If you're in Iowa House in District 58, consider volunteering to help India May's campaign. Read her story here and why she is going from librarian to state politician. Her website/newsletter/opportunities --> mayforiowa.com

Uneducated voters will always be a greater danger to this country than immigrants.

This is why I love dogs

Auroral Corona: Cycle 25 solar maximum made 2025 a great year for aurora borealis (or aurora australis) on planet Earth. And the high level of solar activity should extend into 2026. So, while you're celebrating the arrival of the new year, check out the skies over Kirkjufell, Iceland.

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Goodbye 2025.

Now you see me

“The dream that you dare to dream really will come true” Mandy Patinkin singing with kids from PS22 at Mamdani’s inauguration is the most joyful thing I’ve seen in a long time. May 2026 be the year things start to shift. May we get universal healthcare, childcare, affordable housing & education

Ebooks are reading. Audiobooks are reading. Graphic novels are reading. Pulp reading is reading. Adults reading YA is reading. It's all good, my friends. Don't let anyone tell you different.

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

Elon Musk is nothing more than a braggart - for all his talk, blah, blah, blah, has accomplished very little with NASA in 20 years he's a very ordinary guy with an extraordinary megaphone, and piles of money - mashable.com/article/elon...

#StreetArt By Murfin #Madrid #Spain

"Amazing Grace" Hopper died #OTD in 1992. +PhD in #Mathematics, Yale +Rear Admiral, US Navy +Invented the first computer compiler, foundational to modern software +Co-developed COBOL, one of the earliest standardized computer languages #WomenInSTEM #legend

#GVerse Jack Smith says that he does not understand why #Shit4Brains would pardon people who assaulted law enforcement. He says the people who defended the Capitol that day are heroes. #Repost Do you agree with Jack?

#OTD in 1934, Agatha Christie's 𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 was first published. Christie is the world’s best-selling fiction writer and, per UNESCO, is the most-translated author in history. #literature #litsky #booksky #HappyNewYear

Not Somali.

It's so fucked up seeing western liberal democracies draw up all kinds of "solutions" to "end" the genocide in Palestine, without consulting Palestinians, with all of those solutions aimed at helping the white settler colonial apartheid ethnostate consolidate its occupation of Palestine. I hate it!

So is your New Year’s Resolution to limit your ice cream consumption cuz I certainly hope it is not! 🍦✌🏼❤️ #newyear #newyearsresolution #icecream #food #foodie #foodsky #foodiesky

One year from today, the news will be dominated by the raging lies and conspiracies spouted by a GOP that will have just lost the House and possibly the Senate You should make your plan to vote now, and make sure your friends and family have them too It's going to take all of us

Yeah Don,OLD Testament !.....

How does a person with 34 felonies, an adjudicated rapist, with involvement in a sex trafficking and money laundering ring (pimp?) who would be convicted of stealing loads of highly-classified docs and treasonously trying to overturn the results of a free/fair election become, and stay, POTUS?

What the KENNEDY Center used to be… Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.

I think I've figured out my resolution for 2026. Namely, I'm gonna try to watch more physical media. Probably won't cancel Netflix just yet, but I've got a fair number of DVDs and Blu-Rays on the shelf. Not to mention stuff available at the local library. (Libraries are rad, BTW).

Wow. Had never heard of Dorothy Andersen. Who discovered cystic fibrosis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...

If you are anywhere near Cape Cod and are in a hiking mood tomorrow, there are an astonishing **17** hikes taking place across the Cape throughout the day. (18 were scheduled and one got canceled leaving 17.) blt.org/firstdayhike...

The wealthiest ten Americans get to stop paying into Social Security within the first five minutes of 2026. Their corporate tax cuts will continue. Their bail outs, backroom deals and preferential treatment will continue. Tax the rich. Abolish the billionaire class.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

📌They appease Vladimir Putin and come after Mark Kelly. Traitors. All of ‘em.

This:

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

A New Year's Eve proposal in the North End tonight. 💙 📸: @sophiadimare

Another lunar halo tonight, multi haloes in multi colours #nature #photography #astrophotography #moon

Nellie Bly A pioneering journalist who went undercover to expose abuse in a mental asylum. Going as far as having a Dr. declare her insane & committed to Blackwell’s Island, exposing abuse inside it. Her reporting forced reforms & changed journalism. #WomenInHistory #MAHistory tinyurl.com/24by4nn3

The more you know…

So in 2026, the USPS will no longer process mail as it comes in. It will process mail when they feel like it. So they can deliver a letter or a package a month later. The Convicted FElon is doing this to prevent mail-in voting without outlawing it. He doesn't want the Democrats to win the Midterms.

Boston hosted the very first First Night 50 years ago in 1975 as an alternative way to celebrate New Year’s Eve by showcasing the city.

BREAKING: Israel has banned Doctors Without Borders from entering Gaza because healing injured Palestinians is terrorism now x

🇺🇦 Heard of Grunya Yefimovna Sukhareva❓TIL: that she was a Jewish-Ukrainian psychiatrist who defined/pathologized #autism in 1925, pre-dating Kanner & Asperger who didn't cite her remarkable work. Unlike them, she documented how it affected women&girls. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunya_... #bskySPEECHIES

Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct? Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.

I just want the same healthcare my congressman receives…

12/31/1829 — b. Lucretia Crocker, American science+math professor, groundbreaking sci educator, champion of wmn's edu. Founder,Wmn’s Edu Assn of Boston(1872); board supervisor,Boston Sch Comm('76); member, Am Assn for the Advancement of Sci('80) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #SciSky #HistSci #MathSky

Happy New Year's Eve! We had no sunrise this morning despite great promises of color, but here is a pre-dawn shot of some boats at one of our downtown docks this morning. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day – and I look forward to flushing 2025 with you at midnight!

The Blue Tsunami continues!!! 🌊🌊🌊

The first actor to play the character of CIA agent Felix Leiter in the #JamesBond film series was the super cool Brooklyn born 🇺🇸 American actor #JackLord (30 December 1920 – 21 January 1998) seen here with Sean Connery in “DR. NO” (1962) dir. Terence Young 🎬 Eon Productions

elections are a test of a state's education system

An interesting demographic, and a predictable one, I'd say.