How not to display art, by Michael Govan

It's no open primaries for president.

New Haven Railroad schedule showing daily passenger rail service between Boston MA and Cape Cod. Circa 1955.

Cover of New Haven Railroad schedule effective April 1955

Daily passenger rail service between Boston, MA and Cape Cod, 1955

Note to Democrats: Stop punching left. The left is fighting mad and the words we use are "Fuck ICE" and "IMPEACH" and "SHUT IT ALL DOWN." Maybe you'd get somewhere if you used those words, too.

_"The Government’s consistent cheerleading for data centre expansion has reached a point of reckless disconnect from the economic reality of Irish citizens... Irish families are paying nearly double the electricity rates of these industrial facilities, effectively subsidizing the massive energy consumption of global tech giants while struggling with a punishing cost-of-living crisis." https://greenparty.ie/news/uncritical-expansion-data-centres-will-fuel-social-inequality-and-energy-crisis-cllr-hazel-chu

Data centres uses 32% of Ireland's total electricity supply but pay almost less than half of the residential rate. So we're effectively subsidizing tech giants during a cost of living & energy crisis. Meanwhile this Govt continues to cheerlead their expansion & continue to fail in their obligations.

Today's ignorant naysayers claim "that'd never work here!" when in fact it once did before it was intentionally dismantled for the benefit of the auto industry.

The Election Performance Index Documents a Decade’s Improvement in Election Administration The major gains have been made. The next round of improvements will be subtler.

US Election administration has greatly *improved* in the last 20 years, contrary to some national rhetoric. MIT Prof. Charles Stewart has the receipts. substack.com/@cstewartiii...

rainfall reflections, Lake Street

Can someone out there please count up all the CPAC speakers who ranted about George Soros funding left wing causes?

Be sure to take breaks and stretch every hour or two.

'He vowed to restore democratic checks and balances and said he would prosecute members of the Orbán elite who have enriched themselves.'

It is crazymaking to listen to the right claim Orban's loss means he was never an authoritarian when people in Hungary feared that opposing him would immiserate their families
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...

MARTHA DAVIS. Goodbye, Honey Goodbye. Live 1954 Performance from Rhythm & Blues Revue YouTube video by Default Name

Goodbye, Honey Goodbye.
youtu.be/npTEdrQrXdo?...

The Do Nothing, Know Nothing Party.

Don’t debate with liars. Liars love debating because they count on not being fact-checked, and know that those of us burdened with integrity and telling the truth won’t be able to keep up with their lies. If you have to debate them, don’t say they’re “wrong,” tell the truth and say they’re lying.

On 23 June 2026, Britain marks ten years since the Brexit referendum. We were promised £350 million a week for the NHS. We were promised the easiest trade deals in history. We were promised sunlit uplands.

Research now shows the economy is 6-8% smaller,

Brilliant political strategy.

BREAKING Artemis astronauts splash down into Pacific Ocean: NASA livestream

Godspeed all, Godspeed.

A sudden 10 day closure of airspace in a major US city like El Paso should be THE STORY, with nothing else getting any air time until at minimum someone within the US government says what’s happening and why.

It barely even registers on CNN’s site. It’s literally the last item before the page ends.

A quick hello and happy weekend! Making my way back *very* slowly… 🌻

Charles Burchfield, Moon Through Young Sunflowers (gouache, pencil, and watercolor on paper) (July 1916)

I'm going to refer to it as 'Bland Army Plaza' if it ever gets built.

'The lady doth protest too much, methinks'

Wise words from Spain's Prime Minister: “The momentary relief cannot make us forget the chaos, the destruction, and the lives lost. The govt of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket. What is needed now: diplomacy, international law and PEACE.”

Reality (Trump pulled out of deal then started war AND got crushed) is very anti-Trump, so Corporate Media says both sides claim victory which is neutral but massive pro-Trump-bias v. reality

Reality (Biden did necessary & messy thing in withdrawing from Afghanistan) is neutral, so Corporate Media

In 1991 a 'single house' in Charleston South Carolina painted in historically approved house paint in a camouflage pattern. For more description click link to the article.

'The pair ended up painting the outside of an old house in colors approved by the city’s Board of Architectural Review — but in a camouflage pattern, which was hardly what the preservationists had in mind.' #painting #architecture www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/a...

There it is—Dated Brent (i.e., spot) crude hits $144.46/bbl, a new all-time high.

Too bad there are no architects, firms, in the UK anymore, it seems.

One of at least three railways providing passenger rail service between Chicago and the Twin Cities.

We've gone backwards. Look what we had.