This will always be my favorite thing ever.

"While many, maybe most, people think that the price of government has gone up every year, it DOES NOT. The price of government has been essentially FLAT for 50 years." buff.ly/3D9bUEn

Time to rest. The waves will be there tomorrow.

Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.

‘S.N.L.’ Reprises the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office Face-Off nytimes.com/2025/03/02/art…

U.S. embassies will no longer publish data on local pollution levels. In many places, it was the only reliable source of such information. nyti.ms/41ityO4

DHS Begins National Registry Of Duolingo Users theonion.com/dhs-begins-nat…

Forgotten novels: "It’s likely that some of them have not been read by anyone for over a century." blog.archive.org/2021/07/14/for…

Hats off to the headline writer. nytimes.com/2025/03/16/bus…

celebrating the dismantling of the Department of Education while also misspelling the Department of Education 👍

“For years, the country’s lowest-scoring students were steadily improving on national tests. Starting around 2013, something changed.”nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/…

WASHINGTON (AP) — AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing 1st Amendment.

Some of you reading this will receive a cancer diagnosis in the next decade or so. Depending on the type of cancer you have, the research being done *right now* will determine your odds of surviving 5 years past your diagnosis. That’s what’s being put on hold right now.

Follow the research, Secretary Kennedy.

“When we erode the boundaries between the academic and the political, we ultimately harm both.” nytimes.com/2025/05/02/opi…

Superb work by Greta Kaul startribune.com/to-do-architec…

Maybe you want to at least thank your trans troops for serving their country honorably on their way out the door instead of flexing on them? Whatever the new rule is doesn’t erase their service and sacrifice.

#FFS, Minnesota Reformer. Thanks. Warning: This story contains graphic language. Blame the DFL politicians. minnesotareformer.com/2025/05/22/war…