Maybe instead of renaming the “Department of Defense” the “Department of War” Pete should have more accurately called it the “Department of Expensive Humiliation”

Political cartoonists are better than mainstream media

Good heavens... I've seen less eye makeup on RuPaul's Drag Race.

Trump made headlines last month for saying “I love the inflation” when asked about rising costs amid the Iran War.

I wasn't a big reader before, I mostly just listened to an audiobook or two a year, or whenever @pockecbj.bsky.social and I have been traveling. But...I'm reading my first Ursula Le Guin book and enjoying it way too much. Up next is Kindred by Octavia Butler, who I also haven't read before!

WIDOW'S BAY is good. MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED is even better. It's like Hitchcock came back to do it one more time. And Tatiana Maslany is so good. The play of emotions on her face is pretty incredible. She goes from comic to terror in an instant.

Parade of Planets Western sky last night right after sunset. Venus, Jupiter, Crescent Moon and Mercury in a line Check it out tonight #Nature 🔭 #Photography #Science #NightSky #Jupiter #Venus #Mercury #Mindfulness #WitchSky #Photo #Crescent #CrescentMoon #Moon

Susan La Flesche Picotte: the first #NativeAmerican woman to earn a medical degree in the US. Living in an era when Native Americans were denied citizenship & women couldn't vote, she became an indispensable physician & fierce defender of her people's sovereignty. Born #OTD in 1865. #WomenInSTEM

America is ☠️ This is bullshit. Everyone should be standing up against this. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

"Why do innocent people flee the police?" Idk, maybe the fact that they kill newborn babies and puppies might have something to do with it. Just saying.

NEW: Across Africa, the State Department has demanded access to health data for millions of people as a condition of giving countries billions of dollars in aid needed to address HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and other illnesses.

Why does a secret "memorandum of understanding" feel exactly like the unreleased Epstein files.

OMG, could you imagine? Protocol is shoot at moving vehicle suspected of containing a shoplifter? Are police not trained in DEescalation, or has the overwhelming presence and abhorrent behavior of ICE set a tone of shoot first, ask questions never? 💔😠 www.nbclosangeles.com/news/nationa...

"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. "When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."

A green lane at Applethwaite in Cumbria this afternoon. I checked on the maps from the 19th century and this is called Stoneacre Lane.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙍𝙚𝙛𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙂𝙤 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙮 The Epstein case is no longer simply about Jeffrey Epstein. It is about public confidence in the equal application of justice. Victims came forward. Investigative failures have been documented. Questions remain about 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨, 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 .. 👇

Going on foreign soil and announcing, without *any* evidence that American elections are dishonest—simply because you are a lying sore loser—should be an impeachable offense. Presidents should not be allowed to intentionally undermine confidence in the US to leaders overseas.

Trump's homoerotic exclamations are now a daily thing. The US media is not permitted to remark on this, however.

When I head to Washington, I will be the first woman in Congress with a science PhD. That matters. At a time when science is under attack, Congress needs more leaders who understand the value of evidence-based decision-making.

NEW: Fed holds interest rates steady as Trump’s new chairman faces fresh inflation woes.

While Donald Trump tries to rewrite our nation's past, California embraces and learns from it. Through the Fourth of July weekend, get a FREE version of the State Parks Historian Passport for zero-cost entry at our 30+ state historic parks for the next year.

Multi-colored flower field of Farm Tomita in Furano city in Hokkaido Japan 🇯🇵 🌸🌼🌷🌻🌺

#TilesOnTuesday : “Winged porcine beast” China, 6th or 7th c. (Northern Qi or Tang dynasty) Earthenware w/ appliqué & glazed decoration On display at Princeton University Art Museum (1996-289) #ChineseArt

For #ReliefWednesday, an imperial motif with a bourgeois twist. This mid-to-late C3 sardonyx cameo from the catacombs of Cyriaca (Vatican Museums) shows Victory inscribing a shield. It’s a middle-class luxury echo of masterpieces like the bronze Victory of Brescia. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Nothing makes me want to read an intelligent book more than when Christians try to ban it.

In occupied Crimea, drivers are literally pushing their cars to the gas station in hopes of getting fuel. Except, there is no fuel. ​Fascinating. Getting real Flintstones vibes from this.

Photographer Alan McFadyen dedicated 4,200 hours and captured 720,000 images over six years to secure the perfect shot of a Kingfisher diving into the water without creating a splash.

I am buying music CDs again to listen to on my portable CD-player ... because fuck streaming services

🔥 Lemur Me Be: This Cutie is Under the Influence of Pure Sunshine

2:29 PM, the cottage garden: Crowley suggested we have a nap in the hammock. Together. Let me tell you, once you're finally in, you'd best be committed to staying for the duration, because one cannot simply tiptoe away from a hammock nap while the other is still sleeping! ✨️✨️✨️

1/2 ICE put a vulnerable asylum seeker out into the cold. She sat at a bus stop for days. Now her death is ruled a homicide. A government powerful enough to detain someone is powerful enough to keep them alive. This wasn’t bureaucracy. It was abandonment with a body count.

It was a stunning night for sunset at the Grand Marais lighthouse and the colors over the Sawtooth Mountains were amazing.

Two things I respect most about Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris is they don’t cower to men, and they speak the truth even when it’s unpopular! Hillary’s latest interview was nothing but the truth!

If you ever find yourself in Florida, I recommend driving 32 hours north west to Utah

OMB nominee Hal Duncan: “This administration is committed to gold standard science and wants to advance the best cancer research that we possibly can.” Sen. Slotkin: “Slashing cancer research…is not a way to uphold a gold standard for cancer research.”

MINUS: All that money to watch a tiny TV screen with grainy resolution. PLUS: "Cosmic avocado"

"I am Antifa"

One minute I'm telling my dog, "no, you can't have my bacon" Then he makes this face and I'm making him an omelette to go with it ... 😂 😂 😂

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No one will be hearing from this guy again any time soon.

Science is amazing

THERE WAS A FEMALE AG IN THE 1920s?!? How is she not talked about more for historic women in important positions? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_W...

Where were the riots? Why does the right wing sleep through all these events? Two Tier Policing - say whut now? & remember, Farage's nephew, got off VERY lightly with upskirting...

"The new charges come as other cases from the federal government against protesters have fallen apart." "MPR News noted that the office has so far dropped 18 of its 36 prior cases, including one where a judge called a charging document a “false affidavit”."

"Bradley Cooper is starring in a major Hollywood film about January 6th directed by Sean Penn. The officers who were beaten that day are going to have their stories told to millions of people. Justice cmes in many forms. This is one of them." Really American

The moon is beautiful tonight.