Goerred by Boers

 Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

Hermann Goring

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - President Trump says now is the perfect time for Congress to immediately approve the FISA domestic spying program for national security reasons because the “military really needs it.”

Trump says he is willing to give up his liberties for safety, even though FISA was weaponized against him by “bad people.”

“I’m willing to give up my security for the military.”

https://blossom.primal.net/29a4132e4b0ff27db2ebd46297fcca732e9d422694e453e5522192f0d422581a.mp4

In related news . . .

 - Karoline Leavitt before the WHCD event:

There will be some shots fired tonight in the room.

⚡🇺🇸 NEW - Fox News Correspondent: “Karoline Leavitt's husband leaned over and told me right as the WH Correspondents Dinner was starting, "You need to be very safe."”

"He was very serious when that said that to me, and he kinda looked around the room and said, 'There are some–'"

*Call drops*

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Chutzpah be thy name

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Netanyahu:

My wife and I were shocked to hear about the repeated attempt to assassinate Trump and his wife.

There is no place for violence—not against political leaders and not against anyone. 

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By the way

 His later years had two unexpected triumphs: He published Kerouac’s On the Road (1957) and Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962). The story of these two countercultural classics creates the great digression and longest chapter in Howard’s biography in which Cowley is just a supporting character. The change of focus would be annoying if the chapter weren’t so entertaining, especially in Kerouac’s case. Howard knows every detail of On the Road’s slow and weird path to the best-seller list and enduring success as the signature novel of the Beat movement. 

FROM

The Last of the Lost Generation | Portico

Cowley died in 1989 at the age of ninety. By then, he had received nearly every honor to which a literary critic might aspire, including the presidency of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He had outlived his major contemporaries. Fitzgerald had died at forty-four, Hemingway at sixty-one, Faulkner at sixty-four, Cummings at sixty-seven. (Hart Crane had killed himself at thirty-two.) Cowley published eight new books after reaching seventy, most notably –And I Worked at the Writer’s Trade (1978). He could never fully understand his political mistakes, even after writing a book about the period, The Dream of the Golden Mountains (1980), but his accomplishments overshadowed his blunders. Fitzgerald said there were “no second acts in American lives,” but Cowley managed three—adventurous young writer, duped idealist, and grand old man of American letters. It was characteristically nice of him to give us a happy ending.

Dana Gioia is the former Poet Laureate of California.

Some things happened

 ⚡️🌏 RECAP - The first 4 months of 2026:

- The United States captures Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

- The United States and Israel go to war against Iran.

- Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, is targeted by airstrikes.

- The Strait of Hormuz is blocked.

- Donald Trump is the target of another assassination attempt.

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Brazil the musical

 Spoiler -   DeNiro s plumbers song is a showstopper.

Brazil Issues Sweeping Ban Against Prediction Market Platforms

Brazil’s Finance Ministry cited investor protection concerns and rising gambling addiction as it blocked platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi.

Let 100 flowers bloom

 Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc announces BTC hard fork called eCash

The hard fork will introduce a new, competing layer-1 blockchain and seven layer-2 scaling networks, according to Sztorc's announcement.

PAUL " Why bother with all this cryptography stuff in the first place " SZTORC

http://bitcoinhivemind.com/papers/6_Crime_Markets.pdf

More degrees of freedom through an eightfold way?

ID BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!

One drone to find them

 And with the darkness bind them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msONj8i8bTg

Slava Ukraini

Dear oh deer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWopy0FV7Rw

Death to all Russkies

You're never alone in a Hellhole

 Ministry of External Affairs

Official Spokesperson’s response to media queries regarding a social media post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq5ZhBDSvx0

GIRL GET ME BACK TO MY HELLHOLE!

Best Gore bonus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofgtUQXmSFQ

Rus delenda est