Sending everyone warm and cozy greetings.

@angeladavismpr.bsky.social's voice on my radio - such a lovely gift this morning.

Just a thought. What if a panel of Epstein survivors were appointed to determine what gets screened and redacted 'to protect the victims' instead of DOJ attorneys (as Tood Blanche stated on Meet the Press)?

Apropos of nothing important - it's episode 8. How does the woman on Pluribus still have short hair?

My collaborator and friend Chris Piecuch's new paper confirms: despite what the Department of Energy claimed, sea-level rise is indeed accelerating around the contiguous US

In the absence of anything resembling leadership from our legislature, Walz takes executive action on gun control. No acts of moral courage here - they are quite literally the least we can do. Yet still apt to prompt rabid backlash.

See Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH) research at #AGU25!

We do not have to live like this. It is a choice that we, the American People, are making together. If you’re sick of living fear — at school, at concerts, at places of worship, at movie theaters, parks, supermarkets, and malls, at parties, in traffic, and in your home — speak up. Demand change.

We all knew it was happening and saw lists of words rumored to trigger rejections. But this is the first I've seen of an official list of 200+ words to avoid provided BY feds to applicants. (word list is in the embedded doc - an exhibit in the suit - p31-36) www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...

Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day The State Department warned employees not to use government funds for the occasion and to “refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels.” (gift article - no subscription needed)

". . . they appear to measure their safety in chains and corpses.” - James Baldwin (1970) www.nybooks.com/articles/197...

Why did ABC Martha Raddatz spend SO much time trying to make Slotkin ID specific "illegal orders" the video was referring to? They have said that was not the purpose - the intent was to be sure service members know their rights/responsibility to reject illegal orders given the admin's policies.

Tim Kaine talking about how getting an agreement to offset the impacts of the shut down and some of the things the administration was only able to do because of the shut down was reason to vote to end the shut down. Okayyyyy

AGU is calling on Congress to finish full-year appropriations for science agencies—and we need your voice. 📢 Read more from our president, Brandon Jones, who reminds us that together, we can keep science standing strong: buff.ly/prxry8C #ScienceIsEssential #AGUAdvocacy #SupportScience

Just out: new New Jersey state sea-level rise assessment Under current global emissions trends, New Jersey is likely to experience 1.5-2.5 ft of sea-level rise between 2005 and 2070, 2.2-3.8 ft by 2100 (or 2.2-4.5 ft, considering potential ice-sheet collapse).

Mesmerizing lake ice. Sound on for the full effect 🌿

She posts the right things - hope she votes the right way.

Wonderful profile of someone doing important work that I have the good fortune to support through learning & evaluation.

Not-yet-seated AZ rep makes the point all Ds should be making. The Rs had months to negotiate ACA credits before and did not bother. It's bad faith to claim they will post reopening. There's no universe where that happens if the Ds give up the only leverage they have - however poorly they wield it.

Just watched a government of Ontario-paid ad with Reagan's voice reading his rationale for opposing tariffs and pursuing free trade. Surreal.

Our cynicism and/or apathy is deliberately cultivated and serves someone's interests. We are not those "someone"s.

"Most people think of ideas as fixed. Ideas have their power because they are not fixed. Once they're fixed they are already dead." - Grace Lee Boggs

Watching JD talk about people "dying of murders" and "violating crimes" all morning. It's almost like he's not a lawyer and doesn't know the most basic legal terms. 🤔 (...before he even gets to the point of advocating violations of the constitution - which he does. Blatantly and frequently.)

Well - here's something from 2018 I think applies... "...the worst moments in American history generally arise from white men wanting to make sure they retain the ability to do what they want with bodies that aren't their own." - KendraJames

(Link to quoted article in first comment)

Professional development opportunity of interest to the @sercgeo.bsky.social community and anyone in #highered #STEMed

We're about to see endless streaming vids of '99 Portland passed off as evidence of current day threats, right?

Official Farm Aid Live Stream www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJbX...

More and more of the science orgs are showing up, slowly. I made a starter pack of AGU related accts: go.bsky.app/TXCbKjJ (Note, some people just follow a whole starter pack at once. Personally I prefer to browse a pack and select individual accts to follow.)

ABC announced that it was pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show “indefinitely” after his comments about Charlie Kirk’s death.

How many times did @mprnews.org air the story today about @farmaid.org refusing to cross the picket line during the @teamsters.bsky.social strike with that pathetic statement from the U trying to pit union labor against farmers - with no audio from farmers, concert organizers, or labor? Shameful.

I'm spending wayyyyyy too much time blocking strangers here. I get (/block) the OF and others following everyone to make their pitch and get their links out. But wtf is with the folks with 0 posts who follow a million people but have few followers. I get it's shady - but what are they up to?

This should not happen. Ever. That said: in a field full of conservatives eager to hear Kirk's message in a permitless conceal/open carry state, someone murdered public figure and not one "good guy with a gun" was able to prevent it or intervened to stop the perpetrator after the fact.

The photos of Fletcher, who died in the mass shooting last month at Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis, are like those of other children’s. Before the service, Fletcher’s family asked attendees not to wear black. Instead, they encouraged mourners wear bright colors.

"...on just this one issue of gun violence will you please promise me as a father and a Catholic that you will earnestly support the study of what is wrong with our culture that we are the country that has the worst mass shooter problem?

Scientists breathe new life into climate website after shutdown under Trump Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded mission www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Heather Cox Richardson says the administration's attempt to initiate a dictatorship in the US "is not going very well." First time I've been able to take a good deep breath in what feels like forever.

The sheer contempt you must have for these people in order to call them away from their civilian jobs and lives to pick up trash around your house.

So maybe having a functional food inspection service served a purpose after all. Who knew?

@titonka.bsky.social suggesting anyone who has 3 seconds to note how busy they are isn't busy enough and @angeladavismpr.bsky.social devoting an hour to how to squeeze every iota of productivity from every waking moment on @mprnews.org . NPR resurrecting the Culture of Busy. F that. We. Are. Tired.

@janetnotplanet.bsky.social How on earth did I not remember THAT??? 🤦‍♀️