Great read.

Some folks didn’t learn a THING from the Bill Clinton scandals. Damn, folks.

Science is good. We should fund it.

JFC. This is an absolute abomination and will devastate key scientific areas of research for decades to come. We will be ill-prepared to deal with major forest health issues, tons of stuff with this. YOU CAN HELP STOP IT.

(1) compare this to the destruction of books used by some AI companies (2) THIS IS WHAT I WANT MY TAX DOLLARS USED FOR!

Very much worth the read. Also - the depravity of decapitating and defacing sacred statutes and places is to me one of the most chilling aspects of colonialism that doesn’t get enough attention.

This isn’t even opinion polling and any outlet or journalist calling it that is a problem

I feel like I’m living the movie Dr. Strangelove except almost everyone in key power positions is General Ripper

Vance is out of the country visiting his buddy Orban in Hungary

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It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.

Earth has two crowns - both auroral ovals were imaged by the Artemis II crew today, pretty amazing to see this perspective. Here I have zoomed in on both auroral ovals so you can see more clearly the green emissions extending around 100 km into our thermosphere/ionosphere.

People need to pay close attention to this OLC opinion on the Presidential Records Act. As @joshgerstein.bsky.social points out, nothing less than our own history is at stake. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

I feel like I’d set my out of office to “out of this world, be back later” Also remember when you’d get those stickers during summer library reading campaigns that would say “OUT OF THIS WORLD!!!!”? Hehehe

Well that’s amazing 🌸

Those who know, know dayenu. And that it will be stuck in your head for days later.

It's #TransDayOfVisibility If you are a young person (13-26) wanting to read books on queer or trans topics in the US that have been restricted/banned in your area, you can. Get a card, read online. booksunbanned.com/card

What in the actual f

"All this time Putin had, and still has, a mole in all European and NATO official meetings. If the integrity of these meetings is to be maintained, it would be appropriate to ban Hungary from all of them. Every generation has a Kim Philby” theins.press/en/inv/29091...

MAGAZINE MONDAY | Read about the revolutionary sea floor charts of pioneering cartographer Marie Tharp in the current issue of the Library of Congress Magazine. https://lcm.loc.gov/issue/march-april-2026/the-woman-who-mapped-the-ocean/?loclr=blsky

If I see one more candidate website where their first photo is them with their family, I’m going to barf. Having a traditional-looking family doesn’t make you qualified for public office.

“The targeting for Operation Epic Fury ran on a system called Maven. Nobody was arguing about Maven. … The building in Minab had been classified as a military facility in a Defense Intelligence Agency database that…had not been updated to reflect that the building had been separated

Do kids even learn keyboarding anymore? Also excuse while I go tell someone to get off my lawn

Ugggghhhh

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Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk are in western Ukraine, and generally have been seen as “safer” places. This is a reminder that Russian war knows no limits.

In case you need a sanity check - and as a dad joke appreciator, the end is ✨

"Among the countries of origin were Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands, the United States, Germany, Japan, and South Korea, with several components manufactured after 2022," writes Special Envoy for Sanctions in Ukraine Vladyslav Vlasiuk, in this op-ed.

"I hope this email finds you well!" 🫣 In case you were wondering how your email truly finds me...

For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

The Reading Public Museum received a 10th-c. Khmer sculpture thru a recent bequest. Its staff instantly flagged it as a high-risk item, did research, & contacted Cambodia about repatriation. Three cheers for the Reading Public Museum! A wonderful example for all museums. www.wfmz.com/news/area/be...

FBI and CISA issue joint warning of Russian phishing on Signal. I got something just like this yesterday. Don’t accept random messages.

Amazing data visualisation of historical FIMI operations. Great way to take a step back and look at some of the larger influence operations that have been reported on. euvsdisinfo.eu/fimi-explorer/

The data broker industry must be destroyed: www.theverge.com/news/897145/...

Another thing we can blame Wilson for

Senior researcher Irene Poetranto writes for @carnegieendowment.org about the Myanmar military junta’s use of internet service provider (ISP) infrastructure to surveil and censor users. Read the article: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

But seriously we are on the precipice of the demise of the USPS and too overwhelmed with crises to give it proper attention. The Constitution will not save it, the admin wants it dead, and Republicans in Congress are on permanent vacation. No one is coming to save it unless we show them it matters.

⚡️201 Ukrainians now in Middle East helping counter Iranian drone attacks, Zelensky says. President Volodymyr Zelensky said deployment of specialists followed requests from Ukraine's partners, including Washington.

⚡️Iran's top security chief Ali Larijani killed in airstrike, state media says. The Islamic Republic's top security chief, Ali Larijani, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, Iranian state media said March 17. Larijani was one of the most influential figures in Iran's political and security apparatus.

The drone and imaging companies whose feeds are one of the data sources for this AI targeting system are right here in the Columbia River Gorge. That part with a car marked as an asset in a "kill chain" was trained on our cars. America tests its war machines on its rural communities first.

This is absolutely ghoulish.

Authoritarian states use gender-based digital transnational repression to silence outspoken women in diaspora communities. Senior researcher @noura.bsky.social with @fullerproject.org about how it affects victims. Read the article: www.fullerproject.org/editions/rev...

Disinformation warfare is real.

Hey so devastating and lethal side effects of measles can show up YEARS after infection FYI.

WTF

"The war in Ukraine shows how quickly cheap technologies can change the balance of power on the battlefield," writes investigative journalist Karina Buhaichenko in this op-ed. "What began as a tool for attacks on Ukrainian cities has become part of new conflicts in different parts of the world."

Ari Shaw writes in @justsecurity.org about new State Dept rules that ban U.S. foreign aid for organizations that provide or advocate for abortion services, “gender ideology” programming, or DEI activities.

This is outrageous.

Russian-controlled authorities in occupied Ukraine are increasing restrictions on women's reproductive rights, effectively preventing them from accessing abortions, according to the NGO East Human Rights Group.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...