Nothing to worry about. Because if you don't see it, it doesn't happen. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c... Gift article

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/o... Excellent article - worth reading (Gift article)

“What’s Nashville have that we ain’t got in Seattle?” New Jim Crow, strict abortion ban, union-busting, low wages, unchecked poverty, and gun deaths in spades. Just what Starbucks was looking for, John Burbank opines. Op-ed by John Burbank: www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-starbu...

Khanna: "This is a Dred Scott court. They have engaged in the fastest rollback of Black political rights since Rutherford Hayes ended Reconstruction in 1877. One-third of African American seats are threatened. We are not speaking up strongly enough against a court that's rolling back civil rights"

🔥 @repcohen.bsky.social : “Don’t tell me, John Roberts, The Supreme Court is not political. It is an arm of the White House. 🇺🇸 is being destroyed from within 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” #Memphis #JimCrow #RacistRedistricting

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

The cruelty is the point. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

NEW: An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. With @azluminaria.org

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

Excellent article about the development of authoritarianism. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

What happens when politicians ignore science? Join COURIER and @314action.bsky.social on June 11th for Facts vs. Fiction, a conversation on how misinformation is shaping healthcare, policy, and public trust — and how science-driven leadership is delivering real results. bit.ly/495J58w

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

A little cave lion carved from mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago! 🦁 Imagine the #IceAge artist at work, sitting by the warmth of a fire, creating what is one of the world’s oldest known works of figurative art. Excavated 1930s, from the Vogelherd Cave, Germany. 📷 me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Hunger games here we come.... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u... 🧪

Today's electricity production in Denmark is a total reversal from yesterday. Yesterday it was solar predominantly. Today it's wind. So good to have both Right now Denmark exports 2,5GW to our neighbours. CO2 emissions per kWh produced is only 11 grams. Amazing.

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $271B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $231B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

"Trump exploded in crazed fury over the results in Tuesday’s referendum in Virginia ..And that captures something essential about this moment. Republican cheating gets a lot harder when Democrats seriously fight back against it with hardball of their own." trib.al/HBUtegl

Straight up milking the market

"The researchers found a positive association between feeling bothered by the news article and expressing disbelief in the allegations. Participants who experienced higher levels of mental discomfort were more likely to claim the accusations were fabricated. ... www.psypost.org/cognitive-di...

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

🔥 @rokhanna.bsky.social to Democratic leadership: “Get out. Let a new generation lead. You’ve been ineffective. The base doesn’t like you. The base wants fighters.”

LONDON, April 8 (Reuters) - Investors placed an ‌approximately $950 million bet on oil prices falling just hours before the U.S. and Iran announced a ceasefire Oil trading volumes and volatility have surged since the ​war, hitting record highs www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Turns out Russia, Russia, Russia was worse than we thought

This Fish looks oddly familiar!

“This is by far the worst crisis Nato has ever confronted. Military alliances are, at their core, based on trust: the confidence that if I am attacked, you will come help defend.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

A reminder of what could happen without vaccines for polio , the measles, rubella, and diphtheria. projects.propublica.org/childhood-va...

San Diego just gave us the best reveal of No Kings Day. #NoKings

Torrance, CA showing up today! They’re singing Minneapolis songs and the size of this crowd makes me emotional Heroes! 🦄💙🇺🇸

I mean, we all expected that right? No other reason to have those documents

Congratulations, Dana!!! 👏👏👏🎉🎉🥳🎈

And, We Have Motive.

The administration continues its attacks on climate science in their plan to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Gift article below www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...