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“Alaska’s House and Senate contests are set for November’s general election, after the results in the state’s nonpartisan top-four primary put fringe candidates on the ballot, including one who shares the same name as the incumbent and a felon serving a 20-year prison sentence in New York,” CBS News reports.

“Nearly every session at the Group of 20 meeting of finance ministers and central bankers in Asheville, N.C. this week began with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent extolling the state of the U.S. economy under President Trump and urging other countries to be more like America,” the New York Times reports. “America’s allies were not always […]

At least three of the first 32 Rassvet satellites likely suffered outright failures, and more may be in trouble.

What can we learn from a BGP hijacking that poisoned production software? Plenty.

“This week, the U.S. Army used a high-energy multipurpose laser to shoot down three drones near the U.S.-Mexico border, which official reports claimed were ‘posing a physical threat to U.S. military personnel and CBP partners,’ referring to Customs and Border Patrol,” Wired reports.

Where Are We Three Months Out From the Election? Following last night’s election in Massachusetts — which, in the most...

A drone overflight of Gigatexas and a conversation with venture investor Sarah Guo turn out to be the same argument, told in different registers — that AI’s future is bottlenecked less by model capability than by permits, chip supply chains, and whether anyone will actually pour the concrete.

Original air date: April 17, 2026 In today’s episode, George Conway argues that as improbable as it might seem right now, congressional Republicans will ultimately decide they have no choice but to remove Donald Trump from office before his term ends. Conway, the former GOP...

This morning I returned to Hitler’s Kehlsteinhaus (Eagle’s Nest) in Berchtesgaden, Germany.

A beautiful public park in the middle of one of the Hudson Valley's busiest cities has a surprisingly strange history. Continue reading…

I simply cannot be convinced that the sitting president of the United States is not actively in the throes of a serious mental health breakdown, and we're all just being forced to ride it out with him. In the most wee hours of Tuesday morning, Donald Trump uncorked one of ...

Instead of trying to end his failed, unnecessary and spectacularly unpopular war against Iran, Donald Trump thinks he looks like a winner threatening nuclear war or something like it against the country. Early Tuesday afternoon, Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst told view...

Leigh McGowan, a.k.a. Politics Girl took apart trump flack May Mailman for pretending the reaction to Laura Loomer calling a bunch of Democratic women "ghetto black bitches" was "manufacturing racism." Phillip started the segment off discussing the latest racist diatribe fr...

Above, Shania Twain performs, That Don't Impress Me Much. AI doesn't impress us much either. Yup, Fancy Autocomplete has entered the 2026 chat.

Futurism reports on the data center backlash.

Ars Technica tells us about how AI agents went rogue.

Adventus notes that even in Texas the wages of technology is death.

Queerty wryly observes that AI made strange bedfellows of MAGA and the LGBTQ community.

Bonus Track: Colossal traverses the emotional terrain of love and loss via water colors by kelogsloops.

Round-up by Tengrain who blogs at Mock, Paper, Scissors. You can follow Tengrain on the Fediverse, or on BlueSky. Send tips, requests, and suggestions to mbru@crooksandliars.com (with For MBRU in the subject line).

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David Shuster asked Hunter Biden a question I ask carefully, because a lot of people in recovery have told me the same thing: that it never really leaves you. That there is always a compulsion underneath, always a pull, and the work is managing it. Is it a daily struggle fo...

The Cities Church defendants are making a remarkable argument: That because Homeland Security Investigations used customs subpoenas to map out the network of ICE protestors in January, Judge Laura Provinzino should throw the whole investigation out.

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I am reading Ann Patchett’s newest novel right now, and I wish I didn’t have to work or sleep so I could just read straight through. I’m here writing to keep myself from opening it before work. I don’t want to have to wrench myself away. Patchett is one of those novelists that I’ll read […]

“The Trump administration has a blunt message for state and local officials trying to prevent construction of a wall and other security measures along the 2,000-mile southern border: Resistance is futile,” Axios reports. “Driving the news: President Trump’s envoys recently met privately with officials from Texas border counties where residents have pushed back against construction, […]

“San Francisco Democrats have broken with their statewide party over California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax, rejecting Proposition 40 in a lopsided vote that exposes a growing divide over whether taxing extreme wealth is worth the potential economic consequences,” Fortune reports. “The San Francisco Democratic Party voted 17-4 to oppose Proposition 40—with five members abstaining, five […]

Who will be the next White House press secretary? NBC News chief White House correspondent Garrett Haake reported Tuesday that the White House will hold a press briefing Thursday. What […]

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