NEW // Sunday Video: Putting 12 Urban Freeways Out to Pasture Video via @nerd4cities.bsky.social. www.theurbanist.org/sunday-video...

@mluckovich.bsky.social always, always nails it:

Caught a red tailed hawk album cover today. 🪶

Second edition

Hang it in the Louvre

"There’s nothing like a common enemy to bring people together. This midterm election year, that enemy may be data centers." www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat...

At a garage sale a few months back I got a DVD of the Pirates of Penzance (Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt). I put it an the shelf until Gilda Radner and the Muppets reminded me of it (season 3)

There is no authority for the President to make sweeping changes to our elections. But that’s exactly what President Trump is trying to do. The executive order goes against the very heart of the free and fair elections that make our nation a strong democracy.

If Morning Memo has helped you keep your wits about you, steady your balance, or make some sense of the senseless during the first year of the Trump II presidency, then please seriously consider becoming a TPM member. We need you—and you need us—now more than ever. talkingpointsmemo.com/memberships

TALE has to replace TACO: Trump Always Lies about Everything.

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.

one of the biggest technological revolutions in history and it has nothing to do with crypto, AI, metaverse or any of the things the media relentlessly hypes

I'm writing #PostcardsToVoters for Chedrick Greene, running for US State Senate in a May 5th Special Election. Join me linktr.ee/postcardstov...

The Trump Administration is trampling all over Americans’ rights and Congress’ authority. Our Constitution empowers Congress to be a check on a lawless Administration, and I’m discouraged by how little my Republican colleagues are pushing back on these abuses.

Although the article is written for Californians, there are some tips that apply to everyone. (here's a tip not in the article: write to your state legislators and governor and ask "why can't we have the same protections against data brokers as California?"

“the words of a maniac.” - may that be his epitaph. And coward applied to all those who were ok with it…

Love this! Cat-holicism wins! I'm feline that it's Cat-astrophic for Trump fur sure! 😏🐾

Musk/DOGE's access and sharing of federal data leaves us open to privacy breaches and scams talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/doge-ss...

"Meanwhile, energy policy in the U.S. is driven by the rantings of a senescent wannabe dictator whose speeches routinely dip into musings about wind turbines and birds. That is what decay and decline look like." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/as-tr...

Don and I are on the same page on this. I was furious when I wrote this in January 2025. An efficient government that makes life easier for regular people? the whole country should have been furious. www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...

This:

"...the economic mess we’re in is entirely of Trump’s own doing. He’s not the usual American president held hostage to the vagaries and cycles of an economy largely beyond his control." i.e., trade wars, the war of choice in Iran, attacking science talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Since everyone is talking about Generation Lead, here is Kevin Drum’s huge 2013 investigation that first exposed the connection to a broad audience www.motherjones.com/environment/...

NEW: Virginia just passed a law to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, giving it 222 of 270 electoral votes needed to activate. This map and spreadsheet show which states could join to activate it by 2028 depending on the outcome of the 2026 elections docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

If Obama had posted a photo of himself as Jesus, the story would've disappeared in a couple days, right?

How much of the income of "the rich" comes in a form that can't be sheltered by tax avoidance schemes like off-shoring, buy/borrow/die, capital gains gimmicks, etc.?

this is good

So @standard.bsky.social made a quote machine for THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984) and it is a delight just to hit the randomizer button, because every single fucking scene has like twelve great lines in it: stonehengine.ordoliberal.com

republicans say government can't do anything. what was our most proud moment, as americans, this year? oh. right.

Today is officially the 30th anniversary of Steamed Hams. On April 14, 1996, "22 Short Films About Springfield" aired for the first time!

A movie couple that would definitely have a podcast

I'm so glad @donmoyn.bsky.social is drawing attention to this Direct File issue. It was proof (again) that government can do good things to make people's lives better/easier but the Trump admin with help from Elon Musk & for profit tax prep companies killed it. Democrats should resurrect it.

I'm celebrating one day late by listening to some new-to-me and old favorite albums, such as Speak Like A Child (w/ an unusual and delightful wind section) & the Headhunters Return www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

R.E.M. released their debut album ‘Murmur’ 43 years ago on April 12, 1983 | Listen to the album + discover why it's one of the 100 Most Dynamic Debut Albums Ever Made here: album.ink/REMmurmur @remhq.bsky.social

Happy Birthday Herbie Hancock! Explore his musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/HHancockHBD

In the near future, when China is the world's preeminent power and our influence is negligible, everyone is going to, understandably, blame Trump. But four decades of GOP governments prioritizing fossil fuels and throwing up stupid roadblocks to renewable energy is the real culprit.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

I want a primary debate question: “Would you keep all of the gold shit on the White House?”

Richard Shindell has recorded some great songs about criminals on the run, post-apocalypse life, traffic hell on the NJ Turnpike: "May" (Reunion Hill), "You Stay Here", "Transit" (Somewhere near Paterson [NJ]) www.allmusic.com/artist/richa...

6 more for the #virginiaredistricting vote #postcardstovoters this is how I tune out the insanity

mills saddle n' togs sign, 4th & main street, ellensburg, washington, 1987

The namesake of the rescue ship is John Murtha, longest serving US Rep from Pennsylvania, first Vietnam vet to be elected to the House en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mu...

Poe’s original tale is only a few pages long, so most of the plot (including Francesca, Gino, and political elements) was invented for the film. #TCMParty #TheMasqueOfTheRedDeath ^JW

Today on Volts: in difficult places where power needs to be portable & reliable -- think disaster recovery, or forward military bases -- diesel generators have been the standard answer. I talk today with someone making modular, portable, self-contained nanogrids with solar, batteries, & hydrogen.

The Trump admin and GOP hate small business. Recent story #1: small businesses don't have resources to get tariff refunds (“...they don’t have a trade compliance department”, Eugene Laney, president and CEO of the American Association of Exporters and Importers) talkingpointsmemo.com/news/small-b...