Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Warsh hearing so far has been kind of frustrating. No one has asked the questions that seem most relevant to me:
1) is Trump's criminal investigation into Powell appropriate?
2) what would you do if Trump threatened retribution against you if he didn't like your actions/Fed policy decisions?

Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

Trump claimed "Operation Metro Surge" targeted the "worst of the worst." In reality, ICE ripped 70 kids away from their families, friends, and schools.

Our children deserve justice and accountability. That starts with abolishing ICE.

sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

The Republican National Committee entered April with $117 million on hand. The Democratic National Committee entered April with negative $4.4 million on hand, inclusive of debts.

So glad the DNC picked Ken Martin over Ben Wikler

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

🔥 “I’m so glad people are finally waking up to your cruelty — and to the idiocy of your star disciple Pete Hegseth.”

@wajahatali.bsky.social eviscerates Hegseth’s pastor Doug Wilson (with @timmiller.bsky.social & piers in the front row)

16 years ago, the BP oil spill devastated the environment and the communities in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, Interior is green-lighting BP’s even riskier, even deeper Kaskida offshore oil project to drill up profits and export oil abroad—all at the expense of our environment.

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
@archive.org

I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.

blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

Scarce thin cardboard site poster in my #boxing collection from when the great Terence Crawford easily stopped Amir Khan in rd 7 to retain the WBO 147 title on a card that also included Shakur Stevenson, Teofimo Lopez, Edgar Berlanga & Carlos Adames, which I covered at ringside -- 7 years ago today.

In other words more than 1 out of 10 Israeli Jews do not live in territory that is recognized by the international community to be Israeli land. An equivalent number would be, say, 34,000,000 Americans in Venezuela.

Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.

He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).

Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.

And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.

Remember this.

Newly released records detail police response to lawmaker attacks Authorities first identified Vance Boelter as a suspect within three hours of the start of the politically motivated rampage.

Newly released records on the police response to the assassination of Melissa Hortman show officers knew a woman was lying motionless on the top of the stairs inside the Hortman home but waited 30 minutes to physically check on her.

Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.

Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

How Did Black Music Take Over the World? Ask Melvin Gibbs. - Racket The avant-garde jazz bassist, now a part-time Minneapolis resident, combines memoir, history, and musicology in his first book.

I interviewed @melvingibbs.bsky.social about his phenomenal new book for @racketmn.com. He is presenting the book tonight at Magers & Quinn. Don't miss!
racketmn.com/how-did-blac...

When Kasubienski’s son started watching Fuentes in 2017, he remembers feeling like the streamer was a kindred spirit.
Living in Ohio on full-time disability, Ryan, now 36, spent so many hours at home immersed in the streamer’s show that he said he began thinking of Fuentes as a little brother. Where Ryan felt nervous, Fuentes seemed self-assured, and over time he began to believe the streamer was one of the only people being honest about the changes in the United States that everyone pretended they didn’t see.

Two things Nazis love, historically: 1. Poles 2. People with disabilities

‘Blue Power’ and the rise of police union politics Stuart Schrader's new book details how police unions became a dominant force in U.S. politics.

"In Baltimore, Commissioner Donald Pomerlau had an intelligence unit that kept tabs on officers and civilians who were of interest to him. Asked by a reporter if his intelligence unit spied on elected officials, Pomerleau responded, 'Just the blacks.'"

One of my favorite poets!

Signs and Portents by Stanley Kunitz Signs and Portents 1 Jonathan, the last of the giant tortoises  on wind-beaten Saint Helena,  misses his i...

Signs and Portents by Stanley Kunitz
www.divasofverse.com/2015/06/sign...

Democrats' net favorability of Israel: Mod./conservative: 2022: +22 2026: -55 Liberal: 2022: -26 2026:-74

Democrats' net favorability of Israel: Age 50+ 2022: +10 2026: -54 Age 18-49: 2022: -25 2026: -70

Brutal polling when it comes to public opinion among Democratic voters on the topic of Israel:

Source: x.com/forecasteren...

Josh Rogin: “Somebody shorted the oil market today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement—

If you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that's happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began — that's a pattern”

Hey, Beshear, Lis Smith, & associated Majority Dem-types:

If you want to kill group-speak, how about we start with “officer-involved shooting,” “ice agent involved-shooting,” “weaponized vehicle” & other mealy-mouthed obfuscations of state-sanctioned murder?

“There’s no peace in the Middle East bc Palestinians refuse to believe in the Torah. The Torah says it’s our [Jews] land. And that’s why America must always stand with Israel.”

Wow. He just came right out and said it.

He really needs to step down

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

They don’t even really have the story right, because they are acting like the G650s were a new purchase with the expansion under Mullin. But those were brought in months ago under Noem! The new purchases under Mullin are two more 737s from Avelo.

Read my story: gillianbrockell.com/water-is-wet...

“UNICEF outraged after 2 drivers delivering clean water ‌to families in Gaza killed by 🇮🇱”: www.reuters.com/world/middle...

“UN: 38,000 women & girls killed (by 🇮🇱) in Gaza” www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...

Tesla paid $1 billion in taxes to China & $0 in federal income taxes to the US. At least 88 highly profitable corporations paid $0 federal income tax last year while bringing in $ billions. Disney, CVS, Palantir, Taco Bell & others are making massive profits, paying executives enormous ⬇️