@akoseff.bsky.social: Epstein files made @rokhanna.bsky.social a political star. Then he posted 6 words to social media. He'd just scored the biggest legislative victory of his career, forcing the release of the Epstein files, & turbocharging his national profile. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Amanda Peet: "My Season of Ativan. Both parents were in hospice, on opposite coasts. I found out I had breast cancer. I told my mom everything, even when I gave my first blow job. She never shied away from uncomfortable topics; small talk was anathema to her. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

@peard33.bsky.social: Pentagon’s ‘Attempt to Cripple’ @anthropic.com is troubling, judge says. A district court judge questioned DOD’s motivations for labeling Claude AI developer a supply-chain risk. www.wired.com/story/pentag...

#Melania & the Robot. Melania believes more children should be educated by “humanoid educators.” She promotes opportunities for foster children, argues to eradicate bulling online & travels to military bases to support soldiers & families. She's also into robots." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

#SCOTUS said @coxcommunications.bsky.social could not be held liable for piracy of thousands of songs online in a copyright clash. Music labels & publishers sued in 2018, saying they failed to cut off connections for repeatedly illegally downloading copyrighted music. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

"A jury found companies harmed a young user & led to her mental health distress. Meta & YouTube harmed a young user with design features that were addictive & led to her mental health distress. The landmark decision could open social media companies to more lawsuits. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/t...

homecoming in South Philly. 📍

A Phone-Free Childhood? One Irish Village Is Making It Happen. Tired of seeing its elementary-school children struggle with online temptations, the town of Greystones proposed a ‘no smart devices’ code. Most everyone bought in. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/r...

@alex-wigglesworth.bsky.social: The Trump admin ‘blacklisted’ @sfgate.com over critical national parks coverage. So when @jaclyncosgrove.bsky.social told me the @altnps.bsky.social had reportedly blacklisted SFGate, I wasn’t exactly shocked. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Jokic did this in 24 hours. We've become desensitized to how ridiculous these stat lines are... #NBA

John Fetterman has to be one of the 2 or 3 most disappointing people of all time.

#TagTuesday Amy & Jimi together in Havana #photography #art #photographersofbluesky #weareroamers #artyear #explore #escape #sonyshooter #cuba

"Secret History of Rock’s Wildest Stage Prop: P-Funk’s Mothership. Clinton debuted a $500k spaceship & turned his live concerts into intergalactic journeys. Nearly 50 years ago in New Orleans, he descended the steps from the huge spaceship he'd commissioned for $500k. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/a...

Better to be feared than admired, I say. Also, generally, I think it's better not to be dead.

Why the @wnba.com's salary deal is hailed as a historic moment for women's sports: Deal quadruples players' salaries up to $1.4M US max & increases share of revenues. @nnekaogwumike.bsky.social helped to negotiate a 'historic' new agreement for players. www.cbc.ca/news/world/w... @twirlynoodle.com

"Pentagon to move journalists to external site. Pentagon spokesman said DOD can't adequately manage security with working press inside. He announced the dept. has closed the “Correspondents’ Corridor” where journalists have worked for decades." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Who remembers the Harlem Globetrotters? 🏀 ℹ️Harlem Globetrotters is a basketball team founded approx 93 yrs ago. Their job was to entertain crowds with their antics & funny ball handling moves.😎💙😎

again I point out how strange it is that high-level diplomatic negotiations of war and peace are being conducted by freelancers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, both of whom have egregious conflicts of interest, and not the actual secretary of state

The so-called SAVE America Act is about as un-American as it gets.

Chairman of the Boards. wishing a happy birthday to the late, great Moses Malone. ❤️💙

@wired.com: FCC enforcement chief offered to help Brendan Carr targeted Disney. Carr threatened ABC over a Jimmy Kimmel monolog, a civil servant overseeing West Coast stations privately pledged support. www.wired.com/story/fcc-en...

This week's "unmasking" of Banksy (confirming he was the same bloke identified in 2008) has reminded me of this long-forgotten piece that I penned on his Nottingham street art in 2020. For the record, I absolutely love this installation. triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/2020/10/18/b...

@reuters.com: The British street artist’s identity has been debated, and closely guarded, for decades. A quest to solve the riddle took Reuters from a bombed-out Ukrainian village to London and downtown Manhattan — and uncovered much more than a name. www.reuters.com/investigates...

Progressives love him. Billionaires hate him. Can a Berkeley prof. pass CA’s wealth tax? Emmanuel Saez, a prof. of economics & director of @ucstonecenter.bsky.social at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, is one of 4 authors of a plan to tax CA’s billionaires. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Cuba is facing its worst electricity crisis since Castro swept to power 67 years ago. After weeks Fblackouts, the grid suffered a “complete disconnection.” They're getting worse & on some days the entire island is plunged into near total darkness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who investigated Russia-Trump campaign ties, dies. He transformed the nation’s premier law enforcement agency into a terrorism-fighting force after Sept. 11, 2001 attacks & later investigated ties btwn Russia & Trump, has died, at 81. apnews.com/article/robe...

Concentration camps. Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague. This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

@theeditorialboard.bsky.social: "Trump Can’t Spin His Way Out of This War. Trump went to war vs. Iran w/o explaining his strategy to the American people or the world. It now appears he might not have had much of a strategy at all. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/o...

@mattyglesias.bsky.social @jkalla.bsky.social & @dbroockman.bsky.social. Dem Brand is toxic in to many states. Even with Trump’s approval rating in toilet, Dems are steep underdogs to capture a senate majority. To regain Senate, Dems must win 4 GOP controlled. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/o...

Gonna need you all to rally behind the post office cause we about to run out of money in 2027. Negotiations with Amazon not going well.

"The Crisis in Cuba, explained. Cuba went dark—again. Its SEN suffered a “total disconnection,” w/o details as to the cause of the electrical grid collapse or how long the country’s 10M inhabitants will have power again. the 3rd in the country over the past four months. time.com/article/2026...

Jimmy Wu: Silicon Valley Is Drifting Farther and Farther Right. Silicon Valley’s rising right-wing intelligentsia has plenty of money and a willingness to do the intellectual dirty work of some of the world’s most open reactionaries. jacobin.com/2026/03/tech...

Any charmless prick undertaking to reveal Banksy's identity for whatever reason needs to die of painful, fulminant boils.

Viewers noticed Ryan Coogler appears to have a guitar and treble clef braided in his hair at the #Oscars

@sbg1.bsky.social: “We won,” POTUS who’s treating the conflict w/ Iran like a video game says, but “we’re not finished. His reticence on the most consequential military action he has ever ordered is an observable fact, and not...based on only a “feeling.” www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Of all the storied bonds between visionary directors & their movie star alter egos — Martin Scorsese & Robert De Niro, Pedro Almodóvar & Antonio Banderas, Kelly Reichardt & Michelle Williams — few have been as seamless as the one btwn Ryan Coogler & Michael B. Jordan. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/m...

Wait wait, you're joking, right? "To address farm labor shortage, Trump admin turns to migrant workers. He wants immigration policies to squeeze an already tight supply of farm labor & make it cheaper to hire foreign farmworkers." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/u...

"Pavel Talankin was a school events coordinator & videographer. When Russia overhauled the curriculum to make students into patriotic soldiers, he kept his camera rolling. It became a film shortlisted for an Oscar. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/w...

NYTimes: F.C.C. Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters’ Licenses Over War Coverage. Trump admin. Polls show it faces low public support for the war and it tries to thwart Iran’s efforts to block a vital oil route amid skyrocketing global oil prices. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/w...

The Trump administration’s messaging against the news media comes as polls show it faces low public support for the war and it tries to thwart Iran’s efforts to block a vital oil route amid skyrocketing global oil prices. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/w...

@ericlipton.nytimes.com: Anatomy of two giant deals: U.A.E. Got Chips. Trump Got Crypto Riches. A lucrative transaction involving Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm & an agreement giving Emiratis access to AI chips connected in ways that have not previously reported. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

"John F. Burns, Prize-winning Foreign Correspondent for @nytimes.com, dies at 81. In a 40-year career that brought him two Pulitzers, he reported from trouble spots around the world, eloquently conveying the chaos of war. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/w...

Bobby Jones flying in for the jam.

Street art mural in Point Arena, California #Photography #Art #Mural #StreetArt #California 📷

Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."

As the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign vs. Iran slogs into its 2nd week, Dems have exited closed-door, classified briefings uniformly aghast at what they were told. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social: "I don't know how we put this genie back in the bottle." time.com/article/2026...

BarryBlitt ’s “War-a-Lago. ”No Nobel Peace Prize in sight. No Nobel Peace Prize in sight. By Françoise Mouly. Art by Barry Blitt

@time.com: One of the rare moments in the SOTU that drew Dem applause: Trump’s call to pass a bill advertised to stop lawmakers from engaging in insider trading.“They stood up for that. I can’t believe it.” One problem: it doesn’t exactly do what it purports. time.com/7382542/trum...