#MinCup25 Semifinals 1: It's a battle of classic minerals for red #hematite vs blue #kyanite. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r4... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

Appropriate music and caption added... 🤌 Fuck trump & fuck 🧊. 💯

Wife brought her 100 year old film camera to that pirates game from a few weeks ago and she got this shot that's just perfect

So exhausting..

ICE brutally detains U.S. citizen just for filming—knocking her unconscious. "Agents took her to a side alley, beat her up, then called an ambulance," witness said. "Then they kidnapped her from the hospital—without a formal discharge—and took her to Downtown LA Detention Center."

Translation: "I arrived in Bogotá. I no longer have a visa to travel to the USA. I don't care," responded the Colombian president. "The seat of the United Nations cannot continue in New York," he added.

#MinCup25 QF4: Team Green will win either way as desert emerald #Dioptase faces off against radioactive #Cuprosklodowskite! Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

NEW: Days before a decades-long contract between CPB and NPR is due to expire (and would normally be renewed), CPB announced Friday that it is giving nearly $60 million over five years to a newly formed coalition entity. cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

#MinCup25 Quarterfinals 3: It's a showdown between Team Green and Team Blue for #kosmochlor vs #kyanite. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

So many of us came so very unwillingly to this place of viewing the Supreme Court as unworthy of being viewed as a judicial body. Unworthy of veneration, unworthy of respect. So profoundly reluctantly. But, good lord have they earned it.

Did you see that we resurrected the Fifth National Climate Assessment this week!? Did you know that we have a $10k match donation challenge live right now?! Never miss an update from us, sign up today! www.climate.us#take-action

NEW: The Heritage Foundation is pushing a terrorism designation based on "transgender ideology" on the claim that "50% of major (non-gang) school shootings since 2015" involve a transgender shooter or trans-related motive. @dell.bsky.social and me on why that's false: www.wired.com/story/herita...

The US conservative movement has organized & funded a massive anti-wind power campaign, based on lies & bullying. Researchers at Brown University have been investigating & revealing that campaign. Now cons are pressuring the university to shut the investigators down.

🚨🚨 NEW DOCUMENTS FROM EPSTEIN'S ESTATE DETAILING HIS DAILY SCHEDULE: They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet. DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.

NEW from PP: You know how Krista Noem has been bottlenecking disaster relief? Turns out, you can get them greenlit —if you‘re a Noem donor! After donor asked, Noem quickly cleared project. Then she flew to town and dined at French bistro with the donor. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

The immunity decision (Trump v. US) shook my faith in the law to the core and we are now starting to see the rotten fruit of that historically terrible decision.

A Victorian scientist whose farming technique has revolutionised agriculture in Niger has been awarded an international peace prize.

#MinCup25 Quarterfinal 2: It's #perovskite and its intriguing structure against #tugtupite's collection of optical tricks for this quarterfinal match! Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

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I honestly don't think everyone talks enough about how amazing it was when the world came together to fix the hole in the ozone layer, so I wrote this: everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/lets-all-r... It's a good reminder of what we're capable of.

Double Reichstag Fire babyy

Spanish Moon Moth 🌙

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is in select theaters October 2.

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

The EPA has announced that the existing groundwater extraction system at the Reilly Tar Superfund site in Indianapolis will remain operational until the new system is completed in February.

Ericksonella saccharata - Sugar Orchid The only species in its genus, the name (saccharum), meaning sugary, refers to the shiny-white appearance of this orchid’s flower #orchids #ozflora #wikdoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #nature

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

#MinCup25 Quarterfinal 1: Colourful phoenix #Haüyne goes against heavyweight industrial powerhouse #Hematite. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

This is crazy to watch in the video posted mid-story.

JUST IN: The Trump administration's bid to coerce states to comply with immigration enforcement in order to receive disaster aid is illegal and unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled today. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In the aftermath of the shipwreck, France was scandalized by what had happened as the details emerged. And artist Théodore Géricault became obsessed with it. Listen here: omny.fm/shows/stuff-...

An Indigenous high school student's essay on the heckling of the Welcome to Country has earned her a nationally recognised award.

Donald Trump wants to lend $20 billion of our money to bail out a political ally and his global investors before an election. Oh, and Argentina just struck a major deal with China that crushes American soybean farmers already suffering from Trump's tariffs. “America First.”

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

100% this was faked by a cop or FBI agent.

[Eric Adams]: "Yeah I'm going for 'what if the Byzantine Emperor was Jewish'. Do you have anything in that vein? Maybe something I could wear again as a bathrobe?" [The best tailor in NYC]: "I have just the thing."

Comrades, one of the most important days of the year is upon us: it is the first day of Fat Bear Week. Visit the site, meet your bears, fill out the bracket, and cast your votes!

#MinCup25 Round 2 Match 8: Bright green radioactive #cuprosklodowskite is up against jet black phantom #mannardite. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r2... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

I have a couple of small updates on this story, in case y'all have been wondering about any fallout since its July publication! 🧵

Forgot to post these beautiful fellas from a few weeks ago, went on a behind the scenes tour of the Royal Botanic Gardens Vic orchid conservation program, species names in alt text #photography #orchids #conservation

Kids do not get 80 vaccines. They get 35 individual shots, spaced out over 12 years, to prevent pediatric diseases. If you add annual flu vaccines, that's another 12, bringing the total by age 12 to 47. Adding covid vaccines brings it up to 59 by age 12. my.clevelandclinic.org/health/artic...

We need to understand how science shows cause and effect. Vaccines are proven safe and effective—ignoring that risks lower coverage and the return of preventable diseases. www.newsweek.com/states-that-...

"There's power in people standing united": After Google announced it is withdrawing rezoning plans for a data center in Franklin Township on Monday night, those who've protested the center celebrated the turn of events. News 8's Cat Sandoval has the story.

This is a big one. Today's piece in the EAPM Style and Accessibility Guide magazine, The Word, is by @sandyernestallen.bsky.social on a worrisome media trend he's seeing — and it all starts with a dose of hate. eapmstyleguide.org/9-23-2025-tr...

Just got sucked into @neal.fun's "Not a Robot" neal.fun/not-a-robot/

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