any entomologists on here know what type of insects these might be? And what they’re up to? Filmed today, in Finger Lakes area, above a field. I’m surprised that they are so active given that it has started to get down to the mid 20s (F) at night. Some kind of stonefly?

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1

#UPDATE: A fourth Indiana Senate Republican has experienced a swatting attempt amid the legislature's contentious mid-decade redistricting fight. www.indystar.com/story/…

Remember how, during Trump’s first impeachment, it became clear there was an entire server full of extremely incriminating calls between Trump and foreign leaders - and Pelosi literally killed efforts to get that server because she preferred a “quick, narrow” impeachment that would be “simple”?

This, taking place the UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil, is a bit on the nose.

How upside down is our world? The White House occupant thinks elected public servants who say the military should not follow illegal orders are "punishable by death." We exactly need public servants to speak out against illegal orders and not be cowed by a man who despises our Constitution.

Seems like a lot of this country’s leaders deserve to have sandwiches lobbed in their general direction

A favorite tool for assessing where a given congressperson stands: the League of Conservation Voters scorecard. These scores speak volumes about somebody’s priorities. (This is not news — been going since 1970 — but I’m sometimes surprised it isn’t better known.) www.lcv.org/congressiona...

Very disappointing to see Josh Riley on this list. Lives in progressive Ithaca, seems like a genuinely good dude (as politicians go), first-term Rep who just unseated the GOP incumbent. Why vote like this???

let’s go Illinois !!!

Running outside is the best. It always makes me feel better, and then I sometimes forget that it always make me feel better... some unhelpful cognitive mechanism at play.

An absolutely fascinating and disturbing story about a fabulist whose story unraveled after editor @nickhunebrown.bsky.social did some poking around, following a suspicious-sounding pitch thelocal.to/investigatin...

imagine if the guy valued competence over loyalty. we’d be in a lot more trouble!

when all the lawyers on your timeline go off at once

an amusing level of incompetence

“They’re trying to somehow tie President Trump to the scandal”

Excellent and necessary piece from @marisakabas.bsky.social. So many outlets and journalists have lost moral authority... and it seems to not matter on a human level as much as it should.

As winter flooding looms, it's worth noting that a young street tree in an asphalt surface can prevent 60% of the rain that falls on it from reaching the ground, even when not in leaf. Increasing the low levels of urban tree cover should be a strategic national priority.

In 2024, China installed 1.5x as much new solar as the entire US installed base. (via MS/Jonas)

Not sure the point of deporting hard working people who fled awful conditions in their own countries and are caring for the sick, elderly, and paralyzed, not only harming our own economy, but vulnerable people who rely on this assistance.

Fascinating! 🧪

Reading from AI summaries (via LLMs) rather than doing your own minimal reading impairs learning and produces shallower knowledge. "...learning from LLM syntheses (vs. web links) can, at times, limit the development of deeper, more original knowledge." 🧪 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

whoever wrote this job description should be on a watch list #marketing #AI #yourescaringpeople

The cruelty knows no bounds.

Hello internets, there's a paleontological museum in danger of being closed. Please help.

>1,000 FBI agents spent weeks of furious effort redacting Trump’s name (and others) this summer from the Epstein files, do we really think we’re gonna learn that much?

name a better Dylan album. i’ll wait

So the occupant of our White House is cool with pedophilia and we’re just going to carry on like everything is normal?

The current Occupant of the White House is a sewer dwelling scum of the earth scared loser who is lashing out. @RepThomasMassie wife died last year. Congratulations to him on his new marriage. It is clear President Dump is afraid of what is coming.

This is real. A government agency calling Americans performing their democratic right of protest “imbecilic morons.” This Trump regime is a poison and never should have gotten power. A total disgrace.

What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…” Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Buying a black & white printer for exclusively printing text has been huge. I write stuff, print it out, edit on paper. It's immensely helpful. I'm 41 & have done this often throughout life, and I know this is not a unique insight, but it's easy to get complacent or forget its importance.

This may be Trump's perfect social media post. A true work of art. He confirms: ✅He personally directs criminal investigations. ✅He is targeting opponents. ✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents. Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀

one thing LinkedIn is good for is crashing my browser / using up large amounts of RAM anybody else noticed this? And why?

This NYPost lede: "Contender, the largest male great white shark ever recorded in the Atlantic, is on the move once again." No hate, but this is amusingly bad — one of the most famous attributes of sharks is that they constantly move. It's an idiom. (I'm available for freelance copyediting.)

NPR reported this morning that, based on their review of the #Epstein emails released yesterday, Trump’s name appeared more than 1,000 times in the document— "I have met some very bad people, none as bad as #Trump. Not one decent cell in his body." - Jeffrey Epstein

A little bit of excitement from last night. The northern lights very rarely ever make it down into central California. Had to go out and see what I could capture. #aurora #photography #landscape #art #bluesky #california #canon

Narrator: It was indeed a big deal

Happy to have Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva seated! Onward!

Karoline Leavitt is a special kind of evil. Young girls were abused and she is obstructing the dissemination of the truth. In essence, she is complicit.

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

everything about this Semafor story on Michael Wolff — which unironically calls him "one of the few sophisticated and honest brokers" re: Epstein; and fawns over Instagram videos he filmed in his Hamptons manse — is a perfect distillation of where every party stands. www.semafor.com/article/07/2...

I’d started to wonder whether the Epstein files were a bit of a macguffin, but no no they implicate the President of the United States in a pedophilia ring—and show the entire Republican Party as well as much of the federal government has been baldly covering it up. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Another sign that the United States of America no longer represents, and is no longer trusted by, the free world. www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Is Schumer still the minority leader? Is Durbin still the whip? Is Cortes-Masto still a vice chair? Good Democrats -- rank and file, those committed to restoring party --must tell Act Blue and every candidate with hands out for the coming midterms -- that there's no cash coming without new leaders.

Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well "We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."

Meeps says GOOD EVENING

🧑‍🌾 “The projected loss in 2025 on corn, cotton, soy, & wheat is $430,000,000 in Tennessee alone.” TN Ag Commish Andy Holt tells @GovBillLee what TN farmers told 60 Minutes — Trump’s trade war is crushing farmers. (cc: @rustygrills @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn)

WaPo editorial board is a joke, now. Just a joke. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...