Good local reporting by Alice Finno @missionlocal.org on another piece of bad news. Why is the California Arts Council cutting this funding now, when the federal govt keeps eviscerating programs like this one? Or is that exactly why—state trickle-down from Musk cuts? missionlocal.org/2026/04/san-...

“The Klan monument is run by slave labor” is a little too on the fucking nose

It turns out that breaching the wall between church and state means that some branches of Christianity are officially elevated over others. Who could have known? When in the last 500 years could such a lesson possibly have been learned?

"Golf."

#eqnz, no tsunami warning for Aotearoa cited here, but stay vigilant, #NewZealand shore folk. Another source: www.bbc.com/news/live/c8...

The medical examiner in Buffalo has ruled that the death of a nearly blind man left alone by Border Patrol agents on a frigid night was a homicide, a finding that could lead to criminal charges.

BREAKING: “It is increasingly clear that as the world continues down this volatile path our long term national interest requires closer partnership with our allies in Europe and with the European Union.. Brexit did deep damage to our economy” Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DAY MY ENTIRE LIFE

New Zealand regime closes Strait of Cook

Two and a half years on from the cyber attack and it's still not possible to consult ebooks at the British Library (which is a right pain when I have an article to finish).

Every political cartoonist in the world is currently bashing their desks in frustration.

The scale of this year’s! #SanFrancisco, you beauty. We will not be stopped. No kings.

San Diego just gave us the best reveal of No Kings Day. #NoKings

To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.

Obligatory one-woman No Kings protest selfie in Buenos Aires (hiding in the bushes for the photo because the rent-a-cop told me I couldn’t take pictures on the sidewalk 🙄)

We are estimating more than 200,000 people at the flagship No Kings rally in the Twin Cities. #NoKings

Was looking at the Bunnings website for bath screens, and these were "popular now" in their search engine. Yikes.

Srsly, #Queensland #Australia—? The trees attack? Invisible venom jellies, lurking sharks, AND stinging trees?

Worried about Jackie Fielder. missionlocal.org/2026/03/sf-j...

An essential read for anyone in #nz - the fuel crisis is far, far worse than the govt is letting on energyandresilience.substack.com/p/every-coun...

Do you need to see me gurning and yapping with my hands? Well, seek no further, amigos. There’s a whole video below of me conversing — with my whole flesh — about gestures. 🖖🤘👈

The warning signs in #Queensland #Australia remind me that the people of this vast & weird land brought us the single greatest public service campagin of all times, the www.dumbwaystodie.com train safety jingle. They do not mess around re the endangered danger bird, the cassowary, either. 1/2

Have you heard the good news?

More of this, please, world

Is it a giant wooden horse

It's that time of the semester when I advertise the fall entomology class.

📣 🎉Today is the official release day of my book, even tho many of you have it in hand already. 🙏 to all who purchased. Availability: Amazon has the paper w/ discount, Bookshop/OUP on back order. Should be an e-version that is missing. I will check w/ my press. More: www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati...

Maybe it will happen today

Yet ANOTHER pedestrian saved by your friends at the #WorldBollardAssociation

No, Rocket Money, that is not "an unusually large transaction." That is my health insurance premium.

How’s that ferry procurement going?? #nzpol (This was in my inbox today)

"In a letter to employees on Friday, Kirby said United is planning for oil to hit $175 per barrel and stay above $100 through the end of 2027." yeah don't fucking listen to the news but do listen to the airline ceos because they get the real data

I didn’t coin this, but I think about it all the time: murder is completely legal in the US as long as the weapon is a car

Shout out to all the guys with charts who told me there was no way we were undercounting while I watched nursing homes and hospitals refuse to test and send my friends’ elderly relatives home to die of “respiratory illness” to keep their official numbers down.

California’s lowest snowpack since 2015 means water storage is below normal. Reservoir levels are above normal but the paltry snowpack (which normally accounts for ~30% of water storage in CA) is putting the Sierra Nevada millions of acre-feet short of normal Source: cw3e.ucsd.edu/water_storag...

My recap of last night's "KHOI's Capitol Week" is online. News about Iowa candidate filings, Trump PAC's gross fundraising email, and lots of news from the state legislature. The show will never take up more than 30 minutes of your time. laurabelin.substack.com/p/iowa-candi...

cnn is now running both a gas price tracker and tsa wait time tracker on its website

This is very clever for folks with EVs in apartment buildings with on-site parking.

For this year's #StPatricksDay, a war poem by Padraic Fallon, born in 1905 in Athenry, Co Galway

This is an unmitigated win for the good guys.

Roger!!

I'm doing a special #StPatricksDay online talk tonight for the National Museum of Civil War Medicine at 7pm Eastern. The majority of time is focused on audience questions, so if you have any burning queries about Irish service in the Civil War pop along! Link: fb.me/e/4aOBdc2x0

And every day is a fuel crisis when you rely on imported fossil fuels. #electrification

Jesus wept.

"people soon started to realise there was an alternative. The falling costs of solar panels and generous government incentives to feed excess power back to the grid made rooftop solar an attractive option." #renewables www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This ⬇️

Feeling a lot of trepidation about the fire season this morning.

Happy St Patrick's Day to the benighted parts of the world that aren't Aotearoa New Zealand! Éirinn go brách from this particular Piniana of the diaspora Down Under link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

If it wins tonight I really hope they get the money to make Two Battle After Another.