California cities want to bless polyamorous unions. Lawyers warn that the Los Angeles Times will be damaged in court
The Kind of Short Stories People Really Want to Read Amateur Criticism
Climate/Environment
🚨BREAKING🚨
The latest SUMMER Oceanic Niño Index (RONI) forecast shows that we may be facing the strongest El Niño in recorded history!!This could lead to dystopian global climate change effects in the next 1.5 years.
No one is prepared. pic.twitter.com/WR9bT2O4AG
— Leon Simons 🌍 (@LeonSimons8) April 26, 2026
War, El Niño, Pestilence, and Famine: The Coming Shock to Global Food Supplies Craig Tindale
Climate and World Famine for 1876-78 American Meteorological Society
The Cerros de la Plaza glacier is gone. The planet is quietly losing one of its most powerful cooling systems…its natural radiation. As the glaciers disappear, so does the Earth’s Albedo. Less sunlight is returned to the atmosphere, more heat is absorbed, and warming is faster. pic.twitter.com/QpVxFXMwZD
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) April 24, 2026
An epidemic
I had Long COVID while exercising. The program had no place for me. Times of Illness
China?
Chinese Style Kill Line? To commit sin
How China’s young workers are securing their future as AI disrupts the job market, driving down wages
Southeast Asia
Disappearance in the Philippines as energy bills rise Intellinews
The Pentagon Needs a Strange World—And It Found a Supplier in Malaysia WSJ
The Koreans
CIA CONTINUED MK-ULTRA SUBJECTS FROM PRISONERS OF WAR IN US PRISONS, EXPRESSED DOCS CONFIRM CAPTURE
Syracistan
Israel accuses Hezbollah of violating the “ceasefire”, while Iran takes the nuclear file off the table and USrael threatens to destroy the Nord Stream-like GeoPolitiQ.
Does the US Military Recommend No More Strikes on Iran? Larry Johnson
Iran has caused more damage to US military bases than NBC News has publicly known
For five years, Iran has been building an alternative currency with the clear theory that cryptocurrency will withstand sanctions. Bitcoin mining was legalized in 2019. Subsidy power is redirected to factory farms. The mined coins were sold to the Central Bank of Iran… pic.twitter.com/2F4RjkMxAw
— Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ (@shanaka86) April 26, 2026
Iran offers US deal to reopen status but postpones nuclear talks Axios From WH messenger Ravid so a large dose of salt is recommended.
Emerging Push to Extend Some US Benefits to IDF Soldiers Military.com
Government Press Release Admits US Attacked Iran at Israel’s ‘Request’. The opposition
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Israeli Bulldozers Smash Solar Panels, Olive Trees in Southern Lebanon ‘Infrastructure’ Demolition Antiwar
Lebanon Pool Money To Buy Satellite Images To See What’s Left Of Their Homes Landfill
The breakup of Europe
China expresses ‘serious’ concerns over EU industrial action, vows to protect ‘legitimate’ rights Anadolu Agency
Britain and allies could pool arms funding into ‘defence bank’ The Telegraph
Germany’s AfD records 28% support, surpassing the ruling CDU/CSU in a new Polskie Radio poll.
Police believe the New IRA may be behind the attack on the station as they launch an investigation into the attempted murder of the Irish Post
Hidden History: How the Mossad Infiltrated Italy Kit Klarenberg
Africa
Mali Targeted for Widespread and Coordinated Armed Attacks Across Africa
General Sadio Camara: Minister of Defense of Mali and Builder of the Russia-Wagner Alliance Modern Ghana. Killed on Saturday.
France’s strategic offensive in Africa ended in failure…
Today, the strongest attempt to drive us out of MALI has taken place. This is a country of extreme importance to us (and the enemy respectively) in west Africa and one of our greatest centers in this part of the… pic.twitter.com/doJc2YkMVU
— 🇷🇺 Yuri Podolyaka (@YuriPodolyaka) April 25, 2026
US Transport in Libya Aims to Cut Russia’s Air Bridge to Sahelian Alliance Andrew Korybko
Old Blighty
King’s visit to ‘renew’ ties with US, UK ambassador tells BBC
The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel’s watchdog company hired the UK’s top 30 executives Nerve
A huge fire broke out at a UK site used for US bombs (VIDEOS) RT
The New Cold War
UK rejects proposal for British jets to shoot down Russian drones UK Defense Journal
Multiple explosions have exploded at one of Russia’s largest oil refineries in a long-running attack on London Loves Business.
The destruction of ZOG? Events in Ukraine
Is Russia under construction? Julian MacFarlane
South of the Border
This gold comes from a Colombian drug company mine. It should never be perfect at the US Mint. But it does. The New York Times (Robin)
(Another) Trump Assassination Attempt
Suspected shooter:
Read White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman Cole Allen’s full anti-Trump manifesto New York Post
Assassin Was Not On FBI Radar, Sources Say Ken Klippenstein
Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old California man who allegedly tried to raid the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was seen wearing an Israeli IDF shirt in a photo posted on his Instagram account before the profile was deleted. pic.twitter.com/5yhd9thHHFC
– Tasnim News Agency (@Tasnimnews_EN) April 26, 2026
🇺🇸 WHCD filming gets SUPER WEIRD
The shooter is identified as Cole Allen, and Henry Martinez’s X account posted “Cole Allen” on Dec 22, 2023.
That’s the ONLY account post, and get this, Henry’s account header image is from a website called TIME MACHINE!!… pic.twitter.com/FexTdbdYRc
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 26, 2026
Is it really? Students?
This process is well known:
1) create an account
2) set the profile to private with hidden posts
3) write posts with names or events (eg the date of the Pope’s death)
4) when an event occurs, you remove everything else and leave only the same
5) create a profile… pic.twitter.com/3Q3kgcM20I— David Puente (@DavidPuente) April 26, 2026
Result:
TRUMP: I’m not a rapist. I did not rape anyone
O’DONNELL: Oh, you think he was talking about you? pic.twitter.com/JXmtB6kUdJ
– Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 26, 2026
President Trump says tonight’s shooting at WHCD is a clear example of why we need a new White House ballroom. pic.twitter.com/a6dzeH9nyB
– Acyn (@Acyn) April 26, 2026
The Pres. Trump, under the encouragement of Fox News, uses the gun of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to push Congress to approve the FISA domestic surveillance program: “It is absolutely necessary for national security…”
He insists that he is willing to sacrifice his freedom for safety. pic.twitter.com/tmcepp0Wgn
– Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews) April 26, 2026
And before shooting:
Before shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner – Caroline Leavitt said she would listen because Trump would bring the heat.
“There will be a shot.”
He said that.
At night there was.
What did he know? pic.twitter.com/Dwg1E8tFDd
– Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) April 26, 2026
🚨 HOLY SH*T: Fox News just cut one of their reporters as it seemed to indicate that the shooting was a pre-arranged false flag. pic.twitter.com/t59EMGPQcM
— Micah Erfan (@micah_erfan) April 26, 2026
The AI
ChatGPT Admits Crime It Was Impossible To Succeed In
Trump 2.0
Trump fires all 24 members of the US National Science Foundation’s governing body
Imperial Collapse Watch
Chartbook 443 a hard working hegemon? Why 21st century America is not like Edwardian Britain. Adam Tooze
Data Centers Reveal the American Economic Development Brain Rot Boondoggle
The US imports 82% of its large transformers. How did it get there, and what will be needed to rebuild the capability. Frontier map
Monopoly Round-Up: How China’s Finger Trap Explains America’s Political Crisis Matt Stoller
Police State Watch
New Mexico Becomes Latest State to End Cooperation with ICE Under Reality of New Law (robin K)
Big Brother is Watching You
Mike Johnson’s Crusade to Restore Warrantless NSA Spying on Americans Reaches a Peak This Week Glenn Greenwald
Every new car in the US will be required by law to have driver monitoring technology by 2027.
The AI in your car will determine if you are drunk and fit to drive, automatically shutting down the car if it determines you are a road hazard. pic.twitter.com/7SDbAJ2GyC
– Pubity (@pubity) April 25, 2026
HR 8250 creates a comprehensive ID system that would allow the government. for various verified users with the NSPM-7 “domestic terrorism” list, turning private devices into connected ID cards where the phrase “unacceptable” may trigger a mandatory door lock on your devices. pic.twitter.com/kvpyaBOHvB
— Silicon Valley Fodder (@Playerinthgame) April 22, 2026
The Accelerationists
MUSKISM AS FORDISM Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff, The LPE Project
The economy
America’s Pandemic Car Bubble Now Traps Consumers Into Debt WSJ
Dire Straits, The Panic That Reveals The Smart Minds Of The System
Health care?
How the Iran conflict is reshaping the hospital supply chain Becker’s Hospital Review
Class War
From cars and phones to tractor owners, a wave of people is rising to end the economy of fixing CNBC’s ‘captive’
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