"During the three-year study, photovoltaic panels promoted biocrust formation, doubling biocrust biomass and tripling biocrust cover compared with open areas with similar soil characteristics." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I don’t even have the words to describe how horrifying this is …

NIST hasn't had power since WEDNESDAY???

BREAKING: 30 immigrants have died in ICE custody since Donald Trump took office, making 2025 the deadliest year in ICE detention since the early 2000s.

Please read www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

@corinnelow.com covers some really interesting work in her book about how we misunderstand effects like differences in how women and men negotiate, a lot of nuanced stuff across her work on this! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’ve seen two kids post that the Brown University shooting is the second school shooting they’ve survived. This should enrage and radicalize everyone. Kids shouldn’t have to survive one shooting, let alone two. No more thoughts and prayers. It’s time to address the guns.

Scientists recently combined the DNA of a cheetah with the DNA of a crab. Things went sideways real fast.

Dog found the snow….

Christianity: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. America: Turn your back on those who helped you, and help no one else but yourselves. Why the disconnect?

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Look, women no longer do shit for free is actually at the root of a lot of social disruption. The question is whether you think the solution is women going back to being unpaid and unprotected by their own labor.

We are nearly approaching the 10-year anniversary of the Colangelo family Thanksgiving mystery of trying to figure out who ate the bag of gourmet dog treats thinking they were cookies and stashed the wrapper under the couch once they realized their mistake.

what are we doing

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Anyhow, don't mind me, just wrestling with the mounting dread that the career I've dreamed of since I was 12 and spent the last 10+ years training for may be ripped away from me for the benefit of egos and wealth of the country's most painfully mediocre men, and there's not much I can do about it

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

The U.S. unemployment rate just hit a four-year high at 4.4%. Now, try wrapping your head around the idea of a 43% unemployment rate. That’s the reality formerly incarcerated Black women face, thanks to the prison penalty:

Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature. 2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise! That "feature" is now gone.

It’s Sunday. The dogtor is in.

I closed social media for like three hours and the Pope threw a rave, MTG resigned, and Trump endorsed Mamdani before Chuck Schumer did? Now accepting bribes to close social media for all of next week

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

A man died today at the Rikers Island jail complex. He was just hours away from an expected release. This year, 13 people have now died in the NYC jails. That is *nearly triple* the number of people who died in the NYC jails in all of 2024. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/r...

Links: apnews.com/article/immi... www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/bor... thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Bill Cassidy: “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” 😒

call the Oreo people right now

So it’s worse than we thought

We already have a massive nursing shortage that the Dept of Ed just ensured will get even worse. Hospitals are going to become increasingly dangerous places to be.

Reminder to Harvard: the time to fire Larry Summers was when he publicly disparaged women's intellectual capabilities.

On #GISDay, we honor Dr. Gladys West, the genius mathematician whose 1970s–80s geodetic modeling of the Earth laid the foundation for GPS. Her work on SEASAT & GEOSAT gave us the precise geoid that makes every #geospatial app reliable today. #wow 😮 #WomenInSTEM hiddenheroes.netguru.com/gladys-west

Video of raid on Elmhurst apartment, busting in on a mom and her 4 kids. It's like a movie. Frightening. @gwynnefitz.bsky.social @thenyic.bsky.social

"When the agents entered the apartment, they dragged Jennifer by her hair and pointed an assault rifle at her 13-year-old daughter. “Put your fucking hands up, stupid,” one agent can be heard yelling, in a brief video Jennifer captured before her phone was knocked from her hand." [Me: it was ICE.]

"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged." www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

ME: Bluetooth, connect my Airpods to my Apple Watch. BLUETOOTH: Who are you? ME: It’s me, the phone owner. Airpods to Apple Watch. BLUETOOTH: What is Airpods? ME: The headphones. Connect them, like usual. BLUETOOTH: I have connected your Apple Pencil to your refrigerator.

Team R really gonna snatch defeat from the jaws of victory over cancer here. We could be defeating cancer! Just imagine it!

Fox News credulously reports that "the Saudis now say their investment pledge in the US will be increased to $1 trillion." THE ENTIRE GDP OF SAUDI ARABIA IS $1.1 TRILLION, so this is total nonsense.

I'm old enough to remember when "armed agents of the federal government raiding churches on Christmas" was not, in fact, a cornerstone of the Republican Party's agenda.

Charlotte-Mecklebburg Schools, according to reports, saw 15% of its students absent today amid Border Patrol operations in Charlotte. If that percentage of 15% happens Tuesday in Wake County due to the Border Patrol coming to Raleigh, 24.000 students could be absent from school. #nced #ncpol #wcpss

We need libraries for so many reasons. www.11alive.com/article/news...

Work on Roman continues.

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

NEW, for The Handbasket: I spoke with concerned community members and local/state electeds about what's been going on re: detainments on the parkways in the DC area. Commuters use these fed hwys to get to and from work--and now families of detained drivers are on the hook for hundreds in tow fees.

Also I just wanna say that the idea that me too was a walk in the park and it could happen to anyone at random... Literally go fuck yourself.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

"We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves." -Carl Sagan, Cosmos

I have chosen an epigraph for Chapter 2, and I think I have found a good illustration for the difference between Lagrangian and Eulerian observers. (I still have to negotiate the rights from the Shepard Trust, however.)

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?