Love the clear explanation here... youtu.be/xnj-2yfL13U?...

Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.

Thoughts on Is God Is for those who’ve seen it? Just came across the trailer today and I’m half-intrigued, half-scared (I usually don’t deal well with gore but I loved Sinners). #isgodis

RIP to a beloved colleague, Dr. Jimmy Hara. Born in a Japanese American internment camp, he became the primary physician for at least one Los Angeles Mayor and lifted up Family Medicine trainees at CDU. He will be missed. www.cdrewu.edu/news/in-memo...

Juniper Blessing singing Tom Petty’s Wildflowers at the New Mexico School For The Arts in 2024

There’s actually a chance the president could be elected by the popular vote in 2028 instead of the fundamentally undemocratic Electoral College. Watch:

The attack on science continues. Three more leaders in infectious disease research at NIAID have been told they either have to move to another agency or resign their positions. This comes right as The Regime continues to file bullshit charges against other scientists who worked with Dr. Fauci.

The Tiger is a story like no other I’ve read. On the surface, it follows an Amur tiger’s vengeful tracking of a Russian poacher. It also shows the transition from communism: a handful of under 40 billionaires created overnight while others, jobless, eke out a living from the boreal forests #booksky

TIL that Dolly Parton's Imagination Library now enrolls one of every six children in the US to receive a new book in the mail every month from birth to age five (60 books each) @arl.org

Great Britain has been ahead of the US when dealing with the revelations in the Epstein files. Epstein survivor, Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir, ‘Nobody’s Girl’ has been named Book of the Year at the British Book Awards! #ProudBlue #GreatBritian www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Still can’t get over the fact that Flow, the Oscar-nominated animated film from Latvia was made using free open-source Blender 3D software! Watched it for the first time on a plane last week, saw Blender in the credits and almost fell out of my seat. So good! youtu.be/eD06LQzWFTc?...

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

My favorite UK rapper… youtu.be/Kh8Q2iytzns?...

The official West African Mother's Day song is this classic by Nigerian artist Prince Nico (it's also my dad's favorite song): www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mec...

"Democratic Rep. Kim Schrier of Washington pressed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reassure parents that the vitamin K shot is safe. He refused and pushed back..." www.propublica.org/article/more...

Currently at the Getty Center, LA through June 14. Definitely worth the visit.

This follows from a categorization error that the Confederacy lost the Great Rebellion now d/b/a the Civil War. While the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered at Appamattox & of Tennessee at Greensboro, the Confederacy won the post-war peace & its politics have dominated the US ever since. 1/

Our media is controlled by just a handful of billionaires and their corporations. And Trump is making things even worse. Here's how we stop it.

Loved “The African Samurai” by Craig Shreve, which imagines the life of Yasuke, taken from Africa (Mozambique?) by the Portuguese as a boy and gifted to Oda Nobunaga, one of the three unifiers of Japan, in the 16th Century. He served Nobunaga, who elevated him, until his death in 1582. #booksky

"Federal agents are conducting a raid at the office of L. Louise Lucas, a Democrat who serves as Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore." Lucas, one of Virginia's most powerful lawmakers, was at the forefront of the state's redistricting fight

COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not

Rachel Maddow is laying out the long history of Trump being a despicable racist. All I can say is, it's about fucking time.

Age-friendly cities can mean the difference between independence and isolation for an older person. Where we live shapes how we age. Watch today’s daily dose.

#Sweden is electrifying everything that moves — trucks, buses, ferries, and mining vehicles — building the world's most complete 0-emission transport system. While most countries are focused on getting private EVs onto roads, Sweden has been electrifying every category of transport #ActOnClimate

Relevant rant for today

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the National Council of Jewish Women and Louisiana voters, my law firm has sued Governor Jeff Landry (R) and Secretary of State Nancy Landry (R), challenging the state’s decision to suspend the 2026 congressional primary elections. www.democracydocket.com/cases/louisi...

How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.

"One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons." hell yeah aeon.co/essays/what-...

Solar tech has improved so much and come down in price some in CH use them to build fences. Balcony solar panels for flats produce enough to charge most devices. Rainfall capture is a big thing here too. So your house is completely off the grid for water supply as well.

Rising oil prices spark a jump in EV sales in Europe and much of Asia, counteracting the decline in US and China EV sales www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Best pic I ever took of Cedar Waxwings. Around this time several years ago.

Ninth Grader Demi Johnson receives National Geographic award for plan to save Mississippi's oyster reef population. The ninth grader has produced 1,100 oysters that will in turn spawn millions of larvae into the ecosystem, a huge ecological impact

Absolutely savage review of the Skywell BE11. I was curious because Botswana partnered with Skywell to locally produce a $34,000 EV while Burkina Faso partnered with Dongfeng on a $6,000 EV, which is more affordable for the African market. Off to find a Dongfeng review. youtu.be/y5CwFPJhjg4?...

"Can tech save the world?" is the wrong question. The right question is "what kind of world do we want to build?", and then the tech can help us get there. It's the re-invented worldview that the tech gives you access to that matters. The tech needs to support that worldview, not dictate it.

A Lebanese journalist wounded in an Israeli airstrike that killed her colleague describes hours of agony as they waited for help.

More African countries are partnering with China on EVs. Itaoua is a $6,000 solar powered EV assembled in Burkina Faso and based on a $8,000 - $14,000 Dongfeng EV model. Botswana has partnered with China’s Skywell to assemble EVs locally but the resulting EV cost is $34,000!

🧵 We tend to think the internet is permanent, but VANISHING CULTURE—the new 📚 from Internet Archive—starts with a simple reality: our digital record is far more fragile than we think 🕳️ 📖 Read for free: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... ⬇️

Inside Palantir, people are finally waking up to the fact that they might actually be the bad guys Great reporting once again from @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

CA governor’s debate www.youtube.com/live/EgksL8O...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has completed renovations two decades in the making with a new home for its permanent collection that opens to the public May 4.

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is best known for its tracking of hate groups, said that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the nonprofit regarding their use of informants.

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.

The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

Flu spreads efficiently especially in close quarters like military troop lodging facilities. If you are in the military you are required to get several vaccines because of how devastating outbreaks can be to troops and also because they are more likely be targeted by agents of biological warfare.

"Baby it ain't over til it's over..." www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Louis Mosley, the Executive Vice Chair and Head of UK and Europe for Palantir (which has an NHS contract) is the grandson of Oswald Mosley, 1930s British fascist leader. Everything old is coming back. So many depraved people to fight. Wouldn’t trust that company to manage healthcare info. Sigh…