Buddy Guy: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

Did you get a chance to see / listen to the NPR Tiny Desk concert from Buddy Guy recently? Hell of a performance from an 89 year old.

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Trump Admin Drops the Olive Branch from U.S. Seal on New Dime Coins, Keeps the Arrows A new dime coin entering circulation in 2026 is sparking conversation after eagle-eyed Americans noticed a small but significant detail in its design

I had assumed the headline was a joke. But no.

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objection your honor, my client is being brutally owned online

Bike Route End sign

If Albert King had written “Born Under A Bad Sign” about you, what would the sign have been?

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

Self-own of the decade: BuzzFeed pivots toward AI slop, loses everything.
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How Much Did It Cost to Paint a Pompeii Room Egyptian Blue? The price of covering a room in the prized pigment was equal to between 50% and 90% of a Roman legionary's annual salary, a new study estimates.

My latest for @hyperallergic.com is on Egyptian Blue—& a new study by Mishael Quraishi which prices out the Roman cost & manual labor needed to paint the “Blue Room” at Pompeii. Shout outs & thx: @hilarybeckertxny.bsky.social , @diffendale.bsky.social , @chapps.bsky.social, @valentinadl.bsky.social!

A painting of a skeleton wielding a spear.

This lil guy is just haveing some fun

An ancient Aztec pot shaped like a crab with extremely goofy eyes and mouth.

I love it when a museum has an exhibit that's just a lil guy

Chicago wind gauge

Yet another example of his making everything he says sound like sexual assault.

Trump fundraising email uses photo from soldiers’ dignified transfer and promises ‘private national security briefings’ | CNN Politics A political fundraising email from President Donald Trump’s political action committee has a provocative pitch.

Trump tells donors they’ll receive his national security briefings in return for money: www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/p...

A little good news. Many folks fought hard to keep this mining operation from happening.

If you’re not down here and not familiar, the Okefenokee is a vast, unique, irreplaceable wilderness area in Southeast Georgia.

404 Media's @josephcox.bsky.social watched all of DOGE bro Justin Fox’s deposition from start to finish. All six hours of Fox trying to explain "DEI", how he used ChatGPT to find keywords in grants like "Black" or "homosexual," and more.

Read his full story here: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."

this means it is not open for transit

I draw how I fucking want to draw

Trump: "We're being nice. I could take out things within the next hour, power plants that create the electricity, that create the water, they have desalinization all over the place. We could do things that would be so bad they could literally never rebuild as a nation again. We're trying to be nice"

Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With

Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-questions-what-girls-were-doing-in-school-to-begin-with/

One of my favorite ways to begin a course in journalism was to start with this fact: "News is older than journalism." Or to put it another way, before we had journalism we had news.

So take a little break from the present and read my essay. "The awayness of things."

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Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

So this is a wild story but more common than it should be because of lax rules around dark money, experts tell me. Please read it! And if you know anything about Democracy Unmuted, holler at me! www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...

Mr Woke Ginger took down the video after I reached out last night. In a statement he said "Shortly after posting, I realized it did not meet the standards I’ve set for my platform." He did not clarify if he was offered payment.

Amanda didn't take the job. But some other folks might have. Here's a creator, The Woke Ginger, reciting specific attacks from the brief. He urges followers “to look past viral personalities and ask who is running and why” — a quote (see first skeet) matching a suggested quote in the brief.

And who IS Democracy Unmuted? It’s website, registered two weeks ago, seems to be a slapdash effort at a political advocacy website. It has no “about” section and no contact information. They aren't registered with IL the FEC or Secretary of State.
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So what did Democracy Unmuted want? The overview included creators urge their audiences to "look past viral personalities," and then to trash Abughazaleh for alleged shortcomings. Abughazaleh says the talking points are "false and defamatory."

A creator, Amanda Informed, was offered the money from "Democracy Unmuted." When she asked who that was, the digital marketing exec, Matt Anthes, said it was “not an official org yet,”...“individuals from the IL area who have served in the highest offices and been at top of their game in the media.”

Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

EXCLUSIVE: A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate @katmabu.bsky.social

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Hahahhahahahaha toy soldier really hopes you think the military academy is the military!

It ain’t lol

I think it’s a net positive. The dumb money is going to go somewhere now (crypto, meme stocks, prediction markets). It’s better that it gets sopped up by sports betting, which has less systemic risks. I think sports betting has played a role in the crypto crash, which is a good thing.

Trump’s military excursion, into an abyss The evident fact is that the president is nuts.

As Trump has descended into incoherence, and become nothing more than an assortment of adolescent (and frequently violent) urges, the government has been remade into a tool for the immediate satisfaction of his wants and desires no matter how absurd or nihilistic they may be, as I discuss in PN.

“The only thing prohibiting swimming on Amity beach is the deadly shark. But it is completely open for swimming should the shark stop sharking.”