To whom does the back of this head belong?

Heroic work is being done by the wonderful people who staff Social Security: a recently-widowed friend told me that she spoke with a Social Security staffer for more than half hour, and all her needs were met. PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY. @socialsecurityworks.org

I love that quote.

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Ban #Israel from international football. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Good work! Under nineteenth-century women sculptors you can add #EdmoniaLewis.

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Surprised this is not getting more attention today! 💥 Release the #EpsteinFiles

Remember when happy, scientifically sound announcements like this happened in the United States? Before ignorant, irresponsible kooks like RFK, Jr. and Donald Trump were running/funding things. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.” Bowing down to a bully never works. And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.

'One contemporary writer, Henry Peacham, described the style as “an unnaturall or unorderly composition for delight sake, of men, beasts, birds, fishes, flowers &c without (as wee say) Rime or reason.”'

Donald Trump’s America is taxpayers paying farmers to grow crops only to let them rot unsold while grocery store prices are through the roof as he tells us everything is cheaper than ever despite the fact that he has never been shopping in a grocery store in his entire life.

Surely Trump needing to bail out his farmer constituency must give Dems some negotiating leverage in Congress on other priorities? Is that something to consider or would that be impolite?

www.bbc.com/travel/artic... Lovely story.

The UK risks becoming a “vassal state,” warned Nick Clegg last week and for the first time since 2010, we can all agree with Nick. We are tying ourselves into Silicon Valley’s AI infrastructure: its datacentres, its cloud computing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/... That lovely man, #NigelFarage, tells #LBC that #easternEuropean migrants are eating the King's swans.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... From #Bernie's commentary in #TheGuardian

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... #meteorites

So, now Trump says Zelensky has 'the cards'?

Bravo!!

Hard to express to those not in the weeds just how much the current state of the immigration detention system is just utter chaos.

A glorious #autumnal bouquet. I wonder if the artist was connected by marriage to James Nasmyth, a colleague of Dr John Hope's, who gifted #Nasmyth w the copy of #ACuriousHerbal that now is found in the library of Edinburgh's #RoyalBotanicalGarden.

The story and practice of our faith tell us that we are one community and that God loved us so much that God sent God’s only beloved Son to reconcile us. Considering this mighty work of God that unifies us, our human-created differences are petty. ⚓ medium.com/@frsimmons/j...

If only someone had warned the fucking morons who voted for the wannabe dictator about Project 2025 and that he was lying his ass off like he always does. 😒

Not sea glass but fragments of plastic car tail lights, indicators and brake lights, probably washed into storm drains after heavy rain, eventually making their way to the sea. #oceanplastic

It's SO IMPORTANT to AVOID PLASTICS, especially one-use plastics. So much of it ends up in our oceans and does great harm to fish and birds (and us).

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u... The stink of #privilege.

Amazing post by Donald Trump after meeting Zelenskyy.. But it does imply he admits he was talking nonsense and didn't have a clue what was happening until meeting Ukraine's President.

Saw this funny going around

He stood in front of the world at the UN today, and every other word out of his mouth was a lie. I’ll say it again, we’ve not been here before. An American President who lies as he breathes. It’s a terrible place to be. Shame on the media & everyone who’s normalized his lying and/or doesn’t care.

An 11-year-old Michigan boy was expelled from school for a year after he took a gun away from a classmate, disarmed and disassembled it, according to his mother He’s now enrolled in a non-accredited online program as he tries to keep up

It's bad news for Trump, Vance, RFK, Jr., and the Republican Party that voters who believe in science and support it are overrepresented in midterm electorates like 2026's.

EVERYONE GO BUY A BOTTLE OF TYLENOL TOMORROW 💊 #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #ResistanceUnited #MomSky #BlueCrew #FightBack

I love how my Church under 3 of the 4 most recent Popes (JPII, Francis, & now Leo), engages with popular culture in a non-cringe way, unlike white Christian nationalists in the U.S. Here's a concert Pope Leo hosted today with John Legend, Pharrell, Jennifer Hudson, Andrea Bocelli, & others.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Including a prof at my graduate alma mater for art history and library science, #UniversityOfNorthTexas. #UNT

"Wide-ranging" Classic British understatement? Or #BBC trying to appear impartial.

Very cool #Canada 👍🏾🇨🇦 #WWI #Belgium #StrongerTogether

Public First 'projected that the sector would lose a combined 16,100 students (£240 million lost in fee income) in the first year the levy is introduced... Because of cross-subsidisation...the reduction in overseas numbers could lead to 33,000 fewer domestic students in the first year'. 2/3

Embarrassing is the least of it. Dangerous is more like it.

Old photo: the Welshpool and Llanfair Railway's 0-6-0 Tank Engine "The Earl", built for the line in 1902, by Beyer Peacock at their Gorton works, Manchester.

We live across the street from a county bike path. They've paid for someone to ride a motorised leaf-blowing machine back & forth. So double the noise.

Visited the #Chazen in 2023 for first time. Would love to return. It's a brilliant collection, cleverly presented.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Earth's dystopian future.

So helpful that Trump is publishing his innermost self-centered obsessions.

But where was it taken?

www.bbc.com/future/artic... Morning or evening, no one should be showering for 10 minutes daily. #WastingWater #WastingEnergy