PV providing 589 watts, 345 baseload usage, battery charging at 244 watts.
By 8:15am today solar was generating 70% more than our baseload usage.
On a cloudy day, in England, in April!
In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.
249 years later, we have this idiot.
It’s Election Day in Virginia! Vote YES for fair elections! Protect your voting power!
#VoteVA
Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings
Secretary of War Pete Hegs... # © • 39m The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.
Make this make sense.
They are all fucking idiots.
www.history.com/articles/sma...
Run the Maths...
You can only contract Influenza A if a given strain - once
Cövid is readily available for repeated infections 3-4 times/year
Virginia, tomorrow is how we fight back!
The maps decide who has power before a single vote is cast. Either politicians keep rigging the lines, or voters take it back. This is how we win. #VoteYesVirginia
Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
All the talk is of a blue wave in the 2026 Midterms. But Republicans do not need to get more popular to hold the House - they just need to stop enough Democrats voting in key seats.
I've done a deep dive in my latest post.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/how-republ...
WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
Trump admits his "working class" moments for the cameras were all staged. He calls the photo ops "a little bit tacky" and "embarrassing” - which is ironic since Trump is so tacky and embarrassing all the time. All the rich do is lie to workers. That’s America.
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
📣 Elections for state Treasurer, Auditor, Comptroller, etc. don't get much attention, but they're vitally important (and are often stepping stones to higher-profile offices).
Donate today to help keep & flip STATE EXECUTIVE seats blue! #Blue26
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Yikes — “Military advisers intentionally excluded Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes extraction of a downed American airman in Iran, fearing his erratic temper would jeopardize the mission, WSJ reported…” www.jpost.com/internationa...
Worth adding that Russia did as a matter of fact intervene for Trump in 2016 and that the evidence is widely known, abundant, and collected in various forms (🧵 1/3)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
BREAKING: New data shows ZERO oil tankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz today, signaling what appears to be a complete shutdown of the Strait for the first time in history.
The Strait normally carries about 20% of the world’s oil supply.
Alt text: Screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Abdulkhaleq Abdulla (@Abdulkhaleq_UAE), with a verified badge. The post reads: “This is what I told Reuters today: The UAE no longer needs America to defend it, as it has proven during the Iranian aggression that it is capable of defending itself with distinction. What the UAE needs is to acquire only the best and latest weapons that America has. Therefore, it is time to think about closing the American bases, as they are a burden and not a strategic asset.” The post is labeled “Translated from Arabic by Grok” and shows a timestamp of 10:21 AM · 4/19/26 with 139K views.
NEW: UAE scholar Abdulkhaleq Abdulla says the UAE no longer needs U.S. protection, calling American bases a “burden, not a strategic asset” and suggesting they should be closed. The United States’ standing in the region has been obliterated.
In a world where exploitative billionaires and corporate interests seek to increase their authority over us, it is now more important than ever to support our community and worker-owned businesses, to build solidarity and support networks so that everyone can live fine and free.
go.bsky.app/UsAcPoV
ALA Clean Air School Symposium NOTE: All times listed below are in Central Time. Agenda times and order of topics are subject to slight change. 10:00 AM: Opening Remarks + The Case for Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) 10:50 AM: Core Elements and the Intersection of IAQ and Energy Efficiency 11:25 AM: Voices from the Field - a Panel Discussion 11:55 AM: Break 12:05 PM: Taking Action: 6 Key Drivers 12:35 PM: How to Make it Happen - Programs and Resources for Schools 12:50 PM: Voices from the Field - a Panel Discussion 1:30 PM: Closing Remarks and Adjourn Featured Speakers Speaker list and bios coming soon!
The American Lung Association is hosting a 3.5-hour virtual "Clean Air School Symposium" on May 5.
Register: action.lung.org/site/TR?fr_i...
COVlD advocacy work within a larger professional organization? Please reach out via DM or email (googleable)
Are you doing any #COVID advocacy work within a broader professional organization?
If so, please reach out. We're doing some organizing in this area. It would help to know any successes or pain points. Thanks! DM or email (googleable)
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Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."
At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software
📢 We've reached *3000* documented authoritarian-like actions of Trump's second term since Jan 2025...
the two most recent are classic suppression of the press & using the justice system to attack political enemies
www.trumpactiontracker.info
Who can tell me about snakes?
We monitor WW for Arenaviruses, because they can be scary.
On several occasions we've detected Reptarenavirus sequences, sometimes a lot of it.
They only seem to infect boa constrictors and pythons.
How's it getting in WW?
Everything known about the hyper-mutated BA.3.2 variant ("Cicada") of #SARSCoV2. While there's no cause for alarm, continued genome surveillance of this virus is essential.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
"These days, I’m feeling more aligned with Catholicism than I have since my first communion. I’m not alone in that," writes @sulliview.bsky.social.
Of all the things that absolutely did not happen…
