Found in the Densho Digital Repository
A photograph of a Japanese American baseball player at the Minidoka incarceration camp in Idaho. A row of camp barracks can be seen in the background behind the player. The photograph was taken sometime between 1942 and 1945.
🗃 #skystorians
"Our polity used to work like that. Effortless. Without thinking. Designed by some anonymous egghead in a design lab and assembled by equally anonymous workers in a factory somewhere in the Midwest...
"But now when you reach for a tissue, chaos."
I think I could work up a 700-word Atlantic piece using Kleenex boxes as a metaphor for our national decline.
"You used to be able to pull out a tissue and it would come out, no problem. But now they clump, they fall back in, forcing you to dig inside the box..."
Gift link: “Unlike essentially every other industry, tech has faced little to no accountability for its failures… When anger has no productive outlet, it takes only one unhinged person to turn it into something dangerous.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:
I think a lot of the anger over the Pitt this season is down to people assuming the writers and actors don’t intend to do exactly what they’re doing.
This is one of the best pieces of pop culture writing I've read in the past couple of years. These excerpts are great but you need to read how the build to that last one. Goddamn. Thank you @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social and @popheist.com
When you have $100 million that may or may not have been given to Jeffrey Epstein, who can say really.
WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein?
KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed
Flynn, Gregory McDonald’s less well-known creation after Fletch
Isis and the Freedom Force
The Mighty Crusaders
Dr. Solar, Man of the Atom
But that was early 90s. My bad.
Also Bonanza: The Next Generation. And there was a Route 66 reboot starring Dan Cortese of all people.
Not exactly reboots, but there were sequels to the 1950s Westerns Maverick and Gunsmoke in the 80s.
Gift link: “For the first time in France, and possibly for the first time ever, anywhere, an entire corporation had been put on trial and found criminally liable for enabling terrorism.”
A Stunning New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/o...
Catsandra was right there.
Tesla owners are starting to get fed up with the full self-driving promises:
“You want to believe that you’re not a fool.”
apple.news/ArgJdT5WlTli...
Cannot wait to see the technicolor stream of vomit that will fill the gutter outside this place.
At last, a place where you can get drunk WHILE eating Taco Bell. Genius.
Part 2 of my life as the Cancel Bear (below), plus a look at the week ahead, available now on The Data Stream. If you're a subscriber, you already have these in your inbox. Sign up here: www.thedatastream.tv/?modal=signup
If you’re still here, I’m not seeing the label.
Big-screen Columbo adaptation starring Russell Crowe?
I honestly don’t know why I’m not running a major studio.
A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.
Whatever you do,
A black and white photo of Swan.
Action Comics #252 (1959). The cover shows Superman approaching a crashed rocket as Supergirl flies out. It is their first time meeting.
Artist Curt Swan. #SupermanDay
Good lord, I am like the 17th person to make this joke.
[Werner Herzog voice]
Me too. “There’s no way they’d do this!”
Kind of a jerk move by wordle, tbh. How often do we get to use this knowledge in public?
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Connections
Puzzle #1042
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I fell for the head-fake that was designed to trap comics geeks. Don’t be like me.
