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BLUMENTHAL: Suspending the gas tax ought to be combined with a big oil windfall profits tax. As you well know, big oil is raking in bonanza profits. Shell just announced a $7b profit last quarter. Would you support that? CHRIS WRIGHT: Ah. The oil and gas industry has had a rough couple decades.

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

In the ocean, humpback whales have surprised scientists with one of the strangest and kindest things seen in nature. When orcas, also known as killer whales, go hunting other sea animals like seals, sea lions, small dolphins, or even baby whales, humpback whales often arrive to stop the attack.

Remembering Ritchie Valens (d. 2/3/59) on the 85th anniversary of his birth. From his debut LP, a cover of Ersel Hickey's "Bluebirds Over the Mountain." #1001CoverSongs Song # 387: youtu.be/3aBfwzvGxxE?...

Beautiful flowers from @debuggest.bsky.social 🥰

This is our 🌎 Why are we destroying it? #WarOnNature #Metacrisis

this intrepid fellow will lead us to the weekend

Zelenskyy broke Russia Putin broke USA

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 we are so effing stupid in this country.

The straightforward effect of adding more administrative burden on stores will be that fewer stores will accept SNAP. These are the equivalent of abortion TRAP laws, like mandating the width of a corridor.

In this Hubble image, the large, prominent spiral galaxy on the right is NGC 1356; the two apparently smaller spiral galaxies flanking it are LEDA 467699 (above it) and LEDA 95415 (very close at its left) respectively; finally, IC 1947 sits along the left side of the image.

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This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.

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The Spanish lavender in our neighborhood was just stunning today.

This terracotta Etruscan askos is delightfully in the shape of a duck. Various female figures in relief also adorn the piece. An askos was a piece of dining ware that was used to pour small amounts of liquid like oil. Enjoy. 🕰️c.325-275 BC 🏛️📷 BM

Possum Mom Doing her Best!

On this day in 1898, Septima Poinsette Clark was born. She became a tireless advocate for education and civil rights. Martin Luther King, Jr., called her the “Mother of the Movement.” Her motto was “literacy means liberation.” #WeTheMen

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy: "When somebody says Ukraine should withdraw from its territories, please try to withdraw from your own house"

“Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, but none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz,” says Bill McKibben.

Part of Berrybrae Stone Circle in Aberdeenshire, with its surviving recumbent stone - an arrangement unique to Aberdeenshire. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Berrybrae #Aberdeenshire #Archaeology

Have you noticed that you never see a whole family driving in a cyber truck? It's always an adult man alone. That's because the man has a cyber wife.

Okay, I’m putting myself on a book buying ban. Preorders don’t count. Neither do books apart of a series I already own. Special editions also don’t count. Also ebooks definitely don’t count. Neither do any books with pages. Or any books with words. I totally got this.

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Ukrainian artist, Alexandra Velichko

There it is. Any questions?

Seal population around St. Paul Island, Alaska, U.S.A has declined by over 70% in last 50 years as trawlers steal their pollock food and leave them to starve and US Govt does nothing to stop it Conservation group sues over Alaska pollock trawling www.seafoodsource.com/news/environ...

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkbVwQwR/ There are a LOT of reasons why I am in awe of Taylor Swift. But her business acumen is in the top five. Her savvy stands to make millions for literally hundreds of artists. She negotiated her contract to benefit them ALL. Who does that? Uh…the Queen of Pop does.

Sarah Bays,contemporary artist, printmaker, living in Norfolk, UK, producing prints inspired by local nature. #WomensArt

“The supreme court betrayed Black voters, they betrayed America, and they betrayed our democracy.” - Barack Obama

Oregon has spent 25 years building an election system that puts voters first, and I won't let President Trump, the Supreme Court, or anyone else turn back that progress. Every voter in has the right to a free, fair, and equal say in our democracy, and we must stand together to keep that promise.

Why did I look up what Tolstoy thought about the US, I should have known that catty bitch would only hurt me

AOC reads to Zeldin internal emails she obtained from the EPA about a meeting he had with the Bayer CEO on glyphosate, and asks him, "Do you understand the conflict of interest that is before the American people right now?"

The Israeli government, like the Trump admin, is determined to turn every long-time ally into an adversary - something that will haunt both counties for decades.

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

🧑‍🌾 WATCH: “If farmers contract cancer from this chemical, if this makes it into the Farm Bill you won’t be able to sue.” Rep Massie warns🚨about a provision protecting foreign pesticide corporations from lawsuits by sick farmers —a bill rusty grills pushes in Tennessee🤔

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Today, we honor and remember Virginia Roberts Giuffre on the one-year anniversary of her passing. Her courage has allowed countless survivors to be seen, heard, and to be believed. Sending love to her family on this difficult day—and to all the survivors out there still on this journey for justice.❤️

Our car-dependent status quo is the result of political choices that have steered decades of financial-, spatial- and design decisions. It is time to repoliticize these decisions and reshape our public spaces.

'Rain at Enryakuji Temple' - Asano Takeji, 1953. #JapaneseArt

What the fully-painted Athena statue ma have looked like.

This president’s voters chose him to protect and dignify women’s sports They never minded his record of locker room talk Here is how he chooses to congratulate a women’s sports team To be this misogynistic, you really have to try To be this incompetent, you really have to be misogynistic

Wow: More Corruption from the felon.

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

Putin must be so proud of himself for the impact he has had on the U.S.

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"