A yellow DIY sign in one of the white chairs in the overflow chamber that reads in black marker: “CHRIS JUDD COWARD”
Hello from the Surprise City Council meeting where most of the crowd is here to speak out against the proposed ICE concentration camp and the council’s refusal to put the detention center on the agenda as an action item like they said they would.
like, there has to be a better mechanism for making sure that rural infrastructure is maintained and expanded than by essentially giving every individual voter in Middle Of Nowhere USA the voting power of the entire population of a new york city block at the national level
There was a place I lived, a planned McMansion suburb, that had planted decorative maple trees along a single boulevard.
I call them decorative because they cut them down every 6 years and replaced them.
They built 4 lanes for SUVs but didn’t make the street wide enough to let maples live to age 7.
Always happy our house is surrounded by giant old trees in a city setting and it's amazing. Im crushed when they cut any down on our block, even though they plant new trees.
APNewsAlert: TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — #Iran includes 'acceptance of enrichment' in Farsi version of its ceasefire plan, something missing from English versions.
4/07/26
#ICE kidnapping continues #Minneapolis
Every woman who dies as a result of preventing her from receiving health care is a victim of premeditated murder.
And every person who offers material aid for such, or places such barriers, defends them, or enforces them are guilty of premeditated murder.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...
Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.
Hello from the Surprise City Council meeting. Tonight is the first city council meeting since DHS/ICE announced they are pausing the purchase of new warehouses leaving the proposed concentration camp in Surprise, AZ as one of the few that is moving forward. Views from the city hall entrance.
This is what radicalized me as a native of color Seeing them send fire hoses attack dogs and sound cannons on water and land defenders during Standing rock
I feel this in my bones. You cannot look at what Minneapolis and the rest of the metro has been through this year and claim everyday Americans aren't fighting back.
We may not have won yet, but we are not going quietly into authoritarianism. Not while we've still got our whistles.
Democrats flipped WAUKESHA!?!?!? This is an earthquake.
they zip tied children for landlords
unreal to realize that, in about 2 months, it'll be 2 years since The Originalism Trap came out
I've sold 5,925 copies so far, which is probably pretty good for a Black girl nobody had ever heard of writing a book about the Constitution? hope I can hit 6K!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...
"As they were led out, one of the arrested, Nikson Mathews, shouted, “Trans rights are human rights!” and was met with boisterous cheers."
Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:
Cops arrested a Black pastor watering flowers
The Alabama Supreme Court’s response?
Giving bad cops *more* power to arrest good neighbors
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Alligator tracks on a beach, showing the direction of movement by a large alligator from the lower part of the beach and up to its dunes, with a prominent sinuous tail drag in its middle and front-rear track pairs on either side. I am squatting to the left of the tracks, wearing a hat, sunglasses, shirt, shorts, and sandals. Tracks were on Sapelo Island, Georgia (USA).
Cover of my latest book LIFE SCULPTED (2023, U. of Chicago Press), with black background and cut section of a grayish tree trunk as its central image, in which the trunk has many borings made by insects and fungi. The book title and subtitle at the top of the cover says, "LIFE SCULPTED: Tales of the Animals, Plants, and Fungi that Drill, Break, and Scrape to Shape the Earth," and my author name (Anthony J. Martin) is in the lower right corner.
Sauropod dinosaur tracks evident as semi-circular depressions in a slanted sandstone surface, with me wearing a broad-brimmed hat while sitting next to the tracks on that surface and facing downslope. Tracks were in a Jurassic formation in southern Portugal.
Rear view of a camera crew (two people) filming me in the atrium of Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta, GA (USA), with me sitting and partial views of dinosaur skeletons in the background, which are replicas of Argentinosaurus (left) and Gigantosaurus (right), dinosaurs that lived in what is now Argentina about 100 million years ago.
Hello Bluesky science appreciators! I'm a geologist, paleontologist, & (most importantly) an ichnologist, which means I study modern traces (tracks, burrows, etc.) & trace fossils. I teach undergrad students in environmental sciences, write books about ichnology, & do lots of public outreach. 🧪🪨⚒️🐾🦕🦖
🚨 BREAKING: Florida has taken matters into its own hands and passed its own SAVE Act. 8 million Floridians do not have a passport, and 4 million women’s last names do not match their birth certificates. That’s millions of people who will not be able to vote. https://bit.ly/4e2C3Vj
every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy
corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor
that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft
3 days earlier:
there it is, all 7 continents
yeah I can endorse this
Evelyn speaking
@kandake.africa talking about community privacy and @transrights.northsky.social #ATmosphereConf
Today is one of those rare days as a lawyer and scholar when the law offers a glimmer of hope. Amazingly, today, the PA Supreme Court held that automatic life-without-parole sentences for 2nd degree murder, including felony murder, amount to cruel & unusual punishment under the PA Constitution.
This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.
In this lawsuit there's a transcript of an infuriating exchange between the lead plaintiff and an immigration judge assigned to the Somali docket. She explains why the schedule is a travesty and laughs at the absurdity, which the IJ takes poorly, leading to a testy exchange.
I'm fully on her side.
