Robert Rauschenberg poster for Earth Summit 1992, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil #EarthDay

In a converted 18th-century chapel on the grounds of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, a giant wool form by Nicola Turner creeps through openings in the architecture. www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/04/nico...

"A 2025 poll found that 63% of American Muslims reported experiencing religious discrimination, with many reporting at least one such incident every year since 2016." religionnews.com/2026/04/20/h...

Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

My father and brother have to be dragged away from cute babies on the bus so they don’t miss their stops.

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

When 😭 Please. I need it.

Unsure if this is COVID, a mean cold, that “rest or your body will make you” thing I hear warned about or some combination. (I am feeling better, though.)

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

Okay, this needs a reboot. Damn, that is one lovely garment! Would look brilliant in waxed canvas.

IT'S OFFICIAL: The House has passed our extension of TPS for Haiti. This win wouldn't be possible without the strength & organizing of our movement to defend our Haitian neighbors. To those in the #MA7 & beyond, this is for you. The Senate must pick this up without delay.

Probably Bluesky's biggest impediment when it comes to making money is that there's a large chunk of the site that has ideological objections to any of the steps it might take to become profitable

One of the most significant but largely immeasurable consequences of the last decade of fascism in America is that it is a form of civil, moral, and spiritual rot that debases all of us. We are all made that much cruder, insecure, and therefore crueler despite our best aspirations and efforts.

The price of beef is massively subsidized, not least by the fact that the cost to graze cattle on public land has not changed since the 1960s. $1.35 per cow-calf pair per month - 30 to 50 times less than market value. If you really want to stop corporate welfare, beef prices are gonna go up.

The El-Mohtar/Gladstone reference but also: you bring something unreplaceble to each and every day or you used to anyway

guys, this is how you lose the time war

The combination of plug-in solar and battery storage (and relatedly, cheap e-bikes and mopeds) is going to be unbelievably revolutionary in the Global South.

Weird-ass tendency by some people to come online and declare that the power of the left comes from “violence” or “the weakness of our enemies” and not like… the organized collective action of the people.

Even if I did believe in being fans of politicians I would not be signing up for the Magyar fan club, however… I can admit I get a little socialist thrill sometimes when a politician talks about re-nationalizing industries.

“It’s a real example of what the administration is doing in terms of its mass deportation plan and who it’s targeting,” New today: After 35 years in Ameria, Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now in an ICE detention center.

My advice, which no one will want, is to ignore the new Jewish Insider reveal on Platner, because it doesn't actually say anything that will elicit the desired reaction - quite the contrary. (And I've done my fair share of fighting Hamas fanboys, thank you.)

This actually rules and I bet Hochul could win back any Long Island good will she lost over congestion pricing with a similar kind of lottery. This state fucking loves a lottery.

Happy tax day! This should be a civic holiday, we should have a parade and give out taxpayer awards. ruthbraunstein.substack.com/p/what-does-...

BREAKING: I took to the House floor to force a vote on extending Temporary Protected Status for Haiti. We won the first important vote in this process, and now we're a step closer to getting this done. The House must move with urgency and pass this legislation without delay.

The real reason Vance thinks he knows more than the pope on Catholicism is the reason he thinks he knows more than everyone in everything: the malignant effects of Yale Law School

For those of you who might not follow this, Barghouti is the individual who currently has the most credibility with a wide spectrum of Palestinians, very likely the best interlocutor the Israelis could have if they were serious about negotiations. They aren't and he's been in prison since... 2002

Sorry, I am sick and not up to having a post escape containment.

Super helpful video that explains why the Senate should vote tomorrow to block the transfer of nearly $300,000,000 worth of armored bulldozers to Israel. We have to make it more difficult in every way for Israel to commit ethnic cleansing. Call now

I truly feel that whoever manages to get Netanyahu into the dock at The Hague will be striking a profound international blow for whatever their political alignment is, so… the left should get on this before the right does, is what I’m trying to say.

Time to play everyone’s favorite game, Is This Anti-Latino Racism? Where it’s always anti-Latino racism

Look I’m not saying people aren’t dicks to patrilineal Jews because sometimes they are but one of the core experiences of Judaism is feeling Insufficiently Jewish and also Too Jewish. This happens in settings in which literally everyone is Jewish.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

democracy can be a powerful weapon if you use it the right way, not everything has to be paid in blood, we don’t live in that world anymore we have other choices

While I pretty much disagree that the trend of “villain expresses desire to address real problem” is either intended as propaganda or has much propagandistic effect, I do think that 50+ years of “our heroes win with one decisive act of violence” has in fact had a negative impact on our imaginations.

JD Vance, are you free in October

Asha Bhosle, the legendary Bollywood playback singer whose voice was immortalized on more than 2,000 films, has died. She was 92.

George Soros living long enough to witness Orban's humiliating defeat is the cherry on top.

i have been informed it's saturday

If all the Artemis space photography has got you hyped, I recommend browsing NASA for some of the recent James Webb photos or older Hubble pics. I recently bought a print of this pic of the Cat's Eye Nebula so I can stare at its beauty when I'm overwhelmed and need to put things in perspective.

The weather technically warm today so I went to my local Thai place and murdered a plate of drunken noodles on the patio even though it was in fact kind of chilly, and I regret nothing.

I MUST go. If only to FaceTime the whole visit with my family.

Seems like an okay moment to remind people that if you want to give directly to a particular person in Gaza gazagivingcart.org will let you just buy a bag of flour or a mattress or kids’ shoes, take the phone number of the person you want to give it to, and put the stuff in their hands.

Advantages of this site being small: I can bitch about my small fandom more or less undetected because who’s going to see?

listening to the broadcast of an opera about a powerful man who sexually assaults women, writing an essay about a classic play I translated where a king sexually assaults a teenage girl, reading headlines about a politician in my state who sexually assaults women… 🎼 I enjoy being a girl! 🙃

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

One thing about tumblr and the way it constantly recirculates old posts is that it gives you a really, really clear sense of how much of today’s rhetoric is built purely on being tired and bored of yesterday’s.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Somewhere out there twelve different execs are saying “what we need is K Pop Demon Hunters but… *for boys*” and getting murmurs of approval from the room.

gotta get comfortable speaking the language of illegitimacy

These would be deplorable, inhumane conditions for any prison. The majority of these people have never been accused of a crime, much less convicted of one. Most, at worst, entered the country illegally seeking a better life. Some, not even that.