yiiiikes

The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating.

One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.

"Few approve of how Donald Trump is handling the cost of living" – Overall: 33-67 – Immigration: 40-59 – Iran: 32-67 – Economy: 30-70 – Cost of living: 23(!)-76 "The nationwide poll was conducted April 16-20, 2026 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 2,596 adults. The overall margin of sampling error is +/- 3.4 percentage points."

There's no other way to say it: This AP-NORC poll is atrocious for Trump.

– Overall: 33-67
– Immigration: 40-59
– Iran: 32-67
– Economy: 30-70
– Cost of living: 23(!)-76

37% of Republicans disapprove of his handling of the economy, 47% disapprove on cost of living.

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Because you always want to make sure your troops might be incapacitated with a preventable illness in the middle of a war…

and often there just isn’t a simple, just-so story to tell

it’s not that the broad center-left/democratic party is blameless or that the political right is never reacting to changes/provocations or the like, but that victory and defeat, success and failure are shaped by actors on both sides, as well as broad forces and the contingency of human events

if the right is successful, it must be because the liberals possess some fatal shortcoming or overreached in a way that mechanically produced backlash. the idea that the political right is its own thing with its own aims, can harness discontent and take advantage of contingency is verboten i guess

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.

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.

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

The Mask is Off: Major Anti-Abortion Group Calls for Arrest of Abortion Patients Students for Life says it should be "an easy vote"

It was only a matter of time: the powerful anti-abortion org Students for Life has endorsed legislation to imprison abortion patients.

The move marks the biggest shift in anti-abortion politics in decades. jessica.substack.com/p/the-mask-i...

Only the New York Times, run by a fourth-generation nepo baby for an imagined audience of other elites with Roman numerals after their names, could treat such a small-bore common-sense tax proposal as the peak sign of a class war.

If this is the peak of the "anti-rich current," they'll be lucky.

Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.

The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.

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I'm bringing back #FollowFriday with this absolute banger of a double-header: @laminda.bsky.social and @bittelmethis.bsky.social.

Two incredibly talented writers who happen to write about science and animals and weird sh*t AND are also just absolutely delightful human beings.

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

I had a bellman at a hotel in New Jersey ask, “Can I get you anything else? The blood of your foes?“

Tulip bulbs. Just replace "AI" with "tulip bulbs" and that will tell you where we are.

Yeah, Mackenzie Scott is a fascinating case. She is literally ignoring the SOPs of philanthropy in order to give away wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible and she’s still getting richer. At her level it is impossible not to make money. Tax billionaires, A LOT.

TurboTax and H&R Block spent $7 million lobbying the Trump administration to kill Direct File.

Both companies donated to Trump's 2024 campaign and inauguration committees.

I love how clearly pissed off this guy is

Scoop: House Democrats introduce 5 articles of impeachment targeting Pete Hegseth The articles accuse Hegseth of abuse of power, war crimes and other serious wrongdoing.

"House Democrats will introduce five articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday accusing him of abuse of power, war crimes and other serious wrongdoing."

www.axios.com/2026/04/15/i...

Season 3 - Murder at the Bike Shop A new investigative true crime podcast from Susan Simpson of Undisclosed and the producers of Evil Lives Here.

Just finished season three of the Proof podcast. I'm still stunned. Jacinda Davis and Susan Simpson set out to investigate one wrongful conviction in Kalamazoo. They uncovered as many as nine. All from the same cold case unit.

Stellar reporting and investigative work. This should be national news.

Am I having a stroke?

Climbing to the highest branch where I will bite down and a pitch will burst out of the husk of my body.

This. But also. Might we all just have a brain parasite? Suddenly concerned my free will has been coopted.

The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans

The Engineer Guy Bill Hammack has written a book based on his great YouTube channel: The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans. [bookshop.org]