Russia’s war of aggression has crossed yet another line. A Russian drone incursion struck a densely populated area in Romania, injuring civilians. On EU territory. We stand in full solidarity with Romania and its people.

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

Alvin and the Chipmunks say NO to performing at Trump's Freedom 250 concert.

Martina McBride singing a song about murdering a man who is domestic abuser at the 250th celebration of America, including the lines “Some folks whispered, some folks talked / But everybody looked the other way” is quite perfect for this current Epstein Files moment, actually.

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

I think the ultimate downfall of Tumpism will winding up being that, when he could’ve bought people with bread, he always chose circuses.

"They remind me of an octopus with many, many tentacles, and at the end of each tentacle is a wad of cash" describes the company profiting from a life-extending treatment for multiple myeloma (a truly nasty, painful cancer with no known cure) but easily could be applied more broadly in our world.

Mythical Dragon floral display at #ChelseaInBloom, 18-24 May 2026.  Made entirely from flowers and botanicals, this otherworldly 5 metre dragon breathes a vibrant red and orange cascade of flowers.  📸 © Ursula Petula Barzey.

On World Bee Day, it's important to be able to tell what's a bee and what's a colleague. #WorldBeeDay

Pansy #Macro 💜💙💛 #MacroMonday

The $1.776B “anti-weaponization fund” announced today is a theft of our tax dollars and a fraud on the American people. Congress needs to step up and block this settlement before Trump helps himself to the rest of our tax dollars. Please share and help sound the alarm. youtube.com/shorts/4bnF4...

Literally stealing taxpayer dollars to give them to insurrectionists. It's like we elected Jefferson Davis in 1868 and he gave out federal funds to the Confederate forces that attacked Fort Sumter.

Normalize being a try hard 🫵

That so much of the West has little to no snowpack left is mind-boggling. "Snowpack, the western US’s largest non-man made reservoir, is already gone in many places...This year’s peak snowpack will be the new benchmark low for Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico; there are no comparable years."

Protect Democracy always a great source for me! protectdemocracy.org/work/proport...

Nice short history of plutonium and some of its chemistry from Joe Martz, who worked with it his entire career.

Wow Connecticut is really dominating New England politics

there are like a thousand movies that start this way

Red-flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum) grows in open woods in the Gorge as far east as The Dalles at most elevations. Native Americans ate the berries for food. It also makes an excellent plant for the garden, hosting pollinators & birds. Hummingbirds especially like the ...

*something enraging happens* *I draft a screed* *I think twice* At dinner: “Something enraging happened and I was gonna say something but I figured no one needed to hear my opinion about it.” Husband: “You’re the first person since the internet was made to do that. Hang on, lemme get a medal.”

Bears vs. Trail cameras

In MAHA's skepticism toward therapies, its fondness for supplements, its belief that exercise is the only good medicine, its hatred of global health and infectious disease research and vaccines, and this quote below, you see how much of this movement just straight up thinks: Sick people are bad.

Ah, for the days when you could get a 2-story cottage for four cows and a couple sheep, and still get 36 eels back in change ...

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

Photographers, don’t sleep on going back through your archives to find forgotten gems. I took this last spring, got busy, and didn’t even finish culling from this day. Re-discovered it last week and I’m pretty stoked. Definitely the best bee photo I’ve ever taken.

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

A successful botanical quest! The Criterion Ranch Trail is a few miles south of the town of Maupin. We went there to see the sagebrush violet (Viola trinervata) in bloom. It's one of the most beautiful wild violets, growing in sagebrush desert. A mountain bluebird visited us ...

This is all so true! I had a coworker who sat next to me and ate, chewed gum or drank nonstop all day. After a while, I could barely stand it and started to feel really irritable around her. There's a word for that: misophonia!

"Restoring democracy required opponents of fascism—nationalists, republicans, and Communists—to work together despite serious misgivings about one another’s views. Purity tests had to wait until the war was over." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I managed to catch this hummingbird while exploring a small sea cave. I had posted a similar photo last week that I had taken with my phone, but when going through my camera photos I found this for #Stunday. #hummingbird #oregon #landscape #seascape #beach #naturephotography #cave #bridge #bird

One should set aside time to read why American oil under current global conditions may be the “barrel of last resort.” This is one of those rare notes that gets at what’s real and the risk on the table absent the usual quotient of BS. #Econ #EconSky www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

People tried to scam insurance by dressing up as a bear and wrecking luxury cars. "Investigators then took the video to biologists with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to also look at the video. The biologists said, 'it was clearly a human in a bear suit.'" abc7.com/post/3-south...

We need more cams like this one!

he's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare

Elmo is WEAK on securities regulation

For the complaints that voting doesn't work & you can't possibly get rid of fascists that way:

It’s good that we all have something to cheer for that involves a positive aspirational vision of humanity.

The Artemis II mission was incredible. We can do big things and do good things for the country and the world, when we work together and stand up for each other.

Honestly, I don’t know how you don’t get emotional watching astronauts coming home

Woohoo 🎉 🙌 This is the best of us

Female octopuses throw rocks at males that bother them, documented in Octopus tetricus

My husband, repeatedly: “How can they do this? How can it be so precise??” SCIENCE. Publicly funded science.

What Iran remembers about its relationship with the US, and most Americans don't. (By me; most before paywall; two fact blunders noted and fixed!) fallows.substack.com/p/what-we-do...

"The CIA mystery tool got the headlines. The truth is boring." Once again the laws of physics stand undefeated!

The latest eruption at Kilauea appears to be starting! We should see large lava fountains soon. Tune in live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKu...

The theory is that we bombed Iran to take attention away from Epstein, and now they're resurrecting the Epstein story to take attention away from Iran

This is why I go so hard about studying entertainment as politically relevant media. Viewers may be learning about these issues for the first time, or connecting to what they’ve already experienced. And how they make sense of entertainment as politically relevant will affect what happens next.

The Trump administration threatened to kill the pope to the Vatican's ambassador and install a antipope in the US.