Shooter at Mexico's Teotihuacán pyramid admired school shooters and Hitler The gunman who opened fire at Mexico's Teotihuacan pyramid, killing a Canadian tourist, admired U.S. school shooters and Hitler, authorities said.

grim stuff www.latimes.com/world-nation...

Key Excerpts From the Supreme Court’s Secret Memos The New York Times obtained a trove of documents illuminating the inner workings of the court as it embraced a secretive track for making major decisions.

Secret memos by Supreme Court justices, obtained by The New York Times, reveal the origins of how the court moved away from careful, time-tested procedures and toward “shadow docket” rulings on presidential power. Here are key excerpts from the memos.

This 2026 Clippers Postseason free shirt is sure to become a collectors item

When I posted this the Warriors were down 8. Still buzzing from watching that game

Dubs still got this. We believe

The U.S. continues to see massive, sustained declines in shooting deaths, according to an analysis by the Gun Violence Data Hub. In fact, the total for the first quarter of 2026 is the lowest figure in the last dozen years.

Latest story: www.thetrace.org/2026/04/shoo...

Our quarterly @thetrace.org roundup of gun violence trends finds a massive, sustained decline in shooting deaths in Q1 2026, along with relatively flat gun sales, and interesting new analyses in New Mexico and Chicago www.thetrace.org/2026/04/shoo...

Need to know why Jimmy Butler is wearing an Iowa State Volleyball shirt

Environmental group signs deal to buy Golden Gate Fields horse track with plans to create huge new East Bay waterfront park $175 million deal is “once in a lifetime opportunity” to transform track that operated from 1941 to 2024, supporters say

Pretty amazing the same site has been a wetland, cattle transfer point, dynamite factory, and racetrack. It was once the site of a planned Rick Caruso mall.

Now it'll be a park
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UCLA crushes South Carolina to win NCAA women's basketball national championship Behind standout efforts from Lauren Betts and Gabriela Jaquez, the UCLA women's basketball team defeats South Carolina 79-51 for its first national title since 1978.

UCLA crushes South Carolina to win NCAA women's basketball national championship

the honor was all mine

I had a fantastic time on the 2026 Big Walk, traversing all 14.5 miles of Santa Monica Boulevard on a spicy Sunday. My pal Pedro Moura wrote about the experience in today's @latimes.com www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...

"Daily Pick 'Em" widget shoehorned into story dealing with suicidal ideation and homophobia

Another factoid: LA County and Orange County are both in the top 50 for population density in the U.S.

Kalawao County, Hawaii - Wikipedia

The second-least populous county, Kalawao County, HI, is a fascinating place: A former leper colony accessible only by a mule trail en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalawao...

Loving County, Texas - Wikipedia

It's Loving County, Texas! Population forty-eight (still higher than its 1890 population of three) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_...

Here's a census tidbit: What is the *least* populous U.S. county?

Eagle Rock to the John Ferraro Athletic Fields

The driving vs transit time in LA is often rough, but yikes at this trip (which calls for 90 minutes of walking)

Some interesting details in this WSJ piece about megalandlord Mike Nijjar — currently being sued by AG Rob Bonta — and a Malibu home (formerly owned by Kanye West)

www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

"Mornay is one of 36 pregnant or recently pregnant women who were killed with guns between 2018 and 2024 in Mississippi, according to analysis by The Trace. Eighty-one percent of those deaths were of Black women."

Bam Adebayo scored 83 points in honor of John Cale's 83rd birthday. Inspiring

NICAR 2026 schedule | March 4-7, 2026 | Indianapolis Welcome to the NICAR 2026 schedule! Browse sessions, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors.

Big day at #NICAR26!

At 10:15 we'll be demo'ing @thetrace.org's The Gun Violence Data Hub. And at 11:30 I'll be on the panel "Connect with skeptical and disengaged audiences ... with data".

Swing by in if you're in Indy
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NICAR 2026 schedule | March 4-7, 2026 | Indianapolis Welcome to the NICAR 2026 schedule! Browse sessions, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors.

If you'll be at #NICAR26 in Indy, I'm doing a few sessions.

3/5 (Thurs) @ 11:30: Using data to find sources
3/6 (Fri) @ 10:15: Demo: The Gun Violence Data Hub
3/6 (Fri) @ 11:30: Connect with skeptical and disengaged audiences ... with data!

Hope to see ya there!
schedules.ire.org/nicar-2026/#...

NICAR 2026 schedule | March 4-7, 2026 | Indianapolis Welcome to the NICAR 2026 schedule! Browse sessions, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors.

If you'll be at #NICAR26 in Indy, I'm doing a few sessions.

3/5 (Thurs) @ 11:30: Using data to find sources
3/6 (Fri) @ 10:15: Demo: The Gun Violence Data Hub
3/6 (Fri) @ 11:30: Connect with skeptical and disengaged audiences ... with data!

Hope to see ya there!
schedules.ire.org/nicar-2026/#...

huh

Astounded to learn that Chuck the Condor is turning 10 years old

Is the Constitution ‘Dead, Dead, Dead’? | Laurence H. Tribe The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.

Was a good read, but this article from @tribelaw.bsky.social on the strange absence of the Ninth Amendment from the book also worth a look www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Wasn’t expecting several ggolot gfx to pop up in Jill Lepore’s book on the constitution