WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown

🐳Art by Maja Lindberg🐳

Such a tragedy when good writers go down the rabbit hole of prejudice and ruin our ability to enjoy what thousands of people who aren’t prejudiced invested themselves in creating for the world in those eight movies. 😔

More bee and aster #MacroMonday

I’m in an odd, “poke you with a stick until you turn around and bite me” kinda mood. Maybe a boba will help. 😒

Brutal.

Stained Glass Web #aiart #synthart #fantasy #stainedglass #web #widow

She nails it 🔥 You’ve been silent about school shootings, but now you have something to say about Charlie Kirk being a good dude? Friendship over.

Katherine Soutar, contemporary English artist and illustrator, known especially for her interpretation of folk tales and folklore #womensart #FolkloreThursday

The night was cold and dark. “Listen to the wind howling in the trees,” said Frog. “What a fine time for a ghost story.”

Yellow tree morning, a sign of the season #photography #NaturePhotography #landscape

Jon would like a second opinion

What a rare and wonderful thing it is to be able to end the day before midnight. 😴

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes. That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

Picked up kiddo from kindergarten. We are at the end of week 3 and I was informed that kiddo’s classmate told her the two of them should get married and my kid agreed. As adorable as this was…

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

Obama: We have to recognize that on both sides there are people who are extremists  But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.

former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

#StreetArt Origami Fox by Annatomix in #Longbridge, #Birmingham, #UK

Miss you, Dad. Doing the best we can since we lost you. Some days it’s hard. Some days it feels empty. Wish you were here to say something funny or cheerful, as you learned to do so well in those last years. Trying to do that for my child every day. Thanks for that and for all the beach trips.

So…………. it’s okay for someone on TV to say that now and not lose their job??? …. or maybe it’s just if you’re on Fox News. 😔

Great collab between @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social and @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social for the @latimes.com! Share widely

This is one of my favorite views in all of the National Parks system or anywhere! The feeling I have in National Parks is *peak* in places like Yellowstone. Miss it immediately and thinking of going back next year! #Yellowstone #NationalParks #Photography #Parkchat #Nature #Waterfall #PublicLands

"Everywhere American voices disappear, other powers will fill the gap." On the destruction of America's foreign broadcasters, and the dismantling of organizations that identify and monitor Russian, Chinese and Iranian propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Me: “Hey, Mom. As I told you a few months ago, kiddo made clear to us in May that she’s a girl and wants us to use “she” when talking about her.” Mom: “Wow… this is a lot for me to take in, but I just want them to feel safe, happy, and loved.” My mom using pronouns, but I ❤️ that she’s trying… 😩

The National Guardners

Outrageous. FEMA staff warned that disaster response has been gutted—and instead of fixing it, they were suspended. Retaliating against civil servants for telling the truth puts Americans at risk.

Even the strongest among us feel weak at times. Even the smartest of us feel stupid at times. Even the most confident feel doubt. There is no shame in feeling that you are not always at your best. A true warrior feels these things, but strives for better. That way lies glory.

WATCH: #NASAWebb is advancing our understanding of exoplanets, but there are some challenges astronomers encounter when studying other worlds. Take a look! Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, L. Hustak (STScI), D. Kirshenblat (STScI). 🔭 🧪

Kiddo napped heavily Friday after our end-of-summer adventures, which meant she woke at 7 + I was 😩. Hopped in the car at 9 + drove to the local stargazing spot on a whim + found a moonless + cloudless evening by the harbor. Kiddo lied on my lap + shouted excitedly at the constellations. I was 🥰.

The killing fields of #Chicago, right now.

We’ve been lied to our whole lives. The maps we grew up with shrink Africa down, making it look so much smaller than it really is. The truth: Africa is massive. You can fit the United States, China, India, Japan, and most of Europe inside it—and still have room left over.

👀 - Wait, did JD just say that Trump is dying? 👀👀 - So… he meets Putin in Alaska two weeks ago… handshake… they ride alone in a car together for a while… and now… 👀👀👀 - 😧 Is JD the new “Krasnov”?

We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.

Breaking News: The head of the CDC, Susan Monarez, has abruptly left her job after a tumultuous first month that included dramatic shifts in vaccine policy and layoffs. nyti.ms/45CwkRD

'Days of Innocence' painting by Betty Acquah, Ghanaian artist #WomensArt

The baby goat video you all needed! 👀😊 #bluesky #animals #goats

3 days… 3 flights, 2 boats, 2 trains, 2 buses, and 4 long car rides to say one last goodbye. Happy to be home, but I really think that last flight crammed into the window seat next to two sweaty bodybuilders with no a/c was a sign that karma is not on my side. Hoping to reset tomorrow. ✈️🚍🚢🚂🚝🚋⛴️ 😴

🔥 “If I’m willing to drive three hours to come here and talk, I’m gonna ask you to get off your phone and listen to what I have to say.”

This weekend we lost my uncle to a sudden heart attack. It was the 3rd family member lost in 2 years. Each time, I put on a good face, be whatever the rest need + carry on. But sometimes it’s hard + I worry about kiddo… whether the joy + strength I teach her will be enough… …but we carry on. 🧘🏽

“Thank you for your attention to this matter”

Goodnight footlong sandwich, goodnight moon, goodnight Epstein Files in the White House panic room 🌙✨

I enjoyed chatting with Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show." My thoughts on how we save our democracy are the same today as when we last spoke on "The Colbert Report" in 2010. We must get big money out of politics.

Here’s a 🔥🔥exchange between me and Mick Mulvaney during @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's brilliant interview of Mulvaney on Al Jazeera's Head to Head. The whole episode is worth a watch, and you can find it on @aljazeera.com's YouTube channel.

'The Swimmer', wooden sculpture by contemporary New York based sculptor Stefanie Rocknak #womensart #Monday

Wow… a convicted sex trafficker who abused minors is suddenly moved from a real prison in Florida to a summer camp in Texas designed for “non-violent offenders and white-collar crimes” at Trump’s direction… apparently for no reason at all because we are assured no deals were made. …………. wow.

This is moving. Kamala Harris feels the pain we feel. Not just from her loss, but from the trauma and abuse our country is living through. What could have been…

To state the obvious: this is genocide denial.