The little beggar booger.

🤯 Russian state TV spent a year celebrating “victories” over a Ukrainian village of 200 people.

Happy Earth Day.

This Earth Day, we’re taking a look at the Library’s incredibly cute pocket globe collection in the Geography and Map Division. 🌎 Learn more about these tiny treasures: https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2022/05/pocket-globes-the-whole-world-in-your-hands/?loclr=blsky

The #CDC report that showed the #Covid vaccine halved the risk of a recipient needing emergency care or hospitalization has been shelved by HHS, @lenasun.bsky.social reports. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Happy Earth Day, people. Be kind to her. She's the only mama you got.

Joe Kennedy Jr. was the scion of a wealthy and influential family and like his father a pre-war Nazi sympathizer. Nonetheless he joined the Navy like his brother John and became a Naval aviator. He died while on a mission against Nazi Germany when his experimental bomber blew up.

"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion...

Breaker boys are hard at work amid the dust and grime in this 1911 photo by Lewis Hine. These Pennsylvania kids got a head start on black lung and a fair chunk of them would be following their fathers underground in a few years. (Library of Congress)

In this gelatin silver print, circa 1913, Ojibwe canoes are in a stand of wild rice. It's my understanding that the ripe stalks can be bent over a canoe and the rice harvested by shaking into a blanket. Note that these are bark canoes, an Ojibwe specialty.

Two Clayoquot people paddle a canoe on a Vancouver Island sound in this 1910 photo by Edward S Curtis. Tranquil. (Library of Congress)

Two starkly different worlds of Ukrainian Defenders - they are not just dads, but also protectors of their kids. 📹: special_my_profession/Instagram

Roller skater, circa 1905. Photographer unknown. (Library of Congress)

shorty holbert texaco, springfield, missouri, 1979

"I want to hug my daughter; that is what I survived for," says a Ukrainian soldier who held his position against Russians for 86 days.

Took this pic of Achelous and Hercules at the Smithsonian a while back. Painted by Thomas Hart Benton, it's 22 feet long and was painted for a Kansas City department store. Benton was dismissed by some as provincial, but Zounds!

Caturday's child

Cod filet clouds. Scrumptious.

Tenement Flats, by Millard sheets for the Public Works of Art Project, circa 1934. Painted in Bunker Hill, CA. Courtesy of the Smithsonian.

In this 1939 photo by Harris & Ewing, White House employee Barbara Councilor handles piles of dimes in the mail room. Roosevelt had put out a call for a March of Dimes to defeat polio. Ordinary Americans responded, mailing dimes to the White House in huge numbers. (Library of Congress)

The entire city of Myrhorod, Poltava region, came to a standstill to honor the memory of a fallen Ukrainian Defender. 📹: mariikavognik/Threads

In this 1942 photo by John Vachon, a technician is dispensing yellow fever vaccine into ampules for shipment at Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Montana. With millions of service men and women going overseas, the work was vital. (Library of Congress)

George Viereck was a German expatriate who literally handed out checks on the floor of the House to pro-Nazi congressmen. Nowadays things are a little more subtle. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

There's only one person who can get Bluesky working again.

Gilead's battle with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and plans for limited access to #Lenacapavir raise disturbing questions about #ResearchEthics and who a corporation is responsible to. My latest: www.forbes.com/sites/judyst... #ClinicalResearch #AccessToMedicines #Bioethics

"Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided 'at all costs'. 'I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.'"

cafe, joplin, montana, 1987

In March, together with AWT Bavaria, our partner and the official automotive partner of the Ukrainian Association of Football, we have launched an initiative to help protect childhoods. Ukrainian footballers joined in and call on you to do the same: u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...

Mark Twain- The War Prayer americanliterature.com/author/mark-...

Not just about oil. "Urea futures rose above $700 per tonne, the highest since October 2022, and are more than 70% higher this year, as the war in the Middle East severely disrupts global fertilizer markets."- Trading Economics

“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched...

Kearny, AZ may run out of water by July 15th. The town council issued an emergency decree in January but water use still went up. The new order bans “Any…use of water not related to sanitation or use to support life”. Maybe we should pay attention to climate change after all?

In Reykjavik, Leif comes at you.

1898 photo of a man, a cow, and a happy cat. Photographer unknown. (Library of Congress)

As of 16:45 BST today, wind is providing one third of all UK energy - and the wind is free. www.energydashboard.co.uk/live

Soap made with mint (left) and lavender (right) from the garden. No dyes added, those are the natural colors. Easy-peasy. #makingstuff

Price of gas got you down? Get yerself a sturdy mule. (Arthur Rothstein, 1939. Library of Congress)

Cretan window.

America this morning- "I think I'll jump in the old F150 and drive around looking for the cheapest gas".

Photographer Herbert George Ponting took this shot of a dog team at rest on the sea ice during the British Terra Nova expedition in Antarctica, circa 1910. It's a pretty remarkable photo given the technology of the time. Bravo, sir. (Library of Congress)

Viktor, phone home.

Easter basket in Ukraine in 2026 and its price. 📷 natalka.dubova/Threads

The view from my window.

A cat brought her newborn kittens to a soldier🥹

Caturday's child.

Tomorrow, Ukrainians will celebrate Easter, enjoying Paska, a signature Easter bread with roots tracing back to pre-Christian times. It is baked in most households as a national tradition. If you want to join, here's a recipe for you🧵🧁

He sleeps by day and makes mushrooms by night. An odd fellow. #makingstuff

Aaron Rodgers to change his first name to Mister in a bold public relations move.