I'm surprised this got her fired on this administration. Also, Republicans don't give a crap about children.

My mom was valedictorian and her guidance counselor told her she could be a teacher or a nurse. She always wished she'd gone into engineering.

Are American car companies only going to sell cars in the US market? Are they just giving up on the rest of the planet?

Excellent

I pronounce the argument that Americans need guns to protect us from a tyrannical government officially dead. Kaput. We're living under a tyrannical government and the only people suffering from gun violence are innocent children and civilians. No one's using them against this government.

Republicans are racists.

Wow, excellent!

Canongate Tolbooth Building in Edinburgh 🏰 #photography #moody #urban #architecture #edinburgh

This photo is so beautifully lit that it looks like a still from a movie. This is the Southern Pacific’s Sunset Limited awaiting departure from LA bound for New Orleans. The train was all Pullman train (ie a hotel on wheels) which was good because it took 41 hours to complete.

Kasamatsu Shirō (Japanese, 1898–1991)
"Night Rain at Shinobazu Pond", 1938.
Woodblock Print, 38.6 × 26.5 cm.
Private Collection.

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Putin must be so proud of himself for the impact he has had on the U.S.

Linkages between historical redlining and contemporary indicators of structural racism and discrimination across 5 North Carolina metropolitan areas Historical manifestations of structural racism and discrimination (SRD; e.g. 1930s redlining) have been linked to current adverse health outcomes, yet less is known about linkages to present-day ne...

Happy this paper at Journal of Urban Affairs is finally out :)

Planey AM, Taylor NL, Kumar AD, Cross RI, Neally S, Lewis JA, Luben TJ, Martin CL. "Linkages between historical redlining and contemporary indicators of structural racism and discrimination across 5 North Carolina metropolitan areas"

This piece begins with Amity Shlaes' most common and most deceitful trick -- citing the unemployment numbers in 1938, when the country fell into a recession because FDR had been persuaded to *ease off* the New Deal, as proof that the New Deal didn't work.

Pure hackery.

Trump should be giving this speech to an empty room. Anyone there is complicit.

I'm rooting for him!

To our allies, their association with us has become a liability.

“Many of our former strengths, based on our close ties to America, have become weaknesses. Weaknesses that we must correct.”

This is Republican America.

Governor Tim Walz — "We are sick of this. A weak, reckless, Idiotic president just threw us into a war nobody asked for. No threat existed. No objectives were set. No exit plan exists. This is pure fascism." #cdnpoli

Jimmy Duffy wearing a sleeveless athletic shirt with a large maple leaf and the word CANADA across the chest. He faces the camera in a studio-style portrait, with short dark hair parted to one side, a slight smile, and a lean, muscular build. The image is black and white with a plain, light background.

On this day in 1914, Canadian Jimmy Duffy won the Boston Marathon. His first requests after he won were a cigarette and a beer.
One year later on April 23, as a member of the Canadian Army, he fought at the Second Battle of Ypres, and was killed.

Trump’s DOJ is still doing all they can to delay releasing the Epstein Files— around 50% of them are still missing. Oversight Dems will keep pursuing justice for survivors and get the files released.

Republicans said they cared about freedom of speech. That was a lie.

Just to point out the obvious: This could genuinely be dangerous to many people. Not just the applicants, but their friends and families, who may have thought a private social account was a safe place to criticize their own government or talk about being gay, say.

Dead Beats - Chaosium | Miskatonic Repository | DriveThruRPG The winner of the Gold 2025 ENNIE award in the Community Content category.  APRIL 1984 The Threshold is a riotous punk club in a popular part of town. However, after a tragic on-stage death, the club ...

Next Monday is my 49th orbit through space. Yay me...

Rather than buy me a card or another sword (I know you had picked one out for me), I'd love for Dead Beats to hit 250 in sales. Its at 241 at the moment and that number is annoying.

www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

DOJ civil rights chief sends demand letter to Wayne County for 2024 ballots Michigan's attorney general and secretary of state have responded that they will not comply with DOJ's demands.

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice is demanding that Wayne County, Michigan turn over its ballots from the 2024 election to investigate voter fraud claims. Michigan’s attorney general and secretary of state have responded saying that’s not going to happen. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Republican corruption right here.

Sanders: The people have got to determine the future of what happens in our country and in the entire planet, not a handful of extraordinarily wealthy, arrogant, anti-democratic multibillionaires. That’s what they want. They have their goals. They are not our goals.

Republicans are straight up eugenicists.

Philadelphia is really showing off to Boston & New Jersey, both of which are planning to charge World Cup attendees $80 or more to take transit to & from the games, supposedly because of the high costs of meeting FIFA's requirements.

Washington Post article on STEM cuts at federal agencies. NSF tops it at -42%!

“Between January 2025 and February 2026, STEM and health employees at science-focused agencies saw nearly 15,000 jobs cut. The rate outpaced cuts among other federal workers.”

OPM data - Figure from Wash Post article 19 April. (Where US science has been hit hardest.)

NSF at -42%!

I am again asking people to pay attention to what has happened to our National Science Foundation and by extension thousands of researchers across the country.

The devastation is ongoing and worthy of continued outcry to officials and journalists. 🧪

This 2020 trade deal - the USMCA - is Trump's big beautiful replacement for NAFTA. Now, the Trump administration is seeking to "reimagine" the deal, viewing it as a "poor deal".

Why did Trump and the Republicans negotiate a bad deal in 2020? Another Trump/Republican failure.