Gov. JB Pritzker bans state workers from using insider information on Polymarket and similar gambling apps. chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...

Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats.  Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.

Lake Pontchartrain sunset, New Orleans

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

Found by our delighted son, not sure where.

I’m from Shreveport. I wrote about the tragic murders of these kiddos. www.thecut.com/_pages/cmo7c...

Worst cabinet since Dr. Caligari.

Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%

It's only remarkable if you've never met any writers.

An onion will do well for such a shift

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

We won the Info Wars.

I have to go to work and this is not my cat.

> The controversy associated with the statement “Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer” reveals more about modern attitudes towards women [than her] achievements. [Her 1843 algorithm] was so advanced, that it was still utilised in record-breaking computation of Bernoulli numbers in 2008.

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

We all get lost out here The deepest ditches line the righteous path God said, 'Hold my beer’ He made a man so he could watch and laugh —Jason Isbell

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

If journalists had any integrity and courage, they would boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner. It should be as empty as a TPUSA event.

Easy way to tell who didn't finish Revelations.

It's almost my favorite thing to be quoted in @merriam-webster.com although it's not me, it's about me. Thank you @airmail.news www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ge... and an amazing review of my new novel... #unseasonablycold.

“Love and kindness are the most punk thing you can do right now," David Byrne quoting writer / actor John Cameron Mitchell at #Coachella. “He’s right. Love and kindness are a form of resistance.” Amen.

This David Byrne set at #Coachella is a TONIC. Just floating out there over the desert.

Florida is a world leader in Sentence™ exports

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison

Go Voyager!!!! Its contents include a sample of global human culture as of its launch in 1977, and a powerful message from a president who believed in its mission, Jimmy Carter.

2/2 And, DAMHIK about that message from Carter:

RE: meeting I can't attend, Madonna said to avoid confrontations all month.

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.  In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

Artist and educator Loïs Mailou Jones in her studio with her cat, c. 1937–38. #Caturday americanart.si.edu/artist/lo%C3...

Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani sing ‘Wheels on the Bus’ to kids in NYC

Truth. #Caturday

Kitten being a Rorschach test. #Caturday

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Here in Spain, we are approving and advancing a process to regularise half a million immigrants. “And I want to say to the Right and the Far Right who oppose this: Spain is the daughter of migration and will not become the mother of xenophobia.”

Wildwood, New Jersey, 1930s

"She tutored the activists on immunology and virology and schooled them in the intricacies of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval process and pharmaceutical research protocols." [Gift article] www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

Sabrina Carpenter's Coachella guests have been Geena Davis, Terry Crews and now Madonna who let us know it's a new moon in Taurus with seven planets lined up in Aries so we need to work on our communication skills and avoid confrontations for the rest of the month. And that's life talk by Madonna.

Musk as teaching tool

A baby Mediterranean chameleon 📸 Mehmet Karaca, Kapıçam Nature Park, Türkiye Wiki Loves Earth 2024

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

This is the way.

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

Kash Patel-ing it tonight (having a second glass of red wine and locking myself in the bathroom)

In Patel’s defense, this is almost certainly how he eventually would be fired.

Kash and Carry (him out of the office)

This just failed.

«There is a crack in everything / That's how the light gets in» (Cohen 9,1)

please, my reginos, they are very sick

If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit