And I'll say it again: ‪If we had believed children and women, none of this would be happening. He'd be in jail, and she'd be President.

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

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My heart breaks for these folks and my brain boggles at these Democratic Senators' betrayal.

Mass murderers

Very interesting work! Kudos @peterjwagner3.bsky.social!

Honestly the biggest message tonight has been: when we fight together, we win. We as a nation have come together to fight fascism, to fight authoritarianism, to loudly and proudly declare: WE WILL HAVE NO KING IN AMERICA. And when you come for one of us, you better prepare to face all of us.

Absolutely shocking! Teen Vogue had some truly excellent political coverage, but no more. The erasure of Black and trans journalists is unconscionable.

‘A devastating global audit’ shows how climate change is undermining the health of millions. Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet. grist.org/health/lance... #Climate #Health #PublicHealth #Heat

World Central Kitchen is set up at U.S. Navy Memorial Plaza and Washington Canal Park in Washington if you need some food

We've got you 👍

@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼

The ones in the hats were the fattest of cats, and their honks and their hoots Would grow in cahoots In a place they all called Maralago! Till the orange skinned fellow Or it could have been yellow Would bend at the knees And release his foul breeze In a curse he had cursed at Chicago

I feel seen!

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Wishing you all a HAPPY HAMILLWEEN !!! 🎃 👻 😱 💀 🧙‍♀️ 🐈‍⬛ My costume this year is from one of my favorite Disney movies: Pinocchio. How do you like me as Geppetto?

We'll close out this #FossilFriday with the obvious choice of Nanotyrannus. I couldn't share this CT scanning session at the time (June 2023) but can now. @jgn-paleo.bsky.social brought the holotype Cleveland skull he had on loan, and CMNH VP curator Caitlin Colleary & I joined in the fun!

….but is it a COOL rock?

A faculty administration repeatedly told me that if the students in a professor's class mostly earned As and Bs, they must not be a good teacher. I asked them whether they thought evidence of being a really *good* teacher might also be that students earn mostly As and Bs, and they said no.

Saul Rubinek in PLAYING SHYLOCK at The Polonsky Shakespeare Center is a must-see, a brilliant evening with one of our greatest actors at the height of his powers. It took my breath away, broke my heart, taught me more than I thought possible in 100 minutes. The best theatre I’ve seen in ages!

A useful list...

A record 73+ people turned out for Friends of the Cephalopods last night at GSA Connects! Thanks to all who attended! And mark your calendars for next year's GSA meeting, when Friends will celebrate its 50th anniversary! #GSA2025 #CephalopdsRule

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Trump using a Chinese* excavator to destroy the White House is a bit on the nose as metaphors go. *Volvo is owned by Geely Holding, a Chinese company.

Paleo students at GSA Connects, go sign up for this raffle! Paleo Society is at booth #934.

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

My daily cognitive dissonance.

For no particular reason, here's a link to the Patreon for my audiobook short fiction podcast, It's Storytime With Wil Wheaton. www.patreon.com/c/storytime

If you are at Cornell or in #Ithaca next week PRI’s director Warren Allmon will be giving the Phi Beta Kappa lecture Oct 22 at 4:30 on the scientific importance of Natural History Museums, and how their collections are used to address modern problems

Love this!

Ohio Senate Bill 1 strikes again... SACNAS is an amazing meeting, being held in Columbus, Ohio, in a few weeks.

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

It took one freaking day....

October 11 is the "International Day of the Girl" on the United Nations calendar. These photos pay tribute to the spirit of girls in a world where they face many obstacles. n.pr/470GXx1

Beautiful!

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

“Trump’s political appointees are so desperate for his approval, they’re willing to blatantly violate the law for a pat on the head,” said the Center's Stephanie Kurose. “Trump has turned government websites into campaign billboards. This isn’t public service, it’s Trump fan fiction.”

Ohio universities are being targeted for just doing our jobs

Good news, now keep going!

Fantastic choice!

Yupper-doo!

Gosh, this ought to be immediately disqualifying. Share this quote with your elected officials and demand they remove Hegseth immediately!

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One of my absolute heroes, for her gentle persistence, courage, and huge empathy

Trump wants to hold the government hostage until Democrats agree to raise health care costs for millions of Americans and give him more unchecked power. But health care is a human right. And in America, we have no kings.