We analyzed Trump’s public remarks.
His focus on the White House ballroom is increasing — he’s invoked the project on roughly one-third of days this year — even as GOP officials try to steer focus to affordability, health-care costs.
@ence.bsky.social + me.
This is astounding
The Art of Pretending there’s a Deal
And so it begins.
At least not everything is f*cked
In 1991, "Teen births have crashed since 1991" was literally the future headline that almost all public policymakers were going for. Teen pregnancy was considered a crisis!
The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for.
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Run the Boston Marathon? Or even just a frequent crowd member? Tell us your weirdest advice for first-time runners.
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Ah yes 6000 direct reports sounds lovely, very efficient, sir
Been busy today and legit thought this was part of an SNL cold open
I am so excited for a journalist to ask Mike Johnson if he thinks the Pope is weak on crime.
> the emperor is at war with the pope
what century is it
Of Mr. Trump’s threat “to wipe out the Iranian civilization .. The pope called the threat ‘truly unacceptable’ in remarks to reporters, and .. called those threats a ‘sign of the hatred, the division, the destruction human beings are capable of’ ..”
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The agonizing grief comes less often, but 7 years in hasn’t gone completely away.
Don’t ever feel like you’re talking too much about it. Losing a beloved parent is big. It alters us forever (there’s science I don’t remember on this).
But it gets easier to carry. ❤️
Book + Bottle in St Petersburg, Fla
“According to a national survey of American adults conducted by the University of Massachusetts Lowell, the country music icon fared more favorably than any of the other suggested figures, including all of the country’s major political players.”
interesting that when a movie with female protagonists does poorly the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists and when a movie with female protagonists is a huge hit the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists
"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope." Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war. A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic. Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"
first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note
We should be directing our ire not at the powerless staffers in a congressional office or the reporters who got the tip and didn’t pursue it but the electeds who enjoy the same level of power who might have known and did nothing
Has anything in the history of the world been rethought or canceled because girls or women “couldn’t see themselves in it”?
Misogyny makes a person very, very stupid.
A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.
There is no McTry.
More than half of Gen Z-ers living in the United States use generative artificial intelligence regularly, but their feelings about the technology are souring, according to a new survey released on Thursday by Gallup, the Walton Family Foundation and GSV Ventures, a venture capital firm that works in education technology. The percentage of respondents ages 14 to 29 who said they felt hopeful about A.I. declined sharply since last year, down to 18 percent from 27. Young adults' excitement about artificial intelligence dropped, too, and nearly a third of respondents indicated that the technology made them feel angry.
I guess what I’m saying is great consumer products don’t make young people feel anger and despair the more they use them www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/s...
Politics has unexpectedly hit a special interest of mine so here is a quick rundown on the Avignon Papacy.
Boston Globe mock front page from April 9, 2016. Date says April 9, 2017, with giant headline “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN” and “Markets sink as trade war looms.”
Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?
How in the world was this still a thing jfc
I think this is … not great?
CDC delays publishing report showing covid vaccine benefits The acting CDC director cited concerns with the methodology, but the design has long been used to test vaccine effectiveness.
"The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has delayed publication of a CDC report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half." Gift link: wapo.st/4ccudpF
Remember this Artemis image whenever something bad happens (a plane crash) and they try again to tell you it’s because of Hiring Ladies