"Rosi", a mother of two, is picking mandarins in the Orosi, CA area. She gets paid $55 per 900-pound bin. She works as fast as she can and usually manages to fill two bins in 6 hours. "I worry if emergencies with my kids happen, as this barely pays my bills." #WeFeedYou

Maillard wept

Sometimes the darkness even quotes the verse & still comprehended it not!

Help from a bee-knower?

Hot off the press, my op-ed in MSNOW on Trump’s budget request. Proud of this one, but particularly happy they let me keep the final paragraph with only light editing. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Stolen Vicar

Log off. Read a book. Build something weird.

The Denial of Saint Peter, by Caravaggio, 1610

This really is the thing about right-American Catholicism. It wants to be its own continental religion separate from Europe. Which is to say they’re not Roman Catholics. They’re costume Catholics. They like the tradition and set dressings because it’s all very proper. Not so much the actual rules.

Related to this is how do you bring back a substantial portion of the 10% of the federal employees who have left so far? And recover their institutional knowledge?

Thinking ahead to 3 years from now, how will the next admin confront the fact that it will have to terminate 5-10% of the federal workforce for being unfit for their duties, or worse? Granted, a lot of these people will be in the DOJ, DOD or DHS, but not all of them. While giving due process.

this is the first time in my life i can point to the moon and tell my cat there are astronauts flying to it

at least the new buffalo statues at the natural history museum have balls when nobody else in this town does

What in the madlibs is this: "While Coristine is no longer a formal member of DOGE, he’s still working in government as head of engineering for the White House’s National Design Studio (NDS), which is run by Airbnb cofounder and US chief design officer Joe Gebbia"

BRING IT BACK

I'll take this discourse and say the Microsoft Nokia was a perfect smartphone.

As I was saying (sports app)

Flavor Flav accidentally drops in on the ESPN2 altcast just before the half

I'm going to fix Bluesky's user growth issues. I'm going to start posting about which MLB players have "George Lucas-ass names" again. Sorry about that.

He's giving off Joe Goldberg (You) vibes.

Southland Tales is a great film.

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Anna (as usual) is completely correct. This is a fantastic little podcast. A caper, even!

It's finally done, and she is so pretty

Now let’s move on and forget this ever happened

"Jones, McVeigh, now Livelsberger: Writing about them, I’ve thought about how each bomb was an infliction by a man who had decided to make his life a weapon. Why be a gun when you can be a bomb? Something that ripples out a blast wave of pain, that tears through bodies and buildings"

They put us in the newspaper.

Washington is back in court co-leading a lawsuit to defend our state’s safe and secure vote-by-mail system.

The dumb thing about the Pentagon saying "There will be a Protestant Service (No Catholic Mass) for Good Friday" is that Catholics don't celebrate Mass on Good Friday. The day is marked differently. This religious exclusion by the Pentagon also reveals their religious illiteracy.

As I've been saying, Hegseth is establishing his version of Christianity. Now they're saying it out loud by having Good Friday service only for Protestants. All of his monthly worship services have been Protestant services with just evangelical preachers: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/government...

A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed it is not hosting another, separate Good Friday service for Catholic employees. “The Protestant service is the only service scheduled in the Pentagon chapel today,” they said in a statement.

“Just a friendly reminder: There will be a Protestant Service (No Catholic Mass) for Good Friday today at the Pentagon Chapel,” reads a Friday email that went out to employees across the Pentagon. A peeved employee passed it along.

NEW: The Pentagon today invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel. Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics. www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

New: I wrote about how the SPLC let union breaking and fear of MAGA drive it away from its own civil rights principles. After I spoke up about Gaza, the SPLC disciplined me and terminated my employment—leading to a discrimination settlement: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Christian worshippers marked Good Friday in Jerusalem under the shadow of the war on Iran, with holy sites closed and the city under frequent fire. Access to prayer was severely restricted after Israeli forces blocked Catholic leaders from entering on Palm Sunday for the first time in centuries.

Asiat tärkeysjärjestyksessä, selvästi.

"Hector" works close to year-round in the strawberries in Ventura County planting and harvesting the crop. "I earn $2.30 per tray. I've been doing this work for 14 years. Strawberries look and smell like a beautiful crop but it is a very tiring crop to harvest." #WeFeedYou

You’re telling me a shrimp ran this private equity firm?

"RANGE has also identified three other cases in Spokane County where CBP searched immigrants’ license plates in the WSP database prior to detainment: two family members of Tiul Caal and a man from Spokane Valley."

If you're a woman and you don't want the right to vote, you can just not register to vote and also just not vote.

I’m beginning to wonder if there’s a reason behind all the college republican scandals 🤔

"...one prominent western company, Axon — based in Arizona — is at the forefront of law enforcement’s 'AI era,' and is offering police departments financial incentives to get on board." Axon was once Taser International. Now, it's making body cams with integrated AI...

NEWS Trump’s DOJ appeals a federal judge’s ruling protecting Anthropic to the Ninth Circuit. buff.ly/Q0BuVHT Background buff.ly/3Qo1ZMc

These blackberry plants were planted in February. Workers are removing the weeds around it so there's no competition for water and nutrients so the plant is strong and healthy and produce good fruit. #WeFeedYou

Got some overnight snow. Post your photos, #Idaho. #IdahoEscape

When Judge Lin enjoined Trump/Hegseth's designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, she granted a 7-day stay so govt could appeal. Today is day 7 & govt hasn't appealed. Yes, govt can now seek a new stay from 9th Circuit. But waiting till now suggests govt faces no urgency warranting a stay.

the greatest thing tilly norwood ever gave us was a gmu economist panting about how excited he was to have a virgin on-screen again

Here's the war story I remember best from my own childhood Passovers: a first-person account of a small Passover observance held by 20 or so Union soldiers during the American Civil War—and specifically the tale of a particularly pungent locally foraged bitter herb.

Bets on whether the boss is with the team

I volunteered by painting boxes for @zooboise.bsky.social today. They will be filled with food and placed in the exhibits for wildlife to find. Kind of an egg hunt for lions and tigers and bears. You can enjoy the feeding (and other festivities) on Saturday at Zoo Boise.