Mayor Mamdani restores library funding after public outcry gothamist.com/news/mayor-m...

Why China Is So Much Less Scared of A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

What Do We Lose When ‘The Late Show’ Goes Away? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/a...

Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...

There it is. Any questions?

“The supreme court betrayed Black voters, they betrayed America, and they betrayed our democracy.” - Barack Obama

Justice Elena Kagan Isn't Mincing Words, About The Voting Rights Act........

It’s funny having a dog and how when we meet other people with dogs out on walks, we always ask about the dog’s name but rarely introduce ourselves. I know many of the dogs in my neighborhood, rarely the name of the human. And when I intro myself, the human is always taken aback.

#retro 📺+

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

Iconic Photo

We love @oliviadeano's cover of "You've Got A Friend"!

The sharply conservative Supreme Court, reshaped by President Trump’s three appointees, is the first since at least the 1950s to reject civil rights claims in most cases involving women and minorities, according to an analysis conducted for The Post. https://wapo.st/4tCkcJB

Large spiders the size of your palm are popping up across the U.S. Here's why you shouldn't be afraid

I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad as.ft.com/r/db911dd6-f...

There's something just so brilliant about coal mines being directly replaced with solar farms www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/07/g...

"I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on my own. It was my second home, and I read everything that I could get." ~ Tracy Chapman Chapman by Nicholas Albrecht #Booksky

❌👑 except...

Statement from Jasmine Crockett.

How Talarico Won Over Latino Voters to Win the Texas Democratic Senate Primary

When they write the obituary of this once great institution, call it what it was: a murder-suicide. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

I mean, he told me and I told people

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.

Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military

WELKER: What is the national emergency that justifies this new slate of tariffs? BESSENT: The national emergency is avoiding a national emergency

Our inaugural photo contest for undergraduates yielded some incredible shots of our Buffett Undergraduate Research Fellows, Elliott Scholars, and International Senior Thesis Grantees embarking on research and community-based internships in locations ranging from Argentina to Thailand to Germany.

Let me go cop a Pixel before the prices jump

Can Ken Burns Win the American Revolution? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/a...

Going to have to miss Get Up! This morning, but I suspect the host will have some thoughts...

BBC - Putin and Kim join Xi in show of strength as China unveils new weapons at huge military parade.

A federal appeals court late Tuesday blocked President Trump from using an 18th-century wartime law to quickly deport a group of Venezuelans, rejecting the administration’s argument that the migrants were part of an “invasion” of the U.S. Follow live updates.

"The government has let A.I. companies lead a charmed life with almost zero regulation. It now ought to enact legislation that addresses costs and harms unfairly offloaded onto the public," argues @garymarcus.bsky.social.

Please give her a follow... we need her follower count to go up, especially when the Wisconsin Supreme Court race coming up on April 7, 2026 is really important.

Data for Progress poll: A slight majority of GOP voters would support Trump for a third term, an unconstitutional move that he keeps posting and talking about anyway. www.semafor.com/article/08/2...

Tokyo is exploring kinetic tech where footsteps generate power ⚡👣 Imagine Shibuya Crossing lighting the city! A step toward renewable energy + smart cities 🌍 #Sustainability #Innovation #SmartCity #blueskynews #tokyo

Former pro turned analyst Pam Shriver joined “Good Game” live at US Open Fan Fest and discussed Naomi Osaka’s continued work to find healthy ways to handle the media and other responsibilities of being a pro tennis player. Full episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

If you’re a New Yorker of a certain age you’ll remember the Bronx fires in the 1970s and I’ll bet you didn’t realize they were about profit, not poverty…

PBS isn’t going anywhere and there was never a plan for PragerU to replace PBS stations because PBS stations are independently owned and nonprofit.

A group of philanthropists is aiming to fund $50 million for roughly 115 local radio and TV stations most at risk after Republicans in Congress voted to strip hundreds of millions in previously approved funding.

Ben Rhodes highlights a key problem in how Vladimir Putin considers Donald Trump: "Vladimir Putin thinks in long stretches of history. Donald Trump thinks in terms of news cycles."

A carcal flexing its ears. Can you do this?

I agree with these lawmakers led by @repbarragan.bsky.social. The FCC is defying the law by refusing to enforce rules to reduce out-of-control prison call rates. All to protect kickbacks for correctional facilities at the expense of the families of extremely vulnerable populations.

Steep year-over-year drop in car and air travel solidifies steep economic losses for U.S. tourism this year.