A look at global temperatures so far this year (January to November) compared to each other period since 1850... 2025 is the 2nd highest on record! Data from www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

Hannah Arendt described a dynamic in which Nazi leaders claimed the right to define reality itself, expecting followers to match the narrative. Lies are not about hiding an embarrassing truth; it’s demonstrating the leader’s will outranks evidence, institutions, and even the follower’s own senses.

How easy we forget.🤷‍♀️

Santa left him wind turbines in his stocking for being a bad boy.

sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers

"Growing up in Gaza, I didn't realize that the siege I was living under was unique or that others didn't face a constant threat of death. It was only after I left that I understood I had grown up in a concentration camp, and that it shaped my life. " mondoweiss.net/2025/12/i-di...

The court document below is NOT new. I reprinted it in my 2020 book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT when discussing Trump's history with Epstein. Others also covered it. It was publicly available. Garland of course knew too and protected Trump. And Dems protected and defended Garland. Why pretend otherwise?

Let's get fucking clear. His voters are *not* "half the country." According to one calculation based on a U.S. population of approximately 340.1 million, Trump's votes represent roughly 23% of the total population. That is the truth. We're being ruled by maybe 25% of the US. And we outnumber them.

Sara Kendzior wrote at length about Garland in at least 2 of her books. She didn’t write much that is positive. A partial summary can be found at the link below… sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o... Her account is objectively damning of both Garland and his lack of action against trump.

A 17-year-old worker died at a pork producer in Nebraska run by the governor’s family. Two investigations later, the boy’s mother is still searching for answers. trib.al/z7ZUF62

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, the German constitution guaranteed freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Through decrees and laws, the Nazis abolished these civil rights and destroyed German democracy. Starting in 1934, it was illegal to criticize the Nazi government.

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

I don't want to get too deeply into this, but long before the Nazis started building specific facilities to commit industrial scale mass murder of people they dehumanized, they began to build these sorts of places, to concentrate them, if you will.

ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people … with a smaller facility holding up to 1,500 people in Woodbury. wapo.st/4axtwZ4

Lake Michigan in the Epstein files. I’m not gonna be able to see a marina the same way again. Poor baby, poor girl.

CW: SA, infanticide According to this Epstein file Trump regularly paid to sexually assault a 13 year old on a yacht and watched as they disposed of the 13 year olds new born child off the side of the boat in lake Michigan. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

The US has boarded a third tanker, the Panama-flagged Bella-1 en route to Venezuela.

“The supreme quality of leadership is unquestionably integrity.”—Dwight Eisenhower “If not us, who? If now now, when?”—John F. Kennedy “We are the change that we seek.”—Barrack Obama “Her undergarments, sometimes referred to as panties, are folded perfect, wrapped. They’re like so perfect.”—Trump

F.F.S...

Currently at the funeral for the penny, happening at the Lincoln Memorial:

New AMS Statement: Dismantling NSF’s National Center for Atmospheric Research would weaken U.S. leadership in weather, water, and climate science, putting public safety at risk. For more than 60 years, NSF NCAR has improved forecasts and early warnings that save lives. More: https://bit.ly/4q6eChn

Those who dismiss the Epstein files are in them. I am yet to see an exception to this assertion.

ah, more props to BuzzFeed: they did figure out Epstein was at the 2011 dinner after his conviction, plus at least 3 dinners beforehand. They even reported that Brooks was there! So six years ago, NYT should have known Brooks was socializing with Epstein. For shame. (h/t @dreadfulpenny.bsky.social)

During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump’s new wife, whom they had met earlier. Ms. Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye. “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband,” she told Ms. Coleman. “Protect her."

NCAR manages the Wyoming Supercomputing Center, where researchers from other institutions have access to high-performance computing resources (most recently Cheyenne and now Derecho) to model weather, climate, wildfires, air pollution, etc. Everyone is less safe if NCAR is dismantled.

I did not see the twist coming in this timely, powerful thread:

Sometimes I remember how Ruth Bader Ginsberg would celebrate NYE with her buddy Antonin Scalia.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

This is part of the plan of the Heritage Foundation to dismantle climate research and privatize weather data and prediction.

Getting rid of intellectuals and experts is straight out of the authoritarian playbook.

Dr Seuss cartoon.

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

The photos all focus on the rash. But w measles your tongue/throat get coated with a thick white gunk. You can't taste, but it doesn't matter bc you can't swallow. Your eyes swell and close and you can't stand any light. You lose yr voice, yr sight, yr hearing. My hearing never recovered. 1/3

Medicare for All. It's beyond time.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Brain swelling, which necessitates regular MRI’s, and tiredness are main side effects of the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, administered intravenously through the hand. — So, is Trump secretly taking Alzheimer’s medication?

Healthcare is not a consumer product. People's lives are not a consumer good. America needs Universal Healthcare.

It's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

Centrist Democrats want to be Republicans so bad.

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

We encountered an ICE immigration enforcement action on Park Ave. in Minneapolis today. When my colleague Ben Hovland and I arrived there were only a couple observers, but there were dozens blowing whistles by the time ICE agents left without making an arrest. www.instagram.com/reel/DR3DO1I...

Trump: "Under Boot Edge Edge - another grossly incompetent. Get on his bicycle, ride to work. What they do is they take the fiber optics & they take fiber, try to hook it into copper. And fiber and copper don't mix. You can't do it...you saw that by the helicopter crash. You saw that into the plane"

🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.

Remember the ominous rows of red Christmas trees that Melania used to decorate the White House in 2018? That was in the East Colonnade. The entire East Wing is gone now.

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

They want to make sure the people they bomb in the Caribbean are dead so they can't ever tell anyone that they were not running drugs

Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire? Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.

This is the energy we need‼️