Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty. -- Hannah Arendt

TOMORROW: We’re taking to the streets in support of the courageous Texas Democrats. Find a protest near you to help fight back against Trump’s effort to rig congressional maps and steal the 2026 election: www.fightthetrumptakeover.com?SQF_source=i...

“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” -Frederick Douglass (1857) Add this to your reading list for today.

This is a fancy neighborhood

The bodies are more wasp than bees, but all bees descended from wasps (the first in the late Crestataceous period, 150 million years ago). 🌱 A replica of this charm and necklace was the best gift ever from my honey, @jstpwalsh.bsky.social

“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.” blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...

“Trump spoke of asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to find legal ways to abduct Americans and leave them in foreign concentration camps. But by ‘legal’ what is meant are ways of escaping law, not applying it.” Timothy Snyder

Gotta love Beto! ❤️✨

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

What a heartbreaking photograph - the impact of satellite constellations on the night sky. Taken above the Pinnacles in Nambung National Park, Western Australia. Credit: Joshua Rozells