“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”

People should actually be very alarmed that while AP's business model is shot to bits, Americans are still very much reliant on the news it delivers. The alternatives in some cases are inferior or non-existent. apnews.com/article/news...

No American is served by creating ever bigger media monopolies funded by ever more elusive foreign entities.

Tulips, roses, peonies and more, gathered in a roemer and painted by Jan van Kessel, who was born on this day in 1626.

2/2 Flowers & insects: more careful studies of nature's works by Jan van Kessel.

Awful www.ajc.com/news/2026/02...

John Singer Sargent - Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885-86

Jaw dropping. Wow.

A U.S. Army staff sergeant and his wife arrived at his base in Louisiana last week, expecting to begin their life together as newlyweds. The couple checked in at the visitor center, ready to complete the steps for her to move into his home on the base. Within hours, ICE agents detained her.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Tove Jansson (Finnish, 1914–2001), Moomin and sisters Mymble and Little My paint an #Easter egg #womensart #Moomins

Happy Easter

For this month's issue of Artforum, I wrote about how Jacob Lawrence's art meets our present moment www.artforum.com/features/jac...

Portrait of Albert Einstein by Leonid Pasternak, who really did know all the interesting people. He was born on this day in 1862.

Up late working? Leonid Pasternak (#BTD 1862) feels your pain. The Night Before the Exam, painted in 1895.

2/2 Russian soldiers, aborbing news from the homeland in 1889. Things would get worse! By Leonid Pasternak, whose day is today.

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

They’re literally incentivizing people to do illegal stuff

A federal judge has ruled that a key part of President Trump's executive order targeting NPR and PBS was unconstitutional, blocking the administration from denying federal funds based on editorial viewpoint. https://cnn.it/4tbybFO

Ladybird Nature Corner. ‘Sallow and Blackthorn’ Trees, 1963 Artist : SR Badmin

Nate Silver warns Trump's approval has hit a second-term low of 39.7 percent, with multiple polls showing similar declines.

John Dowd, East End Twilight, 1995.

the exquisite privacy of reading a physical book

“Alone?” said Toad. “Frog has me for a friend. Why does he want to be alone?”

Crime in the United States has dropped immensely in the last 35 years

there it is, all 7 continents

This is the insanity of Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson’s, refusal to allow a vote on the bipartisan bill that passed the Senate to fund TSA, FEMA, & the Coast Guard & ensure those workers get paid.

Americans can’t wait, vote today! www.wmar2news.com/news/region/...

Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘March’ (Shell Guide, 1957) Artist: SR Badmin

UPDATED coverage of today's #NoKings events in Arkansas from @ainsleyplatt.bsky.social and @tessmvrbin.bsky.social arkansasadvocate.com/2026/03/28/n...

At a March 26 ceremony in Manhattan, the National Book Critics Circle presented its annual awards in eight competitive categories. Other winners include Nicholas Boggs, for Baldwin, and Karen Hao, for Empire of AI.

Rewilding. Sounds like a lovely idea, but does it actually work? Recent research across 11 sites in Scotland offers a resounding yes: bird species up 261%, breeding territories up 546%, and a 250% increase in nectar plants. news.fixthenews.com/WhgwdTX

For the curious, it’s on S Jackson between Long Brothers Books and Zeitgeist Coffee. Shaping up to be a gorgeous city block. The owner is super-nice.

New Jersey just joined nine other states—California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Maine, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington—in banning local participation in ICE’s 287(g) program. It’s the fourth state to do so this year. boltsmag.org/new-jer...

The wage gap between men and women in Washington is the second widest in the country. washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/washi...

1/2 This memo identifies absolutely no source of legal authority for paying TSA. It does not point to an appropriation that is available for this purpose, nor does it point to any legal authority to transfer some other appropriation to TSA. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Over the objections of top Army leaders Hegseth strikes 2 Black and 2 female officers from one-star promotion list www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

Congress is 187 days behind schedule in funding DHS.

In 1941 there were just 20 of them in the world, now this vibrant gaggle of whooping cranes is part of a global population of over 800. Decades of habitat protection and captive breeding have brought them back from the brink. news.fixthenews.com/JK8OQaP

Sarah Mullally was installed on Wednesday as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most senior cleric in the Church of England and spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, which includes some 85 million Anglicans around the world. She is the first woman to hold the title.  nyti.ms/47nyAg8

What a loss to journalism and nonfiction, with a fitting obituary by @jswatz.

Bond between dogs and humans dates back more than 15,000 years, study finds

The Queen of Everything

Full analysis: www.cato.org/blog/banned-... More at austinkocher.substack.com

The administration has also stopped publishing most immigration statistics making it even harder to track the full damage.

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

Leon Roulette Iceland Poppies, 2010 oil on canvas 48 x 48 inches

Well, this is amazing

reshare for alt text, republicans and rich people who want to privatize mail have been lying about the USPS and trying to push this narrative longer than I've been alive, and imposing massive financial burdens on it to make it "insolvent"

Seen tacked to a community board on my walk