Welcome to the first #FossilFriday of 2026! We kick off the new year with this beautiful colonial horn coral know as Acrocyathus floriformus. This specimen comes from the Middle Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) St. Louis Limestone in Missouri.

Someone asked what Team Fight's affirmative message is. That's simple: It's that Dems can be counted on to fight for the people who are being fucked over by Trump. To fight to fix what he's breaking, to build it back stronger and better, and to make sure no one like him can ever break it again.

And the way you land that voter is the way you get those Social Security checks and VA jobs and cancer trials back. You fucking fight.

The "my mom hasn't gotten a Social Security check in seven weeks, my cousin lost his job at the VA, and my neighbor's kid's cancer drug trial was cancelled right before the treatment went live" voter is the 2026 voter the Dems need to be laying the groundwork for landing right now.

they say crows hold grudges for 17 years. that’s what i call “a good start.”

Happy New Year and happy 25th anniversary to the Jurassic Coast WHS! This #FossilFriday we're introducing a fossil of the month to celebrate the collectors who make this place what it is. We're kicking it off with this beautiful ammonite from local collector Lizzie Hingley. (1/2)

My father in law just passed. He's been in hospice for the past week and failing health for months. He pushed everyone away. He was a narcissist, passive aggressive and was largely estranged from my wife. I only met him 3 times. So... Happy New Year, I guess.

Democrats’ national theme: “Corruption is unlawful, it’s personally disgusting, it takes money out of your pocket, and we’re treating every incident of it like an attack on the public interest” Probably a powerful message?

Follow more artists. Follow more scientists. Cause good trouble.

Literally this year the MN Speaker was murdered at her home when a white male MAGA chud dressed up as a fake cop & killed her Now mere months later, MAGAs are shocked that daycare operators in MN wouldn't open doors for white male MAGA chuds dressed up as fake journalists, demanding access to kids😐

They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration. It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.

Excellent news from PRI and a wonderful start to the new year. www.priweb.org/blog-post/pr...

“But why DiDnt ThEy jUsT LeT tHeM EnteR?!” Because no day care in its right mind opens its doors to strangers. Also it’s illegal. Let a group of 8 screaming Black & brown men with cameras show up to a daycare in a predominately white neighborhood & watch how fast the police arrive and open fire.😐

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

its really funny how an entire generation of suburban republican aparatchiks had their psyches broken because obama dunked on their emotional support politicians (mitt romney and paul ryan)

Like, this an actual post from an actual government social media account, posted in the last hour.

Climate experts, is this fair to say? -Decarbonization and clean energy is inevitable just due to cost now -Current US policy means we won't get it done in time to avoid 1.5 C and some of the worst effects of climate change -Current US policy means the economic benefits will happen elsewhere now

The fascists also want to close childcare centers because they don’t want women free to hold professional jobs, as keeping women locked into raising kids at home is central to their shitty project.

I’ve seen a million media stories about how sad Republican voters in CA are about losing their Republican representatives. But I don’t think I’ve seen a single one talking about Demoratic voters in Texas, or North Carolina, or Missouri losing their representatives.

#TrilobiteTuesday is keeping its eyes on you. They know what you did. ⚒️🧪

Just not feeling it right now.

Anytime these guys show up a daycare center, the managers should immediately start filming and tell them to stop behaving like pedophiles and trying to access children without their parents’ permission. Publish their photos and names

Stop. Read the post below. Do what it says. Look at Earth - our home world - from the surface of Mars. You are a terranaut on that fragile planet. This moment brought to you courtesy of NASA Science.

This is how you do it folks

Yep. What got us into this mess was not hanging Robert E Lee and Jeff Davis. Pardoning Nixon. Letting Reagan and Bush sr. skate on Iran-Contra and letting Bush Jr. and Cheney skate on war crimes and starting a war on false pretenses.

probably not a great sign that Trump's assistant AG for civil rights uses a slur for people with disabilities

Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.

The gestapo must be harshly crushed by any means necessary.

I've told my colleagues in Germany it's not safe to travel here. I don't think most Americans have a fucking clue how mad everyone is with the US. It will not be fixed by one election. Permanent damage. Generational.

This is the key. You can win some elections, but you can't force people to like or respect you; ironically, Trump's people want that respect from people they claim to care nothing about. They don't hate the "elites" - they envy that club, and they're mad because money and power can't buy them in.

Unless shown otherwise, I'm going to assume anyone who has received a pardon from him is a horrible person. What a corrupt system. I wish him the New Year he deserves.

#TrilobiteTuesday One from the archives, Cybantyx anaglyptos, a small Silurian trilobite from Much Wenlock, Shropshire.

The specimen was generously donated by the Friends of the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology a few years ago, but is just one example of how that organization has helped advance UMMP's mission for more than half a century.

The largest trilobite in our collection, Isotelus maximus UMMP IP 74758, is now displayed in a highlights case outside the museum's specimen-based classroom. If you can't make it in person, you can examine a photogrammetric model this #TrilobiteTuesday: umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/specimen-...

The Nuremberg Laws were passed. Jim Crow laws were passed. South Africa’s apartheid laws were passed. If that’s all it takes to clear the bar for “liberal democracy,” then “liberal democracy is not good enough.

The Trump Admin has repeatedly demonstrated to allies around the globe that US security guarantees mean nothing as long as Trump is president. He won’t even agree to abide by the NATO charter, so how can he be trusted to honor any Ukraine deal.

It's time for a year-end Trilobite Tuesday! Even after decades of exploration, no more than a dozen complete specimens of the genus Breviscutellum have been discovered within Oklahoma's Bois d’Arc Formation.

Nothing about this quote about a “ballroom” suggests “peaceful transfer of power.”

Any Burlington Limestone crinoid experts out there? I also worked on this calyx today. I thought it might be a Cactocrinus, but the ornamentation seems off.

I spent the afternoon in my prep room finishing up a few pieces that were almost done. It felt really good to get some fossil therapy in today.

Great surprise today at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History today. Unbeknownst to me, a Diplichnites trackway I collected from my backyard when I was 12 and donated when I was 19 is now on display in the new Stories Week Keep gallery. What an honor.

Have the year you voted for.

Beautiful paper on Ordovician cyclocystoids out now in JP. This rests on the expertise & hard work of avocational paleontologists, w/ Friends of the UMMP as authors (Joe Koniecki) & honored w/ a new species (Brechincycloides stanhynei, for the late Stan Hyne). OA: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I was able to get some holiday polishing done. This is Teepee Canyon Agate from South Dakota!

If we learned that the Obama or Biden DOJ was casually monitoring the comings and goings of a reporter for any reason, much less b/c she was the lead reporter on all things Epstein, it would be a Watergate-level scandal but of course since it's Trump, one day (at best) and we move right along 🙃

wealthy business owners and investors saw what happened during covid when people had enough extra money and flexibility to assert their power or quit their shitty jobs. sever the tie between insurance and employment and that only compounds.

"During 100s of hours of scanning, Geldof collected anatomical images that he used to create detailed 3D models of the rockhead poacher’s head. The work was both delicate & grueling." @phiejacobs.bsky.social