Oldest known recording of a whale song could unlock mysteries of the ocean Researchers say the discovery of the oldest known recordings of whale sounds could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate.

A haunting whale song discovered on decades-old audio equipment could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate, according to researchers who say it's the oldest such recording known.
https://to.pbs.org/47yOAfc

Can we just have health care

I just taught several chapters in my history of US foreign policy class and can attest that it is prescient and an important read for our moment (plus the students appreciated it)

josh’s comments here get at the truth of the trump cuts: democrats can’t just turn funding streams back on when in power. the infrastructure has been badly damaged—we’ll need a wholesale reimagining and reinvestment in the reconstruction of public media (as well as all our other public institutions)

The Delphic Oracle told King Croesus of Lydia that if he attacked Persia "a great empire will fall."

He saw this as a prediction of victory and attacked.

It was his own great empire that fell.

Stanislav Petrov, 'The Man Who Saved The World,' Dies At 77 Petrov was on overnight duty in 1983 when computers indicated the U.S. had launched a nuclear strike against his country. He had only a few nerve-jangling minutes to act.

I drank a toast to Stanislav Petrov.

Opinion | It’s Not Trump. It’s America.

Brilliant. Best columnist at her best. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

Important CFP!
Peace in the Age of Forever Wars @ Temple University, April 3-4, 2026. I will be there.
challengingwar.com/spring-2025/

Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.

Looking forward to reading it!

Chicago Is Pushing Back Against Trump The spectacular repression of ICE is leading ordinary residents of the Windy City to protest and activism

Danny Postel shows how The Trajectory of Trumpism is being actively resisted today in Chicago:

newlinesmag.com/reportage/ch...

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

The Making and Mourning of Ahmad Adawiya, a Musical Legend The singer was banned from the airwaves, but the humble cassette allowed him to circumvent the rules and sell directly to his audience

I just read Andrew Simon's beautiful remembrance of the great Egyptian singer Ahmad Adawiya. While paying homage to the singer, the essay is about much more--the rise of cassette culture, the need to digitize taped Palestinian music, and much more.
newlinesmag.com/essays/the-m...

Working to Rule - Unite. The union for staff at the FCA The Unite branch at the FCA will shortly be taking industrial action. So far, the following strike days have been fixed: 4 May,...

useful info from labor movements:

"Working to rule means carrying out your contractual obligations to the letter...Most importantly, it means not working any longer than you are legally required to – which means 35 hours per week for most full-time people."

unitethefca.org/working-to-r...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Chicago, baby.

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.

The Inspectors General refuse to leave until the action is taken legally, which they do not believe it was, and neither do senators like Chuck Grassley. This is what not backing down looks like.
static.politico.com/b3/3e/5baf92...

Even when silvery fish after fish/
comes back belly up, and the country plummets/
into a crepitating crater of hatred, isn’t there still/
something singing?

-Ada Limon, poet laureate of the United States

#sundaysentence