Breaking News: The EPA is allowing coal-burning power plants to release more heavy metals like mercury, a powerful neurotoxin linked to brain damage.

BREAKING: Alysa Liu wins the gold medal in women's figure skating.

Bald Eagles were fishing off of ice floes on the Hudson River, saving the energy cost of flying and getting closer to the fish they wanted to catch. This one, seen at 79th Street on Friday, already was eating its catch. 🦅 🧡 🐟

This is Lil Cat. She’s in Mendocino. A little shy. VERY sweet. 8 years old. And was well loved. Can anyone give her a soft spot to land? That face! If not, can you share? www.mendocinohumane.org#sl_embed&pag...

Australia is famously a place with some of the world’s most dangerous and frightening animals. But it is also home to one of the world’s cutest: the flying fox, also known as the giant fruit bat.

you know, it still seems like it should be an even bigger issue that the president has been sending armed forces to kidnap and assault people in an ethnic cleansing campaign, with a specific geographic focus on regions that didn't vote for him in the last election

Everyone — regardless of political party — should be outraged by the dramatic overreach from Trump’s DOJ. They are spying on and surveilling Members of Congress as we conduct oversight. https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/politics/doj-monitoring-lawmaker-epstein-files-searches

How much of downtown Seattle is just queueing space for the freeway?

When someone tells me how old their child is I say "that's such a fun age" even if it's 37

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

a single huge ravioli

Groundhog Harassed By Dipshits In Stupid Hats

Contributor: Animal testing slows medical progress. It wastes money. It's wrong

Not going is the new leaving early.

3/2 at 7:30 PM | In "A World Appears," journalist @michaelpollan.bsky.social explores the concept of consciousness — what it is, who has it, and why. Pollan will be in conversation with @jmooallem.bsky.social. 🎟️ Get tickets: buff.ly/pGTXmL4

What movie should I watch to distract myself from the agonies

Hundreds in #Seattle protest ICE at downtown #Target as the company collaborates with #ICE and is based in Minnesota.

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

hi friends i know i don’t normally do this but if you like my art and would like to leave me a tip i have a kofi! here’s the link: ko-fi.com/poorlycatdraw thank you :D

Auschwitz was liberated 81 years ago today. Last year I published a story about the remaining survivors, fewer each year, and the importance of telling and retelling their stories. I hope you'll read it if you haven't. Here's a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/m...

You should be able to leave work early if you don’t recognize the world you live in anymore

Food contaminated with worms and mold. Limited access to clean drinking water. Inadequate medical care. These are a few of the allegations made by migrant families in recent court documents about their children’s conditions while in ICE custody. https://to.pbs.org/4sY4hFY

Free with purchase, while supplies last: whistles. On a key chain, so you’ll always have it with you. In case you suddenly need it. Perhaps you’ll be coaching youth sports. Or directing traffic. I’m sure there are other reasons. They’re pretty loud!

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

Gonna turn off the news and go hike an active volcano.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

They shot an unarmed mother in the face in front of her wife then called her a “fucking bitch”. They kidnapped a five year old and used them as bait. They deported a two year old despite a judge’s orders. They maced, pistol whipped, and disarmed a nurse legally carrying then shot him nine times.

/2 The official policy of Trump supporters is that they support anything this government does. Treat them accordingly.

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

Their voicemail boxes are all open. I left all seven a message telling them they will be voted out and never hold a position of public trust again. And to fuck off. You should do the same.

Trials for every ICE member.

It’s fine to think they are and you do but don’t test it out because they’re not and you don’t.

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footage of Jared Kushner (and Witkoff) in the Kremlin with Putin

Cannot see the end of it.

A favorite genre of social media interaction: POST: Sometimes I just want to forget everything and have fun on social media. REPLY: No. Things are very grim right now. You must suffer at all times.

are they not monsters?

Australia's Parliament on Tuesday passed anti-hate speech and gun laws proposed after two shooters killed 15 people at a Jewish festival in Sydney last month in an attack that authorities say was inspired by the Islamic State group. https://to.pbs.org/4qp1wf4

Listen 🔊 as Astoria the Wild Turkey finds a Red-tailed Hawk and clucks to alert her friends. She has excellent long-distance vision and is always watching for trouble. 🦃 ❤️ 👀

Fuck you Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Seattle in January

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

At last, we've reached number one in our countdown of our most-read pieces of 2025. Here it is, written by the brilliant @gregmania.bsky.social, a hilarious defense from this year's most maligned punctuation mark. buff.ly/BQmeypF