#racism lives

Dems have to embrace gerrymandering so long as the GOP is willing to behave a pre-Voting Rights Act party of racial tyranny

OK look, once and for all, it's "ka-ching" not "cha-ching."

New Zealand's kiwi bird returns to Wellington hills after a century-long absence

i think it is cool that the president of the united states routinely slurs black people as biological inferior

It's Earth Day! So what better way to mark the day than with one of the photos of our homeworld taken by the Artemis II crew a few weeks ago. Hard to see national boundaries, sectarian divides, or differences in skin colour from this distance.

You may disagree, but if the heads of our skeeterati all skeet the exact same thing, then somebody forgot what hashtags are for (and sure, the current dude is probably unfit to be president).

"Trump, having chosen to kick the Iranian hornet’s nest, remains at a loss for what to do next. We’ve known he had no plan for months. But what’s becoming shockingly apparent now is how little he’s even paying attention..." --Bill Kristol

‘Simply stop giving millionaires water for literally free’ is one of the most insane sounding but actually serious policy solutions out there

Calm down there, Lizard Queen. It’s a threat to white people. Humanity will be fine without us.

The amount of self-own in this war is truly, epically humiliating and no less than we deserve.

Listening to Victor Glover aboard Artemis talk about how compelling he finds the terminator makes me wonder how many people think he's referring to the movie character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Are we great again yet? I just paid $130 to fill up my vehicle, and my savings are in the sh!tter. Everybody who voted for this deserves the maximum pain the universe brings.

Yes

...humanity will reach maturity & wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas & differences in life forms. …If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight…then we do not deserve... --G Roddenberry

Not one of them has ever stood in a line for 4 hours or more to vote in person. Not one of them has been turned away at the polls because they are suddenly “not on the list.” Not one has had their pay docked b/c they arrived late to work b/c they went to vote in the morning.

So much winning. Maybe as a final act our "leaders" can layer on some Nixonian price freezes to hammer a final nail into the economy's coffin.

The arc of gas prices bends toward clarity I guess

Scavenging ravens memorize vast tracts of wolf hunting grounds, a new study has found. The birds don’t just follow wolves, they clock kill patterns and create mental maps to support future food quests. u.afp.com/SLTd

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

Stories linking use of Ozempic to feelings of nihilism have me thinking it might be useful medicine for facing the nonstop firehose of maximum dipsh!ttery coming from the federal government.

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

War with Iran is yet another reason D.C.'s "taxation without representation" license plate slogan is appropriate nationwide. When only 27% of americans support something (like invading other countries) it is by definition not a government of, by, or for the people.

Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Only a few hundred more powerful Americans to go...

Stock market is sh!tting the bed. Savings ⬇️ prices ⬆️, but at least we have war with Iran and armed kidnapping by federales to while away the time.

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Need a new global holiday where every human on the planet gets an "L" on our forehead written with "the ashes of critical thinking."

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Look I get it, but don't post stuff just because it fits your political identity. This is fake. Do the work.

Sea otter pups can become stranded when storms separate them or when they drift away while mom is diving for food. Once alone, these pups have little to no chance of survival. This lucky pair was reunited quickly, found less than a mile apart. Learn more about sea otters: mbayaq.co/4re9yHY

I get that many republicans are worse, but democrats are led by people who are about as useful as Merrick Garland (i.e. not at all). What tF does "silent defiance" mean? IIRC House republiclowns disrupted Obama (& Biden) constantly, to the point I kept expecting the N-word (because, you know...GOP).

Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 4th lowest on record (JAXA data)... • about 120,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 780,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,360,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 1,740,000 km² below the 1980s mean More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.

Are we great again yet? I market news, "For a January, it’s the worst since 2009 during the Great Recession." I miss the senile guy with the ineffective AG and BEST economy in the G-20. Seems like yesterday...

Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:

Gee who could have seen that coming...

Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2053...

Pollster: Would you support the American military indiscriminately killing brown people in— Republicans: Let me stop you right there, yes. Absolutely, yes.

Very nice email from @ifawglobal.bsky.social this morning with news of the passing of Kraig the elephant at the rip old age of 54 (sad) in Kenya's Amboseli reserve. If only all elephants could live into their 50s.

Stock market seems cool with masked federal gunman killing Americans in broad daylight for not complying with being told to move along fast enough.

remains striking the extent to which trump quite loudly does not see himself as president of the united states and more as a clan leader for his supporters

Needing #training wheels on your cross is the perfect metaphor for the kind of performative #Christianity of the #right.