A witch's broom, just rammed right through our little green fella (harmlessly, of course). Scoot and sploot!

John Roberts' wife is not the only Supreme Court spouse to shake down people with business before the court to give bribes. Ginni Thomas has a "consulting firm" (AKA a PO Box for checks) to funnel money to Clarence. #Corruption

"Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us."

#VAREADS - Awards VA READS awards an award each year to each category, Picture Books and Middle Grade Readers. Students, teachers and librarians are eligible to vote if they have read at least half of the books on t...

ahh yay hello sunshine was chosen for for inclusion on the 2026-2027 VA Reads list (Virginia Association of School Librarians)! i don't think voting is live yet (winners announced in may) but it's a reader's choice award for kids! very very cool

Groups Sue Administration Over Approval Of Ultra-Deepwater Oil Drilling Project In Gulf Five Gulf and environmental groups have sued the Trump administration over its approval of BP’s new ultra-deepwater oil drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico.

"BP’s first completely new oilfield in the Gulf since the company’s Deepwater Horizon disaster 16 years ago.

It will be deeper than Deepwater Horizon, and in riskier waters... drilling 6 miles below the sea floor, deeper than the height of Mt. Everest"

www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2026/04/grou...

I love when people explain how the world works.

Also. . . yikes

Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.

In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.

Most people have no idea. 🧵

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If you're creeped out by Palantir's settler colonial white supremacist manifesto (and you should definitely be creeped out), it's time for you to take action. Join the rapidly growing #PurgePalantir campaign to learn more about what you can do! purgepalantir.com

does anybody have reading recs (nonfiction) for researching 1920s-era eugenics? I'm looking particularly when it comes to mental illness or disability broadly and particularly in America or Canada but if you have good stuff on any front let me know

asking because hello sunshine book 3 is gonna involve this dude and I need to dig into it

John in a blue and pink shirt lettered shirt saying “empathy is cool, actually” on a black background and I’m standing behind him pointing to the lettering on the shirt

Important PSA from @scalzi.com and his hype man (me): EMPATHY IS COOL, ACTUALLY

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Rosemary. I have an urge to just roll around in that stuff.

A Court Without the Range The Reconstruction Court 2.0

Reupping this for no particular reason at all.

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palantir should be viewed as the enemy of modern society

bastards

personally I agree that we should indeed reject the hollow pluralism of pretending that we shouldn't judge Klan, Nazi, and sparkling eugenicist subcultures according to what they have historically produced, and would enthusiastically endorse rejecting inclusion of them in public life

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

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Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Not a dime of taxpayer money or govt contracts should go to Palantir.

Gonzo can get some

Ouch! I hope you recover quickly!

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

not to be too revealing but Amazon's been selling my book accidentally for $0 for probably 6 months haha. fuck Amazon. always buy local if you can

England fans facing hugely inflated prices to get to New Jersey's MetLife Stadium for World Cup games The cost of getting the train from New York to the venue, where the Three Lions play Panama in their final group game, will be £111 - nearly 12 times the usual fare.

Dear fellow Brits, from this Brit-American:

Please don't come here. It's dangerous. You may be targeted, arrested and unlawfully detained - likely courtesy of ICE - without access to legal representation.

I've told my family to stay away.

Please boycott America. 🇬🇧💙

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Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

OOP

New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

I like this tree!