#sunset behind a tree! What a perfect photo!

A super typhoon steadily battered a pair of remote U.S. islands in the Pacific Ocean with ferocious winds and relentless rains, shredding tin roofs and forcing residents to take cover. n.pr/4vNYZhR

👀 Haiti: Solidarity in a World at War - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/10/h...

👀 Henrietta Lacks www.threads.com/@kabakamene/...

👀 The wild saga of FDR’s $1 million gay military sex sting 19thnews.org/2026/04/fdr-... via @19thnews.org

A stunning display of nature: a Cumulonimbus cloud adorned by a mesmerizing Lenticular Cloud. Witness the beauty of the sky like never before.

Good morning, happy Friday! I am so glad it’s Friday, I’m looking forward to not waking up so early tomorrow. I hope today is filled with of extra delicious coffee and no late meetings. Have a great day!

Eight Latino New Yorkers and a Syracuse workers' center say DHS agents are stopping and arresting people without warrants or probable cause — targeting brown skin, not criminal conduct. migrantinsider.com/p/arrests-tr...

States say disaster funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency has slowed to a trickle under the Trump administration. That's delaying projects to protect communities from wildfires and hurricanes. n.pr/3NVuLIF

Today In 1947: Branch Rickey issues a historic press release: "The Brooklyn #Dodgers today purchased the contract of Jackie Roosevelt Robinson from the Montreal Royals. He will report immediately." #MLB #History

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Governments are blocking the internet, banning social media posts and cutting access to commercial satellite images. But experts say that efforts to censor information have had mixed results.

There is still beauty in the world. Tropical hibiscus. 📷 Joyce Watts

www.threads.com/@minister_of... / Bobby Hutton Day 4/11/2026

www.threads.com/@minister_of... / Bobby Hutton Day 4/11/2026

#Afriscape #VisualCulture A throughline between African (yoruba?) beading traditions, first nations and African struggle for liberation against white settler colonialism, Egun (ancestor veneration) and #NewOrleans funk. Several parts of this brought tears to my eyes. #MardiGras #Indians

"The music you do is here to stay, here to be listened to. You can pass it on for maybe 10, 15 years. Turn it on. And it's still there. That's the kind of music I'm interested in playing." Happy Birthday Horace Tapscott born April 6, 1934

"My dad told me, 'Listen, we are older than corruption, we are older than colonialism, we are older than slavery; for you to understand me and your mother better, you've got to go back to Africa.'"

Today, April 6, is the 100th celestial birthday of the great Randy Weston. Join us in celebration this Sunday afternoon in Cambridge, Mass.: calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/blues-...

What the president is doing is batshit crazy.

Spanish PM Pedro calls for the IMMEDIATE ARREST of Netanyahu He said: "Netanyahu launched the worst possible unjustified attack against Lebanon. His contempt for life and international law is intolerable. He is a criminal that must be arrested immediately.” #cdnpoli

⭕ #TODAY Hundreds march through the streets of downtown #Chicago chanting, “U.S. out of the #MiddleEast!”

Citizens Bank annual shareholder meeting (April 23rd in Providence Rhode Island) to face protesters critical of the bank's financial ties to ICE: www.mobilize.us/southcountyr...

Speaker Johnson, we are calling on you to bring the House back to DC IMMEDIATELY! The Cabinet needs to invoke the 25th Amendment. But Congress can’t just sit on its hands and wait for that to happen when the President is threatening to commit war crimes TONIGHT.

In addition to experiencing a longer total eclipse totality from space — lasting nearly one hour instead of just a few minutes here on Earth — the Artemis II crew got a glimpse at the Sun’s corona wispily peeking out from behind the Moon without interference from the Earth’s atmosphere.

So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

ICE & NOEM LIED minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/06/n...

The rainfall of Namibia, 🇳🇦 where millions of water lilies bloom all at once

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

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Glad to know the US Congress is out on a vacation and is resting from the strong effort they demonstrated.

The air has curdled & is thick with lunacy...the ancient ones scream #madness #theactsofman #humannature #whereiscourage #apathykills

"I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on my own. It was my second home, and I read everything that I could get." ~ Tracy Chapman Chapman by Nicholas Albrecht #Booksky

👀 FACTS

✊ No workers. No food. In Colorado, 3800 marginalized workers are taking on the world’s biggest meat company #JBS. Fighting for safety, dignity & fair pay. “This strike is a matter of life and death.” When workers organise, power shifts. 📖 grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-up...

Eastern Bluebird Delightfully delicate...

Israel blocks US student protesters from entering West Bank electronicintifada.net/content/isra...

People in wheelchairs surrounded and barricaded two city buses over the course of two days, demanding wheelchair lifts and chanting, “We will ride.”