This👇🏼. AOC is the only one stating it clearly and plainly. Do I have any faith that the American people will ever elect a woman president someday? No. I hope I’m proven wrong.

Please consider pushing for legislation protecting dogs breeds from housing discrimination. Our Iroh has a very hard time finding a home because of how he looks, but he is a sweet boy. And even though he is not human, we shouldn’t penalize the people who lessen nonhuman suffering in the world.

Orphaned koala learns to climb trees under wildlife carer supervision in Australia - rescue centers train hundreds each year

Child: I know your name. Mamdani.

Obama: What’s his first name?

Child: Mayor.

hope is that over the next twenty years we shift the opinion around the ivy league. it’s not the best and brightest. it’s a daycare camp for the richest and most dysfunctional children in america.

real scholars go to michigan. they go to ucla and north carolina. they go georgia tech.

Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience

Baking set to opera. Found this weirdly satisfying.

900lb crates full of onions in a field

The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026

MetLife train tickets confirmed at $150, alternative bus priced at $80 per seat The Athletic first reported the pricing in a series of reports earlier this week, which ignited a row between New Jersey’s governor and FIFA

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: New Jersey Transit confirmed on Friday that World Cup match goers will be charged $150 for a return rail trip from New York's Penn Station to MetLife Stadium in New Jersey this summer. Tickets are ordinarily priced at $12.90.

bless Scaachi

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Global warming is making the strongest hurricanes stronger » Yale Climate Connections Recent studies link human-caused warming to more powerful, more destructive storms worldwide.

Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 16, 2026 ~ a hard wind

"... we now need a 'Category 6' rating for hurricanes with winds of 193 mph (311 km/h) or greater, because global warming is expected to cause significant increases in maximum potential intensity."

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While we’re at it…..a year ago the trump admin tried to erase Jackie Robinson’s military accomplishments.

The Dodgers response was to go to the white house where kershaw enthusiastically presented trump a jersey.

Omg, Bluesky, stop showing me pet death posts from people I do not follow. I do want to know if someone I know loses a pet, but not every time any person on the entire internet does.

We call ourselves "intelligent," yet the humblest fungus can decompose waste and build soil, a tree can harness solar energy, and a wetland can purify water—all without toxic byproducts. True intelligence is learning from these systems, not bulldozing them.

Bernie Sanders on Lebanon

#ethniccleansing #landgrab #warcrimes #Netanyahuisawarcriminal

We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.

Leonard Leo is a lawyer, but he's never argued a case in court. He's never held elected office.

But for years he rebuilt the American legal system, resulting in the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority.

(Published Oct. 2023)

This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two:

#war #climate

The happiness of this blind little dog when she was adopted is indescribable . 😍

Cow 🐄 enjoying music 💕

Most honest reporting in the past few weeks.

Can America’s Wolves Survive an Onslaught of Political Attacks? Gray wolves made an uneasy comeback in the Northern Rockies and are struggling to return to the Southwest. But legislation now working its way through Congress is being spurred by misinformation and myth, rather than science, and threatens to end wolf recovery in the U.S.

This article is a powerful reminder of what’s at stake for Mexican gray wolves. With only 319 in the U.S. and protections under threat because the House Natural Resources Committee is advancing a bill that would remove ESA safeguards, now is the time to act.
📣Take action: https://bit.ly/47i65QS

Here is someone running as a write-in to defeat Susan Collins in Maine and maybe people would find her as worth looking into as they find Graham Platner not worth looking into

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her.

Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

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What happened to "America First"?