A group of #Epstein survivors are urging the Senate to reject #ToddBlanche's attorney general nomination in public service announcement. The Department of Justice has repeatedly defended its handling of the release of the #Epstein files. www.youtube.com/shorts/mVCaN...

Minnesota woman running for U.S. Senate found guilty in tarantula-throwing incident. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Join me and Chris for a zoom talk about Beyond the Ocean: Thursday at 6:45pm eastern. We each picked one thing and one person from the book to illustrate some of its main themes. #earlymodern #atlanticworld #skystorians smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/pr...

You’re gonna really want to read a description of the novel he wrote. I promise you, you’re not ready. www.chantireviews.com/2024/02/28/h...

Writing headlines is hard. You have to compress an article into a phrase or two. And you have to fit an exact and usually inconvenient line space. Two images below: What the NYT is running on line. (h/t @jaywillis.net for calling this one out.) And what would fit exactly the same space, by me.

Franklin says nope. Going back to bed.

Do not fall for this, @durbin.senate.gov.

very friendly cat entered through the window

Apparently, today is BOTH #WorldChimpanzeeDay and #WorldOrcaDay! Something female chimps and orcas have in common is they both experience menopause! They also have rich social lives and a reliance on culture to solve ecological problems! Pics are female chimps I studied at the North Carolina Zoo!

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Fig Newton is all of us whilst looking at the news.

After a cost of more than $1 billion, the Everglades concentration camp has been removed from the airstrip where it once stood.

Take a minute for this Sam Neill clip, reuniting with his JP co-stars.

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HOMAN: Vehicle attacks are up 3,400% COLLINS: But DHS didn't say he was trying to hit them with their vehicle. They said he was fleeing the scene and they feared for public safety HOMAN: Look, I can't speak to what DHS says

Made some korma curry with chickpeas and threw in some green beans. Very tasty, and very filling 😋 (I left the sauce thick on purpose)

As Fran Lebowitz noted, most of us have never met anyone as stupid as Donald Trump.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit to compel New Mexico to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-15 in these cases. Elias Law Group and its clients are undefeated! www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-me...

NEW: A bipartisan Wisconsin elections commission voted 5-1 to refer Elon Musk to prosecutors after finding probable cause he illegally offered $1 million to sway voters in the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Wisconsin elections are not for sale.

These are sailors who have already been quantified on every conceivable metric and approved by a promotion board This is pure sex discrimination. It's axiomatic for Hegseth that women aren't worthy so if they get superior scores, it must have been because of DEI.

Step two is complete and now onto the real work… #drawing #pencilart #moth

Drusilla contemplating which pencil to bite. #artistproblems

Of course it was illegal! Prosecute him! Seize his assets!

ICE killed another person.

#OtD 14 Jul 1970 the Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital's main administrative building in response to New York City's indifference to the needs of Puerto Ricans and African Americans in the South Bronx and the hospital's deplorable conditions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8579...

Solar cooperatives are helping Americans save on energy costs. One person reported that after joining a solar co-op, she now only pays $5 a month instead of $300 on energy bills during the summer. These co-ops leverage collective purchasing power to make costs more affordable.

Martin baker hanging out

PabloReports: What do you think of DHS suspending vehicular stops? AOC: A lot of the stuff they’re doing, they shouldn’t be doing in the first place. They should be facing consequences for killing innocent people in the streets, and they’re just trying to escape those consequences.

bitch I can’t fucking go piss in five states because of you, I don’t want to hear about encroachments on personal life

NOW: Tensions are boiling over in Maine. Clashes have broken out near the Scarborough ICE facility after an ARMED pro-ICE counter-protester confronted a massive crowd of anti-ICE demonstrators. Police are on scene attempting to separate the groups. Stay safe out there, everyone.

FUCK YEAH, THAT'S MY UNION.

NEWS: The Supreme Court will not stop Florida from killing Dennis Sochor today. There were no noted dissents. If the state proceeds, it would be Florida’s 10th execution this year and the 17th execution in the U.S. in 2026.

Come get yo clock and yo parade,!! people.com/see-everythi...

More from my recent wildflower sightings. The first one is cool AF. They were all pretty cool TBH.

NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.

Whoa Brooke Shields went “undercover” to that Casa Bonita thing to tell the South Park assholes to quit union busting the entertainers. That’s actual solidarity.

This is Wilson. He was born with a blurry tail. Not sure if he'll ever grow out of it. 13/10 we love him just the way he is

AOC on Susan Collins touting the money she got for body cameras and ICE training in the DHS bill. “Senator Collins wrote the blank check to allow these officers to conduct themselves in the way that they have in Maine in the first place, and she's the one who's poured resources into it.”

Here in Colorado Springs, ICE is doing traffic stops in the middle of major roads. I’m waiting for this to happen here.

After a hiatus, EMDigIt is back with BIG news! 📯 The Core Italian Itinerary dataset is now publicly available as feature layers published on ArcGIS Online. More than 3,700 georeferenced way-points and 6,000 route segments taken from 8 Italian-language itineraries published from 1562-1720.

This is fantastic example of how Beltway reporters become twisted by the clubbiness of power in DC. She thinks this is a charming anecdote.

This is I believe the third incident where ICE has gone to arrest people, they flee, and someone is hit by a car or other vehicle and dies. In this case, ICE officers went to question some people at a gas station, they panicked, and one of them ran into the road and was hit by a truck.

Now that ICE has killed again in Maine, reupping: The creators of this horrifying new reality are Trump and Stephen Miller. They pretended to want it done quietly this time, but that's just spin. The whole project is intrinsically geared toward exactly this outcome. newrepublic.com/article/2129...

George Lucas Goes To The Dark Side, Says AI Is 'The Future' https://kotaku.com/george-lucas-artificial-intelligence-ai-museum-art-2000715801

I hate him so much.

The entire credibility of judicial review rests on the fact that there's a reasoning behind orders that can be applied going forward. Otherwise it's just arbitrary rule by ayatollahs, which happens to be what the Supreme Court is right now.

Please read in full. On ICE’s reported cessation of immigration enforcement related vehicle stops, media literacy, critical analysis, and the political / linguistic manipulation that masks the enormity of the fascist threat facing us all

Where are all the people that signed the Harper letter? Where is FIRE foundation?

“Inside RFK Jr.’s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy: Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.”

I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.