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The cover of “Cool Machine” features a smoky NYC skyline.

Hard times spreading just like the flu / Watch out homeboy don’t let it catch you

Monarch butterflies’ mass die-off in 2024 caused by pesticide exposure – study New peer-reviewed research found an average of seven pesticides in each of 10 butterflies tested

Please do not use poisons, including herbocides too. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Good trouble 🧫🧬🔬🔭🥼🧪

This is the kind of excessive force case DOJ routinely prosecutes. They should open an investigation here, based on the misconduct not the victims status.

Brad Lander, NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate, is arrested outside immigration court New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander has been arrested at a federal building in Manhattan as he was trying to accompany a person out of an immigration courtroom.

what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word

Pigeon Fest Pigeon Fest is a full-day festival celebrating pigeons, urban ecology, and public art.

If you're in NYC, come see me on Saturday from noon-5pm at the Wild Bird Fund table at PIGEON FEST!!! I'll sell/sign books and I'll finally get to bow down to the giant pigeon statue www.thehighline.org/pigeonfest/

This morning I had to catch a train. Uber was going to be a 15+ minute wait. I hopped on the T, it came within 4 minutes, and I got to the train station in less time than the Uber would have taken. God bless Phil Eng

2025: Scott Pelley - Commencement News Archive Good morning, everybody. What a beautiful day. What a beautiful North Carolina day for a graduation. Incredible. Thank you, President Wente, Provost Gillespie, members of the Board of Trustees and Kat...

CBS News anchor Scott Pelley asked all of the pivotal questions during his commencement address at Wake Forest this weekend, mainly:

Who are you?

Who are you in this moment?

Worth a read below:

Trump Republicanism at its finest.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter.

They graded it.

Bwahahaha.

Chicago says goodbye to the father of the city’s famous riverboat architecture tours Bob Irving, beloved creator of the Chicago River architectural boat tour, has died at the age of 93.

Listen: Thanks to Bob Irving, creator of Chicago Architecture Center’s boat tours, millions have seen Chicago’s skyline from the best seat in the house: the river. Irving died earlier this month at the age of 93. Reset reflects on his life and legacy. www.wbez.org/reset-with-s...

A comic called Bird Photography tips. A good bird photo shows a cape may warbler perched on a branch, with excellent lighting, subject in focus, and field marks clearly visible. A great bird photo shows the warbler in mid hop, labeled with peerless athleticism, levitation??, powerful. An excellent bird photo shows a little round warbler facing the camera, labeled borb, round, and a good bird. An exceptional bird photo shows the bird zooming forward mid flight, labeled nyooooom.

Bird photography tips, an oldie that is hopefully useful for spring migration right now.

A comic called "how to draw goose neck". In panel 1 the goose's neck is very short and is labeled "no". In panel 3 the goose's neck is the right size and is labeled "yes". In panel 3 the goose's neck is longer and is labeled "no". In panel 4 the goose's neck is extremely long and terrifyingly snakelike and it's labeled "yessss".

A comic called The Canada Goose: A Role Model For Our Time. In panel 1, the goose is labeled "assertive" and is hissing furiously. In panel 2 it's "brave" and is standing up to a fearsome swan. In panel 3 it's "good parent" and is standing up to a dog while protecting its goslings. In panel 3 it's "team player" and is flying in a beautiful V. In panel 5 there's a close up of its head and it's labeled "crisp, modern aesthetic". In panel 6 it's eating grass and pooping and labeled "high fiber diet".

There's a lot of talk about Canada Geese and whether they're good and my answer is Yes.

There are three key facts in the Holocaust Encyclopedia produced by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. This is the second key fact: What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.

This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Did…did JD Vance just break the national championship trophy?

You look sus in chalk on pavement.

Yeah, yeah we all do.

When I was in med school a nephrologist told me “the kidneys will tell you everything you need to know, but you have to speak their language - and their language is urine.” I didn’t realize this was what we were talking about.

We found the voter fraud!!!!!

Trump Pauses Some Reciprocal Tariffs for 90 Days, Raises China Tariffs to 125%: Live Updates (Gift Article) Stocks immediately made steep gains after President Trump’s reversal. But he said China would not be included, raising tariffs on its exports to 125 percent after Beijing announced a new round of reta...

I’m not an economist, nor do I play one on TV, but seems like a lot of opportunity for some folks to make money in this market. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda, said two people with knowledge of the matter.

"The DOGE team is also using the Signal app to communicate."

In other words, they're playing thought police with federal workers — while literally disappearing their own communications.

www.reuters.com/technology/a...

I kind of want to go

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The Dance of the Swans is the best thing you’ll see today

Happy Spring! 🌷

Mister Rogers and Big Bird on the set of Sesame Street. Photo courtesy: Muppet History.

Today is Mister Rogers' birthday.
Today is Big Bird's birthday.
And spring has officially sprung.

A beautiful day in the neighborhood, indeed.

Golden sunlight bursts through a tangle of budding trees, casting long beams of light across a mossy woodland floor. New green shoots push up through leaf litter and patches of moss, catching the glow of the morning sun. A soft haze fills the air, with a hint of warmth and life returning to the woods.

It's the Spring Equinox - the first astronomical day of spring! ☀️

Longer days. Lighter evenings.

Sunshine warm on your skin, birds singing, blossom in the branches.

For the first time, scientists say, they have evidence that using a biologic drug to remove sticky beta amyloid plaques from the brains of people destined to develop Alzheimer’s dementia can delay the disease.

Read more: cnn.it/4iHjzJj

This is why Canada has plenty of eggs — and the U.S. doesn't While the U.S. grapples with an egg shortage caused by avian flu, eggs remain plentiful and affordable in Canada. There are reasons for that, including that egg farms there tend to be smaller.

While the U.S. grapples with an egg shortage caused by avian flu, eggs remain plentiful and affordable in Canada. There are reasons for that, including that egg farms there tend to be smaller.

I am working out of a public library and there are a good number of people who seem to be on hard times using the facilities for various reasons like job searching, entertainment, charging peripherals, using the bathroom, etc., and I am struck by how important it is that libraries continue to exist