They charge the big bucks. How could they not double, triple check?

If a college education did nothing but prevent you from ever acting like you were 100% sure about something ever again, & made you feel like you always needed to learn more & question your assumptions, it would be the best education money could buy, & worth the government providing it free to all.

Simple rule: the Senate should not confirm any appointee to any post who can’t say clearly who legitimately won the 2020 presidential election. Not just who was “installed”, but who won the vote and the electoral college.

Oh fuck

And .. here come the Freedom of Information Act requests for Kash Patel records

DC watchdog group Democracy Forward has formally requested Patel's calendars & any messages from security detail that include words "drinking", "hungover", "inebriated"

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Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com In a world wounded by arrogance, people hunger and thirst for justice. We must encourage those who believe in peace and dare to engage in "countercurrent" politics, which focus on the common good. What is urgently needed is the courage of new visions and an educational pact that gives young people space and trust. #ApostolicJourney #EquatorialGuinea vatican.va/content/leo-xi... 8:31 AM • 4/21/26 • 142K Views

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com The rapid technological evolution we are witnessing has accelerated speculative behavior in search of raw materials. This shift seems to overshadow fundamental imperatives such as the safeguarding of creation, the rights of local communities, the dignity of labor, and the protection of public health. I thus renew the appeal of Pope Francis, who passed away exactly one year ago: "Today we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills." 8:31 AM • 4/21/26 • 32K Views

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com Even more than in the past, it is clear today that the proliferation of armed conflicts is often driven by the exploitation of oil and mineral deposits, with no regard for international law or the self-determination of peoples. 8:31 AM • 4/21/26 • 58K Views

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com Without a change of direction in the assumption of political responsibility, and without respect for institutions and international agreements, humanity's destiny risks being tragically compromised. God does not want this. His holy Name must not be profaned by the desire for domination, arrogance, or discrimination. Above all, it must never be invoked to justify death-dealing choices and actions. 8:31 AM • 4/21/26 • 57K Views

Pope Leo:

“Even more than in the past, it is clear today that the proliferation of armed conflicts is often driven by the exploitation of oil and mineral deposits, with no regard for international law or the self-determination of peoples.”

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This is Jemma and Bean. Jemma likes to eat her cheese snacks. Bean prefers to eliminate hers. 13/10 for both (TT: bjkuhn)

There's playing & feeling & whatever this is - riding a wave in the air that I only ever saw Hendrix ride, honestly

It’s horrible, yes, but it’s also kind of funny that all of these people are too afraid of Trump to say in public that he lost that election. Every Democrat should ask each one the same question just to emphasize what craven buffoons they are.

WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein?

KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed

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.

General George Washington required Continental Army soldiers be inoculated for smallpox. We would not have won independence if he hadn’t.

You dumb chucklefuck.

The far side of the Moon seen from Artemis II, revealing a heavily cratered surface that is lit from the right side of the picture. The terminator runs from the bottom middle to the left middle, and craters along that line are sharper in detail.

#PPOD: In this photo taken on April 6, 2026, a portion of the Moon’s far side is seen along the terminator—the boundary between lunar day and night—where low-angle sunlight casts long shadows across the surface. 🧪 🔭

when they get older they'll wait for Godot.

Can’t wait to see this.

Riz Ahmed on Hamlet’s To Be or Not to Be “It’s a far more confronting and radical speech . . . It’s actually a speech about resistance. Do I have the courage to fight back against injustice and oppression, even if it means I might lose everything? I might lose my life.”

From 1953, Ava Gardner photographed by Norman Parkinson, #BOTD.

Disease used to kill more soldiers than munitions, but go off.

Photographer Eve Arnold, born 21 April 1912.

Yeah, this is exactly what we want for our crack military forces, orders from a Christian nationalist drunk with shit for brains putting them in danger of debilitating illness.

Three Girl Rhumba (2006 Remastered Version) YouTube video by Wire - Topic

Happy 75th birthday to Robert Grey!
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An epic bridge opening ceremony in #Helsinki on Saturday. So many happy people. #cycling #onelesscar #KruunuvuoriBridge

The Ticket Window. Here is a bloody beauty for my forthcoming photo exhibition on this rare and endangered feature of railway architecture – a triplet! Dunedin station, NZ Aotearoa.
#trains #railways #architecture

That was the first time I saw Ida Lupino when I was young. Didn’t know that I’d become such a huge fan of her acting and directing. So many great actors I saw first on TZ.

Booted Eagle / Hieraaetus pennatus, 1801-7?, by Lady #ElizabethSymondsGwillim (British, 1763-1807), who was born #otd, Apr 21. Held by McGill Libraries, archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/bo... #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory #ElizabethGwillim

Trump is on TV now talking about perhaps resuming the bombing of Iran.

Almost two months since he started the war.

And the position of GOP members of Congress is that the people's representatives in Congress should have no say on this. They really do think Trump should have the power of a king.

Nothing says sexy like mouth breathing your way through allergy season.

Those were the days.

Thom Yorke - From the Basement - Down is the New Up YouTube video by carneirooo

“Your services
Are not required
Your future's bleak
You're so last week”
~ Down is the New Up/Radiohead

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“The mountains are calling and I must go and I will work on while I can, studying incessantly.”

~John Muir, 1873.

Naturalist/philosopher/author/conservationist John Muir was born in Scotland on this day 188 years ago: Apr. 21, 1838.

Image: Library of Congress.