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Didn't hear Sam Keith passed last month. He was a master. Loved his Maxx and Pitt stuff, and he did some Hulk and others too. RIP to a serious talent.
#comics #ComicArt #SamKeith

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Convert JSON to Swift, C#, TypeScript, Objective-C, Go, Java, C and more.«
In my opinion, this open source tool is good for quickly creating a prototype, but then the programming only begins.
⚙️ https://quicktype.io

Trump is hosting right-wing leaders from across Latin America in Miami
for a summit discussing his so-called
"Shield of the Americas initiative".
This comes as the U.S. deploys special forces to #Ecuador
and as Trump hints about regime change in #Cuba.
💥“This summit is … an opportun…

“Donroe Doctrine” Summit: Trump Seeks to Build Right-Wing Power Bloc in Latin America
President Trump is hosting right-wing leaders from across Latin America in Miami for a summit discussing his so-called Shield of the Americas initiative. This comes as the U.S. deploys special forces to Ecuador and as Trump hints about regime change in Cuba. “This summit is … an opportunity for Trump to play out a moment of imperial fantasy in front of fans in South Florida,” says Jake Johnston, director of international research at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. The leaders…

Art from 'Aliens: Reapers' from 1991. This was a short 8 page no dialog comic story by John Arcudi and illustrated by Simon Bisley about 'Reapers' - an alien race that infiltrate Xenomorph hives to eat their eggs. My kinda alien race. 🍳
#Alien #SimonBisley

Each year in Italy, a centuries-old practice known as #transhumance takes place,
where donkeys and mules help shepherds carry newborn lambs down mountains to grazing areas in the plains.
This tradition, dating back over a thousand years, was recognized by UNESCO in 2019 as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Why Donkeys and mule nannies carry lambs down Italian mountains
The 1000-year-old annual tradition known as transhumance was recognised by UNESCO in 2019 as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched for this week- I mean, The Royal Hotel was from a previous week (not watching a ton of movies lately), but I did see three flicks since the last time. Finally took in World War Z (weird) ahead of its sequel. The Well was awesome- great twist- and Mike and Dave was hilar…

Reports emerged this week of
the ⛔️death of two more immigrants in the custody of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Emmanuel #Damas, 56,
a Haitian asylum seeker,
reportedly died from an infection linked to a toothache that his family said went
untreated for two weeks while Damas was incarcerated at the Florence Correctional Center in Arizona.
Damas’s death was f…

Kristi Noem Is Leaving a Trail of Death Behind Her in ICE Jails
Two more deaths in ICE custody were reported this week, including a refugee who died after an untreated toothache.

Since 2004,
René Redzepi has been rewriting the rules of fine dining,
preaching sustainable eating and
creating jewel-like plates that earned #Noma three Michelin stars
and landed it five times at No. 1 on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants List.
For effectively transforming the nation into a culinary destination, Mr. Redzepi was knighted by the queen of Denmark.
🆘 Dozens of f…

At Noma, Accusations of Past Physical Abuse
Dozens of former employees say René Redzepi inflicted physical and psychological violence on the staff for years.

Just bought this killer violet vinyl of one of my favorite LPs of 2024 (and my all time favorite dungeon synth record), Warlock Corpse's 'Bloody Tears of the Desert'. Only 200 of these made- if you like dungeon synth at ALL..
Hear it here at Bandcamp if you haven't, it's SICK: https://

Trump's gerrymandering push wasn't subtle.
He wanted Republican House control. Virginia can counter with a voter approved measure.
Don't let authoritarianism win.
Vote YES on April 21st. #VirginiaVoteYes
htt…

Aaron Black (@aaronblack.bsky.social)
Trump's gerrymandering push wasn't subtle. He wanted Republican House control. Virginia can counter with a voter approved measure. Don't let authoritarianism win. Vote YES on April 21st. #VirginiaVoteYes

What's in Jake's pockets? Well, this is in the right front pocket. Left front pocket is for phone.

Latest Cook Political Report Says
Republicans Need to Win 76% of Toss-Up House Seats Just to Keep Majority
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/latest-cook-political-report-says-republicans-need-to-win…

Latest Cook Political Report Says Republicans Need to Win 76% of Toss-Up House Seats to Keep Majority
Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) ability to hang on to his gavel past next January is increasingly in jeopardy, according to the latest analysis by the Cook Political Report.

Terrifier 4 will be set around New Year's Eve, will reveal Art's origin (as previously announced), and will complete the series. #horror

TERRIFIER 4 Moves The Bloodshed To Another Major Holiday
Director Damien Leone has revealed that TERRIFIER 4 will see Art the Clown tearing it up on New Year's Eve.

Hundreds of desalination plants sit along the Persian Gulf coast, putting individual systems that supply water to millions within range of Iranian missile or drone strikes.
Without them, major cities could not sustain their current populations.
In Kuwait, about
⭐️90% of drinking water comes from #desalination,
along with roughly
86% in Oman and about
70% in Saudi …

The Gulf resource most imperiled by war may be water, not oil
As the Iran war widens, experts say the Middle East’s real strategic weak point may be water – not oil. Much of the Gulf’s drinking supply comes from desalination plants clustered along vulnerable coastlines within easy range of Iranian missiles and drones. Many of the individual plants supply water to millions of people. Without them, major cities could not sustain their current populations. In recent days, Iranian drones struck an energy facility that powers a desalination plant in the …

Groundwater contamination was top of mind when Medcalf heard about a new draft bill crafted by the House of Representatives in January.
The bill would amend large portions of the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act
— a series of EPA regulations meant to police the manufacturing, processing and use of chemical substances,
including such contaminants as those found at Jones Road.
In 2016, Congress reformed the act, commonly referred to as

After Years of Gains, GOP Pushes to Roll Back Chemical Regulations
In Texas, environmental activists and experts raise the alarm about the impact on the state's petrochemical industry.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116370166267216336
What's the result of
“Schrödinger’s ceasefire.”?

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116194732972613381
“Estamos prestando mucha atención a Texas”, dijo un estratega demócrata que trabaja en Nebraska.
“Estamos comunicšndonos con los votantes latinos de todas las maneras posibles y aseguršndonos de que sepan que necesit…

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116190142705297452
If the Iranian drone was so cheap and effective,
why not just copy it?
Thus was born the United States low-cost unmanned combat system, or LUCAS.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/113938087833247859
Financial Times front page featuring an article about
💥 backlash against Trump from businesses due to trade war concerns.
The main image shows Trump in the Oval Office.
Additional sections discuss tarif…

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116189574594357948
Why do all Trump's "policy initiatives"
sound like violent
comic book story?

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116180593683668702
Miles Brissette, an attorney representing one of the accused,
asked the FBI agent,
citing Thomas Paine’s famous Revolutionary-era essay
“Common Sense.”:
“Hasn’t it been part of American history to p…

In a federal appeals court, lawyers for Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, argued that military retirees were subject to freedom of speech restrictions because of their connection to the military,
-- and that if they didn’t like those restrictions, retirees could forfeit their pension and benefits.
Let that sink in.
The Trump administration expects the people who have put their lives on the line for America to cede one of their basic rights,
or forfeit the reti…

Opinion | Hegseth Is Sending Us a Warning
The secretary of defense has argued that military retirees are subject to freedom of speech restrictions. Let that sink in.

Virginia Democrats are looking for a way to overturn the state Supreme Court’s Friday decision invalidating the constitutional amendment temporarily adopting new congressional districts that a majority of voters ratified last month.
They have a simple—and lawful—solution:
Send the entire court into early retirement.
Article VI, Section 9, of the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature unlimited authority to set the retirement age for judges.
It specifies, “The …

How Virginia Democrats can overturn the redistricting ruling: Retire the Supreme Court
The state Constitution gives lawmakers complete latitude to set the judicial retirement age. They should use it.

On Tuesday, Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan threatened to “flood the zone” with immigration agents if states like New York attempt to limit coordination with federal immigration agencies.
In his opening keynote at the Border Security Expo, an annual conference bringing together law enforcement, government, and private contractors in Arizona, Homan said,
“What’s going to happen with places like New York, [where] people want to pass this ridiculous legislation not to work with us?

Trump’s Border Czar Threatens to “Flood” New York With ICE Agents
“I don’t take well to threats,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said in response.

Justice Department ramps up denaturalization push with 12 new cases

The announcement marked a significant escalation in the federal government’s efforts to strip citizenship from individuals, which for decades was tried only in rare instances.
https://www.…

Justice Department ramps up denaturalization push with 12 new cases
The announcement marked a significant escalation in the federal government’s efforts to strip citizenship from individuals, which for decades was tried only in rare instances.

The Trump administration’s cancellation of more than $
100 million in humanities grants to scholars, writers, research groups and other organizations
was unconstitutional, and the Department of Government Efficiency had no authority to end the funding, a federal judge in New York ruled on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in Manhattan sided with The Authors Guild, several other groups and several people who had their grants canceled and sued DOGE and the National…

Judge rules government illegally canceled more than $100 million in humanities grants
A federal judge in New York has ruled that the Trump administration's cancellation of over $100 million in humanities grants was unconstitutional. Judge Colleen McMahon on Thursday sided with The Authors Guild and others who sued DOGE and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She permanently barred the administration from terminating the grants. The judge also criticized DOGE's use of artificial intelligence to label and target projects as "diversity, equity and inclusion. Several groups t…

httpsResearchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have discovered that high-frequency ultrasound waves similar to those used in medical exams can eliminate viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and H1N1 without damaging human cells.
In an article publishedin Scientific Reports, they describe how the phenomenon, known as acoustic resonance, causes structural changes in viral particles until they rupture and become inactivated:

Ultrasound waves rupture COVID-19 and flu viruses without damaging cells
Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have discovered that high-frequency ultrasound waves similar to those used in medical exams can eliminate viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and H1N1 without damaging human cells. In an article published in Scientific Reports, they describe how the phenomenon, known as acoustic resonance, causes structural changes in viral particles until they rupture and become inactivated.

The Trump administration has granted more than 180 polluting facilities nationwide a two-year pause on compliance with Clean Air Act rules.

Deregulating by Email:
The administration set up an email address through the Environmental Protection Agency where companies simply had to send an email to make their request.

Silenced Science:
The EPA’s air quality experts played no meaningful role in determining whether a facility should be handed an exemption to …

Trump Exempted Some of the Nation’s Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.
In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering exempting even more.

Trump may be on the verge of tying the United States to China irrevocably:
Trump and Xi Jinping are reportedly considering a deal to allow China to invest $1 trillion in the United States,
largely to build factories on American soil.
It would be an unforced error of world-historic proportions.
“I don’t blame China,”
Trump told business leaders in Beijing in 2017.
“After all, who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for…

Opinion | Is Trump About to Invite In the Biggest Predator in the World?
Chinese automakers do not belong on American soil.

Republicans in the Tennessee House of Representatives voted during a special session on Thursday to adopt a new congressional map that would carve up the state’s lone majority-Black district,
-- a move that came amid raucous protests from angry residents and Democratic lawmakers.
The special session was called by GOP Gov. Bill Lee at the behest of Donald Trump,
whose aggressive gerrymandering push across the country was supercharged by the US Supreme Court’s decision last w…

‘What evil looks like’: outrage as Tennessee GOP rams through racist voting map at Trump’s behest
“This is not a special session—this is a white power rally, and a white power grab,” said one Tennessee Democrat.

In January, behind closed doors at the Pentagon, Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre
— Pope Leo XIV’s then-ambassador to the United States
— and delivered a lecture.
“America,” Colby and his colleagues told the cardinal, “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”
As tempers rose, one U.S. official reached for a fourteenth-century weapon and invoked the A…

The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV’s Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy
The Free Press has documented a closed-door Pentagon meeting in which a senior Trump official lectured Pope Leo XIV’s ambassador on American military supremacy.

ICE Agents Shoot Into a Car, Injuring a Suspect in Northern California
A federal official said the agents were pursuing a wanted gang member who tried to run one of them over.
Dash cam video complicates that account
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/shoo

ICE Agents Shoot Into a Car, Injuring a Suspect in Northern California
A federal official said the agents were pursuing a wanted gang member who tried to run one of them over. Dash cam video complicates the account.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it will deliver a "regret-inducing response" if Israeli strikes on Lebanon don't stop immediately, state media reports

Israel and the US say Lebanon is not included in a two-week ceasefire deal with Iran. PM Benjamin Netanyahu says today Israel delivered "the greatest blow" to Hezbollah since the start of its ground operation in Lebanon

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Vice-President JD…

Trump agrees to two-week ceasefire if Iran opens Strait of Hormuz - follow live
Pakistan had proposed the ceasefire after the US president threatened that "a whole civilisation will die tonight" if Iran did not agree to a deal.

The justice department told the House Oversight Committee that Pam Bondi will not appear at the 14 April deposition
as she was "subpoenaed in her capacity as Attorney General,"
a committee spokesperson confirmed to the BBC.
Bondi was removed from her role as America's top law enforcement officer by Donald Trump last week.
Some members on the committee say they will push for Bondi to answer questions at a later date.
Nancy Mace, a Republican member…

Bondi will not testify on Epstein files next week, DoJ says
Bondi will not face a congressional committee because she is no longer the US attorney general, the justice department told the panel.

As Gregg Carlstrom, Middle East correspondent of the Economist, put it:
"So if you’re keeping score at home,
🌮the ceasefire includes Lebanon but also doesn’t include Lebanon,
🌮America has agreed to all of Iran’s demands and Iran has agreed to all of America’s demands,
🌮America will recognize Iran’s right to enrichment and also insist on zero enrichment,
🌮Hormuz is completely open but also Hormuz is subject to unclear limitations."
Oil market rese…

It’s Not a TACO. It’s a Surrender.
Iran 1, Trump 0

Right-wing podcaster and former Trump White House political strategist 
Steve Bannon 
on Monday said that Donald Trump’s
deployment of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports was
a preview of what could be expected later this year at polling places across the country.
During a Monday episode of his “War Room” podcast,
Bannon said that the Trump administration 
“can use what’s happening with these ICE [agents] at the airports,
we …

Steve Bannon calls ICE at airports a good ‘test run’ for deployment to 2026 midterm polls
The comments marked the second time in just two months that Bannon has floated having ICE illegally monitor US elections.

A brief notice from the
Office of Personnel Management
could dramatically change which personally identifiable medical information the agency obtains,
giving it the power to see prescriptions employees had filled or what treatment they sought from doctors.
The regulation would require 65 insurance companies that cover more than 8 million Americans
— including federal workers, retired members of Congress, mail carriers, and their immediate family members
— …

Trump’s Personnel Agency Is Asking for Federal Workers’ Medical Records - KFF Health News
The administration is asking insurers that cover federal employees and retirees to hand over details about their medical visits, their pharmacy claims, and more.

I was a child during the Vietnam War, and it was impossible to miss antiwar protests.
I remember a common sentiment best expressed by Senator George McGovern:
“I’m tired of old men dreaming up wars for young men to fight.”
And here we go again
https://www.nyti…

Opinion | The Old Man Dreaming Up Wars for Young Men to Fight
Any deal with Iran would probably be a bad one. But sending ground troops to seize Iranian territory would be an even worse choice.

New forecasts from NOAA and international models show growing odds that a rare super El Niño will persist through late 2026
-- which could disrupt monsoons,
alter storm tracks and reshape rainfall from Asia to the Americas
https:/…

A rare “Super El Niño” may be forming in the Pacific — and it could reshape global weather starting this summer
A rare super El Niño may be forming in the Pacific, with forecasts warning it could become one of the strongest events in over a century. Learn how this powerful climate phenomenon could disrupt global weather, weaken India’s monsoon, and trigger extreme floods, droughts and long-term climate regime shifts affecting ecosystems and livelihoods.

During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump privately told donors about one of his favorite negotiating tactics,
recounting at a New York fundraiser in May how he would deter Chinese or Russian aggression
by threatening to bomb Beijing or Moscow.

“He thought I was crazy,”
Trump said of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s response.
“He didn’t believe me, except 10 percent.
And 10 percent is all you need.”

The story, which has not been confirmed by R…

Trump’s Iran brinkmanship reaches truce, escalates backlash at home
The president’s ultimatum drew condemnation across the political spectrum and intensified open debate about his credibility, morality and sanity.

The most important thing to understand about the “madman theory” of foreign policy
is that it was designed by losers for losers.
The world first heard of the madman theoryfrom a 1978 memoir by Richard Nixon’s former chief of staff H. R. Haldeman.
According to Haldeman, Nixon said:
“I want the North Vietnamese to believe I’ve reached the point where I might do anything to stop the war.”
Faced with an otherwise hopeless war in Vietnam, Nixon would pretend to be cra…

Trump’s Desperate Madman Ploy
Does Trump seem crazy? Sure. Credible, not so much.

Trump said he went to war to ensure that Iran never acquired a nuclear bomb.
The war ended
—for now, at least
—with a demonstration that Tehran possesses an arguably more powerful weapon of deterrence against future attacks,
one that is cheaper to use, gives Iran enormous sway over the global economy, can bring in revenue, and can’t be negotiated away:
-- the Strait of Hormuz.
More than 12,000 U.S. missiles, bombs, and drones hit Iranian targets over the past…

Trump's Iran Deal Gives Him Nothing He Wanted
U.S. declarations of victory ring hollow.

Although both parties have
“strong incentives” to maintain a ceasefire,
the deal is “extremely precarious,”
says Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi,
professor of international relations of the Middle East at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
“We’re already seeing it being imperiled as we speak,
with ongoing attacks in Lebanon,
as well as reports of [Iranian] attacks in the Persian Gulf.”

“Sigh of Relief”: U.S. & Iran Agree to 2-Week Ceasefire, But Israel Keeps Bombing Lebanon
The United States and Iran have announced a two-week ceasefire, brokered by Pakistan, under which Iran has agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Israel is also part of the agreement, but it has said it will continue its attacks and occupation inside Lebanon. The deal was reached less than two hours before President Trump’s 8 p.m. ET deadline Tuesday for Iran to reopen the strait under threat of destroying every power plant and major bridge in Iran. Although both parties have “strong incent…

Canada’s left-leaning
New Democratic Party (NDP)
has elected a new leader,
someone whose campaign drew comparisons to the politics and style of U.S. figures like
Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani.
On March 29, the NDP elected
Avi Lewis on the first round of balloting
with 55 percent of the vote in his first successful political campaign.
The NDP was decimated in the April 2025 federal election.
Former leader Jag…

In Echoes of Corbyn, Insurgent Candidate Wins Canadian Party Leadership
Avi Lewis now leads the New Democratic Party after a campaign reminiscent of left-leaning politicians in the US and UK.

The speaker of the House was tweeting about transgender athletes.
The Republican senator who leads oversight of the Pentagon was promoting Trump-branded investment accounts for children.
The chairman of the main foreign affairs panel in the House was posting photos of newborn bald eagles.
As Donald Trump swung this week from threatening to annihilate Iran to announcing a cease-fire whose terms and durability remain murky,
Congress
— the branch of government vest…

As Trump Swings on Iran War, Republicans Leaders in Congress Are Largely Silent
In a week in which President Trump has veered from threatening to wipe out Iranian civilization to declaring a cease-fire, Congress is out of session and lawmakers with the power to declare war are mostly in the dark.

In a thread on X, Adam Back,
a London-born computer scientist and entrepreneur
denied being the mysterious
– and presumably ultra-wealthy
– inventor of Bitcoin.
“I also don’t know who satoshi is,
and i think it is good for bitcoin that this is the case,
as it helps bitcoin be viewed [as] a new asset class,
the mathematically scarce digital commodity,” he wrote.
Satoshi Nakamoto’s true identity has been the subject of speculation for years.…

Video: Unraveling the Mystery Behind Bitcoin’s Creator
Our investigative reporter John Carreyrou spent 18 months digging through the archives of online cryptography communities in search of the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous inventor of bitcoin.

Trump has not just been unprecedentedly corrupt,
broken dozens of laws,
abandoned legally binding treaties with our closest allies,
and has now committed dozens of war crimes;
He is very old for this demanding job,
in ill-health, and often doesn’t make any sense when he speaks and posts;
But, most importantly, he and his ridiculous regime are leading America to global and domestic ruin.
For so, so many reasons this man should no longer be leading …

Trump Is A Failed President. It's Time To Start Talking About What Comes Next
Hopium paid subscribers gather tonight at 6pm ET; our Vote Yes phonebanks start tomorrow; and I will be speaking in Bethesda, MD in person tomorrow night at 7pm

In its first act of goodwill since the declaration of a ceasefire,
on Wednesday Iran permitted a container ship loaded with copies of the Epstein files to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
“In recent weeks, the closure of the Strait has cut off the world’s supply of Epstein files,”
an Iranian government statement read.
“Now, those files will flow freely to the four corners of the globe.”
Although Iran is charging vessels millions for safe passage through the S…

Iran Allows Ship Loaded With Epstein Files Through Strait of Hormuz
Although Iran is charging vessels millions for safe passage through the Strait, “We are sending the Epstein files through free of charge,” they said.

More than 215,000 people have now signed a letter which calls
not just for the closure of Dilley
but for an end to the detention of children and families nationwide
— and the return of those already detained to the communities from which they were taken.
The campaign, organized under the "National Coalition to End Child and Family Detention", is not a celebrity vanity project.
Alongside the artists is a medical corps
— pediatricians, OBGYNs, pulm…

215,000 Demand Dilley Shutdown as Artists and Doctors Unite Against Family Detention
Janelle Monáe, Spike Lee, Jodie Foster, and a battalion of pediatricians join growing coalition calling on CoreCivic and DHS to release children now

Donald Trump has championed the U.S. steel industry,
promising to strengthen it and to impose stiff tariffs on foreign metals to shield manufacturers from overseas competitors.
Yet the White House has secured tens of millions of dollars worth of donated foreign steel for his $400 million ballroom project, according to two people familiar with the plans

White House Secures Foreign Steel for Trump’s Ballroom Project
ArcelorMittal, a European steel maker, is donating tens of millions of dollars of foreign steel for President Trump’s new ballroom.

At the Pentagon on Wednesday morning, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that the United States would get ahold of the country’s nuclear stockpiles — by persuasion or by force.
The more soft-spoken chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, told reporters that U.S. forces would remain in the Middle East and were
“ready if ordered, or called upon, to resume combat operations with the same speed and precision as we’ve demonstrated over the past 38 days.”
But …

For Trump, Resuming Combat in Iran Would Be Risky, Even if Cease-Fire Expires
President Trump knows that even if a cease-fire runs out with no final agreement on the issues dividing Washington and Tehran, the political risk of renewing hostilities is high.

Last week I had the opportunity to tour the Godin guitar factories in Princeville and Richmond, Quebec, Canada.
Godin is the manufacturer of several well respected guitar brands including Seagull, Simon & Patrick, Norman, Art & Lutherie, La Patrie, and of course Godin.
The experience was both educational and inspiring.
I learned that Godin is the largest manufacturer of guitars in North America.
They are one of the only factories in the world that does ev…

Godin Factory Tour
Last week I had the opportunity to tour the Godin guitar factories in Princeville and Richmond, Quebec, Canada.  Godin is the manufacturer of several well respected guitar brands including Seagull,…

Anže Slosar, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, had once hoped to put a radio telescope on the far side of the moon,
but abandoned his dream years ago.
The mission just seemed too expensive, and there wasn’t enough interest in it. “
After the Apollo landings, the thinking was,
‘we’ve done it,’ and that was that,” he recalls.
Sentiments changed during the first Trump administration.
One day Slosar got an
e-mail from a Department of Energ…

NASA’s Artemis moon missions are a game changer for astronomy
After decades of planning, NASA’s Artemis program is giving astronomers their long-awaited moonshot

In a rare public criticism of a fellow member of the Supreme Court,
Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized Justice Brett Kavanaugh
for his justification of racial profiling
in immigration-based stops of U.S. citizens.
“I had a colleague in that case who wrote, you know, these are only temporary stops,”
Sotomayor said at a University of Kansas School of Law event on Tuesday.
She was referring to the case of
"Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo",
in w…

Sonia Sotomayor Makes Rare But Damning Critique Of A Fellow Supreme Court Justice
The justice had rare public criticism for her colleague and his justification of racial profiling in immigration-based stops of U.S. citizens.

"Ghost Murmur" was described as a futuristic CIA tool
that could detect a heartbeat from vast distances.
Physicists say the public story clashes with the basic limits of magnetic sensing
Orzel struggles to see how a Ghost Murmur could work.
“There is really fascinating work being done using quantum magnetometry to measure heart rates,
and magnetic brain scans can now catch the tiny flickers of firing nerves.
“But none of that is something that …

What is the quantum ‘Ghost Murmur’ purportedly used in Iran? Scientists question CIA’s claim of long-range heartbeat detection
Ghost Murmur was described as a futuristic CIA tool that could detect a heartbeat from vast distances. Physicists say the public story clashes with the basic limits of magnetic sensing

Speaking to reporters as he departed Budapest, J.D. Vance said:
"[Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf] said we refuse to give up the right to enrichment.
“I thought to myself, you know what?
My wife has the right to skydive,
but she doesn’t jump out of an airplane
because she and I have an agreement that she’s not going to do that
because I don’t want my wife jumping out of an airplane,”
Vance said in reaction to Ghalibaf’s comment

Vance makes bizarre skydiving wife analogy as he discusses Iranian ceasefire demands

Baltimore Drove Down Gun Deaths.
Now Trump Has Slashed Funding for That Work.
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/baltimore-guns-community-violence-intervention-homicide-decline-arpa-federal-funds/…

Baltimore Drove Down Gun Deaths. Now Trump Has Slashed Funding for That Work. - KFF Health News
A spike in shootings during the covid pandemic propelled community violence intervention, a field that aims to stop gun deaths at the root. Baltimore used federal funds to launch a violence prevention office. But President Donald Trump has throttled such funds and instead is sending troops into cities.

You’ve read your last free article
https://www.wired.com/snake-bros-antivenom-index-zoos-influencers-chris-gifford/

Snake Bros Keep Getting Bitten by Their Lethal Pets. Only Zoos Can Save Them
Your venomous serpent bites you, and the clock is ticking. America’s zookeepers—and a cooler full of rare antivenom—are your best chance of survival.

Countries heavily dependent on Middle Eastern energy—particularly in Asia—have been most affected.
India sources around 55 percent of its energy imports from the region,
China about 50 percent,
Japan 93 percent,
South Korea 67 percent,
and Singapore 70 percent,
according to Ladekjær.
Around 1,000 ships remain in the Gulf,
including hundreds of tankers awaiting passage.
As of this writing, more than 800 cargo ships and tankers are stuck i…

As the Strait of Hormuz Reopens, Global Shipping Will Take Months to Recover
After weeks of disruption, a ceasefire is easing pressure on the Strait of Hormuz. But backlogs, infrastructure damage, and delayed supply mean the system won’t return to normal overnight.

Donald Trump warned late Wednesday
- U.S. military forces will remain deployed around Iran until a
"REAL AGREEMENT" is reached and fully complied with,
amid disputes and uncertainty over key terms of the cease-fire announced a day earlier.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/…

Trump warns U.S. military to stay deployed amid cease-fire uncertainty - UPI.com
U.S. military forces will remain deployed around Iran until a "REAL AGREEMENT" is reached, President Donald Trump warned late Wednesday.

One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests. An area larger than Texas. The largest public land agency in the country. Just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.
And they did it with a press release on a Tuesday

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An execution.

American-born Pope Leo may not visit US while Trump is president after diplomat meeting disaster
The Pope will reportedly spend July 4th visiting with African migrants seeking a new life in Europe
rather than attending 250th anniversary celebrations in the U.S.
https://www.…

American-born Pope Leo may not visit US while Trump is president after diplomat meeting disaster: report
The Pope will reportedly spend July 4th visiting with African migrants seeking a new life in Europe rather than attending 250th anniversary celebrations in the U.S.

Trump’s latest climbdown won’t undo the damage from his murderous escalation.
Republicans and Democrats, along with ordinary Americans, have seen with their own eyes that the president’s erratic behavior isn’t strategic.
This is a crazy person, who did a crazy thing, and is likely to do many more crazy things soon.
https://www.

TACO Tuesday's lasting hangover
It'll take more than Pepto to calm this shitstorm.

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We’ve seen people enjoy their time on Mastodon the most, when they can follow and engage with individuals and organisations that have interesting things to share.
We want to help those who are new to the Fediverse discover these communities more easily.
Back in October 2025, we shared our initial ideas about a new feature that’s coming in Mastodon 4.6, that we’re calling "Coll…

Designing Collections
A new way to share and discover accounts on Mastodon

While the end point is unclear,
Trump’s would-be dictatorship is politically broken.
And as Trump’s mental and physical dissipation increases by the day,
it’s increasingly important to focus on the network of stooges that have built and sustained his regime.
After all, once Trump departs from the scene, stooges like them will remain,
ready and waiting to be activated by another would-be dictator

A regime of idiots: A complete inventory of Trump stooges
They will remain, festering, awaiting the next opportunity for soul-selling.

The sharply conservative Supreme Court that Donald Trump’s three appointees remade
is the first since at least the 1950s to
reject civil rights claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities
“There is no center now,” said political science professor Lee Epstein,
who performed the analysis with her Washington University colleague Andrew D. Martin and Michael J. Nelson of Penn State.

A yawning gulf has opened between the left and right flanks of the …

Supreme Court remade by Trump ushers in historic defeats for civil rights
The court is the first since at least the ’50s to reject claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities, an analysis conducted for The Post shows.

The U.S. under Donald Trump is seen as more of a threat than an ally,
according to a new POLITICO Pulse survey of six major EU countries.
Since returning to power in January 2025, Trump has questioned Washington’s commitment to NATO,
threatened to annex Greenland and Canada,
hit allies with tariffs
and launched a war with Iran that European countries refused to join.
Only 12 percent of those polled in March in Poland, Spain, Belgium, France, Germany and It…

Poll: More Europeans see US as threat than China
Washington outranks Beijing as a threat in Spain, Italy, Belgium and Germany, according to POLITICO Pulse survey.

Iran-linked hackers disrupt operations at US critical infrastructure sites
“Hackers working on behalf of the Iranian government are disrupting operations at multiple US critical infrastructure sites,
likely in response to the country’s ongoing war with the US,
a half-dozen government agencies are warning.
In an advisory published Tuesday,
the FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, National Security Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, Departm…

Iran-linked hackers disrupt operations at US critical infrastructure sites — Ars Technica
As the US and Israel's war has ramped up, so too have hacks on US industrial sites.

Critics wonder if this is America’s “Suez moment,”
when a leading power signals the start of its international decline.
The Suez crisis took place in October 1956, when Britain, France and Israel attacked Egypt to force open the Suez Canal.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, with an election days away, ordered them to stop.
Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Britain resigned.
President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt became a hero of anti-colonialism.
Suez became …

A Cease-Fire for Now in Iran, but a Blow to American Credibility
Critics wonder if this is America’s “Suez moment,” when a leading power signals the start of its international decline.

Teen who went to photograph L.A. ‘No Kings’ rally shot, blinded by Homeland Security agent, attorney says
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-07/teen-who-attended-la-no-kings-rally-shot-blinded-by-dh…

Teen who attended L.A. 'No Kings' rally shot, blinded by DHS agent, attorney says
Tucker Collins, an 18-year-old freshman at USC, attended a 'No Kings' protest in Los Angeles on Mar. 28. He ended up getting shot in the eye with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland Security agent and is now blind.

Rep. Mike Lawler: "I don't support making a whole civilization die, but ... "
⭐️You Don't Get To Add 'but' To That Sentence
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mivvez7g5z2u

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Rep. Mike Lawler: "I don't support making a whole civilization die, but ... "

Donald Trump suggested on Monday that carrying out war crimes against Iran is justified because Iranian leaders are “animals”
— using the same language Israeli leaders have used to describe Palestinians
— which has been cited by judges in the Hague in determinations of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

Trump Uses Same Language Cited by ICJ in Genocide Ruling Against Israel
Trump said the US is fighting “animals,” echoing Yoav Gallant’s “human animals” remark early in Israel’s Gaza genocide.

A weaker, angrier, more suspicious regime with a less cautious supreme leader and leverage over Hormuz
Preventing an Iranian Bomb Is Only Getting Harder
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/07/iran-bomb-nuclear-trump-war-ayatollah-khamenei/…

Preventing an Iranian Bomb Is Only Getting Harder
A weaker, angrier, more suspicious regime with a less cautious supreme leader and leverage over Hormuz. What could go wrong?

The White House is seeking a record-shattering Pentagon budget of
$1.5 trillion for the next fiscal year,
the largest year-over-year increase in a presidential military spending request since World War II.
The United States already has the world’s largest military budget at roughly $1 trillion,
more than the combined budgets of the next nine highest-spending countries.
The budget proposal also includes deep cuts to social programs.
The Trump administrati…

“A Moral Obscenity”: White House Demands $1.5 Trillion Pentagon Budget, Largest Increase Since WWII
The White House is seeking a record-shattering Pentagon budget of $1.5 trillion for the next fiscal year, the largest year-over-year increase in a presidential military spending request since World War II. The United States already has the world’s largest military budget at roughly $1 trillion, more than the combined budgets of the next nine highest-spending countries. The Trump administration’s budget request includes funding for F-35 stealth fighter jets, new warships and President Trump�…

The nonstop parade of luxury that is
La Première, Air France’s first-class trans-Atlantic service,
begins when a Mercedes limousine collects you from your hotel and whisks you to an exclusive entrance at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
It ends at J.F.K., when an Air France employee personally escorts you from your seat through a special customs line.
Each new indulgence seems more lavish than the one before.
The bespoke departure lounge, where you can or…

What Does an Ultra-Luxury First Class Ticket Get You? Flying in a Frictionless Bubble.
A writer reports from inside the premium bubble, where there’s no such thing as too much, petty annoyances are nonexistent and the real world never intrudes.

"So, if it doesn’t happen, I’m blaming JD Vance,” Trump said, to laughter.
“If it does happen, I’m taking full credit.”
Does Vance still not realize that the joke is on him?
The interesting thing is not that he keeps debasing himself
but that he gets less and less in return each time.
As his political fortunes dim, his soul has become a depreciating asset.

Opinion | How Much Humiliation Can Vance Take?
The vice president gets saddled with the Iran war and eroding popularity.

Trump agrees to suspend attacks for ‘two weeks’ if Iran opens Strait of Hormuz
Just 90 minutes before Donald Trump’s 8 p.m. deadline to
“wipe out a whole civilization”
with massive strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure and bridges,
he came up with a two-week extension for diplomacy to continue.

“Subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz,”
Trump said on social media,
“I agre…

Trump agrees to suspend attacks for ‘two weeks’ if Iran opens Strait of Hormuz
Amid threats to bomb civilian infrastructure, the president said he had received a 10-point proposal from Iran that formed a “workable basis” for continued negotiations.

Trump agrees to suspend attacks for ‘two weeks’ if Iran opens Strait of Hormuz
There was no immediate comment from Tehran,
and it was not clear whether or how either side had altered what appeared to be mutually exclusive demands.

In sputtering negotiations over the past week, Iran had rejected U.S. demands to shut down its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and reopen the strait, the vital Persian Gulf waterway through which an estimated one-fifth of the world’s ene…

Trump agrees to suspend attacks for ‘two weeks’ if Iran opens Strait of Hormuz
Amid threats to bomb civilian infrastructure, the president said he had received a 10-point proposal from Iran that formed a “workable basis” for continued negotiations.

Israel’s military admitted on Tuesday to “collateral damage” taken by a synagogue in Tehran
after Iran accused the country of destroying the place of worship.
Iranian media reported on Tuesday that heavy damage was inflicted on a Tehran synagogue in an overnight airstrike targeting an Iranian military leader.

Israel Admits Striking Synagogue in Tehran, Calls It ‘Collateral Damage’
Israel's military admitted on Tuesday to "collateral damage" taken by a synagogue in Tehran after Iran accused the country of destroying the place of worship...

Pulitzer Prize–winning  journalists
Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis
offer an investigation into the unraveling of the U.S. Justice Department.
They reveal how, under Donald Trump, the nation’s top law enforcement agency was transformed
from an institution built to protect the rule of law
into one pressured to protect the president.
They joined Geoff Bennett to discuss "Injustice."

New book 'Injustice' explores Trump's decade-long effort to politicize DOJ
In their new book, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis offer an investigation into the unraveling of the U.S. Justice Department. They reveal how, under Donald Trump, the nation’s top law enforcement agency was transformed from an institution built to protect the rule of law into one pressured to protect the president. They joined Geoff Bennett to discuss "Injustice."

NYT reporting that under this ceasefire each ship will pay $2M to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
It was $0 before Trump launched this illegal war.
100-130 ships pass the Strait daily.
Trump just gave Iran an extra $100M-$130M per day.
Masterful gambit, sir.
Impeach and remove this fascist—NOW.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com)
NYT reporting that under this ceasefire each ship will pay $2M to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. It was $0 before Trump launched this illegal war. 100-130 ships pass the Strait daily. Trump just gave Iran an extra $100M-$130M per day. Masterful gambit, sir. Impeach and remove this fascist—NOW.

Southern California parents didn’t like the texts their teen daughter sent to boys;
They tortured her to death
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-06/socal-parents-tortured-their-teen-daughter-to-death

SoCal parents tortured their teen daughter to death over text messages
The parents were convicted last month of second-degree murder, torture and child abuse, among other criminal charges.

No official version of the proposal has been made available, but a summary released by Iran's Supreme National Security Council includes demands for the following:
The Strait of Hormuz to be reopened "under the co-ordination of the armed forces of Iran".

The war against "all components" of Iran's so-called Axis of Resistance to end.

US forces to withdraw from "all bases and points of deployment within the region".

What is in Iran's 10-point peace plan?
Iranian proposal appears to include demands for reparations for war damages

The United States and Iran reached an 11th-hour ceasefire deal on Tuesday night,
pausing for two weeks the threat of military strikes that Trump had warned would wipe out a “whole civilization” unless Tehran agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Accepting ceasefire, Trump agreed to negotiate on Iran’s terms
-- He did so stating that diplomacy would revolve around a 10-point proposal from Tehran,
a framework he described as a
“workable basis on which to negotiat…

Trump pulls back threats of destroying 'whole civilization,' gives Iran two more weeks
President Trump warned that a “whole civilization will die” on Tuesday night if Iran does not meet his deadline to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz by 5 p.m.

ICE selects untested firms to oversee new warehouse detention centers
For decades, two companies have been the government’s go-to partners for immigrant detention:
Geo Group and CoreCivic
run the facilities where the majority of people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are held.

But as the Trump administration embarks on a $38 billion plan to convert industrial warehouses into a new breed of large-scale holding centers,
it is turning to a cr…

ICE selects untested firms to oversee new warehouse detention centers
The Trump administration has picked new companies to oversee warehouse detention centers, despite their relative lack of experience in immigrant detention.

Opponents of VA Redistricting Amendment Send Out Mailer/Text Falsely
-- and Offensively!
Claiming That Fighting Trump’s Assault on Our Democracy Is
“Just Like Jim Crow”
Note that many of the most prominent supporters of this amendment
- Barack Obama, Louise Lucas, Don Scott, etc.
- are African American

Opponents of VA Redistricting Amendment Send Out Mailer/Text Falsely (and Offensively!) Claiming That Fighting Trump's Assault on Our Democracy Is "Just Like Jim Crow" - Blue Virginia
See below for what’s hitting Virginia’s mailboxes and smartphones (via text) today; a group called “Democracy and Justice PAC” – nothing popping up in Google about it, but the mailing address is listed as 123 Bulifants Blvd in Williamsburg, VA (same address as “Campaign Compliance Center“) – sent out the following. The problems with these […]

RFK Jr. wanted parents to question the science.
A study of 12 million newborns shows they listened
America’s vaccine skepticism is starting to show up in health data
https://www.memeorandum.com/260309/p36

America's vaccine skepticism is starting to show up in health data
By Pratik Pawar / Vox. View the full context on memeorandum.

James Fallows:
This week I realized that over the past 45 years I’d been preparing for the news of the past nine days.
I’ll list the reporting steps I’ve taken, because they set up the questions and reactions I have now.
-In 1981 I published a book called "National Defense", which was serialized in the Atlantic.
Its purpose was to interview people who’d spent their lives waging war, or studying warfare,
and ask what realities of combat they think the…

The Arrogance of Ignorance.
What I have learned in 45 years of interviewing experts about peace and war, and how it applies to the tumult of these past nine days.

Planting trees in the sea could act as a huge carbon sink and save millions of dollars in storm damage every year.
What is stopping us from doing it?
A new study reveals restoring mangroves could save $800 million in storm damage,
protect 140,000 people from flooding,
and remove almost triple the amount of CO2 produced by cars in the U.S. every year

Planting trees in the sea could act as a huge carbon sink and save millions of dollars in storm damage every year. What is stopping us from doing it?
A new study reveals restoring mangroves could save $800 million in storm damage, protect 140,000 people from flooding, and remove almost triple the amount of CO2 produced by cars in the U.S. every year.

To house the hundreds or thousands of temporary workers needed to build an AI data center, developers are increasingly relying on temporary villages known as "man camps".
This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.
For example, as a Bitcoin mining facility in rural Dickens County, Texas is converted into a 1.6 gigawatt data center, Bloomberg reports its workers are living in gray housing units with access to a gym, a laundromat, g…

Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps | TechCrunch
AI data center developers are increasingly relying on a style of camp popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.

https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/emergency-responders-roadside-assistance-waymo

Emergency Responders Say They’re Now Unpaid “Roadside Assistance” for Confused Waymos
First responders at San Francisco's Department of Emergency Management are fed up with having to deal with blundering Waymo robotaxis.

7th U.S. service member dies in Iran war;
Trump says using ground troops is ‘possible’
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-03-08/trump-says-u-s-ground-troops-in-iran-possible

Trump says U.S. ground troops in Iran 'possible'
Trump declined to rule out the possibility of sending U.S. forces inside Iran, saying it could “possibly happen” as the conflict intensifies.

Alabama is scheduled to kill Charles “Sonny” Burton for a murder that everyone agrees he did not commit.
As the Alabama Reflector’s Ralph Chapoco explained,
“He did not pull the trigger that killed Doug Battle during a 1991 robbery at a Talladega AutoZone,
and was not in the store when Battle was shot.“
The legal concept that allows such a situation is known as
💥“felony murder,”
and it essentially means that,
if someone is killed during the commiss…

Alabama is set to kill Sonny Burton on Thursday. Governor Kay Ivey must stop it.
Sonny Burton did not kill anyone, but Alabama put him on death row and his execution is scheduled to be carried out this week — unless Ivey grants clemency or courts intervene.

The Complete Guide to Building Skills for Claude
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Anthropic dropped a 33 pages cheat sheet for building Claude skills https://t.co/jEuH95NGn3

There are now just two days until the special election in Georgia to fill the seat vacated by Marjorie Taylor Greene.
20 Republicans are running.
One Democrat is running.
I'm that Democrat.
This is how we win.
This is how we take back the House and put a check on Trump's rampage against our Democracy.
I'm Shawn Harris. I'm a Democrat, Husband, Father, Retired Brigadier General, Farmer, and I'm running to represent Northwest Georgia…

Help Defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene
Chip in $3 to support Shawn Harris for Georgia!

Learning To See Again:
For over twenty years I've been seeking out alternative stories in our surviving material culture and sharing them with my photographs and words.
-- Andy Marshall
https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/about-2/

About Me - Learning To See Again
For over twenty years I've been seeking out alternative stories in our surviving material culture and sharing them with my photographs and words.

Consider three of the biggest developments in our politics right now:
🔸We just learned that the economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, a capstone to a terrible year in terms of job creation.
🔸Trump has fired widely despised Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a key architect of his mass deportations.
🔸And reports are indicating that the killing of scores of Iranian schoolchildren might have been the handiwork of the United States.
What links all these things?

Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall
Republicans typically lead on the economy, national security, and immigration. Trump is squandering the GOP’s traditional strength on all three.

Trump won over young, male voters by promising a stronger economy and an anti-interventionist foreign policy.
These voters are losing patience
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-iran-last-straw-1235527012/

Will Iran Be the Last Straw for Young MAGA Men?
President Trump won over young, male voters by promising a stronger economy and an anti-interventionist foreign policy. These voters are losing patience.

CETI is a nonprofit organization
applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics
to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales.
Our research focus is in Dominica
in the Eastern Caribbean
https://www.projectceti.org/

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CETI is a nonprofit organization applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales.