Whale in a ‘cow field’: Gray whale swims 20 miles upriver in Washington https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2026/04/whale-in-a-cow-field-gray-whale-swims-20-miles-up-washingtons-willapa-river.html

#OregonLive #oregon

When #Trump dies, in true pharaonic fashion, his whole cabinet needs to be buried with him, including those no longer in service, like #Bondi & #Noem.

#USPol

Marco Rubio on Monday: “Imagine an Iran that, instead of spending their wealth, billions of dollars, supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent that money helping the people of Iran.”

Donald Trump on Wednesday: “It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things… We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country.”

Irony is dead.

Birthright citizenship is not even remotely ambiguous in the Constitution.

The fact that suddenly conservatives are so obsessed with its drafters' "intent" being different from its plain language is proof textualism and originalism were always bad faith vehicles.

“WASHINGTON — ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps.”

Holy shit.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/ice-agents-will-stationed-marine-corps-graduation-events-south-carolin-rcna265941

I just finished filing my claim with the #Anthropic settlement, which used FIFTEEN of my books to train the goddamned Temu Terminator, and I am fucking furious and heartbroken about it:

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-money-the-anthropic-settlement

“There’s a long, bad journalistic tradition,” noted Harris. “All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/no-kings-nyt-criticism #NoKings

Here is a shameless handout of taxpayer cash to Mike Flynn, Trump's crony and co-conspirator. Flynn was GUILTY. He pled guilty. Trump pardoned him.

Imagine if Biden had shifted $1.25 million to some crony of his.

The NY Times knows this, but they can't help themselves. They accept the transparently bogus framing: that this is a "settlement"; that it "puts to rest a lawsuit"; that it provides "legal relief."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/politics/michael-flynn-doj-settlement-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WFA.5F5b.c4yW21bL2pNI&smid=url-share