All y’all that voted for “dementia Don” will never outlive it. He’s gone completely around the bend and I’m sick and tired of hearing “that’s how he is.”
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WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
Photo of Lucy Parsons, social activist.
"Oh, when will ignorance be dethroned, and reason and justice reign supreme?"
-Lucy Parsons, letter to the editor, The Socialist, 12/7/1878
We’ve been WORKING 😅 Early voting has ENDED. Tomorrow is Election Day. Your last chance to vote YES is TOMORROW, Tuesday, April 21! Make a plan to vote ➡️ iwillvote.com/va
#Virginia #VoteYES
Anyone know whether today is a ‘ceasefire’ day or a ‘destroy your civilisation’ day yet?
He might as well answer in Russian.
On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.
Love, That Little Band From Texas !🎸🎶♥️🎯🎉🎊🕶🥁🧰⚠️🔞♋️‼️☑️
Spring in Philadelphia.
LOL.
It seems we can never have a Republican Senate, Republican President, and Republican House again. The level of crazy is just something our country cannot stand. From destroying American agriculture, to abject cruelty to Americans, to a Supreme Court supporting authoritarianism, all = Republicans.
BREAKING: A coalition of 1,000+ stars & film pros just jumped into the fight to support state AG's investigating the Paramount-Warners merger
Not a done deal!
We @democracydefendersfund.org @filmcoalition.bsky.social @1acommittee.bsky.social & other GREAT partners r proud to help
#BlockTheMerger
Guessing this is why he's having 'Executive Time' until 2 PM today ... 😉
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Gramercy Park & the Chrysler Building NYC
Two species of central Florida woodpeckers
Energy level took some time to perk up until I made my bed. (Thanks McRaven!)
Planning to walk Gorgo a bit later than usual. I prefer pre-dawn walks but a little sunshine would likely do me some good.
Meanwhile, I'm watching 3 species of woodpecker vying for slots on my feeder. ☺️
Leo: "The message of the church, the message of the gospel -- blessed are the peacemakers. I do not look at my role as being political. I don't want to get into a debate with him. I don't think the message of the gospel is meant to be abused in the way that some people are doing."
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Hubble watches light echo from mysterious erupting star (September 2002 image)
Image date: 26 March 2003, 15:00
This is the second in a sequence of four pictures from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys that dramatically demonstrates the echoing of light through sp...
Last week, a worker one of Amazon's Portland area facilities died on the warehouse floor. Employees were told to look away and keep working.
A new story by @ryanjhaas.bsky.social for @thewesternedge.bsky.social - reporting this news first.
www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-i...
Had to turn off Meet the Press. Instead I’ll be watching the livestream of the Big Bear eagles’ nest. Little buggers are already starting to grow! #Nature
It's not a counterpunch, guys. The pope didn't throw a punch. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...
Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.
My barrel cactus bloomed last night
#FlowerPower #BloomingBeauty #FloralVibes
Hillary Clinton: "I think our allies believe we've lost our minds because they wake up in the morning like we do and see the rants from the president making no sense half the time"
A less than regular visitor came by this afternoon, a male Costa’s hummingbird with that amazing purple gorget! Also some nice squeaks and wing hums.
#birds #BirdBuddy cam
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998: