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The only downside is that there’s pretty much no signal in the forest. We chose the route: Prairie Creek Visitor Center 👉 Miners Ridge Trail 👉 Fern Canyon Trail 👉 Gold Bluffs Beach.

Fitting for today’s cat fight.

After Two SpaceX Explosions, U.K. Officials Ask FAA to Change Starship Flight Plans Facing a significant increase in the number of SpaceX launches, British officials detailed their concerns about the safety of Turks and Caicos and other Caribbean territories after debris from an earl...

NEW: Facing a significant increase in the number of SpaceX launches, British officials detailed their concerns about the safety of Turks and Caicos and other Caribbean territories after debris from an earlier failed launch littered beaches and roads.

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Grew up with Soviet hockey in my blood—this kind of stat just hits different. Back-to-back hat tricks in the playoffs? That’s history.

Honestly, not far off from how some policies look at first glance—romantic from a distance, corporate branding up close. Still made me laugh though.

I’m really only just getting into it but I genuinely love birding as a hobby. The entire goal is to look at the bird. Is there a bird? There is a bird! Look at the bird! If you are very keen you can learn what to call the bird so that you can properly thank it for the joy you feel when you see it. 🪶

Meanwhile, in Canada…

It’s a perfect day for diving. Peaceful blue, sea turtles, and silence that speaks louder than words. Do you hear the ocean calling? 🌊

Interesting to see these proposals being quietly pulled or voted down. Maybe some folks are starting to realize that fighting DEI isn’t as marketable as they hoped — especially when your brand operates in 100+ countries.

There it is, in a nutshell.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

When the courts are under attack, standing together becomes more than symbolic — it’s necessary. Justice only survives when people show up for it.

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Was just passed this from a fellow service academy grad. A Coast Guard Academy graduate posted this. They are reporting that ICE entered base housing and took a USCG spouse. I can’t confirm this but I’m calling for answers from the Coast Guard and Congress. This is unacceptable.

It’s not just misinformation — it’s been a sustained campaign to reshape reality for political gain. The damage didn’t happen overnight, and it won’t be undone quickly either.

Every citizen in the USA should be obliged to read or watch

The Handmaid's Tale.

Now.

Oh. Damn it. It's already banned in parts of the USA.

When a book becomes alive. Too quick.

It seems it's already too late for a rising. But I do hope I am wrong.

#TheHandMaidsTale #USA #Facism

This is deeply unsettling arrest quotas in a system already lacking transparency only make it easier for abuses to go unnoticed we can’t call ourselves a just society if people can simply disappear without accountability

Van Hollen: "I'm very glad that the killed of Rachel Morin has been convicted in a court of law. That is how we hold guilty people accountable ... I'm not sure why Abrego Garcia's rights should be denied based on an awful murder he had absolutely nothing to do with."

Economic freedom means very little when families can't afford housing, health care, or education. Markets are powerful — but without guardrails, they leave people behind.

Google Is a Monopolist in Online Advertising Tech, Judge Says The ruling was the second time in a year that a federal court had found that Google had acted illegally to maintain its dominance.

Breaking News: Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled.

"Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world." — Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:9
A timeless truth that speaks to the heart of our values.

Passover has just come to a peaceful close. May the spirit of liberation and compassion carry forward in all we do. ✡️🌿

It was a promise Senator Van Halen made to his family, to do all he could possibly do to get him back. Cory Booker had wanted to go with him, but he preferred to go alone.

I wrote an open letter to my fellow book ppl because no one is coming to save us.

We have to save us.

And I am weary of waiting for my colleagues to join the fight. Any fight. I chose book bans, but you don't have to

www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/4/17/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-book-creators

A Brooklyn sidewalk with a beautiful magnolia tree, with pink-and-white open blossoms, in front of a townhouse stoop.

Brooklyn magnolias!

What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.

It was a week in which Trump’s agendas of self-aggrandizement and personal retribution sank to new lows, but the courts continued to hold the line on his lawlessness. And coming bright and early tomorrow, a superb only-on- @talkingfeds.bsky.social roundtable joins me to break it all down for you.

Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?

Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.

Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Supreme Court backs Trump in controversial deportations case The order marks a win for the Trump administration, even if temporary, and it could well be a harbinger of things to come as the administration continues to clash with federal courts.

Scotus rules that Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act to deport those suspected of belonging to a Venezuelan gang, BUT-with review and notice!

"AEA detainees must receive notice after the date of this order that they are subject to removal under the Act..."

www.npr.org/2025/04/07/n...

The Week Ahead April 6, 2025

1/ If you want to be on top on the deportation case issue that are going to be in play this week, sit down and work your way through this liece which is long but will give you the lay if the land & updates from iver the weekend joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

Worst two-day stock market crashes in the U.S. by percentage loss:

1. 1929 (the Great Depression)

2. 1987 (Black Monday)

3. 2008 (the Great Recession)

4. YESTERDAY AND TODAY

And while this happened, the man responsible for it was golfing and dining with enemies of America.

Liar Greg Abbott says he has refused to set a special election to fill the seat of recently diseased Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner because he says Harris County doesn’t do their elections properly.