This girl teaching her new puppy how to go down stairs . 😍

A black and white photo of Joseph Bell with white hair looking down and reading a book, next to an original illustration of Holmes smoking a pipe.

My next book (October 20) is on the Victorian medical detective Joseph Bell. SLEUTH-HOUND is a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice and razor-sharp logic to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. /1

Caroline Kennedy tried to warn us. She knows him, so she should have been listened to.

C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines

Jay Bhattacharya pulls a study because he doesn’t like the conclusions. I cannot explain how bad this is and how it reeks of the stench of ideological zealotry and has no basis in science. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Love how those excerpts gleefully elide the "House is not a continuing body" problem. It's fine to recite that "each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members" … but when the new Congress convenes, the current Johnson-led House no will no longer sit. 🫠

Nothing to worry about, just the Heritage Foundation publishing an article on how the Republican Congress can refuse to seat Democrats www.heritage.org/election-int...

Present at our nation’s founding — but excluded from its promise Elizabeth Freeman demanded her rightful place among this country's founders and helped forge a tradition of forcing America to live up to its ideals.

“On August 21, 1781, she became the first enslaved woman to have her self-proclaimed independence validated in a court of law. She changed her name to Elizabeth Freeman to reflect her new status.” 19thnews.org/2026/04/revo...

::Stares in math::

Tim Cook's Legacy Is Turning Apple Into a Subscription The soon-to-exit Apple CEO went all in on services. Now, the incoming CEO, John Ternus, will need to embrace the AI era.

"So far, Apple’s approach to advanced AI—specifically generative AI, since Apple has wielded machine learning in all kinds of clever ways for years now—has been mystifying."

Secretary of War Pete Hegs... • © • 39m The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

General George Washington required Continental Army soldiers be inoculated for smallpox. We would not have won independence if he hadn’t.

You dumb chucklefuck.

Spanish speakers learn strategies to pass English-only driving test in Florida A new English-only driving test rule in Florida is fueling a surge in strategy lessons for Spanish speakers where they learn to figure out the questions without having to take English language courses...

Spanish speakers in #Florida learn strategies to pass English-only driving test www.npr.org/2026/04/20/n... via @davidovalle.bsky.social

If You Don’t Already Know Heman Sweatt’s Name, It’s Time to Learn It Heman Sweatt’s U.S. Supreme Court case — which paved the way for nationwide desegregation — helped me understand how personal history is.

This is the story I mention in this episode wrt Brown v Board of Education and Texas’ underappreciated history as the birth place of many civil rights battles

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Culture of silence around abortions for active-duty military intensifies, researchers say • Stateline Speaking with active-duty service members about their experiences with accessing abortion has become more difficult in the current political environment, say researchers, who also confront long-standi...

Researchers say it’s important to understand what barriers active-duty service members are facing, especially in states with bans. But they said it is becoming increasingly difficult to study because of state laws, the DOD under its current leadership, and factors that existed long before Dobbs.

Every time you think they can’t do anything stupider Kegbreath says ‘Hold my beer’.

💔

This is so monumentally fucked up on every level I feel sick to my stomach.

Saying "no man, you don't get to win this time" to evil people who have the power of the entire corrupt government behind them has to feel pretty fucking good

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Chicagooooooo let's gooooo!

Wed at 7p!

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The ICE Detention Reengineering Initiative ($38 billion to convert commercial warehouses into a network of massive detention centers) is not being built primarily by GEO Group and CoreCivic. ICE is turning to a crop of relatively untested contractors. A look at who. 🧵

Number go up Our charts tell the story of oligarchy in overdrive.

AI lobbying is skyrocketing. Meta spent more on lobbying in 2025 than America’s three largest oil and gas companies combined.

By 2030, data centers will consume as much energy as 41 million US homes.

Illinoisans overwhelmingly want to impose strict rules on data centers Sixty-eight percent polled said they'd support legislation to “regulate data centers to minimize their impact on our utility bills, climate, and water." Twenty-one percent opposed such a bill.

Illinois too -

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Yes, Israel is destroying Lebanon's breadbasket. This is why I have been saying that Israel's goal is to destroy Lebanon itself.

It’s adorable that the widely ridiculed doofus Kash Patel is working under the quaint misapprehension that his already ruined reputation can still be destroyed.

The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site with satirical echoes of the fringe conspiracy theories that Mr. Jones is known for. Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.” Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy. “I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview. During a recent trip to Philadelphia, he traveled to the Liberty Bell to film a video in character as the new creative director of Infowars.

Get excited.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

Trump prison camp federal court ruling excoriates Trump Admin for "clear failure" to follow the law "in purchasing a large warehouse in Williamsport MD built to hold cargo and seeking to quickly convert it into a detention facility to house human beings..."

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