Tootfinder

Beautiful type talk by Kimya Gandhi (motaitalic.com) full of amazing Devanagari letterforms shaped by history, culture, and context. 🤩 #btconf

Heute wirklich nur Birdern zu empfehlen.
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/06/26

Play Shuffalo: Friday, June 26, 2026
Play The New Yorker’s daily anagramming game by unscrambling the letters to make a word—but every time you do, an additional letter gets added to the set.

ES S
DIED YOU

On the ongoing collapse of the United States and US science and engineering: Trump has terminated several members of the independent National Science Board https://www.engadget.com/science/trump-has-terminated-several-m…

Trump has terminated several members of the independent National Science Board
The Trump administration sent letters to several members of the National Science Board, informing them that their positions were "terminated, effective...

Sorry, but I just had to do it. 🤭
https://science.nasa.gov/specials/your-name-in-landsat/?img1=h_0&img2=u_1&img3=m_0&img4=a_2&img5=n_2&im…

Here we go 🖤 #btconf

The title of this letter gives a flavour of what the UK looks like from the outside:

"Can post-Brexit Britain become governable?"
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/06/23/whether-post-brexit-…

Can post-Brexit Britain become governable?
Good luck to Andy Burnham in trying to find a path that has eluded the last five prime ministers

April 25, 2026 -- Tonight the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-25-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260426/p39#a260426p39

I came for the dick jokes, but it turned out to be a depressing treatise about our surveillance capitalism hellscape. Damn it @… .
[I wrote this toot out before I got to the last line of the blog post.]

Wherein we have a gallery of dick pix
When people sign their names on the point-of-sale tablet at the bar, at least half of those signatures are "wavy horizontal line". Most of the rest are an attempt at an actual signature, but probably only about 1 in 1000 of those have anything in them that you would perceive as letters, or in fact, writing. And about 1 time in 100, the customer draws a little picture for us instead. So I ...

Wordfeud got even harder now

#caturday

Same. I plan to continue my subscription as additional donation.
When propaganda and hate is free, it's important to make good journalism accessible to everyone.
#Utah #Utahns #NoPaywall…

Post updates (a bit behind):
• https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-know-what-just-dont-split-words-into-letters.html#Update03 linking to Donnie D’Amato and Den Odell.
•

You Know What? Just Don’t Split Words into Letters
This is an unplanned part two for Barriers from Links with ARIA. The title reflects my exasperation because this isn’t new, I’ve simply failed to be explicit about it over the last decade or so. In 2012 I vented about TypeButter using for each letter. In 2020…

In Rogue-FP on Steam, EVERYTHING is made of letters. When you kill a monster and come back later, there will often be flies (capital 'F' letters) flying around the remains 😂
#Rogue #Steam #SteamDeck

EU project proposals have become a bureaucratic endurance test.
The application process is painfully long, the evaluations often opaque, and rejection letters can feel almost dismissive. Even when a proposal succeeds, far too much of the budget disappears into compliance, coordination, reporting, controls, and audits.
When roughly 60% of resources go to administration rather than impact, something is fundamentally broken.
Europe cannot afford to turn innovation into paperwo…

We're in a cafe, and someone is wearing a t-shirt that reads "GAYTRIOT" in colorful letters. 🥳🏳️‍🌈👕

#TuneTuesday

LETTERS by BiSH
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

Caroline Lucas here is saying what's missing from most current Green Party messaging.
Leaders must be honest about the likelihood of collapse.
For Keir Starmer to talk of national resilience and ignore nature is absurd | Climate crisis | The Guardian

#StandUpForScience

Playing with improvising some sanquhar-style patterns in the round (so I don't have to do purls), and decided to turn it into a sock for my lovely Zoom L6 portable mixer. #knitting

HUD workers say Trump admin is violating civil rights law : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-s1-5780859/hud-employees-trump-policy-protest-letters-website

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If you like my work, Support by buying me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal #filmphotography

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Ardeo Quartet and pianist Barry Douglas
At the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Ireland, the Ardeo Quartet performs Janšček's String Quartet no 2 'Intimate Letters'. Barry Douglas plays Schubert's Piano Sonata no 16.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xnd8

Insights from my latest piece of workplace research are now available to download from:
https://ais-interiors.com/the-space-between/
"The Space Between" explores the question whether office design has changed due to the Covid-19 pandemic (or do we simply work different…

Some historical documents from 2009 for #TextureTuesday... A high-res render and some detail crops of the award-winning generative typography & branding system/application I designed & developed for the DECODE exhibition at Victoria & Albert Museum London (one of the largest group shows the V&A had organized and curated in a few decades, and which later traveled to other m…

Three little kids from our neighbourhood were selling bracelets (two girls, one boy, just to break any stereotypes) and now I have the coolest wrist (well, I think so anyway) ✨
#bracelets #bray #ireland

It looks like the "Christian" politicians I OK, allowing this happen, seem to have confused the behavior of the inquisitors of the Spanish Inquisition with Christ's teachings.
Smething about the devil quoting Scripture to his own ends?
‘It’s torture’: prisoners’ letters expose subterranean Oklahoma ‘dungeon’ known as the tombs

It looks like the "Christian" politicians I OK, allowing this happen, seem to have confused the behavior of the inquisitors of the Spanish Inquisition with Christ's teachings.
Smething about the devil quoting Scripture to his own ends?
‘It’s torture’: prisoners’ letters expose subterranean Oklahoma ‘dungeon’ known as the tombs

I hate NPR's weekend edition puzzle. Sorry Will Shortz, but it's bad. It's always the same kind of thing: take a word, do stuff with the letters, find another word, blah blah.
Does he think that manipulating words and letters is the only kind of puzzle?
The classic Car Talk puzzles, Many were somehow about cars, but didn't require any kind of extensive mechanical automotive knowledge. They also had many other kinds of logical puzzles -- prisoners and hats puzzles…

At the scale of the French National Audiovisual Institute, standard fuzzy matching created more noise than answers. So the team did something unexpected: they looked back decades to ancient phonetic algorithms to solve a very modern problem.
Join Pietro Mele and Radu Pop to find out why "sounding right" beats "spelling close", especially for languages like French, where silent letters and homophones make spelling a guessing game.

Elections coming up, including local elections here in the town I go for shopping.
The Republican candidates have “NO DATA CENTERS” written in big letters on their political signs.
Everyone hates AI and big tech.

Through Their Eyes
From battlefield artefacts to fragile letters, museum collections and recorded histories, we follow the threads that connect individual lives to larger moments around the world...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/throug

Just passed a "FOG AREA" sign with the letters faded

I've been wondering: will future historians have more public records to go through, or less? It's fascinating to read through letters and telegraphs of Albert Einstein, yet I wonder whether our digitized world will leave the same trace. While on the one hand public figures share a lot more personal information on the internet, which will always be preserved through articles, replies, screenshots etc., chat conversations, which somewhat replace letters, are encrypted, often with disappearing …

#Wordle 1,804 5/6*
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WordleBot
Skill 61/99
Luck 35/99
I was running out of letters.
Looking at the 4 words left, the answer was a lucky guess, because it left a group of 2 for the 6th guess if it was wrong and there was another option that would have left only 1 word.

RE: https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound/116804001517308051
What can this blind recipient of a Nanochap Electronics retinal implant do that she could not have done with The vOICe vision BCI?
(YouTube, 2010) Hearing letters with The vOICe

Every sign has a story

Did you know that "TOYOTA" is comprised entirely of letters that are symmetric about the vertical axis?
There's a dealer near Seattle that has huge 3D letters on the sign that you can see from both directions. But when you're across the highway it says ATOYOT instead.

#Memphis #Tennessee

Datini Letters. Geospatial Explorer
Francesco di Marco Datini's merchant correspondence network
#history

Regolamentazione Criptovalute: Arriva la stretta del "Customer ID" per le Stablecoin
Le agenzie di regolamentazione bancaria statunitensi (tra cui Federal Reserve e FDIC) hanno formalmente richiesto feedback pubblici su una proposta politica per imporre requisiti rigidi di identificazione dei clienti (CIP) agli emittenti di stablecoin utilizzate per i pagamenti. L'obiettivo è parificare le crypto-valute stabili alle banche tradizionali nel contrasto al riciclaggio e ai fi…

10 years #Prince

Patience, my friends.
Shuffalo, 29m 41s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/06/23

Play Shuffalo: Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Play The New Yorker’s daily anagramming game by unscrambling the letters to make a word—but every time you do, an additional letter gets added to the set.

#Shitpost #Shitposting #Babylon5

A Russian drone strike damaged part of the Centralized Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facilityin the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone overnight on June 7,
Ukraine's state nuclear operator Energoatom reported.
The attack comes amid growing concerns about nuclear safety in Ukraine,
as Russia continues to strike infrastructure tied to the country's energy system and nuclear sector

Ukraine war latest: Chornobyl's spent nuclear fuel depot hit by Russian drone
Editor's note: Got an opinion on anything you've read in the Kyiv Independent so far? Send it to letters@kyivindependent.com, and it may appear in our Letters section. Key developments on June 6-7: * 'Sky-high arrogance' — Russian drone strikes spent nuclear fuel depot in Chornobyl * Zelensky confirms another drone strike on St. Petersburg Oblast ahead of Putin's economic forum finale * Bridge linking Crimea to southern Ukraine damaged in drone strike, Russian occupation official says *…

April 22, 2026 -- Virginia voters yesterday agreed to a constitutional amendment ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-22-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260423/p20#a260423p20

"The Uniform Code Council requires that there be a period after each letter in U.P.C. because the letters UPC (without periods) is the trademark of the Universal* Plumbing Code." ☝️
[Nelson, Benjamin (1997): Punched Cards to Bar Codes. A 200 Year Journey with descriptions fo over 260 codes. Helmers. Page 85.]
* Uniform, not Universal. 🧐
https://

#Hiring for a #journalism assistant and got way too many applications. Too many cover letters have the same exact format, with bullet points summaries in the middle.
Is this how #AI writes cover letters?

May the Lord God give each one discernment and wisdom to seek in the Sacred Letters the nature, way, and steps of salvation.
#gospel

Avoid men in tactical gear with the letters ICE on them.
#AdviceToAliens
#HashTagGames

(LinkedIn) Blind recipient of retinal implant from Chinese company Nanochap Electronics identifies letters on second day of testing, 2 weeks after surgery, after 15 years of blindness from RP (retinitis pigmentosa) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/retinitispi

Der Guardian über das Liebesbrief-Archiv (https://liebesbriefarchiv.de/):
Sixty thousand love letters and counting: volunteers help sift through vast German trove of devotion | Germany | The Guardian

"precarious?"
"yo!"
"did you take the whole building down, too?"
"how else were we supposed to remove the letters?" #TOTDenthusiastsunite

#Wordle 1,803 4/6*
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⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 0 of 96 (14)
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WordleBot
Skill 85/99
Luck 51/99
As a 4th guess I didn't think as much about trying it as I would have as an earlier guess with fewer letters eliminated. And it turns out it was the only option anyway!

This performative display of faith by professional athletes, paired with sensation-hungry media coverage, is a double nuisance. The former is over-staged, the latter simply excessive. And I say that as someone who belongs to a church. I miss when faith was a side note and a private matter. Can we please drop the religious spectacle and focus on the sport?
#WM2026

Bumsrakete Exploit.
And Comic Sans Cruelty
#freebsd #exploit

Halfway through this paper that I’m reviewing appears an AI-generated diagram of the system the paper describes. The authors are transparent about it, but what do I make of this?
I’ve got to admit, this annoys me more than I expected.
Even if we assume that the diagram is structurally correct, the text contains the typical genAI artifacts (mashed-up letters, misspellings, etc.) that one wouldn’t accept in the main text—so it’s simply sloppy. What’s the point!?

Halfway through this paper that I’m reviewing appears an AI-generated diagram of the system the paper describes. The authors are transparent about it, but what do I make of this?
I’ve got to admit, this annoys me more than I expected.
Even if we assume that the diagram is structurally correct, the text contains the typical genAI artifacts (mashed-up letters, misspellings, etc.) that one wouldn’t accept in the main text—so it’s simply sloppy. What’s the point!?

Halfway through this paper that I’m reviewing appears an AI-generated diagram of the system the paper describes. The authors are transparent about it, but what do I make of this?
I’ve got to admit, this annoys me more than I expected.
Even if we assume that the diagram is structurally correct, the text contains the typical genAI artifacts (mashed-up letters, misspellings, etc.) that one wouldn’t accept in the main text—so it’s simply sloppy. What’s the point!?

This. 🤘
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rmplvmo2uq2mlth23rqhgcvx/post/3mlm5vkk2xk2v

aron (@adler.dev)
few people know that just like 3.14159, LGBTQIA is actually just the first few letters of what's actually an infinitely long nonrepeating sequence

Hantaviruses, which belong to the Bunyavirales order, replicate and transcribe their genome in the cytoplasm of infected cells. So Hantavirus already won’t enter the nucleus, and Ivermectin, an anti-parasite substance, won’t do much of anything to a virus.
“…orthomyxoviruses replicate and transcribe their genome within the cell nucleus, whereas bunyavirus genome replication and transcription occur in the cytoplasm.”

Letters to Sen. Ed Markey: six autonomous vehicle companies say remote assistants don't directly control vehicles; Tesla says its operators are allowed to do so (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-says-its-robotaxis-are-sometimes…

Tesla Says Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Driven by Remote Humans
The electric-car maker says it happens rarely and at speeds below 10 mph. But the disclosure—in response to a US senator's questions—occasioned a call for more transparency.

After spending the last few weeks watching the #Artemis live stream, I brought the family to Huntsville, AL and the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. I went to Space Camp and Space Academy when I was a kid, so this whole place is a core memory for me. Time to geek out!
#usspaceandrocketcenter

The GUARDIAN:
"After erecting scaffolding on Friday evening, workers in hard hats and hi-viz vests draped tarpaulin over the temporary structure at 2am to block public views of their progress but were seen, through a small opening in the scaffolding covering, to be removing the letters at about 3am."

April 21, 2026 -- There is the unmistakable feeling that the wheels are coming off the MAGA bus. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-21-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p50#a260422p50

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Today in Apple Autocorrect Sucks:
Some of us like to type phrases, clauses or words in all capital letters on occasion for dramatic or comedic effect. But more than once have I typed DONT or DON’t despite don’t.
1/7

Kris van Rens at @… "The XZ Utils backdoor -- Digging into a major cybersecurity incident"
After skipping very quickly through the technical section during the talk because of time constraints, afterwards Kris gave an interactive session on the technicalities for a handful of interested people. Lovely! Also: food for thought.

A group of Democratic senators
and one Republican, as well as two Democratic House committees,
sent letters Monday to the National Science Foundation
asking it to reverse course on its plan to dismantle a sprawling ocean monitoring network,
with House lawmakers going further and accusing the agency of acting illegally.
The Ocean Observatories Initiative is a network of more than 900 ocean sensors built at a cost of $386 million.
Over the last decade it has…

Lawmakers push to stop Trump dismantling of ocean observatory project
Lawmakers are demanding the National Science Foundation stop dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a $386 million ocean monitoring network being wound down under President Donald Trump's administration. House Democrats on two committees call the action illegal. Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley says he's drafting legislation to freeze the removal of instruments until a full scientific review is completed. The National Science Foundation directed the removal of most of the system’s instru…

Through a portal on 419 East 6th street in Manhattan, a traveler crosses into the parallel world called Sunset/Sunrise, to search for a lost treasure.
https://www.worldofawe.net/

I forgot I sent a letter to the editor of the Irish Times on Thursday: they printed it
#mastodaoine
https://www.irishtim…

If we are serious about rural regeneration then build housing estates, not one-off homes
Building individual houses leads to ultra low-density suburbanisation, not revitalisation

The President and his lickspittles in Congress are introducing legislation to shield fossil fuel companies from liability for their intentional and knowing actions to emit GHGs, fully aware of the damage, destruction and death that would cause.
Please, if you live in California, write you congress people and tell them to oppose this legislation. It's easy, I just did it using this action network link:

Tell California Congressmembers: No Immunity for Big Oil
As climate disasters like wildfires, floods, and heatwaves grow more extreme, communities around the country are seeking to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable. The State of California and eight local municipalities in California are currently suing Big Oil companies for climate damages. Big Oil companies have known for decades the harm their products would cause to the global climate, yet have continued to lie to the public and policymakers to delay climate action for their profit. …

The President and his lickspittles in Congress are introducing legislation to shield fossil fuel companies from liability for their intentional and knowing actions to emit GHGs, fully aware of the damage, destruction and death that would cause.
Please, if you live in California, write you congress people and tell them to oppose this legislation. It's easy, I just did it using this action network link:

Tell California Congressmembers: No Immunity for Big Oil
As climate disasters like wildfires, floods, and heatwaves grow more extreme, communities around the country are seeking to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable. The State of California and eight local municipalities in California are currently suing Big Oil companies for climate damages. Big Oil companies have known for decades the harm their products would cause to the global climate, yet have continued to lie to the public and policymakers to delay climate action for their profit. …

April 20, 2026 -- Late Saturday evening, Josh Dawsey and Annie Linskey of the Wall Street ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-20-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p58#a260421p58

Does Pride still matter in #Utah? Yes! Because the #utpol #GOP won't stop, so the public needs to counter them with the reality that we support our families, friends, and neighbors at every turn.

Posted my #job listing a week ago.
- Within 24 hours, got 50 applications, more than >50% from just one country, along with more than 80 LinkedIn friend requests, unsolicited messages.
- The next few day, got a bunch of AI-written cover letters, including several with the same exact line.
The last three days - zero applications from that country, zero AI applications.

Shuffalo, 2m 05s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/17

Play Shuffalo: Friday, April 17, 2026
Play The New Yorker’s daily anagramming game by unscrambling the letters to make a word—but every time you do, an additional letter gets added to the set.

"Senate and House Democrats sent letters Thursday to more than a dozen recipients of Trump pardons and commutations, opening a formal investigation into whether the clemency was driven by “pay-to-play dynamics.”"
BREAKING: Trump's Pardons Under Investigation, Hantavirus Outbreak Spreads, DOJ Investigates Insider Oil Trading, and more...
https://www.adamkinzinger.com/p/breaking-trumps-pardons-under-investigation

Letters: House Homeland Security Committee and House China Select Committee are probing Airbnb and Cursor maker Anysphere over their use of Chinese AI models (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/29/2026/house-committ…

Exclusive: House committees probe Cursor parent, Airbnb over Chinese AI
Lawmakers’ concerns revolve around the national security risks of sharing wide swaths of data and information with AI companies in China.

The summoning circle worked!

Erik Spiekermann was right, of course.
#typography #design #graphicdesign #quotes

#Wordle 1,801 5/6*
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🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 1% of 89 (12)
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 14% of 7 (1)
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟨 1% of 3,839 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 72/99
Luck 36/99
Was grasping at straws for my 4th word. Just started putting in letters and seeing if they'd be accepted as a word. Didn't really think the one I got was a word.

May 17, 2026 -- Thousands of people gathered today on the National Mall in Washington ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-17-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p23#a260518p23

Shuffalo, 5m 45s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/15

Play Shuffalo: Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Play The New Yorker’s daily anagramming game by unscrambling the letters to make a word—but every time you do, an additional letter gets added to the set.

I was feeling iffy on my #creditunion after they did the bait and switch with a "high-interest" savings account (rapidly dropped the interest rate after a few months). Also found the non-stop life insurance promo letters annoying.
But them charging me a $50 fee for not closing a CD account within a tiny window, and refusing to waive the fee despite me being just a few days late, …

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering plans by the start-up
💥Reflect Orbital
to illuminate parts of the Earth at night using reflective satellites,
as well as applications from
💥SpaceX that could dramatically expand satellite numbers in low Earth orbit.
“The proposed scale of orbital deployment would represent a significant alteration of the natural night-time light environment at a planetary scale,”
said the presidents of the Europ…

This morning, after a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect Thursday ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-17-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260418/p25#a260418p25

After Trump's Attack on Pope Leo, a Bomb Threat Came for His Brother in Suburban Chicago (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/after-trumps-attack-on-pope-leo-a
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p71#a260416p71

Shuffalo, 13m 59s
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/13

Play Shuffalo: Monday, April 13, 2026
Play The New Yorker’s daily anagramming game by unscrambling the letters to make a word—but every time you do, an additional letter gets added to the set.

A part of the Atlantic Ocean, just south of Greenland and Iceland, has been cooling off while the rest of the world gets hotter.
This enigmatic patch is often referred to as the "cold blob" and scientists have been trying to figure out the mechanisms behind its cooling.
While some studies have blamed increased heat loss at the sea surface,
others suggest weaker currents are bringing less heat to the area.
Now, a new study, published in Geophysical Research…

Atlantic 'cold blob' caused by weakening ocean current system that's likely nearing a tipping point, reanalysis finds
A part of the Atlantic Ocean, just south of Greenland and Iceland, has been cooling off while the rest of the world gets hotter. This enigmatic patch is often referred to as the "cold blob" and scientists have been trying to figure out the mechanisms behind its cooling. While some studies have blamed increased heat loss at the sea surface, others suggest weaker currents are bringing less heat to the area. Now, a new study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, provides additional support f…

April 16, 2026 -- Congress is back in session, and there is a frantic feel in the air. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-16-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260417/p46#a260417p46

April 13, 2026 -- On April 12, the day of Hungary's parliamentary elections ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-13-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260414/p33#a260414p33

April 12, 2026 -- By the end of 2024, inflation in the U.S., which had soared in the aftermath ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-12-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260413/p39#a260413p39

MAGA Religious Leaders Dedicate and Bless 22-Foot Golden Trump Statue at Doral (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/maga-religious-leaders-dedicate-and
http://www.memeorandum.com/260509/p30#a260509p30

May 9, 2026 -- If you google the history of Mother's Day, the internet will tell you that Mother's ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-9-2026
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April 9, 2026 -- The ceasefire President Donald J. Trump announced Tuesday night fell apart almost immediately. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-9-2026
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The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentagon-threatened-pope-leo
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