I just would not lecture a woman in this way.

So, no, you can't vote here, and you have zero evidence to defend your position because you're not from here and you're a Plant. Go back to sleep. The rest of the sheep miss you.

Are you eligible to vote in Maine? I ask because I'd like to know if you're actually telling a historian and Social Studies educator who has resided in Maine for decades and has been politically active here for the entire time that I am very wrong.

All that you've said. All of it. I marched with NOW for ERA in the 1970s, this has been my life's work, and the work certainly goes on and on, doesn't it? I spend much time now reflecting on what I and our movement could've/should've done differently because I'm of the "start with yourself" crowd. 😮‍💨

Mills doesn't get drafted. She decides what she'll do on her own, always has. She'd been undecided leading up to her launching her run, and upon seeing all we had was Costello and Platner, thank goodness she chose to join. I reside in Maine and have studied the social aspect of my state for decades.

One would think, after the Epstein files revealed a global network of men--from all walks of life, including artists, academics, attorneys, law enforcement, entertainment, healthcare, etc.--that other men might dial back the reflexive skepticism about misogyny's pervasiveness. One would be wrong.

Thank you for your persistence because the denial of it being a huge problem gives it cover to remain a huge problem.

As a mandated reporter through work as an educator & one who seems to have "tell me about it, I can help" written across my forehead, the amount is huge, I mean kids assaulted by family members, & a principal who just lost the suit against him by one of the students he assaulted. It's daily US.

So Lady Lindsey is saying that Congress does not have to approve *starting* a war, but does have to approve *stopping* the same war???

Good Lord! Moms for Liberty candidates LOST in Crucial Waukesha County?!?!?! Are Wisconsin suburbs about to go the way of Georgia suburbs?
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Thank you for this update. I've been feeling rotten about it and wondering if the right thing would ever be done.

The right absolutely lost it when Obama released some withheld cash to Iran in exchange for inspectors being able to make sure Iran wasn't pursuing a nuclear weapon.

WAUKESHA HAS FALLEN I REPEAT WAUKESHA HAS FALLEN

Very happy to share that this image from the Utah Badlands has been awarded at the Memorial María Luisa Photo Contest.

Killer whales surfacing to take a breath

Beautiful day yesterday watching killer whales travel up the northern Orcas Island shoreline. The light was absolutely drool-worthy.
#orca #killerwhales #wildlife #wildlifephotography #pnw #pnwlife #salishsea #sanjuanislands

A painting of chollas on the desert floor at sunset. Rock formations rise above the horizon in the distance.

My painting CHOLLAS

A Common Yellowthroat makes an appearance just long enough to get a couple of shots. They're normally shy and hide deep in the reeds.

I was repeatedly assured that a one-time $400m payment to Iran was grounds for impeachment and years of Fox News stories.

WTI Futures - May 2026 contract - line chart, roughly back to where it was on 4/1

That was an interesting six days.

Negotiations that end with the toll at $3m/ship with the US getting 1/3 so he can call it a win would be the dumbest outcome, so

Perfect example of Hemingway's bankruptcy story... US greatness declined gradually... then very quickly

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The gradual stuff was the post-Gingrich political division, religious BS, the abuse of the Constitution whilst pretending that document prevented any such abuses, overreach, the inevitable rise of China & India and everyone else

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As Brits, I feel like we know what the end of power looks and feels like

Except that the US has done 60-80 years of decline in under a decade

Absolutely extraordinary how a movement designed to Make America Great Again has eviscerated American 'greatness' in just months

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$VIX uptrend broken.. barely holding above 20

10yr yield 4.23% - lowest since March 19

Nikkei +5.4%
DAX +4.4%
CAC +4.2%
FTSE +2.2%

Front page of Transactions article: 'Louis XIV’s Attitude to the Chinese Rites Controversy', by Sean Heath. Full abstract: 'Although Louis XIV’s sponsorship of a French Jesuit presence in China is well known, his attitude to the major dispute over the Chinese rites which engulfed the mission has been barely explored. This article shows that, as the Chinese Rites Controversy reached its peak in Paris and Rome in the years around 1700, Louis XIV’s response was surprisingly inconsistent, reflecting the fact that the two groups of missionaries whose work in east Asia he had supported – the Missions étrangères de Paris (MEP) and the French Jesuits – were pitted against one another. Furthermore, the king’s somewhat contradictory interventions were due to the opposing directions in which his chief advisers on ecclesiastical matters pushed him: his confessor La Chaise towards support of the Jesuits, and his wife Madame de Maintenon and Archbishop Noailles of Paris towards helping the MEP. In the end, Louis decided not to wield his influence in Rome in favour of one side or the other, but to leave the decision to the Holy See while prohibiting publication on the ‘Chinese affair’ in France. In doing so, the article offers an exploration of ecclesiastical policy in the making under the Sun King.'

New article in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'.

'Louis XIV’s Attitude to the Chinese Rites Controversy': bit.ly/47NYgmk

Dr Sean Heath offers an exploration of ecclesiastical policy in the making under the Sun King. Sean's article is now freely available Open Access #Skystorians 1/2

Multiple White House insiders believed Trump would reject the ceasefire offer — until he suddenly accepted it, Axios reports.

The Pentagon was preparing for a massive bombing campaign: “We had no idea what was going to happen. It was wild.”

Allies expected large-scale Iranian retaliation.

Greek utility completes 2.13 GW solar cluster at former coal mine Greece’s PPC Group has finished construction of its 2.13 GW solar portfolio in northern Greece. The company is now working on its third large-scale battery storage facility in the area, with plans for...

There's something just so brilliant about coal mines being directly replaced with solar farms
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It was not that long ago when conservatives had a chokehold on every branch of Wisconsin government, piles of Koch and Uline money, and seemed unstoppable. People worked FUCKING HARD to change that shit and now look at em. Change is always possible and never ever easy.