We don't need Venezuelan oil. Just wire up Cronkite's spinning corpse and we'll be powered forever.

I'm almost ready for my fossil talk with my son's class on Thursday. I made a short presentation this year with lots of pictures so I can show small details easier. I also have some fossils for the teacher. My son was not impressed with the examples she showed today, so I can help.

Just a fucking Mob Boss.

I'm so proud of @oupaleobiology.bsky.social folks doing great work and am looking forward to good things in 2026

It's becoming standard procedure across all news media to explicitly not mention in the obituary of a Republican member of congress that they voted on Jan. 6, 2021 to overturn the election

The lesson of January 6th is that it does absolutely no good to prosecute the the violent foot soldiers if you're not going to prosecute the leaders and hold them accountable for their sedition under the full force of the law.

"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money." I keep thinking about this post and how it's one of the best, most succinct messages Democrats could use in 2026 campaigns.

"GenAI is the futu--

Ever more dictator-curious

We’re being led by the anti-vaxxers of the legal sphere: People who’ve never lived without the protections of international law and domestic regulation, so they only notice the inconvenience, not the horrors prevented. When institutions work, their benefits become invisible, until they’re gone.

January 6th broke the social compact. We all learned that Republicans hate the United States so much that they would rather kill a bunch of people and wreck this place rather than share it. Which they are now doing, in abundance.

this just so perfectly encapsulates the decades-long messaging failures by the dems

There is literally nothing that will convince Trump supporters to quit their cult. They are fine with rape, fine with child rape, fine with election rigging, fine with money laundering, fine with concentration camps, fine with murder, fine with bribery, fine with lies, fine with embezzlement, fine w

Tomorrow is the five-year anniversary of a day in history that the news media says was a display over a disagreement of opinion

If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time? Really American FB

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

Happy Domestic Terrorist Day to those who celebrate.

This is a strategy trial lawyers use all the time to put an opponent in a weaker position even if you lose some. Flooding the zone goes both ways, the Hill is packed with lawyers, and there is no reason to not flood the zone with articles of impeachment. The Overton window won’t move itself.

Worthless opposition party.

The most “vote blue no matter who” people in my life, the most Defend Democrats-minded people I know as recently as the end of 2024 are now exclusively out for blood and demanding Schumer’s resignation and for Dems in Congress to do total obstruction. Its crazy how far from the base the party is

“for this is a war which we all wage, this time, not for our German people alone, it is a war for all of Europe and with it, in the long run, for all of mankind.” - Adolf Hitler, 1942

Why not. Here's another fossil on a long Monday. A juvenile Platycrinites from the Mississippian Mont Eagle formation of Alabama.

I'm going into my son's 8th grade class on Thursday to talk about fossils. I've done this since he was in preschool, but this year I'm going to challenge them a bit, instead of just showing eye candy. I'm making a list of fossils that tell a story.

Fuck it. It's not Friday, but I'm going to share fossils. This is Porocrinus, an echinoderm from the Ordovician Maquoketa formation near Eldorado, Iowa. The arms are missing, but the calyx is very unique.

Delightful contribution to the first #MolluscMonday of 2026, with an in-action March 2020 video of @cambriancam.bsky.social unearthing a huge Cretaceous oyster in Mississippi. 🧪🪨⚒️🦪

This looks like 1,000 videos I've seen from authoritarian states

Mazon Monday #303: Smithixerxes juliarum #fossils #paleontology #MazonCreek #MazonMonday #arthropod #Euthycarcinoid #carboniferous #pennsylvanian

Literal “war is peace.”

Please join us for the 12th European Conference on Echinoderms, which will be held at University College London from Monday 13th July to Friday 17th July 2026. The deadline for submitting an abstract is Monday 2nd February 2026. www.euroechino.net

oh my god he's such a fucking loser

He could trust oil barons, but couldn't tell Congress. Got it.

Q: What do you need over the next two weeks from Delcy Rodríguez? TRUMP: Total access. We need total access. We need access to the oil and other things

Those were for his other impeachable offenses. New articles should have been demanded for attacking a fucking country unprovoked and kidnapping it's President.

The death toll is now 80? I know the pandemic made life cheap amid mass death, but 80 dead is staggering

I liked it better when my fossils posts went viral. People got excited. Some learned something new. It was nice. I'm so fucking tired of this year already.

Every day that the pushback by Congress is muted, the more we can be sure Trump will take it asa green light to invade another country.

So…Americans represented by Democratic Senators and Representatives? Sorry. We’re no longer part of “we the people,” according to this regime.

I've been blocking lots of people since yesterday. Tired of this bullshit. Maybe you don't know, I didn't say the Democrats would have enough votes to convict or even convince the GOP to hold a vote. I asked if any had called for his impeachment. The opposition party should oppose.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Trump said the US is going to 'run Venezuela.' Under what legal authority? RUBIO: We want a better future for the people of Venezuela STEPHANOPOULOS: I'll ask again -- what is the legal authority? RUBIO: We have court orders

I want to remind everyone that the US has sanctioned members of the International Criminal Court for going through a formal legal process to identify international leaders who engaged in war crimes, making them vulnerable to arrest.

In a nutshell.

A thing I think about a lot is how the hyper powerful and tech billionaires want to be seen as people saving humanity, which is why they create space companies to send us to Mars and invest in gen AI to render us more "productive" And yet, not a single one is working to solve climate change.

Fossil leaves at the Yale Peabody Museum. A belated #FossilFriday

Yeah... It's time for bed.

This right here: “Not introducing articles of impeachment is a message that Trump hasn't committed impeachable offenses.”

A fucking football coach, dumber than a box of rocks, in the minority party stopped military promotions for a year. Don't tell me Democrats can't impede a war criminal.

Don't worry guys. The second order effects here are totally predictable and minor.

Fascists are almost always expansionist. They have to be. They are incompetent at governing; they depend on crises for power and war to feel like real men. They need natural resources and places for mass murder.

> “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. > "So do I," said Gandalf, "this shit fucking sucks.”