#NoKings protesters took to the streets in multiple South Dakota cities, including Pierre, where one protester said, “Gas prices going up, food prices going up, fertilizer prices going up for the farmers. I think people are just getting tired of the chaos.”

From Texas to Virginia to Minneapolis, people at No Kings protests agree: It is probably not great news that The Onion is doing so well right now.

As a historian, you might appreciate this one somebody sent me from LA.

No Kings demonstration spans six miles as thousands of Kansans line streets | via @maya3smith.bsky.social #ksleg

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We are estimating more than 200,000 people at the flagship No Kings rally in the Twin Cities. #NoKings

“No Kings” protesters assembled to form a message reading “TRUMP MUST GO NOW!” at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California today

I looked up at one point and was so close to this Downy, my camera couldn't focus on it. So I backed away, but it just kept flying closer and closer no matter how far I moved. Someone's clearly been feeding the #birds.

1 Just passed through security at La Guardia. ICE entirely doing security! 100% of ID and identity checks done by ICE…Truly icky and dystopian. Some thoughts.

What's up with these 9 am No Kings protests on this biting cold March morning. This isn't like Opus Dei where you need to self-flagellate

Protesters in London, England! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 for the No Kings

LICE protesters at #nokings DC

patiently explaining to national political reporters that the people who organize No Kings are also doing the daily advocacy, voter registration, mutual aid, and immigrant defense, and that just because the cameras show up for the big crowd does not mean that work did not exist before and after

Currently at Arlington National Cemetery #nokings

Happening now: a small protest at O'Hare is marching through terminal 1 this evening outside Chicago. ICE agents have been spotted inside the airport all week. Folks chanting, "ICE out of O'Hare! ICE out of everywhere!"

Clinton, Iowa (population around 24K) will lose labor/delivery services in May. "Company officials cites rising health care costs, staffing shortages, issues with government funding and policy changes to Medicaid and Medicare as reasons for the changes." #IA01 www.wqad.com/article/news...

Reader, I regret to say that they had none.

Technically he’s the only one we know about.

Why won’t he lose interest in presiding? Why won’t he say “melania, I’m bored. Let’s ditch this scene and move to Dubai.”

Sheer genius

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Our government is being run entirely by Biffs from Back to the Future.

Here’s a good idea. I already subscribe to one of them.

I saw a number of Black Bazas on my trip - this one flew over me in southern Thailand. What a stunning bird of prey - totally unique. #birds #birding #birdphotography #birdsseenin2026 #naturephotography

I had hoped all those hints were not for naught. And they weren’t!

"Come closer, so I can fully bind you with my spells!" --Evil Wizard Cormorant. ( Double-crested cormorant, Lake Fairfax Park, Reston, Virginia, USA 24-MAR-2026 ) #birds

It's just unreal how little thought or planning went into starting a new massive war in the Middle East.

Good read. Makes me wonder if there’s a recent history of a similar moment in US roughly a century ago.

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Would love to hear more from a more immediate source. Someone on the ground. Could this be a serious thing?

Giving Margaret Bourke-White, "World's Highest Standard of Living" 1937 photo from Life magazine vibes.

Someone who just read the new book described it as “eminently readable, which is *precisely* my goal when I’m writing. The Price of Plenty: A History of Meat In America. Excerpt at Maureenogle.com

As a retired airline Captain I flew into LGA and NY airspace hundreds of times. It is some of the world’s busiest airspace. To have only one ATC in the tower at LGA is criminal negligance. Not only is the airspace crowded and chaotic, so are the ground operations. Sean Duffy’s FAA owns this 100%

Boston folks, come by tomorrow.

This probably is fake, but geez I love the idea of the corgi as leader of the pack.

I’d move to Ireland just to enjoy their goldfinches. Which put NA ones to shame.

Elizabeth Taylor Herb Ritts, 1997

Now I love Feed the People! even more. Chapter one takes on Wendell Berry, about whom I have little good to say.

She said something true!!!

Actually….. it’s a massive global algorithm. According to a report I heard on @marketplace.org I felt better after I learned that. Really.

Christ on an electric bike. Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...

Be still my beating heart. I just learned about Feed The People! by @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social + Gabriel Rosenberg, which argues that the “food system” is not broken! I’ve waited years for this book. HT @eatthispodcast.com

Maybe this is a sign that I should stop using bluesky. Skeets no longer works. Greysky is junk. Etc. Sigh

ICE officers getting paid for standing around doing nothing while TSA employees work without pay is a pretty succinct summation of where we're at right now

So this Dem will vote to confirm?

People think rural America votes against its interests because they presume the rural poor and working class dominate politics. But they don’t. Local boosters and business elites run things and the GOP serves their petty bourgeois interests very well.

So, I almost never use dictation software. But I was in a mood today and tried for bit. “Strait of Hormuz” came out “street of hormones,” which kind of makes sense …

This essay runs way deep and has everything: personal history, Hollywood info, commentary, cultural symmetry, and political relevance. This is the reason I follow this gent—what a great raconteur!

I spend my media money on good indies like this.