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I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE.

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

Suspect in the alleged attack on Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan is dead after synagogue security confronted and killed him when he rammed a vehicle into the building during an active shooter situation; no victims were reported.

Idk man, could be that a bunch of 19-year-olds who were too young to cut their teeth on the eruptions in 2020 got organized in 2024-25, and then were battered mercilessly by police officers with batons and guns. They got expelled, suspended, sent to detention camps. That does something to someone

This is about the population of Iowa.

Imagine every resident of Iowa being displaced within the span of a few weeks.

85-year-old congressman Jim Clyburn just announced he's running for re-election. Last year, he said that Joe Biden would have been able to serve another four years.

"I've seen people develop Alzheimer's when they're in their thirties and forties. So it's not about age."

'This Should Be Illegal': Senate GOP Uses AI Deepfake to Attack Talarico ​"Political deepfakes are a profound threat to our democracy, because there is no realistic way for voters to understand they are seeing fake representations rather than real video," said the co-president of Public Citizen.

'This Should Be Illegal': Senate GOP Uses AI Deepfake to Attack Talarico

​"Deepfakes are a profound threat to our democracy, because there is no realistic way for voters to understand they are seeing fake representations rather than real video."

Profound threat, indeed.

Expect more harmful and dishonest deepfakes as election season ramps up around the U.S.

They should be labeled as made up and contrived.

Iran tells world to get ready for oil at $200 a barrel as it fires on merchant ships The International Energy Agency recommended a massive release of strategic reserves to dampen one of the ​worst oil shocks since the 1970s.

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IRAN THREATENS OIL PRICES COULD DOUBLE: As oil prices top $100 per barrel, Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson for Iran’s military command, said the world has to be prepared for $200.

ICE Tried To Turn This Minneapolis Teacher Into An Informant Brandon Siguenza was detained for doing legal-observer work. ICE's real interest was in generating snitches. PLUS: Mojtaba Khamanei isn't surrendering

Spencer caught ICE trying to turn an American detainee into an immigration snitch (?) in Minneapolis. Details of his interrogation in this amazing Q&A: @attackerman.bsky.social

ICE Tried To Turn This Minneapolis Teacher Into An Informant Brandon Siguenza was detained for doing legal-observer work. ICE's real interest was in generating snitches. PLUS: Mojtaba Khamanei isn't surrendering

"He was vaguely saying things like, 'Really, I can help you out. I can do things for you. ...If you could, you know, give me the names of protest organizers, maybe I can help you out.'" Inside an ICE effort to generate snitches.

The greatest successes in world history often are followed by the greatest failures due to a lack of succession planning. Charlemagne. William the Conqueror. Genghis Khan. Alexander the Great. The Rurikid dynasty. Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Clyburn, who will be 86 by the midterms, gave his reasons for running again.

He touted his seniority on the approps committee + said Hakeem Jeffries asked him to stay, possibly join leadership.

"I do believe that I'm very well-equipped and healthy enough to move into the next term," he said.

Rep. Clyburn, former No. 3 House Democrat, will seek reelection The announcement from Clyburn, who turns 86 in July, comes as younger Democrats are challenging the old guard in primaries throughout the country.

Jesus Christ, man. You're turning 86 years old. Don't you want to spend time with your grandkids and great grandkids(?)? This is embarrassing. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

How Rep. James Clyburn Protected His District at a Cost to Black Democrats Facing the possibility of an unsafe district, South Carolina’s most powerful Democrat sent his aide to consult with the GOP on a redistricting plan that diluted Black voting strength and harmed his pa...

Just a reminder that Clyburn cares about personal power above all else. www.propublica.org/article/how-...

We can have Medicare for All...or lobster and steak for Pete Hegseth. You pick.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Campaign filing showing Eric Schmidt donated $1,041,896 to California Business Roundtable

Lots of new campaign filings coming out in California with tech billionaires spending big.

One new filing I hadn't seen reported on yet was Google's Eric Schmidt donating more than $1M to a committee combating the proposed billionaire tax

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I must say... I enjoyed the "What if the US President was deranged/maniacal" storylines a lot more before I was forced to try and survive it for real.

We.

America seriously needs to heal to past the point where the only concerns when it comes to illegal and butcherous wars are just gas prices and the loss of American lives.

DOGE Bros Had More Fun Burning Down Government Than Testifying About It None of this would have been legal if they’d sent competent adults. But the fact that they sent smirking little shits makes it so much worse.

A great recap of how "smirking little shit" tech bros destroyed the National Endowment for the Humanities, by @lizdye.bsky.social www.lawandchaospod.com/p/doge-bros-...

Here's former CIA official Gary Berntsen last September praising Mullin for bringing his claims about Venezuela to the 2024 Trump campaign...

...because no one else took him seriously.

Mullin Secretly Abetted Hundreds of Deportations and Arrests DHS nominee gave Trump info that led to specious arrests and claims of extraordinary presidential powers

EXCLUSIVE: The nominee to run DHS and oversee federal immigration enforcement…

…was secretly involved in bringing Trump questionable information that led to hundreds of arrests and deportations last year.

Here’s the 5-year price chart for oil.

That spike on the left is Putin’s.

The one on the right is Trump’s.

Without their wars, it’s a very steady line, the kind that businesses, investors and ordinary people like.

Pardon my french, but this forecast is fucking absurd.

Parts of San Francisco could legitimately flirt with 90 degrees Monday and Tuesday, which would shatter the March record (87F). The city's earliest 90-degree reading is April 6, same with Oakland, in 1989 and 2016, respectively.

Mid- to upper 80s is probably a safer forecast, but winds appear to be lightly offshore and thermally-induced low pressure in the Central Valley is less pronounced from spring heat waves than summer heat waves, so inland heat could push toward the coast in this setup. 90s not off the table

Vincent Durac: Trump’s ‘little excursion’ could leave Iran even more fragmented, unstable and violent For now, the most likely outcome is a shift to even greater levels of authoritarian control. Beyond that, the future is less certain

Vincent Durac: Trump’s ‘little excursion’ could leave Iran even more fragmented, unstable and violent

Apple updates iOS and iPadOS for older devices, including iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, and iPod touch (7th gen), to address the Coruna exploit disclosed last week (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

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Daily growth stats for Bluesky. Yesterday 20,397 users added, growth vs previous day +1.6%

📈 20.4K new users joined Bluesky yesterday (↗ 1.6% from previous day)

Welcome to all the new users on Bluesky!

👥 User count: 43,054,757
🎯 44M expected on Apr 28, 2026
⚡ Averages: 856/hr, 0.24/sec
📊 Weekly momentum: ↘ 11.3%

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Washington State Passes ‘Millionaires’ Tax’ It would be the first income tax in Washington, affecting an estimated 20,000 households. Some of the wealthiest are leaving for Florida.

Lawmakers in Washington State have agreed to tax people who earn over $1 million in the state’s first income tax.