I won a regional Murrow award today for best continuing coverage for my series of stories last year on data centers in Kentucky. If you're so inclined to spend an hour reading them they're here:

Obama put his feet on his desk and the media melted down for days over it

Very helpful assistant over here.

Nobody wants AI. People do want trains though

I can't understand the mindset of wanting to do this unless the *goal* was to desecrate it. It's a grave for 1,177 U.S. sailors who died in nightmarish ways from the exploding magazine and the sinking inferno that followed. It's hallowed ground to everyone except Trump and his lackeys.

Hear them out:

It’s very simple: the 6 republican Supreme Court justices are functionally no different than klansmen

once again, just spitballing, what if we just provided for everyone's basic material needs

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows Alabama to use its 2023 congressional map, which lower courts previously blocked for violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, in the 2026 midterms. The ruling comes after the Court gutted the landmark law in Louisiana v. Callais. https://bit.ly/4nlCMUt

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

Will Asbestos Make Make Cotton Candy Obsolete?

They spent at least $50 BILLION over 2 months to bomb people in Iran. I don't want to hear a single thing about what can and cannot be funded in this country. Ever. The End.

*catches up on the news after an unusually busy day*

Tony and I could be a coughing chorus. 😫🫠

Being sick on such a beautiful weekend has been a real bummer.

Ice cream shop and pottery studio combo. Like the bowl you had ice cream in? You could buy it! And take ceramics classes to make your own bowl. Plus some ice cream making workshops.

Look for the helpers

I'm a prison librarian and our book club class is covering Legendborn by Tracy Deonn. Today one of my students said that his daughter is also getting a copy so they can have their own mini book club over the phone, and I just 🥹. Books are such a powerful tool for fostering connection. 📚📜

Timeline cleanse!

The group, “Veterans Against Fascism”, was arrested after staging a protest inside the U.S. Capitol against Trump’s & Israel’s illegal war with Iran

I’ve been trying to figure out why I’ve been obsessed with the Artemis II mission — more obsessed than I usually am with NASA stuff. This explains it! (IG: morganevelyncook)

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

Ready for my close, personal friends to come out of their spacecraft.

I wanna watch the Artemis landing on this.

If you think this is exhausting, imagine being Iranian.

The threat itself is an impeachable offense. Don’t let it slide.

The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.

Scheduling social media posts for the week for work while the President uses his social media posts to threaten genocide against Iranians. Being a human is really fucking weird sometimes (all the time).

Muriel Rukeyser, always but especially today. Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

The Moon eclipsing the Sun from the perspective of the Artemis crew (2x speed). Incredible to watch this live and see the corona appear as soon as the disc of the Sun is fully covered.

Today in 1977 began the 504 sit-ins by disabled people. The protest was the longest occupation of a federal building and a reminder that our human rights and access protections were not gifts from the ableds, but fought for by us, and in this instance with a big assist from the Black Panther party.

TRUMP: "I'm gonna fuckin' blow up all the fuckers! I wanna use all the bombs before I die! Helter skelter! Helter skelter! Race war! Race war! Fuck Easter and fuck you, too!" NEWS: "Trump promises to strengthen military in early morning Easter greeting."

Guess I am let’s-hurt-my-knee-taking-a-normal-step old. 😫😫

Today marks seven years without alcohol. 🥳

"My Parents Are Dead: What Now?" is a darkly funny guide to navigating grief and the paperwork that follows.

Absolutely not.

Something I haven’t seen mentioned is that more than TSA work at airports! Janitors, food service, retail, etc. I have no faith that security clearance to work at an airport will keep those people safe from ICE, especially brown and Black people with accents.

If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04

The Democratic candidates running for U.S. Senate in Kentucky are debating tonight, about halfway through, you can watch here. Charles Booker, Amy McGrath, Dale Romans and Pamela Stevenson. #kysen

pardon me while I crumble to dust

Bummed, but I think the people in that room will think about SINNERS a lot more than ONE BATTLE over the next however many years.

MICHAEL B. JORDAN!! Power came back in time for me to see this. Hell yes. #Oscars

Hour six of no power and no updates on when it will be back. 😫 I just wanted to watch the #Oscars and root for Sinners!

There needs to be like 5 "too nice to work" holidays controlled by each state. Like a snow day, you don't get any advance notice. The stations and alerts just put out the message that the next day is too nice to work and everyone is off.

MANDATORY TIMELINE CLEANSE