Donald Trump cannot get away with suing the IRS for $10 billion and then settling with a DOJ *he* oversees for a $1.7 billion slush fund dedicated to granting his allies payouts. This is absolutely unconstitutional and unethical.

The Supreme Court weaponized the Voting Rights Act against the very people it was written to protect. “Destroying Black representation in the South.” Jim Crow 3.0

What version of hell is this where the National Academy of Sciences is being lectured by Lauren Boebert about what constitutes “gold standard” practices?

Oh. My. God. This is despicable.

Cool that we've basically decided that this one rich asshole can just break the law whenever he wants.

The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.

COLLINS: What about Trump's promise in 2024 that if he was reelected, gas would be under $2 a gallon? JIM JORDAN: Well, gas prices were coming down until we had to deal with this situation. But that's life.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

20-30% of global emissions come from food, agriculture, and land use sectors as well as indirect emissions. Reshaping our food system means targeted solutions: better fertilizer in India, rice farming in SE Asia, forest protection in Brazil, diet shifts in the US. 👉 drawdown.org/food-and-climate

US wildfires have *doubled* the previous record for this time of year. We've already burned more land than in many full years this century

This is so good! (And hits far too close to home.)

A Super El Niño is approaching, potentially the strongest El Niño we’ve seen in a century, and Trump is proposing to cut weather agency NOAA by 26 percent to save money for taxpayers Meanwhile the amount it’s proposing to cut from NOAA is equivalent to 1.3 days of taxpayer spending on the Iran war

I don’t know how you can watch what is happening across the country and think “Do you know what MA needs? MAGA voters to get a say in which Democrats get elected.”

Thank you Rep. Kevin Volk for making public how all Republicans in the AZ State Legislature targeted southern Arizona for cuts in the budgets, especially Pima County.

You can still support our message and sign the Open Letter "Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia” Sign here: openletter.earth/open-letter-...

“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...

It should come as a surprise to no one that education spending does not necessarily correlate to outcomes. One thing for sure: Arizona is dead last no matter how you look at it. www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-state...

We at @grist.org just dropped a new Imagine 2200 short story. "The Forty-Seven Vacant Floors of Ur" by T.K. Rex It's about tech collapse, displacement, and what quietly assembles in the space that's left. grist.org/climate-fict... #Climate #Fiction #SolarPunk #ClimateFiction

Trump is crazyposting at 3pm

And now Republicans are working overtime to erase black members of Congress. Take a history lesson about how the Republican party became the party of Jim Crow and then join us in the real world, Rafael.

FYI: If you have an active Naval blockade, there's not a ceasefire. So even if you claim a ceasefire pauses the War Powers Resolution 60-day clock, there's not a ceasefire right now.

“[A]n audience member wondered whether partnering w/ ‘jurisdictions that have…arguably even higher status, like federally recognized tribes,’ might present a workaround [to enable “network states”]. [Joe] Lonsdale agreed. He had just spoken with someone from the Chickasaw ­Nation.” (2025) 1/

I wonder how many guesses he got?

Many liberals had long hoped for deescalation, because gerrymandering is bad. But watching Rs openly vow to seize on SCOTUS ruling to maximally gerrymander makes it clear those hopes are dead. The option of deescalation is always there, but it must be mutual. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

Try getting your money out of that one later! Maybe it pays out in Trump bucks.

Climate Central has documented 5 U.S. billion-dollar disasters so far in 2026, with 2 more under investigation. I expect the current severe weather outbreak will add to the list.

📊 New data release today! Check out the latest state-by-state tools for tracking U.S. billion-dollar disasters, as well as disaster and risk mapping! 2026 already has 5 events tallied so far this year ($12.4 billion). Explore the data with @climatecentral.org: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

I’ll take that bet, Lindsey.

People always wonder how we live in a country that could elect a dishonest conman like Donald Trump. I don't.

Erectile dysfunction, male pattern baldness, halitosis - anything can be solved with a ballroom!

Tucson! APRIL 29TH AUCTION PROTEST Protest the auction of 160 acres of State Trust Land requested by Hudbay Minerals. Hudbay wants to use this land as a dump for its toxic mine waste called tailings. Wednesday, April 29th at 10am Details here: desktopactivisttucson.blogspot.com/2026/04/prot...

Rainwater Harvesting & Keep Cool With Storm to Shade Enjoy recording of the Sustainable Tucson Water Committee February meeting where Dan Stormont presented on rainwater harvesting and why it is important in Tucson and Xochitl Coronado-Vargas presented about Tucson Water's Storm to Shade program.

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Ah shit, Gerry Conway died. He created the punisher & was very outspoken in saying "if you're a cop who wears a punisher logo, frank castle fucking HATES you." He said the punisher only existed because of a fatally flawed system, & so those most harmed by that system have more claim to the symbol:

hard at work on the game. here's something from last month: my old pathfinding stuff wasn't quite cutting it, so I caved and refactored my old A* pathfinding from a grid-based system to a fairly standard navmesh system #gamedev #indiegame

John Fetterman is now pro-funding Trump's ballroom, continuing his descent into an old man brain-poisoned by Fox News.

Typical logic from this regime: we need to build this 999 person ballroom to have a safe venue for the 2500 person WHCD. I'm sure this also means Trump will never do another rally, right?

He obviously misspoke. I think he meant the average IQ of MAGA.

Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions). Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom. And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ. Remember this.

How come they keep spelling “open” wrong? Does that street look closed to you? Only if you’re a car… and presumably that’s the real problem. #UrbanTruth

“The infamous Koch brothers have bankrolled climate deniers, propped up polluting industries, and even tried to turn the black community pro-fossil fuel. But, as a recent New York Times story shows, the billionaire conservatives have been steadily exerting pressure against public transit as well.”

Once again need to remind everyone that the supposedly crime-infested hellhole of New York is one of the safest cities in the country in no small part because most people in the central area don’t drive. America has a much bigger car problem than a violent crime problem.

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

SCOTUS in its current configuration isn’t just bad for democracy, it’s actively working against a livable environment

UPDATE, Saturday: The Strait of Schrödinger remains open and closed, safe and dangerous, insurable and uninsurable, blockaded and free. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

The AZ International Film Festival has started!

Wow!

Register for Santa Cruz River Research Days. This FREE event shares progress & info among researchers & all who love the river. In-person and virtual event & field trip Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan turns 25 Conservation & Restoration in San Rafael Valley Hike the Borderlands Wildlife Preserve