Winter finally arrives in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. The headline and lede from The Daily Mirror:

Stansbury Island at the Great Salt Lake just after sunrise.

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Americans have a habit of trying to compare all authoritarianism to Nazi Germany. I think in some ways i think it is comforting to view authoritarianism as a foreign ideology. If you want to understand our current authoritarian moment, you need to look to our own past, not to Europe 1/x

This is an actual post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Praising ICE after Alex Pretti was killed, blaming the Democratic leadership of Minnesota, and writing that ICE is greater/better than Minnesota. He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.

Here is something beautiful

This photo will be everywhere for the next week. Pls credit prominently. Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minnesota Star Tribune Every journalist covering ICE risks their lives. Tsong-Taatarii has been an NPPA Photographer of the Year, rec'd a World Press Photo award, and was on a team that won a Pulitzer.

This is not a rational person. And this is deeply disturbing coming from an American President. NATO is not our enemy—they are unequivocally our closest friends and allies. At this point, how can you not call into question the mental fitness of this President?

It’s like ICE stealing that kid’s phone and selling it. No responsibility, no law, just greedy violence. But on a massive scale. As though McKremlin consultants were explaining how to do it.

A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present. He was bundled into the van & taken away. Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?” I don’t know how America comes back from all this.

Winter, of a sadly attenuated flavor, has arrived in Utah.

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

"A 2021 Utah State University study found it’s getting hotter at every single ski resort in the state. Many are averaging about 9 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter now compared to 1980."

Here I am, in the middle of an American city, and still there can be incredible beauty.

Susie Wiles: “I was tricked by the fake news. Not once in the eleven interviews I sat down for did I see the recording devices.”

One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.

Pardoned

Walking along the escarpment above Muddy Creek in the San Rafael Swell, Utah.

It took the royal family five years longer to kick Prince Andrew out for being a paedophile than it did to kick Prince Harry out for miscegenation.

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible. Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

How much U.S. rural economic development over the last 25 years has been brewpubs, cideries, distilleries, vineyards and cannabis outlets? Only half-joking that getting people lit up feels like the only growth game for many small towns...

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

So this bodes well for the future of US innovation and leadership. 😉

Ummm…who exactly was President on J6 of 2021? WTF? Is his cult even that stupid?

Seven reasons why new small and large nuclear is useless, explained in 90 seconds www.youtube.com/shorts/EKszV... and all the details web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...

Remind me, who was the president who sat on his fat ass in the White House cheering this on during J6?

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Wonderful to see. Couldn’t happen to a less principled boot-licker.

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

There are still places in the US where you spend all day outdoors and not see another person.

But I thought if you smeared someone and they were then the victim of violence, that meant you had to be fired from your job. Or does Fox News only think that applies to teachers?

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files. But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

Russ is absolutely faint from the constant raging boner he's getting about hurting people he hates.

It took 20 years to go from Dan Rather to Bari Weiss.

Autumn in the Cedar Mountains of Utah.

Because American Christianity has never been anything more than a white supremacist doomsday cult and tax shelter.

It’s gorgeous outside right now.

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

😂🤣😂

So the studio behind all those "do the right thing in the face of injustice, oppression, and tyranny" stories - Marvel, Star Wars, etc. - is cowed by a deranged, sociopathic, narcissistic, convicted felon from Queens because its share price and executive bonuses are more important than anything

Kirk was that baby, too.

The Liar King

Trump: "When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."