billionaire: we need radical solutions for Earth Day. Think bold. Biofuels. Space mirrors. Plankton fertilization.

advisor: what about a 2% wealth tax?

billionaire: …Cloud seeding. Turbine farms in the Sahara. A Dyson sphere.

Adding “blacklisting” to the myriad reasons why we are mobilizing against the Ellison/Paramount takeover of Warner-Bros.

Is your state Attorney General joining @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov in investigating the proposed merger?

#BlockTheMerger

Why are White House journalists partying with Trump? | Margaret Sullivan The White House correspondents’ dinner has always been a questionable affair. It’s even more worrying under an anti-press administration

@sulliview.bsky.social on the WHCA dinner charade:

“Celebrating the 1A & raising $ for journalism causes is…a fine idea. There must be a better way than to rub elbows in a glitzy ballroom w/those who despise journalists &their constitutionally protected mission.”
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ALA Abroa American L Association Library Knees Champions Investing in America's Libraries FIND YOUR JOY! FIRST S Art ©2026 by Lorraine Nam from I'm So Hapov You're Here Celebrate NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK April 19-25, 2026

WORLD BOOK DAY®

Today is Take Action for #libraries Day in the US, part of National Library Week, and World Book Day. 📚

Today is a perfect to contact Congress and tell them to oppose the dangerous HR 7661 and support the freedom to read.

Letter from an English Department on the Brink | Sarah Blackwood I write to you with news about the state of the English major at one nonelite, midsize, regional comprehensive private university in New York City. At

The "death" of English departments and other liberal arts fields is not about their obsolescence but about the fact that they're being actively *killed* by institutions that don't value them on principle, not because of any evidence. Glad ppl are catching up. www.nybooks.com/online/2023/...

@dailykos.com thank you for being one of the few outlets that carry and support #EditorialCartoonists

Adding “blacklisting” to the myriad reasons why we are mobilizing against the Ellison/Paramount takeover of Warner-Bros.

Is your state Attorney General joining @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov in investigating the proposed merger?

#BlockTheMerger

News Brief: How the Right Invented - and Exploited - the In this News Brief, we talk with A. J. Bauer, assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama, about his new book,

In this News Brief, we talk @ajbauer.bsky.social about his new book, "Making the Liberal Media," and the corporate and ideological forces that shaped the popular idea mainstream media was crawling with fifth columnist agitators hostile to the values of Real America.

Why I Make Burial Urns From Prison for Veterans I want them to have something better than a cardboard box to rest in.

Why I Make Burial Urns From Prison for Veterans.

Truth Social CEO out after $1.1 billion in losses Former Congressman Devin Nunes is leaving the floundering social media network.

Devin Nunes was not an obvious choice to run a fledgling social media network, but after $1.1 billion in losses, the former dairy farmer and congressman is out as the head of Truth Social.

Charlotte gets an ‘F’ from the American Lung Association, Asheville an ‘A’ Released on Earth Day, the 27th annual State of the Air report tracked unhealthy ozone and particle pollution in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Released on Earth Day, the 27th annual State of the Air report tracked unhealthy ozone and particle pollution in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

We have an unhealthy unspoken media agreement in this country that you can’t point out that someone harbors objectively insane, delusional beliefs that should disqualify them from being anywhere near a position of power if said beliefs are colorably linkable to a mainstream religious worldview.

Trump’s FCC Wants Input on Whether ‘Transgender and Gender Nonbinary’ TV Programming Is ‘Appropriate’ for Children The FCC, led by Trump-appointed chairman Brendan Carr, wants feedback about whether the TV industry's voluntary ratings need to be tweaked -- specifically with regard to how shows with child-friendly ...

Seems bad that the Trump administration is trying to use the FCC to scare media companies into actively avoiding stories related to trans people, tbh.

variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Sam Altman’s Orb Company Promoted a Bruno Mars Partnership That Doesn't Exist “To be clear, we were never approached … nor were we in any discussions regarding a partnership or tour access,” a spokesperson for the artist tells WIRED.

Imagine lying about partnering with BRUNO MARS my god. Amazing scoop.

Nothing to worry about, just the Heritage Foundation publishing an article on how the Republican Congress can refuse to seat Democrats www.heritage.org/election-int...

On today's Stop the Merger press call opposing Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, @bedoyausa.bsky.social explains the many ways the acquisition can be blocked.

"Shareholders aren't voting on a done deal... There's every reason to believe that CA State AG Rob Bonta will intervene."

Post from headquarters news.bsky.social with video from Tucker Carlson and the text “Tucker Carlson: I'll be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. We're implicated in this. I misled people.”

if you post this clip, you should also post clips from the same episode of him saying the 2020 election was stolen, the civil rights movement was “disgusting,” and trump can’t be racist bc he has sex with black women.

tucker didn’t have a change of heart over trump; he had a change in strategy

A microcosm of America in 2026: “Who killed the Florida orange?”

Masterful journalism & a must read by @alexsammon.bsky.social
“…private equity, Wall Street, the Great Recession, suburban sprawl, climate change, an addiction to Monsanto's glyphosate. All swallowed the mighty Florida Orange alive.”

WSJ article about Trump's Freedom 250 v. America250

🧵 This WSJ article omits two key points about Trump's Freedom 250 v. bipartisan America250:

1. Senators led by Sen. Adam Schiff launched an investigation into Trump's Freedom 250 over fundraising

2. Trump's Freedom 250 is a Christian nationalist hijack of America's birthday

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Supreme Court arguments make it clear that FCC fines are "nonbinding" FCC tells Supreme Court its fines are nonbinding unless a jury upholds penalty.

wireless carriers are likely to be let off the hook for years of spying on your daily sensitive movement data, then selling it to any nitwit with two nickels to rub together

#EarthDay @laurielipton.bsky.social

The world is at this madman’s mercy His ego got him in and it prevents him from leaving.

The Iran war is about oil, but for Donald Trump, it's a war for an even more precious resource, narcissistic supply. He has to best Obama's JCPOA, but he can't because he sends flunkies instead of diplomats. So, we're stuck.

My latest for the @editorialboard.bsky.social.

NASA kills future x-ray mission $1 billion AXIS proposal fell victim to agency upheaval, principal investigator says

Just found out that AXIS has been disqualified as 10% over budget.

Nothing to do with 20 staff lost to White House cuts, 6-week gov shutdown, moves to kill the Probe programme.

The science was never reviewed.

This is the result of political chaos.

www.science.org/content/arti...

#astro

My Press Freedom lecture in the Netherlands highlighting the role of editorial cartooning & satire in democracy

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/my-press-f...

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

King County assessor in hot water after social media post King County Assessor John Wilson faces two charges of violating a court order in relation to an allegation of stalking from his ex-fiancée.

Hey, @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social you literally GOT this story from me. I broke it days ago on Bluesky and then on my own website, PubliCola. THE POST WAS DOWN BY YESTERDAY. I RAN INTO YOUR REPORTER WHO THANKED ME FOR BREAKING THIS NEWS today. Give my independent outlet credit immediately.

Still holds. #TrumpIsUnfit and legacy media is failing to communicate this.

2 weeks ago there was a nonzero risk of using nuclear weapons on Iran.

We’re just moving on…

She raised concerns about her company's contracts with ICE. Then she lost her job Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

Trump extends ceasefire with Iran, says blockade ​of Iranian ports will continue | CBC News U.S. President Donald Trump said he is extending the ceasefire with Iran to give its leadership time to "come up with a unified proposal."

The headlines are saying “Trump extends ceasefire,” but here’s a reality check: The U.S. military blew a hole in an Iranian tanker 2 days ago, with the ceasefire supposedly in effect. Trump follows the rules when he feels like it.

Life Under Israeli Occupation in Syria's Quneitra Over a year after the fall of Assad, foreign forces have pushed past the 1974 buffer zone, where residents describe raids, checkpoints and a fragile accommodation

NEW: In Syria's Quneitra, Israeli soldiers raid homes, set up checkpoints and shoot cattle. Residents describe a fragile accommodation and a government in Damascus that lacks the means to push back, reports Anagha Nair for @newlinesmag.bsky.social . newlinesmag.com/spotlight/li...