When the apple falls far from the tree #RFKjr

Lawrence O'Donnell (reading his excellent book) is the perfect narrator. His use of the Boston accent and voicing the characters (real people) brings this to life. #booksky

Thank you to @maddow.bsky.social for giving me the time of day last night. Thank you also to the THOUSANDS of folks interested in using our data for good. There's one other way you can help us, and it's by not giving us your money.

My weekly grocery run includes Fred Meyer (Kroger) and Trader Joe's. The difference in cashier attitudes is stark. Kroger: quiet, surly. Joe's: enthusiastic, friendly. I totally blame it on working conditions and how management treats them.

Having spent 5 years writing a book on CO2 my take on it is: it's the source of carbon for carbon-based life, the knob governing Earth's temperature, its behavior on this planet--moving between rocks air water life & rocks again--makes it Earthlike, and when it goes out of control lots of stuff dies

Thank you Senator @wyden.senate.gov!

J6? !!!

The GOP has put the federal government on a war footing in relation to cities and states that didn’t vote for them, and then Republicans lament that we seem to be sliding into Civil war. It’s like if a Confederate had been elected president in 1860 and immediately started invading Northern cities.

I'm a slow reader. I started listening to audiobooks. With professional readers doing the work, I now realize some books just take time to get through.

Snug as a bug in a rug

voter. Hence the rest of us having no empathy for their plight. They get the support they were willing to give. Which is to say… none. When they decided that Blue voters don’t matter, they decided that Blue tax dollars also don’t matter.

Calling on the wusses who caved in 2025 to help stop the archipelago of concentration camps is a good move.

Jeff Bezos is the Lex Luther of journalism.

I will never tire of this spot on our visits to the Oregon coast! 🐳💥 (In Florence, OR)

Vance is the definition of an ugly American.

The staffer

I love this

"... we are living through the answer." is the perfect sentence about now.

I am not going to repost the vile and racist image that Trump posted last night of President & First Lady Obama because it is beyond disgusting. Trump is a vile racist as is every Republican that continues to support him. I don’t want to hear mumbling from Mike Johnson or stoic silence from Thune.

April 15, 2025: Trump told his military aide he wanted the Football, so the aide did the only responsible thing...

NBC and Tom Llamas think we need a Trump interview. Nope.

Every morning I wake up, and he's talking, and talking nonstop on all my screens.

#greenscreen #greenscreenvideo #maga #trump #health

Pork chart. Today's cartoon by Mariano Ruszaj. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com #Trump #Epstein #fraud #misogyny

The latest cartoon by Bill Bramhall

Original commentary from the Headline Lab in the comments, and worth the read.

what impressed me most today was that a huge crowd of people who mostly had never been tear gassed managed to retreat without running or trampling each other. under a cloud of gas that was not moving (zero wind), people held onto each other and walked blind down a street packed tight as sardines

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At an ICE Out sidewalk protest in Hillsboro, Oregon. #iceout

Journalist Georgia Fort, about to be arrested by ICE for doing journalism, peers out her front door on the left as, on the right a masked, bespectacled ICE agent peers in her window. Is this a scene from Scream? From Brazil? It is, as a former student of mine would say, *dark shit.*

It's. About. The elections. All of it.

"Abolish ICE" was submitted 9,200 times for Chicago's snowplow naming contest, records show. blockclubchi.co/3ZAnDTZ

Quick iconic comic cover edit to laud Ilhan Omar.

Pittsburgh icon @alternatehistories.bsky.social has lots of excellent art, this particular design sold out fast so they made it free & open source & provide instructions for printing it

The entire administration and their lawless thugs are the domestic terrorists. It's obvious at this point.

The term martyr means “witness.” The man was murdered for bearing witness, literally bearing it, not arms but a camera. Murdered for seeing.

From the archive...

Thinking of 5-yr-old Liam Ramos, "worst of the worst" according to ICE. Thinking of all we know about such brutal campaigns in Nazi Germany, Rwanda, Jim Crow South, when humanity is inverted such that children are not only not innocent but represent, in the mind of the fascist, the greatest threat.

Don't forget about the Epstein files.

Evil

Let the picture of the little five year old boy standing facing the car and the old man being dragged out of his house with no shirt on, let those images burn into your brain. We don’t have to be this country. We don’t have to live this way. Donald Trump was a choice, Republican voters made for us.

I'm listening to the audiobook 'The Soul of an Octopus' by Sy Montgomery. Octopuses are amazing. The author's love of them is endearing. This isn't a page turner. The science is too buried in the storytelling. #booksky

imagine if it happens on tv

In the "First They Came" poem, we're at the point where they're coming for people who look like the reflection in our mirrors.

“Leave Greenland alone!” Heckler interrupts Star-Spangled Banner at NBA game in London, wins cheers from crowd. (Video via Reddit)

I'll never get over the fact fellow Americans put Trump back in office. It was no secret how awful the man is.