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About to watch Faith Kipyegon try to go sub-4min in the mile! Slay queen 🔥🔥🔥

This quote is an amazingly concise encapsulation of what’s at stake in the US right now. Gov’t agents acting like you don’t have the right to speak to them.

To the end of my days, I will not understand why industries that rely on this research are not losing their minds

I’m in a R district anyway, but very disappointed to see some of these names.

It’s a truly awful time not to have an opposition party.

The asylum process is horrific. People need lawyers to navigate it successfully, which is incredibly costly. One of the reason you need lawyers is because the slightest inconsistency in your story will be interpreted as you not telling the truth.

Current parenting phase:

Mon: “A+ in advanced math, damn our kid rocks”

Tues: “WHY is there a completely empty Sprite can in the fridge”

Wed: “The govt says you can practice driving a car so I guess let’s do that, soon as I text your grandparents where to find my will”

In 2024, eight men broke 3:30 for the 1500m all year.

It's June 24th, 2025 and 11 men have already broken 3:30 for the 1500m – this does not include the three Paris Olympics medalists (Cole Hocker, Yared Nuguse or Josh Kerr) yet.

This is much more controversial, but I also take the position that whoever makes Ghirardelli's brownie mix has solved brownies.

First butterfly I’ve seen this year - a spangled fritillary!

What Trump learned long ago as a private citizen is that you can easily ruin someone’s life with frivolous litigation even if you ultimately lose in court. And that was when he was spending his own money to harass and intimidate people. Now he’s spending yours.

Every day/every hour makes clearer what was evident two weeks into this Trump admin & GOP congress: that short of all out nuclear Armageddon no foreign enemy could ever destroy this republic, its institutions & its power faster or more sweepingly with nobody to defend it all than what we’re seeing.

I’d like to request companies stop pushing me to keep up my “streak” of using their service. It’s transparently manipulative and dystopian.

I know the answer to my request is “no,” but I’m still putting it out there.

A drift of various red, pink, and white dianthus blooms.

Happy May! It’s the best month, possibly tied with September.

OMG what

Two books pictured: The Book of Alchemy by Suleika Jaouad, and We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine by Deni Ellis Béchard

Took a trip to my local bookstore today and left with this attractive couple!

Do not, for one solitary second, let Bob, 52, sales manager from Wherever, Wisconsin sour you on the project of human emancipation. Don't do it! There have always been Bobs. There will always be Bobs. If you disagree with Bob, you either get through to Bob or beat him. That's the work. Onward.

They have lied. They are lying now. They will continue to lie. They will always blame someone else. This is what fascists do: they disrupt reality.

We need to expect that convincing people of the truth will be a long, necessary work.

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

Please highlight this story.

ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

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Imogen Heap’s Chordata Bytes albums are so good

In the U.S. in 1825, *452* out of 1000 children born died before their 5th birthday.

By 1925, that number was 135 out of a 1000 children.

Today, in 2025, that number is *7*

And it is entirely due to advances in medicine, public health, and technology.

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Faith Kipyegon To Attempt First-Ever Sub-4 Women’s Mile, Historic Chase Set For June - CITIUS Mag Triple Olympic champion and world record holder Faith Kipyegon will attempt to become the first woman to run a sub-four minute mile on June 26th.

Seventy years after Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile, Faith Kipyegon is chasing her own place in history.

Nike has announced Breaking4 – Kipyegon attempt at the first-ever sub-4 minute women's mile in June.

Her current WR is 4:07.64.

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Small white black cohosh flower with pink azaleas in the background

Garden’s first black cohosh flower of the year!

My kids will be going to college in 2026 and 2027 and I’m definitely taking note of which institutions are & are not represented here.

ICE detains 2 men in Charlottesville courthouse raid Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation.

Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans.

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He disappeared after detention. Now ICE is silent on the fate of Venezuelan man A Venezuelan man has disappeared into the U.S. immigration system. His family is looking for answers.

Read the whole story. It is shocking and horrifying. The United States government grabbed a man outside of his apartment and within less than 48 hours vanished him from the face of the earth.

He is probably imprisoned in El Salvador. But no one knows! He wasn't on the flight manifest leaked by CBS.

The whole Earth sunlit , blue and white but surrounded by black space. “Apollo 8. The moment humans first saw the whole Earth with their own eyes. Floating in space, the Apollo 8 crew saw the Earth at this unexpected angle, with North to the lower-left. It was taken on the way to the Moon, from a distance of 27,000 km.” https://petapixel.com/2021/05/20/this-guy-remastered-photos-of-earth-shot-by-apollo-astronauts/

Happy Earth Day! - While we measure economies by the flows of funds and transactions, we overlook the flows of carbon, nutrients, and water that sustain life and occur all around us - flows all shaped and directed by biodiversity. Earth Day is a reminder to recalibrate on what actually counts 🌐🧪🌾

In honor of earth day, please share your favorite nature writing! Here’s mine
Books
-world of wonders
-pilgrim at tinker creek
-arctic dreams
Poems
- invitation (mary Oliver)
- startlement and instructions on not giving up (Ada Limón)

And remember, it would be trivially easy to deport these same people through normal procedures. Trump picked this Alien Enemy fight because he wants unreviewable, unlimited powers.

Rappahannock River included on national danger list National organization cites unchecked development and a lack of regional water-supply planning as causes for concern.

The Rappahannock is in dire shape rn as data centers & other "unchecked development" push the river to its breaking point.

"Unchecked development & inadequate planning for the regions water supply...ranked the Rappahannock River No 6 on its 2025 list Americas Most Endangered Rivers."

Kaine, Warner rebuke Trump's team for 'chaos' over student visas In a letter to top Trump administration officials the senators ask how many nonimmigrant visas the State Department has revoked for students attending schools in Virginia and the justification.

Nowhere in this article does it mention that both @kaine.senate.gov and @markwarner.bsky.social voted to confirm Marco Rubio as Trump’s Secretary of State just two months ago. Seems germane, given they’re now writing him letters begging for info on the Virginia college students he kidnapped?