Great explanation from the smart kid. Also covers the Democrats' one-year offer to end the shutdown.

It mourns not for its own fate, but for that of the world and all its beauty, flitting through the cosmos, blown into the void like a light blue wildflower trampled by the night's frost.

New essay live today at @huffpost.com Personal about seeing past stereotypes, tribal thinking, and the lazy stories our brains tell us. As always, very grateful to editor @noahmichelson.bsky.social who is a joy to work with. www.huffpost.com/entry/vetera...

Hugely important point being made here.

"There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process." -Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Respect.

"Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, and to steer a safe course." -Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Calling for people’s death. And she was never arrested or fired for her free speech like Trump is doing to people now.

😂

"An ancient evil shooting its shot." Thank you, @pattonoswalt.bsky.social

I'm sure having perching feet instead of flappy feet helps, but still... 😂

Jesus Christ this is concerning.

Let's get behind SWT fundraiser Alex O'Riordan as he solo kayaks across the full 700km length of Lake Tanganyika — Africa’s longest (and world's second largest) lake — to raise vital funds for our conservation projects! You can support challenge and help us protect wildlife at: t.co/YLuGMMHTjn

Despair, not fear, is the greater enemy. Fear can be overcome, but when you have lost all hope, you have already lost. A true warrior knows that the smallest thread can unravel the greatest tapestry. Find that thread, don't let it go, and persevere.

Please share, this is important

As the leader of our Umani Springs family, Murera's soft rumbles guide and comfort the orphans in her care. Each sound carries meaning — from reassuring calls to gentle guidance. Want to understand what Murera and other elephants are saying? Explore our Hello in Elephant!

Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose! 👊

Trump showing off his merchandise at the White House gift shop. Look 👀 at the hats. He doesn’t plan on leaving the White House.

Stunning! An 8-hour time-lapse to show the Earth is rotating while capturing the Milky Way.

Because I just posted something of a downer (political), here's a hopefully equalizing picture of a very affronted-looking praying mantis I caught and relocated (he was stalking bumblebees). 😅

Just a reminder that Putin has been trying to destroy the US for a long time now, and this is one method that doesn't get talked about enough. www.latimes.com/business/tec...

Thought this was an Onion article.

Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

Well you can't say we weren't warned 🤭

"Forget about intelligence," from someone representing a country that famously fought a war over faulty intelligence.

The executive branch of the US is basically being run by Joffrey Baratheon and a bunch of Littlefingers. And at least one Ramsay Bolton (looking at you Stephen Miller).

The Lie that Feels Like Hope from my decades of working with those fighting for it from around the world. “Autocrats don’t just lie. They simplify. And in a chaotic world, that simplicity becomes all the more seductive.” open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...

Whenever I get too worried about how there seems to be more cruel people in the world than I thought, I remember that around 92% of players chose to play as the good guys in the very popular Mass Effect video games when given the choice between playing as "Paragon" or "Renegade." We outnumber them.

RIP Justice Souter. He rightly worried about the public's ignorance of how our democracy works, well before the that ignorance got the US to where it is today:

I feel quite certain that trump would not be ok with only having 2 of something of which he's accustomed to having 30. No person would ever have been treated so unfairly. Also, 30 dolls? Is that a normal number of dolls to buy in his world that never uses the word groceries?

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Can we please go back to having serious people running the government? BTW highly recommend The Pitt to anyone craving a dose of competence. Noah Wyle called it "competency porn" and that is the perfect description. 💙

I'll never understand why so many people who say they love the US want to tear it down and create a fundamentally different place. How bad could it have been if you loved it so much? What did you love?

I can't understand why any regular citizen would be so upset about the aggravations of democracy that they would participate in dismantling it.