47 has dismantled the US Forest Service putting 193 million acres of forests in jeopardy of being sold for building. This means NO TREES = NO OXYGEN. 😡 This is pillaging our resources for financial gain!! 25 th Amendment 💙💙💙🙏

i feel like you all need this

Spoiler: Gas is up 19% in a month after the Iran conflict. Ground beef is up 11.6%. Coffee is up 19%. Tariffs are projected to shift 80% of their costs directly to consumers in 2026. Republican silence isn’t a mystery — it’s a confession.

Our new report examines the California Grid Manufacturing Initiative introduced in AB 2516, a pro-worker green industrial policy designed to manufacture critical electricity grid components, lower energy costs for Californians, and create high-road green jobs. climateandcommunity.org/research/a-n...

Agree 💯. I wanted to live in that movie

The parks are barely operational as it is. This is outrageous. He's going to destroy our country and our lagacy and all as a distraction from the Epstein Files. www.npca.org/articles/113...

Sis’s kitty says “duh” except it sounded like “meow”

Oh that’s wonderful news. Bless them all🙏🎉

Three-week-old mountain lion cub rescued by California biologists

DOG OF WAR: A dog from the Zaporizhzhia region. Anastasia’s dad picked him up on his way back from a combat mission. When they stopped, the dog came over and started tugging at his pants; now he lives with him.

The moon over LA is ominously beautiful tonight.

I've posted this image a lot over the years. I suspect I'm gonna be posting it *a lot* more in the years to come...

This is one of the most important stories of the week that you probably missed. The trump admin is basically taking something that belongs to all of us & giving it to political hacks & corporate donors. It’s an outrage & we should push back hard.

🙏🙏🙏for the crew

What A Blast! 906pm on Thursday over Chicago. All that lightning in one moment...this is one image.

Friday

Painter Romaine Brooks, La Primavera, #Spring (c.1910), featuring the dancer Ida Rubenstein #WomensArt

#Eggs at #Easter relate to ideas of new life in the #Spring. Painted eggshells by artist Ruby Silvious #WomensArt

Leiko Tar (Japanese/Swiss Artist, born 1951) "Silence of Sails", 2025.

Zoologist Anne Innis Dagg was the first "giraffologist." She was the first Western scientist to conduct a long-term study of any African mammal in the wild. Her 1976 book, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘦: 𝘐𝘵𝘴 𝘉𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, 𝘉𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳 & 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, is still considered the definitive "bible" of giraffe science today. #WomenInSTEM

Appeals court blocks republican efforts to gut environmental protections and destroy our public lands. azmirror.com/2026/04/01/a...

If anyone on here works at one of the 57 forest service research stations that are going to be closed and you want to tell me about your work there and why it's important, reach out: [email protected]

Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses. It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them. Yes. This exists. 😹

Sweet dreams, everyone 🤎 (art by Lucy Grossmith)

Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud.. www.nasa.gov/learning-res...

This is intolerable environmentamerica.org/newmexico/ce...

open.substack.com/pub/morethan... Public lands are precious. They deserve to be protected by our government!!! Never should they be allowed to become exploited for profit and destruction!!!

Companies are using AI to determine the minimum pay you’ll accept. Experts describe “surveillance wages” as a system in which wages are based not on an employee’s performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data. Source: Washington Center for Equitable Growth

open.substack.com/pub/morethan... date: yesterday, not joke

morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t... BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

It’s Toshiro Mifune’s birthday. There’s a telling story in John Boorman’s superb autobiography Adventures of a Suburban Boy about his complicated relationship with Mifune whilst making Hell in the Pacific. Very touching and the last line always makes me laugh. Ah, Hollywood.

You are looking at the famous Donbas Arena - an elite football stadium in Donetsk with a capacity of over 50,000. Back in 2009, at its opening, Beyoncé entertained the crowd. Now it stands in ruins, being consumed by the woods. Russia ruins everything everywhere it goes.

Tuesday

Private equity is depicted as a ruthless, unstoppable force destined to slurp up every company in the country & bleed them dry. In reality, the industry made a huge mistake in 2022 by overvaluing their portfolio companies, and now they're desperate for a way out. Me and Moe Tkacik tell the story. 🧵

Scientists have discovered that one dog year does not equal seven human years. In fact, the only thing that equals seven human years is 2026.

I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...

Happy Monday! Back to work... but not for me!!! 😊 😊 😊 😊 #jokesters

NEW: Trump pardoned nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz just 3 months into his sentence for a $39 million fraud scheme. Meanwhile, families who won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against Schwartz haven’t collected a cent.

At the same time that the U.S. is relaxing standards for recruits to prepare for ground war in Iran, it's doing something far more unusual: forcing out tens of thousands of highly qualified service members, including women, Blacks, and transgender people.

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

Mainstream journalists are abdicating their duty. Cartoonists are the real heroes of the moment.

Follow the money: The Ellison bid for Warner Bros may be backed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar & the UAE The European Commission wants answers So does Los Angeles — which is staring down massive layoffs if this goes through This merger has nowhere left to hide I discuss on @contrariannews.org -TN

I showed up for a staff meeting today and ended up holding a baby goat in a tiny sweater the whole time. I love working at a farm sanctuary. 🥹

Ron is looking fabulous! #AvianArmy #chickens #TeamRon

The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class

Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education is stronger than ever.

Reminder for folks going to the protests tomorrow: Turn off face unlock on your phone. Incredibly, courts have ruled that cops can take your phone and use your face to unlock your phone, and thus bypass the 4th Amendment and access ALL of your information. Turn it back on afterwards.

Elsie MacGill was the first woman in the world to earn a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering (1929). The "Queen of the Hurricanes" was a pioneering Canadian aircraft designer who led production of the Hawker Hurricane fighter planes during #WWII. She was born #OTD in 1905. #WomenInSTEM