This gal seems like a way better choice than Platner so why aren’t we talking about her

Opinion | The Trump Administration Is Coming After Birth Control Access in a Terrifying New Way

Gift article that is one giant AAARGGHH

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...

Data center ban on the Ohio ballot? Petitioners get approval to start gathering signatures • Ohio Capital Journal Ohio Residents for Responsible Development can start collecting signatures to get a proposed constitutional amendment to prevent new, large data centers in Ohio on the November ballot.

Yes and in my research on data center organizing I stumbled across a potential ballot initiative against it in Ohio too!

ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/03/d...

#BookSky /me adds to reading list 😍

Data Center Policy in Practice Training Series

Data Center Policy in Practice Training Series - starts this week.
events.zoom.us/ev/AjDEwb0rp...

Seconded, with long frustrated groan

Applications are open for SONG’s upcoming Data Center Organizing School in Atlanta, GA May 22-24. Deadline to apply 4/27 -

Had an echocardiogram this morning & there was this moment where I understood, looking at my heart on the screen, that I was in the presence of the sacred

Our hearts are extraordinary. So is the science we’ve made to see them

TIL about the #AMOC & the risk if it collapses. 2min thread, well supported by current research & well footnoted. We need to spread awareness of the #AMOC & potential collapse, esp to policymakers

Not a dime of taxpayer money or govt contracts should go to Palantir.

The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar.

Apparently like every day.

You might think, “but how will we know if student outcomes are improving without testing?” and the answer is that we must support and then trust our teachers. Teachers spend their lives working with and understanding students. Many of these regimes emerged out of not trusting teachers.

We owe each other a country where at least the things that two-thirds of Americans can agree on actually get done. When something is broken in this country, we have to do what it takes to fix it.

Thank you, Tulsa, for the warm welcome back - and for showing us what a better future looks like.

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If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

Watching the Cub face new situations, & learning so much about both of us.

I had forgotten that 13 is SO HARD. They are doing so many things for the first time. They’ve already gotten their heart broken. Remember your first heartbreak? …Yeah. Like that.

A tabby kitten sits on Loïs Mailou Jones's right shoulder, watching intently as her human works on a canvas.

Artist and educator Loïs Mailou Jones in her studio with her cat, c. 1937–38. #Caturday
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Trump and Republicans’ reckless military spending is forcing American taxpayers to bear the burden. 

Let’s think about what we could have instead of this unconstitutional war of choice…

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Trump and the future of the Democratic Party NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Mayor Zohran Mamdani about New York City, President Trump and the future of the Democratic Party.

If you need 7 minutes of uplift today, brought to you w/practicality, clarity, and kindness, try Leila Fadel's interview of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

"The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery." --Zohran Mamdani

www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

Sending hugs. Ugh.

Meant to add, mushroom logs are surprisingly easy to make, especially if you have a friend with a drill & a bit of shaded space in your back patio, apartment balcony, or (in my case) jungle-like gimp garden

A pile of about 13-15 shiitake mushrooms of different sizes on a yellow checked oilcloth

Spring harvest from our two 2022 shiitake logs ❤️🍄‍🟫

Non-profit news: Filed our 1023EZ! We're doing the thing! Or more of the things!

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

#SnortLaughoftheDayAward but also appreciate the reminders about data security ❤️🏳️‍🌈

If he ever apologizes, Vance’ll invoke the 25th 🤣

YES #ThisIsHow #resistanceaction

Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try

Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart.

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Honestly, nothing of importance? Narcissist is narcissisting

Someone said to me today that what would really make news is if the current US President apologized to someone