Today, I urge everyone to find and financially support an independent news outlet — one that will not be attending a spectacle dinner tonight to schmooze with the Trump administration while they berate the press.

It's time the WHCA faces the fact that this administration is intent on destroying the free press and by extension, our democracy.

Always loved the insight, art, and bravery of @anntelnaes.bsky.social cartoons in the @washingtonpost.com, until lickspittle Bezos era drove her out. All of those qualities on display here.

Hey White House press corps! Here’s someone you should invite to sit at your table Saturday night! A real journalist!

📻 NEW from Radio Atlantic 📻 A conversation between @sfifz787.bsky.social and @hannarosin.bsky.social about Sarah's extraordinary reporting on Kash Patel—plus @qjurecic.bsky.social on the SPLC lawsuit: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

“The Photo of the Year is Separated by ICE by Carol Guzy, ZUMA Press, iWitness, for Miami Herald.” "It captures a harrowing moment: a family separated by the state.” www.npr.org/sections/the...

California AG Bonta has released guidance to all California hospitals telling them that they should return to providing gender affirming care after winning a lawsuit against Trump. He is the only AG to sue a hospital to force it to stop complying with Trump. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"...investigative reporters across the country are increasingly working under the shadow of high-dollar legal threats — a climate that can chill the kind of thorough, public-interest journalism democracies depend on." ✊️🇺🇸

Data centers serve the billionaires, not the gen pop. There is no good reason for them to exist at all.

"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park." The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!

TUMS! 😄 #iykyk 😉 #RHOBH www.instagram.com/p/DXNr7QUlft4/

"Jack, I want you to draw me like one of your French girls."

And just to be abundantly clear: NASA AND SCIENCE IN GENERAL HAVE MASSIVE RETURN ON INVESTMENT. Cutting this budget is a net financial LOSS in the medium- to long-term. It undermines our future -- intellectually, technologically, and economically.

😄 Coca-Cola announces the 'Canny Pack' bag for soda cans 🤨 "A few lucky people will soon have a fashionable place to put their Diet Coke. ...The fun-sized accesory is tied to The Devil Wears Prada 2 movie and was a partnership with James Holt" www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

The Annual Nerd Prom- I mean, WH Correspondents Dinner- is being held on Saturday. (cartoon from 2015)

Very good. We need the curtain pulled back on these guys by people insightful, independent and incisive enough to cut them and their bullshit down to size. Not surprised a screenwriter fits the bill - really nice job by Noah Hawley. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Great to join @marketplace.org today! Talked about the reporting that @hanaatameez.bsky.social and I have done on why news publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine. www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...

For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it’s everywhere, and a new book by @arindube.bsky.social argues it’s key to understanding today’s inequality. www.npr.org/sections/pla...

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill. HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

Shoutout to The Atlantic reporters for publishing these massive scoops instead of waiting years to put them in a book.

Ruben Ray Martinez is considered the first person to be killed by ICE during President Trump's second term. His mother believes his death could have been avoided. n.pr/3OJkgs5

Boston Marathon Sign (Alt text & Anonymized)

People are awesome!👏😂 Robson De Oliveira & Aaron Beggs stopped to helped Ajay Haridasse cross the 130th Boston Marathon finish line. "After falling down the fourth time, I was getting ready to crawl," he said. 1 of many spectator videos: www.instagram.com/reel/DXZ4k1i... No paywall: archive.ph/qWFWn

An encouraging sign along the Boston Marathon route 😃 (Respect to the sign-holder; chicka chicka yeah. Fake ID, fake ID! 😄)

Didn’t see many signs on assignment for the Boston Marathon, but this one was well-played. #severence #bostonmarathon

"These men no longer feel the need to change the world in order to succeed, because their success is guaranteed, no matter what happens to the rest of us." (and notice, it is all men) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"If everything is free and nothing matters, then the world and other people exist only to be acted upon, if they are acknowledged at all." ~Noah Hawley

it’s only safe to teach literature where characters sit perfectly still in separate rooms and don’t speak or think or do anything

Jessica Chastain's The Savant, inspired by 2019 article: "somewhere in America, a top secret investigator known as the Savant is infiltrating online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country. Cosmopolitan goes undercover as she races to get ahead of the next large-scale attack"

🚨 Apple will release The Savant! "... now I can say, 'We’re going to see it," said Jessica Chastain When? "Sources" say July 😃👏

Screaming crying throwing up right at this moment during Sabrina Carpenter’s #Coachella set when she welcomed Madonna on stage.

"I stand by every word of this reporting. We have excellent attorneys," journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick hits back.

On multiple occasions Patel’s security detail had difficulty waking him because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to info supplied to DOJ and White House officials. A request for “breaching equipment”was made because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors

Dear Phoenix, et al: Japan coined a new word for the "cruelly hot" summer (and spring, and fall) days where temps top 104° 🌞 Kokusho-bi 🥵

"Free speech wins!" Renea Gamble said as she made her way out of the courtroom Wednesday. Fairhope, Ala cops arrested Gamble, who was holding a "No Dick-Tator" sign at a #NoKings protest in October, for refusing to remove her inflatable penis costume. ✊️🇺🇸

"It takes a special type of genius to hear the word Sharona and make it bologna and go on to become one of the most beloved Americans of all time. You can see him live starting next month on The Bigger And Weirder Tour. Please welcome, Weird Al Yankovic!" ~Jimmy Kimmel 👏😂🫶

"Free speech wins!" Renea Gamble said as she made her way out of the courtroom Wednesday. Fairhope, Ala cops arrested Gamble, who was holding a "No Dick-Tator" sign at a #NoKings protest in October, for refusing to remove her inflatable penis costume. ✊️🇺🇸

Lisa Kudrow talks w/Jimmy Kimmel about people still calling her Phoebe, her first time watching Friends from start to finish (rn on TOW/Alec Baldwin), texting Matt LeBlanc, filming The Comeback on the Friends stage, and she takes a 1995 Chicago Tribune quiz 😄👏👏🫶

Here are my top 10 dog and news reporter interactions!

If you or someone you know is the type of person who will pay $300 for a concert ticket and $40 for a vinyl pressing of an album, but not $15 for the digital album because it's already free on spotify or your Apple music subscription, then you understand the economics of AI. We pay for what is rare.

Gravy a song: 🎶"Gravy, I'm-a want you Gravy, I'm-a need you"🎶

Quick! Read this dream cast list and sign off before you see anything else dumb and terrible!

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Big fan of the Internet Wayback Machine. Not a fan of vanishing stories. For example, there’s no longer an electronic archive of articles from when I wrote for my hometown paper early in my career. I have to ask a friend to physically go to one library branch and make a copy for me for my records.

The WIRED piece on the Wayback Machine being “in peril” is worth your time because it’s not really about one nonprofit - it’s about whether the web remains accountable. A few highlights that hit hard: • Major publishers are blocking the Internet Archive’s crawler, often citing “anti-scraping” an...

This is bad. I use Wayback all the time. For example, Students for Life scrubbed Leonard Leo from its website, to hide their decades long relationship. Wayback documented it. Leo just disappeared his dark money laundering machine. Losing Wayback helps him white wash history.

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Virginia Joins a National Effort to Ensure Only Popular Vote Winners Become President "...the last two presidents elected without the popular vote were Republicans: George W. Bush in 2000 and Trump in 2016" www.npr.org/2026/04/14/n...