Seriously. What won't these people destroy as a political favor for wealthy pals. Reporting from @grist.org via @climatedesk.org

Wow in less than 24 hours, your voices got Hydro Flask to join the Save the Forest Service movement!

At the same time the Trump admin is attacking the pope. They are trying to create a new religion with themselves as the gods. That's what QAnon was also

Another red flag. No pun intended www.nbcnews.com/world/china/...

youtu.be/-jj-PaqFrBc?... ##BOTD 1889.

So excited, #Booksky! My #CurrentRead includes my very favorite Poe story ~ The Masque of the Red Death

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It’s almost as if adults don’t care about children at all

This is really good #Booksky #CurrentRead

Illustration from The Natural History of Aleppo, and Parts Adjacent by Alex Russell, London, 1856. #booksky #artsky #naturesky

From The New York Times: ALA and AFSCME prevail in federal lawsuit, protecting federal agency responsible for library funding: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/arts/library-agency-trump-settlement.html Tell your Senators to #FundLibraries in next year's budget: ala.org/showup

One thing that makes the Pulp Fiction script brilliant is Tarantino made up a fake Bible passage that sounds like a Bible passage, introduced it as just something that sounds badass,” then had a character do a thoughtful interpretive analysis of that (false but treated as real) passage at gunpoint.

Con Edison is supporting NY legislation that would make it easier to install and use plug-in solar. Elsewhere in the country, utilities have opposed these bills (link to my @npr.org story on that in comment).

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u... Fetterman sucks.

Wow

“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.” -Writer Henry James, born on this day in 1843 #WriterSky #BookSky #Literature #Psychological #History #BOTD

My commentary on how Israeli military occupation has impacted on Palestinian sea access rights and decimated Gaza's fishing industry. Apologies in advance for the lack of a 2-minute read (this one came in at around 5K words). #gaza #writingcommunity windlefreelance.com/2026/04/15/a...

Roller-coaster vote count as leftist candidate Roberto Sánchez inches into run-off (for now) Sánchez has moved up from sixth to 2nd place as rural vote finally counted in Peru. Aliaga declares "fraud" LATEST for PWS

it’s absolutely insane how charlie kirk was holding the entire pedo movement together

WU-TANG FOREVER and ever in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Forever

For all the Why aren’t the students protesting crowd This is why

Why aren't students protesting?

The Pitt (Series, 2025 - )

When federal agents descended on Minneapolis, we sent reporters. What they captured—an army vet arrested at a church, a woman dragged from her car on the way to a doctor's appointment, a community that refused to back down—is nominated for a Webby People's Voice Award. VOTE FOR US: wbby.co/59009N

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores. The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

Tennessee's First Amendment lawyers prepare to send the state lege a fruit basket in appreciation

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

It's always "are you on the spectrum?" and never "thank you for those incredibly specific and honestly fascinating 1950s film technology facts."

Stop calling Trump a child rapist, filthy libs! Yes, he was best friends w/a child rapist; and he’s been accused in govt docs of raping children; & he wished a guilty child rapist well; & he’s broken his own law every day since Dec 19 to protect child rapists. But, I mean, that’s all you’ve got?

Arby's. The meat's not locked in here with us, were locked in here with the meats. help.

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

Zelensky says US peace negotiators 'have no time for Ukraine' because of Iran war

#64/2026 Mayor Matthew Dantzer [R-TX] was charged with felony assault of a pregnant woman that he grabbed by the throat and pinned against the wall outside of a hotel shortly after he attempted to pull her pants down. This violent & sexist Republican rot started with Trump and has trickled down.

Who is surprised?

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

No matter who you elect, no matter what they say, it's always more money for cops, more money for cops, more money for cops.

Sean Strub: when I realized I was gay I realized I couldn’t hold public office…. Never say never! He was the mayor of Milford and owned a good chunk of the town Progress seems so small tho

Black women have the highest maternal mortality rate among all racial groups in the U.S. During Black Maternal Health Week, let us refocus on how we can provide resources and rights that help Black mothers thrive before, during, and after pregnancy. We must pass the #Momnibus

Reverse Psychology

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It’s so refreshing to meet people who are not only presidential historians and congressional historians, but also have a deepest historical knowledge of the Supreme Court

A non-exhaustive list of Trump's deleted posts

lol

R.I.P. Sid Croft!

A GP holds a drop-in session with his patients

You need books. We’ve got books. You see what I’m saying. - Michael

The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed