MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged Conspiracy theories about the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting have ramped up in recent weeks as once steadfast Trump supporters turn on the president.

Conspiracy theories about the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting have ramped up in recent weeks as once steadfast Trump supporters turn on the president. www.wired.com/story/maga-i...

Bob Hall, first wheelchair champion of the Boston Marathon, dies at 74 - The Boston Globe Considered "the father of wheelchair racing," Mr. Hall joined runners at the Boston Marathon starting line in 1975, inaugurating a new era of inclusion in athletic competitions.

“There was nothing, and he had a vision, and then it became something." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/15/m...

Why Is Everyone Wicked Obsessed With This Boston Globe Reporter?

Legend @emilysweeney22.bsky.social brings the accent and brings joy to all! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/s...

Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...

Brigham and Women's Hospital allegedly disposed of fetal or newborn remains against the family’s wishes five times in 18 months, according to lawsuits.

One mother said her baby "was discarded with medical waste. I will never get justice for that.” trib.al/kOjQQj6

SAY IT WITH ME PEOPLE, I-L-L!

America must not learn to live with 72,000 overdose deaths a year With the drop in overdose deaths, “we're celebrating: a death toll that exceeds total American combat fatalities in Vietnam, every single year,” writes addiction researcher Wayne Kepner.

America must not learn to live with 72,000 overdose deaths a year www.statnews.com/2026/03/09/d... via @statnews.com

"War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington -- not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict." Graduation Exercises at the United States Military Academy, 6/3/47 "Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war." Remarks at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 10/19/50 [DDE's Pre-Presidential Papers, Principal File, Box

Was browsing the Eisenhower Library site this morning trying to find a quote I remembered.

President Eisenhower, WW2 military hero:

“In my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war… none has yet explained how war prevents war.”

Why Is Soccer’s Most Famous Scoopster Doing PR Work For Saudi Arabia? From the man who brought you questionable journalistic focus on a player accused of rape, comes an outright #ad for Saudi Arabia. That’s soccer scoopster Fabrizio Romano, taking a break from many…

Why is soccer’s most famous scoopster doing PR work for Saudi Arabia?

they were afraid of him

The last good day on the internet?

A case can be made that it was February 26th, 2015, when llamas on the loose and Buzzfeed's "The Dress" debate pulled the world into a trance.

So how did the internet get quite so bad?

“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?

This is how you live a life

East Boston man was ‘so angry’ about space savers that he shoveled neighborhood himself - The Boston Globe “If you’re looking around and wondering who’s going to help, you should probably look at yourself,” Sam McGillis said.

“If you’re looking around and wondering who’s going to help, you should probably look at yourself” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/11/m...

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

My latest investigation, and first in a series for @towcenter.bsky.social
: How ‘Pink Slime’ Publishers Are Weaponizing FOIA

In the past year, we found a news-appearing network called Metric Media filed more than nine thousand Freedom of Information Act requests across all fifty states.

Washington Post Sports Department Was Among Last of Its Kind

NEW: A eulogy for The Post's sports department, which transformed the press box forever and created some of the best sportswriters in America

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People’s Choice: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 Organizers of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest are inviting the public to vote for their favorite images from this year’s competition.

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest allows the public to vote for their favorite images from this year’s competition. See some of the entries:

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Cuts 30% of Staff, Laying Off More Than 300 Employees Including Amazon Beat Reporter The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is enacting layoffs that will eliminate "hundreds" of jobs.

"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"

Fanatics Makes More Excuses Than Sellable Jerseys | Defector Like its more tangible products, Fanatics’ apologies are shoddy and practically worthless, yet Michael Rubin’s sports apparel company keeps issuing them anyway. In this latest instance, Fanatics is…

Fanatics makes more excuses than sellable jerseys:

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."

University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
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Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Live: U.S. opens civil rights investigation in Alex Pretti’s death President Trump labeled Pretti an “agitator” after new video showed the Minneapolis man clashing with federal agents.

A judge has ordered the release of Twin Cities independent journalist Georgia Fort this afternoon, rejecting the U.S. government’s claims that her allegations constitute a crime of violence that necessitate keeping her detained.

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Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon.

A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website:

www.georgiafort.com/support

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning

I was sent this video of agents at her door:

it is certainly true that Western media constantly cast doubt on the Gaza Health Ministry's death numbers, but seeing this today made me think of the Lancet study estimating total deaths in Gaza to be as high as over 186,000 that came out in *July 2024*