IIRC, two thirds of the soldiers who died in the Civil War died of disease, not wounds. Anyone who actually prioritized warfighting and lethality and all those things Hegseth goes on about would mandate vaccines, since it’s hard to be a lethal warrior when you’re dead (or even seriously ill.)
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
This image is cauliflower erasure.
Every day I see parents with tiny kids, which reminds me immediately, without fail, of when mine was that small, and immediately flowing on from that there is a warmth of human contact and goodwill that runs through me. It is a visceral demonstration of "we're all in this together." It's great.
There’s Trump-style corruption, which is all bullshit, bluster, bags of cash, and him daring you to stop him. And then there’s corruption of the John Roberts kind. It’s just as deliberate and destructive, but quieter, more genteel, like a cancer that grows in your bones rather than on your face.
Uh... Did the Peacock announcer just say Sam Coffey "es el ombligo de esta selección?"
US women deciding to come out for the second half and take this game over. Rose Lavelle! Naomi Girma!
a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio
One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.
It's Nero's Domus Aurea.
Kid was also like, the noodles are called rat noodles because they have rat in them.
Lo and behold, little did I know that there was already institutional food discourse going on today. bsky.app/profile/news...
My child over here trying to convince me that the reason they didn't eat a vegetable at school today was because there was a pureed artichoke sauce poured over the green beans. And I'm like, "No, that did not happen. No school cafeteria in the US has ever made that dish."
A beautiful piece. Or maybe the story of Mary Kay & Anna just has echoes of how, a little more than a year ago, I held my father's hand & tried in my useless way to comfort him as he slipped from this world. Anyway, spend a few minutes with it; you'll be glad you did. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...
Get over your racism to fight declining birthrates and increasing labor demands in limited sectors challenge for nations. Some will get with the program, other nations will double down on their racism and xenophobia.
This piece encapsulates the whole debate in just a few carefully chosen words. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...
From your lips to the voters' ears....
Photo of an old, wood-paneled Buick Roadmaster station wagon from behind, in highway ramp traffic.
The World We Have Lost: Buick Roadmaster.
On an everyday level, whether my school will (a) enroll enough students at (b) an institutionally sustainable discount rate. If we meet (a) and (b), then we make our operating budget and we can plan our lives; if not, we have figure out what to cut and worry about eating the seed corn.
When you add it all up, the collapse in immigration looks like this: a decline of roughly 50K for illegal (even including the people arrested and not released) and a decline of about 132K for legal. Over 70% of the cut in immigration has come from LEGAL immigration.
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
HR Pufnstuf, Land of the Lost, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters - all were landmarks of my childhood. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/a...
For Asha Bhosle. Que descanse con el ritmo. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM7H...
On this AI version of Zuckerberg for Meta employees: It sounds a simulacrum of a simulacrum of a person. It's simulacra all the way down. I wonder if now we'll get to see what happens when the training data are already robot-produced.
Viktor Orban to be the next editor of WaPo.
A defeat like this will change European politics. A few thoughts.
1. Running vs. EU has costs - publics aren't anti-EU and EU can hold back funding. Being an obstructionist jerk in Brussels has tangible political downsides. This strengthens the leverage of the EU and deters obstructionists. 1/
So wait, did the opposition party just win a supermajority in Hungary's elections? This Guardian article says 138 seats, which is more than 2/3. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Arrive: Moon
Leave: Moon
I am speaking, of course, of this delight.
My take? Put it in the Louvre
