Wow. It’s the 120th anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake and the Chronicle has a pretty good write-up on Northern San Andreas earthquake mean recurrence intervals.
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/e...
I sampled this profile (dark brown, left) on top of the lateral moraine of Argentiere Glacier 15 yrs ago!
It basically no longer exists today, bedrock is outcropping everywhere!
These moraines won't be around much longer!
You mean Trump is bringing back the DRAFT?
Iran War Live Updates: Two Ships Are Fired On As Iran Says the Strait of Hormuz is Closed Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they were closing the strait until the U.S. blockade is lifted. Two ships reported being hit as they tried to cross the strait.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
I’m older than you, and I remember back in my right wing talk radio days, we’d make fun of the left for being “snowflakes” who needed their “safe spaces” from speech that hurt their feelings. Looks like the right are now the too easily offended snowflakes who need their safe spaces from free speech.
Melania Trump’s past is facing new scrutiny after a key witness says she witnessed “highly compromising interactions” tied to Paolo Zampolli’s modeling network, where young women met wealthy figures like Donald Trump.
NEW: Lawmakers defeated a bill to create surveillance systems on the Maine Turnpike. We hope lawmakers continue working with transportation safety experts to find other solutions that will keep our roads – and our right to move freely – safe.
Oh my goodness. Can we do "books on laptops" next? Let kids smell books ... feel the pages... love the covers... learn to care for & protect important things they'll wind up sharing w/ others (future students)... They've lost cursive, handwriting, personal interaction (cell phones) ... I like this.
Bring back republican simplicity
No matter how they spin it, this cease-fire is putting us in a worse place than where we were before.
I'm still thinking on the Melania thing. There is some scam behind this.
ME TO CAT: You get fed every day at 6
CAT: Cool, cool cool, I'll start howling at you about it at 3:45 so you don't forget.
ME: I've literally never forgotten.
CAT: So the reminders are working...
In his first 100 days, Zohran Mamdani has:
-Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by gig companies
-Cracked down on predatory landlords
-Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program
-Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets
This is what leadership looks like.
We can be fairly certain Melania's statement last night was at least partly an attempt to stave off Amenda Ungaro's claims bc AFTER she made it, Paolo Zampolli told the Daily Mail he would back her story under oath.
emptywheel.net/2026/04/09/m...
Try to put yourself in a position where you do not have to hold press conferences about your relationship with the world's biggest sex trafficker/pedophile.
MAGA tends to be this small minded and petty, IME. Incel, abusive, BPD, misogynists, pedo tendencies, antisocial behaviors, compulsive lying and stealing, manipulative, and apathy/apathetic.
They're always "THAT guy" in the room, iykwim.
"The Iranian people were as close as they’d come since 1979 to overthrowing their torturers and oppressors. Then Trump got involved."
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No. Let's tell 15-19 year olds to start poppin' out kids like it ain't no thang. Right? Christian Conservatives? You're gross. 🤢 All of you who can't see through this hypocritical messaging.
Bad news folks: teen pregnancy is down.
h/t @apocalypticanow.bsky.social
Wisconsin State Assembly Districts Won
2024 Presidential:
🔴 Trump 50
🔵 Harris 49
2026 State Supreme Court:
🔵 Taylor 70
🔴 Lazar 29
Taylor carried a supermajority of State Assembly districts.
mRNA research is going to revolutionize humanity's experiences with disease (cancers, etc..) and vaccines. This guy - who has ZERO medical experience is taking these opportunities away from all of us. How absolutely debased do you have to be to believe this is 'right'. To *want* this for others.
In fifty years when people look back at the past decade or so, the big world-changing technological innovation won't be the chatbot slop machines, it'll be mRNA.
1/ This is in direct violation of how our government buildings and monuments were designed.
The founding folk wanted a distinctly NON-MONARCHICAL style of architecture and design, to prove to all who could see that the U.S. was a democratic republic, NOT a monarchy.
Group hug!
Safe travels and enjoy the ride to the crew of Artemis II, who'll come home this evening and have done more to humanise spaceflight in my lifetime than anything else I can remember ❤️
#ThanksIHateIt It gives me the heebeejeebees. I don't like it. There's something about it, and I'm going to be even more forthright when I say, this style has a bad vibe... negative juju... and if we're forced to put it up I hope we can also tear it down. Let it be the first if it has to be.
All of Trump's architectural plans look like a low-budget non-union remake of The Man In The High Castle
I'm still dying to find out whether Trump tried to destroy video evidence on servers by draining the pool into the server room.
Toad&Co has joined the Save the Forest Service movement!
