One of the highlights of my editorial career so far was serving as the editor on this novel by Dave Mack, my brother from another mother, and what a cover! Now excuse me, I’ve gotta go add it to my website!

An effective push back against GOP culture war tactics? Seems to me it should be.

Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, out-of-state entities have used every tool to punish women who have accessed abortions. The Reproductive Health Records Privacy Act is the most recent action Illinois is taking to ensure patients retain full control over their health information.

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

Cameron Park Zoo in Waco TX has a new black-footed cat kitten (Felis nigripes). It's exploring grass for the 1st time here. This species is the smallest wild cat in Africa, but with the highest hunting success (~60%). They eat 1/6th their body weight in rodents & birds every night.

My May music podcast is now live on Podomatic. Check the comments for the complete playlist (three parts): www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ksi...

Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. /1

In 2025, HHS issued stop work order for federal research lab that studies Ebola virus and other deadly pathogens and fired its director. This lab was a world leader in accelerating development therapies and vaccines for Ebola and other viruses. 1/ www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

There's always the next scam.

"Taxpayers are footing a whopping $1 billion bill for Trump's ballroom. Your budget cuts the National Park Service by $1 billion. If you put this $1 billion towards our national parks instead of Trump's ballroom, that would benefit every single American."

Shapiro should volunteer to go out with a roofing crew in FL this July to help them out for a few days to get an introduction to reality. Or work the overnight shift in a hospital emergency room. Or teach 8th graders.

What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

When Rubio abruptly halted foreign aid last year, cleanup crews in Vietnam were forced to abandon one of the largest chemical spills in the world for weeks. Left exposed: open pits of soil contaminated with dioxin, the deadly byproduct of Agent Orange. From Pulitzer finalist “The End of Aid”:

The Fix is In

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

“The US admin is announcing the end of the war in effect without having achieved regime change, ending Iran’s nuclear program or eliminating its missile program. Its focus is now on solving a problem which didn’t exist prior to the war: a closed or nearly-closed Strait of Hormuz” - Jim Scuttio, CNN

Can’t help thinking Dems would do a lot of good for themselves making it clear this is a battle between the tech oligarchs and the people, and the way to fight back is giving people the power to push back.

viking - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2iKT8ku

A failure to learn would be the next Dem president, likely next Dem trifecta, coming in and acting like yay, Trump's gone, we can all go back to normal policymaking agendas now, while surrounded by the still-smoldering ruin of the constitutional system. There must be a new constitutional settlement.

Which is the backwards country now, United States?

Mickey Mouse Spotted on Mercury! - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/bXjnXB

Orion and Hazy Sirius - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2k7FtY7

My April music podcast features Scott Causer of Northern Star Records. Catch it here: www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ksi...

Surely there's no one who doesn't love ducklings?!

"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."

Different hardware, same software.

NGC 2775 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2hGUtgk

He insists on being on my lap when I knit. The price is having to wear my works in progress.

We lost a giant today. Congressman David Scott was a hero to his district, serving the people of the great state of Georgia with immense honor and pride for over two decades. (1/2)

Republicans just blocked my amendment to lower electricity costs for working people. Instead of providing economic relief for everyday Americans, MAGA Republicans want to provide billions for ICE and CBP. Disgusting.

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

Note that RFK is shutting down all new mRNA research

A renewed threat to JPL as the Trump administration tries again to cut NASA www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Everytime there is a mass shooting, this image comes to mind. People in some of the highest positions of power in our country wearing gun pins. People who claim to be “pro life” and want to “protect the children.” People who claim to follow Jesus. This is idolatry of guns.

Two headlines about mRNA vaccines. Federal funds has been pulled for research that could cure/prevent a cancer that has a 13% survival rate. But don’t worry, RFK Jr is also fast tracking psychedelics.

My heart is breaking for Shreveport, Louisiana. Eight young lives stolen in a devastating act of domestic gun violence. All of us should be outraged that we live in a country that routinely subjects our kids to such unimaginable violence.

Just attended the Listening party for this absolutely gorgeous shoegaze album by @seaofdays.bsky.social which if you haven't heard, you're missing out on a wonderful listen with hints of Ride, Moose, Cocteau Twins and even some Adrian Borland and The Sound 👌👌👌👌 seaofdays.bandcamp.com/album/traces-2

It was clear in 2016, but it should be abundantly clear to everyone by now that the only interest this president and administration has in Christianity is to misuse it as a tool of oppression and self serving power.

Very true...

🚨 1/2 "Allowing someone like this to continue to be the commander in chief & to control the tremendous capabilities of the U.S. military, including our nuclear weapons capability…we really are in very, very troubling times.” — Fmr CIA Dir John Brennan, describing Trump as "unhinged." 🧾 is.gd/M4xO15

Pete Hegseth

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!