Thank you! 🇺🇲

Oh, there's a tulip in the picture? 😍 #poodle

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed an executive order banning state employees from using insider info to bet on prediction market apps like Kalshi and Polymarket, warning the unregulated boom “opens the door to insider trading and abuse.”

ATTN: @starsandstripes.bsky.social @votevets.org
Afghanistan vets must rise up against this betrayal!

We have to stay focused on what is in front of us.

We must win the midterms. But we must also have a vision for when we are in power to address childcare, housing, and health care and make life more affordable.

After almost 2-year lapse, Oregon counties get nearly $100 million from Secure Rural Schools The U.S. Forest Service and Oregon’s U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced the state would get $48.6 million in the current fiscal year to distribute to 30 rural counties and their schools.

The U.S. Forest Service and Oregon’s U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced the state would get $48.6 million in the current fiscal year to distribute to 30 rural counties and their schools.

After a year of turmoil, cancer researchers see promising signs for mRNA vaccines | CNN The mRNA-based Covid vaccines helped blunt the impact of the pandemic but also sparked political backlash that has threatened to slow or derail dozens of potential cancer treatments. Now there are sig...

Cancer researchers see promising signs for mRNA vaccines, both universal and personalised.

Anti-Submarine Warfare Is Returning to the North Atlantic
🎁 Gift Article 🎁

A tiny special kitten has grown into a cat that doesn't take no for an answer when it comes to being friends. #catsofbluesky
IG: @bunsenbernerbmd.bsky.social

🇪🇺🇺🇦 A decision on granting Ukraine a €90 billion EU loan will be made within the next 24 hours, - Kaja Kallas.

The Bestest Good Girl Turns Six

You can read Jason’s heartfelt article about Beaker in celebration of her birthday here:

bunsenbernerbmd.substack.com/p/the-bestes...

You might need some tissues.

I can't seem to escape this video of a deaf couple w/ a shop in the Himalayas on Reddit, so apparently I'm supposed to share it: #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

A tiny ecosystem emerges from a drop of water taken from beached kelp on the PNW coast, revealing the wonders of marine life hidden in plain sight.

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Woah--here is the current view from Northern Minnesota. Check this out! Prolonged -Bz with solar wind speeds > 500 km/s are creating some mid-latitude displays for the northern tier of the U.S. tonight!

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When you really need to let people know where the best bit of the text is located - 15th century, Avignon, Bibliothèque Ceccano - 1094, f. 195v

Portland is close

If you live in Virginia, then this is your chance to FIGHT BACK against Republicans' attempts to steal the House with gerrymandering.

The vote is tomorrow, and you can register SAME DAY to cast your ballot.

#VoteYesVirginia

Dark skies and purple clouds over the lit up lilac ocean. With the moon and Venus right in the middle.

The moon and Venus just after sunset on Maui.

#marinelife #nature #photography #eastcoastkin #love #nokings

There was a goose on the field at Wrigley, they played on

That's one swinging chick!

"Where do you see yourself in 5 years?"

me:

Photo of a baby goat with very light brown coat with dramatic dark brown markings accenting his face.

Baby Floyd. 💕 Most male baby goats in the dairy industry are sold for meat. We're so happy that we were able to save Floyd and his brother Cornelius. What you can't see in the photos and videos (yet) is that they both have tiny little horn buds starting! We do not disbud any babies here.

It's only called ennui if it's from the Ennui region of France. Otherwise it's called sparkling boredom.

The El Gamal family will be released! Today, a federal judge ordered the end of their imprisonment at the Dilley trailer prison. They had been suffering at Dilley for nearly a year—the mother was rushed to the hospital last week and the five-year old daughter had been denied dental care.

Excited to share some good news for Illinois families — we’ve reached over 100,000 children in our state receiving books from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

Let’s keep reading.

It's official: The House has sworn in Democratic Rep. Analilia Mejia.

As Trump’s lies get more egregious (and repetitive) I have at least noticed fewer mouth-breathing bootlickers willing to defend him in my comments.

And the administration is leaking about how he’s hurting negotiations and how they’re keeping him on the sidelines.

I’ll call that progress.

I'll say again that deleting this app from my phone was a terrific decision and long overdue.

There's a time and place for social media, but we don't need to carry around the Hot Take and Misery Matrix everywhere we go.

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