Kamlager-Dove: Stevie Wonder can even see how much this war is costing us. Prices have gone up, and this dude is wanting to spend $2 billion of your money every single day rather than help you. Fuck him. pic.twitter.com/2bpSNFYNY2
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 16, 2026
Friday, April 17, 2026
Much Much More Of This, Please!
The Return Of Colonialism
Today In Real Estate: Start A War, Kill Your Neighbors & Steal Their Land
62% of them seem nice.Uri Tzafon’s informal, oft-repeated motto is “occupation, expulsion, settlement.” It has advanced the idea that Israel must move its northern border to the Litani River—which bisects Lebanon about 15 miles north of the current Israeli boundary—and occupy a depopulated southern Lebanon, comprising some 10% of Lebanon’s total territory.That idea is now a “broad and troubling consensus” in Israel, as the journalist Moshe Gilad wrote in Haaretz on April 9th. In early March, soon after Hezbollah launched attacks on Israel in response to the joint US and Israel war on Iran, Israeli public figures began calling for the occupation and depopulation of southern Lebanon — a claim repeated again and again by mainstream Israeli media personalities. Retired military leaders and politicians also voiced their support, and members of Knesset soon joined the call for occupation. On April 7th, 20 members of Knesset (MKs) wrote to the Israeli cabinet advocating for “occupation and full control” of southern Lebanon alongside “the complete displacement of the population.” One poll found that 62% of Israelis now support the idea of occupying all of Lebanon south of the Litani River.
Some call it gentrification, some call it "ethnic cleansing".These aspirations are being translated into policy: On March 24th, Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that the military would control southern Lebanon up to the Litani, and prevent the return of hundreds of thousands of residents. A week later, he said that all homes near the border would be destroyed, “like in Rafah and Beit Hanoun,” in order “to permanently remove border-adjacent threats.” Israel has now issued evacuation orders for about 15% of Lebanon’s territory, part of its campaign to ethnically cleanse the southern part of the country, specifically of Shiite Muslims. (Hezbollah is a Shiite organization.) “Every home in southern Lebanon, the Shiite homes, are control command centers, they hold weapon supplies, they have tunnels going beneath them,” Israeli military spokesperson Doron Spielman recently said, in comments chillingly reminiscent of Israel’s justification for the destruction of Gaza. Over a million people have already been displaced from southern Lebanon, and over 2,000 people have been killed, with nearly 6,000 injured.
Putting Today In Context:
Propaganda From The Past
Garrett Anderson Passes At 53
Humanoid Parasites Are Using Robots To Steal Everything You Create
Humanoids suck. Robots suck. Humanoids x Robots suck exponentially.Maggie Harrison Dupré / Futurism:
National Today, a site that mimics news outlets and includes subdomains for dozens of US cities, appears to use AI to plagiarize articles from multiple sources — “This is very upsetting to see.” … On Tuesday evening, we published an original interview with a researcher who had recently coauthored …
Kim Andrew Elliott / @kaedotcom.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/medi... [embedded post]Maggie Harrison Dupré / @mags_h11: @slotkinjr We did reach out to Google about National Today, and Google appears to have de-indexed it. Even so: if you're a journalist, it's not unlikely that your work has been stolen. I lost count around 300+ articles while trying to gauge how many articles NT published in just one day.Maggie Harrison Dupré / @mags_h11: @slotkinjr Content farms are nothing new, and AI has made them worse and worse. But what's interesting about this particular fake news mill is that it's run by a PR firm called “TOP Agency,” whose CEO Ben Kaplan is even listed as an author of some very clearly plagiarized articles: [image]Maggie Harrison Dupré / @mags_h11: @slotkinjr Also this alleged quote from Pope Leo is obviously not real: [image]Maggie Harrison Dupré / @mags_h11: @slotkinjr There are remarkably terrible errors littered throughout this website — among them, fabricated quotes about real news events attributed to various John and Jane Does. “John Doe, Artemis II Astronaut” “Governor Jane Doe, Governor of Iowa” and so on [image]Maggie Harrison Dupré / @mags_h11: @slotkinjr Plagiarism is just the start. NT publishes most of its “news” content on pages designed to look like local news sites — “NYC Today,” “Cleveland Today,” etc. All of them have the same slogan: “By the People, For the People.” [image]Maggie Harrison Dupré / @mags_h11: @slotkinjr This is just one article — I can't stress enough how massive the scale of theft is. This site has plagiarized everything from major national outlets to pretty much any local outlet outlet imaginable. [image]Maggie Harrison Dupré / @mags_h11: This website, National Today, is truly insane. We first noticed it because we're among the many sites it's ripped off — excerpt from an original Futurism story is on the left, the NT version is on the right. Rewrote our piece + stole a quote from @slotkinjr with 0 attribution: [image]Maggie Harrison Dupré / @mags_h11: NEW: A PR company is operating a bizarre fake news mill that's plagiarizing original journalism at a massive scale — all while spewing misinformation and hallucinating fake quotes. It also can't stop referring to real people as “John Doe” and “Jane Doe.” https://futurism.com/... [image]
Time runs out.
Mystery Meat
Pictures published by USA Today show meals served recently to Sailors onboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), as well as Marines serving on the USS Tripoli (LHA-7), an America-class amphibious assault ship, both of which are currently deployed to… pic.twitter.com/gZY2vvn9wq
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) April 16, 2026
Comrade Misfit has a stab from the past on the subject.Cybele Mayes-Osterman / USA Today:
Cookies, deodorant, socks. Iran war puts military packages in limbo — Thousands of boxes sent to service members in Middle East are stuck in limbo. The Postal Service has indefinitely suspended delivery amid Iran war. — Dan F. was alarmed when his daughter, a Marine aboard the USS Tripoli …
Brendan Rascius / The Independent: ‘Morale is going to be at an all-time low’: Iran war troops living on meager rations as Postal Service stops deliveringMalcolm Ferguson / New Republic: Photo of Mystery Meat on U.S. Warships Goes Viral as Supplies DwindleTom Sullivan / Digby's Hullabaloo: U.S. Navy Rations Food
Not A Delusion, But A Calculation
Trump hates Pope Leo because he sees himself as the real vicar of Christ
The president is trying to rebuild Christianity in his own image, but the first American pope is standing in the way
A few subheads:Into this vacuum stepped Donald Trump in 2015. The offer was explicit. “Christianity is under tremendous siege,” he told a heavily Evangelical crowd in Iowa that year. “We are getting less and less and less powerful in terms of a religion, and in terms of a force. If I’m there, you’re going to have plenty of power. You don’t need anybody else.” It was a Nietzschean Christian appeal to power rather than a show of humble faith. Together, Trump promised, we will seize control of the kingdoms of this world—an almost perfect recapitulation of Satan’s offer to Jesus in Matthew 4.
Sounds like an outraged Catholic. Many links to blasphemous fun, however, including the image. There's more ludicrous claptrap there than you can stand ("You'll plotz w/ laughter!") including Americana Art & Sacred Art.Trump as the leader of reactionary Christians’ war on modernity
Remaking America through Trump Christianity
Christian nationalism is actually Evangelical supremacism
Thursday, April 16, 2026
This Could Be It
Soon the planet won't be able to support this world of shit & pain you fools made for yourselves. Not soon enough for me, however. If only I could be there to see you all deservedly freeze &/or drown because of your foolishness. Well, I'll piss on your graves from my grave. Except there won't be any graves, just skeletons frozen in the ice. Ha ha ha from The Coast where people can live. No climate refugees needed!Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought
Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the AmericasThe Amoc is a major part of the global climate system and brings sun-warmed tropical water to Europe and the Arctic, where it cools and sinks to form a deep return current. A collapse would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50-100cm to already rising sea levels around the Atlantic.[...]
Prof Stefan Rahmstorf, at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said: “This is an important and very concerning result. It shows that the ‘pessimistic’ models, which show a strong weakening of the Amoc by 2100, are, unfortunately, the realistic ones, in that they agree better with observational data.”
Every Accusation Is A Confession
Sound like any group you've heard of?In the Gospels, Pharisees are frequently portrayed as opponents of Jesus, often criticized as hypocrites who focused on outward ritual rather than internal righteousness ...
Sarah Ewall-Wice / The Daily Beast:
Hegseth Unleashes Bonkers Religious Meltdown at ‘Pharisees’ Media
Adam Kredo / The Washington Free Beacon: Hegseth Takes Aim at Iranian Regime ‘Pirates and Terrorists’ and ‘Legacy Trump-Hating Press’ in News ConferenceSophie Brams / The Hill: Bannon advises Hegseth to ‘tone down’ Bible talk: 'It steps on what's important'Ted Johnson / Deadline: Pete Hegseth Invokes The Bible To Lash Out At News Media: “Our Press Are Just Like These Pharisees”David Zimmermann / Washington Examiner: Hegseth compares journalists to ‘pharisees’ in latest anti-media rantWalter Einenkel / Daily Kos: Watch blaspheming Hegseth kiss Trump's sacrilegious assJennifer Oliver O'Connell / RedState: Pete Hegseth Torches Legacy Media: ‘Your Politically-Motivated Animus Nearly Blinds You’The Times of Israel: Hegseth warns US ready to resume fighting ‘with more power than ever’ if Tehran spurns dealTommy Christopher / Mediaite: CNN's Stelter Hits ‘Weird’ Hegseth Rant Attacking Press and Comparing Trump to Jesus: ‘Deeply Offensive As a Christian’Curtis Houck / Newsbusters: OUCH: Elite Media Implode Over Hegseth Comparing Them to Pharisees in the BibleDavid Kurtz / Talking Points Memo: Hegseth to Reporters: Whose Side Are You On?Travis Gettys / Raw Story: Hegseth 'doubling down on Trump's blasphemy' with ‘holy war’ talk about Iran: analystEllie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic: Pete Hegseth Compares Trump to Jesus Amid Crazy AI Post Scandal
Feeling The Pain Yet?
Tax Returns
Citizens, your taxes are too high, yet few of your betters pay any taxes. Try to remember that until 3 November.ITEP:
At Least 88 Profitable U.S. Corporations Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2025 — 88 Corporations, $105 Billion in Profits, Zero Federal Income Tax — At least 88 of the largest corporations in America paid no federal corporate income taxes in their most recent fiscal year despite enjoying …Mike Soraghan / Politico: Oil comany founded by energy secretary paid no US taxes last year
Liberty Energy made $193 million last year and received more than $10 million back in tax benefits, according to a nonprofit analysis released on Tax Day.Judd Legum / Popular Information: These highly profitable corporations paid zero federal income taxes last yearTalmon Joseph Smith / New York Times:
Amid Iran War, Companies Look to Extend a Record Profit Run by Raising PricesDamian Carrington / The Guardian:
$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds
Aaron Parnas / The Parnas Perspective: Renewed Calls for Trump's Removal as He Escalates Attacks on the Pope, Iran Threatens its Own Blockade, Trump Urges China to Not Supply Weapons to Iran
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Good Taste Triumphs Again
Seems Like A More Immediate Threat Than Iran ...
... So When Does The Bombing Start, War Prez?
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| This is apparently what Trump & his loser cronies want. (Fine w/ me, as long as it happens before the midterms.) |
Waiting for the Sec'y. of "War" to open his drunken yap. Maybe Lumpy will just surrender to Pooty-Poot.Tom Newton Dunn / The Times:
Russia plans to put nuclear weapons in orbit for ‘space Pearl Harbor’
David Zimmermann / Washington Examiner: Russia planning to put nuclear weapons in space, US general warns
Bethan Moss / The US Sun: Vladimir Putin ‘plans to put nukes into space’ as he plots global mayhem in chilling threat to UK
Of Course He Did
This Is Exactly What They Voted For
Yes, he & his family have been plagued by tragedy & he has too much money (Use some of that unearned moolah to get help, you effin' weirdo!) but really?
Holy War!!
Jackie Robinson Day
Are You There Gawd?
It's Me, Malignant
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
All-American Boy W/ Cheek of Bronze
Why doesn't he get a Diet Coke® enema & really blow that colon out? Did he use Diet Coke® to kill the lawn in the Rose Garden?Britta Miller / Washington Examiner:
The candy and Coke commander in chief: Trump's sweet tooth feels all-American
Ryan King / New York Post:PresidentTrump has bonkers theory about Diet Coke and cancer, Dr. Oz revealsMatthew Chapman / Raw Story: Trump Jr. laughs at his dad as Dr. Oz says he thinks soda ‘kills cancer’Bethan Moss / The US Sun: Trump claims soda is good for him because it kills cancer cells & jokes that Fanta is freshly squeezed, Dr Oz revealsZoe Engels / Mediaite: Dr. Oz Reveals Trump's Theory Soda Is ‘Good For Him’ and Kills Cancer Cells Because ‘It Kills Grass’Edith Olmsted / New Republic: You Won't Believe Why Trump Thinks Diet Soda Is Good for Him
Title from this classic.President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak On Crime, Also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ
Do Or Don't?
NAY!
* Were I a sap, dunno if I'd advertise it so loudly.
Popery Continues
Police & Robot Report
Monday, April 13, 2026
Another Clever Idea
So Tired
Cold Too. And Numb. But Not Hungry.
Had to leave the bunker twice today.How To Do It, Right
Q: Is your expectation other countries will assist in effort to blockade Iran?
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) April 13, 2026
TRUMP: Yeah. Other countries are gonna also.
Q: Which countries, sir?
TRUMP: We don't need other countries.
pic.twitter.com/OtyTNNdy9M
As I wrote last week, once a news organization acknowledges that the president is – or even may be – insane, they are also acknowledging that this is an extremely dangerous situation. That obliges them to start aggressively and constantly reporting on what can be done about it – even if there appears to be no political will to do so at the moment. It’s an imperative.What we also need – as I begged for shortly before the election, when it really could have done some good – is a “Cronkite moment,” where trusted voices in news turn to the camera, or the internet, and declare that Trump is self-evidently unfit for office.
And in the meantime, every incremental news story about something Trump does or says that is abnormal – which is almost everything he does or says – ought to be accompanied by a statement about his mental instability.
Because that is really what explains Trump. Most immediately, it explains why we’re at war, and why he makes it worse and worse all the time.
"Only The Fake News ..."
I Am The Doctor
Lest we forget:A "doctor" w/ healing crystals, but no lab coat or stethescope? Sure, Donnie, whatever you say, you big fat loser.Natalie Allison / Washington Post:
Trump post appearing to depict him as Jesus removed amid backlash — Before the post was deleted, Evangelical and Catholic allies called the image blasphemous in a rare public break from a base that has largely stood by Trump. — President Donald Trump's posting of an image that appeared …Derek VanBuskirk / The Daily Caller: Trump Takes Rare Step Of Deleting Post Depicting Himself As Jesus After Christians Cry Foul
Dan Mangan / CNBC: Trump deletes Truth Social image depicting him as Jesus: ‘I thought it was me as a doctor’Kathryn Watson / CBS News: Trump faces backlash after posting AI image appearing to depict him like JesusAlex Woodward / The Independent: Trump claims controversial post depicting him as Jesus was actually him as a doctor: ‘Only the fake news could come up with that’Jennifer Bowers Bahney / Mediaite: 'I Can't Even Look At It!' The View's Whoopi Goldberg Disgusted By Now-Deleted Image of Trump as JesusJoseph Gedeon / The Guardian:
Trump deletes post with AI image of himself as Christ-like figure after outcry — The US president's conservative, Christian supporters decried the Truth Social post, calling it ‘disgusting’ — Less than a year after signing legislation that will pull nearly 12 million Americans off health insurance …Edith Olmsted / New Republic: MAGA Freaks Out After Trump Posts AI Photo of Himself as JesusAssociated Press: Donald Trump launches extraordinary attack on Pope Leo calling him ‘weak’ and ‘terrible’Anna Skinner / Newsweek: Donald Trump Deletes Jesus Photo After Conservative Fury
Sunday, April 12, 2026
Then & Now
Saturday, April 11, 2026
"I Have In My Hand A List Of 250 Million Americans Who Are Known Domestic Terrorists ..."
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| Rounding up extremists who are hostile to tradition |
How "hostile" are you? And who decides what exactly are "extreme" & "traditional"?The new center and funding boost represent the implementation of Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), the sweeping federal order I’ve been covering since it was signed last September.Now, Trump’s budget request reveals, the FBI runs a dedicated “NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center”; with personnel from 10 federal agencies, it is busy “proactively” identifying domestic terrorists motivated by any of the following beliefs:
“anti-Americanism,”
“anti-capitalism,”
“anti-Christianity,”
“support for the overthrow of the U.S. Government,”
“extremism on migration,”
extremism on “race,”
extremism on “gender,”
“Hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family,”
Hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on “religion,” and
Hostility towards those who hold traditional views on “morality.”

















