The “Dance of the thousand-hand Quanyin” is possibly the most famous and most spectacular visual display in which geometr yand synchronization create a kind of effective optical illusion. [📹 S. Yağmur]

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In the 1990s, a Japanese diver saved an injured fish 56 feet underwater, and ever since, the fish has swum to meet him on every single dive for over 25 years.

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A 91 year old woman in El Salvador started school for the first time, inspiring everyone that learning has no age limit.

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Send this to anyone in Tennessee who cares about public schools.

This is who voted to send $300,000,000 per year to kids already in private schools.

(From @tndems.bsky.social ) #LeesVoucherScam

“You use a stove every day, if that’s electric and that works well then I think people will accept the whole house going that way.”

In New York, a $32 million pilot program will install top-of-the-line induction stoves 10,000 public housing apartment units. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Union Now Is America’s New Strike Fund - The American Prospect The new nonprofit will put money directly into the hands of workers so they can fight harder and win bigger.

“The labor movement hasn’t had a national strike fund. [That] is a fundamental issue, a fundamental roadblock to organizing.” @flyingwithsara.bsky.social #unionnow prospect.org/2026/04/20/u...

Civil rights groups sue to keep DOJ from reviewing state voter lists Civil-rights groups are suing to prevent the Justice Department from collecting and reviewing state registration lists to weed out ineligible voters.

The Trump administration is misusing Americans' confidential data in order to create a national voter database to surveil and purge eligible voters.

We're going to court to stop them.

Testing finds toxic metals where Tesla discharges wastewater The drainage district that commissioned the testing has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company, which says it is in compliance with all requirements for its state wastewater discharge permit.

I’m shocked. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/21/t...

VA redistricting passes, which should add 4 more Dem seats. Trump started the mid-decade redistricting effort by pushing Texas to do in June 2025 when many Republicans felt it could backfire on them.

It has.

Armed 'No Kings' counter-protester in Tenn. faces new charges, including child porn A Murfreesboro man arrested last year after an armed confrontation with protesters at a Nashville "No Kings" rally faces new federal charges, including two counts of possessing child pornography.

Armed 'No Kings' counter-protester in Tenn. faces new charges, including child porn www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Solar’s exponential growth continues in 2025, overtaking wind for the first time 📈

A decade ago, solar was just a tenth of nuclear power ⚛️

Since then, solar generation has grown more than TENFOLD, and together with wind is likely to surpass nuclear in 2026

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Solar generation rose 636 TWh (+30%) in 2025 – the largest structural increase of any electricity source ever recorded.

2025 is the fourth year in a row that solar power recorded the highest absolute growth compared to other sources 🏆☀️

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We fucking warned y’all that this was the goddamned end goal for those smart glasses.

We need a labeler here that lets everyone know.

ACTUALLY WENT TO THE 2026 WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER

Cite the source?

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

(alongside images of the US, megaphones, Liam Conejo Ramos’ bunny hat, and signs that read “NO ICE WAREHOUSE,” “SHUTDOWN DETENTION CENTERS,” and “NOT HERE/NOT ANYWHERE”) NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION STOP ICE WAREHOUSE DETENTION APRIL 25, 2026

The regime is purchasing and converting warehouses to serve as concentration camps for the people ICE and Border Patrol disappear off the street — but local communities are fighting back. Join us at @detentionwatchnetwork.org's national day of action on Saturday: www.mobilize.us/disappearedi...

Find out about all the ways to get involved in this campaign.

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

Organize and Advocate to Abolish Detention Across the country, people are uniting to protect immigrant family members, friends, coworkers, and neighbors. ICE’s detention centers are everywhere, which makes federal policy a local issue in communities nationwide. Detention Watch Network advances federal advocacy to end immigration detention and supports local member and state-wide campaigns through information sharing, strategy development, public education and communications.

⚠️ ICE/DHS is creating a humanitarian and public health crisis by concentrating people into camps in inhumane conditions

Find out about ICE in your area: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/take-action/...

Find an org near you that’s fighting back: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/membership/d...

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Undocumented Immigrants Fear Tax Data Will Be Shared With ICE Fears that the I.R.S. could share their data with ICE have turned tax season into a gamble for people who are in the country illegally.

In 2023, immigrants contributed $651.9B in taxes. These tax contributions help sustain public services and programs that millions of Americans rely on. But fear that IRS data could be used for immigration enforcement is keeping many from filing—putting billions at risk.

Today in Baltimore, We Proved This Fight Is Working DHS went to court to defend their ICE warehouse plan and walked away with a judge openly laughing at their argument.

"Over the past several months, our community has built a blueprint that other communities can use when federal agencies attempt to move detention infrastructure into their neighborhoods..."

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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...

It’s weird how cops had armored troop carriers & swat teams but still couldn’t enter Uvalde classrooms or Hortman‘s house while she was dying

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

“This is a systemic violent act, to be detaining children, that has long-term consequences,” Kelley said. “It’s massively detrimental to the well-being of these families and our whole communities.”

Paris did this to huge success.

I'm 15 and can't drive. Here's why transit is a key to teen independence View this post on ggwash.org

For many teens, public transportation is the difference between independence and being stuck.

My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus

'Corruption Gala': Paramount CEO Hosting Honorary Dinner for Trump While Trying to Ram Through Mega Merger Progressive organizations protest Paramount CEO's "corruption gala" honoring Trump, denouncing media consolidation and conflict of interest.

'Corruption Gala': Paramount CEO Hosting Honorary Dinner for Trump While Trying to Ram Through Mega Merger

'Day of Ordinary Terror': Israeli Attack on West Bank School Kills Man, Child "It does feel like if a group of Palestinians with machine guns broke into an Israeli school and shot a bunch of children, it would be breaking news in every outlet on Earth," said one reporter.

"It does feel like if a group of Palestinians with machine guns broke into an Israeli school and shot a bunch of children, it would be breaking news in every outlet on Earth," said one reporter.

Boat Strike Survivors Say They Were Captured, Tortured by US Forces Survivors of alleged US boat bombings accuse American forces of abduction and torture.

Boat Strike Survivors Say They Were Captured, Tortured by US Forces