Factoid of the day: "An orca’s penis can reach up to 2 meters (6.6 feet) in length. Rarely observed in the wild, making such a breaching event a once-in-a-lifetime sighting for scientists and photographers."

#Orchids are #flowers, too. Coryanthes alborosea, grown by a friend.

#Flowers_and_Plants Philodendron patriciae Photo courtesy of Ecuagenera Araceae.

#Aloha and good morning. Hōlei Sea Arch, at the end of Chain of Craters Rd., in Volcanoes National Park. (My photo.) www.nps.gov/places/holei...

Trump is now doing a full 180 on the Epstein files after losing his months-long battle to stop the release. #ACloserLook www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOm9...

From beyond the grave… #Epstein_Trump

Wasn't the Trump regime very outraged when President Zelensky didn't wear a suit? #MBS

I saw this comment elsewhere, and I’m grateful for the perspective: ~~ I had a European gent in my comments who said, “Dark times? America, you are BEATING BACK FASCISM! These should be joyous times! You are winning a fight in mere months that other countries have taken decades to win.” ~~

Trump scolded a reporter for “embarrassing our guest” Mohammed bin Salman. But MBS seemed less aggrieved than Trump. Mary Bruce of ABC News asked a series of questions that Donald Trump deemed “horrible,” “terrible,” and “insubordinate.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Piggies. Cartoon in @crooksandliars.bsky.social. #piggy, #Trump.

Someone did their homework to make this. #Epstein_Trump

Ms. Piggy’s Statement:

Quiet Piggy!!! Quiet Piggy!!!

#2025

#2025 🫣

#Orchids are #flowers, too. Dendrobium lindleyi, aka Den. aggregatum. Photo taken in Australia by a friend of mine. This orchid was ‘benched’ by the judges… meaning, they didn’t think it would qualify for an award. 🤔

#Flowers_and_Plants Lovely blue jade vine flowers. Photos by the great Clark Little.

Running late today… #Aloha and good morning! It’s a rainy, stormy day day… nothing at all like this photo!

A Yale study showed that older people with more positive beliefs about aging lived an average of 7.5 longer than people who equated aging with disease and decline. Actress and activist Jane Fonda and anti-ageism advocate Ashton Applewhite share a key to living a longer life. cbsn.ws/4igZBFG

#art_appreciation A watershed moment for the November auctions arrived tonight at Sotheby’s, where Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914–16) sold for $236M after 20 minutes of bidding, eclipsing the artist’s previous auction record. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

#Epstein_Transparency_Act_Passes_House_and_Senate The swift Senate action ends the protracted battle in Congress over the files, which caused months of turmoil in the House and gave Democrats political ammo against GOP, accusing them of protecting pedophiles. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public www.404media.co/contractor-p...

I want to take a moment to thank the entire Elias Law Group team who worked on the Texas redistricting case as well as our fearless clients. The thirteen Black and Latino voters we represented stood up to challenge Texas's unprecedented mid-decade redistricting. We all ow them a debt of gratitude.

#Orchids are #flowers, too. Cattleya Ruth Bader Ginsberg 'Supreme Court'.

##Flowers_and_Plants A pretty pink hibiscus, growing in a friend's yard.

##Aloha and good morning.

U.S. lawmakers voting on wheth... www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...

Rebecca Solnit wrote this essay about rape in September. #Trump_Epstein_Coverup www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

#Orchids are #flowers, too. I chanced upon this cute, mini Phalaenopsis (no name tag) at a local Sunday market yesterday.

#Flowers_and_Plants I saw this beautiful bromeliad in a friend's yard, down in lower Puna yesterday.

#Aloha and good morning.

A federal judge ORDERS the disclosure of James Comey's grand jury minutes to the defense, citing a "disturbing pattern pattern of profound investigative missteps" and casting doubt on Lindsey Halligan's declaration about the gap in the record. Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...

From @theliamnissan.bsky.social "Horseshit. He's banking on the fact that the DOJ cannot release the files because of the new ‘investigation' he just ordered Pam Bondi to open." #EpsteinTrumpCoverUp #EpsteinEmails

Seen over in ‘the bad place’: "Dear attorneys for Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman and Larry Summers. Please ask Pam Bondi if she LIED about the following statement in the DOJ memo released July 2025. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

#EpsteinTrumpCoverUp #EpsteinEmails

#EpsteinTrumpCoverUp #EpsteinEmails #JusticeForVictims

#EpsteinTrumpCoverUp #EpsteinEmails

Matt Yglesias isn’t the brightest light in the harbor/harbour, is he?

#EpsteinTrumpCoverUp #EpsteinEmails

Good work by COURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social One of many examples of the new journalistic models evolving to fill existing-journalism voids.

Germany cancels auction of Holocaust artifacts after backlash trib.al/tfEAMGj

Marge wants us all to know that she is NOT suicidal.

“Loving too much, and possibly too young:” #SNL