The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemi… At the height of WWI, history’s most lethal influenza v…

Spanish Flu. 25 to 50 million deaths
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemi… At the height of WWI, history’s most lethal influenza v…

Yeah. There’s no way Fox-weekend-bro Hegseth ever read this book or knows the history. But man, I wish someone who has read it had his job. www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

"Let me tell you the dumbest thing I have ever thought in my entire life, Stephen Thompson said. "I believed that The Onion's great gift to society was teaching people not to believe everything they read. Can you imagine a more wrongheaded way to think about the way the internet would shape society than to think it's really great if people don't believe everything they read?"

From Christine Weng’s history of The Onion, “Funny Because It’s True.”

Howard Chaykin cover, inside art and script.

This history of The Onion also ends up being a history of the death of print media and a timeline of creative individuals mutating into online content creators. It’s great and sad.

The price of beef is massively subsidized, not least by the fact that the cost to graze cattle on public land has not changed since the 1960s.

$1.35 per cow-calf pair per month - 30 to 50 times less than market value.

If you really want to stop corporate welfare, beef prices are gonna go up.

Truth.

John Willoughby’s petition seeking compensation for the loss of his slaves

April 14, 1776: Slaves at a Virginia plantation make one of the largest mass escapes of the Revolutionary War. Eighty-seven men, women and children—the entire enslaved Black population at the Willoughby property in Norfolk County—flee to the protection of the British. 1/7

Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups

Yessssss www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.

For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.

One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

Solving the case of Orban’s electoral murder.

And he’s only seen pictures of Jesus 2 or 3 times in his whole life.

I know this one!

Congratulations to Viktor Orbán, a huge asshole loser who sucks

Special congratulations to American fans of Viktor Orbán, a pathetic gaggle of rubes, marks, dullards, and chumps

Hungary election: Viktor Orbán concedes with opposition on course for landslide election win - follow live Hungary's prime minister has been ousted after 16 years in power, with Péter Magyar set to be the country's new leader.

Victor Orban concedes! www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...

ORBÁN CONCEDED

This is beautiful.

Por que no POLLO?

Wild

Time for #LetterboxdFriday
Just out of frame of this four is Joachim Trier’s Reprise, which I loved even more than Oslo August 31st. Wish I’d liked Pavements more, but somehow it’s perfect that it’s so imperfect.
#LastFourWatched #Filmsky

Intuit solo show is a dream come true for self-taught Morgan Park artist Marvin Young. blockclubchi.co/48fqOVW

I spot that World Party track too off to the right I’d like to hear again.

"Even if you produce more oil than you consume, you still pay the same global price for oil everyone else pays & thus still suffer from supply constrictions & high prices."

This basic, elementary fact -- global energy markets 101 -- refutes basically the entire GOP energy policy & worldview.

No better cartoon soundtrack than Jonny Quest. (Orig Scooby-Doo comes in distant second)

Why wasn’t everyone using his middle name? It’s fantastic.

AND they’re from Chicago?!

I’ll live.

There is no sentence which would make me check out a band faster than that one.