French man, 86, issues historic apology for family’s role in transatlantic slavery Pierre Guillon de Prince believed to be first in France to formally apologise for ancestors’ allegiances to slavery

“Faced with the rise of racism in our society, I felt a responsibility not to let this past be erased.”

“Clutches pearls”

A photo of my black-and-white cat, Ada, sitting on a grey sofa against a dark green wall. She's looking at a Totoro plushie sitting next to her. The Totoro has big eyes, which are aimed at a point beyond the camera. The interaction of their lines-of-sight makes the photo funny. Ada is a very cute little cat. She has a black mask with a white blaze and cheeks and an adorable little black nose, along with excellent whiskers and eyebrow whiskers.

#Caturday

Meanwhile Vance is accusing the EU of election interference.

Hopefully enough Hungarians know how well Trump keeps his promises.

Fuel-price protests cause chaos in Ireland and spread to Norway Hauliers and farmers block motorways and bring parts of Dublin to a standstill in fourth day of action

Imagine the peace and quiet if governments had been speedily electrifying transportation over the past decade since the Paris climate agreement. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Plus, I get to have nice chats with the people at the stores where I buy them. One local book clerk is a fan of high-quality pencil sharpeners. (Be still my beating heart.) The owner of the CD store likes fixing old stereo components.

Lawsuit to strip endangered species protections from #Florida scrub jays has national ramifications. My @floridaphoenix.com column, republished by @therevelator.org : therevelator.org/florida-scru...

See? This is why I still collect physical copies of the books, music and movies I like the most.

Brilliant sourcing.

NEW @desmog.com: JD Vance's schmoozing this week with PM Victor Orbán is part and parcel of how CPAC and the Trump administration are trying to get MAGA allies in other countries into power. By @geoffdembicki.bsky.social at @desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2026/04/09/r...

Russian authorities detained a former Radio Free Europe freelancer on treason charges; security services also have searched Novaya Gazeta's newsroom in Moscow (Daryna Antoniuk/The Record)

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USPS suspends contributions to employee pensions after warning of "cash crisis" The U.S. Postal Service, which lost $9 billion in 2025, recently warned that it could run out of money within 12 months.

Important context: politicians have been paid for decades by major delivery services to strangle USPS into oblivion. Bears more fruit every year. www.cbsnews.com/news/usps-pe... Why keep funding a public service when someone can profit instead?

Just recorded a great pod, and I gotta say ... solar and batteries are going to win. They are the main dish. Everything else is a side dish. In 10 years, you won't be able to find anyone who disagrees with this.

Jaw still dropped.

Headlines @theguardian.com in past 24 hours:
‘Non-survivable’: heatwaves are already breaching human limits, with worse to come, study finds

Mass drowning of chicks [because ice shelf collapsed] puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction

This is real.

She’s often got decent instincts for when to jump ship.

Opinion | Michigan is getting paid for its NCAA win. Trump hates that. Kevin B. Blackistone: Trump's focus on college sports is ill-timed and misguided

The president found some time amid his diy war crisis to do another racist thing. www.ms.now/opinion/mich...

Mapped: The Reform-Orbán Network “Viktor Orbán is the strongest leader in Europe and the EU’s biggest nightmare.” These were the words posted on Twitter by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage about the prime minister of Hungary in April 20...

🔴 MAPPED: The Reform-Orbán Network

Ahead of elections in both countries, DeSmog has catalogued the connections between Hungary’s autocratic government and Farage’s operation.

📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

Timing!

Trump uses the language of annihilation to threaten Iran ahead of deadline The president who yearned for a Nobel Peace Prize and once reveled in the appearance of solving conflicts has turned to the language of annihilation as he struggles to find a resolution to his war of ...

The @apnews.com continues to approach this story head-on, rather than with euphemisms and sanewashing. apnews.com/article/trum...

Further, from 2015-2019ish, center centrists thought anyone who correctly observed this was overreacting.

Fargo Forum lets go of liberal columnists, sparking protest Forum Communications, which owns newspapers and TV stations throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana and both Dakotas, parted ways last week with left-leaning columnists. The move has sparked protest ...

Forum Communications, which owns newspapers and TV stations throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana and both Dakotas, parted ways last week with left-leaning columnists.

In Fargo, protesters expressed their disappointment with the paper, which many of them had been reading their entire lives.

The best thing about used EVs these days? The price tag.

Used EVs are more attractively priced than ever — and through-the-roof gas prices are pushing more and more buyers to snap them up.

donald trump, driver of the green revolution

sorry folks fossil fuels are a national security risk, gotta go all in on renewables

The mixed case typos in that headline are a dead giveaway.

Is it significant or coincidence that amid such a rich selection of unqualified cabinet officials , the only ones ousted so far are women? Real question.

Populism Push: Analilia Mejia Navigates NJ-11 Campaign After Stunning Primary Victory - The Village Green “We are clear that we need to join forces to fight the real problem, and that is rising authoritarianism, a rigged economy, and the corruption that is plain as day emanating from MAGA Trumpism,” said ...

Analilia Mejia Navigates NJ-11 Campaign After Stunning Primary Victory. Nice story by one of our Montclair State Students, David Bien-Aime villagegreennj.com/election/pop...

Gooooo Artemis II … “for all humanity”!

Well, except that you wouldn’t have violence-prone cult followers to sic on the physicists who you disagreed with.