We're not most adverse to "screen time"—our kid watches some TV every day—but we were uncomfortable with how much he was put in front of a device in school, for learning, for testing, and for entertainment in class.
Appreciate Molly Worthen here @nytimes.com:
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...
Touching short conversation between a church organist and his childhood organ teacher. storycorps.org/stories/play...
All I need is Jason Mantzoukas and Hank Green being silly and affirming my night owl tendencies.
ht @saracress.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruuy...
"secret"
The ornaments were found on Christmas trees that were turned in for recycling after the holidays.
via Cincinnati Public Radio
as big a global design legacy as anybody you can name
"Despite other research showing the rise of news deserts and the decline of legacy news media, news consumers struggle far more to make their information diet manageable than they ever worry about decreasing access to news."
From research on next gen news habits:
www.next-gen-news.com/insights
"What better time than now to adapt into a business with a sketch of a prehistoric bird as a logo?"
charlotteoptimist.com/what-comes-a...
Sad day at Washington Post: After decisions which cost thousand of subscribers and led to an exodus of talent, the newspaper is laying off 1/3 of its staff across ALL departments, eliminating its sports department and cutting down foreign coverage. DETAILS: loom.ly/XlcRvuQ
Past visa suspensions have always included a blanket exemption for adoption visas, Trump’s latest freeze does not.
Instead, visas will be reviewed case by case.
"Sometimes it feels as if all of society is a vast battleground between the forces of dehumanization on the one side — rabid partisanship, social media, porn, bigotry — and the beleaguered forces of humanization on the other."
David Brooks's farewell column:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...
Lede of the week:
“The moderator of r/catbongos, an 800,000-member subreddit devoted to videos of people playing their cats like drums, never posted about politics before Saturday. But after watching clips showing Border Patrol agents killing...” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Retired judge, now a World Relief staffer
“Mutual hatred is a national wound that we will have to work to heal, and that will require letting go of who we’ve become. It’s the only way forward for all of us.” - @esaumccaulley.bsky.social in the New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...
"How nice is it to wear jeans to church?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUsW...
Without a doubt
Nigella Lawson, the British author and cooking personality, is joining “The Great British Baking Show” as a judge, the series announced on Monday. She replaces Prue Leith, who announced her departure this month. nyti.ms/4rjDQJk
Absent from protests, some Twin Cities churches are nonetheless mobilizing quietly to help foreign-born neighbors—delivering food, driving kids to and from school, committing to assume parental rights if the worst happens. Great dispatch from my colleague @emilybelz.bsky.social
Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
Tonight I tried to blow out my laptop like it was a candle.
GOODNIGHT TIME FOR BED 🫠🫠🫠
If it doesn't add to the piece it takes away from it!
“It’s amazing what cutting a bad sentence will do. Or taking out a bad paragraph. Cutting is essentially a kind of sculpture. It reveals the face inside the piece of rock.” - James Magnuson
tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/8064561...
“The way that people interact with each other has been changing dramatically and becoming much less face-to-face, which is sort of a requirement for violence, right?”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
A good explanation of the current turmoil in the Anglican Church in North America: "there’s a sense of distrust on all sides." religionnews.com/2026/01/16/a...
With this one I'm struck not just by the highlighted error, but also by the fact that the sentence laboriously works its way to correcting the searcher's impression (?) that a previous Pope Leo (c. 1900 at the latest) would have been a critic of the Trump administration?
