I immediately thought of Ecclesiastes:”cast your bread upon the water…” when I read this.

The Oval Office used to be a beautiful room. Now parts of it look like a 19th Century bordello. Countess Luann de Lesseps was right: “money can’t buy you class.”

nytimes.com/2025/04/28/art… via @NYTimes

Very good conversation with leehawkins and Martha S. Jones at the LA Times Festival of Books on Saturday. Each had done a deep dive into their families’ histories and convincingly drawn connections between the painful parts of our Black past and the pride to overcome it.

America can pay $30 million in reparations to the family of Jan 6 rioters Ashli Babbit but not the survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre! x.com/i/spaces/1PlKQ…

Can we talk about Pete Hegseth’s suits, derek guy? I keep thinking they’re too bright (the blue ones) too patterned (okay for sports coat, not suit), too tight (even for a fit body). The collars are too spread. And OMG, the flag-motif jacket linings and pocket square! Why???

Kala Anthony does a really nice job, but dammit, I miss André Leon Talley.

Lala. Sorry.

Now Leo XIV. (Oh and BTW, he’s a cubs fan…)

#RIP Joe Don Baker. Was great in ‘Charley Varrick’ and 3 Bond pics but especially so as Sheriff Buford Pusser in the smash hit ‘Walking Tall.’ “In those days, I think a lot of people wanted to take a stick to Nixon and all those Watergate guys,” he said. bit.ly/3GY0xRb

CBS used to be called “The Tiffany Network.” Shari Redstone’s interference is turning it into Claire’s. It’s a betrayal of all the excellent work the network’s staff has done over the years. Redstone should be ashamed of herself. Instead, she wants more $$$. smh.

How did the taco become as Americsn as hot dogs and French fries? On this week’s podcast on NPR's Code Switch, they talk to several experts, including taco historian Col. Gustavo Arellano who wrote the book on comida Mexicana en Los Estados Unidos podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cod…

MY LATEST ⁦Los Angeles Times⁩ COLUMNA: Trump wants L.A. to set itself on fire. Let's rebel smarter. RT, porfas! latimes.com/california/sto…

Reports say Trump just called for the Gov. of CA to be arrested…

ICE is trying to kidnap our kids! Stope these criminal animals! #laloalcaraz cartoon from 2018. Please share and support Lalo on CALÓ at calonews.com/lalodrive

“If Donald Trump gets dementia, how would we know?” MSNBC’s Laurence O’Donnell.

You lost TWO good ones—and one more.

interesting how much resentment this photo created from white conservatives who assumed that the dismantling of DEI meant elite schools would return to the 1940s

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has distributed federal funds to both PBS and NPR for decades, announced Friday that it's shutting down. The news comes after President Donald Trump recently clawed back more than a billion dollars of funding for public