Best wishes and thank you Jay for your voice and thinking across all those formats, platforms and networks.

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

Photo of a garden wall

#beauty

When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US.

When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.

U.S.D.A. Freezes Funding for Maine Amid Battle Over Transgender Athletes The administration concluded last month that Maine had violated federal law by allowing transgender athletes to play on girls’ or women’s teams.

There's a lot going on, God knows, but don't miss that the President of the United States is using the full force of the Federal government, as well as tax dollars, to punish a state because its Governor... refused to do as he instructed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

Every now and then it's nice to pick your head up from your book, reacquaint yourself with the world, take a hard pass and immediately go right back to reading. Balance is important.

Oil rig via https://mastodon.world/@davidho/113285842641216158

Cars cars cars via https://bsky.app/profile/thewaroncars.bsky.social/post/3l67gynmmae2a

Barack Obama announcing approval of the southern leg of the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline, 2012. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press

Toledo Refining Company Refinery in Toledo, OH, July, 2019. Photo by Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance.

Holy shit the government-backed weather machines are everywhere

Jerky, 7-Fingered Scarlett Johansson Appears In Video To Express Full-Fledged Approval Of OpenAI SAN FRANCISCO—In response to allegations that the artificial intelligence research organization used the actress’s voice without consent, a jerky, seven-fingered Scarlett Johansson appeared in a video...

An awful lot of (possibly?) well meaning anti-AI bills are likely unconstitutional. Two law professors explain why...