Vincent van Gogh Landscape with Path and Pollard Trees, 1888

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

Kimmel was expected to be back on the air Tuesday night, after being temporarily suspended last week following controversial comments he made about the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

This is a huge win for free speech and a massive credit to the millions of people who expressed their outrage and sent a clear signal with their voices and their wallets. And it's a credit to Bob Iger and Disney as well that in the end they did the right thing. ca.news.yahoo.com/jimmy-kimmel...

The President is casually suggesting he will go to “war” against an American city. Today it’s Chicago, tomorrow it might be Seattle. It’s not funny or amusing. I’ll be fighting back in Congress but remember: he WANTS you to think your voices and votes don’t matter—they do.

Welcome, Hawaii, to the West Coast Health Alliance. We’re not allowing our states to be put at risk while the CDC is undermined. We simply can no longer trust what’s coming out of Washington D.C. and Robert Kennedy Jr.

Trump & Republicans want to let private AI companies decide if Medicare patients actually need their doctor-recommended treatments so they can turn a profit. This admin is trying to use AI to cut Medicare benefits & stop seniors from getting the health care they need. NO WAY.

Philip von Schantz Enamel bucket with cherries. 1993-94

Andrew Wyeth Berry Bucket. 1958

Henri Fantin- Latour, Cherries, 1877. Oil on canvas, 30 x 28.5 cm

The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent. By @bobbyallyn.bsky.social

No, Costco did not previously sell Mifepristone, but it is notable that they chose to announce this decision. Who are they trying to placate? At a time when abortion rights are under attack everywhere, I am urging ALL pharmacies to ensure they make mifepristone available.

Mifepristone is safe and effective. There is no good reason for Costco to refuse to sell this medication. I am demanding that Costco immediately reverse course—follow the science and the facts, not the demands of far-right anti-abortion extremists.

In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. (Published April)

The VA is down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year, the first time the agency has seen net losses in years. At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled. By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social

More investment in LOC's excellent Chronicling America resource! We love to see it

Before you see a hundred or so posts saying that Texas has issued arrest warrants for the absent Dem legislators, you should be aware that they are civil warrants issued by the House that are not effective outside the state www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...

On #YorkshireDay, enjoy this lovely railway poster of the Yorkshire Dales by Ladybird artist Ronald Lampitt

Harvest mice Artist: John Berry (1976)

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

The Bureau of Labour Statistics has reported that American firms added just 73,000 jobs in July—well below expectations. Some of the slowdown may reflect trade uncertainty

losing my mind at this. apoplectic. want to punch a wall, or a human being data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

This is a great resource adoptastation.org?fbclid=PAQ0x...

Ansel Adams, The Tetons And The Snake River, Wyoming, 1942

Edward Hopper, Rooms for Tourists, 1945 – Preliminary sketch

As part of a $9 billion rescission package, lawmakers rescinded money already allocated by Congress to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. So what does this mean for KNKX?

Hey, KOTZ in my hometown could use some support. This one radio station serves an area the size of Indiana, as in, it's the only radio station in the entire area. The area is also primarily Inupiaq. kotz.org/index.html

Harvest Mouse (1949) Artist: Septimus Scott

This embroidery was handmade by Otomi women living in the Tenango Valley of the central Mexican highlands in 2008-2009.

“.. filings by four big banks flagged more than $1.5 billion in transactions — including thousands of wire transfers for the purchase and sale of artwork for rich friends, fees paid to Mr. Epstein by wealthy individuals, and payments to numerous women, @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...

Josephine Craig, Garden Quilt, 1933

This needs to happen. Thank you Senator @wyden.senate.gov!

Today on Volts: the sun doesn't shine at night, but if you add batteries it might as well! If you're not closely tracking the industry, you're probably not aware of just how cheap solar+storage is getting, and how quickly. I talk with the authors of a new Ember report about the good news.

Residential solar power combined with battery storage is rapidly becoming a mainstream disaster-preparedness choice. Here’s a power-outage plan for when you can’t rely on fossil fuels.

Great work by @wyden.senate.gov ’s office following the money:

KUOW, Seattle’s largest public radio station and number one in the Nielsen ratings, will likely survive the Republican attack on public media, but not so the smaller stations in rural America. And that’s the point. GOP is cutting services for rural America. I’d guess they hate Sesame Street, too.

250,000 Washingtonians will lose Medicaid due to MAGA Congress’s Big Betrayal of a bill. It’s possibly the worst legislation I’ve seen in 20 years of politics.

Leon Diguet, Large organ pipe cactus in Baja California, 1895

Wynn Bullock - Child on a Forest Road, 1958

I just voted NO to advance Trump's DOGE cuts to PBS, rural radio, and lifesaving aid. Republicans need to decide: Does Congress decide how to spend taxpayer dollars, or do they just take orders from Russ Vought?

Charles Burchfield, "Queen Anne's Lace", 1957, Watercolor and pencil on paper, 10 5/8" x 16 3/4"

Say it isn’t so

The box kite Artist: Harry Wingfield (Happy Holidays 1965)

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘Cushendall’ Artist: SR Badmin

I like this guide to Elizabeth Strout's books very much, particularly the assessment of Anything Is Possible.

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

You know something has gone bad when the government spokesperson says, please don’t use my name … “Asked for comment, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security who declined to be identified…” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

So sad to hear this news. wapo.st/465Jw2b

"more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist." Uhhh... this is catastrophic for democracy. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/new-...