Virginia voters OK a Democratic effort to redraw the state's congressional map Virginia voters have delivered a significant win to Democrats, as the party aims to pick up four more U.S. House seats in the state.

Virginia voters have delivered a significant win to Democrats, as the party aims to pick up four more U.S. House seats in the state. n.pr/3OEODjt

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

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I loved Chris Bachelder’s The Throwback Special so much.

Pope blasts 'tyrants' ravaging the planet during his visit to Cameroon Pope Leo XIV has condemned the “handful of tyrants” exploiting Earth through war and greed. He delivered a peace message in Bamenda, Cameroon, amid a long-standing separatist conflict. Cameroonians…

“Blessed are the peacemakers!” he said. “But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.” (Nicole Winfield & Nalova Akua / AP)

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26% of all active sportsbook users say they have lost so much money in a single bet that it meant they would have trouble meeting their financial obligations.

Full crosstabs: www.sbu.edu/docs/default...

Poll about sports betting finds that for men ages 18-49:
• 52% have an online sportsbook account
• 35% of users have accounts with 3+ sportsbooks
• 68% of users bet at least once a week
• 36% of users have bet $500+ in one day
• 64% of users have bet against favorite team

10% of the world's oceans now protected, Everglades restoration sequestering carbon, Sussex seabed bouncing back from bottom-trawling. Three satisfying swells in a sea of uplifting stories in the this week's Fix the News.

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As Trump Rants About Birds and Wind Turbines, the World Passes the US By It’s not hard to look around America today and see signs of...

As Trump Rants About Birds and Wind Turbines, the World Passes the US By talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/as-tr...

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. T.S. Eliot. Drawn by Leonardo da Vinci. It's been his day.

It’s a sign from God.

There is no "cancel elections" button in the Oval Office, and while Trump/GOP attempts to mess with elections can potentially matter on the margins, Dem wins in state & local office help protect the next rounds of elections.

Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate

A series of disjointed, hard-to-follow and sometimes-profane comments capped by threatening to wipe out Iran and attacking the pope have left many with the impression of a deranged autocrat mad with power and revived the debate about Trump's mental health. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

Enoki Toshiyuki, Cat, 2010

Actions lawmakers can propose, roughly from most to least powerful
*Impeachment
*Pass law/override veto
*Withhold/give $
*War powers resolution
*Block nominees
*Subpoenas
*Strongly worded letter
*Tweet of concern
*Sandwich tweet that puts kernel of criticism btw slices of praise
*Silence

The man who watches Trump all day, every day Aaron Rupar spends up to 80 hours a week following the US president, from meandering speeches to impromptu press conferences. He says it’s ‘pretty bleak’

“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”

AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper-focused history The Associated Press says it will offer buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspapers and their print journalism that sust...

People should actually be very alarmed that while AP's business model is shot to bits, Americans are still very much reliant on the news it delivers. The alternatives in some cases are inferior or non-existent.
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No American is served by creating ever bigger media monopolies funded by ever more elusive foreign entities.

Tulips, roses, peonies and more, gathered in a roemer and painted by Jan van Kessel, who was born on this day in 1626.

2/2 Flowers & insects: more careful studies of nature's works by Jan van Kessel.

Georgia Army veteran deported by ICE after 50 years in U.S. Godfrey Wade was arrested by immigration authorities following a traffic stop and was deported because of minor criminal violations from 20 years ago.

Awful

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John Singer Sargent - Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885-86

Jaw dropping. Wow.

ICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy The 22-year-old wife of an Army staff sergeant came to the U.S. as a toddler. She was taken from a military base where the couple planned to live.

A U.S. Army staff sergeant and his wife arrived at his base in Louisiana last week, expecting to begin their life together as newlyweds. The couple checked in at the visitor center, ready to complete the steps for her to move into his home on the base. Within hours, ICE agents detained her.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Colour illustration featuring two girls painting a giant eagg in blue and a hippo like creature up a step ladder also painting the egg in red

Tove Jansson (Finnish, 1914–2001), Moomin and sisters Mymble and Little My paint an #Easter egg #womensart #Moomins

Happy Easter

Jacob Lawrence and the Unfinished History of American Inequality Jacob Lawrence’s art bridges past and present, illuminating migration, racial inequities, and collective resilience with striking visual narratives.

For this month's issue of Artforum, I wrote about how Jacob Lawrence's art meets our present moment www.artforum.com/features/jac...

Portrait of Albert Einstein by Leonid Pasternak, who really did know all the interesting people. He was born on this day in 1862.

Up late working? Leonid Pasternak (#BTD 1862) feels your pain. The Night Before the Exam, painted in 1895.