It’s a day to recognize the service of military veterans, but personally I also think of all the civilians who swore the same oath…”against all enemies, foreign and domestic”…whether it be NatSec, Intel, or regular Cabinet agencies, there are a lot of patriots the citizens should be proud of today.

Take 5 minutes and read this thread, you will learn something new.

…hope you do too.

Very strong group of nominations for @osgeo.bsky.social Charter Members this year. My votes are in, but I’d be excited for any and all to be voted in. Good luck to the nominees and look forward to seeing the bigger crew next week at @foss4gna.bsky.social in Reston. wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Mem...

The Reagan Foundation claims that Ontario misled viewers about what Reagan actually thought about tariffs and trade. I certainly hope people take a few minutes to watch the full speech and decide for themselves. m.youtube.com/watch?si=a9U...

Geography. Don’t skip it in school.

#NoKings Miami!

Chaos has ensued in Tucson, Arizona... behold the mayhem! 39/

I mean, who needs ice breakers when you can fly, amirite?

Would make for fantastic street street art / agitprop in Downtown DC

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference By Andy Newman At Civic Hall in Union Square, a man with a gun walked onto the stage at a Wikipedia conference. Richard Knipel, CUNY's Wikimedian-in-Residence, jumped the gunman and, with others' help, saved the day. Gift link

This makes sense coming from the guy whose son monitors his porn consumption

As a 3x alum of @universityofkansas.bsky.social…I will be watching this closely. History has a right and a wrong side, choose wisely.

#geospatial Bluesky friends, excited to present next month at #foss4gna on recent advances in the SpaceTimeID construct, applications beyond international borders for other spatial features & research and software gaps that need addressed. Real progress has been made. whova.com/embedded/ses...

We have now uploaded all the recorded sessions from #FOSS4GUK 2025 in Leeds. 📹🦉 We would now invite everyone else to our youtube channel if you would like to catch up on the 35 recorded session. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCKv...

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

This tells you everything you need to know about what is going on in the Caribbean. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

The plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was commissioned by Congress in 2022, remains in storage. Mike Johnson has refused to place it on the wall, as was intended. That "deed" speaks pretty loudly.

I'm old enough to remember this guy's predecessor as speaker calling into Fox News from a secure location on Jan. 6 to beg MAGA rioters to stop. "This is so un-American," he said, as the pro-Trump protesters attacked police.

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship. Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples? HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism. Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

No matter what this meeting is about, Pete will always be a National Guardsman assigned to a Civil Affairs unit who got a bunch of crusader tattoos in his 40s because he wants you to think he's a cool, war-criming operator instead of an extremely online wife-beating loser

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

This graph is per month…at a current price of $407 / metric ton, and an avg of 6 million metric tons per month, that is $2.4B per month lost to American agriculture.

No mention of Melissa Hartman and her husband? She was an actual elected politician and Speaker of the Minnesota house. They were gunned down in cold blood by a right wing nut job as well, in their home, while he was dressed as a cop….with a list of others to kill…and he shot 2 more people.

The “checks and balances” intrinsic to the separation of powers REQUIRES each branch of government to fight for the authorities it is granted…ergo, to check the Executive, the Legislature must fight using its only real weapon, the budget. Fight sir, fight.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

15 MINUTES until former CDC Director Susan Monarez testifies in front of Congress about her firing and turmoil in the agency under RFK Jr. We will be watching LIVE and giving updates and reactions! www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role FREE to read www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Interesting thread

Good thread

Listen to @markwarner.bsky.social warnings. This is damaging and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

military flyovers disrupt the Epstein victim press conference

Nine former heads of the CDC—appointed by presidents of both parties—warn the nation of the immense peril RFK Jr is putting the country in. Gift link, please send to families and friends www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

This is not good. Happened in Bulgaria, not in the more regularly jammed Baltic area.

No one is attacking private prayer. The problem is treating it as a substitute for action while in office, leaving solutions to divine intervention instead of doing your job. Kids being shot in a church isn’t God "working in mysterious ways" — it’s a failure of policy.

I already like this guy…read the thread, see if it ends where you think it will.

Burns is one of the best, do yourself a favor and take 10 minutes to read this. Then share it with family and friends who don’t eat, sleep, and breathe politics…it’s written to communicate, in an approachable way, what we are losing right now and why that is bad for America and our future.

According to a post on Reddit, a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle t-boned a car in Capitol Hill this morning. Firefighters reportedly used the jaws of life to free the driver, who DC Fire & EMS said sustained only minor injuries.

This is response is measured, ethical, and in alignment with constitutional and democratic rights. And the sign language interpreter is fantastic.

DC residents respond to an ATF/Secret Service/MPD/FBI arrest in front of the Union Market Trader Joes earlier tonight: "You're not even from here. Piss off." "Get the fuck off the streets, you're not here for us." "Fascists, go home."

Wow… a Fuller / Dymaxion projection in the wild. Love it. #geography #gischat

Good to remember how much right wing media paid in defamation suits to Dominion voting machines for lying about 2020 election fraud. $787M for Fox News and now $67M to NewsMax. These are huge sums of money they paid out, because they knew they were lies. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/18/n...

The goal of a broad anti-fascist alliance isn’t to agree on everything. It is to defeat fascism, so that liberals, neocons, progressives, and nationalists can disagree bitterly about everything else