2025.04.13

[lsanderson]

Songkran: The world's biggest water fight
Lynn Brown
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250411-songkran-the-worlds-biggest-water-fight

Sit-to-stand: The simple test that reveals how you're ageing
Jasmin Fox-Skelly
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250404-sit-to-stand-the-simple-test-that-reveals-how-youre-ageing

The rise of end times fascism
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk

New books chart Biden’s downfall – and the picture is damning for Democrats
Martin Pengelly in Washington
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/13/biden-books-democrats

Mad House: new book exposes Capitol Hill’s absurdity and dysfunction
Reporters Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater shine a jaundiced spotlight on the foibles and foolishness of the US political class
Lloyd Green
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/13/mad-house-dysfunction-capitol-hill

Worried about your stock market savings as Trump tariffs wreak havoc? Don’t panic
Gene Marks
Despite the turmoil it helps to put things into perspective with a look at some fundamental indicators
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/13/stock-market-savings-turmoil-trump

Taxes
I owe, I owe, I owe, and I hope to file today.

Comments

[minnehaha]

I owe too. :-(

K.

[davidschroth]

I filed a month ago. No response yet from the feds and the state.

[lsanderson]

WoW! The Republicans are trying their best to gut the agency.

Well!

[lsanderson]

All three have responded.