Ranger, a champion pointer from Lake City, Minnesota, in 1876. Mary Wheelhouse Berthel used this Field and Stream illustration in her article “Hunting in Minnesota in the Seventies,” published in Vol. 16 of Minnesota History (September, 1935).

On Earth Day: environmental investigations can be tough and take time, skills and persistence —but they are possible, and they matter. Here are some tools and resources our team has used in investigations to track wildlife trade, wildfires, and oil spills… 🧵

Call me when the Catholic Church thinks women are people

The fact that the US Secretary of Health denies that pathogens cause disease should always be a much bigger story

Wrapping my head around Graham Platner. His personal profile and history makes him sound like a Fetterman or every candidate Dems run for Senate against sitting GOPers. His current positions make him sound progressive. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/o...

The only moral socialism is my socialism.

How despicable and utterly dumb. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

"Our stock is up 4,000 percent." 😂

Q: Why weren’t faculty consulted? A: On the contrary, Skynet was trained on an extensive archive of pirated humanities articles—hence its misanthropy, overuse of the em dash, and proclivity for always already predictively adding “already” after “always.”

Trump sparked a mid-decade redistricting frenzy after urging Republicans to re-gerrymander congressional maps nationwide—but they didn't expect Dems to respond. The GOP targeted 9 Dems in 4 states—in response, Dems targeted 9 Reps in 2 states. A court also replaced Utah's GOP map with a fairer map

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Taken together, these four features can create a trancelike state that can keep us stuck on social media apps or video games for hours. Children are particularly vulnerable. n.pr/4mH6i6s

"In light of the past 15 months, however, I’d like to look at two statements from those 2016 memos — one from Roberts and one from Justice Sam Alito — compared to the court’s orders made in the second Trump administration" Aka, buckle up skyfam, we're diving in.

We uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries, including the US. It has operated under the radar for decades. Until now.

“This is student housing” A person wrote on their tent outside Seattle Central College, USA. When your home becomes a site of protest, viral art installation and indictment of the capitalist economic system. Instead of hiding class violence, they chose to highlight it for all to see.

"As a Native American I find this apparent disconnect in the theological mindset of many of my colleagues to be worth some deep reflection." sojo.net/magazine/aug...

Has this sticker started to appear on your local gas station pumps?

Archivists are great. I often expect to bore them with questions like this, only to watch their eyes light up. 👇

"An advanced city is not one where the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport." -Enrique Peñalosa Former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

The Consultant Bros are bad at their jobs.

Matthew's tireless advocacy has literally kept disabled people alive. Now they need help. Please give if you can.

Bad news for the Boundary Waters in Minnesota. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...

Earlier this week, Hegseth took part in a religious event where he read a fake Bible passage from “Pulp Fiction.”

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

Join – Twin Cities DSA share.google/QEsUNS8Tip6B...

For a generation or two we’ve been told that good government is either a bunch of sadistic war pigs destroying the country or the long arc of sensible compromise with same. Mamdani has been in office for like 3 months. youtu.be/FLKZnVB4F9k?...

Proud to announce that I won an award that I'm really excited about—@rsaofficial.bsky.social's media award for science journalism! My book, Quitter: A Memoir of Relapse and Recovery, focuses on relapse, the treatment industry, and the questions common recovery models often fail to address.

Thomas’ mask comes all the way off. By the end it sounds like he’s sidling up to the notion of taking up arms against progressives abcnews.com/Politics/sup...

Ich did not make thys, but Ich wisshe Ich did. Repost yf you are a proud member of the Gen AI Backlash.

Science literacy rates are at an all time low

Weve been seeing it coming for at least 40 years. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Every so often Outlook will fail on a task so basic you wonder how that app ever shipped.

"Hot beverages cause cancer" Listen. I would rather die than drink a cold beverage.

Marvel™: Screwing over its artists in baroquely humiliating ways since 1939

On this day in 1987, The Cure released "Why Can't I Be You?" - the lead single from their seventh studio album “Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.” “You’re simply elegant”

"In power, solar plus storage now costs below $60 per megawatt hour (MWh) at a global level. The variable cost of LNG-fired power in Asia, at $20 per million British thermal units (MMBtu), exceeds $160 per MWh – nearly three times the cost of never needing fuel again." Any questions?

Lula live streaming workouts while his opponent half his age fainted during a tv debate

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

“and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” Published on this day John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath 1939 #Booksky

“You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?” BOTD graphic novelist Daniel Clowes 1961, known for his sympathetic portraits of eccentric, lonely& disenfranchised people #Booksky

what it's like to be in a room with war criminals.

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

Breaking: Burien city council voting to place controversial (read: incompetent) city manager on administrative leave after an executive session. @ericacbarnett.bsky.social @typewriteralley.bsky.social @b-townblog.bsky.social !!