The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act.

Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

Glad desperate times with gut-wrenching daily news 😵‍💫 are fueling a healthy and delicious hobby!!

Hi Lisa!!! I love seeing you on here! I loved seeing you dance with Critter a few months ago & congrats to you on your wedding! Thanks from my heart ❤️ for all you do.

🇺🇸 Proud to vote 🗳️ YES in Virginia today!! 💙

Cover of “The Radium Girls” by Kate Moore

Here’s one I thought of:

Thank you for sharing this.

One of my favorite short stories (by James Thurber)

Beautiful!!!

I’ll never forget watching Ben Vereen (as Judas) going up, up, up into the rafters on that noose. Chilling.

I will now sing “One Night in Bangkok” for the rest of the evening . . .

I saw the original Bway production with Ben Vereen in the lead!

Beautiful!!

Pope James David Vance the First The vice president has decided he’s a more accomplished theologian than Leo XIV.

Vance has now seized the top seat in the Death of Expertise Hall of Fame: He has lectured the pope—the pope, the leader of a billion and a half Catholics—about being too sloppy with theology.

The queen of all vices: Pride.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Oh man

Bluesky is looking for a design research contractor

big plus if you know Bluesky well

who's the best design researcher you know? nominate them (or yourself)

Texas

Just start with “Howdy!” (After a 36-year stint in Texas, I’m allowed.)

Thank you. I don’t think ANY reporters should attend.

I’m afraid to ask: where does the grease go after the batter is poured into the Bundt pan and baked??

Editor’s note: If you plan to solve the Sunday Crossword in this week’s New York Times Magazine, you will find that the answers will not fit. After the issue had already been printed, we discovered that there was an error with the solvable grid of the Sunday Crossword. A corrected version of the puzzle can be found on Page 25 of Sunday’s daily New York Times. We sincerely apologize for the confusion.

PSA: Your sneaking suspicions about the crossword are, for the one and only time in your whole life, correct!

Some respectful hope here...

Kamala Harris!!!

So many women were coming out of getting their pictures taken with Kamala Harris tonight wiping tears from their eyes. The white men who run journalism and report on elections simply do not understand what Kamala Harris means to millions of women.

"You're just voluntarily complying with this whimsical cosplay" -- holy shit, Tim Kaine is *demolishing* Russ Vought

Police say former Virginia lieutenant governor, wife dead in murder-suicide Police in Virginia say Justin Fairfax, the state’s former lieutenant governor, shot and killed his wife and then fatally shot himself.

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
-Margaret Atwood

#WomenArePeople
#StopKillingUs

It’s awful when your reginos stop working

JD Vance wearing a white button-up shirt. It looks like it's a size too small for him.

"pope should stay out of politics." brother you need to stay out of a size medium

But they look sooo delicious!!

I am a New Jersey native. May the gods on high strike you dead if you call The Boss "slightly cringey."

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

"Data centers — gigawatt-sucking, pollution-spewing slop houses of mediocrity — are ravaging the environment, consuming all the water and electricity and supercharging utility bills." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...