Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

Exclusive new details about Trump's effort to 'take over' the midterm elections, in a monthslong investigation from @dougbockclark.bsky.social & me: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

New disclosures reveal how DOGE actually worked Depositions offer insight into what Elon Musk’s group was up to. Members describe a club-like atmosphere in which they slashed agencies with little oversight.

WaPo on recent DOGE disclosures, including how our team at @weareoversight.bsky.social FOIAed the US Dept of Energy and uncovered a previously unnamed DOGE employee.

'The Meta Brand Is Not Something People Want to Put Anywhere Near Their Face,' Says Snapchat CEO Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel thinks that Meta is fumbling the bag on smart glasses.

“‘I think Meta needed to partner with Luxottica because the Meta brand is not something that people want to put anywhere near their face,’ Spiegel said.”

Trump’s new budget ignores dying Americans and gives away record sums to the US military President’s proposed budget slashes health department by 12% while throwing $1.5tn – a 42% increase – to the military

Americans die of treatable conditions at nearly twice the rate as Spaniards, French, Japanese and Australians.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Yemeni junkyard blues band El Khat in Baltimore tonight.

The riches of Viktor Orbán’s home village [FREE TO READ] Hungary’s longtime leader is trailing in the polls ahead of April’s election, as the opposition alleges widespread corruption

Perhaps now is a good time to share the @financialtimes.com investigative series on Viktor Orban. To start with here’s the one we sent a reporter up in a plane for … (300 free clicks)

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Hungary has chosen Europe.

Europe has always chosen Hungary.

A country reclaims its European path.

The Union grows stronger.

ORBAN CONCEDES:

"Viktor Orbán is now speaking at Fidesz’s election night and he says the election result is “clear” as he concedes defeat." - @theguardian.com

From Magyar's Facebook: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán just congratulated us on the phone on our victory.

According to Péter Magyar, incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Orban has called to concede the election.

Somewhere, George Soros is at a karaoke bar getting ready to sing "My Kink Is Karma"

🇭🇺🗳️ Sur 45,7% des bulletins dépouillés, le parti d'opposition TISZA de Péter Magyar dépasse la majorité des deux tiers au Parlement hongrois :

🔵Tisza (P. Magyar, conservateur) : 52%, 135 élus
⚫️Fidesz (V. Orban, droite populiste) : 39,4%, 57 élus
⚫️MH (extrême-droite) : 6,1%, 7 élus

Viktor Orban faces the dreadful fate of a guest fellowship at the Heritage Foundation

One of my favorite albums and concerts of the last year.

Exclusive | Trump Promises Mass Pardons to Staff Before Leaving Office In a recent meeting, the president said he would pardon those within 200 feet of the Oval Office, according to people familiar with the remarks.

“Trump promises mass pardon to staff before leaving office.

In a recent meeting, the president said he would pardon those within 200 feet of the Oval Office, say people familiar with the remarks.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

I talked to numerous people in Newtown. They were surprised to hear Trump condemn Alex Jones for his Sandy Hook denial, because they expressly asked Trump to disavow this in 2017 during his first term and he refused.

I've got quotes from them and the backstory here:

newrepublic.com/article/2089...

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Just pretend it's a divining rod and see if it leads to water

"Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has proven to have great war fighting capabilities and equipment. Just ask our enemies!!! President DJT"

Trump sings the praises of Palantir's "great war fighting capabilities" on Truth Social, dropping in their stock symbol just in case you were looking for it.

I asked 3 of the big AI chatbots:

"What is happening in the Irish fuel protests? Why are they sending in the army?"

Claude jumps right it with its first two references being... Russia Today

"But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood."

"Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest...."

"Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples...."

Pope Leo XIV subtweeting today: "God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs...."

This is a great read. I wish the article was more explicit in what prompts they used since they acknowledged it gave different results. Beyond showing the methods, it would be helpful for media literacy.

The Most Transparent Presidency in History—And the Most Opaque The paradox of recording Donald Trump’s time in office

If a new legal opinion stands, Donald Trump will be on track to become one of the most poorly documented presidents ever, @dgraham.bsky.social argues:

"Too much testosterone leads to wretched judgments that confuse lethality with winning. Overwhelming firepower without a strategy saps American strength."

NYT Page One:

“.. some are asking whether this is a ‘Suez’ moment for the United States, marking the waning of American power and credibility in the world.”

@nytimes.com

Lebanon: A Nation Uprooted by War

“More than a million people — roughly a fifth of the population — have been forced from their homes since a renewed war erupted last month between Israel and Hezbollah.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/w...

Melania is outraged people thinks she had anything to do with Epstein. But she is married to Trump. Who is worse than Epstein by every metric. A fact we all seem to ignore too often.

www.thedailybeast.com/there-can-on...

India’s Decentralized System of Internet Censorship Amber Sinha discusses research that illuminates India’s fragmented system of internet control.

India’s internet censorship is not a centralized “Great Firewall,” says Tech Policy Press Contributing Editor Amber Sinha. He discusses research that illuminates an opaque system where ISPs enforce blocking through practices such as DNS manipulation, producing often invisible restrictions to users.