1/. A very disturbing and in depth look at the propaganda war Iran is winning globally, with viral videos and memes.
Note - this GIF is misleading......watch the Iranian one.....much better!
The missile moves slowly at first. It arcs across a pale sky in clean, almost gentle animation — the kind of motion you’d associate with a nature documentary, something migrating. Then you start to notice who it’s passing over.
A Native American man. A Vietnamese villager. A child from Palestine. Someone from Hiroshima. A child on Epstein island, followed by a schoolgirl, small and still, in the Iranian city of Minab who was killed when a strike hit her school. They look to the sky as if in reverence. The missile continues on its path. Below it, where the Statue of Liberty should be, stands something else: the animators have turned it into the Statue of Baal, the ancient deity the Bible associates with child sacrifice. The missile descends. The statue crumbles. Text fills the screen: “One Vengeance for All.”
The video, produced and distributed by a media group aligned with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is less than a minute long. Watch it a few times and the construction becomes visible. Every figure in it was chosen because it would land for a specific community.
This is the video of what we've done, to who and why.........
This nails Trump and Netanyahu.....into the pit.....
And there's a movie trailer - "Iran War - the Movie"
2/. Boy I hope this is true!
Bill McKibben says this oil crisis will kickstart the move to renewable energy.....
While we wait to see what variety of war crimes Donald Trump decides on following his 8 pm deadline tonight, I think we can assess one outcome of this stupid war already: both the emotional valence and the structural understanding of different energy sources has shifted, and for good. Meaning takes a very long time to erode, but when it does the switch can come quickly; we’re living at a hinge moment, and on the other side of the door is a different world. We tend to think about energy in hard terms—kilowatts, dollars—but in the end our visceral sense of the path forward is what matters most, because attitude informs decision without us even quite realizing it. The world between our ears has changed, decisively, in the direction of renewable power from the sun and wind
Let’s begin by understanding the deep, underpinning role that fossil fuel has played in modernity, both its reality and its psychology.
3/. Interesting - I got 4 of them.....
4/. Boy I hope Thom Hartmann is wrong, and that the lunatic won't start World War 3.
Saturday’s back-to-back headlines on The Washington Post were: “‘They Have Chosen Not To Accept Our Terms,’ Vance Says” and “U.S. Intelligence Shows China Taking A More Active Role In Iran War.” They echo headlines from a century ago that reported on the early days of what quickly became World War I. In 2021, China and Iran became military allies, signing a “broad strategic partnership encompassing economic, diplomatic, and security dimensions.” Russia signed a similar comprehensive military/security agreement with Iran in January of last year. The three countries are now military allies and formally assisting each other. Hold that thought.
Then, yesterday morning, America’s resident madman Donald Trump announced on his Nazi-infested social media site that the United States Navy will illegally blockade the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow chokepoint through which twenty percent of the world’s oil used to flow every day — threatening to intercept “every vessel in International Waters” that’s paid a toll to Iran.
5/. The SNL cold open.....pretty good....
6/. I didn't know Jesus looked like Paul Newman....
7/. You have heard that Meta had to pay a large fine for failing to protect minors from sex
trafficers, but this is the horrifying story behind these headlines......
it started with a tipoff. I was reporting on the trafficking and exploitation of migrant workers in the Gulf when a source I had known for more than a decade reached out. They told me that child sexual abuse trafficking in the US was surging. As the Covid pandemic pushed predators online, some were using Facebook and Instagram to buy and sell children.
It was 2021 and I was about to begin an investigation with Mei-Ling McNamara, a human rights journalist, that would lead to the tech company Meta losing a multimillion-pound court case in March this year. The company had not yet rebranded and was known as Facebook, and there had not been any reporting on how children were being trafficked on its platforms. Experts from anti-trafficking nonprofit organisations and an American law enforcement official talked me through the crimes they were seeing.
8/. Trump makes it way too easy for Tom Tomorrow.....
9/. Remember these pictures? They changed people's lives.....
Words can tell a story, but it’s pictures that will make you believe in it. Such is the power of a photograph; the ability to strip away illusions, to illuminate something hidden, and sometimes force us to accept unpalatable truths. When it comes to scandal, seeing is believing – occasionally even to the point that a picture changes the course of history.
How might life have been different for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had he not been photographed clutching the midriff of the 17-year-old girl he would later claim he had never met? Without this haunting triptych of the former prince, the late Virginia Giuffre and Jeffrey Epstein’s fixer, Ghislaine Maxwell, hovering in the background, there would have been nothing physical to connect the then prince with a trafficking victim. Though for years Andrew’s friends insisted that the photograph must have been doctored, buried within the Epstein files recently released by the US Department of Justice is a note from Maxwell that appears to confirm it is real.
10/. What indeed will he screw up today......
11/. Going to Europe? Don't wear your MAGA hat......
Most Americans grew up with a simple idea: having a U.S. passport meant you were welcomed everywhere.
Those days have gone the way of the American dream.
In 2026, traveling to, and especially moving to Europe is becoming more complicated. Not because countries suddenly don’t want Americans, but because local pressures are forcing governments to change how they handle tourism, housing, and immigration.
This isn’t about one country. It’s happening across the continent.
And the reasons are surprisingly similar.
12/. This says it all.....
13/. We have never had a Congress like this one.....spineless sycophants....
14/. This is how dangerous a situation we are in......Trump as mob boss.....
“So I’m warning you, tread very fucking lightly because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting. Do you understand me? Don’t think you can hide behind your pen because it’s not going to happen. …
“I’m more than happy to discuss it with your attorney and with your legal counsel because motherfucker you’re going to need it. And it’s going to be my absolute pleasure to serve you with a 500 million-dollar lawsuit, like … I did to Univision. https://hartmannreport.com/p/what-im-going-to-do-to-you-is-going-a91?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=302288&post_id=193733592&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=2cwgv&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
15/. Remember "Malcolm in the Middle"? They've brought it back, and it's a five star review from the Guardian......
At this point, Bryan Cranston is firmly entrenched as one of the world’s finest actors. He has seven Emmys, two Tonys and a Golden Globe to his name. History, quite rightly, will remember him as one of the greats. That said – and this really wasn’t a sentence I expected to write a couple of hours ago – there is a distinct possibility that the greatest work of his entire career might be the scene in the Malcolm in the Middle revival where he thrashes around naked as he is overcome by a drug-induced ego death.
Perhaps this does make some small amount of sense. Although Malcolm in the Middle became best known as an absurd counterpoint to Breaking Bad – the sheer dramatic intensity of the latter playing against the generic sitcom daddery of the former – those of us who always loved the show knew that Cranston spent a lot of it going full throttle. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/apr/10/malcolm-in-the-middle-lifes-still-unfair-review-disney-plus
Today's farmer joke....
Old Hiram the farmer had a wife who nagged him unmercifully. From morning til night, Sadie was always complaining about something. The only time he got any relief was when he was out plowing with his old mule.
He tried to plow a lot. One day, when he was out plowing, his wife brought him lunch in the field. He drove the old mule into the shade, sat down on a stump, and began to eat his lunch. Immediately, his wife began nagging him again.
Complain, nag, complain, nag - it just went on and on. All of a sudden, the old mule lashed out with both hind feet, caught her smack in the back of the head. Unalived her right on the spot.
At the funeral several days later, the rabbi noticed something rather odd. When a woman mourner would approach the old farmer, he would listen for a minute, then nod his head in agreement; but when a man mourner approached him, he would listen for a minute, then shake his head in disagreement.
This was so consistent, the rabbi decided to ask the old farmer about it. So after the minion, the rabbi spoke to the old farmer, and asked him why he nodded his head and agreed with the women, but always shook his head and disagreed with all the men.
Old Hiram said, ‘Well, the women would come up and say something about how nice my wife looked, or how pretty her dress was, so I’d nod my head in agreement.’ ‘And what about the men?’ the rabbi asked. ‘They wanted to know if the mule was for sale.’
Today's marital joke
A husband was reading a new book entitled, 'YOU CAN BE THE MAN OF YOUR HOUSE'.
He finished the book and promptly stormed to his wife in the kitchen and announced, 'From now on, you need to know that I am the man of this house and my word is Law.
You will prepare me a gourmet meal tonight, and when I'm finished eating my meal, you will serve me a sumptuous dessert.
After dinner, you are going to go upstairs with me and we will have the kind of sex that I want.
Afterwards, you are going to draw me a bath so I can relax.
You will wash my back and towel dry and bring me my robe.
Then, you will massage my feet and hands.
Then tomorrow, guess who's going to dress me and comb my hair? '
The wife replied, 'The funeral director would be my first guess.'
Today's wedding night joke
On their honeymoon, the new husband told his bride, "I have a confession to make that I should have made before, but I was concerned that it might affect our relationship.
"What is it?" his new bride asked lovingly.
"I'm a golf fanatic," he said. "I think about golf constantly. I'll be out on the golf course every weekend, every holiday, and every chance I get. If it comes to a choice between your wishes and golf, golf will always win."
His new bride pondered this for a moment and said, "I thank you for your honesty. Now in the same spirit of honesty, I should tell you that I've concealed something about my own past that you should know about. The truth is, "I'm a hooker."
"No problem," said her husband, "just widen your stance a little, and overlap your grip, and that should clear it right up."
Today's brunette joke
A brunette who really hated blondes was walking through the desert when she came across a magic lamp.
After rubbing the lamp the genie told her that she got three wishes with one catch: All the blondes in the world would get twice whatever she asked for.
So the brunette thought a while and then wished for a million dollars.
"Every blonde in the world will get two million."
The brunette said that was fine and then she asked for an incredibly handsome man.
Every blonde in the world will get two incredibly handsome men.
The brunette said that was fine too and the genie granted her wishes.
"Now for your third wish." said the genie.
"See that stick over there?", asked the brunette, "I want you to beat me half to death with it."
Today's senior jokes....
Just sharing some thoughts meandering in a senior mind:
*The location of your mailbox shows you how far away from your house you can be in a robe before you start looking like a mental patient.
*My therapist said that my narcissism causes me to misread social situations. I'm pretty sure she was hitting on me.
*My 60 year kindergarten reunion is coming up soon and I'm worried about the 175 pounds I've gained since then.
*I always wondered what the job application is like at Hooters. Do they just give you a bra and say, "Here, fill this out?"
*Denny's has a slogan, "If it's your birthday, the meal is on us." If you're in Denny's and it's your birthday, your life sucks!
*The pharmacist asked me my birth date again today. I'm pretty sure she's going to get me something.
*On average, an American man will have sex two to three times a week. Whereas, a Japanese man will have sex only one or two times a year. This is very upsetting news to me. I had no idea I was Japanese.
*I can't understand why women are okay that JC Penney has an older women's clothing line named, "Sag Harbor."
*I think it’s pretty cool how Chinese people made a language entirely out of tattoos.
*What is it about a car that makes people think we can't see them pick their noses?
*Money can't buy happiness, but it keeps the kids in touch!
