Razorbills have the slickest design in the animal kingdom. They look like they were made by Yves Saint Laurent

Every line of this poster is more baffling than the last, it stopped me dead in my tracks

* SAUDI ARAMCO CEO NASSER: ENERGY SUPPLY SHOCK THAT BEGAN IN Q1 IS THE LARGEST THE WORLD HAS EVER EXPERIENCED * SAUDI ARAMCO CEO NASSER: IF HORMUZ DISRUPTION CONTINUES FOR A FEW MORE WEEKS, NORMALIZATION WON'T HAPPEN UNTIL INTO 2027 @reuters.com

The International Vinegar Museum Roslyn, SD

A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!

The Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of DOGE and the federal workforce. It’s the second time The Post has won the prestigious award in five years. Read more about our winning coverage here: https://wapo.st/3OX3l5A

We won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting @chicagotribune.com! Our entire newsroom covered Midway Blitz with everything we had. I’ve never been prouder of the Tribune or its commitment to the truth. It’s an honor to be part of this team.

Maine Is About to Become the First State to Ban New Data Centers Maine has some of the country’s highest residential electricity prices. Officials are concerned that more data centers could inflate costs. www.wsj.com/us-news/main...

Washington State creates new tax on incomes over $1 million. Other blue states are considering similar levies on the wealthy. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

When movies were shot on physical film, the film was measured in feet. This is why any recorded thing is now called ‘footage.'

Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers union, issues statement on Cesar Chavez raping her “I am nearly 96 yrs old, and for 60 yrs have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the movement I've spent my entire life fighting for" medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Cesar Chavez sexually abused young girls for years, and raped the co-founder of the UFW movement, NYT reports. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire in a publicity still for You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

Chicago wind gauge

‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’ ‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’ ‘Hello’ is not related to either. Goodbye.

Today's weak jobs report underscores that the Iran war comes at a fragile time for the economy. Before the war, low gasoline prices were helping tame inflation, and mortgage rates were edging down. Now gas prices and mortgage rates are ticking up. www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

Russia is sharing location information on U.S. military forces in the Middle East with Iran, which Tehran could be using to guide its missile attacks, U.S. officials say www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Pavilion, McDonald Park, Tower Grove South, St. Louis, Missouri #iphonephotography #mobilephotography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #b&w #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #streetphotography #urbanphotography #nightphotography #stl #stlouis #TowerGroveSouth

Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft EO that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Gloucester Harbor - 1926 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104451

Gov. Pritzker sent an invoice to the White House demanding a tariff refund of $8.6 billion for all of Illinois's 5.1 million households -- roughly $1,700 each. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

In today's newsletter, about a week after Trump repeatedly said "Iceland" when he meant "Greenland" in his Davos speech, the Iceland amb. to the US hired a big K street firm to "provide strategic advice on navigating engagements with the United States government." www.thebulwark.com/p/so-you-lie...

A year into the Trump economy, Americans are still laser focused on prices. “A new set of tires now is $500 or $600. Who the hell has $500 to $600?” www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

Jimmy Lai, an outspoken 78-year-old critic of China’s Communist Party, sentenced to 20 years in prison. China made Lai one of the main targets of its crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong after widespread pro-democracy protests in 2019 www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Volkswagen factory workers in Tenn. would receive raises totaling about 20% over four years under a tentative deal between the automaker & the UAW union. www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker

“.. In a blistering opinion, Judge Fred Biery .. condemned ‘the perfidious lust for unbridled power’ and ‘the imposition of cruelty.’” @nytimes.com #Ramos www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

Highlight of my career, probably

Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her

Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”

Canada isn’t alone in taking steps to mend ties w China. British PM Keir Starmer will travel to Beijing this week to meet with Xi — the first visit by a U.K. PM in 8 ys. South Korea's president said recently he wants “full-scale restoration” of ties w China www.wsj.com/world/us-tra...

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

In Maine, Sheriff Kevin Joyce was among local officials who met with border czar Tom Homan a year ago to hear the administration’s immigration-enforcement plan. But on Thurs, Joyce issued blistering criticism of federal agents, accusing ICE of “bush-league policing" www.wsj.com/us-news/poli...

Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation Saturday www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Everything has gone uphill for the Bears since this moment.

You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?" Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.

Karl Fredrik Nordström, Clear Evening in Late Winter (Winter Night), oil on canvas, 1907

Earlier this year, the United States deported 252 Venezuelans to El Salvador and paid its government to imprison them. Now two human-rights organizations have found that all of those men were physically abused, Conor Friedersdorf writes:

A snowy owl preening. November 22, 2025, Chicago.

We used to call the debut LP "Cars greatest hits." Somehow the 2nd LP, "Candy O," topped it, at least in my world. Can a band that sold 43 million albums still be underappreciated? Buffalo Tom's Bill Janovitz, the band's biographer, makes the case on @soundopinions.bsky.social: shorturl.at/hvsrQ

On Chicago’s South Side, students are bypassing traditional tips on job hunting in favor of lessons on getting rich. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Burt Meyer, a Chicago toy designer behind classics like Lite-Brite, Mouse Trap, and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, died Oct. 30 at 99, leaving a joyful, generations-spanning legacy.

“This case, ladies and gentleman of the jury, is about a sandwich.” Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

Compotier, Glass and Apples, 1880 https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12195

The economy that's great for parents, lousy for their grown-up kids. Ask many older Americans how they are faring financially and they’ll tell you they are comfortable. Yet many are pessimistic about the economy because they see how their children are struggling www.wsj.com/personal-fin...