Whiplash from the happiness of seeing the Blazers win a playoff game right to anti-trans crap from Dudley. Way to kill the happy, man.

Last September, anxiety was spreading in one of Portland's most prominent scientific research operations, with rumors of layoffs on the horizon. Last week, it became official: The Knight Cancer Institute is slashing dozens of jobs. Fifty-nine people were "impacted by the reductions in force." News of the cuts, focused in the center's research operations, comes less than a year after the institute announced a mighty $2 billion windfall from the Nike fortune of Phil and Penny Knight. But leaders at OHSU, which is tied to the institute, say the Knight cash was earmarked for new programs-rather than for keeping already-existing ones afloat. Read more.

This one really hurts:

a man says ask me no further questions while wearing a blue sweater Alt: Spock says “ask me no further questions, I will not answer”

The blind spot of all billionaire philanthropists: they want to support new projects, and existing ones are expected to “become self-sufficient.” When I try to ask how we are expected to do that in a space that needs grant funding:

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

Please, vaccinate your
children. Gift link: “Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

I will riot. This was the happiest day of my school year as a book-loving kid who had an allowance and saved a little of it just for the Book Fair Day.

I’m just over here trying to protect the right NOT to have to drive in a city that already claims it’s so great for bikes and walking and transit but underfunds and dismisses all of it.

The Shreveport Mass Killing Isn’t Just About ‘Mental Health’ When a man shoots his wife and children, the term you are looking for is patriarchy.

It’s not just the men themselves killing their families. It’s the rise of the “manosphere”, it’s the suffocating patriarchy killing these families too. www.thecut.com/article/shre...

A Startup Enters The Heat Pump Water Heater Space Focused On A Smart Water Heater - CleanTechnica The heat pump water heater market is now starting to attract startups, and the first one to market is called Cala, which brought out its product late last year.

A Startup Enters The Heat Pump Water Heater Space Focused On A Smart Water Heater

cleantechnica.com/2026/04/13/a...

Where we are.

All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.

MAGA dissidents join Democrats in questioning Trump's 'mental capacity' New worries about President Trump's state of mind are being expressed openly by former allies and aides as liberal foes pounce on voters' age anxiety.

'Beyond madness' -- Foes and former allies alike increasingly questioning Trump's mental capacity. Critics point to President's increasingly unhinged rhetoric and erratic behavior as evidence of diminishing mental health, by Phillip M. Bailey www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... via @usatoday.com

Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name.

NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

Story on NYT’s Climate newsletter today: “ASK NYT CLIMATE How Can I Protect My Car When the Weather Is Scorching?”

They don’t see the blistering irony. They’re never going to get it.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Watching Timbers just now, and having the second moment of today wondering aloud “I feel like there must be something else I could do with my free time that brings more enjoyment than soccer.”

I hope to be proven wrong in the 2nd half. #rctid

Ope.

a woman is sitting at a table in a living room talking to a man . Alt: Lucille Bluth wondering how Much one banana could cost. $10?

Yes I did just spend 100$ on precisely 8 items at New Seasons. But in my defense, I had a bunch of Bottledrop cash to soften the gut punch of what two nice steaks cost now. #10dollarbanana

Illustration of a person riding a bicycle on an overpass over a highway with cars bumper-to-bumper in a traffic jam. Everything's drawn in red except the cyclist, who's drawn in black.

🎨John Bosley

Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.

I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

The Department of Energy canceled 321 grants worth $7.5 billion last October. Every single one was in a state that voted against the President. Not a single project in a red state was touched.

This week, I asked Energy Secretary Wright a simple question: why?

Another day, another round of "Am I filled with incandescent rage because of perimenopause or because of the increasing inequity and inhumanity of society"

Wright Said ‘Over 80%’ of DOE Grants Are Moving Forward. That Number Is Misleading. The Secretary of Energy told Congress that his agency had completed its review of Biden-era funding commitments.

Yep. I know from personal reviews that at least two of the grants they’re claiming are “retained” closed out over a year ago. heatmap.news/politics/wri...

April-ing! I trusted the sun and ran an errand by bike today (and experienced the phenomenon first-hand.)

This is why we need to remove healthcare from employment. This system is singularly bad.

#25thamendment

I’d keep saying 25th Amendment Now, but Vance is ALSO terrible, in his own horrible ways.

I’m only apprehensive because it’s going to probably spur the flooring update we’ve needed for years too. And paint and and and

A Big Cihill jadeite color induction stove…my dream stove.

I think our 30 year old gas stove is finally on its way out. It might finally happen — the full electrification of our house!

The Next Phase of the Immigration Crackdown Is Quieter — and More Destabilizing

In February, HUD proposed a new federal rule blocking “mixed status” families from living in publicly subsidized housing, which could cause an estimated 80,000 people to lose their homes, including about 37,000 children, nearly all of them U.S. citizens.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/m...

Years of drought has major energy port of Corpus Christi, Texas, wrestling with water crisis The Texas city of Corpus Christi is facing a severe water crisis because of a prolonged drought, and it is a threat not just to residential use but also to the refineries and petrochemical plants in a...

“But I thought climate change was a hoax,” edition #8639: apnews.com/article/corp...