Preparedness tips National Weather Service is asking media partners to pass along for both the snow/ice and cold.

❄️ 🥁Our first snowfall map is out!!! Here we go...subject to change: • Beltway: 5–10" • SE areas.: 4–8" • Far NW areas: 8–14" Change to sleet will cut down snow totals Beltway + SE but result in hard-to-shovel mess. Full briefing: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

In France, schools often have a poignant plaque on the wall near their entrance recounting how many students were kidnapped by the Nazis from that school during the occupation. Four students have been taken from this Minnesota school district.

NEW: The National Weather Service has raised the winter storm threat to its highest level for Sunday for the entire DC region. This means a high threat of a high impact winter storm that causes significant travel delays, closures and threats to life and property.

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If you're only reading headlines and see "Trump Says He Won't Use Force" it will give you a misimpression of both how bellicose this speech is and how dug in he is on Greenland.

January 17: Saturday greetings from Southern Maine. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social Today's Photos: 1. The Cape Porpoise Fish House: Kennebunkport, Maine 2. Pleasant Hill Preserve: Scarborough, Maine 3. Cape Porpoise Harbor: Kennebunkport, Maine 4. Canada geese over Maine's Scarborough Marsh

British comedian-packed space comedy Earth Must Die releases really soon and there's now a demo www.eurogamer.net/british-come...

Get in, we’re posting boardwalks 🌿

Happy hatchday to these two stinkers! Henry and Coco are 15 this weekend. Henry hatched on the 10th and Coco hatched on the 11th, and they have been a joy to me all these years. #ParrotSky

“IT WAS MURDER” Several hundred people have formed a human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach today (Sat Jan 10, 2026) 👏👏 (📸 Erik Castro)

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

It's started! The 2026 #kakapo breeding season is under way, with the first nest found on Whenua Hou today. Pearl is on two eggs. #conservation #parrots #birds

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Renewing your Annual National Park Pass? Not a fan of the 2026 design? Would you rather look at beautiful wildlife while supporting our parks? Check out these lovely stickers by a Colorado artist, which you can use to customize your pass!

The results are in! Throughout the month of December, we asked our readers for your favorite RPG of 2025. The RPG Site's Readers' Choice for Favorite RPG of 2025 is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Full results and top ten: www.rpgsite.net/feature/1928...

I went for a beautiful First Day walk yesterday. It was great to see the sun shining and plenty of other people out enjoying the day.

I read 61 books in 2025, concluding with a re-read of the Earthsea Cycle. It was a fantastic year of reading for me. 📚💙

I decided to ask the most trustworthy modern oracle -- xkcd's Emojic Magic 8 Ball (xkcd.com/1525/) -- about my upcoming year, and: Either I am definitely going to have a good year OR I am going to be subject to a volley of 100 rocket attacks. High variance year is what I'm getting out of this.

F) For the love of all that is good and holy stop wondering if your idea is any good! That way lies madness. Your idea, whatever it is, will live or die by its execution. Commit to your idea. Eat and drink your idea. Play with it, have fun with it.

THIS. Point and Clicks were a dead genre in 2008 when we single handedly brought them back with Ben There, Dan That! and they've been thriving ever since. Stop trying to erase our colossal accomplishment 😡

Primordia by Wormwood Studios is 70% off in the Steam Autumn sale! Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Primordia is a fascinating journey through a crumbling world populated by robots. ▶ store.steampowered.com/app/227000/P...

Made a few new friends today that I want to share with the world in These Times (TM)

“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow by Clock and Dagger is 55% off during the Steam Winter Sale! Explore the moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. What lies beneath the soil? Find out here: store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...

Twas the night before Christmas, and throughout the land The sleeping arrangements were carefully planned Down in the kitchen, a picturesque scene A mattress, a pillow, a washing machine

Right then, no one asked for it (everyone seems quite happy with last year's!) but here we are anyway, your #DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025 bingo card! Some returning classics, some we missed last year and some new ones. Enjoy team, donation link below once Rhodri posts it!

Here's a 🧵 on how I came to write the article I'm working on right now, and you can decide for yourself whether AI was ever going to go in this direction:

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Good morning and Happy Winter Solstice. 😊 I’m definitely looking forward to the returning of the light. Here’s a look back at my embroidery, The Lady in the Winter Garden for you today.🪡🌿🌺❄️🌲 *Completely freehand stitched in November 2023. #stitchedart #thesewingsongbird

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

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Nuzzi is the type of journalist who treats politics as offering entertaining characters, and zero stakes or substance. She has had a remarkably successful career within that particular genre. Her self-immolation, along with this vacuous memoir, illustrates the genre’s limits.

And the worst part—the worst part by far—is that the devastating consequences of this choice will be borne by people who did not make it, who could not make it. That is truly unconscionable.

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage. Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word. A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).

Proffsssor Plummm, in the master roksn, with the candlcstrikk

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

I love this one a lady did about punctuation marks

IT’S A THING! You get cremated, they mix your ashes with the eco-crete, attach a plaque, and take it out sea. Honestly, as gimmick burials go, I kinda love this.

I rearranged some toys in the bird room today, and they are pleased. #cockatiel #ParrotSky

Seals singing in a sea cave #Orkney 🦭🎧

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.

Bill Watterson’s “Calvin and Hobbes” first appeared 40 years ago, on November 18, 1985. Here’s the first week of dailies:

A section of Ara OB1, a stellar association, is visible in this image. Stellar associations are large groupings of loosely bound stars that have not yet completely drifted away from their initial formation site. Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1510/ 🔭  📷 ESO #Flashback