For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them

How a Navy photographer snapped an iconic Artemis II astronaut photo The photographer who snapped the photos of the Artemis II crew’s return to Earth spent years honing his craft on a Navy aircraft carrier.

Check out this @taskandpurpose.com interview with the photographer!
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And yet despite this, I managed to keep Holocaust Remembrance Day detached in my mind from these manipulations. Perhaps because it answered an emotional, human need to share in collective grief, if only for once a year. Perhaps because the scale of the horror is too vast to confront alone, and we reach for rituals that enable us to do so. But after more than two and a half years of genocide in Gaza, of the systematic and calculated extermination of tens of thousands of people, and the conscious starvation of babies to death – carried out brazenly, with unconcealed joy, even pride – I can no longer convince myself of that separation. A state that commits genocide cannot meaningfully commemorate the Holocaust. Each ceremony it holds in its name defiles the memory of the victims. In a country that has made ethnic supremacy official policy, such a siren no longer signifies mourning. In a country devoid of shame and ethics — where Avraham Zarviv, a rabbi and bulldozer operator whose fame came from the unimaginable destruction he inflicted in Gaza, will light a torch at Israel’s official Independence Day ceremony — the siren is a sound devoid of content, a mere ritual. Or worse: it is part of a well-oiled machine that turned the Holocaust into a propaganda tool designed to justify the most despicable of crimes. It is, actually, nothing more than a battle cry.

Remarkable words from a remarkable woman:

www.972mag.com/stand-israel...

Brooklyn

Just in time - we finished packaging up our first 500 whistles this week and are getting ready for our next order!

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Far Right populists are a big risk in European politics, but in most states they get stuck around a 30% threshold. Their success is then dependent on specific state constitutional and legal structures as well as responses from other parties.

Wartime cost spikes jeopardize Marin affordable housing plans Rising interest rates and fuel costs threaten to wreak havoc on budgets for the Oak Hill projects between Larkspur and San Quentin.

The war comes home, again and again: www.marinij.com/2026/04/14/w...

Liberalism in the sense of “liberal democracy” is not meaningful if it “takes turns” with illiberalism.

Nice to see JD going 0 for 2

Picked my copy up at my local bookstore yesterday! Can’t wait to read. Thanks Molly

she’s running?

"Life is a mystery, love is a delight. Therefore I take it as axiomatic that one should settle for nothing less than the infinite mystery and the infinite delight, i.e., God.” Walker Percy Interview Himself

mbird.com/literature/w...

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥

Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

Check out California Local, the brand new newsletter from the California Local News Fellowship based at @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social. Reporting from communities from Del Norte to San Bernadino! H/t to @stevenlyons.bsky.social for the beautiful logo. #localnewsday

While meant to be funny, it pains me greatly to note that this is an accurate rendering 😑

Wake up human! You have people
to do and places to see, or whatever your saying is.

You can sleep later, today is a day for action.

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

Agreed. Watch the episode, and the ones that follow.

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more.

They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.

www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver

God this poem is haunting me again.

I kept a baseball bat under the bed in case the Russkies showed up.

Just down the ways from the new Dolores Huerta Avenue, where there’s an annual parade on Dolores Huerta Day, that national holiday we all love.

Here’s the whole thread. WASF if this turns out to be true. skywriter.blue/@chriso-wiki...

It’s saying something that it took @ewong.bsky.social, diplomatic correspondent @nytimes.com, to accurately report Trump’s words and its consequences. This did not come from the NYT’s politics desk.

@nytimes.com live chat is like “nope,” “nope,” “nope,” “nope.”

Co sign. 100%

was that a chocolate croissant?

So what is the deal with this birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court? YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

As the Supreme Court hears arguments on birthright citizenship, Jamelle Bouie gives us a great summary of the previous rulings regarding the 14th Amendment and citizenship in America:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb9W...
#SupremeCourt #14thAmendment #MAGAts #Trump #BirthrightCitizenship

you don’t have to know much world history to look at this map and immediately see why the entire western hemisphere has birthright citizenship