A poster with a colorful stack of books on the left and this text on the right: “Hey, Teenagers: Pay close attention to the books people try to ban. Then, make a beeline to read those books, if you can. Find out for yourself why those people want that book banned. Find out for yourself if they can be trusted to know what’s best for you.” ~ Jeff Zentner

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK

"Hey, Teenagers: Pay close attention to the books people try to ban. Then, make a beeline to read those books, if you can. Find out for yourself why those people want that book banned. Find out for yourself if they can be trusted to know what’s best for you.”
~ Jeff Zentner

Several people with signs like this at the Boston Marathon today

Spike Lee at the knicks game with a Pope Leo jersey is a chefs kiss 🧑‍🍳

Michigan gas station clerk saves teen from alleged kidnapper after she mouths ‘help’ In Hamtramck, Abdulrahman Abohatem placed himself between 16-year-old girl and man before police arrest

Then, she mouthed … to me, like with no sound: ‘Help,’” Abohatem recounted to the outlet. He described getting out from behind the front counter’s protective glass, placing himself between the man and the girl and ordering him to leave the business.

Dilley ICE detainee at risk of death from lack of medical care, attorney says Attorneys for a family held in a Dilley, Texas, ICE facility said the family has been held at the facility for nearly a year without proper medical care, leaving them with serious health issues and th...

PLEASE CALL CONGRESS, THE SENATE & EVERYONE YOU CAN TO DEMAND THE RELEASE OF THIS MOTHER AND HER 5 CHILDREN FROM DILLEY DETENTION CENTER. IF YOU LIVE NEAR AUSTIN TEXAS PROTEST!
THIS IS A LIFE TREATING MATTER.
www.fox7austin.com/news/attorne...

DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states.

DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand.

My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases.

DOJ is now 0-5.

My firm is 5-0.

Lesson: When we fight we win.

Philosophers Among New ACLS Fellows - Daily Nous The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has announced its 2026 class of fellows, and two philosophers are among them. They are: Corey Barnes (Northwestern University) for his project, "Race’s...

Philosophers Among New ACLS Fellows

Hey, so ICE is still kidnapping and disappearing people in the United States.

Just because they got quieter about it doesn't make it okay.

Abolish ICE. Chinga la Migra.

Life comes at you fast

I love paying TurboTax a few hundred bucks every year to figure out how much money I owe the government, which the government already knows, but won't tell me because TurboTax pays legislators to keep the government from telling me. 😍

Every time someone says "I don't get into politics" it tells me who they voted for.

Abortion key safes in Malta For immediate release: April 15, 2026: <br />To call attention to the violation of women’s rights in Malta, Women on Waves has placed several abortion key safes across Malta and Gozo. The safes contai...

Across Malta and Gozo where abortion is illegal, Women on Waves has placed several abortion key safes to call attention to the violation of women’s rights in Malta. The safes contain abortion pills. Women can email WoW to get the location and code.

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚

Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

(4/20)

Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.

This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning.

Never doubt your power to change the system.

Dr. Wendy Okolo, a Black woman in a blue NASA jumpsuit, smiles for a portrait; next to it, she stands outdoors with two people in spacesuits, celebrating her achievements in aerospace engineering.

Dr. Wendy Okolo making Black HERstory. 🙌✨

Three panel comic. Panel 1: scene from the movie Aliens; Ripley is in a mech suit and delivers her iconic line: “get away from her, you bitch!” Panel 2: the xenomorph queen lunges at Ripley in the robotic suit and they engage in a fight. Panel 3: later, the xenomorph queen is standing in the shower, mid wash. She says, “‘it takes one to know one, honey.’ That’s what I should have said.”

Hungary's New PM Just Showed Us What Courage Looks Like. Where's Ours? Hypothetically, if I was elected President, here are the opening salvos of restoration

Hungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Cartoon by @dptoon.bsky.social

Release the #epsteinfiles

2 men charged with attempted murder, hate crime involving Danville alderman PARIS, Ill. (WCIA) — Two people that were arrested following a “disturbance involving a firearm,” in Paris earlier this month are now being charged with attempted first-degree mur…

3 white men in their 20s attempted to lynch 3 Black men for....fishing last Friday. The only reason it's an attempted murder charge is one of the Black men was armed and a better shot. It's not about the year someone was born, it's about the racism

www.wcia.com/news/edgar-c...

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us

"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

#sunset behind a tree! What a perfect photo!

Who agrees?

Street artist goes to town in Newtown, Sydney

Sade | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

👏 Congratulations to Sade Adu, the first British black woman to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. #MusicSky #Sade

rockhall.com/sade/