Kidlit people: If you are seeing discourse about Mac Barnett and “94.7 crud” I beg you to read this, by somebody who not only actually read the book but also understood the passage in question, a bar cleared by almost nobody else commenting on it: readingmiddlegrade.substack.com/p/make-belie...

White people disgusted by this racist display are making pithy jokes in the replies. I want acknowledgment that it’s physically painful to think about our black elders, in particular, enduring the consequences of a Supreme Court decision that augurs a return to the Jim Crow era.

In a time when uninformed hot takes abound, I appreciated the thoughtfulness and consideration of the essay shared below. Worth the read. 👇

Caregiving is female, it is VASTLY undercompensated, and every government agency and male taxpayer benefits from women’s unpaid and underpaid work. Caregiving is a Feminist Issue, it’s an equality issue, it’s an equal justice issue, and it’s a racial justice issue.

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Tell the kids we use to go days, weeks even, without thinking about the president.

In the end, the world belongs not to the hedge-fund managers and vulture capitalists and tech moguls but to the lovers & scholars, the preservers of lost things, the stewards of the natural world, the human artists, the poets and mystics, the child just learning to read.

When a King and direct descendent of King George III has to remind the American government about the utmost importance of checks and balances, you know we're in deep trouble.

A play, in three acts

THIS MISS PIGGY ERASURE WILL NOT STAND, HOT TOPIC!

Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

The Three Graces",c.1949. Luigi Lucioni (Italy,1900-1988) Oil on canvas, 43.3 x 35.7cm.

“GUYS! WAKE UP! SOME DUDE JUST ATE CARL!”

Caught a red tailed hawk album cover today. 🪶

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

Schrodinger's strait, neither open nor not open.

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

Congratulations to photographer Andrew Harnik who has won the White House Correspondents’ Association award for presidential news coverage with one of the greatest Oval Office photos ever captured.

This. 👇

I’ll have what Hungary’s having.

It’s almost like WE ALL SAID THIS WOULD HAPPEN fortune.com/2026/04/10/a...

Pulled this one out for some Sunday errands today and happy to report it still slaps. @johncusack.bsky.social

NARRATOR: WE DID NOT IN FACT GET IT TOGETHER IN TIME

NASA made a "Moon Joy" compilation.🌕 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHUv...

I love this photo of astronaut Christina Koch looking back at Earth from Artemis II. She's the first woman to see the full sphere of our beautiful planet. Welcome home to the crew, and thank you for reminding us of all we can discover together.

There is no McTry.

Impeach him just for this.

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Shout-out to all the therapists out there (including my own)...you're doing some pretty heavy lifting out there right now. Whew.

This sounds like a really great book:

Sen Chris Murphy and Leader Hakeem Jeffries need to call for a War Tax on Oil Companies and Other businesses that are profiting from the Trump/Israel War on Iran. Let them pay for this nonsense. The working class and poor continue to pay more than their fair share because of US incompetence.

I don’t want to hear about brave and conflicted service members I want to hear about people sacrificing their careers to do the right thing

pope says call your fucken reps reps.fyi

I'm headed to Springsteen at the Forum tonight, so just know that if something goes down I'll die happy, I guess.

Come on then, and remove him.

Artemis II today.

Georgia O'Keeffe (1923)

Imagine being behind the Moon and not getting scam calls for half an hour

Maybe it will happen today? My breakfast egg roll fortune cookie thinks it possible.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

girl take us with you

As a Christian, I don't think federal agencies should be referring to "Christ, our Savior" in any context. I don't need my government to validate my faith. That's why it's called faith. More importantly, my government shouldn't be invalidating the religions of other Americans.

This is like an alternate universe where people are competent, but it's actually happening now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR...

Btw ghosts aren't trying to scare us by booing anymore they're just really disappointed by what's going on

Wish this was an April Fools joke, but the Supreme Court heard arguments today to revoke birthright citizenship; an issue that most people decided was settled in 1898 with Wong Kim Ark. May I suggest that it might be worth looking at this book this week with your young readers?

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.