You might even say he was a superspreader, yes?

Gonna need a little more explanation of the soggy roll factor? Pro or con?

Gorgeous!

LIVE SOON: Inside the SCOTUS' Shadow Docket, with Steve Vladeck Starting Apr 20 at 11:30 AM EDT

I'll be joining @chriscillizza.bsky.social at 11:30 ET for a Substack Live conversation about #SCOTUS, and especially Saturday's @nytimes.com reporting on the leaked memos from the Clean Power Plan cases.

Join us then here:

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The phrase that springs to mind is "You both get dirty, but the pig enjoys it."

Kind of amazing this didn't catch on…

a color screenshot. Headline is "We have collected letters from the following (so far):" This is a two-column chart. Left column lists various agencies and departments of the United States government, grouped by cabinet department. Right column lists numbers: "1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, etc."

Over 70 former federal employees have submitted resignation letters for our next book. Senate-confirmed officials, entry-level office workers.

If you wrote a head-snapping resignation letter last year yet you /aren't/ in this book, your former colleagues might ask you why.

#ResignationBook

A black and white photo of a yard art torso statue of a sailor at the wheel. He is wearing a hood of some sort, perhaps a rain hood. There are trees and a house in the background and a fence with lights in the foreground.

While out yesterday morning photographing something unrelated, I ran across this creepy-ass yard art.

📷 Pentax K-70
🔘 Pentax 55-300mm APS-C

#Photography #Art #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #BnW #B&W #YardArt #Statue #Creepy #StreetPhotography #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #PhotoOfTheDay #Pentax #P509

Mt. Fuji and cherry blossoms at Arakurayama Sengen Park 🌸🗻 Honestly, one of the most stunning views in Japan. So… will you come see it for yourself next cherry blossom season? 😉

Mt. Fuji and cherry blossoms at Arakurayama Sengen Park 🌸🗻
Honestly, one of the most stunning views in Japan.
So… will you come see it for yourself next cherry blossom season? 😉

#MountFuji
#MtFuji
#Fujisan
#Sakura
#Japan

Ann Arbor, Michigan
“Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

#BlueSkyArtShow #New #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #landscapephotography #photographersunited #michigan #puremichigan

a color photograph. small purple flowers with yellow pollen emerge from the spiky green leaves of a blooming air plant.

It's spring, and the air plants are finally blooming. Where do they get the water and energy to do this?

Pentax K-S2 with smc DA35mm F2.8 Macro Limited lens.

#photography #pentax

Upcoming Federal Resignations Anthology Forthcoming book showcases the best federal resignation letters of 2025, from Bicycle Comics

We have FIVE resignation letters from former staffers at @hhsofficial.bsky.social , but we'd still be delighted to read yours. If you resigned or retired from the US government in 2025, tell us your story!

#ResignationBook #AltGov

www.bicycle-comics.com/pages/resign...

A Reading by Pulitzer-Prize Winning Poet Carl Phillips : College of Humanities & Fine Arts : UMass Amherst The celebrated American poet Carl Phillips will deliver the annual David F. Grose Memorial Lecture in Classics.

The celebrated American poet Carl Phillips will deliver the annual David F. Grose Memorial Lecture in Classics on Tuesday, April 7 at 4:30 p.m.

The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception. www.umass.edu/humanities-arts/events/r...

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Will you be selling ad space directly to advertisers without using Google/Facebook/etc. as brokers? Or are you transitioning entirely to a subscriber-based model? Nothing in the concluding "How you can help" section mentions "place an ad for your business directly by calling Gary…"

Ooof. I like that you took care and squared off the white/grey structure on the left. Because it sets up just how off-kilter every other line in this shot is.

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

Dunguaire Castle - County Galway
#Ireland #scape #landscape #photography #landscapephotography #travel #naturephotography #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #WestCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #ColorADay #architecture #OrangeSun #Stunday #happystpatricksday #stpatricksday #stpatrick #Galway

Amazing. I learned something new and interesting today. I must add this to my list of shipwrecks to see!

a black and white outdoor photograph. a classical domed building sits in the center of a pond or reflecting pool. it has ornate columns and extensive decorative flourishes. a single seagull flaps in the sky overhead. in the foreground, a brickwork footpath curves gently along the water. this is an infrared photograph, so water appears very dark while leaves and foliage have a glow. there are no people or vehicles in this picture.

Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco.

#Olympus PEN E-PL5 (infrared converted) with M.Zuiko 17mm F2.8 lens. ƒ/6.3, 1/250sec @ ISO 250.

Photographed April 2024. Thank you for looking.

#photography #infraredphotography #m43 #sanfrancisco #monochrome

Q: ND64 but why???
A: Oh, okay f/1.2

My 25mm f/1.8 does just fine with my ND8 or a CPL…

A lot of Americans, while still technically alive, have already given their souls over to evil and are completely dead inside

A color illustration. Shown are a variety of US Government agency logos: Homeland Security, FDA, Department of Justice, FTC, HHS, Department of Energy, US Digital Service, and USDA. The text reads "Over 150,000 federal workers resigned in 2025. Some did not go quietly. Book coming Spring 2026."

Over 150,000 federal workers resigned in 2025. Some did not go quietly.

Our next book will spotlight some of the principled civil servants who said, "Count me out," who walked away rather than follow policies that violated their oaths to the Constitution.

www.bicycle-comics.com/pages/resign...

Round #1

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Bonus 212: The Supreme Court is Not "Reining in" Executive Power The Court's defenders claim the tariffs ruling is part of a trend in which the justices are reining in President Trump and (re-)empowering Congress. The full dataset is overwhelmingly to the contrary.

Today's bonus "One First" responds to the new claim on the right that the Roberts Court's "real project" is "reining in" executive power / empowering Congress—a claim that depends on (1) cherry-picking the data; (2) understating the immunity ruling; & (3) ignoring *dozens* of cases to the contrary:

Hi stargazers! Tonight, the waxing gibbous #moon will lie near bright #Jupiter and the twin stars of #Gemini, Castor and Pollux. They’ll set before sunrise. Check them out! 🌔🌌🔭

Watch this video:
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And visit EarthSky’s night sky guide:
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📹 EarthSky.org.

Excited to see writer @legroff.bsky.social tonight at Poetry & Prose (the one on Conn. Ave) in DC for her new collection of short stories. Free event! You should go.

Related: I have two tickets to see Lauren at Odyssey Books in South Hadley this Saturday that I won’t be using…

Can somebody, anybody please check on @stevevladeck.bsky.social and make sure he’s hydrating properly? Legit concerned for the guy.

2 positions of the crescent moon in twilight along the nearly vertical ecliptic line, with Venus, Saturn and Mercury.

Hi stargazers! Tonight, after sunset, check out the pretty waxing crescent #moon near #Saturn with elusive #Mercury nearby. Mercury is also at its greatest distance from the sun tonight. Can you spot Venus near the horizon? 🌒🪐🌌🔭

Watch this video for more information:
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📸 EarthSky.org