At Cerro Pelon, the monarch sanctuary.

You did it! Thank you for voting. Democrat Catelin Drey has flipped an open Iowa state Senate seat, raise a glass! This victory means Republicans no longer hold a supermajority in Iowa.

Minnesota ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

If Jeff Bezos was actually a feminist instead of letting Katy Perry buy a ticket to space he'd use his vast financial resources to oppose the president who is stripping abortion rights and bodily autonomy from women across the country

No biggie. This man is temporarily in charge of, and Trump wants to put him permanently in charge of, one of the two United States Attorney’s offices that handle the most national-security matters. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Best cat video of the day

Sometimes, the Moon passes directly in front of the beautiful Pleiades star cluster in a celestial event called an occultation! This composite image from Spain captures the Moon's visit. These monthly occultations last until 2029, then not again until 2042! Credit: Cayetana Saiz

A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Nonsensical.

This seems really really really bad

Starting this week, we’ll all pay more at the store because of the Trump tariffs, even while he’s finalizing a multi-trillion-dollar tax cut for the wealthy. All the bluster is meant to get us talking about literally anything else.

None of this is normal

What do you get when you mix red coats with yellow bellies? Orangehead. 🤣

Just saying.

I know there’s a phrase that perfectly describes what’s going on here but gosh darn it I’m blanking on it Maybe we can crowdsource this. The best I can come up with is I think it may rhyme with or sound something like “anti-magnetic lyco-bath.” Can anyone help?

NOAA is an absolute mess, and it’ll be worse tomorrow. Please help us. There have already been over 1,000 terminations. It’s not just layoffs—Elon Musk and his staffers are trying to completely dismantle us. Today, there were tons of firings, and more are coming tomorrow.

Good morning and Happy Friday to everyone who'd like to see Town Halls loudly criticizing trump and Musk across America every week. And if Republican members of Congress don't show up, that's fine... An empty chair will work. Let's fucking DO THIS.

Keep the pressure on!

This is straight out of project 2025

I'm old enough to remember when trump tried to say people in the Biden Administration were incompetent, but none of them accidentally fired the Ebola team. Or the nuclear weapons folks. Just sayin'.

We are shutting down our online store at midnight Eastern in solidarity with the 2/28 Economic Blackout. We’ll be back on 3/1. Also, sorry about the long shipping timeframes and the lack of shirts—we’re working hard to catch up! We use small U.S. suppliers for our products.

Embarrassing. Disrespectful. And they're attacking Zelenskyy about his choice of clothing while meeting the Oval Office? I don't remember anyone addressing this same issue with Musk on his fashion choices in the Oval or at the cabinet meeting.

Cowards!

We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.

Don’t buy today. Give the greedheads a taste of their own medicine.

“Be brave” @janefonda.com

Continuing the countdown of my books, from 1st to 25th, THE JACKAL’S MISTRESS. Today it’s my 15th, THE SANDCASTLE GIRLS (2012), a love story set in the midst of the #ArmenianGenocide. As a grandson of two survivors, this is a profoundly important book to me. @doubledaybooks.bsky.social

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Agents of chaos: Trump and Musk. Endgame: World Domination

A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

@stephenking.bsky.social why did you go back to X?

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

I understand that Big Brother Musk is now going through Americans' tax returns. Remember that IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH and FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.

Just when you think Donald Trump cannot sink lower or be more shameful, today he's blaming Ukraine for the war and calling Zelinsky a dictator, when he knows perfectly well that Putin's constant re-elections are put-up jobs.

Amen to that.

You have done the Mashed Potatoes, the Watusi, and the Jerk. This weekend, try doing THE MONKEY.

Shutting down the department of education was documented in project 2025

Members of Elon Musk’s secretive team, tasked with reviewing federal agencies for potential cuts, are refusing to reveal their full names to civil servants. Musk’s representatives declined to provide their surnames and refused to answer any questions.

Coffee break We’re watching crows

I think of this video often. We shouldn’t be fighting the same fight. Waiting for comfort and decorum isn’t the way. Progress happens when you don’t stop.

Donald Trump’s first day back in office culminated in a sea of executive orders—a zone once again flooded with shit. Some of those orders were ceremonial (“promoting beautiful federal civic architecture”); others were PR stunts more fitting for his reality show www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

So grateful to the @washingtonpost.com Book World for including THE JACKAL'S MISTRESS in "Books to watch for in 2025." Read the full list here -- and start stacking your TBR piles! @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @prhaudio.bsky.social @prhlibrary.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/books/intera...

Time to update this listing, folks. Gotta keep the kids safe, you know.

Because…he would like nothing better than to see all of his perceived enemies die.

When the sun is out, 14 degrees isn’t so bad. Still, we kept our walk in the woods down to 25 minutes. My Jesse knows what she wants!