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"I have a cold and should stay in" is losing the fight to "it's a beautiful day out, and I need to see wildflowers."
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March 2025 was tied with March 2016 and March 2024 as the warmest on record in the Berkeley Earth dataset. It was 1.55C above preindustrial (1850-1900) levels. For more details, see the full Berkeley Earth surface temperature report for March here: berkeleyearth.org/ma...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Elephants at the San Diego Zoo reacting to Monday morning's earthquake. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Important read. The Trump administration is dragging its feet on returning Abrego Garcia because they want to set a precedent for doing the same to US citizens.

When The Bangles sang 'Walk like an Egyptian', this is not what I had in mind. Tomb of Merefnebef: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merefne...

The image says: If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the Gl Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel:1-877-447-4487

Super-important. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an attempt to set a precedent. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Good grief. There is no way in which impeding scientific and technical research helps our country. It is a good way to set it back and encourage scientists to move abroad.

www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Best film about the middle ages ever made, I will not be taking any questions, especially not about the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow.

The shoes of a toddler, one of the almost 1500 people who drowned on this date in 1912 when the Titanic sank. A small thread for a little kid. 🧵

April 13, 2025

www.404media.co/declassified...

Well done, teachers!

First, they came for the undocumented immigrants…

Previous Headline: “RFK Jr. says Deep State ‘is real,’ references past work with ‘the r------d’ in speech to FDA staff” - POLITICO No words. 😳

SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.

Anachronym Challenge xkcd.com/3075

👀 www.techdirt.com/2025/04/11/a...

At some point “not even trying to hide it” becomes repeatedly telling you over and over and over.

The American Astronomical Society — the largest organization of professional astronomers in the country — has put out a statment about Trump's proposed fatal cuts to NASA science. aas.org/press/aas-st...

But it's not the inability of institutions. It's the learned helplessness of Congressional Republicans.

In today’s Orwellian news. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Very informative chart from Washington Post

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/s... #Denisovan #paleoanthropology

Here’s where we’re headed next: 1. Record number of S&P 500 companies pull full-year earnings guidance. 2. “Jay Powell is artificially costing us trillions of dollars with high interest rates, he must be fired.” 3. “Beautiful phone call with my friend President Xi, we’re making a deal.”

Der Spiegel: 12/11/2016 Evergreen.

A huge, upside-down U.S. flag now hangs from a prominent peak at Donner Summit near Truckee.

Oh, the irony 😂—talk about paid protesters! MAGA has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk in Pennsylvania, alleging he failed to pay individuals who gathered signatures for a petition during the 2024 presidential campaign.

Tracks

In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court ordered the government to seek the return of a man whom it had wrongfully deported. “The stakes of the case may explain the justices’ unanimity, a clear show of force,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes.

Today House Republicans, cheered on by the richest person on Earth, passed a budget framework that will cut support for the poorest people in our country. All while cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy, and massively increasing the deficit.

Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.

The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens. The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago. Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.

Relatable

Yup. Calling my senators now.

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

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Here is how daily global temperatures have changed since the preindustrial (1850-1900) period in the Copernicus/ECMWF ERA5 dataset, with data through two days ago (April 8th):

📢 App Version 1.100 is rolling out now (1/2) Chat reactions are here! You can now respond to chat messages (aka “direct messages”) with an emoji ❤️

Nearly half of CDC's developmental disabilities and birth defects center is now off the job Secy Kennedy's layoffs included entire team working on sickle cell disease www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cut...