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Technically, the start of the season is St George’s Day. But if the reactionary “English identity” league – the types who paint flags on roundabouts – want to claim this pastime for their political ends, they’ll have a fight on their hands.
On Morris dancing!
www.newstatesman.com/this-england...
This is why biographies & memoirs should only be books. I want to see the footnotes. I want receipts about the grudges.
Newly released documents show the Trump administration set up a legal framework allowing hundreds of millions of dollars in anonymous private donations to fund a planned White House ballroom, while limiting the scope of federal conflict-of-interest reviews tied to the project reut.rs/3OERZCT
Pay attention
The House GOP limits the # of times that a senior member can be Chair /Ranking Member of a committee. DEMs don't. You often see GOP members retire after that limit is up. Senate GOP does not & Sen Grassley is 90+.
Vote Guzman.
So many of them are just really small businesses. You don't see MDs start to unionize at any level until the switch to hospital affiliated practices really took off. Academic unionizing is easier at state schools where there are state employee unions already.
Chicago Sun-Times headline: "Gov. Pritzker bans state workers from using insider information on prediction market apps like Kalshi."
The Trump administration is full of cheaters.
We won't allow it in Illinois state government.
Happy Earth Day from all of us and the amazing photographers who submitted to our Photo Contest!
Thanks to all of you, we can see every part of our wild and amazing world.
Local group bird walks are a gateway drug to international birding group trips. You have been warned. (There are SO MANY hummingbirds in Colombia, btw.)
The first person to discover a link between increased levels of CO2 and #globalwarming was a New Yorker named Eunice Newton Foote. Read her 1856 paper, and how she went unacknowledged for more than a century, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #earthday #climatechange
'Crowds Over London Bridge' (2024) by Clive McCartney
cattogallery.co.uk/artists/clive-mccartney/
A roundup of what the Trump administration has been doing over past 2 weeks: attacks on freedom of the press, more corruption and using the State to target enemies, and leaning into the white nationalist agenda.
Subtitles available
Full tracker: www.trumpactiontracker.info
youtu.be/bgRUz3wO2wE
Thrilled to be in the forthcoming Christmas mystery anthology from Bedford Square alongside Sophie Hannah, Sara Paretsky and many more! In fact I'm in there twice--I've contributed a brand-new Spector story and I've also had the honour of translating a fabulous mystery by the great Paul Halter.
This Earth Day, we’re taking a look at the Library’s incredibly cute pocket globe collection in the Geography and Map Division. 🌎
Learn more about these tiny treasures: blogs.loc.gov/loc/2022/05/pocket-globe...
this is a cool question
How North Carolina Officials Kept the Truth About a Police Shooting Hidden
In 2019, a state trooper killed Brandon Webster claiming self defense. Evidence contradicted that account but wasn’t made public—until now.
🚨NEW @InsideElections Virginia ratings:
VA1 Solid Dem
VA2 Tilt Dem
VA3 Solid Dem
VA4 Solid Dem
VA5 Solid Dem
VA6 Lean Dem
VA7 Solid Dem
VA8 Solid Dem
VA9 Solid GOP
VA10 Solid Dem
VA11 Solid Dem
www.insideelections.com/news/article...
Look I know it's beyond old hat but I think we should never stop calling out Trump for his obvious and disgusting racism. Maybe I'm a Pollyanna in this regard, but I really believe this will matter again (...at some point)
"Vetoed and Amended Bills in the Reconvened Session The Virginia General Assembly reconvenes today to consider Governor Abigail Spanberger's proposed amendments and vetoes to bills that were passed during the 2026 regular session. This year, the number of bills with amendments from the Governor is at a record high. Compare the number of gubernatorial vetoes and amendments since 2010." https://www.vpap.org/visuals/visual/vetoed-and-amended-bills/
"The Virginia General Assembly reconvenes today...This year, the number of bills with amendments from the Governor is at a record high. Compare the number of gubernatorial vetoes and amendments since 2010." - VPAP bluevirginia.us/2026/04/wedn...
It’s his day
24 hours (and lots of ad hominem attacks against me) later, I just thought I'd post this again.
An obscene betrayal that, like all of Trump's decisions, shows utter bad faith from the US govt
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...
Whoa
SQUIRREL OF THE DAY!
SQUIRREL OF THE DAY!
FANCY MOTHERFUDGING
SQUIRREL OF THE MOTHERFUDGING
DAY!
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