Corinne Colbert

Drone footage reveals orcas using tools in a stunning first | CNN Orcas were spotted using kelp as a grooming tool on each other, the first known use of tools among cetaceans for something other than hunting prey.

Sure, when orcas rub seaweed on themselves it's called tool use, but when I do it I'm banned from the sushi bar

www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/s...

Excited to be part of this! Hope to see y’all in St. Louis.

Tech CEO: Do Not Say To Me That I Was Not Just Assassinated By The Jackal | Defector Some things, no one can tell you. No one can tell you that you are in love; you simply know it. No one can tell you your calling in life; you have to find it. No one can tell you that you were not cha...

I <3 satire. @defector.bsky.social

An American flag flies above a street in Vilnius as police outriders surround hearses transporting the bodies of the US servicemen. 100s of locals are seen lining the street.

Incredibly moving. 1000s of Lithuanians lined the streets of the capital Vilnius yesterday to honor the four US soldiers killed on their soil.

As their bodies are repatriated to the US, their President will be nowhere to be seen, except on a Florida golf course.

(📸 Gedinimas Varvuolis)

Columbia Agrees to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.

And this, folks, is why I do NOT support policy-based solutions to the local news crisis. When one party eagerly shreds the Constitution to impose its will, government cannot be trusted with funding of a free press.

Bull terriers are the perfect dogs for these times: Distracting in their silliness and inspiring in their independent, IDGAF temperament. This is Grizzly, my 12-year-old mini bull.

The natural leader of the opposition to what is happening to this country is its most popular former president.
It’s a tragedy he seems more interested in college basketball.

Kerri ní Dochartaigh on Substack Heartbreakingly, I was refused entry yesterday to the states (I was meant to be a festival at OU) so I’m not getting to experience this wonderful place ! X

Kerri ni Dochartaigh, a featured speaker for Ohio University’s Spring Literary Festival, was denied entry to the United States. Given OU’s pre-emptive compliance with anti-DEI measures, I’m guessing they’ll roll over on this, too.

Tow Center Study Again Shows “AI” Sucks At Conveying Accurate News Last month a BBC study found that “AI” assistants are terrible at providing accurate news synopses. The BBC’s study found that modern language learning model assistants introduced…

And yet news industry “leaders” love to talk glowingly about AI and offer training on integrating it into our work. Because way too many of those “leaders” haven’t actually done journalism in a decade or more and don’t ask actual journalists what we need.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's plan for marijuana taxes: Build jails, scrap funding for cities Gov. Mike DeWine and state lawmakers want to change Ohio's recreational marijuana program. Cities may pay the price.

From the “Ohio GOP to Voters: Fuck Right Off” Department — Issue 2 said part of recreational weed taxes would go to municipalities. DeWine’s budget gives the entire pile of cannabis tax cash to the state to build more prisons. I don’t know why we bother to vote…

www.cincinnati.com/story/news/p...

What is the deal with all the anti-booze stuff everywhere? The NYT has been filled with it. I imagine an editor who quit the sauce and wants everyone to share the sobriety. Like a vegan convert, but with an international platform to annoy TF out of us all.

Does Appalachia vote against its interests? Redux. Get your Neosporin: this take will be hot and may cause blisters. The haters will need a cough drop because they're gonna be barkin'

If you base your response to suffering on how someone voted, STFU about being “liberal” or “progressive.” And don’t be sharing memes about how GOP Christians don’t live up to Jesus’ teachings, either.

Oh, Dorothy. You speak to me.
#DorothyParker

I'm not sure why we are pretending this has anything to do with "DEI" anymore.

There is a systematic effort to purge any acknowledgement that race or racism or gender or misogyny EXIST

Organ Transplant System ‘in Chaos’ as Waiting Lists Are Ignored The sickest patients are supposed to get priority for lifesaving transplants. But more and more, they are being skipped over.

Rack up another unintended (but fully predicable) consequence in the drive for “accountability.” The NYT’s opinion pages and political coverage suck ass, but its investigations are still outstanding. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We’re on the brink of basically having a king … just in time for America’s 250th birthday next year.

Video: The One Idea That Connects Trump’s Recent Actions

The Trump administration is setting the stage to put the unitary executive theory before SCOTUS — which has already issued a ruling (in Trump v. United States) that’s very much aligned with UE. And the GOP Congress seems perfectly happy to cede power to the executive branch.

If there is a writing award for legal briefs, this one would win it by a landslide. Absolutely brilliant.

You gotta love a legal filing that quotes “The Princess Bride” along with multiple SCOTUS rulings.

Excellent (and spot-on) commentary by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social

The good news is that reactionary centrists are engaging in some self-reflection on the excesses of the right-wing backlash to 'wokeness.'

The bad news is that they are saying it is woke people's fault.
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No, people aren't “getting what they voted for” with the flooding in Appalachia This reinforces a corrosive class politics seeking to divide us along the lines that should be uniting us.

Preach, @chuckcorra.bsky.social!

Owning the libs, destroying the government …

Athens County Prosecutor and indicted Householder accomplice were tangled up in corruption scandal as OSU undergrads Athens County Prosecutor Keller Blackburn and one of the recently indicted players in the Householder scandal both found themselves under investigation for misusing funds and seizing newspapers that u...

I believe you’re familiar with this case: www.athensnews.com/news/local/a...

Keller Blackburn investigation An attorney alleges Athens County Prosecutor Keller Blackburn implicated a friend’s wife in a drug case to discredit her in her divorce.

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You know things are bad when Dave Yost is more ethical about perceived conflicts of interests than Athens County Prosecutor Keller Blackburn…

It’s happening again: The MSM runs headlines about every stupid thing the man says instead of hammering him on what he’s DOING … like ceding responsibility to an unelected, unvetted tech bro and his barely post-teen cronies. And not one word about the protest outside the Treasury Department.