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Filings: crypto PACs amassed a ~$180M war chest for the 2026 midterms, including Fairshake's $166M, giving them the ability to outspend some GOP super PACs (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/crypto-p…

Crypto PACs Amass $180 Million War Chest for Midterm Races
Political groups tied to the cryptocurrency industry are sitting on a nearly $180 million war chest ahead of this year’s midterm elections, giving it the ability to outspend even some of the Republican Party’s most prominent super PACs.

that bittersweet feeling of opening a used book & finding a sweet bookmark from a long-departed bookstore in a faraway place (closed in 1999, according to reddit) #books

✈️ on board FI645, Fögrufjöll. Service between KEF ➼ IAD.

Today I learned a new word in Icelandic 🇮🇸 :
Gervigreindardrulla
I was able understand it by just breaking it into its pieces gervi, greind and drulla:
Artificial Intelligence Shit
#icelandic #íslenska

The Trump administration has been clear in its targeting of the Somali and Latino communities through Operation Metro Surge.
President Trump called people from Somalia “garbage,”
said “we don’t want them in our country,”
and told them to “go back to where they came from.”
Following Trump's comments, ICE and CBP agents have indiscriminately arrested
— without warrants or probable cause
— Minnesotans solely because the agents perceived them to be Somal…

ACLU Sues Federal Government to End ICE, CBP’s Practice of Suspicionless Stops, Warrantless Arrests, and Racial Profiling of Minnesotans  | American Civil Liberties Union
MINNEAPOLIS — The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Minnesota, Covington & Burling LLP, Greene Espel PLLP, and Robins Kaplan LLP filed a...

Happily it was a straightforward swap of identical models. Didn’t have to replace the sink flange as a result. It was an awkward business of hefting it up to get it aligned and locked into the flange, but it took only a mild amount of swearing to finally get it right.🤬
No leaks. Orders have been given to unfurl the mission accomplished banner.
(The wiring under this sink could use some taming. Whoever did it was certainly not paid by the hour. 🙄 )

By their very nature they will never and can never experience happiness.
They’re sad sacks of miserable shit who always want more and can never have enough.
And they’ll go to their graves feeling miserable and lonely.

It's all true...
https://mastodon.social/@RichqrddeNooy/116204373373144034
RichqrddeNooy@mastodon.social - This lunch includes all five of the main Dutch food groups: cheese, cucumber, geometry, boredom and sorrow, with most of the vitamin content provided by the soul-destroying view of endless flatness spilling off the far-flung horizon.

Now the US has chosen an admirer of Putin as president, who subsequently halted aid to Ukraine, Europe stepped up, filling most of the gap.
https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/news/ukraine-support-after-4-years-of-war-europe-steps-up/…

Sources: the US DOJ is investigating Iran's use of Binance to evade sanctions, focusing on money flowing to networks backing terror groups like Yemen's Houthis (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com…