“Within a week she seemed back to normal. What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain, poised to exact a terrible toll years later…. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”
For @slate.com & @economichardship.bsky.social, I reported on how chaos and changes surrounding SNAP benefits are taking a toll.
People described endless fear and worry over feeding their kids, where their next meal will come from, and whether SNAP could become even more difficult to access.
Tomorrow marks 10 years since Prince passed. For the first time, I gathered nearly two decadesq of my writing, podcasts, talks & more into one curated resource, including playlists, rarities, a review of every video he ever made, and collaborations I did with his estate. anildash.com/2026/04/20/p...
It’s 2026 and this still looks like the future.
I want a house with a sleeping porch.
JUST IN: The Shreveport, Louisiana, gunman was the father of seven of the eight children he killed, police said. He also shot their mother and another woman.
YALL.
There is a charitable organization in Chicago that donates books to women’s prisons. My boyfriend introduced me to it!!!
Yall support!! This is AMAZING. Women’s prisons do NOT get anywhere near the donations men’s do. That’s why my own organization exists.
LINK HERE: www.cbwp.org
BREAKING: Eight children were killed in an "extensive" mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, police say. The suspected shooter is also dead.
This was 2010
A blonde Shania Twain sings into a red microphone while wearing a cunty little sparkling red, off the shoulder, bodysuit.
Five years later, I saw her at Madison Square Garden.
Anyway, through the show I got to watch her go from struggling to singing a note to singing alone with her son to singing with a band. All while falling more and more in love with her new partner and healing from loves lost. I watched her ride horses down a beach. And I got better too.
Listen. I was near rock bottom, the O network premiered, I needed inspiration. Lucky me, there’s a whole show with Shania Twain! Also me, totally unprepared for the lore and open expressions of pain. That man broke her so bad she literally couldn’t sing anymore. It was psychosomatic. Her voice 😭😩
Anyway, being blocked by somebody never made me sad because I only ever got blocked by people I didn’t want to see.
That last one…whew. We’d been friendly for a bit, but most of our conversations centered around the last person who betrayed her, and there was always a new betrayal. By the time she accused me of betrayal (for canceling a lunch), I was more relieved than concerned, happy to go our separate ways.
The only two people who I knew blocked me on the other site were William Shatner (because I worked at BuzzFeed) and Roland Martin (I made fun of his ascot). There was a third person, but I only knew she blocked me because people sent me screenshots of her saying I’d been “cosplaying” her life.
What sweet sleepy baby 🥹
I don’t take my dog everywhere, but….i wish I could.
Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.
“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”
www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
I do this too!
I find Ben McKenzie’s career trajectory to be unlikely and inspirational.
A photo of Bill Nye speaking outside of the Capitol
Bill Nye and hundreds of Planetary Society members are heading to DC on Monday to protest the White House's proposal to slash NASA's science budget in half.
These cuts were announced as the Artemis astronauts were on their way to the Moon:
"He helped start so many careers in comedy and meant so much to so many, but to me he was just Dad. The most incredible man to ever be in my life."
As fans and fellow broadcasters paid tribute to Bob Kevoian Friday night, the former "Bob & Tom Show" co-host's son shared what his dad meant to him.
a longer read, but will written and worth the time
Britons aged over 65 now spend a record three hours and 20 minutes a day online, and are slipping into radicalisation
partly the platforms and algorithms — but feeding on real world issues of isolation, fear of irrelevance, yearning for community
Prosecutors say they will now weigh whether to bring criminal charges against the 21-year-old alt-pop artist, who was arrested Thursday on suspicion of killing 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. https://cnn.it/3QL3ppk
Florida seeks to bar undocumented immigrants from attending state colleges www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/04/16/f...
This is a big one. Stellar reporting from Sarah Fitzpatrick. To call it a must-read is an understatement: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Thanks @cbo.bsky.social for this review of THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME! To be read by a peer like this is an honor!
"Instead, the reader is given a project that sings both the radio hits and the deep cuts of physics, set to an instrumental of different scholarly contexts, disciplines, and inspirations."
you are not a violent abuser BECAUSE you have mental health issues. You can be a violent abuser who is ALSO mentally ill. The mental illness is not the cause of your domestic violence.
