Indictment of @splcenter.org is based on clear false narrative.
False: DOJ and Kash Patel's claim that SPLC supported white supremacist groups via paying informants.
Reality:
“We frequently shared what we learned from informants with local and federal law enforcement, including the FBI."
This is insane, tinpot authoritarian shit.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
Very nice!
Congratulations! 🐦⬛📷🎉🎉
An osprey pushes its feet forward, talons spread wide, just before it hits the water and grabs a fish that is swimming below the surface.
Got a photo on my osprey bucket list this morning 😅
#photography #birdphotography #birds #nature
Storm clouds and sunbeams over Loch Arkaig, Scotland. A Kodachrome from 1985 published worldwide by Olympus Japan and winner of a national UK photo contest on "The Beauty of Light"
Red Fox photographed in a south Cheshire hay field. Published in a Field Guide to the Garden Wildlife of Europe despite clearly not being in a hay field.
Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) fungi growing on Bickerton Hill, Cheshire, England.
Immature Ruby-throated Hummingbird on the Bruce Peninsula, Ontario. Published in a birds calendar.
Four favourite images for #EarthDay
The F.B.I. began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about the bureau’s director, Kash Patel, using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
Image of Earth bisected by the terminator line. The terminator divides Earth\u2019s surface diagonally, shrouding the top left half in darkness. Earth\u2019s illuminated surface is mostly blue and covered in swirling white clouds. Credit: NASA
Image of crescent Earth. Against the blackness of space, the shining blue and white of Earth appears like a smile. Credit: NASA
Image of Earth from the Artemis II mission. Earth fills the bottom half of the image, its surface covered in blue water and swirling white clouds. Earth\u2019s limb is a blue glow against the curvature of Earth. Credit: NASA
Image of Earth from the Artemis II mission. Earth fills the top half of the image. Through the gaps in white cloud cover, green and brown land masses are visible, as is blue water. Credit: NASA
WE HAVE NEW IMAGES OF EARTH FROM ARTEMIS II!!!
LOOK AT HOW BEAUTIFUL OUR PLANET IS!! HAPPY EARTH DAY!
NEW: Apple fixed the bug that law enforcement, like the FBI, were taking advantage of to extract chat messages that had been deleted or disappeared automatically.
Until now the iPhone stored deleted or disappered messages in a database, allowing authorities to access them with forensic tools.
NEW from me: According to USAID whistleblower Nicholas Enrich, the DOGE takeover was even worse than we knew, rife with conflict between political appointees who wanted an orderly "drawdown" and a DOGE team that wanted to flip the kill switch. @wired.com
www.wired.com/story/usaid-...
Badan Mosach Falls (2 of 2), Glen Feshie, Scotland
#WaterfallWednesday
#Scotland
#Photography
#LandscapePhotography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
The Texas legislature rammed through a gerrymandering bill at the request of Trump.
Virginia actually voted in favor of redistricting to counterbalance what Texas and other Republican-controlled states have done.
Yet only one is considered a "power grab."
Oligarch-owned media in a nutshell.
L. Louise Lucas explains that Black citizens were gerrymandered into one district.
The origin story of L. Louise Lucas: she was gerrymandered into one district just as she was ready to run for Congress.
Two Pentagon spokespersons said on Tues AM that they were unable to field questions on why the 15 casualties disappeared. “As soon as the duty officer comes back to their desk, I can get this to them,” said one of them
@theintercept.com is still waiting for a reply
theintercept.com/2026/04/22/i...
a pelican looking at the camera with their pouch slightly open so their top beak(not sure if this is what its called) is open over a large gap
First of all, bird.
Second of all, bird.
Mostly importantly, bird. 🪶
Here's the definitive answer to the debate over "who started it": Republicans.
Before Trump pushed TX to gerrymander last year, the GOP had drawn 42% of all districts, versus just 14% for Dems (the rest were by neutral parties).
The maps below from @stephenwolf.bsky.social make this explicit.
Collage of nine book covers: Strata by Laura Poppick The Story of CO2 is the Story of Everything by Peter Brannen A New History of Life by Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink Revolutions That Made the Earth by Tim Lenton and Andrew Watson The Ages of Gaia by James Lovelock The Cosmic Oasis by Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz Symbiotic Planet by Lynn Margulis Here on Earth by Tim Flannery The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen
🧵 BOOKS FOR EARTH DAY 🌎
While writing my book, Becoming Earth, I read — and have continued to read — *a lot* of books about our extraordinary planet. Here are a few of my personal favorites, old and new, with a particular focus on Earth as a dynamic, interconnected, evolving system 🧪 📚💙
Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social.
70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge.
30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation.
7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported.
sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
Congratulations!! 🐦⬛📷🎉
When you have Fake Spring No. 4, there is still a chance for Fake Spring No. 5.
Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women
Priceless post from the official White House social media
“You’re purposely trying to get in front of a moving car.”
(Witness pans down. She isn’t moving and neither is the car.)
Feel like it should be a bigger story that Howard Lutnick's firm (run by his kids) created a financial product to buy up tariff refund claims at a major discount, and will now be cashing in on the higher costs passed onto consumers.
A lot of public service work is task specific, i.e. there is not a big private market for it. So one logic for civil service protections to recruit and retain people who see it has their career, and invest in improving their expertise. Harder to do that now.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
New from at Can We Still Govern?
Prior authorization is a big barrier to accessing care. Drawing from her new book, @mirandayaver.bsky.social breaks down how it serves as a time tax on physicians and patients, often resulting in forgone care. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-prior-...
NEW: A Colorado DA has charged a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer with assault and criminal mischief after he allegedly pushed a woman to the ground and took her phone during a protest outside an ICE facility in Durango last year // Story by @katielang.bsky.social
one of the single most important bursts of legislative activity in the nation's history happened because the governing party did not hesitate to remove their opponents from congress itself when they had the opportunity. 🤷🏿♂️
the shift to a winner-take-all distribution of electoral votes? a partisan project. the development of the mass political party? a partisan project. antislavery and reconstruction? a partisan project. even direct election of senators comes out of populist agitation in the late 19th century.
My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus
