To Fight Heat, NYC Sets 2040 Tree Canopy Deadline, With Riskiest Areas First How the plan will be funded is unclear. The Mamdani administration has not earmarked money for its tree-expansion initiative.

trees as cooling infrastructure! this is a fascinating story from @smaldo.bsky.social:

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

Tucker’s “apology” video features significantly more condemnation of McCain for “grandstanding” against Big Tobacco than of over Iran.

He and his brother seem most angry that Trump backed the COVID vax, didn’t overturn the election or defend the j6ers afterwards, and hasn’t imprisoned his foes.

Messages tested

Message persuasiveness

The road to winning back the Biden skippers

And more importantly, I think, how to win them back:

so that’s called “social murder”

This is a horror.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Is this just them saying the movie isn’t made well or legible? Seems like a weird flex!

The Mask is Off: Major Anti-Abortion Group Calls for Arrest of Abortion Patients Students for Life says it should be "an easy vote"

It was only a matter of time: the powerful anti-abortion org Students for Life has endorsed legislation to imprison abortion patients.

The move marks the biggest shift in anti-abortion politics in decades. jessica.substack.com/p/the-mask-i...

Independent bookstores make quiet comeback as big chains dominate retail About 422 indie bookshops opened in 2025, up 31%, defying predictions of retail consolidation

"Independent bookstores make quiet comeback as big chains dominate retail"

"About 422 indie bookshops opened in 2025, up 31%, defying predictions of retail consolidation"

a woman is sitting in a taxi with trading places written on the side Alt: Jamie Lee Curtis in Trading Places. She is sitting in a cab, holding Dan Akroyd’s palm, grinning and chewing her gum.

At the start of Trading Places, Jamie Lee Curtis’s character is 24 and has saved the equivalent of $142,000. I don’t think the movie talks enough about her financial management.

Has anyone ever had Instagram delete a bunch of drafts? Were you able to recover them?

a two panel meme panel 1 - geordi signalling 'no' with the text data centres and images of data centres Panel 2 - geordi signalling 'yes' with the text "data centaurs" and a crudely edited image of the character data from star trek pasted on top of a centaur

do you ever wake up at 3am and think "shit that's a good idea, I better write that down so I can share it later on"

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

Baby elephant holds the caretakers hand while it falls asleep. 😴

two men are standing in front of a sign that says mr rental Alt: Dark Helmet and Colonel Sandurz watching Spaceballs in Spaceballs at the Mr. Rental section of the bridge. Helmet is asking “When will then be now?” and Sandurz is responding, “Soon!”

Got the Spaceballs release date years mixed when I first saw the videos yesterday and now I’m impatiently checking my watch like

If they settle, I think it's an impeachable offense for both him and the AG.

Four Democrats voted with the GOP on reauthorizing a little-known law that lets the government sidestep the Constitution and spy on US citizens.

If you’re represented by Gluesenkamp Perez, Golden, Gottheimer, or Suozzi, ask them why they’re siding with the Trump regime on government surveillance.

A high-quality photo of the wedding ring. It has an oval shaped gold in quartz in the center flanked by 2 small clusters of 3 small diamonds, with gold nuggets all along the sides of the band.

A photo of the wedding ring on my hand. It has an oval shaped gold in quartz in the center flanked by 2 small clusters of 3 small diamonds, with gold nuggets all along the sides of the band.

I just lost my wedding ring at Newark airport terminal C in the bathroom near departures when you first enter near door 3.

~10:30am Eastern Time Friday April 17th

Our flight doesn't leave until 2pm

DM ME IF YOU GET INFORMATION ABOUT THIS

@phoenix-rights.bsky.social is at lost & found now

Orbán rode to power on resentment over the economic stagnation that developed under center-left governments. But he leaves office with Hungarians facing falling wages and higher inflation than similar countries are experiencing. Orbán’s sectarianism and intolerance have sparked neither a religious revival nor a fertility bump; Hungary’s population is shrinking and has become more irreligious, even as Orbán has demonized LGBTQ people, “Muslim invaders,” and Jews. Orbánism, in short, did not make Hungarians more rich, Christian, or free—unless you happened to be one of Orbán’s buddies, in which case you may have gotten rich. As most Hungarians felt their economic circumstances worsen, Orbán provided them with relatively powerless targets to hate.

Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

An 85-YEAR-OLD woman.

Lord, hold my tongue.

Three people you don't want to get into a public beef with are Kendrick, Isaac Chotiner, and The Pope

Amid quarrel with pope, Trump strips Miami charity of funding to house migrant kids The move comes amid rising tensions between the administration and American Catholics.

INBOX: Amid rising tendons between Trump and Pope Leo, the administration has abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.

an underrated, unforgivable belief that remains prevalent among pols and normies is that a rising tide lifts all boats when it’s been clear forever that a rising tide simply drowns the people on low lying land

heated chivalry

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet:

Remember this, though: Amazon has calculated that poisoning water & making restitution payouts for sickness & even death is CHEAPER than whatever they plan to make on the Data Center.

They’re STILL gambling with human lives with impunity.

Many readers may be shocked to learn that an event largely consisting of Fireball consumption and "sexy elf" jumpsuits may not be the shining charitable enterprise it pledged to be, but warning signs did exist.

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Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865)

Columbo (1968 – 2003)