Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...
Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.
A successful botanical quest! The Criterion Ranch Trail is a few miles south of the town of Maupin. We went there to see the sagebrush violet (Viola trinervata) in bloom. It's one of the most beautiful wild violets, growing in sagebrush desert. A mountain bluebird visited us ...
This is all so true!
I had a coworker who sat next to me and ate, chewed gum or drank nonstop all day. After a while, I could barely stand it and started to feel really irritable around her. There's a word for that: misophonia!
"Restoring democracy required opponents of fascism—nationalists, republicans, and Communists—to work together despite serious misgivings about one another’s views. Purity tests had to wait until the war was over."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
A view from inside a sea cave frames a wide, flat beach at low tide, the jagged arch of dark basalt rock opening onto pale sand scattered with boulders. A hummingbird crosses the middle of the frame in silhouette, caught mid-flight just in front of a historic concrete bridge whose arched spans recede into morning mist. Behind the bridge, a dense wall of coastal conifers rises into a partly cloudy sky, the whole scene softened by sea fog that blurs the tree line and lends the light a hazy, diffused quality. Footprints in the sand near the cave entrance are the only evidence anyone else has been here.
I managed to catch this hummingbird while exploring a small sea cave. I had posted a similar photo last week that I had taken with my phone, but when going through my camera photos I found this for #Stunday.
#hummingbird #oregon #landscape #seascape #beach #naturephotography #cave #bridge #bird
One should set aside time to read why American oil under current global conditions may be the “barrel of last resort.”
This is one of those rare notes that gets at what’s real and the risk on the table absent the usual quotient of BS. #Econ #EconSky
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
People tried to scam insurance by dressing up as a bear and wrecking luxury cars.
"Investigators then took the video to biologists with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to also look at the video. The biologists said, 'it was clearly a human in a bear suit.'"
abc7.com/post/3-south...
We need more cams like this one!
Is she also expecting to be able to return the baby for a full refund if she is not happy with the child?
he's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare
Elmo is WEAK on securities regulation
For the complaints that voting doesn't work & you can't possibly get rid of fascists that way:
It’s good that we all have something to cheer for that involves a positive aspirational vision of humanity.
The Artemis II mission was incredible. We can do big things and do good things for the country and the world, when we work together and stand up for each other.
Honestly, I don’t know how you don’t get emotional watching astronauts coming home
Woohoo 🎉 🙌
This is the best of us
Female octopuses throw rocks at males that bother them, documented in Octopus tetricus
My husband, repeatedly: “How can they do this? How can it be so precise??”
SCIENCE. Publicly funded science.
What Iran remembers about its relationship with the US, and most Americans don't.
(By me; most before paywall; two fact blunders noted and fixed!)
fallows.substack.com/p/what-we-do...
"The CIA mystery tool got the headlines. The truth is boring." Once again the laws of physics stand undefeated!
The latest eruption at Kilauea appears to be starting! We should see large lava fountains soon. Tune in live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKu...
The theory is that we bombed Iran to take attention away from Epstein, and now they're resurrecting the Epstein story to take attention away from Iran
This is why I go so hard about studying entertainment as politically relevant media. Viewers may be learning about these issues for the first time, or connecting to what they’ve already experienced. And how they make sense of entertainment as politically relevant will affect what happens next.
AI-generated veneer
Tell-tale sign he's particularly petulant: he omitted "Thank you for your attention to this matter".
A screenshot of a post on X by Christopher Hale (@ChristopherHale) quoting an earlier post of his. The main post reads: "UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year. Many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See." The quoted post reads: "NEW: A stunning new report claims that the Pentagon summoned Pope Leo XIV’s top American diplomat and threatened him after the U.S.-born pontiff gave his January state-of-the-world address." The bottom of the post shows it was last edited at 3:22 PM on Apr 8, 2026, and has 1.5M views.
The Trump administration threatened to kill the pope to the Vatican's ambassador and install a antipope in the US.
Lots of parallels between 14th century Europe & the present day: both had horrendous public health crises, wars that severely damaged nations & economies, & lost of trust in public institutions.
the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at
Just the markets gorging themselves on a giant TACO, to be followed by two weeks of indigestion
