The congressional rep from Minnesota's 8th sure is dead set on destroying Minnesota's 8th by planting a giant Chilean copper mine inside the Boundary Waters.

https://www.startribune.com/stauber-notches-key-victory-with-senate-vote-end-ban-on-mining-near-bwcaw/601751511

An old friend left their copy of George Saunder's Vigil here and, wry observer that he is, he points out that I somehow missed the story where Shell redesigned its offshore drilling platforms to accommodate rising seas just before joining the #climate denial crusade.

https://graphics.latimes.com/oil-operations/

An Oklahoma legislator going full communist to collect blood donations from the most self-centered and selfish self-selecting aggregation of Americans is almost as funny as these cheated fools dying for the cause of pure idiocy.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/more-people-requesting-unvaccinated-blood-themselves-or-their-children

Some villainous antisemites destroyed a Tehran synagogue during the Jewish Passover holiday.

https://fair.org/home/israel-destroys-a-synagogue-us-media-yawn/

Department of War not doing a very good job of supporting the troops outside Secretary of Wife Beating Whiskeyfist's daily recitation of prayers from the Book of Tarantino.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/16/iran-war-mail-packages-middle-east/89609308007/

"Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, benzos, which are known to induce violence. Those kids are gonna have a chance to go [to one of my wellness farms] and be ‘reparented,'" Robert F Kennedy Jr explained on a podcast without explaining what "reparented" means, letting him off the hook two years later when a congress member asked him to explain it and he could blame his cocktail of toilet seat cocaine, crystal meth, heroin, and DMT.

https://www.al.com/politics/2026/04/terri-sewell-slams-rfk-over-black-children-on-adhd-meds-needing-to-be-reparented.html