SCOOP: The Trump administration is paying millions to quickly cover four enormous bronze horses with extra-thick 23.75 karat gold leaf. The money for the rush job is coming from National Park Service funds. In total, I found ~$100 mil spent on new DC beautification projects.

One thing that won't get enough attention about John Cornyn's loss to Ken Paxton is that, no matter what happens in November, Texas Republicans just willingly gave up seniority in the Senate, one of the most prized currencies in federal politics. Let me explain what I mean... (thread)

Breaking: The NYS Assembly, dominated by democrats, just voted for a Trumpy energy agenda that guts the NY climate law. The climate law delayed action by 7 years, but a court had ordered Hochul to implement it… so she moved to gut it and the legislature is obliging. 🤦🤦🤦

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

If I told you ten years ago all of the Jeopardy winners, doctors, lawyers, stat-focused sports nerds, and premium shitposters escaped Twitter on a pirate ship to a website that was completely inhospitable to Nazis and phrenologists……. I don’t know, man, I’d be pretty excited.

This is the first day in a world without CBS News Radio, which had been broadcasting since 1927. Through eighteen presidential administrations, nine popes, five British monarchs, and numerous wars. Nearly 100 years of journalism, gone like that. Bari Weiss killed it.

In 2017, we traveled to Brooklyn to do a show at BAM, and our guest dropped out at the last minute. We called Stephen Colbert and he agreed to fill in *but only if we asked him the questions we had prepped for the original guest, without telling him who it was.* www.npr.org/programs/wai...

Colbert is both a mensch and an actual genius. One of one. He and @maddow.bsky.social are the two best broadcasters of our time; truly in their own category. I'm angry and sad the president and the feckless suits cancelled the show but also know it's not the end.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

Golden Hour featuring Hans

Truth. However, not pictured is all the love. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #adoptdontshop #fosterkittens #DMV #adoptme

Today I officially went on long term medical leave and I'm devastated. My medical bills are drowning us. I'm having to take time from the job I love. On top of it all, I'm feeling just awful from medication side effects. Please SHARE and help us. In all honesty, I need this to explode. 🩷 #Cancer

🇭🇺 Péter Magyar will be elected Prime Minister of Hungary today at ~2:30pm, after MPs take their oath and the new parliament convenes. 👋 Viktor Orbán is no longer PM or MP. 🇪🇺 For the first time in over a decade, the EU flag will fly on the Parliament building in Budapest.

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

Alabama Legislature is meeting on redistricting; we are under a tornado watch, and it’s flooding in the building. These metaphors are too on the nose.

Being an adult doesn’t mean you have to outgrow joy. Play the game. Buy the console. Get excited about the trailer. Spend your night saving a fictional kingdom if that’s what gets you through. Life takes enough from people. Don’t hand it the things that still make you feel like yourself.

WATCH: “Does this feel like the right thing to do? Are you ready to be on the wrong side of side of history?” Tennessee Republicans generally remorseless about stripping representation from majority Black Memphis, drowning it out with white power to protect a corrupt president.

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

Potats are still here. It’s been a rough week for me, but they’re thriving. Weaning continues to progress. Babies keep growing

Really excited about the new lead singer of Paddock! at the Disco

Axios is reporting that Josh Shapiro secretly helped a Republican state treasurer's 2024 reelection bid after the official's Democratic opponent had criticized Shapiro as a potential VP pick, a close Shapiro ally said last week.

Me: I voted for Donald Trump because I had him confused with that other guy. Donald Duck. NYT reporter: Are you sure you want me to print that next to your real name and a drawing of you? Me: Yes.

Ninth Grader Demi Johnson receives National Geographic award for plan to save Mississippi's oyster reef population. The ninth grader has produced 1,100 oysters that will in turn spawn millions of larvae into the ecosystem, a huge ecological impact

So just to recap, in the last minute CSPAN says it was a false alarm, CNN says the shooter was killed in the lobby, and the pool report says he's in custody, do I have that right?

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

God it just can’t stay this bleak forever right. Like we’re gonna do solar and the seas won’t cover the coasts and we’ll stop betting on societal collapse and remember that we’re here to be kind to each other right.

If you're in Virginia check out the delivery area, Chris Newman has been pioneering farming that's kind to farmers as well as the land and animals for uh. A long time now. Which is what we need for sustainable ag. Anyway buy your meat and eggs from Blackbird Co-op: blackbirdcoop.com

Pete Hegseth is a DUI hire.

enigma of amigara fault #lego

Mercenary Librarians ebooks are on sale RN. Read a trilogy about people actually trying to put the world back together post-apocalypse!

"This is an important thing to think about."

Khajiit has wares if you have coin

fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

Thank you very much for the cardigan I've been wanting this colour because Mummy burnt my other one.

This should be a much bigger story. The Trump administration is about to hand TotalEnergies, a French oil company, nearly $1 billion of your money to cancel its American offshore wind projects. And they are pulling the cash from an account they are not allowed to use this way.🧵

Two weeks ago The Free Press let a whiner publish 2000 words ab how I got his book review cEnsoReD. It was pure nonsense from the moment it went out—but I spent the next 14 days trying to get them to post an Editor’s Note and admit reality. They won’t. open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

#oopsie Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

American Kestrel deep dive. Toronto, Canada, April 17th 2026. Photo by Jose Raposo

This is fascinating. I've never seen AIS details changed to message "don't hit us we're X country" on a scale like this before.

EXCLUSIVE: Attorneys for Rep Jamie Raskin are asking appeals court to halt Trump Admin effort to vacate convictions of Jan 6 seditious conspiracy defendants Raskin is trying to serve as firewall as Justice Dept & defense join forces to vacate the cases

Really good reporting from AP. They took 40 people who had listed their new ICE job on LinkedIn, then looked for red flags. apnews.com/article/ice-...

Not only did the sons probably call ICE on her, the day after her husband died they took their dad's cars, leaving her housebound. Then they rerouted mail, causing her to miss a visa appointment & the utilities to be turned off. Tony and Gary Ross are going to hell. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #HeadShots, with an alt theme of #Gulls. Ironic given my recent post about bird portraits. I went with this Atlantic Puffin captured prepping for a nap, and looking very coy. #birds #photography #ECK #puffin

NASA astronaut Christina Koch hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls flic.kr/p/2s7aCi3 #Artemis 🧪🔭

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

Let’s talk about a new way campaigns can invest in communities – not just in one election. Ya’ll will hear from us and @katmabu.bsky.social very soon 🌟 @kapowworks.bsky.social 🌟

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.