Jody Brown

You and your colleagues are great American heroes. You never asked for this crisis, but did the bold, brave, difficult and necessary thing to protect health policy, science, and Americans. We Americans humbly thank you and support you.

If Lisa Cook’s legal challenge fails, we can expect to see Jerome Powell next with his neck on the chopping block.

He knows it.

We watch and wait for the court’s ruling.

YouTube video by afarTV 🔴 Live Now: New Volcanic Eruption at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii (Cam J)

Kīlauea is erupting again, spectacularly! posted 7:25 a.m. Hawaiian time (GMT -10) 4/22. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oylW...

If you hear a galloping horse, it's Paul Revere sounding the alarm...

Every person with a spectrum disorder has a more valuable life than RFK Jr, and every trans/nb person has a more valuable life than JK Rowling. You are a human with dignity and they are sunken demons

The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.

This is one of the most terrifying things I've read today. www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...

It's all a game to billionaires. They only play to win for themselves, not you. You are just a piece they move around the board to do so.

So, this apparently was not anywhere near the last straw for GOP Lawmakers when it should have been cause instantaneous outrage. The tRump and his Republican allies who never spoke up against it are officially starving people with complete impunity.

Occam's razor

Pregnancy’s true toll on the body: huge birth study paints most detailed picture yet Data from 300,000 births reveal how essential biological measurements are altered by carrying and delivering a baby.

Pregnancy & childbirth's true toll on the body www.nature.com/articles/d41... Male republican lawmakers should (but won't) read this

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!

Beautiful shot of trametes versicolor!

To Pay for Trump Tax Cuts, House GOP Floats Plan to Slash Benefits for the Poor and Working Class A menu of options being circulated by congressional Republicans also includes new tax cuts for corporations and the ultrawealthy.

Very important story from ProPublica
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Criminal records of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump include rape, domestic violence Dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who received pardons from President Trump had past criminal convictions for charges including rape, manslaughter, domestic violence and drug trafficking.

Great reporting from NPR
www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...

@ocasio-cortez.house.gov

If you wanted to know how an autocracy would start in America, it begins by releasing violent thugs from prison who beat up police defending Congress, illegally firing every Inspector General, and seizing billions appropriated by Congress for people with no authority to do so.

I love helvella lacunosa! if you cut its stem across the bottom, it reveals beautiful shapes and patterns. You can use the cut stems with an inkpad to stamp patterns around the edges of paper to make stationary and other crafts.

Beautiful shot of trametes versicolor!

"gaslighting shitweasels" is my new favorite phrase

Abbot sounds like an admirer of Ted Cruz. Oh, well... one person likes Cruz.

I think the phrase is "to the fullest extent of the law". Otherwise known as fuck yes.

We Stand With Ann Cartoonists Unite for Ann Telnaes and the First Amendment

I love these cartoons in support of Ann Telnaes.
stevebrodner.substack.com/p/we-stand-w...

AI costs American renters over $3.6 billion annually, according to new report The property management software used by many corporate landlords, RealPage, is deploying AI to artificially inflate rental prices in the United States by more than $3.6 billion annually, according to...

More corporate greed in the U.S. popular.info/p/ai-costs-a...

I would bet it's the homemade kind made with garden roma tomatoes. Pure bliss.

Meanwhile, the US is forcing out their school librarians who served in these roles. When I became a certificated school librarian in '06 nearly every school in Maui County had one. When I was forced out in '22, I was one of only 3 certificated school librarians remaining.

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

I am appalled that the WaPo's editorial board has learned *nothing* from the recent mass exodus of 250,000 subscribers. Now they've lost yet another shining star for the exact same reason: killing a story.
open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

Chicken? What chicken?

schizophyllum commune! Nice shot

Insurers Continue to Rely on Doctors Whose Judgments Have Been Criticized by Courts In dozens of cases ProPublica reviewed, judges found that some doctors working for these companies engaged in “selective readings” of medical evidence and “shut their eyes” to medical opinions opposin...

United Health"care": Lie and Deny www.propublica.org/article/ment...