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Tuesday, April 07, 2026

Chilean President Jos Antonio Kast has thrown his weight behind Argentina's territorial claim to the Falkland Islands during his inaugural state visit to Buenos Aires. Meeting Argentine President Javier Milei at the Casa Rosada, Mr Kast endorsed Buenos Aires's position on the disputed South Atlantic archipelago, along with South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Read more


In a series of Situation Room meetings, President Trump weighed his instincts against the deep concerns of his vice president and a pessimistic intelligence assessment. Here's the inside story of how he made the fateful decision.


A group of 36 lawmakers says the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has created "disappearances" on US soil, due to the "increasingly unreliable" online system used to track people detained by immigration authorities, according to a letter shared with the Guardian. The lawmakers are urging that the DHS inspector general's office open an investigation into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "online detainee locator system" (ODLS), which has been used for years by family members, attorneys and journalists to track people in the federal immigration detention system. "Since January 2025, that system has grown increasingly unreliable," the lawmakers, including Senator Ben Ray Lujn and House representatives Veronica Escobar and Lauren Underwood, say in the letter. "Without a functional locator system, DHS is effectively creating disappearances' on US soil, and we urge the DHS office of inspector general (OIG) to investigate this matter." Read more


The Guardian: Mexico is facing a "toxic crisis" and has become a "garbage sink" for the US, exposing Mexican communities to dangerous pollution, a UN expert has warned. In an interview with the Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab, an investigative outlet, Marcos Orellana, an environmental specialist, said pollutants ranging from imported waste to dangerous pesticides were affecting people's right to live healthy lives. Orellana, whose title is UN special rapporteur on toxics and human rights, conducted an 11-day investigative mission in Mexico last month to learn about toxic threats facing its population. He said he found lax environmental standards and a lack of oversight, which have allowed pollution to accumulate over the years. Read more


Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests. Read more


The entire world is on edge waiting for Piggy to drop a nuclear bomb or commit some other atrocity. It is fucking madness


Apr 7, 2026

A scene from Michael Moore's 2018 film, "Fahrenheit 11/9." This sequence maps the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany onto the rise of fascism in the United States.


I can say, I have heard MANY a black people say the same thing. Even heard a black preacher, whom I call the Chris Rock of preachers, preach this stuff. Most white people don't know this stuff. ANY black person you are close to, if they trust you, will tell you that it ain't white people they have the most problems with....it's.......


Monday, April 06, 2026

A popular conservative social media figure claims that liberals have been exaggerating their political influence, insisting that conservative voices are a silent majority suppressed by fear of losing jobs. A self-described entrepreneur and CEO, Sabina Gilman, posted her thoughts


"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday likened the rescue on Easter Sunday of a missing American airman shot down over Iran to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ," the New York Times reports. "Minutes later, speaking at the same news conference describing the military operation, President Trump asserted that God supports the Israeli-U.S. war against Iran, which has killed thousands, including many civilians." Said Trump: "Because God is good, and God wants to see people taken care of."


This whole narrative sounds way to good to be true. Read more


Trump was speaking about the Iran war during a high-stakes press conference at the White House when he made the claim that he was behind the death of Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda.


Saturday Night Live star Michael Che got raving applause from the studio audience after he cracked a joke about the President going to the theatre. He said, "What's the worst that could happen"?


Today's lunar flyby begins at 1 pm EDT. Watch live if you'd like to. Youtube video above is carrying it. Read more


Prominent MAGA figures have accused Donald Trump of going 'insane' as his unhinged Easter message enrages Christians who once supported the president but are now calling for his removal


Los Angeles has spent more than $300 million on Inside Safe since Bass launched the program in December 2022, clearing scores of homeless encampments and moving about 5,800 people into interim housing " mostly hotels and motels. The goal was to get each of those people into permanent housing, typically taxpayer-funded apartments. But even as the mayor's initiative brings more people indoors, a growing number are winding up back on the street. The longer the program exists, the greater the share of participants who have returned to "unsheltered" homelessness, according to monthly dashboards which were posted by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, or LAHSA, and analyzed by The Times. Read more


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