“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

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i have been writing about the virginia supreme court decision with a certain amount of analytical detachment but if i’m being honest i’m also fucking furious i took the time to go vote and then my ballot got tossed out by these dipshits

Gratulerer med dagen, Norge!

De La Soul is Dead, one of my all-time favorite albums, is 35 today. I'll never forget listening to this album the first time (not when it came out haha). This album has some of my favorite De La Soul songs on it youtu.be/9S5lTgyfT2c?...

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Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

Such a gorgeous, touching elegy to the dreaming existence and mortality of asters, bees and ourselves… www.biographic.com/planting-see... @brandonkeim.bsky.social @biographic.bsky.social @nautil.us

« La disparition », par la Mairi d’Paris, 6th arrondiss ment

A new Supreme Court ruling guts the Voting Rights Act.

Trump and his oil-and-coal oligarchy should face sanctions for their war on the environment | Alexander Hurst

In case you missed it, Joe Miller's @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social @gbif.org lecture on data integration, extended specimens, and building community around collections is posted on the ASPT YouTube channel... check it out! I found it super-exciting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rea...

Have I simply missed all the #LiverpoolFC punditry explaining the obvious: that their loss of Lucho Diaz is the root of their flailing mediocrity this year? Wonder how *that* guy’s season went…?

"Public transit needs to be viewed for what it is: a tool that can save someone up to $15,000 per year. There is no other cost saving tool at any government’s disposal as powerful as #publictransit." @michaelhall.bsky.social @movementyvr.bsky.social #bcpoli #bcndp

Proposed by Agence Nationale de Recherche pour l’Environnement (FERPA), Biodiversity 3 will promote: 🔬 Long-term biodiversity monitoring 🤝 Transdisciplinary collaboration 📊 Open & FAIR data infrastructures 🌍 Science–policy–society connections Find out more at belmontforum.org/archives/new

What's amazing is that the clouds, ducks and tree canopy formed precisely the same pattern across the years…

"…advances in data, monitoring and AI are giving leaders a more reliable fact base for decision-making…" It's distressing to read McKinsey blithely suggesting that #AI is as reliable as data and monitoring, but use of a phrase like "fact base" is the chef's kiss 😘 www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

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🌍This week, Kyle Copas and Dmitry Schigel joined GBIF heads of delegation, delegates and agency representatives in #Uzbekistan to help shape regional priorities ahead of the @unccd.bsky.social COP17 and the UN Biodiversity#UzbekistanCOP17. 💚

Languages be easy like that.

This remains the greatest piece of persuasive advertising ever made about electrification. It's insane to me that Nissan dropped it & it's insane that no one on the green left has picked it up to make it a national PSA.

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

Collection Deep Dive: The Weld-Grimké Quilt Clement Library (Michigan) 📜 clements.umich.edu/weld-grimke-...

this is fucking nuts:

It is apparently time to remind Americans again that for almost everyone; owning a gun is far more dangerous than not owning one. This keeps being necessary to say because this is not a sensible country.

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865) The Haudenosaunee Confederacy (ca. 1450–present) THE North American confederacy

“In retrospect, piracy was a salvation for film historians as it means that Méliès' work lives on.” Not for the first time —or the last…

We have launched the first public reporting tool for mosquitoes in Northern Ireland 🦟 The #MosquitoNI project aims to fill regional knowledge gaps while improving understandings of how mosquitoes respond to human-induced environmental changes 🌡️🏗️ mosquitoni.com www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Que lindo o Trump ressuscitando Jeffrey Epstein.

Until May 22 the introduction to my book on Sterne and his Soviet readers is available open-access on Oxford Academic!

To honor of the Vice President’s latest achievement, the Trump administration will recognize Florence Griffith Joyner and Usain Bolt as the all-time world record holders in the marathon.

Thinking that photo will eventually serve us well as the model for his official presidential portrait 🧐

A thread 🧵 on Polish palaeontologists in Harbin There used to be (~30k strong) Polish population in the city of Harbin (哈尔滨), during Russian occupation of North China & partition of Poland. The population was composed of Socialist Poles who were banished as punishment for anti-Tsarist uprisings.

Hungary’s turnout is BRUTAL: 37.98% by 11am (2022: 22.77%), pointing to 75–80% or more overall. In such a scenario, Orbán’s chances look slim, and it’s unlikely any party beyond Fidesz and Péter Magyar’s Tisza clears the 5% threshold. Follow me for more #HungaryElection updates.

“Hold that thought, and give us an hour to get our Polymarket bets in. Easy money!”

It’s almost as though “species” were a convenient construct made up by humans to categorize the bewildering complexity of the natural world.

when the @gbif.org boss music starts playing again but the lyrics are in latin

Source: Melania Trump planning second press conference to announce she did not personally rape E. Jean Carroll.

Happy Union Day. Let us pledge to finally compete Reconstruction & also let us recall how Ely Parker absolutely owned the racist traitor Robert Edward Lee at Appomattox (from Ron Chernow’s “Grant”)

T-Pain's War Pigs cover may be better than all other covers of War Pigs and every other cover of any other song combined. And yo, his live, non-auto-tuned performance IS ALSO AMAZING

Competing first drafts of history in my timeline:

The difficulty to think at the end of day, When the shapeless shadow covers the sun And nothing is left except light on your fur… www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

I've now seen several posts from Democratic US Senators and House Reps calling for Congress to return to DC, and my only reaction to seeing these is: Do it. Just get on a plane and go back to DC. The House is in Recess, not adjourned. There was a pro forma session today. Go. Lead by example.

Axolotls didn’t evolve to be cute. They evolved to stay young (and alive). We just happen to love that. 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/e9GK8gy

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Two that I can think of: Robert Cray’s “Smoking Gun,” late one night on WXRT Chicago, and I missed the DJ’s call Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Seattle Ain’t Bullshittin’”—couldn’t believe it was a real song and not some prank friends were playing on me