Everyone, say hello to the long-tailed brush lizard, Urosaurus graciosus graciosus. It's their first time being featured on #FindThatLizard! This cutie graciously (see what I did there? 😂) let me do a whole photoshoot! I was experimenting with a new lens that one of my friends suggested.

BTW, racist Americans have hated Haiti since 1791, because Haiti was the first successful revolution against enslavement. And I want to note how Justice Jackson included a detailed discussion of the Black Codes in her defense of Hawaiian historical sovereignty in another case today.

I'm sorry what year is this again?

Homecare aide Marie Fleurival was making breakfast--she hadn’t yet heard the news. She turned off the stove & went silent for several seconds. “Oh my goodness,” she said. “What are we gonna do?” A TPS recipient, she owns her own home & has a son in middle school. www.wgbh.org/news/nationa...

Marking a blow to federal prosecutors in Minnesota, artist and activist Isabel “Isa” Lopez had five federal charges with a possibility of eight years in prison reduced to one misdemeanor and was sentenced to time served and a $25 fine on Tuesday.

The ways we absolutely got our ass kicked in this war continue to grow.

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

This man is a chillul hashem.

GO A'S!!!!!

Watching Cote d’Ivoire fans march down the Linc in total, unfettered joy like this is what makes The World Cup so worth it, despite the best efforts of FIFA and other forces

i do think this is actually the perfect response insofar as it illustrates how these dorks actually just fantasize about getting to be the bullies in high school

Here is some more information on ICE's Jonathan Ross, who should be put on trial for killing Renee Good. www.wbur.org/news/2026/01...

We wanted to understand why a Jewish candidate defeated another Jewish candidate in one of America's most Jewish congressional districts. So we talked to three Evangelical Christians at a gun show in northern Idaho.

Distracted from the racism of Caitlin Clark discourse by the racism of the Supreme Court: America 250.

One last rant about this discourse but I think the thing that also gets my goat here is that it's always framed like the person who is late is disabled with ADHD and also is the only disabled person in the world, that their lateness couldn't possibly have negative effects on other disabled people.

Starting pitchers to bat leadoff since 1900: Shohei Ohtani 31x reg, 4x post 9/22/68 Cesar Tovar (played all 9 positions) 9/27/53 Al Dark (moved to 3B after the 1st, only career game pitched) 9/30/1901 Jim Jones (1 of 2 career pitching app)

Friends, by all means push back against how Republicans are weaponizing claims of antisemitism. But if you can't do that without mocking the idea that antisemitism is rising, your Jewish colleagues notice, and we are talking about you.

"Being agreeable never did a woman any good"? I'm sorry. What does this movie think Sense and Sensibility is about?

In a big victory, a court has blocked the federal administration from seizing the private medical records of transgender youth in New York. As this lawsuit continues, I’ll keep fighting so all New Yorkers can receive the care they need.

Globalism? Is a system now? Disgusting bigot can't even keep his bigotries straight.

Learned today that British Museum has no AC, but it does have a clear roof that lets the sun in and creates a additional greenhouse effect in 100ish degree weather.

as soon as there's any left victories you start to get this kind of triumphalist and contemptuous language about the rest of the Democratic Party, followed by whining when the rest of the Democratic Party responds. it happened with Bernie in early 2020.

From @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social “Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. “ slate.com/technology/2...

Important to note that fans did not let up in pressuring the team to do this. It did not happen in a vacuum. Still, credit where credit is due. This is the right ethical move, and also in alignment with their fanbase.

Remind me again why I should listen to *any* opinions from someone who thinks the reason people don't vote in the US is that there are no Communist alternatives to vote for?

Holy fuck. This is very bad

To be fair, I bet most Israeli voters have no idea who Moshe Tur-Paz is. This is digging pretty deep for calling it "an alternative" to Netanyahu.

Exactly. Pick a movement any movement and I will show you the decades of struggle, peaks and abeyance, triumph and backlash, until a set of political stakes gets planted in the ground that are too deep to easily move.

I am sorry to tell you, Europe, but exposure to cold drafts literally does not make you sick. It just doesn't. Because germ theory.

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given what Elon is willing to say out loud now, I’m amazed he’s not willing to say the actual reason he wanted to kill USAID, which is its role in the end of apartheid

Ideologically diverse movements are good. There might be sub-groups with different ideas than yours, and that's okay. It's valuable to allow many ideas and consider them all. But if the sub-group holding one idea decides their idea is compatible with overt evil, then their idea is wrong, actually.

Folarin Balogun became an accidental American when his parents ended up stuck in NYC on vacation after an airline decided his 7 month pregnant mom was too pregnant to fly back home to the UK, but he's playing for the US by choice, and that's a beautiful thing about America.

currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals

Four years after the Dobbs decision, pregnant people in states with total abortion bans are now nearly twice as likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, or the postpartum period.

Someone tell the writers this is way too on-the-nose.

Murc's Law remains undefeated.

And just like that. Democrats and only democrats are responsible for how a majority white country has always been.

I love the reaction of cat lovers upon seeing a cat. Every single time the level of excitement is like they've read about cats for decades but never actually seen one in real life and they're SO EXCITED. Every. Single Time. Even if it's the hundredth cat they've seen that day.

Social movements should, like all things, be critiqued. But assessing them solely in terms of a success/failure binary is neither fair nor illuminating. Most social movements fail - but that doesn't mean they were pointless or had no impact. We need to bear this in mind re: the Trump I "resistance."

If you can get 30 years just for knowing people who are at a protest, there's no reason to comply with anything

I guess I’m less surprised, because we still do this every day here on Bluesky dot Social with “Joe Biden & Kier Starmer & [insert non-Israeli political leader] could have magically made Bibi Netanyahu & the Israeli government stop existing as independent actors in world politics”

There has to be some middle ground between leftists thinking 2016 and 2024 were “layups that my preferred candidate would’ve won” and thinking the Republicans under Trump are some god-tier political operation.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

My lukewarm take is that it should be disqualifying for a Democratic candidate to support Vladimir fucking Putin, and this is why we need a multiparty system in this country like yesterday.

Religion is profoundly impactful in public life and politics in both beautiful and terrible ways because it is profoundly impactful in individual people's ethics, motivations, and obligations. Using broad terms and limited definitions of what religion is creates ignorance and does a lot of damage.

0.3% of journalists make $800,000, 99.8% make less than $50,000 and there’s like no one in between.

DeGrom, Skubal, MacLean, Ohtani all pitching today. It's an embarrassment of pitching riches. Also England versus the West Indies starting soon in the women's T20 World Cup!

Senators are in no position to judge the circumstances a woman faces when deciding whether to end her pregnancy. That choice belongs to her alone. Restore Roe. Protect reproductive freedom.

Astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker was the most prolific female comet hunter in history. Despite having no formal background in science, she discovered 32 comets and over 500 asteroids, most notably co-discovering Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She was born #OTD in 1929. #WomenInSTEM #astronomy #astrosky