The maddening truth: The U.S. could end homelessness, feed all the hungry children, and give every single person affordable healthcare, but instead, our government chooses to exempt multi-billion-dollar corporations from paying fair taxes on their profits.

I want this story not to disappear. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

I want this story not to disappear. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said that it has been acquired by the Baltimore Banner’s publisher, rescuing the paper just weeks before it was set to shut down. https://cnn.it/4tNIeBq

Take his answer at face value and it shows he knows nothing about Christianity. He can’t even recognize a standard representation of Jesus (albeit with his own head grafted on).

This is incredible: Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here’s How to Use It. I knew some of these but not all, e.g. verbatim mode “returns results for exactly what you typed, stripped of personalization and synonym-swapping.” [cardcatalogforlife.substack.com]

You might not care about sea slugs, and you might not know about programming in R, but this photo is an absolute timeline cleanser. Enjoy!

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

There was never Critical Race Theory in schools. That's as silly as saying, "I oppose teaching toxic tort litigation in schools!🤡" Critical Race Theory is a graduate level legal and political theory topic. No district has ever taught it as part of an elementary school curriculum.

BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites. This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran (🎥 i24 News)

Everything in two terms as president has made this president (and his supporters) believe he can get away with anything, including illegal acts. War crimes? He’s not one bit worried that he would ever be prosecuted.

So, to sum up, a couple of days ago Christina Koch became the first woman to see Earth in its entirety, and today – right now, in fact – she is the first woman to see the Moon up close, and the first woman to see the far side. 🥹

I’ve been reading about the 2,000-year history of the Silk Road. Once I found sources that weren’t fixated on China and 19th-century explorers, there’s a lot about Persia. Amazing how much was completely ignored in my (fairly good) education.

POLYMARKET: “.. we are investigating how this slipped through our internal safeguards." @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Another thought about “those who do the work”: The more you cook your own food from scratch, the easier it gets. You learn stuff. Techniques that save time. You acquire good tools. You have spices already because you bought them for another dish. Writing is like that.

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

Food. Healthcare you can afford. A roof over your head. Low or no debt. Every person deserves this simple level of stability. Too many Americans don’t have it. While our elected officials go on vacation, our neighbors are struggling.

This aligns with my recent thoughts about “those who do the work.” The Black people who created new musical styles (whether based on previous ones or not) listened and experimented and took risks and put themselves in the line of fire. Above all, they worked. With dedication. With love. AI can’t.

This short thread reminded me of the phrase “Those who do the work.” The way we learn, the way one becomes expert, the way science is made, where new ideas originate, how knowledge is created: Those who do the work.

“Iran has bombed U.S. bases across the Middle East in retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli war, forcing many American troops to relocate to hotels and office spaces throughout the region.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

CBS network and organization failing. Commercial broadcast network. Yes, a big waste. Nevertheless, I am more concerned about NPR and PBS.

NEW: More than 11,000. That’s how many US citizen children have a parent who has been detained under Trump, our new data analysis shows. When Doris Flores was separated from her four-month-old who was still breastfeeding, she turned to her pastor for help. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Also in Florida.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Stunned by all the “ICE isn’t gonna do anything more than what TSA already does” rhetoric. Untrained white supremacists who’ve been told by bosses they’re not subject to laws will have POC and women lined up in front of them to grope and abuse and they don’t even have to chase them.

Good, brief, clearly written. It would be no simple task to convert most COBOL programs to another language.

NEW: The Trump administraiton has lost more than 7,000 immigration detention cases in recent months. Increasingly, DOJ is telling judges they have no argument to present or couldn't get facts from ICE to present in court. A look at this emerging trend. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame. 13,000 third country deportees so far. Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier, but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.

Horrifying: you’ve been in labor for hours. On petition from your hospital, a judge orders that you must have a Cesarean against your will. www.propublica.org/article/flor...

Wants to take Greenland. Wants to make Canada the 51st state. Wants to take Cuba. Not sure about Venezuela. Still, the Epstein files.

I’m not seeing enough reporting about how South and SE Asian nations are already suffering from oil shortages and hiked prices. I’m thinking: dominoes falling.

It’s a bad sign when almost every day I think of that Monty Python line: No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! .

The big shoes thing: Some people think big feet indicate other bigness. It’s like the small hands thing (which should more specifically be a short stubby fingers thing). But when your shoes are obviously too large for your puny feet, buddy, it’s like driving a big-ass truck.

Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigns over Iran war. x.com/joekent16jan...

Delta swore to its employees and unions that it was not transporting deportees this way.

U.S.: Hi we started a war and we don’t know how to run it can you help us please? Europe: *crickets* U.S.: Oh come on, we were just kidding about Greenland. Europe: U.S.: Oh hi Canada? .

Looking at Hawaii storm news www.yahoo.com/news/article...

U.S.: Hi we started a war and we don’t know how to run it can you help us please? Europe: *crickets* U.S.: Oh come on, we were just kidding about Greenland. Europe: U.S.: Oh hi Canada? .

INBOX: The Florida Federation of College Republicans has disbanded and requested the deactivation of the University of Florida chapter of College Republicans, after "members engaged in a pattern of conduct that violated its rules and value, including a recent antisemitic gesture."

JFC. Impeach and remove this lawless man, you fools.

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

The boycott continues! Target “confirmed to USA Today that it’s making no new commitments or reversals on its DEI policy.” No shopping at Target until they publicly re-commit to diversity, equity, and inclusion. 19thnews.org/2026/03/targ...

On this day in 2020, Breonna Taylor was killed by Louisville Metro Police Department officers after they forcibly entered her home. Although one of the officers responsible was eventually convicted of violating Taylor's civil rights, none were ever indicted for her murder.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Germany's Merz says easing of Russia sanctions is 'wrong' The German chancellor has said a US decision to temporarily allow the sale of sanctioned Russian oil is flawed. Friedrich Merz said the timing of the decision was incorrect. www.dw.com/en/germanys-...

Putin: I am very, very angry that you haven’t given me all of Ukraine yet. Trump: Okay okay okay

The Defense Department has barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed “unflattering. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

ITCFIU, TWFIU - not as compact as TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) - but it came to me when I was looking at today’s gasoline prices. The increase is more than $1 a gallon over 2 weeks ago. Way to FIU, T.

$800 million a day. That’s what this unwanted war in Iran is costing U.S. taxpayers. What we want, instead: Food for the poor in our own country Cheaper, better healthcare for all Affordable housing Low-priced daycare Lower grocery prices Lower gas prices More safety for POC and immigrants .