One quick thought is that in recent decisions in Trump’s favor there’s a lot of talk about the government automatically facing irreparable harm when its policies are blocked but here all the talk from Roberts is the irreparable harm facing those challenging the plan.
If you are so inclined, please consider donating or sharing to help this incredible family get Akhilesh cancer treatment. He has helped so many people, but now he needs help.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-akhil...
Read that again. This Louisiana bill forces homeless people to choose between jail and "treatment"—and if they can't pay for the latter, they will be forced to perform unpaid labor.
The historical precedents are clear: convict leasing, Black Codes, debtor's prison.
Farmers are ringing the alarm bells: 70% can't afford enough fertilizer. "[N]itrogen fertilizer prices have risen more than 30%, while combined fuel and fertilizer costs have increased roughly 20% to 40%. Urea prices have increased by 47% since the end of February."
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Oh sorry, so religion and politics should be separate? Is that what you're saying? bsky.app/profile/atru...
The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
www.wired.com/story/the-in...
I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.
⚠️ “Ahmed Shihab-Eldin’s arrest comes as part of a wider crackdown on online speech in Kuwait and other Gulf countries during the Iran war.”
Known as @ASE on Twitter, his account on that platform has been disappeared as well. He and I had been mutuals for 15 years.
"Hungarians ripping down Orbán’s anti-Ukraine posters on the streets of Budapest." 🔥
I was overcome with emotion seeing this last night. His fearmongering campaign against Ukraine & Zelensky backfired in spectacular fashion.
Good riddance.
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It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...
Massive street party in Budapest right now: huge crowds dancing, hugging, crying, and opening bottles. (Reuters)
In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙
Israeli media is concerned that if Orban loses the election tomorrow in Hungary, the EU could finally pass Union-wide sanctions on illegal settlements, settlers, and companies involved in settlement construction.
🧵Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez is in critical condition after being shot by an ICE officers in Patterson, CA Tuesday morning.
ICE officers claim he is a Salvadoran gang member (his family & lawyer deny this) & that he was shot after "weaponizing" his vehicle.
Dashcam footage contradicts this.
An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. It depicts an apple orchard in bloom in the centre, allotments to the left and sheep in their field at the bottom. Train tracks go past the top of the orchard and allotment.
Sewn train tracks past an apple orchard (to the left).
An angled view of a sewn vegetable allotment surrounded by rough land, trees and with train tracks to the left.
An angled view of embroidered bushes and paths going through them leading to an orchard, allotment and fields.
'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!
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alt text, in a crowded waiting room a curly-blond-haired brown-eyed toddler held by anonymous arms, looking downward, pensively/ dazed/ exhausted. their face is half white-powdered by dust, blotched with tears. scratch between the eyes. wears a soot smeared hoodie. this ceasefire brought to you by
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!
I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".
This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥
He took his own life.
“Chinese government officials said Wang's death was a direct result of harassment he'd received and the result of growing tensions between the U.S. and Chinese researchers.”
To mark Palestinian Children's Day, WCK teams in Gaza turned leftover wooden pallets into handmade toys—bringing a moment of joy to kids for whom simple toys are hard to come by. Hundreds of toys were created, alongside pizza & face painting, making for a day of play & celebration. #ChefsForGaza
Sharif University was also a center of anti-regime protests.
Sharif University of Technology in Tehran one of Iran’s top science and engineering institutions, was bombed tonight. Founded in 1966 (as Aryamehr University), Sharif is a cornerstone of Iran’s scientific and academic life.
![Looking through one of the four windows of the Orion spacecraft, a tiny crescent Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Part of the window edge is visible; the rest is darkness. [Alt-text slightly revised from ESA/NASA version]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:62gdkmpwa7xme36getyqnem3/bafkreigksp6ynzr4oxga34viyko2fgg47c6262zz7rqj3khvz3y24pz4by)
Looking through one of the four windows of the Orion spacecraft, a tiny crescent Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Part of the window edge is visible; the rest is darkness. [Alt-text slightly revised from ESA/NASA version]
We are so, so small. #Artemis
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
Pharrell Williams said he initially wrote “seven to nine” versions of his hit song “Happy”, and “none of it was working ..
“.. It was only until I was tapped out that I had to ask myself the question: ‘What does .. a good mood FEEL like?’”
Born today in 1973. 🙏🏼
NYT: Iran War Live Updates: Trump Escalates Threat to Hit Iranian Power Plants After U.S. Rescues Downed Airman President Trump used an expletive-laden social media post to taunt Iranian leaders, saying that the United States would attack if they did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
NYT: President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the country’s leaders in an expletive-laden social media post. Mr. Trump, seemingly emboldened by the successful U.S. rescue of an American airman in Iran over the weekend, issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, a major Persian Gulf waterway for the transport of oil and gas, by Apr. 6. If Iran’s government did not, he said, U.S. forces would target the country’s energy infrastructure, which supplies power for millions of civilians. “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. The president has previously postponed his deadline to attack twice and the Omani foreign ministry said on Sunday that officials had discussed how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian counterparts without reaching a definitive agreement.
“Praise be to Allah,” Mr. Trump added, before signing off in all caps. Iran has threatened to retaliate by intensifying its attacks on critical infrastructure in Israel and Arab states that are allied with the United States. An escalation could further derail the lives of civilians throughout the region and add to worries about the global economy, which has been rattled by soaring energy prices since the start of the war. Over the past two days, the U.S. military has been in a race with Iranian armed forces to find the missing airman after an F-15E jet was shot down over Iran on Friday, in the first known instance of a U.S. combat aircraft since the start of the war. The plane’s pilot was quickly rescued. But a second officer was stranded in Iran and injured in the incident. American commandoes found the airman deep inside Iranian territory under the cover of darkness.
The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane
Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”
first time really tuning into a war? welcome. Let’s go over some rules of how to behave.
These are going to be especially important if it’s a war you oppose.
1. You are allowed an opinion. This is America. Whether you served or not. It’s done in your name so might as well speak up.
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