L. Duck Scott

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. This number can connect you to both the House of Representatives and the Senate offices.

What Happens When an Executive Ignores the Law? Ask Constitutional Sheriffs. Opinion | It’s not just about defiance of the law; it’s about reshaping the law to their own purposes.

The administration’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed judicial activists, saying that “the real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...

More of this please

Ahem

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Nest building continues at the Great Blue Heron rookery.

I'm so very sorry. Please be kind to yourself on what is destined to be a massively emotional journey.

BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway…

LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨

-Whispers Beneath the Mango Tree-
—for the ones who shaped me
@gillian_wray_poet ✍️ Day 11
#poetrychallenge

You want to know what non-compliance looks like? It looks like whatever the hell you want it to look like. It’s not about heroism or martyrdom. It’s about being a magnificent, ungovernable pain in the ass. It’s about weaponizing inconvenience, absurdity, and joy against a system that demands fear and obedience. Throw a wrench in the works—everywhere, all the time. Fill their inboxes with existential poetry. Tape absurd messages in public places: “Authoritarianism gives you hemorrhoids.” Get petty. Get weird. Flush their toilet paper. Release crickets in inconvenient places. Spoil their scripts, trip their rhythm, yank the narrative from their hands. Because here’s the ugly truth they don’t want you to hear: authoritarianism only works when the people allow it to work. It’s a performance, a bluff, a collective hypnosis. Break the spell. Mock it. Undermine it with your refusal to kneel. But here’s the thing—this has to be everywhere. Everyone. We need resistance so widespread, so creatively chaotic, so utterly unmanageable, that the regime cracks under the weight of its own overreach. Be bold. Be clever. Be feral. And above all—DO NOT COMPLY.

We heard the rumors. Maybe president panican will declare martial law, maybe he won’t. But do you think this clown car of incompetent sycophantic signal leakers can keep all 300 million of us down? Absolutely not. We will not comply. Here’s some advice from Oliver Kornetzke. Let’s get weird.

It is after midnight when I hear the #noise. A closing door. The cats wake up from their positions on the bed and rocket around with ears swiveling, freaked out.

I sit up and hold my hand against my hammering heart. We're supposed to be alone.

#vss365

Carl wheeled on her. "Just tell the kid what to do. Why are you giving me so much #grief about this, Mary? It's not a #life and #death decision."

"Actually, it might be," she said levelly. She clutched a pistol in her shaking hand.

It took a moment for him to realize what he was seeing.

#vss365

She stopped mid-word.

I asked, "Amy? Are you okay?"

"I've lost the #thread," she said, and sighed. "It used to be if things didn't support my vision for life, I'd #bounce. But now I don't even know what the vision was, or if visions make any sense in this fucked up age. It just rolls on."

#vss365

Two lonely explorers in space suits travel across a rocky and hostile new world.

Shadows Over Sol is an award-winning #scifi #horror #ttrpg where you and your team venture into the hungry void of outer space. You'll explore derelict spaceships, make deals with shady corps and try to survive the horrors encroaching on your every move.

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Ooooooh.

Cory Booker makes history, and I have been under a rock all day. My god, sir.

There was no warning, just the paranoid-seeming sensation of trouble crawling in the Pathfinder pilot's skull. Not that I wasn't grateful. Without him scooting us out of there so fast he left our #luggage behind, the Ariel would have been so much confetti scattered across two counties.

#vss365

How Jane Goodall Turned Her Childhood Dream into Reality: A Sweet Illustrated Story of Purpose and Deep Determination A heartening testament to the power of undivided intention.

How Jane Goodall, who turns 91 today, turned her childhood dream into reality – a sweet illustrated story of purpose and perseverance

I watched in #euphoria as the moth - its #velveteen body lost in the whirl of its #gossamer wings - fluttered upward in the moonlit night.

A bat took it on the wing, zipping past me in ermine darkness. It passed so close I could smell it skunky body odor. Shocked, I backed into safety.

#vss365

Not satisfied with purchasing a Presidential Election to become co-President, Sissy SpaceX now wants to buy himself a Supreme Court judge in Wisconsin.

You can end his shopping spree, Wisconsinites! 🚫 💰

#VoteForJudgeSusanCrawford 🗳️ ✅ 👍

This is super important.

Wide_Dragonfruit1058's comment on "This is terrifying. Politicization of the Smithsonian." Explore this conversation and more from the fednews community

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Oh. Oh no.

A vintage perfume bottle glows in soft light as a blurred woman in the background lifts her hand—mystery shimmering in the air.

She sprayed the perfume, a mignonette blend not made in thirty years, its scent swirling around her like a forgotten dream. It smelled just like the one he gave her long ago. But as it faded, so did his face. She reached for more, desperate—but the bottle was dry.

#VSS365

Eeee, we found each other! Hello, hello!

MAGA: "George Soros is billionaire using his money to influence elections and buy votes!!!! THIS MUST BE STOPPED!!! George Soros is billionaire using his money to influence elections and buy votes!!!!"

REPORTER: “What about what Elon Musk is doing?”

MAGA: “Look! Immigrant caravan!”

It's nest building time 🤓 🪹🪶

#birdphotography #birds #nature #wildlife #naturephotography #photography #canon #sparrow #housesparrow #wildlifephotography

a blue tit perched on a branch looking straight at the camera.

It might be fairly common and overlooked but you've got to love those colours.
#ukbirds
#ukwildlife
#photography

Elyx and I lay in the grass. She was drunk on the narcotic scents of flowers. The dizzy yellow narcissus, the sweet, clustered anthers of #mignonette, the brash pepperiness of the nasturtiums flooded us.

She stretched her long neck and trilled. "Blossoms, Stela."

Oh, my heart - had I one.

#vss365