USS Iowa (BB61) passing through the Panama Canal after her return to service in the 1980s. Iowa class battleships were designed with a beam that would (just) fit through the canal’s locks. #USNavy #WW2 #Panama #Battleships

The Pig Must be caught by Danish artist Christian Mølsted Turkeys are so much easier… #Baltic #Tallships #Danishnavy

The artist is not on bluesky but you can give them a follow and see some of their other tremendous work here!

so the hot question is: who was the worst Muppet Show host?

Ted should stick to his strength: flying somewhere warmer

LOL eat shit

Here's an idea, why don't you fuck right off

I should add that while North Carolina's width varies a lot, the state is almost 500 miles long. It's about 50k square miles total, depending on how you count. science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-... #wx #NASA #NCwx #snow #winter #weather #NorthCarolina

Bunker vessel Intergod VII ran aground on Santa Marta beach, Colombia...

In case you missed this last night, with links in the thread to the judge's sentencing remarks

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

Neither the President nor Vice President of the United States can make a public appearance in front of a non-partisan crowd either in America or abroad without being booed.

I post my bad art in the hopes that it inspires others to make (and please post!) their own. I don't care how bad mine is, if there is something I like about what I made it is a success

if you spend any significant amount of time on X the everything app, your brain is being cooked

have you ever wanted to transform into a patch of creeping woodsorrel? a striped bark scorpion? a hoary bat? then Druidism may be right for you! violentmedia.itch.io/index-cards-...

If folks in other parts of the country are preparing for ICe Surge, part of the fabric of response has to include anti-fascist tow truck drivers. Recruit them now.

Tow truck driver offering free service returning abandoned vehicles to families of those abducted by ICE: "For the last three weeks, we have been getting nothing but death threats." www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

What I love about that six word Hemingway story, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" is that in those few words we instantly grasp the sadness of what it is trying to tell us: the baby was so freakishly massive when it was born that it could never wear the shoes its parents had bought for it.

In an opinion dismissing Trump's attempt to get an unredacted copy of Oregon's complete voter registration list, a federal judge cites Bondi's extortion letter to Gov. Walz as support for denying the government a presumption of regularity storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Doctors and public health officials are concerned about the drop in health alerts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since President Trump returned for a second term. n.pr/3O3LRna

Not only that, but I guarantee you that Republicans from Long Island will sponsor legislation to rename Penn for Trump and Republicans from Virginia will do the same for Dulles.

Ukraine is turning the tables on Russian drone pilots by using new high-tech detectors to spy on their live video feeds in real time.

I'm starting to think their midterms plan is to lose so many seats that it actually seems suspicious lol

That’s the power of beans, baby

oh I'm sure everybody will listen to this request

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Apple, no, the solution to a person sending a text on the subway is not DO YOU NEED TO TALK TO SPACE?

The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau. @lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not. We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post. Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving

I don't know why it took a video posted by Trump for the media to realize he's racist when DHS is engaged in an ethnic cleansing campaign in Minneapolis.

(just to recap)

Even if this isn’t true, in the unlikely scenario Dems retake the Senate in November you better believe he’s quitting and a replacement is being rammed through in a matter of weeks.

Not that it would be okay to do this to an undocumented immigrant either but THIS GUY IS A LEGAL IMMIGRANT and also his lawyer hand delivered his medication and they REFUSED TO GIVE IT TO HIM. Enraging! How do ANY of these people live with themselves?

CORRUPTION ALERT: Trump and his family have raked in more than $4 BILLION, mostly from their crypto schemes. I wrote the End Crypto Corruption Act to ban any elected official from using their influence to line their own pockets with this kind of grift—I’m fighting to get it passed.

I find this intersection utterly fascinating and I always appreciate hearing niq's discussion of it

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

I have a shorter version of my thread: If you are late for *absolutely anything* today, & I don't care what the reason is, tell whomever: "Today, the Sun is running over 14 minutes behind what the clock says, and it really, *really* messed me up. I'm very sorry." 🤣

If you'd like to read it at home: quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/N058...

I am holding one of two surviving copies of Theodore Frielinghuysen Jr's "Wars and rumors of wars, heavens decree over the world: A sermon, preached in the camp of the New-England forces, On occasion of the expedition to remove the encroachments of the French" and I am freaking the fuck out.

O rly

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

This thread about beans has been popping in & out of my TL for 2 days now. I can't guarantee you'll take the right path through it, but it's high time I RPed it.

i am begging you to read the article

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The fact that a staffer spends time doing this says all we need to know.

To recap the White House's official position, the racist video was posted erroneously by a staffer and they took it down, but even if it was posted on purpose, the outrage would have been fake because the post was fine and inspired by the Lion King

POLITICO reporting that the White House has now claimed the ape video was an accident and removed it.

Yeah, this is like when their "surrender to us!" demand letter to Harvard was sent "by mistake."

A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, other countries. n.pr/4qlvIaa