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NEW: I found video of a Russian military cadet school. The kids march to the national anthem. But not all the pupils are Russian - with the school boasting the cohort inc abducted Ukrainian children. These stolen kids are being trained to fight against their birth country inews.co.uk/news/world/s...

Worth a listen - No, Trump Isn't Cracking Down on Crime. Plus, How Ukrainians Tell Their Story of the War. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm

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Nevermind, I see now. What a sad thing to make up.

Touché.

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We recently spoke with one of the political scientists behind the “3.5% rule,” research that shows that no government has withstood a social resistance movement that draws 3.5% of its population www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

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Dimon in January on tariffs - “get over it”

If you're a fan of board games, and can swing it, now is a fantastic time to support your favorite indie board game publishers! So many folks are having to adjust business plans, downsize, lay off employees, and more. Please support as you can. <3 1/2

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Trump's tariffs are now coming for Mario Kart, board games, and comic books—because nothing screams “populist champion” like making fun unaffordable while Putin gets a pass.

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Paleontologists and volunteers are racing to excavate a top Jurassic fossil quarry in St. George before construction on a power station begins.

Bluesky loves links! We don't downrank, and major publishers report that we're sending more link traffic than other sites. Here's the top links shared on Bluesky, updated hourly. theblue.report/week/

RFK Jr's move to eliminate the Administration for Community Living, which helps disabled & aging people stay at home instead of being institutionalized, is disastrous. I'm never done shouting about what my mom's institutionalization took from her & from us (so here's my @teenvogue.com piece again).

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Elon bought the White House, now he's trying to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court. This is exactly what oligarchy looks like. Wisconsin, on April 1st vote against him by voting Judge Crawford.

Horrifying.

If Tesla's stock drops far enough, the bank loans Elon took out to buy Twitter lose their collateral and get called back immediately. Which is why Elon is panicking, Trump is panicking, and their shadow backers are all panicking.

A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE. Funny how that works, huh?

COLBERT, on Rep. Al Green’s removal: “Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine." @latenightercom.bsky.social

Bernie Sanders has never sounded more sane than he does in the context of Trump’s second term. I know he’s now too old to represent the future, but this is what Americans need. www.youtube.com/live/QlrQKv1...

if you're watching the trump speech right now and hearing this false rant about social security, it's a good time to read/send this piece from @davidgilbert.bsky.social to people in your life:

Utah is not a red state. It’s a purple state with gerrymandered districts. We were formed to fight back and shift Utah blue. Can you repost this, give us a follow, and help us fight back?

Consistent with the broader Republican message of No More Democracy. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist. He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

NEW: “Elon Musk’s Starlink is installed above all the buildings in the campus where we are now. Now the fraud work is running normally," a human-trafficking victim wrote. A WIRED investigation into reports of criminals running multibillion-dollar empires across Southeast Asia using Starlink:

11 years ago, on Instytutska Street in Kyiv, 48 protesters were killed—among the many who stood for Ukraine’s European future. 📷 Ukrinform | Vyacheslav Ratynskyi | Vladyslav Sodel

A series of mistakes by DOGE shows just how arbitrary and destructive this slash-and-burn strategy can get.

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

SCOOP: We've learned at least three individuals closely associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year. Step inside the recruitment effort that helped build Elon's DOGE army:

All of Schoolhouse Rock is on Disney+, if you need them. The most problematic is the explanation of westward expansion as “Elbow Room.” But the rest are pretty good refreshers for what the US is meant to stand for. The irony that they’re largely accessible thru a giant corporation isn’t lost on me

NEW: “Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture [Phyllis Fong] out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration.” www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

The truth from the California Department of Water Resources:

This is the GOP’s long con on full display.

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Why are Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk, Pichai and Tim Cook visiting and giving money to Trump ? Because they are in “The Race “ to become the dominant platform in the world. Amazon/Anthropic vs FB/LLama vs Google/Gemini vs Twitter/Grok, vs IPhones/ChatGpt is the penultimate global power war ever.

As we gawk at the $250M Musk spent elect Trump, take a guess how long it took him to “earn” it back in the market? It took just 15 minutes. I'm not kidding... 15 minutes. According to Bloomberg, his net worth soared by $8B just today. That’s billionaire math for you—and it’s all of our problem.

This week, the FBI and CISA published a guide encouraging Americans not to text, and to use encryption messaging as much as possible. Here's our practical guide on protecting yourself from surveillance, from best encryption messaging platforms to location services:

Jay: I think social media should be basically common infrastructure that society gets to use and evolve it as society evolves, building a more democratic form of social media to reflect a democratic society.