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How a Black fossil digger became a superstar in the very white world of paleontology In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited. n.pr/49WF6w1

-Democrats just got the greenlight from the Supreme Court to redraw their map in California
-Democrats might redraw the map in Virginia
-Cratering Latino disapproval of Trump can easily cause the GOP redraw in Texas to backfire.

In the end, Democrats might win the redistricting war.

Accountability for ICE and CBP However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.

"For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States."
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

A rough collie standing on a creekside rock

A big red Tibetan mastiff explores a creek

The collie, mastiff and 2 borzoi wait hopefully for a treat

A Yorkshire terrier wearing a red polka dotted bow

All of these guys rotate through the list, although Lady the terrier needed rescue bc she is very 3 forward and nearly won!

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

They need to Impeach, Convict, and Remove! Fucking Republicans need to get a spine.

Heads are going to explode 💥

Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.

All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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A tabby cat sitting on a tiled bathroom floor with his face in a sunbeam. All pics in this set are variants

A stripey young man enjoying a sunbeam

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are

his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

A borzoi stands belly deep in a creek while a collie stands on a rock beside her

Portrait of Phoenix the borzoi

Phoenix and creek water

Phoenix and interesting texture and light on the creek

Phoenix by the creek. I love the way that light looks on water.

I'm in a fandom space where we (mods) asked a community member to leave when it was revealed that he had a conviction for behavior with a 17 year old. I'm pretty unhappily surprised by how much resistance and anger we caught for doing the obviously right thing.

short stalked, hand shaped animal with feeding arms displaying fern-like projections

short stalked, hand shaped animal with feeding arms displaying fern-like projections

A so-called living fossil-the stalked crinoid (with a short stalk) Holopus! observed at about 500-600 m during the EX2206 #okeanos dive in the tropical Atlantic! #echinoday

The First American Cookbook: Sample Recipes from American Cookery (1796) Image via Wikimedia Commons On the off chance Lin-Manuel Miranda is casting around for source material for his next American history-based blockbuster musical, may we suggest American Cookery by “poor...

The First American Cookbook: Sample Recipes from American Cookery (1796)

A poised rough collie, very out of coat

She is poised beside a stream

She sniffs the water

She crosses the stream below a large culvert

River doing a Noble Collie despite being painfully out of coat in February. Still waiting to see if she's going to keep a summer coat until ... when? I guess we'll see.

Finally some quality content to start posting on Bsky

From: BoxBallet (2020), dir. Anton Dyakov, Melnitsa Animation Studio

Panel 1: Exec: "Ok guys ok ok we won't kill Adobe Animate." Crowd: "Phew" "thank fuck" "That's better" "I'm still switching to something else." "No yeah you really should" Panel 2: Exec: "Unfortunately we will also stop adding new features to it." Crowd: "WOO!!!" "It's a dream come true!" "Yeah!" "Finally!" Exec: "... um. Why are they cheering"

maintenance mode

happy black history month to Ken sample, thank u for inventing the fursona.

A California slender salamander, a small, narrow amphibian with tiny legs

A slinkpod or fetid adderstongue, a tiny white lily with purple stripes emerging from 2 bright green leaves. The other photos are of the same plant

Earliest spring in the redwoods: CA slender salamander and slinkpods

What USA thinks it's #1 in (and its actual rankings):
Life Expectancy: 46th
FreePress: 42nd
Healthcare: 30th
Education: 26th
Happiness: 23rd
Freedom: 17th
What the USA is #1 in:
Military Spending
Number of Billionaires
Incarceration
Bankruptcy filings
Medical debt
Gun deaths
Funding israel

Opinion | Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching Richard Campbell writes about how Ida B. Wells paved the way for civil-rights activists who came after her.

OPINION: "A pioneer in investigative journalism, [Ida B. Wells] developed data collection and interview techniques, single-handedly waging a nationwide anti-lynching campaign. Historians say she was the most famous Black woman in the U.S. during her lifetime," Richard Campbell writes.

LOL, it's a very sexy comic for sexy reasons, but omg, 'Denver is kind of new and a little bit bad at this, and Daniel is actually WAY more experienced,' is such an adorable, and slightly unexpected, dynamic between them. Absolutely precious, I love it.

My condolences. That's so hard.

The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: “This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender” Photo by Al Aumuller, via Wikimedia Commons Like another famous Okie from Muskogee, Woody Guthrie came from a part of Oklahoma that the U.S. government sold during the 1889 land rush away from the Qua...

The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: “This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender”

she succeeded

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

Trout is so much more into stalking than Mako is!

Baby Sauropods Were the Potato Chips of the Jurassic Era Baby Sauropods Were the Potato Chips of the Jurassic Era: “Life was cheap in this ecosystem.”

Nooooooooo

nautil.us/baby-sauropo...

Hounding! Look at that Trout stalk...!

"When soft tissues like skin and feathers are preserved in some rocks, they glow under ultraviolet light" Aw COOOL I want to know more about this!