An illustration featuring a leopard shark, bat ray, and the California state marine fish: the garibaldi. They are swimming next to giant kelp and illustrated on a vibrant blue background.

A lil tribute to the kelp forests along the California coast 🌊✨

A wildlife photographer joked that his wife managed to capture an extraordinary photo that outdid him: a European eagle owl, one of the world's largest, perched on his camera lens.

Commentary: In an L.A. park, Trump unleashed his latest show of farce: The Battle of the Photo Op But this wasn't about saving MacArthur Park from the bad guys. Instead, the deployment of masked troops in tactical gear showed Trump and his berserkers only care about optics.

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my view is that everyone should be able to earn a living wage doing whatever it is they like. if you love working in a bookshop, you should be able to live a comfortable life doing so. if you loving being a barista, the same. and if you want to do more traditional blue collar work, that’s cool too!

A gentle reminder that the VA getting rid of 30,000 people instead of 80,000 people isn’t a win.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

This feels like a ✨prime✨ week to close the book on Amazon.

An image with a black and white background and a Latin American immigrant and a title Schröinger's Immigrant. On the left, it reads, "Lazily collecting all the welfare." On the right, it reads, "But also somehow taking all the jobs."

I will never take anyone seriously who says we need to raise the birth rates or face human extinction but it’s especially sickening now that the oligarchs have chosen to hoard even more resources by cutting off aid and killing millions of kids in the process

So true. Let's not become MAGA. My heart goes out to the parents and families of these beautiful little girls. My God, let's not lose our humanity.

Gouldian Finch.

The Gouldian Finch (Chloebia gouldiae), also known as the Gould's Finch or the Rainbow Finch, is a colourful passerine bird that is native to Australia.

📷: @tracksbirding

a man wearing a bandana and a plaid shirt says all i wanted was a pepsi ALT: a man wearing a bandana and a plaid shirt says all i wanted was a pepsi

My bad. I posted that Suicidal Tendencies released their self-titled album 32 years ago today. It’s actually 42 years ago today.

ICYMI: 9,000 Philadelphia city workers are on strike for the first time in 40 years as they fight for better pay, benefits, and more.

These workers provide essential services for their communities day in and day out. Philadelphia doesn’t run without them.

Solidarity!

There's only one holiday celebration in Buffalo this weekend: the Dyke Liberation March. Join us tomorrow (details in the link). Even in these darkest of times, we create glimpses of liberation for each other in the streets. www.facebook.com/share/p/1GRg...

More than 880,000 workers will get a raise this summer due to state minimum wage increases.

Anyone upset about this should consider the following:

If the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.

There are actually quite a few undocumented Russians in the US.

Anyone have any videos of ICE forcefully deporting them?

Or just the brown people?

Just heartbreaking: across the frontlines, homes are being emptied. Not by choice, but because they have to be.

I know this because we lost ours. Our family home, where birthdays were celebrated, meals shared — gone. Russians moved in. I can’t go back. It’s stolen.

You wouldn’t vacation in Dachau in 1935. Don’t vacation in Florida in 2025.

To the “I voted for this” crowd:

You voted for the guy who gutted the National Weather Service. Now we’ve got dead families and missing kids in Texas, because storm warnings didn’t go out in time. And he gutted FEMA so they can’t properly respond to disasters.

That’s what you voted for?

I love weather underground.

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

—The Declaration of Independence

A Potential Mamdani Mayorship Strikes Fear in the Real Estate Industry

He's terrifying all the right people.

Good.

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A very simple thing you can do is stop linking to the NYT.

I know they do some good reporting but they are also actively upholding facism and working to subvert democracy and shaping your world view.

It is more work but it is better if we start starving harmful institutions.

What we consider before using anonymous sources: How do they know the information? What’s their motivation for telling us? Have they proved reliable in the past? From a NYT piece dated three weeks ago.

The New York Times might want to read up on when it's appropriate to use anonymous sources, according to (checks notes) The New York Times, from an article dated 6/11/25.

Mike Johnson just said if you are for reducing the deficit, this bill is for you.

The bill adds 3-4 trillion dollars to the deficit.

They just lie.

District 'alarmed' after ICE agents caught on video urinating on school grounds Officials at the Ruben Salazar High School in the Southern California city of Pico Rivera were horrified after footage appeared to show an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent urinating in public...

You'd think exposing oneself on school grounds would be considered a sex crime. Public indecency, it's literally a public school ground. Where MINORS congregate.

How is this not a criminal act?

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Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all

White-browed tit-warbler: Isn't it a stunning burst of colorful fluff?!