Energy policy think tanks keep putting out proposals like "give Mark Zuckerberg sole control over our utility rates by making him America's next grid czar" and the people in Everytown, America are like "go ahead and fuckin try"

I pour one out for Sid Krofft. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

California State Sen. @scottwiener.bsky.social on Trump: 'He tears down institutions that make the world better and replaces them with nothing since he’s incapable of building' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...

Decades of coordinated corporate attacks on unions have put our country in an inequality crisis & a political system that answers to wealth over the will of the people. Yesterday, I was proud to stand with workers & rally with @unionnow.org to rebuild the power of working people from the ground up.

The White House Correspondents' Dinner later this month – with Trump as guest of honor – is shaping up as an embarrassing surrender to a criminal president who is trying to destroy the free press. Cancel the damn dinner. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

The snowstorm over the weekend gave a late-season boost to California's meager snowpack in the Sierra Nevada. Statewide snowpack now stands at 23% of average, up from 15% before the storm. Here's our story about how extreme heat melted much of the snow as of 4/1: www.latimes.com/environment/...

Thank you, GWAR, for spilling blood and urine in our office.

As someone who worked as a cocktail waitress this is ridiculous. The problem is our health care system which is actually a health care insurance system.

Absolutely correct. The other side has vast resources & can do lots of things, some legal, some shady, some gross. What a journalist has to do has to be note-perfect & stand up in court. And every time I went down this road, I knew I could lose not just my career but my house, savings. Everything.

ABC’s World News Tonight spent about one minute on Orban’s defeat today, with a European reporter just summing up what happened from a studio. Still better than CBS, which devoted 22 seconds to the headline before cutting to a report on Israel’s elections…this fall. youtu.be/_Oc_0rR5800?...

Had to turn off Meet the Press. Instead I’ll be watching the livestream of the Big Bear eagles’ nest. Little buggers are already starting to grow! #Nature

Word.

Sure hope the ADL is feeling good about going out of their way to defend this guy against charges of antisemitism.

“If it’s already happening now, then what does a future that is two or three degrees warmer hold?” Australian researchers have found that extreme heat mortality is "seriously underreported” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

While reading the news from Budapest, take a moment to look at this photo of Hungarian-American Bela Lugosi at an antifascist rally in Los Angeles during the war.

I still do not understand why Democrats in Congress did not pick an enormous fight over this.

If you’ve been moved & inspired by Artemis, NASA needs your help. Literally during A2, the president proposed cutting NASA science 47%, canceling 54 missions, including many already in-flight. To help stop these cuts, check out @planetarysociety.bsky.social www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...

"The Pitt" star Noah Wyle is speaking out about edits made to an episode of the hit HBO medical drama featuring ICE agents.

Catching some quality glitches on the NASA stream when the signal from the spacecraft was breaking up. Space glitch, a truly rare glitch.

Science is good. We should fund it.

Lmao this aged so poorly. Just watched the splashdown and I’m so moved

Tens of thousands chant “Russians, go home!” at tonight’s anti-Orbán concert in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square ahead of Sunday’s Hungarian election.

Female octopuses throw rocks at males that bother them, documented in Octopus tetricus

I don't think it's a "problem" that there are fewer teen pregnancies. I think fewer teen pregnancies is a good thing, actually,

Albert Speer? Or Albert Profiteer?

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

New & Notable: Avant-garde electronic music that leans into new creative possibilities of sampling.

I love @magnetmagazine.bsky.social magnetmagazine.com/2026/04/10/f...

“Unfortunately you have a mindset by some in the police agencies that the people out there exercising their 1st Amendment right is the enemy, instead of honoring [...] their rights in the American tradition of freedom of speech and peaceful protest.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

New awareness campaign

Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this. "Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings." ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas

Please listen to @manohladargis.bsky.social, who is in general right but perhaps never more than on New Directors/New Films: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/m...

Associated Press journalists saw charred bodies in vehicles and on the ground at one of Beirut’s busiest intersections in the central Corniche al Mazraa neighborhood, a mixed commercial and residential area.

Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news

Netanyahu says ceasefire doesn't include Lebanon. Then 50 Israeli jets drop 160 bombs

Let's be clear about what is being said when Musk and his allies use the term "race communism". This is a white supramcist protest against the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas on August 20, 1959. Don't let them drag our country back another inch.

ProPublica has marketed themselves as the good guys doing trustworthy news. I even gave them the money I used to give WaPo before they flipped the breakers on democracy. Make their actions align with their words. don't cross the picket line and demand they deliver what their advertising promises.

CBS News inviting Pete Hegseth to its White House Correspondents' Dinner table is—as would expect—sparking backlash. “What a slap in the face to the journalists at CBS News,” an exec from a rival network told @nataliekorach.bsky.social. Much more in @status.news: www.status.news/p/whcd-dinne...

Teen who went to photograph L.A. 'No Kings' rally shot, blinded by Homeland Security agent, attorney says

The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI Since the New York Times published its semi-viral big profile of Medvi last week — the "AI-powered" telehealth startup that it breathlessly described as a "$1.8 billion company" supposedly run by just two brothers —…

Ben Rhodes' analysis is both obvious and correct.

JD Vance, ladies and germs. He's not your friend, and I am talking to Americans as much as anyone from a functioning democracy.

Now that I’m breathing again, loving the beautiful, sophisticated solo set Caroline Davis is playing right now at @roulettenyc.bsky.social — streaming live for free. www.youtube.com/live/55XDvn7...

LA28’s presale ticket drop for locals pisses off all of LA. Sunday was my window to sign in for the privilege of seeing what wasn’t available, or what was so far out of my price range it might as well have been cordoned off behind a gold rope and glass. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Keep in mind that Trump's threats communicated in his tweets are themselves war crimes.

Ban this entire fucking industry.

OK, so ... here's the thing. This is extraordinarily low, not extraordinarily high. The baseline tends to be 31% of Americans who approve of every monstrosity, and it's incredibly consistent, over time, since at least the 1960s.

This is literally Neo-Nazi propaganda. Textbook ethno-nationalist ideology that aligns with every far-right movement in Europe.