Doctor to patient: "Try to reduce your stress level, and if you somehow succeed please let me know how in God's name you did it."

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How glacial cycles shaped the migration of Red-backed Shrikes Simulations suggest that this species used to breed in Africa.

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog!

How glacial cycles shaped the migration of Red-backed Shrikes
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/g...

Based on the PNAS paper by Kasper Thorup and his colleagues | #ornithology

Morning! #Cornwall

Watching an auroral corona develop right overhead is one of the most spectacular things you can see

The verdict of a prominent conservative website and magazine:

"A 79-year-old man who has long dealt in chaos is now being consumed by that chaos. His episodes are becoming more frequent, his good days further apart. What he has lost is not a sense of decency or decorum—he never had those...

WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein?

KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed

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The basic challenge with discussing Sarah Isgur is that she's just not interesting. She is a Supreme Court fangirl who makes money by praising conservative justices in public. There are lots of conservative lawyers like her, and the next time one of them says anything insightful will be the first.

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
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The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated.”

—Justice Robert H. Jackson, Chief American Prosecutor, Nuremberg, 1946

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Happy 89th Birthday George Takei!

George Takei, born on April 20, 1937, in Los Angeles, California, is an actor, activist, and social media phenomenon who has lived one of the most remarkable lives in American entertainment.

As a child, Takei and his family were forcibly relocated to Japanese...

70 powerful Bay Area men were accused of sexual misconduct. What happened next? Since 2010, scores of prominent local men have faced allegations ranging from sexual harassment to rape. Most have returned to the highest echelons of public life.

Also: "We did not include allegations against local clergy, because there are too many."
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Problem: White House is concerned by reports that several men in the cabinet are drinking on the job.
Solution:

"The average IQ in Somalia hovers around 70, and that's the threshold for mentally handicapped ... they're a net drain on the society" -- even by MAGA standards, the unvarnished racism of this interview of Rep. Brandon Gill by Benny Johnson is breathtaking

@marcelias.bsky.social is right.

We can't let up, not even for a moment, until the job is done.

✅️Impeach.
✅️Convict.
✅️Save Democracy.

A real senator would hammer away at an administration that caused 130,000 of their constituents to lose healthcare because they couldn’t afford it. But you hear more from Fetterman and McCormick about affordable bulldozers for Israel than about affordable healthcare for Pennsylvania. Pathetic.

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#GunViolence

Someone who used every tool at his disposal to overthrow our democratically elected government is most emphatically not a "good man," and most emphatically does deserve to have his career destroyed.

Trust women. Listen to accusers and take every accusation seriously.

@muellershewrote.com & @libradunn1.bsky.social discuss the #Swalwell sexual assault allegations.

#aisle45pod #MSWMedia

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Their heritage of taking a big fat L continues

We are deciding right now if we are to be a nation of concentration camps and ethnic cleansing. And there is much citizens can do!

XXVII SCECSAL Conference Livingstone 27 April-1 May Lombe Tembo, ORCID Senior Grant Program Officer & Engagement Lead.

Headed to #SCECSAL2026 in Zambia? 🇿🇲

Don't miss the chance to connect with ORCID's Lombe Tembo to talk about how persistent identifiers empower African libraries at the New Crossroads of info science.

🔗 https://conference.scecsal.org/

#ResearchSky

Most areas of human thought are wrong because they assume they're right. Science is mostly right because it assumes it is wrong.

Most ways of achieving things fail because they assume they'll work. Engineering mostly works because it assumes things will go wrong.

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

Election security and immigration key topics at candidate forum in Grand Junction | Colorado Newsline Democratic candidates for statewide office in Colorado spoke on Saturday at the West Slope People’s Forum in Grand Junction.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, who is running for governor, said during a candidate forum in Grand Junction he is committed to youth mental health, teachers, and career and tech education. To be successful in addressing those issues TABOR must be changed, he said.

Cancel the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Trump will be guest of honor at the “nerd prom,” with journalists serving as suck-ups

The White House Correspondents' Dinner later this month – with Trump as guest of honor – is shaping up as an embarrassing surrender to a criminal president who is trying to destroy the free press.
Cancel the damn dinner.

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