‘Something is fundamentally wrong:’ Detainees start hunger strike at Pa. ICE facility A hunger strike at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, by roughly 100 people, started Thursday, April 16th.

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Iran War Live Updates: Trump Extends Cease-Fire With Iran

“I’m not extending the ceasefire!”

…extends ceasefire.

Iran War Live Updates: Trump Extends Cease-Fire With Iran www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Americans elected the only new yorker alive who has never set foot in a bodega bsky.app/profile/atru...

I want a "conference" where every academic cooks a dish for everyone and we all talk about our work casually while cooking. People can sous chef for each other. We eat and talk about our work in progress. You submit an abstract and a recipe.

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

they asked great (and hilarious) questions like, "why is trump have beef with the pope?" and "why does trump hate black people?"

i spoke to a classroom of fifth graders today about being a journalist and it was a blast. kids are great!

"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess."
A. Philip Randolph, born on this day in 1889

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

It will be extremely funny if Vance manages to get himself excommunicated before his book on becoming a Catholic releases.

A clear warning to Vance.

It’s a popular take in these parts that Platner will become a Manchin/Sinema/Fetterman if elected. For all of his faults, I don’t see this. More likely is he becomes a pretty run of the mill democratic senator who is a reliable D vote that mostly just fades into the background.

It's kind of remarkable how effective he is at bringing Europe together. From Left to Right, everyone in the EU and UK can agree... this guy is a shcmuck and we are better off without him.

It's particularly interesting to me that this story is still very much in the news.

It's a longer newscycle than these things normally get.

The balls on this guy.

Just Disappointing Vance strikes again

This is my alma mater too, and it's hard to imagine it gone. I wouldn't be who I am today without @hampshirecollege.bsky.social. Amid the broader war on higher ed, Hampshire wasn't just a bright light but a comrade to other schools that were targeted, which made me as proud as anything else about it

Had to write my first cover letter for career 2.0, and it took all my strength not to yap about archaeology exp.

Also coworkers keep strangely-cheerily saying “not anymore” when I mention being an archaeologist, and it is in my soul so deeply that I will refer to myself as such until the day I die.

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

Incredibly bad advance work.

Maybe it’s time to put an astronaut in the White House.

Breaking:

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota county investigates ICE arrest of Hmong American man as a potential case of kidnapping and false imprisonment.

I don't know why I continue to be shocked at how he can make anything about himself.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani behind the counter of a bodega in The Bronx, flanked by various people. A journalist with a microphone labeled “Shop Cats” is standing in front of the sales counter, and holding the mic up to a black and white cat sitting on the counter next to bananas. The cat has an expression like in the famous “Sir, are you aware that you are a cat” meme

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

frontal view of the house: pedimented entrance way with 5 Corinthian columns flanked by two stairways to each side, a pedimented window (12 lights) above center a dome on an octagonal based Detailed description: Chiswick House - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiswick_House#Architecture

OTD 1748 death of William Kent, great architect & landscape architect (painter, too) known for pioneering the "English" landscape garden & introducing the Palladian style to England. One of his masterpieces is Chiswick House where I spent a delightful afternoon, and would again

when does Trump congratulate Magyar? (this is a rhetorical question)

Clown show.

He definitely wants to negotiate. Trump wants a way out. But he and Vance are amateurs playing a game way over their heads. And the Iranians, despite numerous missteps, are light years ahead of this white house on basic politics. Trump and Vance will always get their lunch money taken.