Trump wants lower beef prices. Flesh-eating maggots in Texas have other plans.

Today’s Prince’s birthday, and in honor of what a huge basketball fan (and talented basketball player!) he was, here’s a photo of Prince and Spike courtside at the Garden.

“These men came here…to storm these beaches…not to gain anything for ourselves, not to fulfill any ambitions that America had for conquest, but just to preserve freedom, systems of self-government in the world.” ~Eisenhower to Walter Cronkite, “D-Day + Twenty Years,” 1964. Image: Eisenhower NHS.

LETS GO CYCLONES

Bendix is always so good

did not know this While auditioning for “Buffy,” Mr. Head pitched playing the role with the persona of Hugh Grant’s character in “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” Prince Charles or as Alan Rickman “in his more decisive moments,” Mr. Head said in a 2001 interview with The Evening Standard.

We lost a good egg. Rest in peace, Anthony Head ❤️

Featured analysis, from @gusbova.bsky.social: Can the Texas Democrats, fielding a very white and very Austin-centric slate, overcome the Republicans in the midterm elections? And will Ken Paxton help bring down the MAGA GOP, at last?

i just keep cracking up thinking about updating 'The Insider' for this moment and it's just over in like 15 min bc everyone got fired for wanting to go after Phillip Morris

a few months ago I happened to see this absolutely fucking incredible 60 Minutes piece where scott pelley hiked for days to get inside the earth’s largest known cave in vietnam and I was so gobsmacked I made my kids watch it; you should also watch it because it rules m.youtube.com/watch?v=BtfW...

I hope It Happens on an airplane and I get to tell the pilots.

look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years

HBD to the legendary joyful/angry feminist and superlative filmmaker Agnès Varda (1928-2019)!!! 🎊🎞️

RIP!

"How can I make Memorial Day about myself"

they're calling this tractor the ratmobile

[EDWARD SCISSORHANDS] Beetlejuice would have spit in this movie's eye. (1990)

“We have The Mandalorian. We have Grogu. We have all these characters.”

hang this whole clip in the Louvre

I think it's time the left start getting angrily political about routine stuff in TV shows and movies. "It's an *outrage* that Dutton Ranch doesn't have solar panels!" "They cast a man to play Jack Reacher?!?! What?!" "None of the Fast and Furious cars are EVs? NONE? I thought this was America!"

Shoutout to whoever cast Matthew Rhys for Tom in Widow's Bay, this man looks like what I'd find if I looked up "folk horror protagonist" in a dictionary.

Specifically, Pulitzers for: - Washington Post coverage of DOGE - NYT coverage of Trump enriching himself in office - Chicago Tribune coverage of ICE - Reuters coverage of Trump "expand[ing] executive power and exact[ing] vengeance" - And M. Gessen for "essays on rising authoritarian regimes"

Thinking of Alissa, Lance, and their daughter Rosemary today. The Parsleys are family friends of ours. So proud of Aaron. If you’d like to donate in Clay’s memory: austincf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

you don't need a study to know this is bad for kids. that's why school admins have zero excuses for signing these deals

In 2020 @yaelrice.bsky.social and I authored this article to dispute this kind of pseudo-scientific research, which regularly gets press attention, precisely so that others don't have to cope with the tedium of refuting it. Here's the refutation you need! hyperallergic.com/how-scientis...

This is a perfect Alex Jones impression by Heidecker, written by the Onion, doing infowars-like stories with Max level absurdity. Watch this and subscribe to the onion to let them keep doing good work for the Sandy Hook families.

FB friend passed this Ai tidbit to me. No "Manual connection" for the wife on LinkedIn.

At the Moody Center Bruce Springsteen transforms our civic hell into the land of hope and dreams.

Despite finding fame as a dramatic actor, Bob Odenkirk extolls the virtues of sketch comedy. “The joy of life,” he notes with a laugh, is turning life’s bad moments into comedic gold. Read, watch or listen to the full conversation on “The Interview.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/m...

Alex Jones is now just making supercuts of Tim & Eric sketches and freaking out. Alex Jones on Twitter: "⚠️EVEN MORE VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: We Compiled a Super Clip of Even More of Their Most Depraved Publicly-Released Material. This is SICK FOOTAGE From The Onion Scum."

Did you know that this perfect movie is free to watch on YouTube rn? youtu.be/Qy9XYQBBIJ4

Tim got his 10 seconds of fame

god created two genders and it’s important we all accept that (russell crowe in master and commander and paul bettany in master and commander)

They fear Gender Studies because it unapologetically exposes the real reasons why all of these middle-aged men would indignantly wear clown shoes solely for the approval of other men.

fox just had a banner referring to mamdani's planned grocery store as "trader zo's," and one must admit that's a good bit

every single day its the dumbest goddam diplomatic decision ive ever seen until the next day comes

A Terlingua business owner says he just turned down half a million dollars rather than help house border wall construction crews. Contractors are offering huge sums of money to lock up lodging for wall crews, but these rural communities won't sell out to destroy their own home.

so, fellow historians, this is a 12-alarm fire if "learn about history" is the top use of AI (related to the Humanities). this should be an all-hands-on-deck conversation with @historians.org and every history department to work K-16 to get us away from history as just "names and dates"

snake hole, sir goony golf, independence boulevard, charlotte, north carolina, 1981

Sure, the most influential accounts on X are all right-wing influencers who spew a steady stream of misinformation and hatred, but I'm sure you're not feeling any downstream effects from all of that. You're just too smart and savvy to be influenced by propaganda, not like literally everyone else.

Starting this weekend, episodes of "Texas Monthly Presents: The Story" will air on select PBS stations and nationwide on the PBS app and website. The series immerses viewers in a diverse lineup of stories from across Texas. Check your local listings, or find more information on how to watch here.

truly

happy Easter to all who celebrate

“I have some very bad news! I have just been informed that Mister Trump has passed away at Walter Reed hospital! Easter is canceled! That is all!”

Very cool discussion of the use of color theories in industrial hygiene.