WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

This is going to be met with a bunch of "that will never hold up in court" responses. Ok. So do it anyway. Force this administration to make its preposterous masking arguments in front of federal judges. Make them defend secret police on the record. Go on the offensive.

So, welcome to a thread of stuff that happens at the OB/GYN office that they don’t necessarily provide any pain management for, beyond maybe take a Tylenol or ibuprofen before you come.

NYT on war crimes in southern Lebanon

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

Israeli gov seems intent on making an example of Thiago Avila and Saif Abu Keshek, the only 2 crew members of the Sumud flotilla they decided to bring to Israel after abducting them. Lawyers said that they testified to "severe physical abuse amounting to torture". Little media coverage so far.

⚠️I'm about to post a thread that's incredibly trigger-worthy. SA included, but a wide range of horrors that are preying on me.⚠️ Know that it will not be an easy read.

Remembering these examples from Acting CDC Director Bhattacharya for valid vaccine uncertainties. I hope the CDC Director knows we don't give HPV vax to babies, it has benefits to men beyond preventing cervical cancer, & you can get Hep B pre-adulthood... www.importantcontext.news/p/trump-nih-...

What the fuck are we doing here

Report: Every Place On Earth Has Wrong Amount Of Water https://theonion.com/report-every-place-on-earth-has-wrong-amount-of-water-1851544516/

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

do not forget that we the people have the power to chart a different path than this

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public' IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

Josh Marshall: Energy policy in the U.S. is driven by the rantings of a senescent wannabe dictator whose speeches routinely dip into musings about wind turbines and birds. That is what decay and decline look like.

NEW: Teenage boys are pulling classmates' photos off Insta and running them through cheap nudify apps and the fallout has now hit nearly 90 schools across 28 countries with 600+ known victims since 2023, per a WIRED/Indicator analysis. UNICEF estimates 1.2M children were targeted last year alone.

cc: @nytimes.com

We should all call our senators and congressmembers tomorrow and ask them to investigate the White House advisors who threatened Pope Leo. Pass it on! (202) 224-3121

To all who celebrate

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

Israeli aircraft reportedly sprayed glyphosate over border farmlands in southern Lebanon & Syria’s Quneitra in Jan–Feb ‘26. Lebanese tests & UNIFIL samples found concentrations 20–30x above normal, killing crops. Israel said it is to deny militants cover. UN warned of humanitarian/environmental harm

He still needs to be removed from office. A war powers resolution will not suffice. He circumvented Congress to start the war. He circumvented them on tariffs and appropriations. Why anyone thinks he'd adhere to a Congressional war powers resolution is beyond me.

I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.

Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS.

Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

Terrifying reality check on Al Jazeera. Israel is systematically detonating and completely destroying entire civilian towns and homes across Southern Lebanon. This is not a war, it is a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing and total erasure of Lebanese communities. Where’s the outrage 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Two of the same illegal invasions. Two differing reports. The utter shamelessness of the New York Times to continue to whitewash Israel’s illegal actions and war crimes—even as they’ve killed 1300 Lebanese citizens including more than 200 children. Beyond failed journalism. Beyond Pathetic.

Trump wants to spend $1.5 TRILLION on war Universal 4 year college costs $75B. Meaning, for the cost of 1 year of war, we could educate 45M Americans a year for 20 years But instead we have a fascist & likely PDFile sending our kids to war to bomb kids in another nation Remove Him From Office NOW

Clearly, he's not a student of history. Because if he was, he'd know that the one time the federal government did "take care of daycare," they did it *because of a war* and used defense funding to pay for it. 1/🧵

"One agent is married to a TV news anchor who reports on the Border Patrol. Another, who also engaged in a gun battle with a school shooter in Uvalde, Texas, has posted in an online gun forum with thread titles like 'Whipping Haitians.'" amazing work by @awinston.bsky.social + Maddy Varner

Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility! We're everywhere and we're cool. Here's the trans pride flag 🏳️‍⚧️ on a mid-90s Pentium running DOS.

Breaking: The president has signed an executive order on mail voting. He has no lawful authority to write the rules that govern our elections. He tried a year ago; we sued him; we won. A year later, he has tried again. He can expect the same result. 1/2

The number of American service members wounded in the Iran war has grown beyond 300, with more than two dozen troops injured this week from attacks on a Saudi air base. https://to.pbs.org/4tfu6Rg

This is a nationwide phenomenon. The centrists and normies are more viciously angry than the socialists and anarchists, who gave up long ago on the illusion of a working system. Would encourage leftists of all stripes to take it seriously, welcome them in while they’re receptive.

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

“A website for the group says they are inspired by the original Jewish Defense League, a group linked to numerous bombings and attempted assassinations of Arab American political activists in the 1970s and 1980s.”

A plot to assassinate Palestinian rights advocate Nerdeen Kiswani by a member of a Zionist organization (who then intended to flee to Israel) was disrupted by an undercover NYPD agent. The man had assembled Molotov cocktails to firebomb her family’s home. apnews.com/article/fbi-...

Can’t make this up.

My man clearly had to fight with Cigna over an MRI

I'm so sorry but the US being like "we won, we destroyed you, we would like a cease fire now" and Iran being like "lmao get fucked we're gonna bomb you and your allies with the missiles you allegedly destroyed" is just......surely one of history's most earned Finding Out moments

Sending ICE to help at crowded airports is like sending slave patrollers to help with the harvest. They're not there to make things run more smoothly, but to add a layer of menace to the system.

Fuck ICE. Fuck Trump.

ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.

Simple math illustration on how vaccination reduces measles transmission The MMR vaccine is 97% effective. Three kids are likely to get infected w/ limited spread of disease. Exposed non-vaccinated children will spread it faster w/ increased risk of complications. 🧪Via @alokpatelmd.bsky.social

The people who cancelled Jimmy Kimmel after Charlie Kirk's assassination will now control television stations that reach 80% of Americans, twice that what was legally allowed before Trump's takeover. The state capture of network television is almost complete.