What could Elon Musk’s $1 trillion compensation package fund if it were returned to the people? www.instagram.com/p/DQxKWX-E4L...

The fact affluent people say they got their disproportionate wealth through individual "hard work" ... nope, my ... usually white Western man ... I am sure other systemic factors were at play.

If these people are so smart and believe in the power of capitalism to solve all problems, then show us! Actually fix the problems we've been screaming at you about! They can't, because deep down they know they are the problem. They just see the problems for us as helpful tools for themselves.

Reading the discourse around SNAP benefits and then watching the Trump administration trying to block millions of Americans from accessing SNAP benefits so they can eat has just reminded me of how cruel the world is to those who are the poorest amongst us.

The rich have ensured that the discourse around poverty is that it is a personal failing, not a policy choice. And largely people with means have bought this propaganda. It means that those who are most vulnerable like the unhoused are essentially abandoned.

When I was a kid, my dad pulled me aside and told me that the people I need to be kindest to are the poorest because this capitalist world we live in forgives you anything but it shames you deeply and never forgives you for being poor. It made me realise how deeply fucked up the world is very early.

With due respect to Rilke for the second to last line, I wrote this after going for a walk in the forest whilst in the throes of despair.

Just to clarify, this is really quite a small specimen and my backside is correspondingly petite 🐢

THANK YOU, @stevevladeck.bsky.social, for explaining why Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson ruled in a way that - to those of us who don't understand the legal complexity - seemed troubling and out of character. This is an excellent piece.

My 90-second breakdown repost from IG on the SNAP benefits SCOTUS stay

I'm really struggling to understand why Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson did this. Eagerly looking forward to more info.

It’s disgraceful that the administration chose to go to court instead of fulfilling its responsibility to the American people. I will not stop fighting until every family has the resources they need to put food on the table. apnews.com/article/snap...

The wording of this is highly unusual, and suggests that Justice Jackson is expecting the First Circuit to rule on a stay pending appeal (a longer pause of the district court's order) in the next few days. I'll have more to say about this in "One First" as soon as I can write it up.

BREAKING: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issues an administrative stay in the SNAP benefits case, for the First Circuit to issue its ruling on the stay request (“with dispatch”). Her administrative stay ends 48 hours after that ruling is issued (or upon further order).

One of the smaller pieces that's still available is "Safely Furled." www.circusposterus.com/product-cate...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration turns to Supreme Court to block order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments.

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.

Another court has ordered the federal government to stop holding food assistance hostage.      There is no excuse for their refusal to feed the American people. 
  The USDA must release full SNAP benefits so families across the country can put food on the table.

Permian (~260 million year old) fossil wood of Glossopteris and its delicious scale bar to celebrate #FossilFriday! #paleobotany 🍃⛏️🍫

"The court wrangling prolonged weeks of uncertainty for the food program that serves about 1 in 8 Americans, mostly with lower incomes." @apnews.com apnews.com/article/snap...

Happy #FossilFriday! It’s #GarWeek so check out these 50 million year old #gar fish from #Utah at the Science Museum of Minnesota! This genus, Lepisosteus, goes back to the Cretaceous and is still swimming today! Thanks to @bellmuseum.bsky.social & @garlab.bsky.social for hyping these cool #fish!

What do we know about the last surviving dinosaurs, living right before the asteroid? And is Nanotyrannus a tiny tyrannosaur species or juvenile T. rex? Lindsay Zanno & I talk through the big questions with Ira Flatow on today's @scifri.bsky.social ! www.sciencefriday.com/segments/din...

Fantastic new slab of eensy little sea urchin fossils from Oregon, courtesy of @smilodonichthys.bsky.social #FossilFriday ⚒️

Most science degrees never require students to learn how to communicate their work to the public. That gap fuels confusion, mistrust, and missed opportunities to protect lives. Let's change it. Sign the petition to make communication + public engagement training a degree requirement. bit.ly/3LbnfHB

A reminder that if you are called to be part of a jury in a political prosecution you have a right to refuse to convict on the grounds the prosecution is unjust. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Let's see how many views the #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge #AppleTV trailer has had at YouTube.... hmm, 140K. If you haven't seen it www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7kv... oh, this does NOT show all the animals we feature by the way. Such a thrill to help bring this together, you're gonna love it :)

Nice way to start the day: www.italianjournalofgeosciences.it/297/article-...

Hundreds of doctors, concerned citizens, public health professionals, and science allies joined us in Washington DC to let the world know: RFK Jr. has got to go! #ImpeachtheQuack @apha.org @moveon.org @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social @pnhpnymetro.bsky.social @drsforamerica.bsky.social and more

Where to find food assistance or donate meals in NH during the government shutdown - Kate Dario @nhpr.org www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Reporters from the NPR Network are covering the uncertainty and lapse in benefits in states across the country.

"They are very comfortable bedfellows because once you have created a culture in which all expertise is denigrated and removed from the equation and considered nonessential, you create the circumstances in which AI can flourish." @maggietokudahall.bsky.social

The Prehistoric Planet trailer is out! It was an honor to work with this incredible team: youtube.com/watch?v=f7kv...

❤️🦣🐘🦥🦏 The trailer for Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7kv...

Dia 10 vai dropar uma publicação muuuito legal. Anotem ai 👀

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

BREAKING: We took the Trump-Vance administration back to court and WON AGAIN. The court was clear today: the President must stop playing politics with the lives of 42 million people in America.

In a major victory, a court has ordered the Trump administration to send full November SNAP benefits by tomorrow.   I'm relieved that people will get the food they need, but it's outrageous that it took a lawsuit to make the federal government feed its own people.

"The judge's order Thursday afternoon comes in response to a challenge filed by cities and nonprofits after the administration said it would halt funding for the program on Nov. 1." @jenniferludden.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...

"...the fed gov is 'directing states to use the most complex & labor-intensive approach possible,' according to a bluntly worded letter sent...by Pennsylvania Human Services Secretary Val Arkoosh to [USDA]..." - Kate Giammarise @wesa.fm www.wesa.fm/politics-gov...

"Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett had nothing — not a word — to say about [the harm this will inflict] when allowing the Trump administration to implement its policy." @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

I listened to the Supreme Court's oral argument today so you dont have to With the notable exception of Alito & Thomas carrying on like 'what if aliens were gonna destroy the world and the only thing that could stop it was a tariff,' the Court seemed Not Into It ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/learn...

GORGEOUS artwork by Guilherme Gehr. #ichnology #Brasil

Fossilized masses of little tiny egg-shaped poops keep showing up in surprising places - inside fish braincases, inside pulp cavities of whale and dolphin teeth, and now, within the middle ear sinus of an extinct dolphin. Who, uh, dealt these? coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2025/11/acid...

Evidently, there was some selective pressure in the Late Cretaceous that encouraged azhdarchids to become huge multiple times. Exactly what, we don't know. Easier to travel long distances by foot or by wing? Protection from theropods? Were mesopredatory niches free real estate? We shall see...

...yet mostly lived at the same time, at the end of the Cretaceous. This suggests that giant azhdarchids may not have been making intercontinental flights on the regular, as has been previously proposed. The giants probably adapted their specific ecosystems - particularly Hatzegopteryx