Happy Leeroy Jenkins Day to all who celebrate! youtu.be/hooKVstzbz0?...

I found this and it may bring a smile!🙂 This is called the "feather-drying dance of the Great blue Heron"

Virginia speaker of the house going "we respect the decision of the supreme court to disenfranchise millions of voters" really is the perfect distillation of the Democratic party

Iran is at it again.

Thank you, Mexico! “RESEARCHERS FROM THE National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have identified new ways to combat tuberculosis and reduce bacterial resistance, developing three new antibiotics derived from scorpion venom and habanero peppers.”

This is Penny. She had her first vet appointment today. Was diagnosed with a case of the eepies. But other than that passed with flying colors. 12/10 (TT: misspennyperry)

I’m a US citizen and have been for more than a half century. I have no doubt that they would like to find an excuse to denaturalize and deport me. That’s why I won’t travel abroad now. Before they stamp my passport on return, I’m in a small Constitution-free zone where even a flimsy charge can work.

They're renaming a NYC street after him.

Chrome users were caught off guard by a 4-GB Google AI model baked into Chrome, sparking privacy concerns. The good news: You can easily uninstall it. The bad? You might not want to. www.wired.com/story/you-ca...

Latinos have been a majority in Whittier for decades, but they've rarely had representation in city government — until now. A groundswell of political engagement & immigrant activism sparked by ICE raids last year has ousted 3 conservatives and elected Whittier's first ever majority-Latino council

White people disgusted by this racist display are making pithy jokes in the replies. I want acknowledgment that it’s physically painful to think about our black elders, in particular, enduring the consequences of a Supreme Court decision that augurs a return to the Jim Crow era.

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court has cleared the way for Republican politicians to eliminate majority Black voting districts wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/05/07/r...

Taiwan cops say student's radio kit brought bullet trains to a standstill

A nightclub in Mexico City has gone viral for charging Americans a nearly $300 cover charge, while citizens from any other country pay just $20 for access

Kevin González is only 18. He is suffering from stage 4 colon cancer and has days to live. He’s desperate to spend his last moments with his parents, but ICE detained his mom and dad after they tried to seek humanitarian asylum.

Caption: "Oakland, California. Kimiko Kitagaki, young evacuee guarding the family baggage prior to departure by bus in one half hour to Tanforan Assembly center. Her father was, until evacuation, in the cleaning and dyeing business." Taken by Dorthea Lange on May 6, 1942. 🗃 #skystorians #OTD

100% accurate

This is Blu. He is here for booty scratches. Can also easily be over there for booty scratches. Or there. Just say the word. 13/10 (TT: 24hddsd)

Last July, the pope called his bank in South Chicago. He wanted to update the phone number on his account. The teller told him that any changes had to be made in person with an ID. Knowing that was impossible, he asked: “Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?” She hung up on him.

This is Walsh, Dane, Sweetpea, and Wiley. They are all service dog dropouts. Together they have successfully completed one single task. 13/10 for all (IG: dogtor.walsh)

I want to add that class in the U.S. is only legible among white people. Black people have been the MOST working class segment of U.S. society for decades AND YET... Black people are consistently written out of the narrative of "working class" USians.

For my #Battletech and #Mechwarrior friends...

Cinco de Mayo explained

Got any fun dinner plans? 🍼

For those who enjoyed the Red-Winged Blackbird photo from yesterday, here's a slow motion video that gives you another perspective. #wildlife #birds (No sound as it was captured at 120fps).

Eagles released the single "Take It Easy" on this day in 1972. Eagles '77 Take It Easy #Eagles #OnThisDay #OTD #MusicSky #Music youtube.com/watch?v=tV2m...

Made it to Friday

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In the requiem-writing scene in Amadeus, there’s a part where Mozart hesitates and repeats “A minor.” You think some kind of significance to the key signature in Mozart’s mind, but really it’s that there was a problem with the audio in Tom Hulce’s earpiece that was supposed to be playing the music.

This is what happens when you are born in another country who may not preach this stupid shit all the time!! Good for this kid!!!

Despite creating a billion-dollar franchise - with a new $200M budget Hollywood blockbuster launching in a month - the creator of He-Man's family were unable to afford his dementia and care facility costs, and had to setup a GoFundMe. Mattel gave $5,000.

White Christian supremacist court. White Christian supremacist President. White Christian supremacist Congress. And the result is the most profound series of setbacks for the rights of people of color and women in over a century. It is a nauseating time to be alive in America. Fight back harder.

I encourage you to read the 1901 final Congressional speech of George Henry White, who would be the last Black man in Congress for 30 yrs.This “is perhaps the Negroes’ temporary farewell to the American Congress; but…phoenix-like he will rise up some day and come again… blackpast.org/african-amer...

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

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Shout-out to the Bond movies for making an evil tech founder a super-villain back in 1985, at least 25-30 years before the rest of us caught on.

Thinking again about how Mackenzie Scott has given away $19 billion of her $38b and still seen her net worth increase, these are some weird little pissbabies

Gerry Conway has passed at 73. He leaves an incredible legacy. Co-creator of Punisher, Power Girl, Firestorm, Killer Croc, Jason Todd, Ms. Marvel. He also wrote a lot of tv including Law & Order. Best remembered for The Night Gwen Stacy Died? Probably? My condolences to his family and friends.

"Guerra Sandoval was giving the government all her personal information — even fingerprints. "With the promise that, 'In you giving us this information, we're going to give you a work permit.' And instead, what they gave her is a hearing in front of an immigration judge with a deportation charge"

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/u...

Jackie Robinson grew up in a diverse Pasadena neighborhood, & when one of those neighbors, his baseball teammate Shig Takayama, was incarcerated at Manzanar with his family, the Robinsons helped take care of their home. For my new column, a story of the worst & best of America through baseball. 🗃️

They intended to do what now?

Your badass moment of the day. 🙌🙌

While he was detained at Dilley for over four months, 13-year-old Gustavo Santiago said he felt as if he would “never get out.” “I just ask that you don’t forget about us,” he told ProPublica in a video call. (Published Feb.)