Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.
ELIZABETH WARREN: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?
KEVIN WARSH: Uhm, we try to keep politics if I'm confirmed out of the Federal Reserve
WARREN: I'm just asking a factual question
WARSH: I believe this body certified the election
WARREN: That's not the question I'm asking
Could've just hired a Chief Nutritionist but no. Who is the audience??
The ones in St. Louis keep closing.
the case for strategic gerrymandering youtu.be/YgMSs_aMP84?si…
@mayorwu.boston.gov has been doing this with great results!
I think this is low. Bc self-reporting and stigma. Also awareness.
Sometimes life is so perfectly spiral.
I founded my nonprofit working with young people bc it was what my younger self lacked.
One of my former students is organizing suburban HS students in the northern Chicago burbs. One is from my fmr HS.
Which now has an Asian American studies teacher.
Currently addicted to junk food, but can try to shift one thing per meal and cut down on snacking, or replace chips with fruit
www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...
We are doomed
I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
@archive.org
I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.
blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...
Russian social media influencers are speaking out against what Putin has done to Russia. They fear this is their last chance before they lose all internet freedom in Russia.
Spain has recently outpaced the US in GDP growth, emerging as one of the fastest-growing major advanced economies. As of 2024–2025, Spain’s economy is growing at a rate over 3% annually, exceeding the US (~2%) and Eurozone (~1%) averages.
Donald is such an uninformed idiot.
Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
John Roberts’ Wife Made Millions From Bribes
Roberts accepted $10 Million in bribes disguised as recruiting fees from Law firms with cases pending before the Supreme Court.
www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...
Wait a minute...
This is reporting, not conspiracy
i am *still* struggling with having what i thought was a pretty pessimistic view of the competence of my fellow humans be revealed to be three orders of magnitude too generous.
Her dog is Lucy. Lucy and Pixie got along so well.
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Oh man, just met a lady with a dog who looks just like Pixie but 5 years older.
This was her dog's last visit to the park before being put down. Her dog is 17 and won't eat anymore.
Now walking and sniffling.
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My husband loved it. I hated it, but public health is key.
Saw 1 friend/ week, outside, socially distanced. Started forgetting some words.
But to our knowledge, we still haven't had Covid.
(Light) ribbon dance fight 😍
I am not saying the guys running OpenAI are serial killers. I'm just saying the worldview they present, and the way they talk about their own actions, reminds me a lot of one of the most iconic serial killers in the history of film.
A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."
The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.
Betty Yee has been a longtime public servant. Today, she did another service for the voters of California by dropping out of the Governor's race.
The other candidates polling under 3-5% should also drop out before the ballots go out to prevent a November election between 2 Republicans.
My hunch is there are at least 28 sitting Members of Congress who are current sexual harassers if not assaulters
nypost.com/2026/04/20/u...
In 2023, Governor JB Pritzker was joined by Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, advocates, and lawmakers at the Harold Washington Library to sign legislation outlawing book bans in Illinois.
Illinois made history as the first state to outlaw book bans once and for all.
Marginalizing people, ideas, or facts has no place in our state — and they have no place in a democracy.
This National Library Week, we continue our commitment to free thought and free speech.
the penne opticon
Anti-Data Center organizing is really ramping up especially in the South.
