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I spent last night writing about Trump's waterfront land grab in DC. Things are crazier than I thought, and MAGA has the National Park Service seriously gaslighting the public over it. 🧵

Hegseth: We are banning reporters from the Pentagon. Washpost: We have exclusive photos of the historic Dwight Eisenhower globe that was damaged in Hegseth's zeal to move it out of storage and into his office. Gift link ⤵️ wapo.st/3WF2YQo

Google Assistant keeps playing the remixed version of anything I request on Spotify, which is worse than not playing the song at all

Blasts resounded over Riyadh again on Monday, following lethal strikes on Riyadh's airport at the weekend. Saudi coalition says it intercepted a Houthi missile. Houthis warn US of a "painful response" if it enters the conflict u.afp.com/SCfZCC 📽️ Footage of Oct 10 strike on Riyadh airport

No, bombing Yandex has not impacted automated Russian trolling operations in the U.S.

It's all a setup to blame Ukraine 🇺🇦 for high diesel prices in the US. Russia 🇷🇺 can't provide diesel for it's own market. We aren't getting any diesel.

crabs are inevitable theconversation.com/crabs-have-e...

I was just sent this paper, "Theorizing the rise of internet food cults", and this section could have the names and communities replaced by those from the MH17 or Syria chemical weapon truther community and it would still be 100% valid. Same dynamics every time. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

Treat all laser pointers as if they could blind whoever they're pointed out, until they've been properly measured by someone trained to do so. They can be so so so much more dangerous than people think.

RBADVISERS: “.. Yet another inflation impulse. The US basically has NO STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE (SPR) anymore.”

Nineteen russian ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and Shahed drones are raining down on Kyiv right now. This is horrific. The UNESCO-listed Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra has been targeted. A thousand years of Ukrainian history, faith, and culture are once again under attempted destruction.

Farmers in northern Vietnam are dismantling a decades-old cemetery to make way for a $1.5bn golf course and luxury residential development by the Trump Organization and its local partners, a project seen as crucial for ties between Hanoi and Washington. ft.trib.al/YCZl74S

A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

I use Apple Pages for all of my grant and manuscript writing because it is like a combination word processing app and page layout app all in one, that manages to let you handle images without all this nonsense exemplified in just a few seconds in this absolutely magnificent TikTok.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

oh boy.

Whoa

Jay Bhattacharya pulls a study because he doesn’t like the conclusions. I cannot explain how bad this is and how it reeks of the stench of ideological zealotry and has no basis in science. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

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

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.

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?

Paper records, everybody. Hard copies of all your tax returns & correspondence, financial statements, and proofs of payment. Keep them indefinitely.

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Awful. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Drop the word drop, as in, not drop it in sentences to sound cool, for example when "New episode drops Thursday" can just be "New episode Thursday". Fuck all this dropping of drop. Let's just drop it already.

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

I do not know if an updated COVID19 vaccine will be available for Fall in the United States. All because little men got their feelings hurt because their ideas are fucking dumb and thousands of scientists told them that. firstwordpharma.com/story/7157141

Y'all, they threw Pam Bondi's official DOJ portrait in the trash, then LEAKED a photo to the media. There is literally no upside to being a MAGA bootlicker. www.ms.now/news/pam-bon...

Journalists in France, (Spain and Italy): check with your authorities if they are detaining ENZO 2? You might stumble upon a story involving Iran, Russia, China and cargoes requiring hazmat teams to investigate. bsky.app/profile/auon...

Democrats, progressive influencers, and journalists should leave X collectively and encourage their followers to do the same. The thing people get wrong here: we have more power than X does. If every progressive left X, it would be much worse for X than it would be for progressives.

My god. Have you ever seen close-ups of sea star skin? 🧪🌊🌿

EXTENDED CUT: Watch until the end for 3 min of nonstop dancing aurora last night in my driveway from North Pole, Alaska. Insane show!

I wonder if/when we’ll get to talk about the cryptofascist pipelines that pulled leftists into the conspiratorial far-right via antivax contrarianism in 2021 and how those pipelines are still active today. Some are even the same outlets/people!

WELP fortune.com/2026/03/18/h...