Using nothing but paper, artist Manabu Kosaka makes scale replicas of cameras, watches, gaming consoles, shoes, food, and more with a preternatural attention to detail. www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/04/mana...

H.R. 1897 is moving fast in the House and could hit the floor for a full vote as soon as tomorrow. This bill would gut the Endangered Species Act forcing economic impact considerations into listing decisions, limiting your ability to challenge bad science in court,

1/4 Russia is turning Crimea’s coastline into a minefield. Not symbolic. Systematic. Hundreds to thousands of anti-tank and anti-personnel mines. Beaches. Coastal waters. Everything layered. This is not confidence. ...It’s fear of a Ukrainian landing. war.obozrevatel.com/ukr/okupanti...

🙌🏾 denying the reality of how many think in this country regardless of political party, will not fix this mess.

”We’re gonna win so much” has quietly pivoted to “we’re gonna spin so much.”

“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves” It’s so obvious, it hurts. www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...

When you learned about the Iran hostage crisis, did they teach you this part? In November 1979, during the crisis, Black hostages and women were released first. Ruhollah Khomeini said they were oppressed in the United States and not part of the power structure, so they weren’t seen as spies.

Lots more examples can be found. (Post any u find in my replies) I've had a quick look and it seems some accounts originate in Sri Lanka, which tallies with this investigation by @meriemm.bsky.social @niamhmcintyre.bsky.social & @mpsellman.bsky.social www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

The corruption is just stunning. www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them

If you could ♻️, I’d really appreciate it 💜 Looking for streamers 🔴: • neurodivergent / bipolar • safe-space vibes • gaming (Nintendo, Pokémon, cozy = bonus) I stream full-time so I don’t have much time to be in streams. Recently switched to English, so looking for people to raid & network with 🙏

Put yourself in shoes of someone in a oil & gas importing country Its triage: which hospitals get fuel, which industries shut, which crops get fertilizers? Those who don't have deep pockets in a bidding war pay in hunger, lost wages & shrinking economies #theydidthis tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWesleyan

They have so many alcoholics in the Trump Administration, we should call his cabinet the Liquor Cabinet.

Because this makes sense, it will probably never happen, but just once, if they lifted the cap, it would make the system work as it was designed. Can you imagine how much life could change for people who rely solely on Social Security to get by?

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

The EPA is forcing 124 of its scientists and researchers to accept reassignments and 35 of them are being told to pack up and move to a new city if they want to keep their jobs.

Your voice matters more than you think. Call your members of Congress right now at 202-224-3121 and tell them exactly what you need. It takes 2 minutes. Do it today. 📞 Then share this with every woman in your circle. The more voices, the louder we get. Tag a friend who needs to make this call too.

As a political scientist, I often return to the very definition of "what is political?" Dr. Mark Warren's 1999 article in the Journal of Theoretical Politics offers a simple definition (the intersection of power and conflict) I find super powerful. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon all have headquarters in Seattle. This year the Seattle School District has an 80 million dollar shortfall.

Separation of church and state anyone?? USDA secretary’s ‘He is Risen’ Easter email unnerves some staff members www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

You've found the start of another daily thread and Friday is Day 1507 of Ukraine's heroic struggle to keep alive its independent statehood. Since Bohdan Khmelnytskyi's uprising in 1648, Ukraine has never had 35 years of freedom. It's about to accomplish that, but at what cost?

hey i’m being real fucking serious right now call your reps. this is insane. he already had thousands of jobs removed from the us fish and wildlife service. dismantling the us forest service will have a devastating impact on habitat protections. im too mad for words.

NEW: A federal judge has ordered the DOJ to hand over all it's evidence in the murder of Renee Nicole Good in the next 3 weeks. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

🔥 @rokhanna.bsky.social to Democratic leadership: “Get out. Let a new generation lead. You’ve been ineffective. The base doesn’t like you. The base wants fighters.”

Link: www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency...

They say research won’t stop, just relocating to fewer facilities. What they won’t tell you: they’re closing research facilities in more than 30 states.

But they’re moving headquarters to Utah a state actively suing to seize federal public lands. They’re installing state directors accountable to state political interests. That’s not a coincidence. That’s a blueprint.

The pressure campaign is working. The USDA Forest Service just spoke out, attempting to explain what they’re calling “fact vs. fiction.” Don’t trust this administration, all they do is lie. They know they’re losing businesses are pulling away, and everyone is speaking out.

This is so well done. 👌

We tend to think that today’s progressive politics advances equality through moral awareness and identity. But Catherine Liu argues that it has been captured by the professional managerial class, which replaces material redistribution with virtue signaling and cultural status.

Melania Trump wants these photos and emails to be scrubbed from the Internet. Please stop liking and sharing them. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

If you're seeing encouragement/demands to do alt text and you're overwhelmed or confused about how to do it and you're worried you're going to do it wrong... this thread is for you. First: prompt questions to get you started.

Hang it in The Louvre.

What a f*cking waste of lives and money. 😠

Guess who else (accurately!) reported this

So in summary: - reversion to something like Obama’s nuclear deal - hardline Iranian leadership remains in place - Iran gets to charge ships passing the Strait - US has massively depleted its arms stockpiles That’s what’s been achieved here, right?

Actually I would be happy for the EU to do this.

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

Choosing 'game of chicken' from your non-diplomacy menu of options apparently is the best way to demonstrate you are sound of mind.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Imagine being a moderate Republican and getting outflanked on decency, morality, and basic humanity by these four nutters

BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites. This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran (🎥 i24 News)

The Iran economic shock is coming youtu.be/Oi265I48MdI

Beautiful day to fill the 100,000th pothole of the year.

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

a few years in the making: our special issue on the IPE of Green Finance is complete! 🧵on its content: 1. Sarah Sharma and I wrote a (long) editorial introducing the idea of a green finance ecosystem and calling for a 'deep engagement' of IPE w. gr. finance 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It’s amazing that tons of people, including celebrities who have public reputations to uphold, will openly support a man who released a song called “Heil Hitler” AND is credibly accused of sexual violence and abuse but will NOT openly support celebrity women who have come forward about being abused

Last week’s SCOTUS hearing on birthright citizenship went poorly for Trump. But there’s another case the White House wants to overturn. In today’s newsletter I unpack state legislative efforts to strip education from undocumented kids. 1/3 open.substack.com/pub/joshcowe...

Women are far too unpredictable and irrational to command our armed forces or to have access to a nuclear arsenal.