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On January 3rd, 2025, Elon Musk tweets: "Congratulations, President Trump! This is a win for the world and a clear message to evil dictators everywhere." There's a retweet of the White House showing Nicholas Maduro on board of the USS Iwo Jima.

The White House tweets on January 3rd, 2025: "GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES MILITARY." There's a big image of the USA flag. Elon Musk retweets and adds "YES"

Elon Musk, Jan 2026: "Congratulations, President Trump! This is a win for the world and a clear message to evil dictators everywhere."

Elon Musk, Feb 2025: "America should mind its own business rather than push for regime change all over the place"

Screenshot of a post by Aaron Rupar on X quoting a Fox & Friends interview. The post includes a question about the future of Venezuela’s oil industry and attributes Trump’s response saying the U.S. would be strongly involved. Below is a Fox News broadcast image with a “Breaking News” banner reading “Trump Discusses Maduro Capture Live on F&F.” The screen shows split footage: on the left, blurred nighttime road footage labeled Venezuela; on the right, Nicolás Maduro speaking with one hand raised, with a Venezuelan flag behind him.

A war for oil. Groundbreaking.

CBS Evening News = CBS Right Wing Propaganda

The late Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, & other CBS News giants & legends are spinning in their graves

Everything & everyone Trump touches goes bankrupt, goes to jail, looses their family job REPUTATION, goes extinct, and/or gets injured or killed

@schumer.senate.gov

Pier showing the wave generator

Close up of how big the generator was compared to people

In 1896, the Capitola pier hosted the world’s first electric wave power motor for commercial power generation. The Gerlach wave generator never produced the 440 kW of electricity it was designed too, and was destroyed that winter by a wave storm.
🌊🔌💡

What’s it gonna take, man?

This exchange is revealing, terrifying, and intellectually bankrupt. No world leader would ever want to enter a room to deal with this guy because he's a crank.

People in casual spring attire cycle on Argentinierstraße in Vienna—a red asphalt “bicycle street” lined with four-storey buildings, trees and plants, and wooden benches.

People in casual spring attire cycle on Argentinierstraße in Vienna—a red asphalt “bicycle street” lined with four-storey buildings, trees and plants, and wooden benches.

People in casual spring attire cycle on Argentinierstraße in Vienna—a red asphalt “bicycle street” lined with four-storey buildings, trees and plants, and wooden benches.

People in casual spring attire cycle on Argentinierstraße in Vienna—a red asphalt “bicycle street” lined with four-storey buildings, trees and plants, and wooden benches.

Vienna's first Dutch-inspired cycling street was recently completed on Argentinierstraße, totally transforming the 1.3 km corridor. 140 car parking spaces were removed to significantly improve the walking and cycling experience—while adding greenery and seating to also turn it into a place to stay.🧵

Natural history archives and collections, if they close under these illegal Trump impoundments, will very likely be sold off to collectors and/or stuffed into landfills and lost forever. We can't restart that. Some of the source populations for our specimens are extinct.

We are screwed.

So this is why LA officials were denouncing the "car-free" promises even more over the past week — to make way for the LA28 car sponsor

Louis DeJoy may be gone, but the Post Office is still under attack by corporate interests and privatizers.

Millions of Americans rely daily on USPS's affordable rates and universal service.

We must protect our public Postal Service.

Graduate Student Winners of the Annual Poster Presentation Session On Friday, April 25th, 21 graduate students presented their research at DRI’s Reno campus for the annual poster presentation session. Organized by Kathleen Rodrigues, PhD, Assistant Research Professor...

DRI-affiliated grad students presented their #research at the annual poster presentation. Their #scientific interests span a range of topics. Congratulations to our winners: Bianca Martinez, Abigail Sandquist, and Alyssa Radakovich. bit.ly/GradPosters #ScienceThatMattersNow #DiscoverDRI

A bike lane on the Champs Élysées with the Arc de Triomphe in the background.

Paris bike lanes: pretty great!

Sinners’ Director Ryan Coogler Narrates Musical Scene The writer and director Ryan Coogler narrates a sequence from his film.

The director Ryan Coogler narrates a musical sequence from the film “Sinners,” in which the past and future of Black music is conjured.

Thanks to @nathanbfurey.bsky.social and his lab for showing me a few of their study sites around New Hampshire, where old mill dams are coming down and river herring runs are flowing back into systems that have been deprived for centuries — the ultimate restoration of natural history.

Some people like old movies so they can wrap themselves in a blanket of nostalgia for the past as it never was.

I like old movies because they are chaotic, insane and are the roots of everything we have today.

Cycling encourages social interactions between different road users.
Dutch children on their way to school are greeted by the happiest traffic guard, Johan Zandvliet!

HT Marco Te Brömmelstroet

"we built an AI that makes Ghibli style memes"

Miyazaki should be allowed to drive over you with a train

Dance sequence in MICHAEL STROGOFF (1926) has something you will not see in most Hollywood films of the period: a woman's navel. Ooo, those decadent French!

Just like he did his military service.

Dodging the war by using his privilege to serve in the Texas National Guard wasn’t “sitting it out” enough — he had himself transferred before finishing his flight assignment to AL to work on Winton Blount’s Senate Campaign.

A Champion Lifetime Slacker.

Condoleeza Rice, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Mitt Romney, Reince Priebus, Paul Ryan, & Rick Santorum have multiple 2025 paid speaking engagements. Each one was savaged by Trump at one point — while their speaking promotes their conservative “high” moral ground.

They are the worst hypocrites of all.

He’s not on the sidelines - he is an active speaker on the lecture circuit, earning 175,000 per appearance. He was at the Thrive Alabama event at the Von Braun Center (!) in Huntsville last month. It’s far worse than just staying quietly out of controversy. He only speaks for $$ as is true of —

A B& W Image of Hitler shaking hands with Prime Minister Pierre Laval after the Vichy government surrendered to the Nazi’s.

A color photo of Trump and Schumer pleasantly chatting while eating together during the October 2024 Al Smith dinner in New York.

Our very own Laval, clinging to his privileged position in the Vichy government.

2/ Chuck Schumer NY; John Fetterman PA; Catherine Cortez Masto NV; Dick Durbin IL; Brian Schwartz HI; Gary Peters MI; Maggie Hassan NH; Kirsten Gillibrand NY;Jeanne Shaheen NH.

Their 26’ reelection chances were more important than saving public services, built over 75 years, for all Americans .

I’m not sure people who weren’t born and raised Catholic understand the spine that the Jesuit order holds itself to.

“Upon Musk’s request, Young procured a massive TV for Musk’s office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building so he could play video games, according to a person familiar with the situation granted anonymity to speak freely.”

The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.