DOJ not exactly covering itself in glory

how do you not do this before launching a war on iran

Speak loudly and step on a big rake

The belief in trans rights entering the median voters body as Trump makes gas cost $8/gallon

Did You Know? The famous tar pit fossil site is called "Rancho LA Brea" because it is located in L.A. Follow me for more absolutely reliable and well-sourced #paleontology facts.

Well, on the bright side they made all these investments in renewable energy before cocking up the global conventional energy supp- why does my producer never stop handing me notes

okay, it's time: tenuous and obscure Pokopia

I am tired of people insinuating that biology education research and disability advocacy within the field or STEM at large are "less rigorous" or "less important" pursuits when both of these areas of critical research are what will help us continue moving the field forward.

GIVE ME BACK MY HOUR, GOVERNMENT

My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

Luuuuuuuuuunaaaaaa 💚 Few local creatures stop me in my tracks like this, just the sheer size and soft colors and markings. Like, welp, day instantly better.

I am once again tapping the "support independent, worker-owned, billionaire free news" sign. the most powerful people in the world should not be deciding whether or not we know about this sort of thing. putting Marisa's subscription link below

A really nice example of a Dolatocrinus calyx from the Devonian Thunder Bay limestone of Alpena. The stem would have connected in the center of the star and the arms would have attached on the U shaped bumps on the left pic. This shows the 5 point symmetry common in most echinoderms. #FossilFriday

feels like a minute since i have pointed out that donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than every other president of the united states combined

This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

Jersey Mardi Gras sameach to all who celebrate!

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

Elect me president and I'll make it illegal to do the little Trump impersonation everyone has

I like to argue and I like to pet cats but I don't argue with seminarians and I don't pet tigers

This is how you write a goddamn headline.

requiem for vanished birdsong

A new paper on falling cat science came out and I just have to draw people's attention to this image

Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that. Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv

never mind ketchup - Talmudic school nutrition officials declare that gourds are vegetables (don't worry, this is just a Nedarim 54 joke)

Remember, the war with Iran is necessary because it’s unacceptable to have aggressive governments run by theocratic lunatics launching unprovoked attacks on the rest of the world

a (Jewish) friend just sent this to me and it has made me laugh and laugh and laugh. Happy Purim everyone!

jesus christ obama or biden could have killed khameni they just didn't because they didn't want to set off massive regional instability. *old age* was eventually going to kill Khameni, everyone replacing him will be worse bsky.app/profile/iron...

Texans who want to help have a simple way to do so: offer to drive these folks home. Make as few or as many trips as your time, gasoline budget, and conscience allow.

Seems like the Trump administration’s staggering idiocy just got six U.S. service members killed - who never got advance warning from their own leaders to take cover. www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/p...

Big ol' snapper groggily basking at the pond yesterday.

I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

That's right. Worse than Pointless www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

I see we are bringing the American way of life to the Iranian people, starting with school shootings. That's right folks, the guy running the show is murdering children to distract from the evidence of him raping children.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

Operation Epstein Fury

People keep replying and saying things like "Well, obviously this war exists for social media content" and while I fully agree, it seems like it would have occurred to someone, even in this administration, that if you start a war for retweets, a week later YOU'RE STILL GOING TO BE IN A WAR.

For people who still care about this sort of thing, here's James Madison writing from 1793 (6 years after the delegates in Philadelphia signed the Constitution) about why the power to make war was vested in the legislature. press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/doc...

This is one of my pettier impulses but I want the record to reflect just how often this motherfucker said that Kamala Harris was the pro-war candidate in 2024.

we toured Hiroshima in February 2025, right as MAGA 2.0s chaos was reaching a fever pitch, and I’m still incredibly angry about how American voters decided to collectively defile and destroy the once shockingly successful dream of a world at far less risk of nuclear war

I like how both "the secretary of defense didn't know" and "the secretary of defense did know" are equally plausible statements that are net-equivalent on how profoundly dysfunctional of a government they represent

I picked up 4 Pentremites blastoids from an old collection. These are special because they show color patterns and a couple even have preserved brachioles (tiny hair-like structures that would filter the water for food). These are from the Miss. Glen Dean Fm. of Kentucky. #FossilFriday

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

The growth of Red-Brown politics (TYT talking about "goyim," Graham Platner boosting Stew Peters) will not be stemmed by saying they are "not real leftists." Even if you think they are not part of any meaningful left, they need to be fought by acknowledging they portray themselves as on the left.

During the marathon campaign rally that Trump called his SOTU speech, he "unveiled" a proposal for the federal government to provide matching contributions of up to $1,000 per year to the retirement accounts of low-wage earners. It's a great idea. It is also already a law signed by Biden in 2022.

look, at this point if you're on X you're fucking bathing in it and you are not immune. i don't know what else to tell you.