Huge dust storms in Pakistan, seen by the @esa.int / @ec.europa.eu Sentinel-2B and Sentinel-3B satellites on 4th November. Neither satellite was designed to monitor dust plumes, so it's impressive how much information they give us about the detail and extent of these storms!

Sandwich Guy Beats the Wrap!

I already knew that ivy league business schools and the economist are trash but holy moly this is some rotten 💩

Insert let_them_fight gif. Neither party is serious and neither party will do anything to advance meaningful solutions to address the problems of our food system. The Times is once again publishing hot air.

Belted kingfisher checking out the surf.🪶

I know that in the grand scheme of things there are far more important issues and pain this administration has caused, but as a scholar this is the kind of stuff that makes my blood boil. Someone trying to understand what happened a long time from now will still be furious about it too.

Haven’t seen them dance like this in years. I’m not saying it’s Mamdani but dang. Hope ✨

A climate denier and oil & gas insider to lead the Bureau of Livestock and Mining? BLM directors have been blocked, stalled, or left unconfirmed before… looks like time to add one more to the list.

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

Critics of renewables often point to land use as a reason not to do wind & solar. Land use IS a real issue for all energy assets incl renewables unless onsite. But what critics conveniently forget is huge land impact of fossil fuels. Aerial view of fracking sites in Texas. 👇

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

In a key race for energy policy, Democrats just won 2 seats on Georgia’s utility commission — changing the dynamic for first time in nearly 20 years. Here’s a quick hit on what it all means. heatmap.news/politics/ali...

The Trump EPA is delaying and vacating rules setting PFAS standards in drinking water (eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker/pfas...) and delaying cleanup of PFAS contamination at military bases so they can keep poisoning all of us. (oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/23/f...)

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Everyone is hope scrolling now

And the bus is free!

He's half Sikh and half Tibetan with a Persian name, my mom informs

Cuomo, once again being reminded, in a ruinous fashion, that no means no.

In fact, Trump was the main item on the ballots.

Zohran Mamdani was the first mayoral candidate and Democratic official to stand up to the Trump administration over the arrest and disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil, which he saw as a violation of the First Amendment.

Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now

Trump tears down West Wing in paroxysm of rage.

Jesus lord may this mean that Matt Yglesias and his bros shut up for a while

This guy (and his comms team) spark joy

To me, this is the big news out of Virginia: the higher ed institutions are about to find a spine.

Its so funny the Times won’t call the race with a 10 point lead and 70% of the vote in. They are furious

It's both true that he and his people have unleashed something real and that's it's neither immutable nor invincible

"If Republicans want a return to political influence in America's dynamic economic and cultural powerhouses, they're going to have to learn how to appeal to the complex folkways of urban dwellers"

A natural experiment about whether really rich people will do what they said they were going to do - leave NYC if Mamdani is elected - is about to unfold. (And yes I know they won’t do it, which is evidence that one needs to think deeply and critically about the so called credibility revolution).

Hope that every democratic senator who is toying with capitulating to trump is watching these results tonight.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

this election is proving my friend ari right, but none of you will say that

Some more wholesome content since there are 6 minutes to go in NY. Sue never fails!

Columnists built entire theories about cultural liberalism's collapse around Youngkin's inroads in Loudoun, even though his success wasn't all that surprising for a party that had just lost the WH. Journalists credulously lapped up Rufo's ludicrous spin and regurgitated it widely with great joy.

"reprise unfounded claims" They lie. Just say they lie about election interference.

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

Let’s post some wholesome content while we wait

Seriously, Georgia voters are FED UP. Two statewide utility commission races absolutely crushing 2024 national numbers.

Imagine thinking that "Andrew will be working only for his own legacy" is a good argument. What is wrong with these people.

what happens when you force 10-25% of the entire working population out of a job. not rocket science!

Open water is so close this year (highly unusual) that seeing groups of Emperor Penguins out front of Scott Base is becoming a regular occurrence. Fun experience for people on base, but a stark and sobering reminder that change is here and is affecting more than humans. Viewed thru SB telescope

STOP THESE PEOPLE ARE JUST OPENLY MEMEING

I don't know man, even for an administration consistently engaging in egregiously illegal and pain-inflicting activities, this stands out to me, I hope it will be the same for many more people.

Also see @drilledmedia.bsky.social's podcast featuring authors @kat-lauber.bsky.social and @profsecchi.bsky.social, as they speak about the animal agriculture industry: "the meat guys." drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

Big Meat is following Big Oil’s playbook—funding science, shaping narratives, and deflecting blame. Chapter 4 of “Climate Obstruction” reveals how PR + media framing obscure corporate responsibility for emissions. Read: cssn.org/news-researc...

Finally, some longitudinal data on faculty morale.

Excellent op-ed by environmental sociologist Eric Bond and Viktor Newby. "We submitted FOIA requests to every Virginia locality we could identify w/ an existing, approved, or proposed data center. We found that... 25 out of a total of 31 localities have NDAs." virginiamercury.com/2025/04/30/d...