Citizens United was a 2010 Supreme Court ruling that opened elections to unlimited corporate money. The rules changed — and the effects still shape democracy today.
#CitizensUnited #MoneyInPolitics #Democracy #InformedCitizenry
We can't normalise him! I love that the EU is not. He is every bad thing we know he is. The system must change. #CitizensUnited stop it and get corporate money out of politics.
At pre-election rallies in #Hungary, the crowd began chanting: #Russians — go home! The historic slogan "Ruszkik haza" emerged during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and was directed against the #Soviet occupation 👍
Todd Blanche lies as smoothly as an Antique Persian Rug. America has three branches of Government. The DOJ has always been and should be its own Department. At No Time Ever should a President Direct anyone about anything in the DOJ.
I'd ask if Blanche needed a Civic review but I know he's not dumb.
Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1396 and a very happy #thicktrunktuesday
Beautiful #tulips #tulipTuesday #thicktrunkTuesday
Massive tree trunk with moss growing around the base. A lake in the distance behind it.
Wassssup #ThickTrunkTuesday lovely mossy specimen for you
Happy #thicktrunkTuesday
A tree with a knobbly trunk with many bumps and lumps.
🌱 #thicktrunkTuesday
One of the characterful trees at Wisley. This one is Metasequoia glyptostroboides and the label tells me it was planted in 1997
King’s Wood #thicktrunktuesday #trees #woodland #treeclub
A study in September by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington think tank, warned that without a reversal, the cuts to science could shrink the US economy by nearly $1 tn over 10 years. That could leave the US lagging behind China, which is investing heavily in research.
There's something just so brilliant about coal mines being directly replaced with solar farms
www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/07/g...
My photo shows a ceramic storage jar, with a narrow base and a broad rounded body. It has two thick loop handles attached high on the shoulders to the neck. The surface is mostly pale cream, with dark brown neck/spout. On the front is a large circular dark brown panel painted with a large white daisy-like flower motif. It has many long narrow petals radiating outwards from a round orange center. The jar is visibly reconstructed from fragments, with fine crack lines running across the surface.
Minoan amphora with floral design.
3,800 years old and still blooming gorgeous! 🌸
From Phaistos, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.
People who care about health and slowing global warming quickly will support GWP20
As CA states
"reducing (short-lived-climate-pollutant) emissions in their near term would result in more immediate climate & public health benefits than a strategy focused solely on CO2" @profbobhowarth.bsky.social
Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something.
For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.
One man put us in this deadly quagmire. One man is wrecking our economy. One man’s immigration agents have terrorized our communities. One man has ridden roughshod over our system of government.
We said "No Kings" 250 years ago. Congress must say "No Kings" today.
If not, they must be replaced.
UK gets serious about EV adoption — dragged there by economics. ICE loyalty collapses the moment pain hits.
EVs: 135,791 (Mar ‘26)
vs 103,128 (Mar ‘25) → +31.7% YoY
EV Share: 35.6% → 22.6% (BEV only)
Fuel spikes → wallets break → people switch.
California has led the largest expansion of health coverage in America, bringing the uninsured rate from 17% a decade ago down to a RECORD LOW of 5.9%.
Quite literally the opposite of the health care carnage we're seeing from Republicans in Washington.
“.. appears to be the first time any U.S. municipality will go to the ballot to kneecap data center development. .. an aggressive new tactic in an escalating movement to oppose the hulking artificial intelligence factories ..”
@politico.com #Wisconsin
www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
Oak trees #thicktrunktuesday #trees #woodland #treeclub
Green line graph time series of average sea surface temperature anomalies for each March from 1900 through 2026. There is large interannual variability, but an overall long-term increasing trend. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1981-2010 baseline.
Last month was the *2nd* warmest March on record for the average global sea surface temperature...
Graphic using NOAA ERSSTv5 data. Methods described in doi.org/10.1175/JCLI...
This is a view of Mount Fuji seen through cherry blossoms in full bloom in a mountain garden… a once-a-year kind of magic you don’t just pass by. 🌸✨
This is a view of Mount Fuji seen through cherry blossoms in full bloom in a mountain garden… a once-a-year kind of magic you don’t just pass by. 🌸✨
#Mt.Fuji
#Sakura
#Shizuoka
Kookaburra in autumn sun 🐦☀️
#kookaburra #LaughingKookaburra #birds #WildOz #sydney #australia #BirdPhotography
A roman mosaic in mostly shades of brown featuring 9 panels and a border of stylised waves. Four of the images are head and shoulders shoulder portraits of women who I understand are personifications of the seasons. Each corner panel includes a bird and a stylised image of what I thought might be a jellyfish or medusa but could be something else entirely. The central panel is two men but I’m not certain what they are doing and I can’t find a description.
This is the Mosaic of the Seasons held
in the Palazzo Massimo in Rome. #MosaicMonday My photo.
A large, shallow golden bowl displayed on a dark background, its interior densely covered with small raised dots forming concentric circles and patterns, with stylized decorations of suns, crescent moons, and animal figures running around the inner sides.
An amazing gold bowl with depictions of animals, crescent moons and cirlcles representing suns and/or full moons.
It was discovered in 1906 during the construction of a railway line in Zurich-Altstetten, Switzerland. Dating around 1000 BC.
With a weight of 910 grams it's... 🧵1/2
📷 me
My last pic from #DevilsTower last month — shot out the truck window as I drove away to head home. #scape #photography
Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday
Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday
Kenai Fjords, Alaska, USA 🇺🇸
