Maybe Canada isn’t the problem. (via CFR)

Vaccines Save Lives! “Vaccines are so effective they created an entire generation of people who think the diseases they prevented weren’t a big deal.”

Just one year of Walt Disney World's solar output could power the monorail for 34 years. Disney shared that figure alongside the announcement that four solar projects can now meet 100% of the resort's daytime energy needs. ☀️ Read more: blogmickey.com/2026/04/walt...

FRANKLIN, TN conservative David French: “I’ve changed my perception of the lingering severity of race problems. We adopted a child from Ethiopia- maybe naive: didn’t think she’d have a different experience than our older kids. There wasn’t a school she wasn’t called the N word.”

Trump administration to pay 2 more companies to walk away from US offshore wind leases Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind have agreed to end their offshore wind leases in exchange for reimbursements totaling nearly $900MIL By JENNIFER McDERMOTT MATTHEW DALY April 27 apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump administration to pay 2 more companies to walk away from US offshore wind leases

The Trump administration has announced two more payouts for energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects under development.

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This is so well done. 👌

And the three exceptions, who were Afghan, had their protected status stripped by Trump.

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“All but three of the 4,499 refugees let into the United States this fiscal year so far have come from South Africa.” www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

“Unhappily, we have yet to realize that nobody can go to war anymore and win. It's impossible. It's a dirty habit that mankind has got to give up.” — James Baldwin

The call is coming from inside the house.

Incumbent German electricity suppliers said in 1993 that renewables could not provide more than 4% of electricity in the long run. In 2025, renewables provided 55.9% of Germany's electricity — 14 times the predicted ceiling.

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

DOOCY: If Iran tries to hit us back, have you been briefed about how many Iran sleeper cells there could be inside the US right now? TRUMP: I have been, and a lot of people came in through Biden with his stupid open border. But we know where most of them are.

I think we should allow Trump to choose Iran’s next leader as long as the rest of us can choose America’s. Because it’s clearly far too important a job to be left in the hands of Americans.

CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran

Netanyahu to the U.S. Congress, 2002: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region."

NEW: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents. Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress. Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg. My report:

911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center

EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.

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Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025. Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

The man who told reporters it’s time to move on from the Epstein files won’t shut up about the 2020 election.

Every American needs to watch this:

CEOs of big tech companies who the Trump administration listens to have decided to ignore the slow descent into fascism. www.resistandunsubscribe.com

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

“The official story—promulgated by Kristi Noem, and Stephen Miller and JD Vance—was a lie. They are lying to you. They're lying to us. They know it. And in fact, they seem proud of it,” says Chris Hayes on JD Vance saying he won’t apologize for labeling Alex Pretti an “assassin.”

‘For what?’: JD Vance refuses to apologize for smearing Alex Pretti

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BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US

Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

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Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan. Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin. This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.