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Getting ready to take our seats for a performance of PUPPET UP!

Solar panels make blueberries larger, juicier, and sweeter. (h/t @billmckibben.bsky.social)

In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and tastesIn Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above some blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and even how it tastes.www.ecoportal.net

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Justice Dept. admits Reflecting Pool renovation was flawed, drops case against former Olympian | CNN PoliticsThe Justice Department is now admitting that a Donald Trump-prompted $14 million installation of a pool lining on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping th...www.cnn.com

Bit from @scalzi.com’s THE KAIJU PRESERVATION SOCIETY that always makes me laugh: “I tried being vegan for a while, but I couldn’t live without cheese.” “They have vegan cheese.” “No, they don’t. They have shredded orange and white sadness that mocks cheese and everything it stands for.”

Downplay a book or movie: A Weed Grows in Brooklyn

Once, some 75% of its visitors were not fliers, but "Los Angeles residents, who come to the airport for the fine food and view." Now, it sits all but abandoned, surrounded by the airport's new symbol: lanes choked with traffic. Wonderful @daveschilling.bsky.social piece in @lamaterial.com.

The Neglected Crown Jewel of LAXLAX’s Theme Building was once an iconic symbol of Los Angeles’ Space Age Future. What happened?lamaterial.com

"Metric, Accuracy in Media, and the Student Free Press Association are registered as 501(c)(3) nonprofits, which are forbidden under federal tax law from engaging in election-related political activity. But these groups and the Oversight Project share the same handful of conservative backers."

How a network of pink-slime sites and conservative activists went after campus DEI.Using FOIA requests and hidden-camera videos, the groups targeted universities, leading to the firing of faculty and staff.www.cjr.org

The landmark case tested the limits of who can be held responsible for a mass shooting.

Father of Georgia school shooter sentenced to 15 years in prison | CNNColin Gray, the Georgia father whose teenage son Colt killed four people in a 2024 school shooting, was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison in a landmark case testing the limits of who can be hel...www.cnn.com

"Rosabella is more of a social media AI content hustle and AI marketing exercise than a supplement company... the same type of spam and buy-my-course to get-rich-quick strategy that we have repeatedly written about, only this time the slop is being used to shill supplements largely to the elderly."

Inside an AI TikTok Shop Slop Factory That Shills Supplements Recalled By the FDAHow a company called Rosabella used AI content to market its supplements: "If you’re trying to sell health products to a 50-year-old, well, make your avatar 50 years old."www.404media.co

CNN: European soccer governing body UEFA has voted to boycott future men’s and women’s World Cups in reaction to the global soccer governing body FIFA’s plan to inject private money into its competitions.

Hey, it’s polls wizard @aedwardslevy.bsky.social in the new @hcrichardson.bsky.social letter!

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Princess Bride - As You WishAlt: The Princess Bride: The Man in Black (Westley, though Buttercup doesn’t realize it yet) bowing to her and saying “As You Wish”static.klipy.com

Become a paid subscriber to *all* of the independent journalists I follow, not just some of them.

My concern is for his second wife and her daughter. They thought they were doing things by the book, but they’ll likely be deported, if they haven’t been already.

"Half our life in an analog world, half our life in a digital world — and an interloper, AI, which threatens to annihilate both. Which threatens, through its insertion in surveillance and weapons technology, to annihilate everything." - @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, the voice of Gen X.

QuicksandGen X was right after all.open.substack.com

"We live on a planet where the cheapest way to make power is to point a sheet of glass at the sun." - @billmckibben.bsky.social, continuing his decades of work educating anyone who will watch, read or listen about climate change and clean energy. Worth watching, and sharing.

Our last, best chance to cool the EarthWe're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...www.ted.com

Great essay by @parkermolloy.com on bad arguments that breeze right past "straw man" to "imagined person."

Imagining a Guy: Names EditionThe Post found a progressive who doesn’t exist and caught her betraying a belief she doesn’t hold.open.substack.com

"Trump's rejections came after regional offices of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and NOAA determined that the states [New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island] met government thresholds for receiving aid following a record-breaking snowstorm in February."

Trump overrode his own agencies to deny four Democratic disaster requestsPresident Donald Trump cast aside bipartisan precedent when he rejected eligible disaster requests from four blue states.www.politico.com

Listening to this on repeat as I try to make it through today: Glen Hansard's @npr.org Tiny Desk Concert.

Glen Hansard: NPR Music Tiny Desk ConcertYouTube video by NPR Musicwww.youtube.com