Daniel Bice, veteran Wisconsin political reporter and columnist, dies at 62 Daniel Bice, who worked for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for 33 years, died from complications of esophageal cancer on April 21, his birthday.

We lost Dan Bice, one of the state's great reporters. Maybe the best of the last 30 years. He got so many stories that others never saw coming.

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Thrilled to have Grant's byline on our site!

‘Is it life? We can’t tell’: Nasa’s Curiosity rover finds organic molecules on Mars Scientists think they are looking at chemical building blocks of life preserved for 3.5bn years

“NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected organic molecules on Mars, including chemicals widely considered building blocks for the origin of life of Earth.” And: “We think we’re looking at organic matter that’s been preserved on Mars for 3.5bn years.” [theguardian.com]

“The thesis of the book is, effectively, Palantir loves getting big contracts from the Department of Defense. And when you think about it, doesn’t that make Palantir kind of heroic?”

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

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Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.

I decided to write about at each & every one of the 32 states with supreme court elections this year.

Why? On abortion, redistricting, death penalty, & more, these institutions & their elections remain so critical.

So here's everything you need to know. NEW from me:

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

"Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences."

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Many of us have taken calls from this dude and now have him blocked, or at least don't ever take his calls.

This is one of those things where I don't really think it matters where public sentiment is. He's gonna do it because he wants it, and there's no longer anyone in his vicinity who will fight him over it.

Madison Public Market vendors face high buildout costs, required contractors As the opening date for Madison Public Market has been pushed back once again – this time to late June or July – Madison365 has learned that vendors are being required to spend up to $100,000 each to…

Can the Madison Public Market say it's helping small, minority-owned business get a start, while also requiring them to spend up to $100,000 on a build-out -- and dictating which plumbers and electricians they're allowed to use? We did some digging: buff.ly/s4nzimK

Centro to establish tech, workforce development hub with $3 million grant The nonprofit has responded to the second Trump administration with a legal defense fund. But it’s also trying to build up resources to promote workforce development for the Latinx community.

Centro to establish tech, workforce development hub with $3 million grant

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My wife brought home something called "haff caff" coffee this week and this is a good illustration of me every morning since.

US transportation secretary touts ‘wildly successful’ program recruiting gamers for air traffic controllers “We’ve had a flood of young people coming in that want to be air traffic controllers,” Sean Duffy told Semafor World Economy.

US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says it makes a lot of sense to hire gamers to address a shortage of air traffic controllers.

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Maybe I'm mostly bristling at Bluesky's tendency to shit on anything that challenges the hegemony.

I'm just saying I can see how someone for whom school was unfair and unkind could end up being burn-it-all-down, right or otherwise.
I know guys who have great careers and vote Trump. They are in the trades. School was not a good experience. They were not celebrated, let alone accommodated.

Add in 21st century funding priorities and you get an institution that's pretty cold to kids who need the extra care we got in the '80s. That's my narrow view.

I see a point here. It's not about state bureaucracy, per se. School isn't great for every kid. My very smart son was treated badly and unfairly by teachers and admins and they just shrugged. It created a disrespect for institutions.
Public ed policy doesn't work for those at the ends of the curve.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

April 15, 2026: Judith Davidoff and Jason Joyce -- Isthmus at 50: The Past, Present, and Future. YouTube video by rotaryclubofmadison

Judy Davidoff and I talked yesterday about @isthmusmadison.bsky.social, 50 years of local news and culture, and the challenges facing media everywhere with the Madison Rotary club. The 50th Anniversary tour continues!
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USA Today confirms our reporting. Thx for the credit and the link, USA Today 😀 🙏 bsky.app/profile/radl...

This was often the topic of discussion at the first grade lunch table.

I know elections are expensive, but we'd be better off as a society if less money went toward elections and more went toward any number of other things.

It's peak Trump to say "they misquoted me" in reference to a comment he made on a TV show days earlier to *the same interviewer*.

I know it's a tornado siren.
What do I call it when it's not a drill and there's actually bad weather?
"Air raid siren."

Dozens arrested as protesters demand Schumer and Gillibrand block sale of bombs to Israel Dozens of protesters were arrested at a demonstration urging Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen.

Nearly 100 protesters were arrested during a demonstration calling on Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to block the sale of thousands of U.S. bombs to Israel.

A family member is playing golf for a somewhat affluent suburban high school. They're expected to raise $900, in addition to her fees.
I get it that golf isn't cheap, but look what's happening to youth sports.