Unlike Texas, VA maps approved by voters
Unlike Texas, VA maps temporary
Unlike Texas, VA maps only drawn in response to other states
Unlike Texas, VA maps not racial gerrymander
Impressive work! Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections boltsmag.org/your-state-b...
Malus, which is a piece of satire but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell software without crediting the original developers.
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
An interesting springtime parasite and its host.... bugeric.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-... #bugwatching #bugsky #insects #bees
It's not just that the jaws are big. All Myrmecia have big jaws. But most are pretty generalist, and their jaws are evenly toothy.
Myrmecia piliventris's jaws are like long sticks, with no teeth on them except the very tip, leaving a large gap of the sort that might fit around a roach neck.
Big jaws are a big help in capturing big cockroaches it seems.
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon
An immigration judge on Thursday ruled against the deportation of a Pennsylvania man who had spent 43 years in prison and was set to be freed after his murder conviction was overturned, only to be picked up by immigration agents immediately after. Subramanyam Vedam, 64, was a green card holder who came to the United States with his parents from India when he was 9 months old. He was exonerated in October, after a judge vacated his murder conviction based on ballistics evidence that prosecutors had failed to disclose during his trials.
exonerated after FORTY THREE years in prison, only to end up falling in ICE detention immediately
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...
The Trump admin is trying to roll back protections around Chaco Canyon, harming cultural resources and lands that communities fought decades to protect.
Chaco is not for sale. I’ve taken on Trump before to protect Chaco, and I’m ready to do it again.
www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...
Allegory of worldly intoxication from an illustrated ms of the Divan of Hafez. Safavid period Iran, reign of Shah Tahmasp, ca. 1526-27
Charlie Brown's mom - Wah waaah wah wah waaaah wah.
Charlie Brown - You can't use that word when talking about Franklin, mom.
Pfizer has ended its large Phase III Trial of an updated COVID19 vaccine.
They were not able to enroll enough people to meet their goal.
A major problem is the FDA’s wholly unreasonable demand that people with chronic conditions, who benefit most from the vaccine, not be allowed to participate.
💚 Burnside Bridge Portland, Oregon
i may or may not have spotted a certain tall state senator who wants nancy pelosi’s job at the #nokings march and shouted “no kings no garry tan funded oligarchs!” in his general direction
This is not something that can possibly be described in text. But here goes: it’s an edit of cartoonist Asher Perlman’s “he’s going for the (band name)” comic, but with “Cow Tools” instead of a jukebox.
@asherperlman.bsky.social
Scarlet butler (Penstemon centranthifolius), bunch of red tubes on a tallish stem
Peninsular fishhook cactus (Cochemiea dioica), small spiny column with long, thin, red hook-shaped spines and a couple small cream flowers
Beavertail cactus (Opuntia basilaris), big magenta flower emerging from gray-green pad.
Notch-leaf scorpionweed (Phacelia crenulata), little plant with three purple flowers with white centers
Yes! The big blooms are over but there are still lots of flowers. Most of the cacti have started blooming.
Left Borrego Springs at 10:45 this morning. The rental car said the temperature was 102F already.
Oman, a plan, a canal.
🏆🥇💍 See you there!
We were in such an airy elevation above the creeping populations of the earth, that now and then when the obstructing crags stood out of the way it seemed that we could look around and abroad and contemplate the whole great globe, with its dissolving views of mountains, seas and continents stretching away through the mystery of the summer haze.
Great write-up. As Mark Twain wrote in Roughing It (1872).
Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.
Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.
We have until March 6 to comment on whether there should be one million more satellites in orbit or thousands of mirrors that reflect light back at Earth Jesus Fucking H Christ on a Pogostick
The coldest Feb 18th ever recorded in Oakland.
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees.
"This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Protesters gathered near the Grand Lake Theatre to demonstrate against President Trump prior to the private screening of GOAT, a film produced by Golden State Warriors star guard Steph Curry on Tuesday in Oakland.
📽️: Yalonda M. James/S.F. Chronicle
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
