Happy JEB Stuart gets surprised at Brandy Station Day to all who celebrate Imagine throwing a party to review your troopers but three brigades of US cavalry crash it. How embarrassing

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Historian of the Civil War here, yes important to remember the origins of Memorial Day today.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

Iranian Speaker of Parliament:

ERA5 temperature and precipitation data are now out. For the Lower 48, the Nov-Apr period was not only the warmest Nov-Apr period of record (since 1940-41), but it was also the second driest. A tough combination for sure. 🥵🌵

Today’s view of the Yellowstone River and Emigrant Peak.

The "stupid union" supports Sonya Fischer.

This is what Times Square will look like when Congress or a cheeseburger finally does its job

Still awestruck by the photos taken by the crew of Artemis II. Maybe it’s my upbringing in the Apollo era, but I can’t get enough. www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

The Union was far too lenient on the traitors after the Civil War. Happy Confederate Surrender Day (or whatever it’s called)

On this 9th day of April, in the Year of our Lord 2026, of the Independence of the United States of America the 249th, and of its enforced preservation the 162nd, let me be the first to wish you happy The Penalty of Treason is Death ~ No North, No South, The Union Forever Day 😊

U.S. military posts in the WWII era. Original from NARA, digitally restored by erikthehistorian (erik villard)

CCEA has filed another ULP (unfair labor practice) complaint against Clackamas County. Learn more and get the link to the full ULP complaint here: www.ccea.us?zone=/uniona...

This is just the beginning. Ukraine is just starting to build a heavy long-distance strike capacity. Ballistic missiles coming, the long range cruise missiles will be mass produced, the lighter long-distance drones will be improved. The tide has turned, Russia will pay, Ukraine will win.

‘Trump is cooked’: Fears of ‘collapse’ spread as war sparks shortage of critical resource www.rawstory.com/iran-war-267...

In 1861 there were 11 Virginian colonels in the US Army. Robert E Lee was the ONLY one to join the Confederacy. In this week's Untitled History pod, @pptsapper.bsky.social and I talk about the Virginians who didn't turn traitor. Including George Thomas. Great general. Awesome hat-wearer. #history

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Freedom with their exceptions

A street medic said “I’ve been working in this field for over 8 years now and I’ve seen a lot of shit, but that was truly one of the most terrible things I’ve witnessed and I never thought that I’d have to see actual children getting gassed like that, but here we are I suppose”

New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets. These are their stories:

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

I was there. Elderly and children were gassed. Fucking goons

Worth noting that the more the Trump-backed Alberta separatism theme has dominated discussion in Albertan politics the more the Centre-Left NDP has started to catch up in polls with the governing Right wing UCP

Freedom with their exception

Fuck you. I won’t do what you tell me. Stay till the end.

Imagine. Just fucking imagine. 😳👇

General Strike Now Shut The whole fucking thing DOWN #Mm

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

Are we watching a real-time mental health crisis with Trump? Seriously

This is actually the really simple story of the collapse of American democracy. You can explain America’s constitutional collapse in a single coherent sentence:

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

Abolish ice is about to become a centrist position

If a federal agent tries to assault you, just scream "JOE BIDEN STOLE THE 2020 ELECTION" It's apparently like an Uno Reverse card. Now *you* get to assault the cops without any penalty. Beat them with a flagpole, use mace or bear spray on them, whatever. I'm sure the lawyers here will back me up.

Trump has gone completely mad.

you know you're getting old when you start getting excited for a book "1942: CRUX OF WAR" a year ahead of publication global.oup.com/academic/pro...

my favorite hubble images from 2025 🌌

Reposting because science rules, especially astronomy

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

Go Cats!

Everything's fine

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

God Russia needs to be taken care of

#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1