1/5 Putin's showcase forum was supposed to project strength. Instead, Ukraine sent smoke signals over St. Petersburg. When drones reach an oil terminal and naval facilities during your flagship economic event, the world sees something Moscow hates: vulnerability. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Albania got more sense than we do.

Somehow, they will manage to find someone less qualified.

Rollins should be put in a place where all her meals are a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, and a tortilla. Forever.

This was a groundbreaking piece of work. A work so good it means a life well spent. Millions of people understand Iran, the diaspora and the weird bittersweet details of the immigrant experience through the work she did.

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Many sea birds, including buffins and common murres, nest on Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach, Oregon. When the conditions are just so, clouds of thousands go hunting for food at the same time, as seen in tonight's 9 o'clock photo. Mid-May, 2026

I am extremely unsurprised.

The city of Monterey Park in LA County became the first in California to ban data centers via ballot box last night (by an overwhelming 86%)

Fuck. AI generated books are making their way to bookstores. from @wweek.com www.wweek.com/culture/2026...

The insider trading just doesn’t end with these people.

I know! I know!!! *raises hands*

sometimes the oligarchy is less powerful than it seems. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Measles epidemic, anyone?

Shoulf be fun when the Swiss banking industry gets pissed off at this administration.

Drone attack hits Putin’s hometown as he hosts ‘Russia’s Davos’ www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...

1/ Good morning. A line from Hungary's Péter Magyar: "What is needed against the machinery of power is not another machinery of power, but flesh-and-blood people who go from mailbox to mailbox, house to house, in winter, frost and rain..."

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I also suggest a block of that account, for numerous reasons.

Congratulations to Hunter Biden

For years, someone I know has had this nest box on their porch, and it hasn't been used. Until this year, when a family of black-capped chickadees decided to put a nest here. As seen in tonight's 9 o'clock photo (actually a video, and your 167 seconds of nature zen) they're now feeding babies.

Sure, sure, anyone can give you the vote tallies of the major candidates in Cali. But is any other account going to tell you that "Barack Obama Shaw" has 7,777 votes? Or that "LivingForGodAndCountry DeMott" has 1,024 votes?

May he one day get too close to his hair dryer.

So, in Republican time, that’s what? 20 more years? bsky.app/profile/ronf...

🍁 17-year-old Gurnoor Kaur from Kitchener just won Best Innovation at the Canada-Wide Science Fair — for fixing a 35-yo flaw in pulse oximeters that made them less accurate on darker skin. A teen made medicine more equitable for everyone. That’s the Canada we love.🇨🇦 - EH! Canada’s Social Network ❤️

I just realized that when It Happens, Fox News is going to be so weird to watch -- solemn, tear-filled tributes to America's Most President™ interspersed with angry coverage denouncing the millions and millions of Americans celebrating in the streets.

True Story: Once worked for a local cable news station in NYC (their main studio was in Westchester, slightly upstate from the city). During the Iraq War, Coulter came on our show to do her schtick. Our host, to his credit, cut her mic after ~3-4mins of BS. I got to escort her out of the building.

Not the topic at hand but… Is there a single man in this administration that doesn’t hire some blonde chick to appear over his shoulder in these photo ops?

This is why ranked choice voting really needs to be included with jungle primaries. The final election could very well wind up being for two awful, or even Republican, candidates.

Which is why they’re in such a huge rush to dismantle the ocean monitoring system: If you can’t see it, it’s not happening theory of conservatism.

"Ever wonder how exactly a public library works? o Who decides what items to be added to the holdings? o How are acquisitions funded? o What's the process for creating events or services? Read on to gain a better understanding of how your library works." buff.ly/mHVWONO #Library

Lesson 1: Die young. That way it never becomes an issue.

There's always a tweet...

Nature’s careers team is running a global survey for scientists, covering job satisfaction, career experiences and other aspects of their working lives. If you are currently working in academia, industry or other sectors, please tell us about your experiences: go.nature.com/4nS0SWS #AcademicSky

If ignorance is bliss, we should be the happiest country in earth.

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Happy Pride Month, especially to my struggling Fed fam. As of this year, feds can no longer receive coverage for gender-affirming procedures & hormone therapies through our health insurance options due to new discriminatory language in federal policies. Trans rights = human rights. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💙

He couldn‘t even get MTG and Boebert to fight it out on the front lawn at this point, since he lost them with the Epstein disaster.

9 o'clock photo time Some say walls are good. For those that live in Berlin, and for some hat have spent tme visiting and really contemplating those things they see during sojourns around the city, the concept of "wall" has a very different, and not terribly positive, set of implications.

Mining Company Opts Out of Controversial Project Near Sacred Site in Black Hills The multi-pronged approach including both direct action and legal strategy to protect a cultural site is one of few cases where protecting an Indigenous sacred site prevailed in court.

Thusly giving us all insight into what teletubbies are actually thinking.

🧵1/X Colorado River storage at Lakes Powell & Mead are near historic lows, risking loss of ability to generate hydropower & meet longstanding water entitlements are at risk. Short-term options are risky (depleting backup sources) & do not address the compounding nature of the trend in decline.

Republicans truly have nothing of value to debate. The best they can come up with is 1980s suburban junior high school accusations of being gay.

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

The right to protest is a cornerstone of our democracy. The conviction of the Spokane 3 has sparked concerns about whether peaceful protest is being treated as a threat rather than a constitutional right. When speaking out becomes grounds for prosecution, every American's freedoms are at risk.

Maybe? Do you have a payphone somewhere you can call back from?