Flew to Aswan this morning and saw the Temple at Philae, moved (95 structures!) from one island to another because of flooding issuing from the Aswan Dam. Do you notice the darker color about halfway down? This marks the depth to which the structure had been submerged.

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine💙💛 During work in the Eastern direction, he praised the servicemen of the corps, individual assault regiments and battalions, who perform combat missions in the most difficult sections of the front. facebook.com/share/p/1Awxij

A new bill that would give farmers in Iowa the right to repair is a big threat to tractor manufacturer John Deere. www.wired.com/story/latest...

Lacks' cells were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable major medical advancements, including the polio vaccine.

VIDEO: Footage released by Ecuador's environment ministry shows park rangers releasing giant tortoises. More than 150 giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Floreana Island in Ecuador's famed Galapagos archipelago where they disappeared more than a century ago

Here are 3 highly enjoyable novels for fans of modern spy fiction. Very different from each other, but all great! #JasonMHough #PaulWarner #JamesWolff #spyfiction #espionage murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/new-2026-spy...

“The Brits and Americans were saying it was going to happen…But the French and Germans were telling him: ‘Don’t listen to this, it’s all nonsense.’” www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

If you can serve as a poll worker, now is the time. The US has numerous, redundant checks to prevent vote-count fraud, but competent, honest poll workers are critical. If you want to make sure your small part of the election is run by the book, learn how to sign up here: www.eac.gov/help-america...

In case you missed this perhaps average—yet remarkable—man speaking truth to power. He is magnificent.

Yeah, lets share this again.

Imagine the anger for crowds like this to come out and protest against the pedophile führer and his fascist authoritarian regime when the temperature in Minneapolis, Minnesota is below ZERO. 😳👇

This writing from our friend @stevesawyer12.bsky.social is about campaigning in poetry, and why having policy plans are unpersuasive. It’s just first rate, and well, read and see for yourselves. @halfmarshall.bsky.social @patsybaloney.bsky.social @kcarpdiem.bsky.social @davidhemond.bsky.social

If you've followed this story, this news will come as both a bit of a shock and also welcome relief. Balko spoke about this at a symposium I put on at Bowen, and not a person there came away thinking anything other than a grave misjustice was being carried out by the State.

This was the only news outlet that covered the Iraq war with appropriate skepticism and journalistic rigor in advance of the invasion.

Gratitude for my sheer good fortune. youtu.be/S4BYOJ1tc-k

It’s Small Business Saturday! Get out there and shop local today! The snow and rain are moving out and there is plenty of time to shop our many local small businesses that need your support! @wellmanformo #TeamWellman #maplewood #Missouri #smallbusinesssaturday

Just released.... #2.

We made progress this week in our effort to ban stock-trading by Members of Congress. Representatives shouldn’t be trading stocks — and neither should the Director of the FBI!

This is such an interesting, moving, inspiring interview with @linwoodbarclay.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Today’s oligarchs are often cast as 21st-century Gilded Age robber barons. But when considering temperament and skill set, they also bear a strong similarity to southern slaveowners. That came to me while watching this: youtu.be/lmf4TXeT6qg?...

My action against authoritarianism today was to add a monthly donation to Wikipedia. (I'm making a separate donation to our local food back because of the Trump administration's choosing to end the SNAP program for now.) www.wikipedia.org

The Texas redistricting hearing started on Wednesday in El Paso. Democracy Docket is covering it every day like it is the most important case for free and for elections in the country -- because it is. Legacy media is no where to be found. Support the DD team to make it possible. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Today Chicago is the frontline in the battle for American freedom. Our resistance is peaceful, but it is not weak. We will not stop until Donald Trump gets his masked battle-armed thugs off our streets. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...

You first, Sock Boy

Best source out there for tax filings on nonprofits is @propublica.org's Nonprofit Explorer. It tends to have returns that aren't even on the IRS's website. 4/

Proud girls, you gorgons, gorgeous in your gowns, rising back unrepentant out of your loam house, tiptoe fripperies, overlook my misreading. ‘Autumn Cyclamen’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The return of once-rare birds: when habitat is restored & protected, when people remove harmful substances from the environment & address harms caused by human infrastructure such as lights at night & reflective windows, some species may return to the places we live. No pay wall.

What if one could automatically monitor what politicians promise and enhance the ability to check, at scale, whether they deliver? Pledgetracker, by @fullfact.org and researchers, tries to retrieve relevant evidence and reduce human verification effort. Read their preprint here: lnkd.in/ec5gHYV9

Bravo @willbunch.bsky.social "..the Washington Post has been the newspaper of this career journalist’s dreams... The Washington Post is dead to me."

One good thing about rewatching films you already know quite well, is it encourages you to concentrate on aspects other than the narrative - in this case, Haskell Wexler's cinematography. [and to enjoy, always, the scenes between Steiger & Poitier].

For me, hope is not a feeling of certainty about the future. It is born of the knowledge that we may do everything we can without the assurance that it will be enough. Hope is accepting that the arc of the moral universe may not bend toward justice — even if all of us push with everything we have.

Abundance but for bees

@nancyterhune.bsky.social This made me think of you...and of Harry.

@johnbharveywriter.bsky.social Just read your short entry on Peter Temple's The Broken Shore, for Connolly and Burke's Books to Die For: .."they use it as a tool, a tool with which to open up and expose a small area of society for us to examine and understand." Yes, you, too. Thank you.

Full piece:

Yes. It’s actually quite instructive to see the simplicity of older tech in solving problems. This goes right back to early Industrial Revolution when the problem solving was quite self-aware and systematic. See The Lunar Men, Jenny Uglow. Fascinating stuff.

Timeless wisdom. ✨ "Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even." — Abigail Van Buren, 1918-2013. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️

Gorgeous! “What makes life livable despite the cruelties of chance…are these little acts of mercy, of tenderness— the small clear voice rising over the cacophony of the quarrelsome, over the complaint choir of the cynics, to insist again & again that the world is beautiful and full of kindness.”

I think @atrupar.com doesn't get enough credit for watching Trump's nonsense and finding the best clips. I'd have put a gun in my mouth a long time ago if I had to do that.

“Hang on to your hope.” E. B. White in 1973.

“When you really break it down, it’s like trying to sing while you're starving. They were spending all their time just trying to find food.”

NEW: Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways.

activist360 has now launched on Bluesky. If you think the climate crisis is one of the vital challenges of our time, please follow @activist360.bsky.social. Thank you. 🙏

SEN. KLOBUCHAR: “Blaming the Dems for Trump’s Epstein files cover-up is like blaming Coldplay for that CEO getting caught cheating.”

Haven't posted here much yet, so I thought I'd try to get things rolling by offering this advance look at the cover for my next novel, which will be published in July by Knopf. #booksky

Musk can’t get up his rocket before it explodes

If you're looking for some small distraction from the daily horrors of real life in today's America, consider the brilliant, dark but fictional DI Tom Thorne detective series by Mark Billingham. #crimefiction At least in Thorne's world the bad guys usually pay the price.

So I did a google search: how to resist the aphrodisiac of power. Google returned an AI four part list with bullet points under each. It's good, but bottom line: You have to want to resist. That's probably obvious, but it's good food for thought about our elected leaders.

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⭐️ Thought thread. Exactly what’ll it take to jar the dispassion, the cruelty out of American hearts? Does choosing kindness over hate require a personal “I didn’t think it could happen to me”?