One of the two worst people in DC finally got a job.
Remember when Trump kicked them out when they came calling in his first admin because they didn't look right?😀

Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.

Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”

wapo.st/4euUt1c

Ontarians [sp?] couldn't stand having one of the highest economic growth rates in OECD.

A couple former premiers, Kathleen Wynne and Philippe Couillard, join the pod, along with Allen Sutherland and Victoria Kuketz.

➡️Populism a threat to democracy?
➡️Low trust in government?
➡️The Young and the Resentful?
➡️What’s the fix?

YouTube: youtu.be/Foe6y6Qk8zI
Apple: apple.co/41DmpIz

OPINION: When you're premier, FOI requests are part of the job If you put your name on a ballot, scrutiny by the public is fair game, writes former premier Kathleen Wynne

Kathleen Wynne, a Premier who worked everyday to make this place better for everyone, has some thoughts about the guy who replaced her with his lies and bad faith. Great job Trillium for staying on the case and putting this where every one can see it. #onpoli
www.thetrillium.ca/opinion/opin...

Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and Doug Ford - three wealthy, White, buffoons always allowed to fail 'up' beating out totally competent women [whether or not you agree with them].

This is something I’ve changed my mind on. I’ve grown way more open to sexism being a major force in politics.

After seeing Clinton and Harris both wrongly portrayed as just as bad as Trump.

Also Kathleen Wynne in Ontario (vs. how Doug Ford is seen).

He is twice the devil people claimed Kathleen Wynne was, and the things they hated her for, they give him a total pass on. Unbelievable.

Also this is a reminder of the Labor Secretary that resigned in Trump 1.0: Secretary Acosta for his role in the #Epstein sweetheart deal with all the secret co-defendants. 👀⚖️👇🏾 www.npr.org/2019/07/12/7....

No kidding.

My pals in Manitoba recognize a typo.

Yep. He grew up in a Navy family and was a computer jockey at the submarine base in King's Bay because he was far too big for sea duty. In much of the Navy, the 5'10" man is king.

Robinson grew 7 inches in college!

Okay, I guess it's up to me to list The African Queen.
Done!

Fabulous film!

Yes! NbyNW!

Why TF is Vertigo so often rated higher?

I saw it then in a theater. When it was over I was physically sore from the tension.
Naro theater, Norfolk, VA.

REAR WINDOW

And they said he lied about the provincial finances in a big way!

Because he hugely lied about the Ontario government debt, according to provincial accountants, to get elected.

Opinion | New Hungarian PM says government was funding CPAC but won’t anymore “I believe the state should never have financed them in the first place,” Péter Magyar said this week. “It was a crime.”

Not enough people are talking about this.

Hungary’s incoming PM has said that Viktor Orbán used Hungarian government funds to help finance CPAC, the flagship networking event for GOP candidates, members of Congress, and conservative media in this country.

Jeffries on Kash Patel: "We have to stop putting all the blame on the people who nominated this incompetent, toxic, malignant individual. What about the people who confirmed him? It's extraordinary to me that Senate Republican confirmed people like Noem, Bondi, Hegseth, RFK Jr, and Patel."

...selling the letters off for charity.
I think there will be live music, too. 🎺🎸🎹🎷

Earliest known photograph of K Hepburn on a bike wearing sandals with socks. On the set of Woman of the Year talking to Spencer Tracy who is in a dark suit and not on a bicycle. 📷 From Connecticut Historical Society.

"I kant imagine biking in any other footwear, rally I kant."

'It’s pretty hard for me to think about staying here': OB-GYNs say NH's lack of shield law could drive them away As the state continues to face a maternal workforce shortage, two OB-GYNs said a lack of legal protections for abortion care weigh heavily on their decision about whether to stay in the state.

www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026...

I last saw him in person not long after his law office was raided by the FBI. He looks a whole lot older, here.

Victoria Toensing @VicToensing Hubby being sworn in as Counsel to the Attorney General. 4:04 PM · Apr 20, 2026 · 6,199 Views Jason Reding Quiñones, the US Attorney in Miami, swearing in a much shorter Joe DiGenova.

Joe DiGenova, whose wife once solicited payments from foreigners to lie about Joe Biden in 2019, just got sworn in to investigate things those things he lied about in the past.

Over the weekend I laid out why this is so problematic.

emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

Black and white cat with green eyes in a harness sitting on a concrete pad at the bus stop next to a bench. He is looking a little dusty because he had been rolling around just prior to the photo

Kitty waits for the bus. Kitty supports public transit. Be like kitty