“Trump’s deteriorating mental state has become impossible to overlook…” “The trade wars, unjustified war in the Middle East, and attacks on U.S. science, universities, and immigration that are throttling economic growth are all a product of Trump’s personal choices.” @hcrichardson.bsky.social

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

The last straw for MAGA www.instagram.com/reel/DW93GBP...

Courtesy of John Naughton: No solution to poverty is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.' JK Galbraith

If I were Starmer trying to find a way of announcing a rejoin of the EU, I‘d prepare UK: - showing it’s possible as well as desirable - helping voters see it’s OK for a country to change direction - showing them Brexit has caused damage and he is acting in time to avoid more damage And…

We should not move on from the President threatening to annihilate a civilization.

Case argues law violates state constitution’s guarantee to life, liberty, equality and the pursuit of happiness

You might think of puzzling as leisurely, but it’s now a sport. Here’s what I discovered when I entered an immensely friendly competition

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to obtain Massachusetts' unredacted voter file. A victory for our clients the New England NAACP and the MA Alliance for Retired Americans and the Commonwealth. My firm is now 4-0 in these cases against DOJ. www.democracydocket.com/cases/massac...

Trump has handed over an international waterway to the Iranians, who will now charge (at least) $2M per vessel.

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

For my last stop, a little after 1 AM, I met with the DEP Leak Detection team. They listen to the city’s pipes, block by block, to catch leaks before they become major breaks.

This sort of human ingenuity gives me hope we can make a a better world if we try hard enough

“The American people spent the whole day wondering if their mad king would destroy the world, only to find out he was terrorizing them in order to protect his ego after starting a disastrous war.” @hcrichardson.bsky.social

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

“Sunrise on Second Beach” Olympic National Park/WA #TidesOutTuesday #ECK

Darkness was the theme Until light began to play Its variations

You can’t judge a book by its lover

Floating on grey-dark.

Trump has really, seriously, frighteningly lost his mind. It won’t happen soon, but if Trump continues to deteriorate, Republicans won’t have any alternative but to remove him from office. Neither will America. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-has-really-seriously-frighteningly

Trump appears to be set to bomb the power plants' "generation hulls." That could disable electric power for many months. As one expert tells me, this would "almost surely lead to a major humanitarian disaster for tens of millions of ordinary Iranians." 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2087...

Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country. Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

‘Even more beautiful than I imagined’: the nifty Japanese printing gadget uniting artists worldwide

“Investigators must THOROUGHLY investigate the death of Danhao Wang. His family deserve that. The people of China and the US deserve that. There is a troubling pattern of scientific researchers dying or disappearing. This is a 5-alarm priority.”—Christine Brandt www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

April 6, 2026

Sun night I was so stressed knowing that no one will stop DJT from launching a nuclear strike on Iran that I ended up w/a closed-off gut, vomiting. He doesn’t understand that no one wins a nuclear war. Mon tackled heavy duty gardening for a friend, hacking through weed cloth to plant azalea bushes.

These ink paintings (and 7 others) go on exhibit at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social starting tomorrow. #sciart

People need to understand that the party in the minority has very few options to stop or control what happens in Congress. If you don’t understand that, then you’re likely to fall for all the people blaming Democrats.

New in PN: Trump's Total War Budget "It points the way clearly toward a distinctively Republican vision of America — one where there's endless money for bombs while the populace is transformed into an impoverished mass of hunger and disease, emitting hoarse pleas for castoffs from oligarchs."

“‘It was March 23rd. Then March 27th. Then March 30th...[N]ew deadline April 4th. Then April 6th at 7 AM. Then April 7th at 8 PM…The chaos is intentional.’ [Allison Gill also noted that [Trump’s Iran] deadlines and his abandonment of them often seem tied to the rhythms of the stock market.”

The need for and effectiveness of investigative journalism in all areas of social, political and scientific engagement cannot be overstated:

This gives me flashbacks to middle school. An astronaut spoke at our school, and the principal chose me for a local TV news interview. The reporter asked me about a dozen topics, including the space toilet, and edited me down to one humiliating sentence making it sound like I loved toilets.

What are US allies supposed to do? “[Y]ou can’t keep building bridges for ever to someone who keeps setting fire to them.” @theguardian.com #EU @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Untranslated headlines in German are much clearer than New York Times headlines in English

NATO & the American experience vs. police states: @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-3-2026

Sorry, which side is supposed to be religious zealots here, someone remind me.

Trees and an osprey this morning #whiteclaycreekstatepark #delaware

A host of colourful fungi made an appearance. #fungi #whiteclaycreekstatepark #delaware

White Clay Creek State Park #Delaware— #spiderwebs this morning:

“As Trump spoke, U.S. stock futures plummeted, erasing about $550 billion in 25 minutes.”

"We need a 5% wealth tax on America’s 938 billionaires. Over a ten-year period, this bill would raise much-needed $4.4tn for public coffers," writes @sanders.senate.gov. "Let’s choose democracy over oligarchy."

Abandoning NATO would be the single greatest gift Donald Trump could ever give Vladimir Putin.

There’s a reason it takes FOIA requests (and being sued to comply) for ICE to release arrest data: The overwhelming majority of people detained have no criminal history. And those so-called “immigration violations”? Often, it's people waiting years for court dates in a broken, backlogged system.

Setting aside the Churlish American Guy shtick and the Looney Tunes-level of understanding of maritime operations, this is a big dump on the British security partners who suffered more than 600 deaths and 10,000 injuries in the US-led Iraq and Afghanistan wars

Demonstrators in San Francisco came together at Ocean Beach to form a human sign in protest of the Trump administration on March 28.

I genuinely think the president and many of his advisers, scammers, hustlers, and keyboard gangsters, don’t understand this concept at all and you can see it in the pattern of their mistakes from Minneapolis to Tehran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

"the first hints of rebirth a declaration of defiance":