To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First. New estimates based on location data from Meta reveal a picture of humanity in motion.
‘60 Minutes’ Calls Out Paramount for Executive Producer’s Exit in Rare On-Air Rebuke; Has ’60 Minutes’ Run Out of Time? Shari Redstone’s Big Decision. The Paramount mogul is stuck in the middle of an impossible choice. Fight djt and blow up her $8 billion Skydance deal, or cave to the president and torch the most valuable news property in her media empire. Tick, tick, tick…
RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Fraserherman: Why, yes, diversity is a plus.
In April in years ending in 5
1775: Ride Paul Ride – The 2025 Showdown between Patriots and Loyalists
1865: Lincoln assassination, end of the American Civil War
1925: The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was published, and Art Deco hit the international stage
1945: Hitler dies
1975: On April 30, “the city of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, was taken by the army of North Vietnam, ending the conflict that had grown out of the Vietnamese war for independence from France and a proxy war for the conflict between the US and the Soviet Union.”
1995: The bombing in Oklahoma City on April 19 killed 168 people. There was a woman I knew who worked for an SBDC in OKC. Her building was right across the street from the Murrah Building. She suffered severe injuries from flying glass and other items that acted as shrapnel. She wrote a very moving story about her recovery the following year, which I published in a newsletter. Another aftermath story, about forgiveness, I wrote about here.
The usual weird stuff
Three R’s: Resist. Rebel. Rebuild.
The US intensifies its crackdown on peaceful protests. Forty-one anti-protest bills in 22 states have been introduced since the start of 2025, according to the law tracker.
DEI Programs Are Lawful Under Federal Civil Rights Laws and Supreme Court Precedent
Pope Francis shames the crap out of JD Vance in final acts on earth; Pope dies at 88
A whistleblower’s disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
Team That Investigates Line-of-Duty Fire Deaths slashed; cuts will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.
US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts
Law Firms Made Deals. Now He Wants More From Them
Environmental rollbacks would boost pollution and endanger lives
FOTUS Demands Investigations Into Negative Approval Rating Polls
Hegseth blames the ‘deep state’ for his being so bad at his job
DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY. IMPEACH. HIM. AGAIN.
FOTUS, dementia, and the duty to warn
Also
Space Monsters #1 Kickstarter: “An all-new horror/sci-fi/fantasy magazine in a cool new format! The initial 200 copies will be serial numbered on the back cover.” by FantaCo Enterprises LLC
A collection of Street Academy of Albany / Harriet Gibbons High School yearbooks
From the Books: John Feinstein’s Where Nobody Knows Your Name
Careless People, Sarah Wynn-Williams’s tell-all memoir about her years running global policy for Facebook
Wink Martindale, Prolific Game Show Host, Dies at 91
Will Hutchins, Star of ABC’s ‘Sugarfoot,’ Dies at 94
Jane Fonda is Far from Finished with Fitness or Activism
Metonymy and metalepsis are two concepts that explain how we use substitutions in our speech.
Now I Know: Ben Franklin’s One Simple Trick to Save Sailors from Drowning and Maybe There Is an “I” in “Team” and The Childhood Terror That Turned Kind Of Nice and The Fashion Accessory That Prevents False Alarms and The Church of the World’s Oldest Tennis Ball
MUSIC
Traficano Rap – J Noa, LOWLIGHT
Streets of London by Ralph McTell
Tubthumping -Chumbawamba
Coverville 1530 The ABBA Cover Story V and 1531: The Buzzcocks Cover Story
Love In Real Life – Lizzo
Pump It Up -Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Annabel Lee – Sarah Jarosz
Purple Haze – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Party at Ground Zero – Fishbone
A garden of flourishing paths by Jeffrey Mumford
We Are The World -USA for Africa
How ‘Star Wars’ Is Changing Its Tune
Trimmer 
Unmade beds and overdue books: Photographing the 
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