Coal-burning power plants released more mercury last year, according to an analysis by The New York Times. It reverses a downward trend of emissions of a metal that interferes with brain development.

This woman has a green card www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...

My latest @nytimes.com oped shows that the White House is dramatically understating the cost of the war in Iran. By my calculations—and I show my work—this war will cost the typical American family thousands, and it could cost them tens of thousands. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...

This story needs way more attention. Farage and his acolytes have repeatedly claimed his home was "firebombed", to justify the £5m secret donation given to the Reform leader by crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne But the police report of the incident is a burglary. There's no record of arson

Hey @nytimes.com: bsky.app/profile/whit...

Every time I see a horrible story about a data center whether it’s water usage, energy usage, noise pollution, or heating up the area excessively I think why. I just don’t see the value. No community needs this absolute garbage. Alaska doesn’t need it.

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Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French civil engineer, physicist, born #OTD 1788, whose optics research led to acceptance of wave light theory; his rotating Fresnel lens revolutionised lighthouse technology, projecting beams at greater distance (first used Phare de Cordouan 1823). Musée National de la Marine

If the Republican Party is still allowed to exist in its present state when Democrats (hopefully) regain enough power to make real changes, the United States is finished. A real Reconstruction is vital if we want this nation to continue existing.

Your regular reminder that when David Duke ran for statewide office in the early 1990s, the MAJORITY of white Louisiana voters pulled the lever for him. This was AFTER they’d seen the pictures of Duke in a Klan outfit and a Nazi uniform.

A wonderful sentence from this story, describing the video of the man who threw a rock at a seal for no reason getting beat up by a local: "Meanwhile, an unidentified gentleman begins wailing on him."

The Trump BLM is allowing farmers and ranchers to place cyanide bombs on public lands. They not only kill coyotes, mink, badgers, birds and wolverines they kill dogs and hikers. But Trump could care less.

Her husband wrote an entire book telling people not to go to college like him.

The hard drive on my laptop just died. It’s old enough that they no longer make the parts. How’s your day going?

tRump's Interior Dept is evicting nearly 1,000 American bison from Montana federal lands to appease cattle ranchers. Our national mammal—icon of the wild West—doesn't count as "production-oriented" livestock. Special interests over conservation 🦬💔 mcsp.short.gy/ZEBs

Thanks to @beingliberal.bsky.social

Incompetence was the point. They can’t build a new authoritarian order until they destroy the old one. Steve Bannon spelled it out back in 2017. Trump’s cabinet was designed to be the wrecking balls of our traditional system of government.🧵

republicans when they lose in court: the court is illegitimate, rally with us to overturn this unjust declaration democrats when they lose in court: we respect the court, now watch us roll over and die and people wonder why one is better at rallying voters

Don’t run universities like a business run it as a public good

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

The Trump WH wants guns available through the mail but not abortion medication.

Why the reporter is asking an AI tool to do the job she gets paid a ton of money to do is of course not addressed

Now that it has been directed at me, I denounce the MAGA racism that rewarded and amplified me back when I claimed it didn't exist.

"In Trump’s world, the only civil rights worth protecting are those of aggrieved white men. The problem is that while there is no shortage of angry white guys, there’s nothing to investigate unless they have suffered some sort of harm. Enter Stephen Miller's firm, America First Legal."

This is 100% a policy choice of the Trump Administration, the Dunleavy Administration, and the people that support them. Vote them out or expect more.

I'm sorry I know this is a horrifying picture of our descent into the tackiest imaginable fascist future but it is also just so fucking funny

Gas prices went up another three cents overnight.

You do not hate the DOGE people enough. Boys with toys breaking things they were too arrogant and lazy to understand.

The Confederacy has staged a very slow-motion victory in the US. That kind of virulent racism takes real dedication to keep spreading from generation to generation.

Surprise! The GOP's budget package funding ICE + Trump's ballroom adds nearly $72 billion to the deficit, says CBO. And if you tack on interest, the price tags jumps to nearly $94 billion, says a nonpartisan watchdog group. www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-ba...

This is the most important thing happening in the first / western world. Since the bank crash in 2008, wages have not increased anywhere near previous paces, yet CEO and venture returns have been exponential. It’s going to cause a reckoning, it’s obvious.

Republicans know how to use power against their enemies; establishment Democrats only know how to use power against their friends 🤷

Sending everyone a whiff of this magic this morning - #gardening

Mark Zuckerberg built a massive data center in Georgia just hundreds of yards from people’s homes. Now the water pressure is gone. Sinks don’t run. Toilets won’t refill. Homes shake nonstop. Power outages are routine.

I think about this comic all the time.

Codifying Roe, passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and holding members of this administration criminally accountable are important goals, but none of it sticks without Supreme Court reform.

Can we make this national?

They spent at least $50 BILLION over 2 months to bomb people in Iran. I don't want to hear a single thing about what can and cannot be funded in this country. Ever. The End.

If I want advice about the best way to strip the dick off of a dead raccoon I’ll consult RFKJr and his pack of psycho woo merchants, otherwise they can fuck right off about how I say healthy.

folks, be better than Ezra

The Trump regime is using an official social media account — managed with taxpayer funds — to post offensive horseshit like this.

When I came out of law school in 2006, DOJ's prestige was such that liberal and conservative graduates alike would have gladly stepped over their friends' dead bodies to get a position there. Trump has ruined it now to the point they're having to bribe new graduates to apply.

Someone out there decided it would be a good idea to put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a bunch of Doberman puppies and they were 100% correct

The Met Gala—funded by billionaires & trillion dollar corporations who pay the lowest tax rate of any demographic, even while 60% of Americans cannot afford to live—is yet another reminder that we do not lack the ability to help those in need, we lack the ability to satisfy billionaire greed.

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