Speaker Johnson began the House session with a fabricated prayer to Jesus Christ he claims Thomas Jefferson recited every day of his 8 years in the Presidency. Jefferson did no such thing. The first evidence of that prayer existing is in 1919. Johnson is simply trying to advance his Christian nationalism.

Things Jefferson did do, however, include:
•Advocate for the separation between religion & state
•Host the first White House Iftar in Ramadan
•Own a Qur'an

But Johnson won't mention those.

When you're younger, you think grand public displays of affection is what love is.

I never got those things from my partner. Sometimes I wished he was more romantic. But then he'd show up at my place with black post it notes b/c he knew I got myself pastel coloured gel pens earlier.

He got me some moccasins because he knew my apartment was cold and just quietly dropped them off. No big displays.

As you get older, you realize that love was never about those big displays. The people who had the biggest displays that I admired then are mostly divorced, or about to be.

You realize that love is getting upstairs to the bedroom and finding an extra blanket on your side of the bed b/c he knew you were a bit cold last night.

Love is booking a massage appointment for you b/c your back isn't going to fix itself.

So what I guess I'm saying to the young ladies out there, don't fall for the grand public displays of affection. Those are for their instagram hits, not for you.

Dominion Power claims that Virginians’ power usage keeps climbing, so they need to build new power plants that we’ll all pay for with rate hikes. Forced to release internal records, it turns out that the only increase is coming from building data centers.

Why should Virginians subsidize Amazon, whose budget is 7x Virginia’s? https://virginiamercury.com/2024/11/26/under-pressure-from-the-scc-dominion-reveals-the-true-cost-of-data-centers/

FRANCE BECOMES FIRST COUNTRY TO PUT ABORTION RIGHTS IN THE CONSTITUTION

It can be done.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/world/europe/france-abortion-rights-constitution.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE0.nqo5.lwPCdKabn261&smid=url-share

Dig into democracy at https://www.erlywrm.com

Never seen a coronal hole like this before. If this thing throws a big CME, we are fully fucked.

https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/coronal-holes.html

Really pretty auroras in the meantime... Don't see 'em here in Texas, but I'm sure anywhere north of the Dakotas here in the US will get a nice glow.