Congressional Democrats say Trump tariffs will cost US households more than $2,500 this year The Trump administration is scrambling to replace the revenue the federal government lost when the Supreme Court struck down his biggest and boldest tariffs last month.

Congressional Democrats say Trump’s tariffs will cost U.S. households more than $2,500 this year — SIX TIMES MORE than their average expected tax refund increase.

speaking of voting

Colleges can convince middle and low income students to attend and take out loans by telling them that they are getting a $25,000 merit award or discount. If they just charged everyone $15,000 or $20,000 less then they wouldn’t be able to use that award/discount as a recruiting tool.

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$400M+ construction project begins soon to turn the 8 high-level boarding platforms adjacent to New Haven Union Station (the nation’s 2nd most beautiful train station) into something that looks like Paddington Station #nhv #amtrak #metronorth

Look obviously this is very bad but also I'm not so sure this poll question phrasing is giving us exactly that information...

When you add it all up, the collapse in immigration looks like this: a decline of roughly 50K for illegal (even including the people arrested and not released) and a decline of about 132K for legal. Over 70% of the cut in immigration has come from LEGAL immigration.

Applying total systemic friction on the cartels. On April 13, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear

“Applying total systemic friction on the cartels.”

Orwell, Politics and the English Language:

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

I’d like to read that after enjoying Prairie Fires and visiting the Wilder museum. Does the author note any aspects to the series that were ahead of their time or influential in a positive way? I understand the other criticisms of the story, so just curious your take on that.

Opinion | The Affordable Car Is Dead. What Happened? This is how cars got so ridiculously, forbiddingly expensive.

"for most Americans the purchase of a car has become a debt sentence... Auto repair costs jumped 15% in the last year alone. An average trip to the mechanic now costs roughly $840, an amount that 40% of Americans likely could not cover with cash they have on hand."

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump, following his unprecedented denunciation of the Pope, posts an image portraying himself as Jesus Christ.

“The race was closely watched by the Trump administration and the Kremlin, both of which wanted Mr. Orban to win and both of which offered support in his campaign.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...

JUST IN: Viktor Orban conceded his defeat in Hungary.

The far-right leader & Trump ally will no longer be prime minister.

What remains to be seen is the size of his defeat — and whether the opposition wins a supermajority to amend the constitution and reverse Orban’s rule.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

An ode to a cosmic coincidence For total solar eclipses, everything that had to go just right for us here on Earth to enjoy the view.

“Because the sun is 400 times larger than the moon is but also basically 400 times further away, they are almost exactly the same size in the sky,” he said. “When you get these chance alignments, the disk of the moon totally blocks out the bright disk of the sun.” www.wgbh.org/news/comment...

In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists.

Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.

What an Ivy League Education Really Gets You Economists have a new theory of why graduates of top colleges have so much career success.

Gift link: "Students at Ivy+ schools comprise less than 0.5% of the US undergraduate population. Yet their alumni represent more than 12% of all Fortune 500 CEOs, 32% of all New York Times journalists, and 13% of the wealthiest 0.1 percent of the population." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Designs for New York’s A.D.U.s Are Here. These Are Our Favorites.

Eleven preapproved architectural plans for ADUs could speed up construction

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/r...

#architecture #urbanism #yimby @yimby.town

GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test?

SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.

Data from https://transitapp.com/apta

Data from https://transitapp.com/apta

Since mid-Feb it looks like #transit ridership is up about 10% over prior weeks or year over year transitapp.com/apta

It would cost over $500,000,000 to replace this one airplane but there is no existing production line.

probably completely obvious but the reason Project Hail Mary is doing so well (apart from being very well made) is that it is all about problem-solving, cooperation, self-sacrifice, and forming deep relationships with those from far away. All values that people feel a desperate need for right now.

Just saw it and agree. One group welcomes immigrants at the very end, the social scientists sitting next to me said that was the least realistic aspect of the film.

A screengrab of the huge crowd at the flagship No Kings rally in the Twin Cities.

We are estimating more than 200,000 people at the flagship No Kings rally in the Twin Cities. #NoKings

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

The collapse of the DOJ continues; suggestions that they used ChatGPT or another LLM to research/write a legal brief in a case involving conditions in ICE confinement at the Whipple building in Minneapolis.

Somebody is making a fortune on the war with inside information and it is grotesquely corrupt.

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Ms. Gregory is a first-time candidate with a @columbiauniversity.bsky.social master’s degree in #publichealth

Inside the Turmoil at RFK Jr.’s CDC, as Told by Current and Former Employees Forty-three current and former C.D.C. employees on the changes they say are replacing science with ideology — and making Americans more vulnerable.

“C.D.C. appointees told us that we could not put our qualifications in our email signatures anymore. We couldn’t say if we were an M.D. or a M.P.H. or a Ph.D. Nobody explained why.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NPS to Remove a Popular, Life-saving DC Bike Lane Bicycle injury crashes along the 15th Street corridor dropped by 91% after a protected bike lane was installed.

It was over 90 degrees on the last day of winter in Colorado, but the US government is removing popular bicycle lanes www.planetizen.com/news/2026/03...