Obama is a war criminal, dude

Map of the contiguous United States showing the spring bloom index anomaly as of April 19, 2026 from the USA National Phenology Network. Many areas are earlier than normal.

Aside from Florida, nearly the entire contiguous U.S. has experienced earlier than average first plant blooms in 2026. Earlier springs can cause longer allergy seasons, accelerate wildfire risk, increase pests/mosquitoes, and lead to less reliable snow-fed water.

Map: www.usanpn.org/data/maps/sp...

Feminism makes you weak and afraid they say watching you apply concealer to your bruises

Vaccines make you sick they said coughing in your face

Anti-racism is the real bigotry they say as they pull the noose tight

Immigrants are taking your job they said while handing you your pink slip

Trans people are a threat to your children they said closing the child's bedroom door behind them

The left hates free inquiry they said as they chained the university gates closed

“socialists need to manage their criticism of Obama” but no one is telling liberals they need to manage praise of Obama to remain credible to the people who lived through his admins management of the foreclosure crisis or keeping us on fossil fuels when most people worried about climate change etc

We are continually being told to moderate our politics to remain viable within a “coalition” that represents a shrinking fraction of the country and in reality represents the capitalist class and is highly influenced by funders and consultants

It’s interesting how socialists should always be managing their politics and criticism in reference to what Democratic leaders find acceptable because they might be deemed ungettable voters when 1/3+ of the country already consistently opt out of standard bourgeois electoral politics (voting D or R)

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,

I must listen to the birds.

And in order to hear the birds,

the warplanes must be silent”

- Marwan Makhoul

In a famous paper, some economists estimated the annual value of the whole biosphere's ecosystem services at $33 trillion per year.

Michael Toman quipped that this is "a serious underestimate of infinity".

www.nature.com/articles/387...

My favorite Missourian pickle!

gonna greet my stream monitoring trainings' audiences with this

Google to tap into gas plant for AI datacenter in sharp turn from climate goals Texas power plant would emit 4.5m tons of carbon dioxide per year, more than that of the entire city of San Francisco

"Asked by Axios last week at an energy conference in Houston about how natural gas jives with the company’s clean energy goals and overall strategy, Google’s head of advanced energy, Michael Terrell, said: “We don’t have anything to say on that.”"

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

More perfect union: BREAKING: The Senate just passed the legislation allowing the devastation of the Boundary Waters. The motion passed 50-49, and now goes to Donald Trump’s desk.

Republicans just handed the Boundary Waters to a foreign corporation.

For the GOP, it’s foreign billionaires first, America last.

'hindsight is always 20/20' is actually independent of ZF. cohen showed via a forcing argument that there are choiceless models where hindsight achieves 20/n vision for arbitrarily high n

Limestone and dolomite are great and all but hiking sandstone is a treat and a half

🗺️ Watch the DESI survey footprint grow.
Each point is a galaxy or quasar helping build the largest 3D map of the Universe ever made.
DESI completed its planned survey area on April 15, 2026 — ahead of schedule.
47M+ objects mapped and counting.

A teal hour-glass shape created by dots of the many galaxies DESI observed. An enhanced inner section shows how they trace out large-scale filaments and voids.

Here's our official press release, featuring some of the graphics I worked on. I'm especially happy with this updated butterfly map.
newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/04/15/d...

Intensity as a function of frequency. A black curve rises to a peak and then falls. Error bars are over plotted and agree perfectly. The error bars look quite small but are actually magnified by a factor of 400

Tracy Slatyer reminds me it’s been 30 years since we measured the most perfect blackbody spectrum we know, the cosmic microwave background. The plot below, from @mapping3k.bsky.social, shows a 2.725 K blackbody along with the COBE FIRAS measurements … with error bars magnified by a factor of 400 🤯🧪

Headline: Why Aren't the Kids Out Protesting Trump?

"No More Trump": Protesters Denouncing the President Unite Across the Country

Near the White House, Hundreds of High School Students Protest ICE

"Protesters Denounce Trump Immigration Tactics in 'National Shutdown'"

NYT runs a nonsense op-ed by an 84-year-old man yelling at cloud about darn kids that is on face directly contradicted by months of its own reporting.

‘It’s just madness’: Trump administration to close three-quarters of Forest Service research stations Between funding cuts, facility closures, and the inevitable resignations that will follow, there’s virtually no way for the Forest Service to continue to do research at its current level or quality, w...

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service.

The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

I didn't realize how awful the White House's proposed cuts were for the USGS - almost a 1/3 reduction in Natural Hazards funding?? Elimination of ecosystem science??

This may be just a proposal, but we need to ensure Congress doesn't taker up anything so drastic. Geologists, spread the word!

If an issue only impacts the bottom quintile in the US do people understand that’s 60 million people. Like that’s a lot of people or do you just not view them as human beings

Do people ever ask themselves, why, on this beautiful planet, they are spending time defending a system where 12 billionaires have the same amount of wealth as 4.5 billion people

Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog A weird thing is that whenever I post criticism of Al, the majority of the people agreeing with me seem to be leftists. It's pretty much the only position I hold that seems to be more popular with the left than the right. It should be the opposite. My whole point about Al (especially Al in creative fields) is that it isn't human, it doesn't have a soul, and we cannot surrender our society to an unhuman soulless algorithm even if it makes our lives easier in some ways. It's very strange that an argument predicated on the existence of the soul resonates with the left while conservatives tend to scoff at it. 3:02 PM • Mar 12, 2026 • 748.5K Views

"for unknown reasons, my mortal enemies appear to be concerned with the core essence of humanity in a way that my allies are not. oh well, better not think about it too hard."

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!"

The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

Swalwell is now likely going to face an expulsion vote this upcoming week in Congress, and Democrats are prepared to fire back by calling for the expulsion of Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), who slept with subordinates. one of whom committed suicide. That could lead to an expulsion vote for Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL). who allegedly embezzled COVID funds mistakenly given to a company she ran and used it to bankroll her House campaign, and that could lead to an expulsion vote for Rep. Cory Mills (R- FL). who has been accused of assaultins a woman and threatening another with revenge porn. In U.S. history, only six members of Congress have been expelled; it's not out of the realm of possibility that well see four this week

It's really not hard to just kick them all out.

prospect.org/2026/04/12/e...

So many liberals want to believe Trump is the end all be all of the fascist movement in this county. The even more fascist right has already been criticizing him for years. He is not the end. Don’t bury your head in the sand.

Chart showing monthly temperature rankings for CONUS for ranges from the last month to the last 60 months, which all show the warmest such periods on record.

So how warm has it been recently across the contiguous United States for different monthly periods (1 month through the last 60 months)? Oh dear... 😬

Data from @noaa.gov: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...

ESCAPING ASTRONAUTS RECAPTURED

DARING GETAWAY CUT SHORT JUST PAST LUNAR ORBIT

SPACE CRIMINALS BROUGHT BACK TO EARTH TO STAND TRIAL

"We're all in this big blue boat together." SAYS NASA SPOX IN NEW STATEMENT. "No exceptions allowed---not on our watch!"

MOST SUCCESSFUL BREAKOUT ATTEMPT SINCE 1972