Anat Rubin and I co-wrote a story for @calmatters.org about the people behind Sheriff Chad Bianco's "election investigation" -- sovereign citizens, Christian nationalists, and "constitutional sheriffs."
calmatters.org/investigatio...
Gift link: Mumps, Measles, and Rubella (MMR) vaccinations plummeted in Britain after the press hungry fraud Andrew Wakefield linked them to autism. This essayist's daughter died as a result. Wakefield, relocated in the US, is now the voice in RFK, Jr's ear www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
I have never said, or thought, this before, but I hope the owner doesn't poop scoop
Israeli Defense Minister Katz said he wants to do in Lebanon what was done in Rafah. I've seen firsthand how the Netanyahu government razed Rafah to the ground. No American taxpayer dollars should be used to support this.
Hot pink azaleas put on a a spring show in backyard shade garden
Nobody puts baby in a corner
A pair of azalea bushes in bright pink blossom frame the door of this 1949/50 house in Baltimore. Some find the pink garish but the bees and I dig it
I love this thread. Same in Baltimore. My house was built in 49/50. Azaleas in a wild, take-no-prisoners pink are also original and their reflected light also turns the living room and dining room pink when they are in bloom. Newly emerging bees bliss out for the duration of the bloom
Remarkable SCOTUS reporting in the NYTimes, which pretty much confirms what observers have always assumed, but still astonishes. (Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Baltimore judge, hearing the @mayorbmscott.bsky.social administration's case against Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming, appears skeptical. tinyurl.com/62wck64f What if blocking her subpoenas is “perceived as...denying the IG the opportunity to engage in their duties – that’s not a conflict?”
Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.
@hilzoy.bsky.social 👆
Every day should be International Bat Appreciation Day 🦇🦇🦇
How a childish zealot from TX and Ted Cruz acolyte became a "Senior State Department Official" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/w...
A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...
@idontseeanymethod.bsky.social 👆
The official Republican lockstep position on ALL environmental issues is now just f*** the environment.
"The Trump administration cut the agency deeply last year, leaving some forecasting offices short-staffed...
“You’re missing data from the Four Corners region, the northern Plains, part of the central Plains, and that’s where the storms were developing,” he said..."
www.nbcnews.com/weather/torn...
As if more proof were needed, the Republican Party is a smash and grab crime syndicate. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/c...
We do have sunshine in the UK too. Why aren’t we doing this?
1/ we have an incredible package out today on our AI overlords and how the entire world is being ravaged in their pursuit for domination www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This a great opportunity to make impact for a talented big tech campaigner. If you know someone it could fit, please share. Thanks! 👇
I'm glad you did. 🙏 Climate types and gardeners will recognize what it means. Altadena burned down last year. It will be rebuilt in some fashion but the Altadena where I farmed and gardened and where most of my friends lived, the place of those magnets, is gone. Or, rather, it's a state of mind now
Arborist: "most common fungi in sits. like these in maples are Oyster & Saddleback mushrooms". It'd take a squirrel with a GoPro to get a good shot when the fungi is in bloom. His team re-cabling the tree will be inspecting for damage. Tree's probably fine. Asking b/c dogs on ground ❤️ the remnants
A pug and a black lab on a bed
Their new mixtape drops Friday.
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The fridge magnets for Altadena with California poppies
Altadena
The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for.
apnews.com/article/pitt...
Photograph of a chunk of shrunken fungi sitting on a log. the Fungi was kicked out of an old silver maple by a nesting squirrel.
Photograph of limb join in the old maple where the fungi blooms every spring, the point highlighted by a red marker
Hello Bluesky fungi community. This fungus, which blooms in spring rains, shrinks with heat and is then ritually kicked out of the limbs of an old silver maple in Baltimore. Blooming location photo below, along with shot of remnants. Can anyone identify it? #fungi #FungiFriends
