The Olympics’ trans policy polices womanhood | Moira Donegan Sports bans have humiliated trans women and girls across America. Now, the Olympics joins in

I wrote about the Olympics’ ban on trans women competing, and the stakes of the new women’s sex-testing regime for female athletes, trans and cis alike. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Man Murders Eight Children seems like a more accurate headline and doesn’t speculate that anyone else may bear responsibility in his motive. A fight didn’t kill them. He did.

Jesse Rothstein wants to say yes | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Berkeley economist and Institute advisor Jesse Rothstein on dissecting earnings disparities, improving the safety net, and 10 years of the California Policy Lab

Right on @jrothst.bsky.social

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The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

A Wegmans is a terrible place, where the management has moved everything since your last visit, the exits—casino like—are hidden from view, the many sample trays are cesspools of semilethal microorganisms, and all customers but you are tranced out center aisle with a cart 3X as large as needed.

Spectacular high-resolution image of our home planet viewed through the Orion Crew Module window by the Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon on Flight Day 2, 3 April 2026 (pic: NASA)

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning.

@exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

Priced Out: New data on who's leaving California New California Policy Lab research shows who's leaving California, where they go, and whether it pays off.

If you’re in Sacramento on April 9th, come to our 12-1pm lunch panel to hear new insights on this research and what it means for California policy. eventbrite.com/e/priced-out... (9/9) END

Priced Out: Relocation Amidst California’s Affordability Crisis - California Policy Lab Using unique data, this report shows who is moving out of California, where they move to, and whether it pays off.

NEWS: We’re releasing new research today on who is leaving California, where they go, and what happens to their finances after they move. capolicylab.org/priced-out-r... 🧵(1/9)

Congrats! I am from Maine and lived in Brunswick from 2019 to this past October. It’s a fantastic town.

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

We did this with tariffs. Now we’re doing this with war. And some insiders are making a fortune off the chaos.

Last summer, a restaurant coworker from the early 90s told me he still played the folk music tape I made for him 30 years ago. A proud moment.

Elect a clown, expect clown shoes.

[Exit Murderer.]

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

She got her start mimicking Olympia Snowe and claiming her hero is Margaret Chase Smith. A look at her voting record shows she’s a right wing radical who opportunistically switches position if her vote isn’t critical. MCS rolls over in her grave any time someone calls Collins a principled moderate.

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

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Peasant and Nestrobber, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568

Absolute best halftime show ever

Good grief. As a Mainer, I was ready to stan, but that just made me uncomfortable and kinda nauseated.

Uncanny valley. Non-human. Touch some primal nerve of revulsion.

ICE surge sparks community involvement in Aroostook beyond protesting People are offering aid to immigrants, dropping groceries on porches, offering rides, volunteering at hospitals and food pantries and checking on neighbors.

Is ICE turning The County woke?

Probably not but: "Many northern Mainers...have joined grassroots activist groups and attended ICE observer and de-escalation training. Others have offered mutual aid to neighbors and sent money to help immigrant families."

Interesting read. #MEpolitics

Mayor Mamdani stands behind a podium with other administration officials and community leaders with large signs saying Free Tax Prep.

Dr. Nichola Davis smiles at Mayor Mamdani while speaking behind a podium.

Mayor Mamdani speaks to reporters while behind a podium.

Yesterday we kicked off NYC’s Free Tax Prep season. That means filing your taxes at zero cost, keeping every dollar of your refund, and not getting ripped off by for-profit companies. 
 
Nearly half of all New Yorkers qualify. Get help—virtually or in person—at nyc.gov/TaxPrep

I demand the part be played by a woman who was actually hatched out of an egg. This is the only way to be faithful to the mythology.

‘We’re fed up:’ Midcoast students walk out to protest ICE Students from several schools in the region met at the Sagadahoc Bridge in Bath on Monday afternoon to speak out against immigration arrests.

‘We’re fed up:’ Midcoast students walk out to protest ICE

My margin of substitution is towards Starbucks only when no other coffee is available, because it tastes like burnt dirt.

If the constitution isn’t already reining them in, what makes you think some pansy-ass legislative language is going to do it? They’re violating the highest law in the land already. You are complicit in their crimes and this is nothing but cynically performative.

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

I once asked my late uncle what he thought ended the legal Jim Crow era. He immediately responded that the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964 were the moment Jim Crow died. When I asked him why he said: “When White folks fight White folks, it changes everything. Enough was enough.”