For Sunday #Stunday, a male Green-winged Teal, eyes closed, with a reflection in still blue water. #birds #photography #ECK #WestCoastKin #PhotographersUnited

The barrel bottom has now been scraped clean

This is genuinely impressive. Ossoff knows what he is doing.

Watch Jon Ossoff rip Trump over his incessant Iran war lies. 😳👇

this would be an excellent troll that would likely prompt trump to try to force the issue with SCOTUS

The Guardian International front page headline as of 4 pm PT on April 18, with the headline "Middle East crisis live: Trump leaves Situation Room to golf as ships report attacks and Iran closes strait of Hormuz"

Absolutely bizarre world.

I visited Fort Sumter in 2020. First thing the park guide said as folks got off the boat: "The Civil War was about slavery. There is no honest debate. No, I will not debate you. No, you don't have evidence. The people with evidence all know it's about slavery. Enjoy your visit."

ANY democrat who has succeeded in business or investing has betrayed the communist manifesto that we all swear to at birth

Photo of short ‘Koi’ Avens Geum coccineum blooming front with taller grape hyacinths behind. Photo by Angela Matteson

I planted this ‘Koi’ Avens Geum last year. This is the first year I’m seeing it in bloom, and I didn’t know it would be so early. I’m loving this cutie against the grape hyacinths! 🌱

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama read a picture book to a group of children.

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh with a group of children.

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh.

Children hug Mayor Mamdani.

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx. 

In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

It would also use Congress’ power under Article 3 to limit SCOTUS’ appellate jurisdiction and move much of that to a randomly selected panel of Senior Circuit court judges. In combination, that would effectively eliminate SCOTUS’ ability to act as a political, rather than judicial entity.

My bill, the Restoring Judicial Separation of Powers Act would, among other things force SCOTUS to provide written, signed explanations of all their decisions. casten.house.gov/imo/media/do...

American Kestrel deep dive. Toronto, Canada, April 17th 2026.
Photo by Jose Raposo

Close up of firey orange tulips in a field in full bloom.

Rows of firey orange tulips in a field. The rows of flowers seem endless.

Rows of firey orange tulips in a field. The rows of flowers seem endless. To the right are also white rows and to the very far right some pink ones.

Firey orange tulips in a field photographed from above, looking down into the flowers.

It's tulip season in Holland right now and we stopped in the countryside on our way home today to look. These orange ones were incredible. This field seemed to go on endlessly.

Could be the goal if it triggers some kind of market crash, to keep the pump & dump cycle going.

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

This war ends with us paying a bajillion dollars as a bribe and giving up all rights of navigation along the strait grandpa just doesn't know it yet

Can’t tell you how many high level DC insiders have said to me in past two days they don’t believe anything WH says unless it is confirmed by Iran. And the smart ones want confirmation by Iranian actions not just words. Trump credibility even among GOPers is zero. Less than that.

So is that 4 war crimes or one really big one?

"Relying overwhelmingly on their homegrown drone industry and military structure, Ukrainian forces have regained the initiative in many areas. In recent months, they have reportedly caused more casualties than Russia can replace—and have taken back more territory than Russia has seized."

Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It's the opposite of his intention, but the Idiot Emperor is forcing the world off fossil fuels. This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What a great interview! Sex tapes, zebras, and an inside look at the collapse of Orban's dictatorship. Hungary was the actual model for Trump, Bannon, Thiel & Musk to take over the US; here's how Hungary got rid of Orban (and what we'll have to do).
Prefer the transcript? It's below the video.

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room.

The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction.

The Health guy collects raccoon dicks.

It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

We have a serious problem with appellate courts not having district courts' backs on things like fact-intensive injunctions.

The Trump administration literally lied about the need for ballroom construction, and the appeals court is saying we like to be lied to.

Man does all this feel like it's leading up to "Democrats win a landslide in 2026, barely retake the Senate, then Fetterman becomes the deciding vote to let Trump appoint replacements for Thomas and Alito"

This wasn’t their fucking place to do anything but as political operatives of course it was

Beautiful display of tulips in terracotta pots. In the walled garden.

Pink and white tulip display.

Tulips in the walled garden at Attingham Park National Trust. 😁🌱

#gardenfeed #UKnature #Shropshire @nationaltrust.org.uk

They hate how much sense he makes, and how very normal he is when he makes sense.

Netanyahu has removed 40 thousand homes in Lebanon in less than a month . This war criminal needs to be brought to final Justice.

Straight up milking the market