Roberts put his personal judgment ahead of that of the President and Congress. The Supreme Court badly needs reform.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

“Not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.”

But the prospect of the energy industry having to spend money to go green was, in Roberts’s opinion, irreversible harm.

shouldn't be allowed to choose their own clerks, shouldn't be allowed to accept fees for speaking or prize money or awards. shouldn't be able to get book deals, etc. etc. if what you want is to be famous, well, no one is forcing you to be a supreme court justice.

Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Chat couturier, 1927, oil on canvas, 7 5/8 x 9½ in. (19.5 x 24.1 cm.), Private collection. Signed and dated "Foujita 1927" and signed again in Japanese

Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Chat couturier, 1927, oil on canvas, 7 5/8 x 9½ in. (19.5 x 24.1 cm.), Private collection

A photo of a print NYT headline saying the strait is open next to an IPhone NYT headline saying it’s closed

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz

Intelligence Is the Art of Remaining Faithful under Shifting Circumstances

TIL that “Winnie the Pooh” was translated into Latin by Alexander Kluge. The same Alexander Kluge who wrote experimental fiction and directed experimental films and might or might not be the model of the older professor in Lerner’s “Transcription.”

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Grateful for Jennifer Szalai's thoughtful read of Muskism in today's NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/b...

I think we should all start blogs again. Or online journals, even. That was a nice time. Just writing a few paragraphs about your day (don't forget to list the sad song you're listening to!) and maybe your friends will leave a comment. Then you go and read theirs and comment. It was fun.

Trying to Find the Right and True Way to Talk About Death Is Funny, by Caleb Crain We've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure

“It seemed to be a Goldilocks problem. People who had seen death up close kept their distance. And people who hadn’t yet had much exposure to it kept their innocence. I had made the mistake of understanding a little but not enough.” — @calebcrain.bsky.social

As the author of the screenshot, let me state it clearly: I do not consider myself a "bully" but if "bullying" is necessary to keep influential people from working on behalf of scams like Kalshi and Coinbase, I think it's worth the cost. Working for private enterprise is fine. Selling their BS isn't

TAPPING THE SIGN ONCE MORE

Opinion | Why Aren’t the Kids Out Protesting Against Trump?

“At No Kings 1 (June 14, 2025) the median age was 36, at No Kings 2 (Oct. 18, 2025) the median age was 44, and at No Kings 3 (March 28, 2026) it was 48. Clearly, it’s getting older.”

a clear toaster so you can see how toast the toast is

Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic

Exactly

Applying total systemic friction on the cartels. On April 13, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear

“Applying total systemic friction on the cartels.”

Orwell, Politics and the English Language:

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.

It’s lead poisoning

My brain, whenever I lean my head back into the little basin for a shampoo before my haircut: “Tumbril.”

Leo, speaking to reporters on a flight to Algeria ahead of a 10-day tour of several African nations, said: “I have no fear of the Trump administration, or speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do.” Asked directly about Mr. Trump’s comments on Truth Social, Leo said: “It’s ironic — the name of the site itself. Say no more.”

bodied

Headless, four-armed backlit creature with Statue of Liberty antennae strides toward us from the sky, in the background of Trump’s recent AI slop self-as-Jesus meme.

What rough beast . . .

Péter Magyar victory speech:

"We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others."

He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

J.D. Vance as Death going down a series of doors marked Pope Francis, Iran negotiations, Viktor Orban’s re-election and U.S. midterms.

Congratulations to JD Vance & the International Council of Nationalists for helping cost Orban the election & providing a road map for defeating our fascists at home.

If a Dem nominee won’t clean house & punish the monsters administrating concentration camps on American soil, they’re a collaborator

This is Trump’s “My Pet Goat” moment.

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Science is good. We should fund it.

This (thread) is pretty wild. (On the one hand, I kind of wish Will hadn't revealed it, since it seems like a flaw in ICE opsec that may be valuably exploited in the future. On the other hand: hahahahaha.)