summary of Manila briefings. It was a thriller with heaps of briefings that got me thinking saideman.blogspot.com/2026/04/mani... Tomorrow I post a bigger implications piece on all of this.

Me in front of a helo based on the HMCS Charlottetown

My last daily summary of Manila briefings. It was a thriller with heaps of briefings that got me thinking saideman.blogspot.com/2026/04/mani... Tomorrow I post a bigger implications piece on all of this.

Me on Canadian frigate

Me and a hero on a Canadian frigate

Amazing trip to Manila ends with some time on a Canadian ship: HMCS Charlottetown

GWB-esque

@tomlevenson.bsky.social: 👇!!!!!

What you have to understand is that the United States started a war, almost immediately lost it, then began the laborious process of negotiating against itself, and is now settling into the secondary denial phase …

EEOC Chair Says List of Jewish Penn Employees Needed for Civil Rights Enforcement | News | The Harvard Crimson Andrea R. Lucas, chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, defended the federal government’s request for a list of Jewish employees at the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday, arguing a...

Even if this were a good idea, which it really, really isn’t, the university rightly doesn’t collect this data. How would it comply? Make assumptions about last names? Penn and all others asked to do same must refuse.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

When the topic turns to "what comes next" and "what should we do," we should defer to historians in the same way we defer to doctors on vaccines, lawyers on criminal defense and military generals on strategy and tactics.

They're going to tell us stuff like this and it's vital to America's future.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

My god