Between Auroras and Dawn — A South Pole Sunrise After the Longest Night on Earth’ by © Aman Chokshi | Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2025

I love how videos just randomly stop playing, and won’t resume playing despite tapping “play” and/or “pause” to try to restart them while viewing on this app. Charming. App’s up to date, OS up to date. Anyone else experiencing this? Bsky support was of no help.

So gratuitously and pointlessly spiteful and petty.

Representative Adelita Grijalva went to lunch and came across an ICE raid. Even after telling them she was a member of congress, the thugs pepper sprayed her. Her question: if they treat a member of congress this way, how are they treating the defenseless people they kidnap?

My latest artwork — a portrait of my beloved Frida.

SCOTUS is nothing more than an arm of the GOP. Expand the Court. Impose term limits.

Another crisis is unfolding.

Undaunted Veteran Stands Up to MAGA Bullies open.substack.com/pub/contrari... Mark Kelly Rocks. He is a 💯badass. We need a lot more like him in Congress. They would whip our government into shape and eject the dead wood and parasites that have infested the White House and Pentagon #BlueCrew

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Officials from both parties have refused to turn over sensitive voter information, insisting they will protect the data entrusted to them — no matter how many lawsuits the Trump administration intends to file. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Masked thugs knocked out a peaceful protester outside the ICE facility in Portland and dragged his unconscious body away on a utility cart. Witnesses yelled, “He is not moving!” Another woman was tackled. This is state violence, and we document it so no one can deny it.

What does he mean he “approved”? American carmakers have NEVER been prevented from making small cars. They just didn’t want to. Big ones are more profitable here.

Husband forgot his laptop, frantically called me from LAX and so guess who drove to LAX in 45 min in rush hour even though the map said 1 hr 7 min and got the laptop to him 10 min before his plane boarded? This bitch.

this is how I’ve felt all year

The family of a fisherman from Colombia has filed the first legal challenge to the U.S. military strikes on boats at sea, alleging that Alejandro Andres Carranza Medina was "murdered," says attorney Dan Kovalik. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/5/boat_strikes

Biden: So, folks, that's my message to all of us today, to all who love our country, to all of us are dismayed by the present state of the union: it's time to get up, get up and fight back. Get up. Continue to fight. What's the fight all about? Protecting the constitution.

Suits of #Furfest #MFF2025 @ringer.shep.id @smokeyaussie.bsky.social @daemitrix.bsky.social @coopertom.bsky.social

"I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power." - Lucy Stone (1818-1893) Feminist & Abolitionist She kept her maiden name. "A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost." #femninism #feminist

Trump. Denigrates Biden. Whines about how he puts a commercial real estate & properties lawyer in as US Attorney & she was disqualified & Alina Habba, a parking garage lead attorney, again Trump US Attorney. Both disqualified as unfit for the office due to lack of knowledge & misrepresentations.👎

My great grandmother painted for fun. I grew up with one of her paintings – a stand of pine trees weighted down with heavy snow. I’ve always loved that painting so I thought I would create my own version. I hope you enjoy the results! SNOWY TREES, 12x12”, Acrylic ©2025 Jim Musil

#FridayPurple Seen In Paducah This is "Behind My Eyeballs" by Dorris McManis. From St Louis, MO. This was in their miniature quilt display. I love the embroidered circles. It looks like chain stitch to me.

In the 4.5-mile bike ride to pick up my kids from school, I found the following in painted bike lanes: at least 6 trash bins, a parked car, a parked firefighter truck (likely lunch break), and a parked city maintenance vehicle. This is unacceptable, and another reason why paint is not infrastructure

Welcome back to #FossilFriday! Here is a Petoskey Stone which is Michigan's state stone. It is a colonial rugose coral known as Hexagonaria percarinata. This comes from the Middle Devonian (Givitian) Gravel Point Formation (Traverse Group). Each corallite that you see would have housed a polyp.

"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."

Long winter nights — a band of aurora in January stretches over a moonlit boreal forest in Fairbanks, Alaska. The snow was bright enough to feel like daylight in places. #alaska #auroraborealis #northernlights

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.

This is an American patriot.

The Center for Disease Control can now officially be renamed the Center for Disease Communication Make no mistake: this is a vote to kill Americans for years to come www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

Let them earn their keep ffs! I know someone who has been trying to get an asylum claim processed FOR TEN YEARS! During that time, they're not supposed to work. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

Those that lament Chicago’s low ranking in the annual list of bike-friendly cities should pipe down. A city that doesn’t give equal priority to clearing bike and car lanes can’t claim to be a bike-friendly city. This is Clybourn Avenue, which holds a protected bike lane corridor to Downtown.

Watching a movie shot entirely in Welsh. I had never heard Welsh spoken at any length before now. It makes me wonder how many other languages I have never heard and maybe never will. Probably hundreds.

It's notable that, even in an article critical of RFK Jr., the reporter hedges, saying "There’s no good evidence of serious, widespread harm from the vaccine" rather than just "vaccines are safe." RFK Jr. has made a career of exploiting the ambiguity of the former. www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-anti-v...

🇫🇷 French military opened fire on five unidentified drones near their nuclear submarine base in Brest last night, according to French media.

what "analytics" was Kirk referring to there that said Dallas should've kicked that field goal

A doctor with Hep B explains how she acquired it and why a birth dose of Hep B would have likely prevented transmission (likely from her parents). This is likely not the "lived experience" this committee wanted to hear. But we are here for it! Thank you for speaking out

Bloomberg funding a charter-school pipeline into HBCUs is wild when you remember charters were originally a taxpayer-funded escape hatch from integration. Now they’re back on campus like, “Hey bestie, miss us?” History doesn’t repeat, but it absolutely gentrifies.

man Frobes fuck this guy and his charter schools, the best thing he can do is dump property tax money back into the public schools

Beaumont, Texas Street mural artist: Candy Kuo #StreetArt #StreetMural #art #murals #artist #UrbanArt Dear #artists - get out there and beautify urban areas with powerful images of beauty with a strong message.

❗Attention overpass brigade folks!❗Our policy is: if there is actively falling snow, we automatically cancel. We don't want to distract drivers when they need their windshield wipers on. Even if it isn't snowing, it will be COLD, so bundle up if we are able to proceed as planned. See you there! 🦋

WE’RE STILL WAITING… #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Putin threatened to kill everyone in Europe again with his nuclear weapons.

The plot thickens. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Did you know? In the Victorian era, a courtesan named Kate Cooke won a court case that exposed a hidden legal safeguard for women trapped in the sex trade. Her madam had attempted to indenture her by purchasing expensive clothes, then claiming she owed her the full cost. #Victorian #history

Me, about other artists: Only draw/post whenever you feel like it! Art takes time and yours is worth waiting for! So lovely and beautiful 💖🩷💕 Me, about my own art: *(Skips posting for one day)* Wooow... Looks like *someone* doesn't take this seriously- I can literally see everything wrong with it

Isaiah Jones committed to Indiana in the summer of 2021 dreaming of moments like this. But even he will admit the journey from there to here has not been what he expected. It's paid off for the Ohio native anyway: www.indystar.com/story/sports... #iufb

If this goes thru it will accelerate Hollywood’s precipitous decline. Thousands laid off. Creatives w/fewer studios willing to bid on projects. Fewer choices of what to watch for consumers. Possibly a death blow for theatrical filmgoing. Just terrible news all around www.theverge.com/news/838781/...

The Epstein coverup will go down as one of the greatest scandals and miscarriages of justice in U.S. history. Everyone involved with Epstein’s victims or with the coverup needs to be prosecuted and go down in shame. It does not matter if they are GOP or Dems! Repost if you agree. #BlueCrew