After his dog died, 6-year-old Buddy Braley wanted to do something in his honor. With the help of his family, he invited people to feed goats at his home in England, raising thousands of dollars to buy dog beds and toys for shelters. Read more: https://wapo.st/4xha7Ev

Very bad news. Screwworm appears to have made it to Texas, as was predicted. These parasites eat the living flesh of cattle, cause horrible pain, and can ultimately kill them. Yesterday, USDA Chief Brooke Rollins categorically denied that screwworm was close to the border.

Scott Pelley is the real deal. CBS news is dying and 60 Minutes is being marched to the slaughterhouse.

Every nickel.

Scott Pelley is the real deal.

OMG!

Show us how you've changed. Me at 17 and me at 57.

Rob Base, one-half of Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, who was best known for the hit “It Takes Two,” has died. He was 59

Breaking News: James Murdoch is buying New York magazine, Vox Media’s podcast network and the Vox website for more than $300 million, a dramatic expansion in U.S. media for the younger son of the media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

Sen. Ossoff: "These attacks on the NIH and cancer research cost lives."

Three-story, spiral staircase at our Apple Store. I declined the elevator. I thought I was good for it. Baby, let me tell you that I was not—in fact— good for it. I am now resting my laurels in a nearby coffee shop, rethinking my lot in life. 😂

"What’s driving me crazy, then, is not the idea that AI exists or that people are using AI. It’s that I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings."

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Bobby Cox, the Baseball Hall of Fame manager who led the Atlanta Braves to five National League pennants and a World Series championship in the 1990s and was ranked No. 4 for career victories among major league managers, died on Saturday. He was 84.

“As if six bullets in the back are merely evidence of poor judgment instead of moral collapse.” @goldietaylor.bsky.social

"And there it is again: the compromise verdict America reaches when confronted with the unbearable truth of state violence. Not innocence. Not accountability in full. Something softer. Something survivable for the system itself. Reckless homicide."

Every so often, Ancestry delivers astonishing data. This time, it located the father (John) and grandfather (James) of my fourth great grandfather Matt Daniel of NC. Discovered pension and society membership documents from Revolutionary and Civil Wars.

"This is the architecture of modern policing in America. It is not simply about violence. It is about permission. Permission to perceive Blackness itself as imminent threat. Permission to turn fear into legal justification."

🔥🔥🔥 “Because American Christianity, particularly in its white evangelical expressions, has too often found a way to accommodate brutality so long as the person inflicting it speaks the language of order, righteousness, or authority.”

The world will remember the billionaire, the yachtsman, the Braves owner, the environmentalist, the provocateur. I’ll remember the man who answered a letter from somebody who was still trying to become herself. goldietaylor.substack.com/p/the-last-t...

Cable news is selling tickets to an arson in progress. The house is our republic. open.substack.com/pub/goldieta...

Veterinarians had little time to question how the kitten who was rushed to their animal shelter had become covered in white glue. After hours of cleaning, the cat’s gray and white fur appeared. Shelter staff named the cat Elmer.

Warnock: "I know that there are those who are tired of the remedy. I'm tired of racism. I think it's a strange position to be more concerned about the medicine than you are about the malady."

The late philosopher Jürgen Habermas believed that “the essence of democracy was discourse, back-and-forth argument about ideas and values,” Adam Kirsch writes. America’s autocratic turn darkened what Habermas called a “politically rather favored life”: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A decade ago, a mother started a GoFundMe campaign to support her then-15-year-old daughter, Hailey Baptiste’s, burgeoning tennis career. Now, D.C. native Baptiste, 24, has toppled No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka and is now ranked among the world’s top 25 players.

From @theathletic.com: Kobe Bryant took at least 15 minutes every day to meditate. "It sets me up for the rest of the day," he once said on "Oprah." Our writer gave it a shot. "It may sound dramatic, but the difference was immediate." nyti.ms/4w5Xj32

The switch back of capital flows to low-income developing countries has been wrenching.

The WHCA has been quietly meeting this week to plot its next move after the shooting upended the annual dinner—and despite industry skepticism, we have learned that a do-over event is still very much on the table. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/whcd-corre...

Eine noch ausführlichere Version dieses Arguments werde ich demnächst – auf Englisch – für meinen Newsletter Democracy Americana schreiben. Wer sich für solche Langform-Essays interessiert, kann den Newsletter hier abonnieren:

"Grief requires a language, and sometimes prayer is the only language people have. But prayer cannot be policy. It cannot be prevention." open.substack.com/pub/goldieta...

"There are only three things in my life that qualify as religion: God, barbecue, and baseball. The order depends on the season—and the seasoning." open.substack.com/pub/goldieta...

They were cutting up…

Sabastian Sawe has just become the first person in history to run a sub two-hour marathon in race conditions. www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/l...

OMG. 🇰🇪 Sabastian Sawe becomes the first man ever to break 2 hours in a marathon (legal conditions) in 1:59:30 at the London Marathon! Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 runs 1:59:41 in his DEBUT. Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 takes third in 2:00:28 All under the previous WR.

I did not expect Klay to fumble like that.

Activist & organizer LaTosha Brown shares a hauntingly powerful essay examining how we celebrate the memories of men who commit violence against women And how we overlook the women whose lives were erased.

"Grief requires a language, and sometimes prayer is the only language people have. But prayer cannot be policy. It cannot be prevention." open.substack.com/pub/goldieta...

"They had managed to get through college, graduate school, nursing school, law school… They developed systems to elicit focus — spreadsheets, schedules, repetition — and once on task, they could do nothing else for hours or days." free: archive.ph/2026.03.25-2... 🔹️🔹️🔹️

BREAKING: Eight children, ranging in age from 1 to 14 years old, were killed in a Louisiana shooting, police say.

Just a few pages into YESTERYEAR by Caro Claire Burke, and I can already tell it’s flawless. And, it's a debut novel. I don't blame Anne Hathaway for snagging the film rights.

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"I kept showing up every day to a world that had given me every reason not to. Because survival required it. Because three children needed their mother to hold on." open.substack.com/pub/goldieta...

Thank you, Jacob. This one left me gutted.

This is an incredibly well written, incredibly moving piece by Goldie Taylor. If you read one thing about Justin Fairfax today, this should be that one thing.

Justin Fairfax wanted to be remembered as a rising star. A trailblazer. The second Black man elected statewide in Virginia. He wanted the Emmett Till comparison to stick. It will not. I will not let it, and neither should you. open.substack.com/pub/goldieta...