Rachel Bright

feminist, educator, bibliophibian, science geek, writer, she/her. i also make a damn good pie.

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

Charlie Angus: There was a group of young Normandy students, and two young teenage girls read a poem in French to the commemoration ceremonies and to the immense field of the dead. And she said, "We are the children that you never had. We are the children of liberty."

And there wasn't a dry eye in the house, but I always remember because Charles Scott Brown, in his 90s, stood up. And he broke protocol, of course, and he said to those young girls, "Don't cry for any man in this field. They came to free you, and they would do it again if they were asked."

That's what we come from. That is [Canada's] legacy. Do you think that we're going to let the likes of Pete Hoekstra push us around, or Donald Trump and his predator government threaten us? That's what we represent.

[Kristi Yamaguccimane @TheWapplehouse]

Gm let’s get this paper

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: A federal judge is now signaling the Trump administration’s so-called “weaponization fund” may have emerged from collusive litigation and could potentially amount to fraud on the court.

That is nuclear-level language from a judge.

“Fraud on the court” is not normal criticism.
It is reserved for situations where a court believes it may have been manipulated, misled, or used as part of a coordinated scheme.

And the judge reportedly pointed to two giant red flags:
- the massive $1.8 billion settlement amount
- and concerns the opposing sides may not have actually been acting as true adversaries

Translation?

The court is openly questioning whether this lawsuit was partially engineered to create a taxpayer-funded political compensation machine.

That is an absolutely extraordinary development.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

You previously told me that anyone who assaulted a police officer on January 6th should go to prison. So why not rule out giving them taxpayer funded money?

Vance: "Well, Kaitlan, what I said is we're going to look at everything case by case..."

Why not rule it out?

Vance: "Because, Kaitlan, there are people who I don't know their individual circumstances and I don't rule things out categorically when I know nothing about a person's individual circumstances..."

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

In this clip, Speaker Johnson says maps that gave Black voters representation "divided Americans."

This is the exact language used by segregationists and opponents of the Civil Rights movement to attack figures like MLK. They are using the same playbook to destroy his legacy.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

MIN: Do you know how much new energy China put online last year?

BURGUM: Intermittent or base load?

MIN: All energy. 543 GW. How much was renewable? 434 GW.

BURGUM: But only when the wind is blowing and sun is shining

MIN: Meanwhile, the US put up 53 GW of new energy last year -- less than 10% of China. You're clear bias against renewables is harming our national security.

[Qondi @QondiNtini]

Listen to me very carefully

Senator My Boo and Senator Bae COME AS A SET AND ARE NOT AVAILABLE SEPARATELY

The two prettiest best friends in the Senate belong together

Vote for Senator Jon Ossoff in the primary happening now and in the general election https://t.co/BGbxh6JQoA

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

you can protect your wardrobe from clothes moths by filling your closet with tiny spiders, who are the moth's natural predator. later, you can deal with the spiders by filling your wardrobe with scorpions.

[Gary Chambers @GaryChambersJr]

Let the record show that Louisiana had some Black men who spoke truth to power.

Let the record show that Republicans in the Louisiana Senate are not leaders. They are a reflection of some of the worst parts of America, and history will remember them in 4K.

Next week, this committee will vote on Louisiana’s congressional maps. Anything less than two Black seats is theft. They have already begun taking seats of power from us, so we need to begin the work of taking seats from them.

If you agree with me, use your voice. Start showing up. Tell your friends what’s happening. Make it a priority.

This isn’t a drill. We aren’t being alarmist. The shit has hit the fan, and it’s on us now. Click the link in my bio to support Civics for the People. We aren’t just going to talk about it — we’re going to educate, organize, and mobilize the people.

Don’t ever get it twisted: nobody takes anything from you that isn’t valuable.

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[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The sharpest thing in the Roberts memos isn't the outcome. It's the distance between the public performance and the private reasoning.

Roberts spent years cultivating a reputation as a careful institutionalist. The memos show that in February 2016 he wrote, in his own hand, that the Obama climate plan was "highly unlikely to survive" before lower courts had touched it. Before full briefing. Before oral argument.

He wasn't assessing the pitch. He had already decided where it was going to land and was building the procedural route to get it there.

Kagan called the move "unprecedented." Breyer noted compliance wasn't required for years and asked why speed was necessary. Roberts responded the next day, the memos show, "irritated and blunt." The answer was cost to industry. Not constitutional law. Not procedural principle. Cost.

Kennedy wrote three sentences. We'll get there anyway. Five votes.

The shadow docket since that night has become the court's primary tool for consequential decisions issued without explanation. That's not drift. It's a feature that was built in that February exchange by a chief justice whose public face and private memos read like two separate documents.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

FOX BUSINESS: The EPA is allowing the extension of gas flaring for natural gas operations, and that some argue is not great for emissions. Can you point to something where you have actually tightened regulations to make sure we have clean air?

ZELDIN: So, we, uh, um, on the water space, we increased water quality standards

FOX: It's important to note that the Trump administration has loosened regulations on the way wastewater is allowed to be disposed of near critical waterways

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

how it feels to live through one trump news cycle

[Lady Nimby, pitiful bigot @LadyNimby]

Told a grumpy gym employee who never smiles that i liked his shaved head. He said “thanks, I shave it every year to honor my son who died of cancer”

Normally this would throw me off and I would awkwardly apologize for bringing it up, but I thought of the grieving parents on here who have said over and over that they enjoy talking about their kids, so I asked about his son.

He absolutely lit up and told me all about what a wonderful man he grew into, obviously just happy to share his memory. So thanks, everyone, for sharing. It makes a difference irl

[You Know Who @MuskTillDawn]

Posting like this while defunding the forest and national park service is such bullshit, man

[Sarah Deech ☕️ @londonette]

Me flicking through the menu at an Indian restaurant pretending to be open minded when I know full well I’m going to order the chicken tikka masala

[Emily Zanotti 🦝 @emzanotti]

If you have kids who are into space, I can’t recommend Astronaut Sophie’s content, especially her videos, highly enough. I’ve learned a TON, and she’s really upbeat and fun in her science demos. She’s on Insta at the same handle.

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

I wrote about this in my newsletter. The Weather Service didn't launch balloons recently and got surprised by tornadoes in Kansas. DOGE cuts at NWS cut out weather balloon launches which gather data for storm prediction. You are less safe because of that choice.

[Rachel Bright @fiverafore]

@dieworkwear @GroundFloor_hq Fudge ripple

[Yining Karl Li @yiningkarlli]

For the ASL remakes, Disney Animation resurrected the original data and pipeline version, reanimated (from near scratch in many places), relit where needed, and re-rendered. Probably the hardest way to do this, but definitely the right way to do it, so that's what we did.