🔭 Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin made one of the most fundamental discoveries in the history of science: stars are made primarily of hydrogen & helium. Her 1925 PhD thesis is widely regarded as the most brilliant ever written in #astronomy. She was born #OTD in 1900. #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky

189 years ago today, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback was born a free man in Macon, Georgia. He was also the second Black person to serve as Lieutenant Governor to Lousiana. Also he was the first Black person to serve as Governor of Lousiana, and as of 2026.... still the only one

I’m not sure about Central and Eastern Washington, but ICE abductions are anecdotally ramping up along the I-5 corridor, and I hope that people are planning accordingly. Take WAISN’s Rapid Response training and join their team. Find the folks in your neighborhood who are organizing mutual aid and RR

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This is devastating and great journalism by Mother Jones. We are bombarding America’s forests with Roundup

You're lying again J.D.!!

The Callanish IV Stone Circle (also known as Ceann Hulavig) on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. The circle is part of the megalithic landscape surrounding the main Callanish Stones - two miles to the southeast of this site. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Callanish

The CDC is saying that airline passengers who were exposed to #Hantavirus cruise passengers don't need to be notified. But the literature says infection typically happens when symptoms are most mild (fatigue, mild headaches, etc.) - precisely when most people would underreport/not notice symptoms.

Lawmakers in the South wasted no time in trying to undermine Black voting power after the Supreme Court ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act. But we’re not wasting time, either. We are fighting for our right to vote with everything we’ve got.

A "chain-link" column on the south portal of the western facade of the church of Saint-Lazare D'Avallon, in north-central #France. c.1160. #architecture #art #History #medieval

When you ask for American Flag Blue and they give you Suburban Toilet Bowl Blue.

This is not normal. These are not toy soldiers. This is not a video game. This is not a Hollywood movie. He has the nuclear launch codes.

It's a moral outrage that we're the only industrialized country without paid family and medical leave.

Happy Mother's Day to the mother of us all. (And who deserves to be treated better.)

#fuckai #aiisfascist

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms and mom-like figures out there! You're everyday heroes! 💐

The bond between this mother humpback and her calf is a beautiful reflection of the devotion Mother Earth shows us every day. Whether it’s clearing our air, restoring our lands, or defending our oceans, let's commit to showing our love through the care and protection she has always given us. 🐋🌿🌬️

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

Chicago teen battling terminal cancer dies hours after reuniting with parents An 18-year-old Chicago resident battling terminal cancer has died, just one day after being reunited with his parents following their release from U.S. immigration custody.

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The truth is still out there...

Happy Mother‘s Day to the women, and FU to the criminals keeping them in concentration camps. Imagine if Hitler had also paid private companies to retain, oops wait they were the slave labor for all the war machine factories. The only equality this administration of war criminals know.

🌱 "The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth." —Chief Seattle

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

Obama II

The more things change The more they stay the same.

Baby squirrel melts in human hands: the neuroscience of tactile pleasure shared by all mammals

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )

Protesters staged noise demo through the rich Seattle neighborhood of #Laurelhurst that lobbied against noisy helicopters flying sick and injured kids over their mansions to Children's Hospital. 🤪 It got a bit noisy.

Thanks to stories like these, when I hear the word "cruise" the first thing I think of is "disease". www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Never stop talking about this until justice is served •Ŕėlėå§ė ťhė Ėp§tėįņ Fįĺė§•

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES

Key words: “by the school.” In Hollywood 80 years ago, we had very clear ideas about how to treat HUAC lapdogs and informers. No one involved in this choice should hold a job in education ever again.

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.