Carlie

Is there nothing that he won't make gross?

A rural school district in Arkansas was bleeding $250k every year. Teachers were paid $45,000 a year and leaving for any job that paid more. So they installed 1,400 solar panels. Three years later, the Batesville School District had flipped the deficit into a $1.8 million surplus. The school board voted to put the savings into paychecks. Teachers got raises of up to $15,000 and stayed in their jobs. The district went from one of the lowest-paying in Arkansas to one of the best-paying in its county. Resignations slowed. More than 20 other districts in the region have since copied the model. Superintendent Michael Hester's line, in one interview: "Out of desperation comes innovation." There are nine thousand solar-powered schools in the United States now, serving six million students. Batesville was the first one to turn the savings into teacher salaries. It won't be the last. A rural school that couldn't keep teachers figured out how to pay them more by not paying the power company. And that, as the kids say, slaps.

“I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write... and you know it's a funny thing about housecleaning... it never comes to an end. Perfect way to stop a woman. A woman must be careful to not allow over-responsibility (or over-respectabilty) to steal her necessary creative rests, riffs, and raptures. She simply must put her foot down and say no to half of what she believes she "should" be doing. Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.” - Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

No number before 1,000 contains the letter A.

I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT IRAN NEVER HAD ANY NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ WAS ALREADY OPEN BEFORE TRUMP STARTED THE EPSTEIN WAR 🤷

Thought this was a chart of the Mets' winning percentage but it's actually Trump's approval rating.

Happy National Library Week to whoever did this.

No bullet hole visible. Not even any small piece of ear missing. So how does this story add up, again?

Q: So, when they wiped away the fake blood from the capsule he’d smeared onto his ear, there was no injury at all?! A: He was never shot. Q: And that ridiculous ear drape he wore for days?! A: It was actually to hide the fact that his ear was completely uninjured. Q: He LIED!

The @SenateGOP budget: $70 billion for ICE. $0 to lower your costs.

This is a moral catastrophe. Republicans in Congress cut health care to give billionaires a tax break. Now, 500k+ Georgians have lost their health insurance. Too many will go bankrupt from treatable illnesses or avoid getting care until it’s too late.

During Trump's first year the NIH supported 2,700 fewer projects, including a 31% drop in projects with the word "women" in them. Trump's attack on science is undermining American innovation & more importantly, is an attack on Americans' health. washingtonpost.com/science/2026/0…

Can someone please explain to Europeans that you cannot simply walk to MetLife?! themarysue.com/world-cup-metl…

HELLO !? ARE YOU GUYS SEEING THIS!?

📺DEBUT: ‘The Simpsons’ premiered as an animated short 39 years ago, April 19, 1987, on ‘The Tracey Ullman Show’

The Gorn better take this deal. If they don't the whole Hegemony is getting blown up!! PRESIDENT GUL DUKAT #StarTrek #Sisko197

Vulture populations in India collapsed. 500,000 people died as a result. In the 1990s, Indian farmers started using a cheap painkiller called diclofenac on their cattle. When vultures ate the carcasses, the drug destroyed their kidneys. Without vultures, cattle carcasses rotted in fields instead of being stripped clean in 45 minutes. Feral dog populations exploded by five million. Rabies cases surged. Pathogens spread through water supplies. University of Chicago economists compared death rates in districts that used to have vultures to districts that never did. Human mortality rose more than 4% after the collapse. Over 100,000 extra deaths a year. Half a million in five years. India banned the drug in 2006. The vultures still haven't recovered. This is what a keystone species is to us. This is why we protect the animals nobody finds cute.