this is one hundred percent what happened

Don't worry, everyone, Secretary of Transportation and MTV Real World Cast Member Sean Duffy is going to sort all this out. I bet he'll give a speech talking about how we should make sure our shoes are shined before boarding our flights.

"El Paso's airport is closed for ten days." "No, wait, it's open now." "TSA PreCheck is suspended." "No, wait, it's back up now."

Trump hasn't been curious in his entire life. A better headline would be "Trump doesn't understand why his Mob Boss tactics aren't working."

*taps the sign*

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

Again: them creating a repository of correlated facial recognition data, govt credentials, & personally identifying information w/o a plan to mitigate its being threat surface, attack vector, & tool of potential oppression would've been At Best criminally negligent, but this shit was intentional.

This is an unimaginable crime.

Every single element of life is either more deadly, more expensive or more inconvenient (often all three) today than it’s been in decades & it’s purely because our robber baron overlords decided to dedicate the entirety of the US apparatus to doing barbaric & culturally suicidal white nationalism

We are the laughingstock of the world because of our moronic and psychotic president. Deservedly so.

Indiana U is perhaps the best example right now of the university as private equity fund, with some classrooms attached. And, I will continue to remind folks that its chancellor began his career as an urban poverty scholar. Academic administration is a helluva drug.

This 65-year-old British grandma was visiting Yellowstone. She entered the US legally, had a valid tourist visa. Never had a run-in with the law in her life. ICE detained her, shackled her, locked her in a windowless prison for six weeks. Pure evil. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It is shocking how quickly one of the biggest benefits of U.S. higher education, the ability to recruit the best students from around the world, is eroding.

I've been meaning to do some conodonts for #FossilFriday for a while now, but just never got around to 'em. They're on deck today! ⚒️🧪 The name means 'cone teeth' but for years, their affiliation was controversial - despite widespread importance for biostratigraphy. We now know they were fish. 🧵

If you insist, @daverodland.bsky.social This edrioasteroid, Isorophus cincinnatiensis, is often found on Rafinesquina brachiopods and is the official city fossil of Cincinnati. #FossilFriday

It's not every day that the thieves come right out and tell you the money they stole from you ain't coming back.

🦀 Crabby #FossilFriday‼️ Remarkably well-preserved claw of a crab from the Paleocene of Alabama. This is a propodus and dactylus of the family Palaeoxanthopsidae. Members of this family lived during the latest Cretaceous - early Eocene. 🦀 University of Alabama Museums Paleontology collection.

Edrioasteroids are echinoderms related to starfish and sand dollars. They are made of individual calcite plates and would "inflate" a bit. They looked like "starfish barnacles" if that makes sense. This is an Ordovician Belochthus from the Brechin, Ontario area. #FossilFriday

His blood pressure has got to be through the roof right now, so if anyone has a chance to ask him an aggressive question about the Epstein files, that really could make It happen today. Come on, reporters. We'll build statues in your honor.

They locked up a Colombian child coming to go to Disney World with her family. What the hell are we doing? And why in the world would anyone come here for the World Cup/Olympics? www.miaminewtimes.com/news/immigra...

The American flag comes down under a Trump banner amid stormy weather at DOJ.

Very good representation of how that "crinoid mouth" that's really an angled (rounded?) slice through a set of crinoid stalk segments works. The "slice" is an erosion related thing that's probably pretty recent (caused by the formation of the little rock clast the crinoid is preserved in).

Must be nice to have a functioning Supreme Court.

Ahh, yes, free speech!

Biden would’ve been instantly impeached in a bipartisan vote if he put his face on the freakin’ Department of Justice building

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

From what I remember from 2020 during the George Floyd protests, because some idiot set a small fire somewhere, we can now claim that Minneapolis was burned to the ground by ICE supporters, right?

The idea that to be a good citizen required curiosity about the world was a positive force. Now we just have ignoramuses crowing about "Western civilization" while knowing nothing and wanting to know even less.

Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy

i wasn’t sure if they did this because she’s female or brown or progressive and then i realized the answer is “yes”

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

SpongeBob SquarePants said Sunday that members of his newly created Board of Peas have pledged $5 trillion Krabby Patties toward are you fucking kidding me at this point

I am ABSOLUTELY reading this as HARD PROOF that Romans farmed ichthyosaurs. It is fact now. Sorry.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

how we got here

Some days I love a good bandwagon.

Compare Chinese state media (below) with US state media (Fox et al, with increasing bleed-over into many "legit" news operations.)

not sure she understands how elections are supposed to work

i need to admit something. the more i think about how many of our problems are downstream of a very small number of ppl and organizations hoarding all the wealth and power, the less interested i am in discussions of american democracy that prefer to focus on anything else.

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

Just submitted a paper on some amazing new material from the Pliensbachian of Dorset tecently acquired Lyme Regis Museum. Here are a few highlights - 2nd complete Panniericidaris known. World’s oldest Crab and world’s oldest Ghost Shrimp.

Fossil Friday #304: A Heartwarming Tully Reunion #fossils #paleontology #MazonCreek #FossilFriday #Tully #Tullymonster

Welcome back to #FossilFriday everyone! Here we have a beautiful chain coral known as Halysites cantenularia. This comes from the Lower Silurian Cordell Formation (Monistique Group) Door County, Wisconsin.