It’s been years since my kid was in childcare so I don’t know what the status quo is but every municipality should have this

From Greggs?

This is the issue I’ve become a middle-aged crank about

Ha, the VW dealer is offering us a new gas car to give up our EV lease early. Not a chance

As if I need another reason to hate T*rboT*x, it never seems to believe me when I say I don’t have any crypto income to report

Saw Project Hail Mary after reading Andy Weir’s comments disparaging political art. I’ll just say, a plot that hinges on a unified, muscular UN-type body saving the planet is uhh not apolitical

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

Hmm, timestamp says April 2

Silver Spring mentioned, and not in a good way, yikes www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/a...

Bloomberg scoop: Chinese EVs could be built in the Stellantis plant in Brampton, where a planned Jeep production line was cancelled last year and moved to the US. Stellantis has discussed with Canadian officials the idea of building Leapmotor EVs there www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Just to take one example, this is real news bsky.app/profile/kfil...

Feel like there should be a moratorium on April Fool’s this year

Judge Leon uses more exclamation marks than I would have expected

BREAKING: Judge Richard Leon enjoins Trump ballroom construction in suit by National Trust for Historic Preservations. Order stayed for 14 days to allow for appeal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Lindy West takes are relentless

For years, old wind blades have sat in a small Texas town, annoying locals. Moving them would cost millions. How they got there, and why they stayed, is down to an entrepreneur now under indictment. The story of the recycling breakthrough that wasn't [gift]: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Today is the Transgender Day of Visibility and I'll take the opportunity to once again say that trans people matter, their lives have meaning, and what's being done to them by so many politicians and people in this country is wrong.

Seems like it’s even odds whether he takes his ball and goes home or starts a ground war. Cool cool

He's got a novel of his own coming out this year. I wonder if he used AI to write it. Or maybe this was a first experiment gone badly wrong. Anyway, not the early buzz you want to create

The US "God Squad" is meeting for the first time in decades to consider lifting endangered species protections in the Gulf of Mexico, so that oil and gas can drill, baby, drill. Gift link:

Two Australian states, Victoria and Tasmania, are temporarily making public transport free in an effort to insulate residents from the widening oil shock from the Iran war.

If this is how a political force eats takeout salad, so do I, it’s over for you hoes I guess?

Rewatching The Thick of It and Julius Nicholson, the “blue sky thinker,” now seems so innocuous compared to DOGE

“‘We believe the reliance on Elk to deny birthright citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants is misplaced. It’s a misreading and a misunderstanding,’ said Leonard Fineday, general counsel of the National Congress of American Indians.”

A great visual guide not just to the half-baked design but also how perfunctory the review process has been, on par with the scrutiny given to new bollards or sea walls in DC www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

He’s the exception to No Kings 👑

Literally endorsing being smooth-brained

Bleak

First Amendment watch: Government regulator celebrating the defeat of ideological opponents in the media space.

French energy giant TotalEnergies says it will no longer aim to reach net zero emission targets by 2050

I read the AI journalist profile and I'm skeptical how much time he even saves. I'm sure AI is quick with a blast on a CEO hiring. But if you're using it for a 600w story and still interview a source, rewrite the top, add new grafs and fact check? Even his editor says the stories are mostly him

With another No Kings coming up, a reminder that irony and coolness will never save us. Cringe is good. www.liberalcurrents.com/cringe-is-go...

The WSJ profiled him, but would they hire him?

Nice thread on how Metro has shaped the region, for the better, over five decades

Happy 50th birthday to Metro, the best Washington monument and a vital part of this city and my own life

There’s always another strait

Claudia Winkleman is such a delightful answer to the question “what would Janice Muppet look like IRL”

The OP is my cousin and he is really providing a Service on this website (scroll down)

I’d wondered exactly how the deal was supposed to work, and this story breaks down the possibilities. Spoiler: they’re not necessarily legal things to do

New: Around the world people are turning to low-carbon EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps as the Iran war upends oil and gas markets. Bloomberg journalists, including yours truly, filed dispatches from San Francisco to Lagos for this story. Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The Economist practicing "the large print giveth and the small print taketh away."

Satire is dead, part infinity

"Poor countries may lose 10 times more people to deaths from high temperatures than rich ones, according to an analysis by Climate Impact Lab." (Bloomberg Green Newsletter)

Prominent climate researcher Kate Marvel is leaving NASA, citing US attacks on Science www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank foresees a big push for climate resilient development [gift]

Hmm www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Last year the air you breathe got worse

Amazing that our leaders are choosing this

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

I want to believe