This eruptive solar flare (from March 2025) is one of my favourite solar events in recent years. I’ve been revisiting this flare recently, as I’ve been analysing some exciting data (not pictured here) of the event! I’ll share those observations later this year.

So the NRSC is, not for the first time, going all in for the impeached philanderer who sets child predators free. www.notus.org/campaigns/pa...

Arthur Miller & Marilyn Monroe, with New York’s Queensboro Bridge in the background, 1957, by Sam Shaw.

🇸🇪🇺🇦 Ukraine and Sweden signed an agreement on Gripen fighter jets during a joint press conference in Uppsala! The agreement includes enabling the procurement of up to 20 Gripen E/F fighters using EU-backed funding, while Sweden also donates 16 Gripen C/D aircraft as direct military assistance.

NEW: When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. We found that the request came directly from the White House.

I remember people going to the wall to deny these ever existed.

Disinhibited pensioner stoops to new behavioural lows

Babs Pease, contemporary artist and printmaker living in rural Scotland #WomensArt

In addition, literal stacks of M4000 chemical bombs, used by the Assad regime to drop sarin on civilians in 3 recorded incidents, were found and photographed. Yet more evidence everything we published at Bellingcat based on our open source investigations of chemical attacks was accurate.

The result of years of determined effort by batshit conservatives and Christian nationalists to stake out a claim that the only thing to their right is God Himself. No such thing as far right extremism (!) and therefore all political and moral evil in the world must be a product of the left.

What if you dropped a bowling ball in the Mariana Trench? Watch the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYoH...

I’m also reminded of the Ron Funches quote: “Raising a child is like taking care of someone who’s on way too many shrooms, while you yourself are on a moderate amount of shrooms. I am not confident in my decisions, but I know you should not be eating a mousepad.”

Originally an Otis Redding track m.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqG...

Abstract: Sunshine on the ceiling with reflection from parked red car as an alternative Daily Rothno #AOfoto

This site will select a Rothko based on the weather where you are, just choose your location. rothko.joonas.wtf

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

'Sunshine' by Delita Martin, contemporary US artist #WomensArt

Other winners on the night included Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur, taking the Grand Prix, and a Best Director prize.

We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.

Some notes now that I’ve seen the transcript of the hearing, thanks to @lizdye.bsky.social . First: the government dismissed the felony count in an effort to convince the judge not to make them produce full transcripts, knowing they showed serious misconduct.

McConnell is hugely responsible for us getting here. But you can see what kind of day the white house is having.

“Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you’ve seen live” James Brown Throwing Muses Chemical Brothers De La Soul Pixies The XX Portishead Orbital Dolly Parton LCD Soundsystem

So if I’m understanding it the outlines of the prosecutorial misconduct in the Broadview Six case is this. They tried three times to get an indictment. After they failed the second time they simply booted the grand jurors who didn’t think the conduct was a crime. Then they told the remaining …

New hot-off-the-press views of Mars, stitched together from images taken earlier today! Just look at that epic, Big Country landscape... Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Atkinson

Entirely plausible that history reveals Trump ultimately botched authoritarian consolidation because he was too busy robbing the country blind

"SpaceX, which is expected to target an initial valuation of $1.5 trillion or more, has a financial picture that is notably worse than any other megacap U.S. company. It lost $4.9 billion last year on revenue of $18.7 billion." www.wsj.com/business/spa...

80 years ago today, Canadian-born physicist Louis Slotin, 35, received a lethal dose of radiation at Los Alamos Laboratory while performing a very dangerous criticality experiment known as “tickling the dragon’s tail” with a plutonium bomb core. He died from acute radiation syndrome nine days later.

BREAKING: In a win for Maine and Wisconsin voters, federal courts ruled that the DOJ cannot obtain access to the states’ unredacted voter data. The DOJ is now 0-8 in its legal effort seeking access to such information. Full story to come.

The feds harangued Kat and my family over bullshit charges for a year. They tried to beat her down, bankrupt Kat and her codefendants through legal fees, and a defeat her spirit. They fucking lost. They will continue to lose. Fuck ICE forever. To this criminal gang of a government: stay losing.

eat shit you fucking clowns congrats to @katmabu.bsky.social on no longer having to deal with this particular line of bullshit

Order of magnitude achievement unlocked

Billions of years ago, a rogue, Pluto-like body nearly slammed into Neptune. Most of Neptune's satellites were shattered or scattered in the melee. But a new study indicates there was one survivor: a wayward moon named Nereid. 🔭🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“By the way, today is the six-month anniversary of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. We’ve taken out two dozen CEOs, an ambassador, a prince, a prime minister, a minister of culture, and that was just six months. I’ve got seven months left in Congress." trib.al/rC8K96Z

Someday someone is going indict Pete Hegseth for the murders of dozens of people in boats and they are going to cite this as precedent.

Brutal numbers across the board in here, but these are eye-watering

"I'm bored of this iran show, change the channel I wanna watch the venezuela show again"

Two officers who defended the Capitol against the Jan 6 rioters just sued to block Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund. Check out their standing argument, it's pretty interesting:

"Republicans blocked a law to keep your taxpayer money from going to convicted pedophiles"

"Much as the West overestimated the Soviet Union in the 1970s and ‘80s by discounting its internal problems, outside observers may be overestimating China’s ability to keep rising. Authoritarians don’t have fewer domestic problems than other political systems, they’re just better at hiding it."

Because the entire process was corrupt from the beginning, there was no actual legal analysis done by Trump's cronies, and it was a theft job from the beginning.

Corks popping in Talarico’s campaign headquarters

The hearings on this will be epic.

The Soviet Winnie-the-Pooh is a wonderful thing. And its version of Pooh himself is one of the great animated characters. The artists didn't take from Disney's version. They aimed for an "absolutely new bear" -- and they pulled it off. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-absolu...

A “fun” thing about the 1776 number is it makes it more clear how much the settlement agreement is corrupt. Todd Blanche signed his name to an official government document claiming this figure was “based on the projected valuation of future claimants’ claims,” which is clearly, obviously, a lie.

There's a ton of MAGA chud small / medium business owners who - however aggressively ignorant they are of the wider world, etc. - still completed enough school to know how percentage reductions work

The “we don’t have the votes” excuse for refusing to force a vote on impeachment is conceding the point and saying even the opposition party doesn’t think this high crime merits removal from office. It’s not being politically astute and pragmatic, it’s self-defeating in its cowardice.

May 18, 1980 | 8:32 a.m. The ground shudders. A M5.1 quake hits beneath Mount St. Helens. Weakened critically, the north face bulge collapses outward. Within seconds, a pyroclastic density surge bursts through the disintegrating slope. The clock strikes zero.

There's probably a good reason for this. Andrew Paul Johnson was going to use his payoff to bribe the children (one was an 11-yo boy when he fondled him) he molested.

President Trump's $1.776 billion settlement with the IRS is one of the single most corrupt acts in American history. They moved fast to avoid the scrutiny of the judicial process, and very likely violated the Constitution. This is an outrage.