These numbers are just for 2026. And to put the numbers in perspective, the annual total of all civilian salaries in the federal government is about $271 billion. I’d 💯 rather pay their salaries than give the richest 5% $191 billion so they can buy another house in Ibiza.

Here’s another!

I learned a concept today that somehow my biology education never taught me: guttation. A plant geneticist friend told me that’s what’s in the picture (not melting frost!): vascular plants using their pressure-relief structures on leaf ends or sides to get rid of excess water pressure inside. 🤯

Morning walk, Mary Oliver edition:

it is a serious thing

just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.

Thank goodness for morning walks

"Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number—
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you—
Ye are many—they are few."
-Percy Bysse Shelley

Something like 10,000 people gathered in Salt Lake City today. More at 7 other sites across the deep red state 💙

Just a peaceful moment

Ha- and here’s a different question for it:

That site is an unaffiliated site with info about the scholarships- they just happened to have clearer explanations. Want the official page? Knock yourself out. I have friends who homeschool and get this scholarship. They are not part of any official school. But believe what you want- don’t care.

Since it’s not your country, I didn’t think you’d care. It’s not active legislation. The bill was passed last year. This year it’s only a matter of how much will be appropriated. This is from the Salt Lake Tribune. www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

Everyone feeling good about 19-year-old "Big Balls" Coristine having all of your personal and financial information, amounts of radioactive materials purchased and where they were sent, and being able to shut down payments from the government to any sector?