It’s still sanewashing to avoid saying “the president does not understand how third-grade calculations work”

House leaders pull Endangered Species Act bill The chamber was poised to vote on the Republican legislation Wednesday afternoon. Its future is now in limbo.

House leaders pull Endangered Species Act bill - E&E News by POLITICO | Great news, Republicans didn’t have the votes to gut endangered species protections.

Knife killings down by 21%, figures show The annual ONS crime data also shows overall recorded homicides have fallen.

Lots of "commentators" are rewarded for spreading lies and convincing you that everything is getting worse and you should be afraid. The good news is it's not: homicides at their lowest level in 50 years and killings involving a knife are at their lowest recorded level
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Your Guide to NASA's Budget How big is NASA's budget right now? What was it like in the past? How does it compare to the rest of government spending? These answers, as well as…

While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget.

NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy...

The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%.

NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

The fuel crisis is a transport crisis - and government is too slow to react ⌛

Sign the call for emergency bike networks 🙏

Join us in repurposing our streets to keep Aotearoa moving during the fuel crisis.

www.bikeauckland.org.nz/campaigns/fuel-the-futur...

#ShiftLanesNZ
#FuelTheFuture

A network diagram of New Zealand with train lines bewteen most cities and smaller cities connected by bus.

Wishing again that we had a nationalised regional transport authority with intercity trains (and buses) across the country.

“Russia can sustain extremely high levels of casualties and losses in human lives. They don’t care about people’s lives,” a Ukrainian officer told me. However, “it is painful for them to lose money.”

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

Three-ish panel comic: a pirate uses a telescope to look out onto the water and seems shocked. He yells out, “Captain! You’re not going to believe this!” Out on the water is what appears ostensibly to be a Pizza Hut, but underneath the surface we see the hut is actually attached to the head of a gigantic kraken squid monster.

Four years ago today, I posted my first beetle moses comic

Texas can require public schools to display Ten Commandments in classrooms, U.S. appeals court rules The ACLU said the decision "tramples those rights" of families "to choose how, when and if to provide their children with religious instruction."

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday.

Great to see them putting women right at the front of sport …

My illustration of a perched female kingfisher. Drawn in Photoshop using a Wacom Intuos drawing tablet.

Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon, female). From my book A Field Guide to Long Island Sound, Yale University Press, a.co/d/ffZ6GFP
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #kingfisher #LongIslandSound

A management firm is poised to profit off plan to divert local property taxes to charter schools Records show that Academica, a major for-profit manager of charter schools, has been working on legislation that would force county school districts to give more money to charters.

A management firm is poised to profit off #Florida plan to divert local property taxes to charter schools jasongarcia.substack.com/p/a-manageme... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social

“The NZ government is so abysmal it has reached the point of being condemned at the UN” should be a much bigger story than it currently is.

BENNET: Do you agree that 89% of children who died from flu were unvaccinated?

RFK Jr: I don't know the exact number

BENNET: That is the exact number, Secretary Kennedy

RFK Jr: *death growls*

BENNET: You took down the HHS communications promoting the flu vaccine. Do you regret that?

Dozens of American veterans and military family members were detained after they started protesting the Iran war inside a congressional office building in Washington D.C.
😁 🚨 They are Protesting. 👈 😁

The world is embracing offshore wind — even as the US retreats Over 9 GW of new offshore wind projects came online last year. The sector is set to grow even more as nations in Europe and Asia seek out domestic clean…

American exceptionalism.

Spain launches €7bn housing plan to tackle rent crisis Spain's government on Tuesday approved a sweeping plan to alleviate the country's housing problem, one of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's main political vulnerabilities ahead of next year's elections.

Well done Spain.
"The new plan, worth €7 billion, triples government investment in public housing over the next four years. It ensures that subsidised housing cannot be reclassified after a few years. It also includes help for young renters and home buyers"
www.euronews.com/business/202...

I love Harrison ford!!! What a babe!!! My 1998 diary

My diary from 1998 after I found Star Wars for the first time:

This is Fitz and June. Fitz just got here and thinks this place is pretty great. June was here first and thinks it's time to return Fitz. 13/10 for both (TT: muester)

Once again "the death of the West" meant "the death of my secret bank account."

This is why you don’t let billionaires run schools! He gets bored one day and suddenly hundreds of kids don’t have a classroom anymore.

Companies building data centers are "targeting" Indigenous communities where there is often less legal infrastructure to hold them accountable, says Krystal Two Bulls from @honortheearth.bsky.social.

"Right now, we're looking at about 103 to 160 proposed hyperscale data centers on Native lands."

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

NEW: New behind-the-meter data center projects using natural gas and linked to AI companies like OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI could emit greenhouse gases on the scale of nations, according to a WIRED review of permits. @mollytaft.com has the scoop:

New poll: 55% support impeaching Trump Support for impeachment rivals levels during Donald Trump's first presidency, when he was impeached twice, and for impeaching Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal

Support for impeaching Trump is at 55%, according to a new Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight.io poll, with 37% of adults opposed. Crucially 1 in 5 of Trump’s own voters support impeachment.

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"There is very little information or awareness that flows between prison and the outside ... Visual art and design are uniquely poised to break down this barrier, to bring people inside prison life and inside the reality of the impact and presence of carcerality in our world."

Southern Poverty Law Center says it is under Justice Department investigation The nonprofit on Tuesday said it is “the latest organization targeted by this administration.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is best known for its tracking of hate groups, said that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the nonprofit regarding their use of informants.

A color, macrophoto of a Robin perched on a branch in Virginia, during late April, 2026. The capture was taken during rain and the photographer snapped the photo at the split second a raindrop fell on the top of the bird's head, making it appear like a "natural" crown. 📸 Dawn Denise Boyer of Gloucester, Virginia

#WonderfulBirdWednesday

Right in the middle of rain, the photo was captured the split second a droplet of water landed on the #Robins head like a crown! 👑
04/2026

#Birds #Nature
#FlawlessTiming 🌟
#FMSPAD
#SomethingThatFlies
#Birdsky #Wildlife
#Photography
#BirdPhotography
#Macrophotography

The comments from both senior ministers on RNZ's Morning Report signalled the election campaign has well and truly begun, with Willis also saying Peters was "mischief-making". She went on to say that Labour was "choosing to get into bed with the party that referred to Indians choosing to come to New Zealand as a 'butter chicken tsunami'". Willis' comments were on the weekly Morning Report political panel alongside Labour's Tangi Utikere, who she accused of being in a party that was "courting exactly the same concerns that New Zealand First are trying to whip up" in regards to the New Zealand-India free trade agreement.

Nicola Willis, in coalition with NZ First, accusing Labour of jumping into bed with NZ First and using racist comments made by her coalition partner, NZ First.

I'm screaming. Y'all. Read the alt text. Please. 😭🤣