Opinion: Alice Tan Ridley and the joy of music NPR's Scott Simon takes a moment to remember Alice Tan Ridley, who busked in the New York City subways and reached the semi-finals of "America's Got Talent."

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By: Scott Simon on Saturday, April 12, 2025

This is a dance off. If you see this, repost with a dance or get eliminated.

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

The Qiantang river's tidal bore is the world's largest and most powerful of its kind. Sometimes two tides meet together forming a shape like a cross, that can become even more captivating at sunset.

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Ripping the Headlines Today - Paul Lander, Humor Times Making fun of the headlines, so you don’t have to, like: "7-11 closing third of stores" - It will now be known as 4.8/7.1.

Extra! Extra! Latest Ripping the Headlines Today, 4/20/26 - Paul Lander - @subs.humortimes.com

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Karoline Leavitt @PressSec Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump is Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness

we've noticed and i'm glad he's getting help

May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.

My flower painting ☀️

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IN OTHER NEWS
Your Homeland Security Director floating an idea TO CLOSE CUSTOMS processing at international airports in some "sanctuary cities"
Talk about high prices & STUPID just think if international travel is halted at some of the busiest airports !
But they have money for war (source cspan)

Meanwhile Prof Tim Snyder is also issuing warnings about the same.

The TACO will backdown on Taco Tuesday.

This is gonna be worth something someday.

Final Planet of the Apes scene with half buried Statue of Liberty on beach.

Artemis II crew returning to Earth.

I really like it when Nintendo releases consoles with designs based on other consoles.

This is the Famicom version of the GBA Sp, and it’s awesome!

We could’ve had this intelligent supremely qualified leader in the White House instead of a dangerous psychopath. I’ll never regret voting for her.

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion.

If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over.

And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

Anne Applebaum on Viktor Orban: He took over the institutions one by one, using both the power of the state and money of oligarchs. He took over 90% of the media. He took over the judiciary.

He's trying to create a false picture of the worldto get people to ignore the disaster he's created at home.

Tenn. library director fired over refusal to move LGBTQ+ books to adult section A county board near Nashville voted to dismiss Luanne James, who said she stands by her decision, in the latest clash in a national debate over access to books.

“‘All I’m going to say is that I stand by my decision,’ she said…

“Much of the audience at the board meeting broke into cheers and applause after her statement.

Chants of ‘shame’ were heard as board members voted to fire her...”

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Raskin: "It doesn't give me a lot of comfort that Todd Blanche is now the acting AG. This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas."

Just my opinion, but there should be a constitutional remedy for when the President of the United States addresses the nation and everything he says is either pure lunacy, an unhinged claim or a blatant fabrication.

Just like the 25th amendment, but real.

Killer rabbits, bunny boilers and the holy hand grenade of Antioch: Easter bunny movies – ranked! From Watership Down and Fatal Attraction to Bambi and Python’s Holy Grail, rabbits are an unlikely constant in film – and often with sinister intentions. Here are the 20 best leporine movie moments

Killer rabbits, bunny boilers and the holy hand grenade of Antioch: Easter bunny movies – ranked!

Tom Johnson · Save My Beer: Industrious Revolution Labour was once an organic part of the peasant household, done in the interest of subsistence. Certainly many people in...

‘Unwaged and often unrecorded, “women’s work” has proved too difficult to measure. It is​ the great originality of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬, a research project led by Jane Whittle, to have found a solution to this problem.’

@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on medieval work.

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They look so soft and supple.

🧵I aim this humble request at Brooke!

Can you please bring back Trump’s accordion for his disquisition on the merits of the paper, and the guy who “found” the first one,👇🏽?

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Trump’s ICE airport idea came after a radio host pitched it on Fox News | CNN Business “Linda from Arizona,” a caller on Clay Travis’ conservative talk radio show, might deserve the credit or blame for ICE agents deploying to airports across the US today.

A new example of the right-wing-media-to-Trump pipeline?

"Linda from Arizona" might deserve the credit or blame for ICE agents deploying to airports today.

Within 24 hours of Linda proposing it to Clay Travis on the radio, Trump announced it was happening.

My CNN story about it:

📻❤️🤓
@brookegladstone.bsky.social
@micahloewinger.bsky.social

a polite reminder that when someone posts a quick thought, about say how much of the world a certain person is fucking up, it's genuinely not necessary to post your detailed correction that many other people are also fucking up the world!

Trump cut off mid-ramble as MS NOW's Chris Jansing despairs over claims MS NOW host Chris Jansing was irritated during a live broadcast on Monday as President Donald Trump spoke to press, cutting him off and initiating a fact-check on the commander-in-chief's comments. Trump was at a Kennedy Center board meeting with his cabinet and congressional leaders discussing a va...

MS NOW host Chris Jansing was irritated during a live broadcast on Monday as President Donald Trump spoke to press, cutting him off and initiating a fact-check on the commander-in-chief's comments.

Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

HOLY SHIT.

A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.

Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?