A Sandhill Crane colt looking up (way up) at mom.

What the actual fuck. Obviously this includes Jared. Does it include all of his grandchildren? How the hell does this help the COUNTRY, Todd. JFC.

this is devastating - Pennsylvania fruit crops decimated by warm April and hard freezes www.wesa.fm/environment-...

A slow start, but now WSJ is on it. With superlative graphics, too. Trump’s investment accounts had a surge in activity, with more than 3,700 trades in the first quarter www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

THIS IS HUGE: Colorado Supreme Court orders Colorado children's hospital to resume gender affirming care for trans youth. www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/18/c...

Trump just stole $1.8B. He’s going to give it to his business, his kids, and people like Flynn, Eastman, Giuliani, and the Oath Keepers. He’s doing this without court approval or Congress. This is a crime, but there’s no one to prosecute it because the DoJ is in on it.

FDA has until June 16 to approve Xocova (ensitrelvir)—the first oral antiviral proven to prevent COVID after exposure. Japan already uses it: once-daily pill, no nasty drug interactions like Paxlovid, 67% fewer symptomatic cases in trials. We need better tools NOW. Sign & share! mcsp.short.gy/9oCw

the post office just left a whole bin of mail in our building's foyer that includes like 100 ballots supposed to go to people who don't live here, so i guess i need to make time to call and yell at someone tomorrow

I want to say again: anytime the commencement speaker becomes the focus of the story, instead of the graduates, it’s a colossal fuck up from university leaders.

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For your children and grandchildren's future Here is Lake Powell, circa 1980 and now Once considered one of the largest & most important reservoirs in our Country Here in Arizona and Utah !! Why would you want massive AI DATA CENTERS ? WHO THINKS THIS IS OK ? Disaster in the making

Remembering yet again how, when I worked at HHS, we weren't allowed to use public funds for the water cooler in our office. That was a personal expense and we all chipped in, because we needed to preserve public trust.

This Needs to Happen…. Idea: a law that says if you’re going to build a data center, you have to also build enough solar panels to power it. We can call it the Bring Your Own Damn Grid Act.

Working on becoming a better promoter of my work, which is really, really not intuitive. I love to write, sometimes I get really cozy and quiet about it, but there is an element of joy when it’s something people read. #EpsteinFiles ellieleonard.substack.com/p/13-year-ol...

Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Cris Derksen, internationally renown Indigenous musician and composer, in a tragic vehicle accident in northern Alberta, returning from her father's funeral. A beautiful soul and musician. Such a loss.

Current* conditions near Mackinaw City, MI:

This is really good & important: m.youtube.com/watch?v=i4r3...

Current* conditions near Mackinaw City, MI:

Just recommend to every young(er) person you know to watch Reality Bites.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

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the thing about tenure line professors forming Pennsylvania’s largest public sector union in 50 years is unions are for everybody!! profs are public servants! and we're doing all the big publics! we're doing Urbana we're doing Michigan we're doing California! www.statecollege.com/articles/psu...

So not only do we need a data center outside Ypsilanti, we need one near Saline as well? What is happening with these godforsaken campuses? Seriously. I seriously don’t know what we need these FOR(?). Like is it just $$$? What the fuck are they for??

Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian

I really do think Trump misheard Talarico saying "cisgender" as "six genders," and that's just a thing he says now. The first person I saw make this observation deleted the post saying it, but yeah.

I rarely say “major breaking” and rarely put out these video hits, but this is pretty major.

I should clarify with this: Racism in MI, where I lived for 25 years before I decamped to Ireland, is REALLY bad. Stumbled on a lot of confederate flags flown by gun-happy nutbags in the countryside. But there, the economy has changed for the worse, so that's less surprising to me.

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Happy birthday to one of my heroes. I'm grateful to this man for seeing and hearing things the rest of us might otherwise miss. 💛 youtu.be/lhIwcpBaCNk?...

Gold Coast Chicago Tesla, the midwest hub of Tesla protests, is gone.

This is grounds for a revolution

So I wanna talk about this a bit from my composer account, because it's existentially important that we keep fighting for representation in the band world. A couple years ago, I attended the Midwest clinic and had a miserable time because the environment is so hostile. Things need to change.

It is raining where we are. And it is lovely. We’re watching loons fish. (& now that I typed that out I realize it could be interpreted in so very many dark ways. However! It’s literally raining in the place we are & we are watching literal loons—the bird-kind—dipping for food/ fish. Lovely.)

Setting aside how ridiculous it all is, uh, there's no evidence that Charlie Kirk's killer "espoused extreme transgender ideologies" (whatever that means). Like, the guy may have been dating someone who is trans, but that seems to be it?

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Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?

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the severe misread of youth by ai prophets is that at 22 you’re starving for agency. all your life you’ve waited to call your own shots. the idea that what you get instead is “tell the machine to draw a horse” is inherently offensive

An Indiana University biology professor has been kicked out of his university lab after speaking up in defense of international postdocs who were targeted for deportation. www.science.org/content/arti...

Current* conditions near Harrow, ON:

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

To all you mothers out there- have a day!

In the evenings we will sit right here on this front porch and count the stars.

"The withdrawal from Germany is a step toward the liquidation of the shared West—a cultural and human project that was never written into a treaty and, once lost, can never be reacquired."

Jesus