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Trailblazing botanist, Alice Eastwood ran into this building at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park after the April 18, 1906 earthquake & saved nearly 1500 key specimens before the fires came.
Another unsung heroine of science.
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"abortion bans have influenced how doctors and hospitals respond to pregnancy complications. Facing risks of prison time and professional ruin, doctors have delayed key interventions until they can document that a fetus’ heart is no longer beating or that a case meets a narrow legal exception"

The Markets love to present themselves as a measure of objective reality and not the consensus among youngish, white, rich men who will lose their jobs and social circle if they say anything bad about Trump in the racist group chat.

You're really terrible at this, JD. All of it. Everything.

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I don't really care what happened. I don't need theories or explanations. He's simply someone in the here and now who is loathsome and needs to fade from power and disappear.

What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Golden also voted, along with 3 Dems, for a Clean FISA renewal without any changes to address privacy concerns. These are the 4 Dems

Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Jared Golden (Maine), Josh Gottheimer (N.J.), and Tom Suozzi (N.Y.)

The Graham Platner of Maine

Middle East War Will Slow Global Economic Growth, I.M.F. Warns

International Monetary Fund report says Trump's War has upended the world economy. Disruptions to oil markets could slow growth, fuel inflation and raise the possibility of a global recession.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/b...

You are a horrid rag, @nytimes.com

LATE TO THE GAME!

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

How is bombing schoolchildren “pursuing a path of peace”?

You just can't stop sucking, can you @nytimes.com

I wonder what negotiations JD and Jared will f*ck up next. Any guesses?

There it is.

Week ahead schedule for House Oversight Committee no longer includes Tuesday's deposition with Pam Bondi on #EpsteinFiles

Concerning the longtime rumors around Swalwell, I am reposting here with permission a FB post last time from longtime organizer Michael Trujillo.

This history goes way beyond what is reported publicly.

Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

MUST READ with a lot of new info: Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections, by @dougbockclark.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social

This goes beyond sanewashing.

The man is breaking.

Trump finally releases his healthcare plan.

ADDITION:

It’s important to note, even though Eric Swalwell suspended his campaign, California law still keeps his name on the ballot.

That’s the problem. We have to be careful who we vote for, make sure they’re viable and not just splitting the vote.

Blockading a blockade is the work of a pure stable genius like no one has ever seen before. Only Donald Trump could have thought of this.

It's like, "You think you can shoot at us? Well, we'll show you—we'll shoot ourselves!!"

We should all have tears in our eyes.

Brief Trump summary of the past weeks:

- “Open the strait”
- “Help us open the strait”
- “We don’t need the strait open”
- “Open the f’king strait or I destroy you all”
- “We block the strait”

Hell, forget JD, imagine how news media would react to a Democratic president posting an unhinged screed against the Pope

Given the huge early turnout in Hungary odds seem very high that Magyar wil defeat Orbán very decisively; the question in that case would be whether Orbán goes with the Ukrainian electoral interference lie he has been preparing and whether foreign actors support him.

Bot activity is picking up again. MAGA accounts (many of them automated or coordinated) are flooding social media with AI photos and videos right now. Two things they’re pushing hard is fake crowd shots to make massive protests look empty, and fabricated imagery to make peaceful demonstrators

There's growing disquiet in the military. The Iran war made it worse Since Trump began his second term, his administration's use of the armed forces has left a growing number in the military unsettled, according to NPR interviews with service members and advocates.

Hotlines for US soldiers thinking of leaving the armed forces as "conscientious objectors" are being overwhelmed.

Almost all the calls mention the bombing of the girls' school in Iran that killed more than 100 school children.

www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

Lying from the White House Podium is now a family tradition.