If you've ever found yourself thinking, 'That can’t be constitutional' after one of Trump’s executive orders or deportations, you're not wrong. This piece breaks down the five core constitutional principles Trump has taken a wrecking ball to, so we can better fight back against the threat he poses.

Two dolls because of one clown.

We must fight to save PBS and NPR.

What does Wi-Fi stand for?
It's not for Wireless Fidelity, it's for IEEE 802.11x Direct Sequence

Some of the other proposed names were Trapeze, WaveLAN, Skybridge, Dragonfly, FlankSpeed, and Hornet.

And none of it could be possible without Actress and Mathematician Hedy Lamarr's 1941 patent?

68 years ago today, millions of people tuned into a BBC Panorama report about a Swiss family harvesting spaghetti from trees. And many viewers believed it. It was, of course, an April Fool’s day prank.

The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.

"This photo is not a bracing reminder of the harms of colonial pasts. It is an indictment on commercial consumption practices that obscure the material and ethical conditions that make luxuries...readily available and seemingly benign."

The problem of food deserts will not be solved without the rediscovery of the Robinson-Patman Act.
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It's the insistence that "it's the most wonderful time of year" that gives me pause. Because May is pretty great.

Tarrifs never really work
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The populist parable of the Wizard of Oz
Dorothy-The American Spirit
Witch of the West-Railroad Monopolies
Witch of the East-Bank Monopolies
Scarecrow-Farmers
Tin Man-Industrialization
Lion-America's Military
Yellow Brick Road-Gold Standard
Silver Slippers-Silver Minting
Oz-American Presidents

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever.

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"It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail."

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."