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WATCH: Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park react to Monday's 5.2 magnitude earthquake that shook San Diego County. The elephants formed an "alert circle" meant to protect the young and the entire herd from any threats, according to the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.

submitted 11 hours ago • 45 comments

Honestly, at this point there's probably thousands. These are the ones people know about.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

I am begging some of you to read a book

submitted 9 hours ago • 10 comments

Kidnapping or trafficking would be more accurate

submitted 11 hours ago • 13 comments

More hugs for boys and letting them know it's ok to have a wide variety of emotions not just anger and violence.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Typical.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

"Dark Winds" continues to knock it out of the park. I love when they use the format they did this week.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

I think we've been given a ready made academic meme prompt. I'll start: "The Department of Latin American History, Culture, and Literature at Very Prestigious University welcomes applications for an endowed full professorship in Apologia for Interventionism and Extractivism XIX to XXI centuries"

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

The moment federal agents blackbag you for being a "foreign enemy," there won't be a jury. You committed a war crime and can be prosecuted in military court. A military court such as the secret one we started building back in 2021 which is likely ready for usage: www.nytimes.com/2021/12/29/u...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Where is the MOU for the $6 million the U.S. is paying El Salvador to hold people from U.S. hostage in prisons? There must be a written agreement. (Auditors require nonprofits to have signed MOUs for every transaction.) What are terms of the MOU? Has anyone seen it? #RighttoKnow Our tax dollars.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

@vanhollen.senate.gov should be the biggest story of the day. He just released a press release saying “That’s why I’ve requested to meet with President Bukele during his trip to the United States, and – 1/2

submitted 17 hours ago • 31 comments

I hope everyone remains safe and also that people know that a corporate spaceflight of only women astronauts for a company owned by a deeply destructive billionaire who is enabling fascism is just public relations for fascism and has absolutely nothing to do with feminism

submitted 18 hours ago • 36 comments

Just your regular reminder that despite what every movie, game, etc. shows you, if you knock someone on the head hard enough to make them unconscious, they are NOT waking up fine. Sustained chokehold is the only way to make someone lose consciousness without permanent severe brain damage/death.

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

The overarching effect they are going for, all of them, is terror. They want to discourage brown people from immigrating. Ever. It’s what all of them want. Miller may be the most outspoken, but they are all on board with it.

submitted 19 hours ago • 49 comments

Scientists, always having to take shit from the federal govt for less money, now cranking that to 11 in the shit-taking for a lot less money from the feds.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Are there any Barnacles enthusiasts over here? 🌿

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Who hasn't? 😂

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

👇🏼

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Would.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

"A flock of Painted Ladies rode the wind over the Atlantic Ocean from W. Africa to the northern coast of S. America -the 1st documented insect journey across an ocean." Beautiful essay on Painted Lady butterflies by @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social w/ photographs by Lucas Foglia. #insects #naturewriting

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

This! This is what everyone should be doing. 👇🏼💯❗

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

The headline is misleading. Made to stoke knee-jerk reactions.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

interesting how democratic outsiders are pulling massive crowds saying "let's fight back" while party elites ineffectually shuffle their feet & mumble, occasionally raising a hand halfway as if to make a point before subsiding once again into their torpor

submitted 22 hours ago • 7 comments