To bring a smile to your face, here’s an ancient Egyptian sketch of a tabby cat serving a mouse! 😁 The artist used a flake of limestone as a sketchpad to draw this comic scene some 3,200 years ago. 📷 Brooklyn Museum www.brooklynmuseum.org/en-GB/object... #Archaeology

With temperatures dropping and snow in the forecast, New Yorkers struggling to afford the rising cost of heat can now apply for assistance from the HEAP program. Learn more about eligibility and apply here: a069-access.nyc.gov/accesshra/

Make your own unicorn. Pattern after Federico de Vinciolo, 1589. (Musée du Louvre)

First one of the season.

We have a white supremacist government determined to terrorize and disenfranchise people of color. It's obvious. We need to say it, and we need to stop it.

Jesus detained and separated from Mary and Joseph by ICE and kept in cages outside of Seattle.

Bravo, Sen. Kelly! That’s how you do it! Don’t take his shit, call him out loud and clear!

An excerpt from my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) summing up the current situation:

Central Park today, New York City 🍁🍂❤️

“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.” -Mark Twain #BOTD

11/30/1843 — b. Martha G. Ripley, American physician, medical educator, reformer, suffragist, humanitarian. Founder of the ‘Maternity Hospital’, Minneapolis(1887), a pioneer social agency. #PublicHealth +wmn's/children's rights advocate #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #NurseSky #HistNursing #OTD

BREAKING: Protesters have gathered outside of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s house in Tel Aviv, demanding that he reject PM Netanyahu’s request for a pardon in the three corruption cases against him. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/iv17v7

31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated. I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.

Trump says he’ll pardon a former Honduras leader convicted of taking millions of dollars in bribes from drug traffickers. A U.S. prosecutor said Juan Orlando Hernández “paved a cocaine superhighway to the U.S.” More evidence that Trump’s threats against Venezuela have nothing to do with drugs.

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

Everything is just a show with them. Pirro, Patel = Pathetic.

Gupta: It’s clear that there’s age-related cognitive decline. He’s confused a lot. He sometimes mumbles sort of incoherent nonsense when he’s asked a question in the Oval Office. Clearly they’re not getting MRIs just because, because that’s the moment that we live in. There’s a reason

American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on November 15, 2025 Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: www.rsok.com/~jrm/2025Nov... #birds #Corvid #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Oklahoma #photography #suburbanWildlife

Donald Trump isn't wielding his antitrust authority to protect the American people — he's using it to reward his allies. He's instilling his own twisted version of Bork-era antitrust enforcement, which gave corporate monopolies outsized power at the expense of everyone else.

Pleased to introduce the AI Fraud Deterrence Act today with Rep. Dunn which would expand penalties for AI scams and deepfakes, including impersonations of federal officials. Our bipartisan goal is simple: Deter people from using AI to commit fraud.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

“The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.” -Harpo Marx #BOTD

Watching Frankenstein and man oh man is it good!

@adamzyglis.bsky.social Kleptocracy

Your Thanksgiving gravy tastes better when you use union mushrooms. Let's give a huge thanks to workers like "Adan" who harvest mushrooms for Monterey Mushrooms under a UFW contract. On an average day, he picks 240-280 of the blue baskets you see in this vid. #WeFeedYou

Small dew drops condensed on a spiderweb and made it looked like chains of tiny pearls - my garden #dew #dewdrop #spiderweb #BlueSkyArtShow #small #classicMono

If you’re wondering why MTG is waiting for January 5 to resign….it’s always about the money

My latest for Nat Geo on things you didn't know about Roman Emperors. Co-authored with Max J. Foa and featuring the work of @sarahebond.bsky.social, Stephanie Frampton, A. B. Bosworth, and Tom Geue. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

For seven years, CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp have documented the virtually untouched bedrooms of children killed in school shootings across the United States. These rooms have become memorials to young lives cut short. Anderson Cooper reports, Sunday.

Artist Michael Benson reveals the hidden beauty of snowflakes, radiolarians and lunar rocks through stunning electron microscope images in his new book, Nanocosmos.

Romare Bearden, “River Mist” (1962), mixed media, 101.6 x 137.2 cm.

Roman bronze dragon’s head standard, AD 190-260. Originally mounted on a pole, with a long fabric tube attached to the back of the head. When charging on horseback, the wind inflated the tube and the dragon shrieked! Niederbieber fort. Landesmuseum Koblenz. 📷 me #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf was born #OTD in 1858. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in #Literature (1909) "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination & spiritual perception that characterize her writings." First woman granted a membership of the Swedish Academy, 1914.

Deer in the forest | Ivan Generalic

Murderous Prince Mohammed bin Salman has said he wants nuclear weapons. Giving Saudi Arabia nuclear technology without the strongest possible safeguards is a recipe for disaster. Congress must ensure there is never a Saudi bomb.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

It’s gonna take forever.

Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Hottest economy in the history of the world. 🤡 @axios.com www.axios.com/newsletters/...