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Just getting up.

Are we destroying a civilization this fine morning or negotiating the same treaty we tore up? is the waterway open or closed? Or all of that in the same gibbering sentence?

A stray orange cat in Thailand moved into a bar. The owners got him a QR code so that customers can buy him food and cat treats.

Aww 🥰 Dog shared his cookie with another dog while waiting at the Vet’s 💕

Trump’s fixation on White House ballroom is increasing, Post analysis finds The president has publicly highlighted his ballroom project on roughly a third of the days this year.

We analyzed Trump’s public remarks.

His focus on the White House ballroom is increasing — he’s invoked the project on roughly one-third of days this year — even as GOP officials try to steer focus to affordability, health-care costs.

@ence.bsky.social + me.

Today in the Tulips. The start of Sunday in Chicago’s South Loop.

Rewatch Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

That’s it. That’s the post.

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Ok it’s not quite the whole post. The movie doesn’t have to be based on a provable conspiracy, since those are really hard to prove, & it’s a movie with cartoons! But there’s plenty of evidence of dark money attacking public transit.

A handsome man and a beautiful dog inside a car.

When i see “we” I always mean me and my bestie…hunting for tile

McDonald's has released its fair share of memorable souvenir cups, but one that doesn't get talked about nearly enough is the Dennis Rodman Color-Changing Cups! When you filled them with a cold beverage, Dennis' hair changed colors. (1996)

Rory McIlroy had taken the best punches the Masters has thrown at him before finally getting his green jacket last year.

This year, he can focus on a small-picture process over the big-picture pain of losing, losing, and more losing.

"He's got the monkey off his back."

So who's the theocracy here?

If you look closely when you visit the Palace of Westminster, you can still see traces of suffragette protests.

Your local library could use some love. Two Rhode Islanders are trying to help. - The Boston Globe National Library Week is April 19-25. A new campaign aims to show support for libraries and librarians throughout the state.

Amid federal funding cuts and scaled back hours, local libraries could use a little love. @jdinri.bsky.social and @jesscigna.bsky.social are organizing a “Library Love Letter” campaign aimed at delivering words of gratitude and support to RI’s public libraries.
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/30/m...

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

The US used to build big things

Elizabeth Blasius: Chicago must act to protect the South Side’s midcentury modern Pride Cleaners Despite its presence in Chicago pop culture, as an icon of South Side architecture, Pride Cleaners is not a Chicago landmark.

Commentary: Pride Cleaners, located at 558 E. 79th St. and designed by architect Gerald Siegwart in 1959, was built during a period when midcentury modern design was used to capture the attention of consumers with shape and flash.

Trump’s DOGE Cuts Slashed Staff That Handled Middle Eastern Oil and Gas Crises Six months before going to war in Iran, the U.S. government cut staff that would have been central to the current situation.

NEWS: Six months before the Trump admin began bombing Iran, the Department of State fired its oil and gas experts.

State’s energy division got completely DOGE’d. And with it went the people who knew how to plan for a global energy crisis.

CONAN: “For the first time since 2012 no British people are nominated for Best actor or best Actress… a British spokesperson commented, ‘Yeah, well, at least we arrest our pedophiles.’" #Oscars

Appointee wants to replace White House columns with the ones Trump prefers The head of a federal arts commission is proposing the more ornate Corinthian style for the nearly 200-year-old columns at the building’s front entrance

For nearly 200 years, these iconic — and Ionic — columns have welcomed visitors to the White House.

Trump has privately mused about changing them to his preferred style, and now his top arts commissioner has proposed a plan to do exactly that.

With @asteckelberg.bsky.social.

1885 Minutes that Matter Join me in giving a minute or more to Goucher College!

Join me in giving a minute or more to Goucher College! #1885minutesthatmatter www.givecampus.com/s/i9ld28

Graphic with busy car congested road. Text says car dependency is the opposite of freedom. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices. Ad is from the Urban Truth Collective.

How about those gas prices? Brutal, huh?

You know what really costs us all a lot?

Car dependency.

#UrbanTruth

Denmark responded to 1973 oil crisis by reducing car-dependency. Let's do that now. - Streetsblog Chicago "The government had to introduce car-free Sundays. And then people realized that the car-free Sunday was the best day of the week."

FYI the 1970s oil crisis was the impetus for Copenhagen turning into a cycling city

Never forget, the electric car is here to save the car industry, not the planet.

Read this thread.

There's nothing fiscally conservative about sprawl. There's nothing "small government" about the costs of sprawl.

Here's a stock photo depicting both 1989's Honey I Shrunk The Kids and 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit souvenir cups... further proof that nobody could design a collector cup quite like McDonald's

Trump saluting a flag-draped casket carried by soldiers, wearing his standard ill fitting suit and a white baseball hat that says USA in gold letters visible from space

I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal.

Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit.

Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room, Pope Leo XIV’s Childhood Church Among ‘Most Endangered’ Sites for 2026 Preservation Chicago’s annual “Chicago 7 Most Endangered” list aims to sound the alarm on historic buildings and sites at risk of demolition. By spreading awareness, the organization aims to mobilize ...

Preservation Chicago’s annual “Chicago 7 Most Endangered” list aims to sound the alarm on historic buildings and sites at risk of demolition. The organization aims to mobilize the support necessary to save the threatened buildings from demolition. https://to.wttw.com/47ftzWJ

Urban Truth Collective: Straight Talk About The Joy Of Cities In An Age Of Disinformation — Streetsblog USA The Three Tenors of Urbanism explain their latest effort: The Urban Truth Collective.

PLEASE HELP US SHARE THIS: “We’ve let the lies be far too successful, and that’s significantly hurt our cities. No more.”

It’s our blunt NEW @usa.streetsblog.org op-ed sharing why we’ve created @urbantruth.bsky.social. SPOILER: We need to call out the lies and tell the truth much more persuasively!

Trump’s East Wing Ballroom Plan: See the Design See how much his East Wing ballroom design will upend the White House symmetry.

Trump’s Lopsided Vision for the White House www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The American people want affordable health care and cheaper groceries, not another forever war in the Middle East.