A Dutch treat

Does selling original paintings for $10 compensate me for my time and artistic vision? No. But is it a great business move? Also no. Here's why I do it anyway #sciart

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic is asking the public to help them track changes the Trump Admin is making to history-- in national parks, websites, wherever. Please share-- and please contribute! thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...

From Nov 7:

Here's a fun thing: We at Kirkus have spent the last few months reading and debating the best books of the 21st century (so far!) in fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' literature. Here's the list of 100 fiction titles: www.kirkusreviews.com/fiction/best...

The clock at the SF Tesla sales room is off by an hour. And 90 years.

NYU canceled a talk by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she intended to mention the high number of deaths of aid workers in Gaza, and Trump/Musk’s destruction of USAID. “Antisemitic” and “anti-governmental” to say this ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/215...

NEW: Two powerhouse law firms —Wilmer Hale and Jenner & Block — have now sued the Trump Administration and several other defendants for Trump’s vindictive and unconstitutional Executive Orders that targeted them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/b...

The Senate voted Thursday to strike down a rule capping most bank overdraft fees at $5, a measure adopted late last year by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that had been expected to save Americans billions of dollars per year.

NEW: The Trump administration pulled funding for research to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, citing it as a “DEI” initiative.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

If I have to see "Gulf of America " on my map apps because of a despotic whim, then Tesla must recall and rebrand all its vehicles "Tesler."

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Spray-Painted Penis Only Thing Holding Cybertruck Together

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey

Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."

"Despite the district’s ruling, Inama refuses to remove the signs, even if it means risking her job. 'There’s no way I would be able to allow myself to just take it down and roll over to what I feel like they’re asking me to do.'"

Just rename it "Metaphor" already fortune.com/2025/03/14/e...

Republicans firmly embracing DEI: Division, Exclusion, and Intolerance www.ktvb.com/article/news...

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

Prime Video just added The Apprentice to its library, and is featuring it on the launch page. As if another reason to dump Amazon was needed...

Every time you see what sounds like a wild claim about woke research, you can assume a) it will fall apart under the most basic of inspection, b) the person making the claim will never be held accountable for lying, and c) it is a cover to gut useful research that we benefit from.

Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency. via Brett Murphy: The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:

Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

Look what's happening at the French Embassy in Washington DC.

SCOOP: The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to a whistle-blower from USAID. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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Fealty to the Constitution and fealty to the government have become wholly irreconcilable

You’re the ones who have all the right cards to support Ukraine. u24.gov.ua/armored-ambu...

Bay Area-ers, I'm going to be at Book Passage (Ferry Building) tomorrow, 5:30pm, in conversation with Dave Eggers about my book, More Than Words: How to Think About the Age of AI. www.bookpassage.com/event/john-w...

Trump fired cancer researchers, air traffic controllers, park rangers, VA therapists, nuclear safety engineers, FEMA coordinators, and scores of other vital federal employees to pay for an ad thanking himself for something he hasn't even done.

After trying his best to ruin this otherwise amazing tournament with his juvenile antics, Trump demonstrated once again ghat everything he touches dies

"Nothing bad ever happens to the elite," said Louis. (But in French.)

In Canada, a dozen eggs costs $3.99 CAD. That's $2.80 USD. Trump is a failure.

🚨 BREAKING: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’s going to rename Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois.” EPIC TRUMP TROLL!!! 🤣

The "Gulf of America" thing is ridiculous, but if the press gives in on this, the administration will just keep pushing - maybe conditioning access on deadnaming people, saying Trump won the 2020 election, you name it. Draw a line in the sand now, while the stakes seem small.

Reuters: Trump on Monday planned to sign an executive order that directs the Justice Department to pause prosecutions of Americans accused of bribing foreign government officials while trying to gain business in their countries.

This is the single classiest response I’ve ever seen on social media. It is the compassionate mentorship we need in this world. Background- a young farmer is getting roasted online. He might lose his farm due to Project 2025. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YAYHTd/