Squeee! Tiniest lizard I’ve seen in a long time. This little Western fence lizard is barely an inch and a half long including tail. That sheet of plastic it is on is 1/4 inch thick for scale. #herps 🦎
Erin Exa
@erinexa.bsky.social
Utilitarian with a heart of gold. Proud bureaucrat. Owner of a number of children and cats.
It’s often necessary and energizing to mobilize through shared opposition. But this form of solidarity will always stagnate if we can’t also recognize what we love in common and imagine what we hope to build together. As usual, I think the preschool classroom offers some wisdom in finding balance.
The Power of Refusal and the Necessity of Imagination
What kids have to teach us about insisting on “no” and striving for “yes”
notesonhope.net
“You know that saying, ‘You can’t get well in a cell’? I’ve seen it firsthand,” says an advocate against solitary confinement who spent 20 years in prison. He says incarcerated people often develop mental health problems from isolation.
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back for Solitary Reforms in California - Bolts
California officials dial back the minor reforms they
boltsmag.org
I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.
Yesterday ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a father, husband, and beloved neighbor who spent 35 years building a life in the U.S. Our hearts are heavy with grief for his family and all those suffering at the hands of ICE, CBP, and this administration's unrelenting cruelty.
One thing about the whole "we have to run rough-hewn manly dudebros to beat them at their own game" theory is this describes, to within a rounding error, zero notable Republican politicians.
"Take Your BART, Please!" If memes existed in the 80s Henny Youngman would undoubtedly have become one with these words – a take on his signature phrase, “Take my wife, please.” The commercials aired on news and radio station in the Bay Area – not in the ad space necessarily, but as the story.
The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.
anyone who finds more things to like about this country than me is a glassy eyed, historically illiterate moron. anyone who likes fewer things is a nihilistic doomer
Did you hear about the DC July 4 fireworks show? It promises 850,000 fireworks in 40 minutes. That's 354 per second. You'll miss up to 142 of them every time you blink. For your edutainment, I proudly present the nerdiest thing you will read about this dangerously absurd / absurdly dangerous event.
Three Hundred Fifty-Four Fireworks per Second — Chad M. Topaz
Organizers promise 850,000 fireworks in roughly 40 minutes over the National Mall this Saturday. I did what a mathematician does with a big number: I divided. It did not make the show look better.
chadtopaz.com
A handful of academic charlatans provided cover for the four justices most associated with "originalism" to vote against the plain text meaning of the 14th Amendment -- and put them on the wrong side of one of the easiest originalism calls the court has ever had to make. Racism is a hell of a drug.
SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...
Generally speaking, polls have shown the Democratic Party's problem is not being seen as too woke, but weak and ineffective. Judging by tonight's primary results, Democratic Primary voters are intent on fixing this www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
New poll: Democrats' real problem isn't being too liberal — it's being seen as too weak
Americans, including swing voters, see the Republican Party as 20 points more extreme than Democrats — and the Democrats as weak and ineffective. So why would the *Democrats* moderate?
gelliottmorris.com
Mildly amused to see people grimly warning that the blood-dimmed tide of populist unrest has swept aside all bonds of civil government and unleashed the power of the Mob on an innocent and unwitting nation because the outgoing New York City Comptroller won a congressional primary.
Over the past 13 years police in the United States have killed approximately 16,000 people. Over the same period in the UK, the figure is 34
This would be very very bad writing if it happened, but so much of what we have now is very bad writing, so I live in hope for Chekhov’s Lightning Bolt
Simon Rosenberg@simonwdc.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe National Weather Service has declared a severe thunderstorm watch for DC until 11pm tonight.
The official position of the government of the United States is explicitly and overtly white nationalist In domestic and foreign affairs. This is a change from being implicitly and covertly white nationalist.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoKilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. I see a lot of the same fights here."
The modern world in America is built for the “convenience” of motor vehicles. But the truth that people don’t want to hear is this: Cars ruin cities. Riley is dead, because drivers have the world catered to their every need while pedestrians, bikers, and public transit riders get the crumbs.
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
A family member sent this pic of a full-page ad in Virginia's oldest continually publishing newspaper (The Recorder covers Bath and Highland Counties in western Virginia, the two least populated counties in the state, 76.5% and 71.3% Trump voters in 2024)
Isn‘t it just *wonderful* how if you’re a liberal man who wants to be a man you aren’t one and if you’re a liberal man who doesn’t want to be a man, you are one?
NPR@npr.org · 2mo agoSoon after winning the Texas Republican Senate primary runoff, Ken Paxton attacked Democratic nominee, state Rep. James Talarico as "too low-T for Texas," putting manhood front and center in the race. n.pr/4a5uElp
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
