Spike Lee at the knicks game with a Pope Leo jersey is a chefs kiss 🧑‍🍳

Louder for the people in the back

The best antidote to hopelessness apathy and loss of any imagination of what may be possible is to heal within and recognize your own worth and value and your internal personal power and clarity of mind!

Self love self empathy self trust self compassion!

Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates.

Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them.

The system is rigged.

Oil spills from the Iran war are visible from space | CNN Satellite images show oil swirling in the water after Iranian and US-Israeli strikes on oil facilities and ships. Experts fear an environmental catastrophe

I legitimately don't have words.

www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/c...

his speech cadence is a bit like Obama’s

I’m so sorry Imani & wish I could help ease the grief - the loss is humongous but the love lasts forever 💕

Paris

Thank you @crawjill.bsky.social for this beautifully jarring version of all the things:

“Who among us will relinquish false certainty & exclusive righteousness to allow each other to exist unencumbered and even to thrive? Is justice possible? I hope so, fear not. It would have to be for everyone…”

“If Republican leaders are willing to enable Trump's autocratic enthusiasms in return for oligarchy, American democracy will die." - @hcrichardson.bsky.social

How Finland Nearly Ended Homelessness (Housing First Works) Finland's Housing First program cut homelessness 70%+ since 2008 — no rehab required, no conditions. Here's exactly how it worked and the real results.

Finland’s “Housing First”: Instead of requiring ppl to solve their problems before getting housing, it provides permanent housing 1st w/out preconditions.
It’s abt changing perspectives, prioritizing human dignity & proving that long-term solutions are possible.” positivity.org/good-news/fi...

“We need a cultural reset on so many levels. And if we don't start thinking about it that way, then we will just revert to what everyone knows because that's the comfortable thing, even though it wasn't working and it's what got us here.” - @sifill.bsky.social

a comforting cooking community thread

“These findings clarify how racial categories are socially constructed and why that construction carries real political and social consequences.”

“Public space doesn’t just support individual wellness. It democratizes it, making the infrastructure of a healthy life available to everyone regardless of income…The communities that invest in civic infrastructure aren’t just more livable. They’re more affordable.”

“The new system advances prefabricated Eames buildings from prototype to product. Not a facsimile or collector’s edition, but a fully engineered architectural ecosystem. The Eames houses – many of them unbuilt – were always milestones & prototypes for such evolution.” - Eames Demetrios

Yeah, I was inadvertently signed out & sign in failed for 30 minutes

“Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability.”

That part! Everything from documentation to compliance mechanisms to whistleblowing is a threat.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

The Shadow Docket began with Justice Robert’s memo to thwart Obama’s Clean Power Plan addressing climate change, thus revising centuries of Supreme Court practice www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated.”

—Justice Robert H. Jackson, Chief American Prosecutor, Nuremberg, 1946

3/3
Ignoring or dismissing won't make this end.

"He has said that Adolf Hitler is 'awesome,' that most Black people should be imprisoned, that 'organized Jewry' has corrupted society and that women should be locked in 'breeding gulags'

Not what the fossil fuel oligarchs had in mind, exactly. But very, very nice.

53% complete www.project2025.observer/en

“…would silence Truth’s voice are more destructive by far. It is most perilous to be a speaker of Truth. Sometimes one must choose to be silent, or be silenced. But if a truth cannot be spoken, it must at least be known.” -
Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

“Truth is dangerous. It topples palaces & kills kings. It stirs gentle men to rage and bids them take up arms. It wakes old grievances and opens forgotten wounds. It is the mother of the sleepless night and the hag-ridden day. And yet there is one thing that is more dangerous than Truth. Those who…

“…I am not sure why our Court sees fit to intervene in this case, let alone to do so summarily…Even if I would have assigned more heft to a particular
fact… I would not word-smith a lower court…this is not a worthy accomplishment for the unusual step of summary reversal.” - Justice Jackson

excellent explanation (w/receipts)

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Yes & the questionable serviceability of social climbing reproducing blind social hierarchies