This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours.

Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

"What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet."

ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results. The study divided 54 subjects—18 to 39 year-olds from the Boston ar...

ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study

WTF

New Orleanians. Our time has come.

DId you know JOhn Steinbeck's depression-era classic 'The Grapes of Wrath' is among the 'Top 100 books banned' in America? I can see why: Here's a short passage from Chapter 25: "There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our successes. The fertile Earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And the children dying of (hunger) must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates - died of malnutrition - because the food must rot (if not sold at a profit). ... and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."

One of my all time favorite books
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On Juneteenth, remember DUI hire Pete Hegseth (probably at the assistance of enemy #1) has declared the following ships be renamed:

🇺🇸USNS Thurgood Marshall-our 1st black SCOTUS judge:

🇺🇸USNS Medgar Evers-WWII hero & civil rights activist:

🇺🇸USNS Harriet Tubman-led almost 1000 out of slavery

Update: Over 7.2 million and counting across the country for the No Kings protest!!

An rainbow arrangement of garden flowers placed on white fabric

Our brains love the colour gradation in rainbows, maybe due to our ancestors searching for sources of water. Looking at plants helps us recover from stress & looking at something we think is beautiful causes dopamine release.
I've posted this photo to alter your brain biochemistry for the better 🌿

Seattle was powerful, united, and peaceful today.

The GOP is absolutely deluging social media with images of burning cars—the same two Waymos over and over, of course—so we need to deluge it with something else. Please do.

Jessica Craven

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

Images of tanks pulling up for a huge PARADE that NO ONE asked for that will cost money & take military personnel away from more important things at a time when Americans are being told we don’t have money for food & healthcare seems wild to me.

True story bro.

Way to go, Ben!

Glad it could be highly problematic, but since the administration does not respect the rule of law, why should we have hope?

He has not signed one single piece of legislation. Why? Because clearly Congress is superfluous in this administration. All you need is syncophants and bluster. 🤷

Tia Keobounpheng's Vibrating Textile Geometries Merge Modernism and Sámi Lineage Through paper and wood panels, Tia Keobounpheng weaves colorful thread to create precise geometries in vibrating color.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/tia-...

Four under par, bitches!!!

BLM rushes review of Oregon lithium project following Trump’s executive order A proposed Southeast Oregon mine’s been under review for three years. Now the Trump administration is giving people four days to comment before proceeding.

The Bureau of Land Management has given the public 5 days (!!!) to read and respond to the draft environmental assessment for a lithium exploration project in Oregon. If approved, HiTech Minerals Inc. could modify ~100 acres with 267 exploration drill sites across 7,200 acres of public lands.

For #signalGate to have any impact, the regime’s leaders & its sycophants would need to be able to feel shame, regret, or public accountability.

They can’t, so there won’t be an honourable resolution.

Someone might get sacrificed, but it’ll be a strategic performance not an act of integrity.

She is so disgusting. Every day, my husband and I shake our heads anew crying, "There is no bottom!" 🤦 Every time you think we have seen the worst, nope!

The gleeful profiteers from Trump’s police state Palantir’s stock soared this week as its CEO cheerfully screamed, “We’re doin’ it,” on an investor call—clarifying that “it” includes “on occasion” killing people.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp:
“Palantir is here to disrupt, and, when it’s necessary, to scare our enemies and, on occasion, kill them.”
The full on surveillance / management state
Anyone from the Uighur ethnic group Could tell you about this - if they were allowed.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

The Trump administration announced plans to expand drilling in the Arctic, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Interior Department stated it would begin steps to open the entire 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain of the refuge to oil and gas exploration.

President Trump, Don't Gut Our Bedrock Environmental Law Donald Trump’s current attempt to gut bedrock environmental law may take away your ability to have a voice in decisions made by federal agencies. The National Environmental Policy Act has been impleme...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/pr...

Woman standing on a stepladder holding one end of a six-foot-long by one foot wide quilt of colored stripes. Blues represent cooler temperatures, reds represent warming temperatures.

Man wearing a Wrexham tshirt holds the red-striped end of a long quilt. Blue stripes in the foreground show cooler temps during the early 1900s, while red stripes at the far end show warmer temperatures.

Closeup of quilt showing light blue and orange stripes sewn together, surrounded by a charcoal black border with swirls of stiching.

Closeup shows black border with swirls of quilted stitches surrounding mostly dark red stripes, representing the last 12 years of temperature anomaly data averaged annually across the U.S.

My sister just finished quilting my #climatestripes #sciart piece! Each color represents the annual U.S. temperature anomaly, from 1897-2024. Things are heating up. @katharinehayhoe.com @edhawkins.org @nicolekelner.bsky.social @kimmoldofsky.bsky.social @lecagle.bsky.social