Lianne Kulik

SATURDAY After crafting and sending my message back to Mom and Marilyn, I looked up from the bench to the slides. the ladders. the swings. They must have adventured elsewhere. In searching for my people, I find the most beautiful reds on turning leaves. I find the fountain, soothing the soul with its drops whispering back into the lake from whence the came. I find the laughter of other children enjoying the cool breeze. the warm sunlight. the monkey bars. I find the wind pushing the water along, creating sparkling movement. ripples and light. Then. I find my people: holding hands across the bridge, taking it all in, enjoying everything they found.

Former Pentagon official warns department's dysfunction could topple Hegseth “The last month has been a full-blown meltdown at the Pentagon,” John Ullyot, the former top Defense Department spokesperson, wrote in a POLITICO Magazine opinion piece.

“The Pentagon is in ‘total chaos’ and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is unlikely to remain in his role, according to its former top spokesperson, who painted a scene of dysfunction, backstabbing and continuous missteps at the highest levels of the department.”

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

Prediction:

Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.

Heat can age you as much as smoking, a new study finds Exposure to heat can alter the way your DNA works, according to a new study. The effects could lead to long-term health outcomes.

Exposure to heat can alter the way your DNA works, according to a new study. The effects could lead to long-term health outcomes.

So excited to have footy back, just to remember I’m a #freo fan 🤦‍♀️😭😩🫠

The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy.

Nonetheless, holy shit.

What’s remarkable is that there’s hardly any real news driving this. It’s just investors belatedly realizing that Trump is who he is, and always was.

Ever wonder what happens to all of the snow that’s plowed to ensure car drivers have clear streets?

It gets piled at corners/bus stops/ crosswalks for people who 🚶🏻/🦼/🦽/🚌 to contend with.

Not great. Let’s #PlowMPLSsidewalks

(Don’t worry, I walked my bike over these piles, didn’t ride it.)

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

“I hope, Senator, after you've lost, and the Empire reigns over the galaxy unopposed, you will find some comfort in the knowledge that you fought according to the rules.” — Saw Gerrera

The jets will find every way to sabotage themselves.

Egg prices have tracked with SOTU speech lengths

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How God and good men hate so foul a liar.

Let me explain why I'm so confident that tariffs will cause higher prices.

If Ferris Bueller taught us anything it’s that you should always take a day off and that the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act worsened the Great Depression

This is Kevin and Creed. They don't know how they got in this situation, but had already decided to simply accept their fate. 13/10 for both

Yes. This is the truth. the fastest I’ve ever seen anything happen with the govt is when my grandma was contacted by social security within days of my grandfather’s passing last April.

ok but… what about the measles outbreak?

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

Call it by its name: Trumpcession

Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

when Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE last November, he said the work would be “tedious” and “compensation is zero"

now it turns out some DOGE operatives are earning six-figure salaries, one as high as $195,200, as much as a civil servant can legally make

www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

“You have no sense of responsibility toward anybody or anything. And that is a tragedy in a man and it is a disaster in president.”
– Henry Fonda, in Gore Vidal’s “The Best Man” (1964)

A movement is calling for an 'economic blackout' on Friday. Here's what to know The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.

The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.

Peloton #ForeverFreo Join #ForeverFreo on Peloton to join their community and work out with members.

For any #fremantle #freodockers fans that also happen to be on #peloton… join us! #afl #footy #foreverfreo members.onepeloton.com/tags/Forever...

Mr FREE SPEECH cancelling cartoonists

We should all be outraged that the people who have dedicated their lives to protecting and interpreting our most precious natural and historic resources are being treated so callously by our federal government. I am sick to my stomach.

Kendrick Lamar, in a blue jacket, black shirt and jeans holds a microphone on a stage high above the crowd in front of him. A headline reads: “Kendrick Lamar's Bell Bottoms Steal The Halftime Show.” Photo credit: Doug Mills/The New York Times.

Could the lasting impact of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show be the return of bell bottoms? A varsity jacket referenced his own career, and a chain inspired some questions. But the cut of his jeans was the biggest surprise of the night, writes our fashion reporter. nyti.ms/4k5sBkX

That halftime show was positively OPERATIC

Kendrick unchallenged

Canada is going to hit us with 300% tariffs now

This is my kind of Super Bowl analysis

Mahomes and Drake need to just jump ship and move to mars… they’re rich enough, they can pull it off