Nothing has improved. Not wages. Not housing. Not healthcare. Not safety. Just pain. Families shattered. Kids traumatized. Women forced into impossible choices. Communities losing the very workers who keep this country running. It is, as if, inflicting suffering is the only point.

The Judiciary Act of 1869, signed into law by President Grant, made SCOTUS nine justices, to match the nine circuit courts (technically finalized in 1891 with the Evarts Act). Today, we have 13 circuit courts. I propose we add 4 more seats under the next Dem president to even it out again. 🤷

Glass Godzilla. I want one. (No, I don't know why they used the Skyfall theme for the video)

A mile from the White House. The facts that Trump doesn’t want us to know.

Artist: Thomas Deininger Art Basel, Miami Beach

Vortex fountain in Singapore

Artist: Anthony James, Los Angeles. Keep watching, super trippy

Artist: Leng Jun

You guys enjoyed the other monarch butterflies in 🇲🇽 Mexico🇲🇽 video, here's another one. Just magical.

🇨🇦 and 🇲🇽 have been getting it done lately.

Who could say no to her?

Indeed

Here are the facts: People have always had and will always have abortions in all 50 states. Abortion pills are safe, effective, and have been used by millions of people. No court or politician can change either of those realities.

I found this weirdly satisfying and comforting to watch.

Love this. So much.

Basílica de la Sagrada Família, Barcelona, Spain

Streaky sky at sunset with sun setting behind two hawthorn trees. Jacob’s Island, Cork, 🇮🇪 #photography #nature #landscape #springtime #sunset #wildflower #PhotoHour #spéirghorm #EastCoastKin #ECK 🐕 🚶📱 📸 📷 ☀️ ☁️ 🌅 🌺

1. History isn’t there to be liked or disliked. 2. History is there to be learned from. 3. History offends you? Even better. Then you’re less likely to repeat it. It’s that simple.

Tomb of Ramesses VI. Around 3100 years old.

Credit: Andrew McCarthy. Took 1.7 million photos to capture this.

Andromeda Konstantinos Bakolitsas

TESS's (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) latest image of all of our night sky. If you click on it to enlarge, you can see thousands of stars/planets.

Timelapse of ISS going around the world. Just look at that endless blanket of stars✨ 🇫🇷Sophie Adenot🇫🇷

🇫🇷Sophie Adenot🇫🇷 on ISS demonstrating light bending in micro gravity. ⚗️🔬

www.thenation.com/article/poli... I love Flanagan, she'll make a fantastic senator for our state.

If only all rich people behaved like Scott. We wouldn't have the inequity we do. I still don't think she should be a billionaire, no one should be, but at least her charity is generous and she's not looking for praise or her name on shit.

Yep. They couldn't WAIT to redraw their maps to take power away from minorities. Frothing at the mouth to do so. All those times they lied to my face when I lived in the South how they were 'post-race'. Whatever the fuck ever.

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JD Vance, the VP of the man who is currently shaking down the DOJ for a $10 billion "settlement" and the Treasury for an additional $1 billion for his tacky, vanity ballroom, appearing at a "Protecting Taxpayer Dollars" event, is shamelessly comical.

America will never be “great” as long as it keeps refusing to confront its original sin: racism. Not as a footnote. Not as “the past.” Not as a “both sides” debate. And every time this country gets close to progress, the backlash shows up: louder, meaner, and better funded.

Progress. Kicking and screaming, but progress. The amount of Republicans fighting to keep child marriages is disgusting.

I have a lot of wishes for how different I wish things were, but the death of troll culture is near the very top of that wish list.

If this shit doesn't radicalize folks, nothing will.

The flybys we've had this month.

This presidency has redefined “leadership” as billionaire economic power, boardrooms over briefing books. No China experts. No diplomats. Just CEOs, oligarchs, and family members cashing in on access. And we’re the ones paying in higher prices, weaker national security and a government for sale.

Roslyn Carter once said Ronald Reagan, "makes people comfortable with their prejudices." Trump didn't create MAGA, he just brought it out from under its white sheet and put a red hat on it.

Holy shit this. It's not his insane comments that surprise me, it's the willingness of others to sanewash it, downplay it, gaslight over it that drives me nuts. That is where his power is derived from. If no one did that, he would have no power.

This shit is so insidious. So of course it's no surprise to see the push in Southern states to gerrymander majority Black cities/areas. The Heritage Foundation has had its tendrils in these states for decades, and played the long game of installing judges/justices at all levels, with

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This is how it’s done. Thank you for keeping our children safe, communities whole and Americans protected, President Obama.

Big thanks to the Artemis II crew who touched down at the Canadian Museum of Nature today to give us a quick tour of the moon — no space suit required.

Here's a montage of Republicans whining about the prices of ⛽ under Biden, who was doing all he could to stave off a recession from Trump's disastrous 1st term and COVID, and now suddenly they don't need to explain themselves when their guy purposely drives the cost up.

Here's a cute midweek cleanser. 🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆

newrepublic.com/post/210380/... 3 Republicans got onboard. We had the numbers to reel that war criminal in, and Fetterman betrayed not just his party, but the country.

Carney with Jenni Gibbons, Jeremy Hanson, Koch, Glover, and Reid. 💙🇨🇦🇺🇸

@mrswest313.bsky.social @pip75.bsky.social You can see the sleepy baby now. Growing so fast!

This is always the case. They fear being treated the way they treat others, so they triple down on the abuse.

A fitting tribute to the King of Shit. He is shit, and everything he touches turns to shit.

Bigots are always loud psychopaths, like the old man suddenly jumping up and angrily pointing his finger over something he assuredly doesn't understand. We still have so much work to do in this country. 20 years ago, it was 🏳️‍🌈 folks primarily being targeted, these days it's 🏳️‍⚧️ folks.