Lost my morning to a cluster headache. Thank goodness for a partner who will tuck me into a dark room with water and an ice pack, while he walks the dog and makes breakfast. Even crippled with pain, I am the luckiest human on the planet.

I'm seeing so many Republican women talking about a national abortion ban as a Democratic 'scare tactic' - they're repeating the GOP talking point that they'll never have enough votes for a federal ban. So let me tell you why that doesn't matter & they can ban abortion anyway

In a lengthy speech aimed at bolstering Vice President Kamala Harris’s candidacy, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) praised the Biden-Harris administration’s accomplishments and also explicitly called for an “immediate cease-fire” in Gaza. Follow live updates: wapo.st/4cziXlv

Last spring, Washington state passed a bill banning commercial octopus farming. Today, we (myself and 99 others, led by Jennifer Jacquet, Becca Franks, Peter Godfrey-Smith, and Walter Sanchez-Suarez) have a letter in Science supporting the US OCTOPUS Act, which would do the same nationwide.

Support US OCTOPUS Act to keep octopuses wild

There seems to be an acute lack of cat in that sunbeam

LETS GOOOOOOOO

Why does he have to be so far away 😭

So, funny story. When a sow is in heat, you just have to press down on her lower back and she freezes in place. This is because a boar typically takes up to 30mins in copulation, so they just don’t move once they feel the pressure. …so, maybe not dead?

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up: