OBAMA: “People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”🔥

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

Every damn day he does something crazy and the entire MAGA leadership bends over backwards to pretend it wasn't crazy and to explain it away. And then a few hours go by and he comes out and says "no, I did the crazy thing on purpose." And repeat. And the media never seems to remember that.

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

This galaxy is VERY tiny—much much smaller than our own Milky Way—& incredibly distant. But we can see it AND distinguish its shape! How? The light we see from it is from SO LONG AGO that the Universe was MUCH smaller at the time: we see it as it was when it was close enough to us to look big!! 🤯

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

This line from the "reap the whirlwind" speech will always be relevant. Right-wingers always think they're the only ones capable of violence and the rest of us are too pacified and effete to fight back.

The galaxy was ~2 billion light-years away from us when the light was emitted. The galaxy’s size is ~300 light years radius. That JWST can actually see the galaxy as a small blob and not just a point of light, as @astrokatie.com notes, is just mind-blowing. (NIRCam on JWST has pixels of 0.03 arcsec)

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Your Black History Moment Not in The Epstein Files.

“Areas of our country that are corrupt”. That’s Donald Trump speak for areas he lost the last election in. Nationalizing elections is not going to happen and the GOP including Fuhrer Trump know it. It’s up to all of us to make sure that fact is pounded into their heads daily! #inners

Rare bus-sized phantom #jellyfish caught on #video camera. Link for the video and more information: www.usatoday.com/story/life/a...

Along the trail to Warrior Rock Lighthouse on Sauvie Island, Oregon #Photography #Trees #Oregon 📷

Un abrazo fuerte a todas las personas afectadas por las borrascas que estamos viviendo en los últimos días, sobre todo a quienes viven en Andalucía. Cuidaos mucho. El cambio climático está afectando la vida de millones de personas. Sí, tiene consecuencia sobre nuestros derechos amn.st/6009hKKMT

The distraction narrative is tiresome and dumb. People give way more credit to Trump than he deserves. He's not some evil genius, never has been. He's just an infantile moronic narcissist whose tantrums occasionally work to his benefit, mostly due to the large organization of people who prop him up.

Hillary was right about everything….

Desert time…🏜️ #desert #landscape #Sedona #Arizona #sandstone

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We’re proud to stand in solidarity with our women union athletes who elevate their game on the court and on the pitch, and fight for strong contracts. Our labor movement is stronger with our union sisters in sports. Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day!

I don't post enough about the other central pillar of my politics, aside from anti fascism: being anti car cars are bad in almost every way, especially in cities if you go to even large, bustling cities that are actually dense, they are quieter than US cities because you can get away from cars

i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.

I say this with zero snark whatsoever: we have to bring back the newspaper. Decentralizing is GOOD. We need local/regional papers back, with syndicated writers rather than a hundred newsletter subscriptions

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025. You suckers

My brave little state. Fears of ICE Surge Galvanize Vermonters to Respond www.sevendaysvt.com/news/immigra...

Half this site is arguing about OPSEC while suburban women are out there going full Ronald Speirs

It’s truly wild how fast things start to unravel once a critical mass of people starts viewing the government’s power as illegitimate oppression, especially when those people have been taught about revolutions against illegitimate oppressors

Judge rules members of Congress can inspect all ICE detention centers without appointment. "...DHS Sec. Kristi Noem re-implemented a notice requirement…..[which] required 7-days’ warning for visits to [ICE] facilities... funded exclusively by the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’..." thehill.com/regulation/c...

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

The Blue Mountain, 1908 by Gabriele Münter, Expressionist painter #WomensArt

Sustainable trauma recovery asks us to be unflinchingly realistic about media & entertainment that will retraumatize us without adding to our understanding of the world. Remember that "they" want us hooked, scared, & outraged as much or more than they want us informed.

In a normal news environment, we’d be talking about a certain electric car company that just decided to stop making cars and sink all its money into revenge porn.

Speaker Johnson is reiterating false election fraud claims from Georgia 2020. He is signaling his complete willingness to go along with similar false claims this November. We must be on our guard.

Speaking out against ICE on one of the largest broadcast events for a sport while pledging money for the community? Male basketball players could never. #unrivaled

Both games tonight… #Unrivaled

Cathy, girl you in danger. You better pay those ladies. #Unrivaled

I’m still not over this experience. The vibes were immaculate 🔥🔥🔥🩵💜🩵 #Unrivaled #WNBA @wnba.com pay these women!!!!

Some highlights of Marina Mabrey's 27 point first quarter #unrivaled

Everyone watches women’s sports 🥹🩵💜 #Unrivaled #PhillyIsUnrivaled #WBB #WNBA #XfinityMobileArena

A record-breaking night for Unrivaled in Philly -- more on season 2 of the league. www.nytimes.com/athletic/701...

Paige Bueckers filthy crossover #Unrivaled

I’m female, in my 50’s. My Dad never said I couldn’t. He taught me how to fix engines, panel-beat, and remodel houses. In school I wanted to do woodwork, but was told by the school I had to sew. I was told to be a secretary, but wanted to be a forest worker. I weep with joy when I see females soar.

I always feel kinda patronizing talking about this, but gosh damn the growth of woman's basketball warms the cockles of my heart. There's 21,500 people at this Unrivaled game. Hell yes.

@pghdlo.bsky.social 😊😂

They. Don't. Have. The. Majority. Seriously folks, please learn how government works

One shark I really want to see is Cephalurus cephalus. @mbarinews.bsky.social has a cool image of one in this link www.mbari.org/news/biologi...

🚨 Documents leaked to me reveal a federal watchlist of American protesters suspected of being Antifa - including its supposed leader. One Department of Homeland Security document says a 29-year-old resident of Portland "is the leader of Antifa": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-ident...

Texans: TODAY (2/2/26) is the last day to register to vote for the March primaries.

Take me away. #lenticularclouds #clouds #nm