Absolutely bonkers. www.salon.com/2026/04/20/m...

Inquiring minds want to know

Correction: a medium-sized country. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Stewart Copeland, acclaimed drummer for The Police, teams up with naturalist Martyn Stewart for a pioneering album featuring laughing hyenas, Asian owls, and howler monkeys. Tonight. 60Minutes.com

Raoul Dufy The Wheatfield (1929)

One more thing that worries me about this is that the people staying might be doing so b/c of outside option issues - they likely would have a very hard time finding employment elsewhere. So the quality of their work will suffer too. They will do things they would not otherwise do to stay employed.

Investigative reporter Gerry Flynn @geraldrflynn.bsky.social: "Remember that you’re likely better to be the cause of informing people and inspiring change if you’re alive and free to write. So while we need to be brave in holding the powerful to account, we need to be smart too."

Searing opinion from a federal judge on Long Island, who describes "police state"-like tactics by ICE to arrest peopleand draw up after-the-fact warrants. He says DOJ is damaging its credibility with the courts by trying to shield ICE from scrutiny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Brexit didn't stop immigration or fix the economy. Farage told his supporters to back Boris Johnson in the 2019 General Election, and he fully supported Liz Truss's budget himself. So why are Reform MPs telling us that the wrong Brexit was delivered and complaining about Britain being broken?...

The future is electric

More research is necessary but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalised vaccine are still alive six years later.

Two headlines about mRNA vaccines. Federal funds has been pulled for research that could cure/prevent a cancer that has a 13% survival rate. But don’t worry, RFK Jr is also fast tracking psychedelics.

In 2004 Australia decided to let the global fossil fuel market decide our energy future. That same year China decided fossil fuels were costly and risky so went with electrification (noting Strait of Hormuz and Malacca Strait were threats to their National Security). www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Australia's energy minister is skipping global meetings on accelerating the phase-out of fossil fuels because he has to stay in Australia to deal with the fallout from not phasing fossil fuels out fast enough.

I think EVERYONE who gets the vice of the fossil energy crisis over against the knot of sovereignty, could easily predict that the topics of conservation and independence (for families, enterprises, institutions, and nations) would come roaring back.

Don't know about all this, but do know for absolute certainty in my not short lifetime I have never seen so few public hearings and absence of blue ribbon investigations, such minimal and concessionary accounts from law enforcement and prosecutorial authorities, so little journalistic investigation.

New Hungarian PM brutally confronts a news channel that banned him for years.

Here's a thought !

Colorado River watershed is currently at its lowest level in recorded history, signaling an immediate crisis for the 40 million people and the vast industrial complex dependent on the Colorado River. collapse2050.substack.com/p/collapse-o...

The Colorado River water crisis isn't hitting everyone equally—century-old water laws mean that some communities face existential threats while others remain secure: these tensions are the heart of deadlocked negotiations about who should bear the burden of a shrinking river.

No doubt there’ve been stories I’ve missed, but—notable if unsurprising that virtually no Colorado River coverage hints at what the crisis & pending deadpool means for four of the most endangered fish species on earth. (Could be very bad! Could be… pretty good?!) I wanna read (or write!) that piece.

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WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

Horrible.

Someone at the NYT asked me a couple years ago for an opinion piece on "how to solve the Colorado River water crisis." So I made a nice little writeup on the most obvious answer: charging for water. Once the editorial board saw it, they freaked out & cancelled the piece.

Thank you Jody.💙 for thinking of me I appreciate it immensely and wishing you a great Sunday.🫂 Some humer. LOL.🤣

Dudes. As a society we taught young women to walk with keys between their fingers in dark parking lots and to carry pepper spray in their purse. So yes. I’m asking you to be responsible for the actions of other men. After all, that’s what you’ve asked of women for centuries. It’s your turn.

#Microplastic disparities between urban (Buru-un) and rural (Tubajon) seagrass beds of Northern Mindanao, Philippines link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This tariff-refund portal is about to be America's hottest website www.npr.org/2026/04/19/n...

This is a horrific story of abuse of animals that are beloved, gentle, and incapable if defending themselves. Shipment after shipment of wild sloths delivered to an unheated warehouse in Florida, without even running water, where they all died. And people were charged $19 to watch them suffer.

How Much Did President Trump Add to the Debt?-2024-01-10 (First Term) Trump’s four years in office, the gross national debt grew from $19.95 trillion to $27.75 trillion – a $7.8 trillion increase #MOG8 www.crfb.org/blogs/how-mu...

44% of Americans are very worried about climate change — among the highest levels since 1989 — and 63% believe the US government is not taking enough environmental action, the highest since @Gallup.com started polling the question in 1992.

Today is the 2 year anniversary of when I met the Ravens. They just checked me out from a distance then! Here is some of my fav footage: them courting, feeding each other, barrel rolling and some of their vocalisations. They are the most amazing birds and I am so lucky to have them!

Remarkable how far Trump’s gotten with his lies that the war is going well, it’s practically over already, the Iranians are giving in, a big deal is imminent, any economic damage will be easily weathered and over fast, just live in that fiction, feel relief and excitement. So many want to believe.

Have been wondering when candidates would start talking about this. One of the biggest corruption scandals is U.S. history playing out in real time.

Ironic

Last night at Austin Community Tavern @kilbornalley.bsky.social @viamalcontenti.bsky.social #supportlivemusic

Ok peeps, this will tickle your ticklish spot, and put a big grin on your slowly warming up Sunday morning face! Thanks to @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social for this great weekly series!

Businesses really are getting better at letting you know ahead of time to never ever use their services.

Amazing! This is the line to get into Peter Buttigieg’s town hall in Tulsa tonight.

Former President Barack Obama met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time Saturday, joining preschoolers at a child care center for a book reading and singalong. Source: Emma G. Fitzsimmons / NYT

It is very weird that we never hear about this. We don't hear about the case, we don't hear about the incident, we don't hear about the Secret Service and any analysis they did on mistakes made. And the weirdest part of all is that Trump never talks about it. Ever. Why isn't Trump milking it?

Pretty frustrating that the New York Times is crediting AP with uncovering the existence of Aadam’s archive when I reported on it 15 months prior. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

“The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves.” —Erich Fromm

also, the justices' papers ought to belong to the united states, to be made public at some date (let's say a decade) after retirement.