Got my Project for Awesome stuff today and it was the perfect reminder for me to be hopeful. It was my honor to be part of something so amazing for the first time! Looking forward to next year!

First Amendment attorney here. They are 100% allowed to do that.

Found what I think are some Chicken of the Woods on a walk near my house. Pretty cool!

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Nature is the only thing that distracts me from a world on fire sometimes. There’s a wonderful urban forest near me that I wander when I can. Cool little things I found this time.

New research estimates that as many as 2.2 million more people could die of tuberculosis if U.S. cuts to foreign aid become permanent.

These are very easy things to say: I am against gun violence, no matter who is the victim or perpetrator. I am against genocide, no matter who is the victim or the perpetrator. I am against child abuse, no matter who is the victim or the perpetrator. Please let's choose love over fear.

When I get anxious about events I usually go out looking for odd things to take pictures of. I’d never seen mole crickets around my house before this one in my driveway.

Instead of trying to rein in Trump’s authoritarian urges, the justices have become his accomplices. Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

We should demand that the people leading our nation’s energy policy have a basic understanding of how the technology they regulate works. This is embarrassing.

As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

"Numbers tend to benefit the left." That's because the Right builds its narratives on lies; and lies are disproven with facts. Vaccines save lives. Tariffs are taxes on consumers. America was NOT founded as a Christian nation. Election results reflect the votes cast. Jan 6 was a failed coup. Etc.

Hank Green coming in hot with the best summation of the situation at hand in regards to renewables + energy pricing. #solar #energysky youtu.be/39YO-0HBKtA?...

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

When you forget that you live near a launch facility and temporarily freak out and then remember that Wallops delayed a launch until tonight.

Putting armed military on American streets makes us less safe and less free.

You got a brand new We’re Here yesterday! Hank answered the question we’ve all been asking: whose idea was it for the Focus Friend beans to have butt cracks? Read it: werehere.beehiiv.com

I’m not a fun-guy person. But this thing looked so cool I had to take a picture. Found on a walk in a local forest.

Found this nest near my house recently. Fun to watch.

Start the weekend off with a fun little email! Hank talked about how weird and wonderful @thegooddotstore.bsky.social is, dogs were good again this week, and you all had great snack suggestions. Read the We're Here newsletter: werehere.beehiiv.com/subscribe

My Dad is going through the early stages of treatment for prostate cancer. His brother passed from long term complications of it a few years ago. I’m processing the fact that this great guy might be gone soon and that both me and my son might have to deal with it eventually.

From rejecting a monarchy to installing an autocracy anntelnaes.substack.com/p/in-1776-we...

Been a while since I. Posted anything. Here’s a black rat snake I caught sunning down by the creek.

I live in a wetlands area with a small stream with seasonally fluctuating depths. I think this critter is a muskrat. But I also know invasive nutria might be around. Any good way to tell the difference?

It’s goose watching season for me. Being a dinosaur fan all my life has led to any easy transition to this stage of my life.

Fired a black person who was qualified, hired a white person with no qualifications whatsoever. The Trump administration in a nutshell bsky.app/profile/axio...

Anne Frank, diary entry, January 13, 1943.

NEW: The Great Lakes hold 95% of all the surface freshwater in the United States. Severe cuts have decimated the NOAA Great Lakes lab. Scientists worry they’ve lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people. My story for @propublica.org

vaccines are maybe the coolest thing we ever figured out. they are more impressive by a wide margin than the moon landing. We have never done anything better with our capacity for genius

There are people replying to this with "grow your own food". I continue to assume that such people have not actually cooked or grown anything.

I just got my @scishow.bsky.social postcards out of the mailbox! The design is awesome and I can’t wait check out the videos later! Thanks and keep up the awesome work!

If Trump's FBI is arresting judges in courthouses, why would you think you're safe? They're disappearing people without due process and imprisoning them in foreign camps, without due process how can you think you're safe? Nobody is safe in Trump's America.

Well. We had a good run people. But back The Jungle we go.

This is so heartbreaking and makes nothing better and no one safer. It is the punitive act of an administration that values fealty over human health.

Certainly worth repeating in the times we are in..

I have a stream adjacent wetland behind my house. It is full of Ash trees that were hit hard by borers a few years ago. I’m trying to replace the canopy with natives and here is my first new friend. River birch survived the winter and is ready to leaf!

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

It’s already looking like a day, so here is a photo of a muskrat that I took in my creek recently. They scared away a beaver recently which I thought was interesting.

after a setback like this, i imagine elon just has to sit down and decompress and have someone else play video games

I’m a proud AFSCME member in the municipal part (M). I proudly stand with my Federal Sisters and Brothers against any & all attempts to strip them of their rights! We will not be serfs!

I've just had every @dropout.tv animation on my channel copyright claimed last night by a company I don't recognise. Could someone please get in touch before I have to delete every video on my channel? A bit scared! @samreich.bsky.social

How do you convince a family member (cousin) that the tiny amount of money they would save in taxes is not worth destroying a constitutionally created service like the Post Office? Especially when half their family works for Amazon?

Happy World TB Day. Grateful for all the work global TB Fighters pour into preventing this curable and preventable scourge. Together, we can end TB.

Donald Trump’s billionaire Commerce Secretary has financial advice for Americans: 1. Please buy Tesla stock to help poor Elon Musk. 2. Shut up and don’t complain when you don’t get your Social Security check.

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Yes. But more likely a malicious attempt to make up a reason to hate the Judge. I bought a house for $180,000 14 years ago worth more than double that now and my salary was in the 40k range. Weird how nobody thinks I’m getting kickbacks or something when my house was more than 4 times my salary.

What the fuck do the partners at this firm think they're going to do when there's no more rule of law,?

People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.