four waters

Yep. Like that.

White men write history.

Fact.

Firearms were responsible for 20 percent of all child and teen deaths in the U.S. for both 2020 and 2021, compared to an average of less than 2 percent in similarly large and wealthy nations, according to a new KFF analysis. This puts the U.S. far ahead of peer nations in child and teen firearm deaths. Data show that U.S. firearm deaths for children and teens again surpassed motor vehicle deaths – the second leading cause of death – and that the increase has been primarily driven by gun assault deaths. On a per capita basis, the firearm mortality rate among children and teens in the U.S. is over 9.5 times the rate of Canada, the country with the second-highest child and teen firearm death rate. If firearm deaths in the U.S. had mirrored Canada’s rates between 2010 and 2021, approximately 30,000 U.S. children and teenagers would still be alive.

If you think Tylenol is bad for children’s health, wait until you see what guns do.

Lots ‘o babies!!

One artist to another… love your work!

Earyn, we have abundant fence lizards, but this year especially we’re seeing VERY tiny lizards (1” -1.25”) in pretty great abundance. Are those small fence lizards or something else?

This feed is cool…

YouTube video by OoS Pictures Climate Extremes: Extreme Weather (Full Documentary)

The full documentary Climate Extremes: Extreme Weather is now out on YouTube: youtu.be/X6VCTfzl1DU

When a tyrant directs his enforcers to start arresting judges, it’s not because lawlessness was at the gates, it’s because lawlessness has been enthroned.

Lady Justice herself now stands shackled, her scales discarded, a prisoner of the very tyranny she once protected us against.

the woman who works for me, told me today that she’d seen a picture of a fax machine once (she thinks…).

this is true, but i’d honestly prefer that what made people most angry was treating other people so cruelly. but i suppose that’s splitting hairs.

also, he can’t do math. (if i was playing chicken, i’d sure want him on the other side.)

just a reminder of the big beautiful amazing universe. and that man in the white house is nothing here.

RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People And he’s using private medical records to make it happen.

RFK Jr. is launching a government registry to track autistic Americans using private medical records.

Harvard with an evergreen quote for this first 100 days👇
—> “It remains unclear to us exactly what, among the government’s recent words and deeds, were mistakes or what the government actually meant to do and say.”

#Hubble' s image shows the Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302), a planetary nebula with a symmetrical structure resembling butterfly wings. In the center, a dense ring of dust obscures the central star. The nebula expands in vivid hues: deep blue (oxygen), bright green (hydrogen), and hot red (nitrogen), creating a bright, layered effect against a black background of space. The gaseous "wings" extend widely, with intricate details and glowing filaments.

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NGC 6302, also known as the Butterfly Nebula, is a remarkable example of how stars, as they age, can take on some nice shapes sometimes resembling flowers or insects.

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This #Hubble image has been processed to highlight incredible

🔭 🧪 #stellarastro #galactic

A hand drawn graph showing the rise in global land temperatures published in 1938.

87 years ago.

In April 1938, Guy Callendar published the first evidence from thermometer observations that the world’s land areas were warming.

He also linked the observed warming to the increase in atmospheric CO₂ from burning coal.

87 years ago.

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#unrivaled delivered! congratulations to all all of the women for a great first season and looking forward to an amazing final tomorrow. #womenBballers

this makes me so angry. it was fine to screw up the lives of others, but when it’s them it’s so unfair. i’ve read several of these now. it may be sad, but all of my sad is reserved for the people who didn’t have a choice.

Ditto.

Tomorrow, people across the country are participating in an Economic Blackout—a coordinated effort to withhold spending for 24 hours to send a powerful message about economic justice, corporate greed, and political accountability.

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”

There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

Beautiful.

Tomorrow 2/28 by 12am!! One day Economic blackout for 24hrs
Please plan accordingly and buy food, get gas, meds, clothes, gold, your yacht, even a heart, and throw in humanity, but just do it TODAY 🙏💙

Same, and so nothing.

but it plays well on FOX so there’s that.

deleted the app this morning. very sad.

any private sector gains are tied to public sector support.