The Meidas Mighty showed up today 👏

A very small (real) flower arrangement in a thimble including forget me nots , lily of the valley, buttercup, geum, chive flower bud, snowberry, green alkanet…

The first posy in a thimble I made, to lift my mood during the pandemic. The flowers are all real.

When humans look at plants (even on a screen as here) we recover from stress 60% more quickly & the relaxation response is triggered in our brains.

Zoom in if you're strung out🌿

Thank you, Sen. Van Hollen, for standing up not just for Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his family but for every American who believes in due process.

We can't stop speaking out until he is home and this administration is forced to stop its horrific practice of kidnapping people without charge or trial.

How to cross thin ice, #polar #bear edition: spread out wide to distribute weight and reduce pressure. This clever move helps avoid breaking the fragile surface.
A survival tactic perfected in the Arctic
#physics

The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today.

This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.

If the case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia is so iron clad and simple, then it ought to be very easy to prove that by bringing him back, giving him due process, and winning in court.

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article) An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

What a joke: Trump officials claimed the letter sent to Harvard with a list of demands was a "mistake" sent w/o authorization.

Because Harvard defended themselves, the White House announced they were freezing funding and Trump threatened to remove their tax-exempt status anyway.

What a shit show.

Congrats @bluesky on 35m !

True facts are true

Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker and a minor child.

Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.

History shows revoking Harvard's tax status won't be easy — or fast A presidential effort to revoke Harvard University's tax-exempt status could run up against a number of challenges, including violating federal law.

A presidential effort to revoke Harvard University's tax-exempt status could run up against a number of challenges, including violating federal law.

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article) An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

Ooops! Ooopsie! Did we do that? We didn't mean to do that. Definitely don't blame us for doing that.

Oops! Day one funding freeze
Oops! Ebola
Oops! Nuclear security workers
Oops! Bird flu
Oops! PEPFAR
Oops! HHS firings

And on and on and on...

Now this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism.

If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone.

Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

Zelensky on Vance clash: It seems "the vice president is somehow justifying Putin's actions" The Ukrainian leader appealed to Trump during his "60 Minutes" interview to visit Kyiv.

Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the fiery White House meeting with Donald Trump and JD Vance on "60 Minutes," saying: "It seems to me that the vice president is somehow justifying Putin's actions."

NEW: Trump told NBC News he ‘couldn’t care less’ if automakers raise car prices due to his tariffs.

Well, at least he doesn’t pretend to care anymore.

If Trumpty-Dumpty is working with the Russians to screw up America, he's doing a great job. Eggs, $11 a dozen. Health & Human Services down the dumper, ditto VA. If you call Social Security, they tell you to call back later. Guys 'n gals, this is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.

JD Vance: “The president said we have to have Greenland…We cannot just ignore this place. We cannot just ignore the president’s desires.”

When you lose Piers Morgan…

BREAKING: @justinbrannan.bsky.social, the NYC Finance Chair and leading candidate for NYC Comptroller, is calling for COMPLETE divestment of NYC’s $1.2 billion pension investment in Tesla.

If Brannan wins the NYC Comptroller race, Tesla would lose another $1.2 BILLION.

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

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

The lying and the staggering incompetence around this is astounding. And dangerous.

Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app

I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now

Thanks for your service to our country

BREAKING:

Donald Trump endorses Sen. Lindsey Graham for re-election: “Lindsey has been a wonderful friend to me, and has always been there when I needed him,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

Lindsey Graham sold his soul for power. History won’t be kind to him.

It appears that Kristi Noem may have worn a $60K Rolex during her visit to the El Salvadoran prison camp today.

The most corrupt president in history, by far.

Federal Judge Orders Trump To Reinstate Nearly All Of USAID's Functionalities A stunning ruling that undos all of Elon Musk's goals with USAID.

In a stunning legal rebuke, a federal judge has ruled that Elon Musk and officials from the Department of Government Efficiency must reinstate nearly all functions of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Outstanding ‼️