The next day Toad gave his jacket to Frog. Frog thought that it was beautiful. He put it on and jumped for joy. None of the buttons fell off. Toad had sewed them on very well.

Outdoor cats are crazy bc you won’t even let me pet you but you’re staring at me through the window disappointed if the bowl is empty

April 8, 2026

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.

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

David A. Bell (@davidavrombell.bsky.social) on Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and the restoration of his nineteenth-century vision for Notre Dame

"The basis of Schopenhauer’s ethics was a kind of solidarity of the suffering." @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social reviews a new consideration of the oft-misunderstood German philosopher: www.commonwealmagazine.org/Schopenhauer...

A cartoon by Liza Donnelly. ❤️ @lizadonnelly.bsky.social

The SoNo Collection, Connecticut’s newest enclosed mall in 2018, is listed for sale in South Norwalk with 86% occupancy.

We’re turning 50 this year! 😱 What began as a temporary exhibition in 1976 became the largest museum in North America dedicated to mass transit—and a beloved cultural institution. Celebrate with us all year!

"The Trump administration is extremely invested in the outcome of the April 12 Hungarian election." The latest from Jim Geraghty:

Over at the Spliced Personality Substack this week I reviewed Julia Loktev’s extraordinary documentary MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I - LAST AIR IN MOSCOW, which just started streaming on MUBI.

The founders believed that if a madman became president, members of Congress would serve the country’s interest and remove him from office. That seemed a reliable system to safeguard the republic. Boy, did they screw up.

If only a dozen Republicans in Congress found the will, they could impeach and remove him today.

Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and family loads up on a Graziella tandem, 1969 #BicycleBirthday Francis Ford Coppola Born April 7, 1939

Last year #Utrecht widened ~mile of bike lanes on either side of a major retail, freight, transit street so that people on bikes could safely pass ➕ ride side-by-side. Also added tons of bike parking, parklets, trees, safer street crossings. Lost ~60 car parking spaces. Good choice for any city?

A wonderful thread of how life expectancy with cancer has dramatically improved in the last 20 years. For instance this type of lung cancer your chance of living a year is up from zero to almost 80%.

The Swedish pop group ABBA goes for a spin (left to right: Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus) Happy #BicycleBirthday, Agnetha Fältskog! Born April 5, 1950

The hill I will die on: Order be damned – a house full of clutter is a happy house | Robin Craig

Trees help keep Boston cool, improve air quality, reduce flooding, and strengthen Boston’s climate resilience. As we continue planting and caring for trees across the city, residents can help grow Boston’s urban forest too. 🌱 Learn more and check out our interactive map at boston.gov/trees (3/3)

Connie and I had a great time at the Cleveland Guardians home opener. Go Guards!

I mean, you don't really need a translator

🚨 you can still get a copy of Mother Jones featuring the cover story I wrote with @dfriedman.bsky.social at Hudson News in Union Station!!

"Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life." 🌹🎭 Hollywood legend #BetteDavis was #BOTD 5 April 1908. #Film

"Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door." ✒️ #SaulBellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist, and short story writer (Nobel Prize in #Literature 1976), passed away #OTD 5 April 2005.

American woodcocks, also known as timberdoodles, are bopping and shimmying through the park, charming visitors during a pit stop on their northerly migration. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/n...

🌳Boston’s tree canopy is growing. We released a new 2019-2024 Tree Canopy Assessment that shows @boston.gov gained 151 acres of canopy over the past five years–bringing our total canopy coverage to 28.5% (excl Logan✈️ ). The findings show growth was driven by investments on public land. (1/3)

Watch THE TRIP series, playing in both its complete original television presentation and its theatrical cuts! Watch THE TRIP (2010), THE TRIP TO ITALY (2014), THE TRIP TO SPAIN (2017), THE TRIP TO GREECE (2020).

"To Share Is Our Duty’ Hermione Lee; Two consummate Virginia Woolf scholars have added more than 1,400 letters to the corpus. On show are charm, careful condolence, generosity, candor about about [Woolf] and a belief that “communication is health.” @nybooks.com 📚 www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Mungo On His Own, written by @matthewburgessj.bsky.social illustrated by me, and published by @clarionbooks.bsky.social is officially out in the world! Get it wherever books are sold! Thank you to editors Dana Fritts and Kate O'Sullivan for their expert guidance!

'A succulent Chinese meal' - iconic Australian quote immortalised in National Archive

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive

NYC's merger with Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center delayed gothamist.com/news/nycs-me...

“'A succulent Chinese meal': Australia enshrined a con man’s rant into its national archive." @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/w...

Some big names will be missing at the World Cup 🤯

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cn89z009kv3o

“…but grew up in Connecticut, where he would wander the woods and meadows, streams and rivers, immersing himself at a young age with the subjects that would fuel his writing life.” … “I used my stutter as best I could. I used it to learn how to interview people,” he said. Edward Hoagland.

“On some of the richest days, when a moose stalks by or a bear is blueberrying or munching hazelnuts outside, I think of my house as a bathysphere suspended in the wilderness.” Edward Hoagland

Reunited with @willoremus.com at last...

friends i have some news

At WBUR this week I reviewed THE DRAMA, the most audacious American movie I’ve seen since EDDINGTON. Don’t worry, I didn’t spoil the big secret.

Over at the Spliced Personality Substack this week I reviewed FANTASY LIFE. Can a movie with a main character who’s a complete zero still be any good? It can if he’s acting opposite Amanda Peet.

After college, Lena Dunham joined an odd little utopia of movie nerds working out of an office on lower Broadway. Then the sustainability of the setup started to seem questionable. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Terrific Lena Dunham essay about her origin story: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Donald Trump just made Eric Swalwell the most important Democrat in America open.substack.com/pub/greattra...

I wouldn’t have the life in publishing that I’ve been so lucky to have if it wasn’t for her, at one time, believing in me. I will be grateful forever. Today I am sad. Ann Godoff, a Top Editor and Publisher of Best Sellers, Dies at 76 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/b...

TIME magazine has named V&A East Storehouse one of the World’s Greatest Places for 2026. I’m proud that East Bank is not only transforming East London, but is also pioneering new ways for Londoners and visitors to engage with culture. time.com/collection/w...

Elias Law Group is currently litigating 85 voting and election cases in 44 states. This accounts for two victories late on Friday in Arizona!

I miss 90s NYC. And smoking. Excellent from @glynnismacnicol.bsky.social in @nytimes.com “At a party, recently, one woman in her 40s from L.A. told me, unprompted, that she would pay $10 million to go back to that time and place.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/o...

It’s official: we cleaned up London’s air 184 years sooner than predicted. The capital now meets legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution. And you can feel the difference across our city.