Y’all, not to be a huge nerd but for the reflecting pool you would need a minimum of about 8,000 liters of 12% hydrogen peroxide to reach the 50 parts per million concentration to kill algae… Is this what happens when you have 0 scientists in your administration?

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

“Michelle Obama is a man” shouted on the White House lawn in a ring sponsored by Bud Light only available on Larry Ellison’s Paramount Plus. What a way to celebrate America 250 and the twilight of liberal democracy.

Honor Guards are trained for state funerals, fallen soldier ceremonies, and dignitary protocol. That is their sacred operational mandate. Trump just deployed them as set dressing for a UFC card. You don’t get to call yourself a patriot and applaud this.

👀 The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Mindanao caused parts of the seabed to rise by as much as 2 metres and the coastline has reportedly moved out by around 200 metres. The sudden uplift has exposed coral reefs, seagrass and marine habitats, leaving sea life stranded and causing damage to the underwater ecosystem. Officials found exposed coral and dead marine animals along affected areas. It’s incredible to think about the force needed to physically lift the seabed out of the ocean like this. 📷 DENR Soccsksargen

Scotland/Boston crossover is for me guys. This means something to me I literally cannot explain. My dream is to sing Loch Lomond at a Scotland Rugby match but somehow this has become a new dream, Loch Lomond in Gillette.

🚨 The Nashville Zoo is asking for the public's help fighting a new 69,000‑sq‑ft data center that could disrupt endangered species’ breeding programs with constant noise, lights, & 24/7 industrial activity. 397K people have already signed the petition.

Tulsi’s “secret biolab” bombshell is recycled Kremlin propaganda. These facilities were never secret, the U.S. spent decades funding biosafety and disease-surveillance work abroad under Nunn-Lugar/CTR, and the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine and DoD have publicly described these programs for years. Key facts from the official U.S. government fact sheet: * Since 2005, the U.S. has invested ~$200 million in Ukraine under the Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP), supporting 46 Ukrainian laboratories, health facilities, and diagnostic sites. * These are Ukrainian facilities owned and operated by the government of Ukraine, not U.S. bioweapons labs. * The program’s purpose is to secure pathogens and help Ukraine detect and report disease outbreaks, purely peaceful, public health work. * All efforts are peaceful in nature, with no gain-of-function research or human experimentation. U.S. Embassy in Ukraine’s Biological Threat Reduction Program page: ua.usembassy.gov/biological-…

Workers are back at the scaffolding just minutes after appellate court denied Kennedy Center’s emergency motion to stay order to remove Trump’s name. Crowd is chanting “Take it down! Take it down!

🚨BREAKING: @POTUS just opened three marine monuments to destructive industrial fishing. These areas are vital for protecting whales, sea turtles, sharks, and sensitive ocean ecosystems. This is an egregious attack on our public waters. #ProtectOurOcean #MonumentsForAll 🌊

THE FIRST GOAL FOR THE #USMNT IN THE FIFA WORLD CUP 2026

The Trump admin is closing the USDA's Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, a 100 year old, 6,500-acre facility serving 83,000 farms & $10B in agricultural productivity. It's not just a bee lab. It's America's premier agricultural research center. Gone ars.usda.gov/northeast-area/…

The Trump administration is now closing the nation's primary bee research laboratory 😳

I told you they were coming for the Roadless Rule. Yesterday, Republicans made their move — and they hid it inside a wildfire bill. Here's what makes this so enraging: 59 million acres of America's wildest national forests are now on the table. The 2001 Roadless Rule has protected nearly 60 million acres across 39 states for 25 years. No logging. No road construction. No drilling. No mining. Built after 1.6 million Americans showed up — at 430 public hearings nationwide — to demand it. What lives here: bald eagles, elk, black bears, Cerulean warblers, marbled murrelets. Species that need large, intact, unfragmented habitat to survive. For many of them, roadless forests aren't just home — they're the last places left. What the amendment does: guts the rule. Opens the backcountry to logging and road construction under the cover of "fire prevention." The administration is pursuing repeal through the executive branch at the same time. And unlike the original rule — they aren't holding a single public hearing. 1.6 million people showed up to protect these forests. The administration isn't asking anyone this time. What do you call a wildfire bill that opens forests instead of protecting them? #DemsUnited

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis: Show us your laptop. Show us your iCloud. Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation. You won’t. You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out. That is not who we are. My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count. For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame. I no longer believe that. Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us. And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts. That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena. Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next. Life does not determine our character. It reveals it. Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next? We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day. So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop. You won’t. The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing. That is the only definition that matters.

#tracyfire #medline #209times

Talarico: The fact that politicians, including Ted Cruz, are throwing embarrassing, cheap nicknames at their political opponents instead of focusing on improving Texans’ lives—that is that's everything that's wrong with our politics. It looks a lot more like professional wrestling, right? You've got these old guys lathered up in their fake tan, throwing cheesy nicknames at each other. And those nicknames, they don't lower the cost of groceries.

Texas Republican John Cornyn slams Trump for his Ken Paxton endorsement: "There’s never going to be good enough for him, other than 100 percent, you know, slavish adherence to whatever he wants... He’s going to have the most miserable two years of his life in the last two years of his term, I think, because I think November is going to be a disaster.”

BREAKING: Massive fire erupts from a medical supply warehouse that can be seen for miles in Tracy, California. The fire is at the Medline warehouse, one of the largest medical supply distributors, which ships products to hospitals and healthcare facilities across the country. Multiple agencies and firefighters are working to get the blazing building under control, as investigators try to find the cause of the fire.

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents kidnapped a U.S. citizen, while he was grabbing coffee, in Maryland. Samuel Guzmán repeatedly told agents he was born in the United States. He even offered to show his ID… and they didn’t believe him. Instead, they took his phone, wallet, and keys, shoved him in their car, illegally transported him to another location, questioned him about where he was “really” from, for 2 hours, and refused to let him call anyone. Then, once they realized he was a U.S. citizen… they let him go without explaining why he was detained. The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures…. ICE agents don’t get to kidnap someone, from a coffee shop parking lot, without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. The Fifth Amendment guarantees due process…. Holding someone against their will while refusing to tell them why, or denying them access to contact anyone, is a constitutional violation. And the Equal Protection principles mean the government can’t target people simply because of their race, ethnicity, or the language they speak. If you’re okay with constitutional rights disappearing the moment someone has the wrong last name, or skin color… You were never defending law and order.