Also those kids are just miming to the music

The United States sank $970 million into a U.N.-backed police mission to Haiti. During its 22-month deployment, warlords rampaged freely, gang territory expanded and the country suffered two of its deadliest massacres. Now the U.S. is trying again Widlore Mérancourt and Amanda Coletta report

Wendy Hernandez Reyes was deported to Honduras without her 2-year-old. In her absence, Orlin Hernandez Reyes was beaten to death. ICE's acting director blamed her for his killing @mariasacchetti.bsky.social reports

Also those kids are just miming to the music

Wendy Hernandez Reyes was deported to Honduras without her 2-year-old. In her absence, Orlin Hernandez Reyes was beaten to death. ICE's acting director blamed her for his killing @mariasacchetti.bsky.social reports

The United States sank $970 million into a U.N.-backed police mission to Haiti. During its 22-month deployment, warlords rampaged freely, gang territory expanded and the country suffered two of its deadliest massacres. Now the U.S. is trying again Widlore Mérancourt and Amanda Coletta report

The investigation into Smith College began because Rachel Levine gave the commencement address last year. Smith College has had male commencement speakers before but it's having a trans speaker that caused the Trump admin to go after them. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/04/m...

As Trump’s effective fuel blockade chokes Cuba, a few moms are opening a rare unmoderated glimpse of everyday struggles on the island Great reporting from @schmidtsam.bsky.social

Stereotypically Jeju weekend: cloudy weather, horses, delicious fish, aged black pork. Also ate lots of tangerines of course.

Olivia Pichardo gets final out in Brown win over Cornell, is first woman to pitch in Division One college baseball game

friendly reminder ahead of the much dreaded #CincoDeMayo

"...the real function of this ballroom isn’t about governance or diplomacy. It’s about fundraising, about endless rubber-chicken dinners for cadres of donors seeking influence and business leaders hungry for government contracts." www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱

250 years later the king lectures the U.S. government on democracy

“Rodríguez wore the pin when she visited Barbados on Monday, and previously, during a visit to Grenada earlier in April.”

“This is unprecedented, unlawful, and going nowhere,” said Anna Gomez, the lone Democrat on the panel. “It is a political stunt and it won’t stick. Companies should challenge it head-on. The First Amendment is on their side” @scottnover.bsky.social reports www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, serving 27 years for attempting a military coup after he lost the 2022 election, has chosen his oldest son to challenge Lula in October. If elected, Flávio Bolsonaro says, he’ll pardon his dad www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

What are the odds he’ll be pardoned? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Nicely Put.......

I spent the day trying to reenact an episode of The Golden Girls with chickens. What an ordeal!

"What narrative should we tell ourselves about the nation’s past?" Author Marc Egnal turns a critical eye towards American history in CHALLENGING THE MYTHS OF U.S. HISTORY and how can we reexamine it: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/h... #OAH26

Great news for Pittsburgh, the @post-gazette.com and @thebaltimorebanner.com!

There he goes again www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Gifts I will accept from the federal government in lieu of cheap gas: - cheese - chocolate - bike tuneup - a free ticket to the Alternate Canada I assume we're all moving to when the wildfires overwhelm us

I mean, don’t send him back to the Vatican

4/5: "Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH!" 4/12: “Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz” wapo.st/4cEPoSD

BREAKING Hungarians tire of winning www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Mississippi’s only alcohol warehouse shut down for what was supposed to be a two-week inventory. The liquor hasn’t flowed right since and business owners say they are in a state of emergency.

Keiko Fujimori is likely to win the first round of Peru's presidential election today but lose in the inevitable runoff — for the fourth time in a row. That's just one feature of the country's chaotic politics, Simeon Tegel reports from Lima www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

SNPY HAS DEFECTED

While the Trump administration wants to end birthright citizenship, Canada is going in the opposite direction www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2026/...

Pope to Olympic Athletes: “It is possible to win without humiliating. One can lose without losing oneself. And this also applies beyond sport. It applies in social life, in politics, in relationships between peoples, because sport, if lived well, becomes a workshop for a reconciled humanity.”

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Suryia, the orangutan who learned to bottle-feed orphaned tiger cubs by watching humans

i hate when people shame others for mispronouncing a word they’ve only ever read. correct them, fine, but like let’s give grace to readers to talk about what they read.

On the theme of kids of astronauts, this is Maya Glover, the daughter of NASA astronaut Victor Glover and Dionna Glover. Maya is at Cal Poly doing architecture. From her Insta: mayalorinnn.

Christina Koch is basically an extreme athlete. The first woman to travel to the far side of the moon is a surfer, backpacker, rock and ice climber. And an absolute stud who spent part of her career testing instruments in Antarctica. #ArtemisII #NASA www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLY8...

NEW: CNN is used to attacks from Donald Trump. But as staffers prepare for David Ellison's Paramount to take control of the company, those broadsides stir new anxieties. GIFT LINK: wapo.st/4tu9IvK

BREAKING U.S. rescues missing crew member in Iran after fighter jet shot down www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

BREAKING A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that Trump’s executive order targeting funding for NPR and PBS was unconstitutional retaliation that violated their press freedom rights under the First Amendment. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

me: i have my best caption ever wife: show me me: it’s mice cream! wife: that’s a rat me: but- wife: sorry babe me: i was gonna win the internet wife: are you crying? me: no

BREAKING Trump allows Russian oil tanker to reach Cuba, breaking his effective blockade on the island Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday the delivery had been “raised well in advance … with our American counterparts” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

BREAKING The Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, U.S. officials said, as thousands of American soldiers and Marines arrive in the Middle East for what could become a dangerous new phase of the war www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The U.S. may stop promising to defend its NATO allies should they come under attack, President Trump said as his frustration grows that European leaders have not significantly contributed to his war against Iran.

Protesters filled the streets at thousands of rallies across the U.S. and the world for No Kings. The movement has spread globally, with rallies springing up in at least 15 other nations at a time when much of the world fears President Trump’s war could spiral. https://wapo.st/4bCEBYR

Images show what experts say are U.S. land mines dispersed across a residential area in southern Iran. Human rights groups have long called to ban land mines because of their propensity to harm or kill civilians, often years after conflicts have ended. https://wapo.st/4tf80OJ

So this happened when we called the White House switchboard yesterday.

President Trump spent five minutes of his Cabinet meeting boasting of his thrift with a story about negotiating for $5 personalized Sharpies. The company that makes the permanent markers said the exchange never happened.

For about a decade, Shay Taylor-Allen walked the halls of Yale New Haven Hospital as a janitor. Soon, she’ll walk the halls of the hospital again — this time wearing a white coat, after matching into an anesthesiology residency. https://wapo.st/3NtgqTx

Cuban officials have petitioned Pope Leo XIV to help persuade the Trump administration to ease the effective oil blockade that’s strangling the island www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...