After Namibia implemented gender quotas for candidates from its dominant political party, women jumped from 21% to 41% of members in parliament. The real shift in public opinion came only after women took office and became visible as leaders.

Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

Here's the intro to the Tucker/Risch piece on the Roberts Court and Munsingwear vacatur, which won the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers' annual prize for article of the year. You'll want to read the whole thing to learn about this *other* procedural maneuver they're using. 2/2

anyway, if this court is going to act as little more than a partisan legislature than it ought to be treated like one by the actual legislature

Have you updated the article yet, @nytimes.com ? @gillianbrockell.com is the longtime expert on this and beat you to it. Give her credit!

If my friend, Ant, asks for help, I am all in. Perhaps you can be, too?

Time to contact @nytimes.com and protest this blocking

Embarassing!

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

Ongoing DDoS.

OK, I have done my part, and spent two hours in my art studio completely off this site. It has been malfunctioning for at least seven hours that I'm aware of. Modernity and irony have made some kind of a pack together. I'm not thrilled. But then again, maybe it's a sign to stay off a lot more.

HEADS-UP, IRELAND: A likely ICE flight has just landed at Shannon again, likely to refuel before delivering shackled migrants to god-knows-where. This is the same plane that sent migrants to Uganda — a country they had never been to before — on April 1. #spéirghorm

Broken Bluesky. It’s a sign. Today is a day to go out and touch grass, love on some clouds, kiss the flowers, and gather up yourself inside yourself.

Imagine you are lying on the ground, looking up, and the clouds are passing by to soothe you and cleanse this timeline.

Important stats to know. I hope anyone who is in a fragile situation today can reach out for help.

Always lovely, but this thread of nature photography is especially to my liking, and I hope, to yours as well.

Montana!

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

For the people still on Substack with tens of thousands of subscribers, they would actually make MORE money by switching to beehiv. Because they wouldn't be paying a ten percent Nazi/sex trafficking tithe to the platform

So, ⅔ real and ⅓ bot. 🤷‍♀️

Hi @realfollowers.bsky.social

@realfollowers.bsky.social Please tell me what you got for me! My bet, hovering around 50%. Thanks for sharing, @eldritch.beauty 💙

Ive been maintaining a list of Democrats on here at bsky.app/profile/davi... So I logged in to skyfeed.app and set up a feed using that list as the input, and a regular expression filter of (wind\b|solar|heat pump|geothermal|green energy|renewable) And skimmed through the handful posts in it

you're putting your journalism behind a paywall, handing 20% of your revenue to Substack, and requiring people to hand some of their hardearned money (which they're paying to you as a subscription fee) to nazis and sex traffickers in order to read what you have to say. that is profoundly fucked up.

i'm going to be beating my "get off substack" drum again. because seriously: get off substack. stop helping literal sex traffickers make money.

And it's a bit concerning that he is a major investor in Substack. Marc Andreesen is shaping media into his vision and some of y'all are just letting him. You are letting SS use your left leaning journalism to launder right wing extremism. It's making me nuts.

I have a request. Please send me any announcements from democratic politicians in the U.S. touting this major milestone.

For ideological reasons, I moved from Substack to beehiiv and couldn’t be happier. I’m happy to talk to anyone who wants to make a move. Leaving Substack is like planting a tree. The best day to do it was years ago. The second best day is today.

I've seen respected columnists using AI to add cartoons to their posts. Please stop- first of all, it's garbage. Secondly, most editorial cartoonists would be happy if you included their work with your posts. Just ask them for permission.

For California voters ⬇️

OK, New Mexicans. I did not realize we are, collectively, so rude. Did you???

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

Another way to put it is... if you don't use AI platforms because you have a moral objection to them, but you publish your words on Substack, you haven't really thought about this stuff.

This is now a question for the GOP. PS We are almost there!

1.5B words later, I am speechless at this project! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Nature heals. Natures creates. Nature understands color like no other!

One of a thousand reasons why I called your offices, today, @heinrich.senate.gov and @lujan.senate.gov ⬇️ Stop all funding of Israel, especially weapons, as @sanders.senate.gov will propose this week.

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

As if this crew can’t be any cooler, WE NOW HAVE DOGS!

It must be this aria, sung by Maria Callas, by Puccini in Madame Butterfly! All the feels… youtu.be/tmfw17L_Deo?...

Wow. What a perfect distillation of the truth.

After the rain sunshine arrives And all the glows on our morning walk.

Very helpful thread about how hard it is to come forward and then to verify.

Happy #NationalPetDay! ℹ️Animal Figures, Toys, Artist not recorded, CA 1960, Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, North America. Museum of International Folk Art, Gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.5.646X. (not on view)

I TRIED to read an article in @variety.com today but it was obv “written” by AI. How do I know? It was literally unreadable due to the grammatical nonsense in almost every sentence. You all may think you are saving money getting rid of humans, but if the humans won’t read your shit, game over.

Such beauty in our world and wonderful humans who capture it! 💚💚💚

This is great news. Unions are one of the main hopes for the future in our fight against the billionaires raping and plundering our country and our land and of course, our people.

Legal eagles noticed, and there’s been SOME mainstream coverage. But overall the political class has underreacted to this month’s OLC opinion, ordered up by Trump or on his behalf, declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. Things are likely being stolen and/or destroyed *right now*.

Hello, also, #BookSky 📚💙