Josue (Yoshi) Arteaga-Torres (he/his)

A LOTR and Hobbit cube would be amazing!

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

So I guess it was either World War III or drag queens reading books to our children.

Kelly: "You could pick a random group of people off the street tonight here in DC and they could probably do a better job than our government is doing right now. They don't have a goal, there's no strategic plan. And what this is likely to lead to is, again, a long war with a lot of dead Americans."

The cancer cure that almost didn't happen YouTube video by Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson

I love this guy and he works his butt off on making amazing videos so I sponsored this video he made about the* cure for cancer**.

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**a cancer

I tried to give Nintendo the benefit of the doubt, I tried looking at the positives, but really it's just arse and another step the industry is pushing us towards game leasing and not game ownership.

The global trend of companies pushing us all to lend over own is not healthy.

They cut Meals on Wheels for seniors, doctors for the VA, and food for American children - but send billions of taxpayer dollars to the Middle East for an unnecessary war of choice.

CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran

#SendBarronToWar

Seems to be the pattern…

I prefer non-lethal distractions from the tRUMPSTEIN Files like renaming the Gulf of Mexico, making Canada the 51st state & buying Greenland. Sure it was hugely offensive to longtime friends & allies, but at least no one died.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

CONGRESS declares war.

NOT President tRumpstein.

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And there are hummingbirds even higher up in the Andes

Well this is fcking crazy. Work from @msbbirds.bsky.social and others found that Black Metaltail hummingbirds can drop their body temperature down to 3 °C (37 °F) during torpor. 🤯 Turns out birds aren't warm-blooded after all! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

📷 Steve Juhasz

Trump's self-dealing is truly off the scales — eclipsing even the biggest corruption scandal of the First Gilded Age.

It's a new Golden Age for grifting. [@brennancenter.org]

In tonight's speech, the president did what he does best: celebrate himself. But if anyone was looking for leadership focused on easing their current economic pain, he made clear that they'll need to look elsewhere.

The grift that keeps on grifting.

Screenshot of an X post from Blue Georgia stating that the “birthplace of food stamps” is McDowell County, West Virginia, which is described as deep-red and majority white. The post quotes a 60 Minutes preview about poverty and lack of drinking water in the county, with an aerial image of a rural landscape at sunset.

Worth remembering and noting.

Las abejas navegan con mayor precisión de lo que se creía Investigadores de la Universidad de Friburgo demuestran que las abejas melíferas repiten rutas individuales con precisión de apenas centímetros.

Las abejas navegan con mayor precisión de lo que se creía 🐝

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$10B for Trump's "Board of Peace"
$10B for Trump's IRS lawsuit
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$135M for Trump's golf outings

The Grifter-in-Chief knows no bounds.

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Yet another sad reminder that there is a two-tiered justice system in America: One for the rich. Another for everyone else.

If elites can be held accountable in other parts of the world, why can't they be held accountable in America?

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family.

I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

I am reading KC Davis’ ‘How to Keep House While Drowning’ (reframing cleaning as morally neutral) and my favourite reframe so far is:

It’s so messy in here! → This space has reached the end of its functional cycle

which is DELIGHTFUL to me but my family thinks sounds ridiculous.

I ❤️ it so much.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

Somehow, all the programs that help the majority of Americans are decried as “wasteful spending,” but the ones that help billionaires aren’t…

Funny how that works.

I knew I saw this somewhere before. Funny that it’s almost exactly what’s actually happening now.