If the Tories had invested in public works projects when interest rates were low and borrowing money was cheap, rather than disastrous austerity policies, we could have been working to prevent these utterly predictable problems for 15 years already. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Roman villa floor mosaic. Porta Fiorentina, #Volterra #Italy 2nd Century CE The museum emphasised the high standard of decoration in Volterra at beginning of the Second Century. Now in Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, Volterra. See ALT text for description. #MosaicMonday #Roman

How do you make a restoration project last forever? Our partners did incredible work at the Speedman Project in North Carolina. They took a former farm field and: ✅ Restored 3,500 feet of stream channels ✅ Removed old drainage ditches ✅ Replanted forests to protect wetlands

The government DID fall in January, to a lawless regime and its mentally-diseased caudillo.

“The EPA is taking a big swipe at the Clean Water Act, our greatest tool for ensuring clean water nationwide. We implore them to reverse course.” -Leda Huta, Vice President of Government Relations, American Rivers Read more: www.americanrivers.org/media-item/a...

Running DOJ with grads from the Lionel Hutz School of Lawyer Stuff is working out about as well as one would expect.

Watching a snake devour another snake doesn't change the fact that they're both snakes. (Apologies to actual herps, btw. 🐍)

Republicans: "It became necessary to destroy the economy to save it." 🙄

In addition to being murder on the high seas and a moral and ethical obscenity, Trump and his flying monkeys blowing up suspected drug runners is counterproductive to actually stopping the flow of drugs to the US.

US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...

Tonight's Daily Kos Top Comments diary: Ancient RNA Recovered from Siberian Wooly Mammoths Up to 50,000 years old. www.dailykos.com/story/2025/1...

NEW STORY // Op-Ed: Making Seattle Neighborhoods More Accessible by Design Op-ed by @matthutchins.bsky.social via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/16/o...

THE GOLDEN COMET IS FALLING APART (2) Last week, California astronomer Dan Bartlett pointed his telescope at golden comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) to capture a close encounter with the Leo Triplet of galaxies. He quickly realized something was wrong spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...

Say Anything 2: Trump Boogaloo

And the press will keep uncritically reporting these so-called deals as if they’re real. 😠

Rams picked Darnold four times . . . and won by two points. Seattle outgained the Rams by over a hundred yards . . . and lost by two points. Two great defensive performances.

Trump needs to protect his most important ally . . .

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Why is the US military handling law enforcement?

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Remembering Darwyn Cooke on his birthday. #ComicSky

Making Tribute Great Again 😒

On this day, 38 years ago, The Sisters of Mercy released their second studio album, the polished classic that is Floodland.

More than 2 million oil and gas wells sit unplugged in the U.S., many leaking contaminants into waterways, farmland and neighborhoods. Time and time again, oil companies have walked away — leaving taxpayers to pay for cleanup. Here’s how. (Published Dec. 2024)

“A course more promising than a wild dedication of yourselves, to unpathed waters, undreamed shores.” -William Shakespeare #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean #ShakespeareSunday #SundayMorning #Sailing #Diving #Surfing

Well, we know that "two weeks" means "never" in Trump-speak, so I guess "sometime next year" is "never, ever, ever."

Looking forward to sweet potatoes on your Thanksgiving table? Some of them will come thanks to these Kern County farm workers who labor long hours harvesting this yummy treat. #WeFeedYou

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

Project 2025 implementation. They want to end democracy in 🇺🇸. Permanent power. Nothing less.

Called it almost a year ago.

Attn: @congressmin.bsky.social. @padilla.senate.gov, @schiff.senate.gov, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social

Racism under color of law, right down to the #SCOTUS imprimatur. We’ve become something abhorrent.

We need more Americans who embrace immigrants as “my guys.”

If she’s looking for sympathy, she’ll find it between 💩 and syphilis in the dictionary. Getting a taste of her own bitter medicine.

Omg this is so cool Discovered the very first hoofed animal and it isn't a mammal arstechnica.com/science/2025...

I ripped my kids’ school district a bloody hole when they sent out what amounted to a push poll in favor of year-round schooling. Just a ridiculously biased instrument from a guy with an Ed.D no less.

"[The Trump Administration] repeatedly and publicly announced a playbook of initiating civil rights investigations of preeminent universities to justify cutting off federal funding, with the goal of bringing universities to their knees and forcing them to change their ideological tune," Lin wrote.

Hey Megyn Kelly, 14-year-old Eloise would like a word: “If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good… because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.” Sound up! 🔥🔊 1/2

Meanwhile 20% of respondents are like, “Extrajudicial murder on the high seas by the military? Boy, I dunno,” and I’m reminded once again too many of my fellow Americans have Swiss cheese for brains. That a fifth of Americans are “unsure” is how we got here.

“Astonishing” is the new “predictable.”

The Christian Science Monitor: ‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/...

Just heard about this on the radio - fab news!! I know the Isle of Muck well (never set foot on it though as it's closed to the public to protect wildlife). Muck is from the Gaelic word "muc", which means pig by the way! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another Trump Admin fact- and evidence-free legal” argument consisting of, “‘cause we say so and everything follows from that.”