Every man should read this.

They’re turning the entire federal internet apparatus into a galaxy of phishing sites that are controlled by the president and do not adhere to any federal privacy or disclosure rules.

Also MIT: We’re closing down the libraries and firing the librarians!

Surround yourself with the kind of people who are proud to have a library card.

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

"Would-be authoritarians don’t need to staff their regimes with ideological true believers, offer extreme enticements or impose draconian punishments in order to make successful power grabs. They just need to figure out how to target their ideal labor pool: the frustrated and mediocre."

TJ MAxx, you get it

Though sunlight must travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz. Similarly, there is no drone on Earth that can shoot the breeze, writes @billmckibben.bsky.social.

This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

Yeah, as a lawyer I don't know what to tell you about "SCOTUS rewrote a 43-year-old voting rights statute to restore the exact holding the law abrogated, which makes the situation worse now than then because SCOTUS's other decisions obliterated the rest of the VRA." No clever lawyering around that.

Trump is directing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prioritize cases of discrimination against white men, but commission staff are "struggling to find complaints with merit"

“This yielded good news, with 4,372 fewer suicides of adolescents and young adults, ages 15 to 34, than had been projected.”

#giftarticle Is There Such a Thing as a Good A.I. Company? by Paul Ford “Ethics don’t scale up.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/o...

Hello, Virginia (and other states)! Clearly we cannot wait for Congress to take action.

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

Your regular reminder that cops don't actually justify their existence or enormous budgets by solving much crime. Approximately 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction. And then there's this...

“Behind every landmark ruling lies a vast archive of briefs, petitions, appendices, and supporting records; these are the the arguments, evidence, and voices that shaped each decision.” “Making them freely available is a matter of civic accountability, not just scholarly convenience.” #democracy

“The decision rests on Montana's constitution, whose Equal Protection and Individual Dignity clause has been repeatedly interpreted to protect transgender people—and which the court made clear provides far greater protection than the federal constitution.”

Scientists are recruiting everyone who reads visual text to take part in a #CitizenScience project. You can help out by reading this post, sharing it, and signing up to take part. (short🧵) 🧪 news.ncsu.edu/2026/04/citi...

Peter Magyar has offered a template which can be used, without too much alteration, in defeating populists worldwide open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Hotlines for US soldiers thinking of leaving the armed forces as "conscientious objectors" are being overwhelmed. Almost all the calls mention the bombing of the girls' school in Iran that killed more than 100 school children. www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

God this poem is haunting me again.

astronaut setting their email OOO (out of orbit)

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

#Cville folks - come out for the JMRL Friends Used Book Sale member presale tonight, 5-7. Not a member? [Why not?] You can join at the door. Or come to the sale April 4-12, 10am to 7pm each day. Proceeds support JMRL's entire public programming budget. jmrlfriends.org/booksale

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

In an administration that posts Nazi iconography online and is full of people with ties to white supremacist groups, what could possibly go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

He started a war with no reason and no plan, sending the world into a crisis solely of his own creation, and now he's angrily bitching that other countries need to clean up his mess.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about birthright citizenship. Here, for the NYTimes and with Kate Masur, I offer a view of what those of you who think historically should be listening for. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

“In early 2024, when Jackson approached Goldin, the average NBA player made about $12 million, according to Basketball Reference, a statistics website. The average WNBA player made $118,000—less than one cent on the dollar, as Goldin is quick to point out.”

To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.

“Here is a tale, in the dark for 30 years, about how book reviews are an engine that helps keep the culture running.”

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Why we protest: 1. Nonviolent protest works. 2. It changes the atmosphere. 3. It gets us organized. 4. Protests win elections. 5. Protest brings joy. Thank you @timothysnyder.bsky.social #NoKings

After years of worrying about elder financial scams, take a listen at all the crazy financial shenanigans appealing to your kids (or grandkids)! Meme coins, buy-now-pay-later, predictive betting on anything, etc etc etc. Join the webinar April 1 or view later & get the research report.

GOP Senator admits Trump is the reason for TSA shutdown, long airport lines: "The Democrats have offered to open up everything but ICE. ... Thune submitted that to President Trump. The President said, 'No deals with the Democrats.' We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week."

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

Breast cancer mortality dropped 58% from 1975 to 2019. Localized, early detected breast cancer has a 99% 5 year survival rate. Modern mammogram tech was developed by NASA for telescopes. Last year, RFK Jr. cancelled 87 research grants on breast cancer. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

"In our analysis of a long term data set of Virginia (USA) we found that it took $33 million of investment into data centres to create one job, around 400 times the cost of a job from IT investment that did not go into data centres" aprs.scot/resources/em...

**Here's an update on Monday's severe weather potential in central Virginia. Please read!**

your vote is rarely the single decisive vote but sometimes it is! and you never know when that might be

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

can't "love libraries" and not fight for them to be fully funded.