If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

Never great when the level-headed headline reads "West Braces for Critical Water Shortages After Unprecedented Snow Drought." www.drought.gov/drought-stat...

This clemency grant to Tina Peters is an affront to our democracy, the people of Colorado, and election officials across the country. The Governor’s actions today will validate and embolden the election denial movement, and leave a dark, dangerous imprint on American democracy for years to come.

A minute of Ryan Creek flowing and bird song in the McKay Community Forest this morning.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

From Christine Weng’s history of The Onion, “Funny Because It’s True.”

This history of The Onion also ends up being a history of the death of print media and a timeline of creative individuals mutating into online content creators. It’s great and sad.

The price of beef is massively subsidized, not least by the fact that the cost to graze cattle on public land has not changed since the 1960s. $1.35 per cow-calf pair per month - 30 to 50 times less than market value. If you really want to stop corporate welfare, beef prices are gonna go up.

April 14, 1776: Slaves at a Virginia plantation make one of the largest mass escapes of the Revolutionary War. Eighty-seven men, women and children—the entire enslaved Black population at the Willoughby property in Norfolk County—flee to the protection of the British. 1/7

Yessssss www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

Congratulations to Viktor Orbán, a huge asshole loser who sucks Special congratulations to American fans of Viktor Orbán, a pathetic gaggle of rubes, marks, dullards, and chumps

Victor Orban concedes! www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...

ORBÁN CONCEDED

Time for #LetterboxdFriday Just out of frame of this four is Joachim Trier’s Reprise, which I loved even more than Oslo August 31st. Wish I’d liked Pavements more, but somehow it’s perfect that it’s so imperfect. #LastFourWatched #Filmsky

Intuit solo show is a dream come true for self-taught Morgan Park artist Marvin Young. blockclubchi.co/48fqOVW

"Even if you produce more oil than you consume, you still pay the same global price for oil everyone else pays & thus still suffer from supply constrictions & high prices." This basic, elementary fact -- global energy markets 101 -- refutes basically the entire GOP energy policy & worldview.

Stevie Wonder arrested for protesting Apartheid, Washington DC, 1985.

"at $2 million a pop, that comes out to about $100 billion in revenue for Iran—more than one-quarter of Iran’s nominal GDP, and nearly twice the country’s annual budget. Unlike the U.S., these tariffs really can fund the country." prospect.org/2026/04/02/o...

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Rogue Wave was every bit as good as The Shins.

We just had the hottest March on record. Vote out every Republican.

Mexican immigrant died in US immigration custody, ICE says, marking 14 deaths in 2026 reut.rs/4sHsSOL

I don't know what SCOTUS will do on birthright citizenship case, it's anybody's guess. But if they endorse Trump's diktat, the only response is defiance. Outright, open defiance by the states. A decision not just erroneous but illegitimate, beyond their power, null and void from the day it's issued.

Trump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship #GiftArticle wapo.st/41ynLnZ

Holy smokes this is a good album. #Unrest #TeenBeat

Zohran Mamdani continues to pose the crazy question “what if the government you paid all those taxes to was actually using that money to improve your life?”

Time for #LetterboxdFriday I loved Perfectly A Strangeness. My copy of Sahel Sounds didn’t have a subtitles file so it lost a lot. Dead Ringers didn’t upset me nearly as much as it did when I saw it in a theater decades ago, and Accident has an amazing last half hour. #LastFourWatched #Filmsky

This is the one of the greatest acts of non-violent resistance I have ever seen. www.youtube.com/shorts/hBzVg...

The US has no idea what a huge catastrophe is coming.

For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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RIP Sam Kieth. What an artist.

This would mean the elimination of the last stands of mature and old growth on BLM lands and could lead to the extinction of endangered species like the Northern Spotted Owl and Marbled Murrelet. Help stop it.

I spent a day at #Kyiv Zoo, where staff have been battling to keep Toni the gorilla and other animals warm during a bitterly cold winter. It receives only 4 hrs of electricity a day because of Russian bombing. "War and a zoo are not compatible," its director said www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Ummmmm wow

“The clear winner of this war is Putin” Must be a coincidence 🙃

Jello Biafra has been a role model of mine since I picked up Dead Kennedys “Fresh Fruit” LP in Springfield Illinois in ‘85 or ‘86. Hoping he recovers and out lives a lot of people. Certain people.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles. 13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger. The law didn't change. torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...

🍄📸 #FungiFriends #fungusFriday Ganoderma brownii on a Coastal Redwood. Eureka, California

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion. That's roughly $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. People do not want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

This sounds unbelievable but its true: since Bezos acquired The Post, his wealth has grown tenfold and the Post has been cut in half. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trust-...

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“ A double-tap strike on little girls at school.