My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

No health care, no deal.

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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

'GODDAM: "It's the essence of the English language," as Beaumarchais said, and at that we snigger with pity.' - Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Good morning! 🪶

It’s hilarious in a kind of I’m-losing-it way that companies have us watch training videos on looking out for and avoiding corruption (not even possible in my job lol) but the constant appearance of this in the white house goes on and on, countries coming in like sales reps leaving free samples

“Swiss execs met with Trump to discuss tariffs and allegedly gave him a Rolex and an engraved gold bar. The delegation included Rolex CEO Dufour.” Trump’s tariffs on Swiss dairy exports have led to a dramatic oversupply of milk. Farmers are weighing culling herds to stabilize the market.

Art by Mike Lukovich

Well Prof. Super is a true expert on this stuff, so you can trust this. Governors need to fight.

"Every mystery we solve brings me closer to the realization that the only monsters in this world are pathetic old men trying to steal as much money as they can."

CA endemic bird Yellow billed magpies, very limited range. Gorgeous, vocal and intelligent Corvids. I hung out with about 20 of them in the oak studded wine country of Paso Robles a few days ago. Always a treat. Lots of interactions with Acorn woodpeckers also, each doing their own thing. 🪶🌿

I insist that you read it. GIFT LINK www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Lessons from the American Revolution | First Draft with Susan Demas & Historian Richard Bell open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...

You do not, in fact, have to hand it to the FBI

#Boston federal judge appointed by Reagan says he stepped down last week because he could no longer stay silent about regime's attempt to destroy the rule of law www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

please learn about your local ecosystems. please. its so sad and strange to me how many people live in a place and learn nothing about the land that surrounds them and the ways in which that land has grown and changed and flourished for hundreds of years before your town even existed

I've got your 2026 Leafminers of North America wall calendars right here!

Learning I can anticipate how cold it’s going to be based on the number of House Sparrows at my urban feeders. Typically ~20 at any given time, I’ve currently got a flock of at least 140 as this polar snap rolls in and temperatures start to dip into freezing.

Two months ago, before Bovino arrived and the Broadview ICE facility was transformed into an impenetrable fortress, regular people were out there every single day for weeks telling feds to get out. We think about this day a lot.

🔥This is a killer quote by @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social in 'Awakened': 👉denoting when the CDC 'renamed' ME to CFS in 1988 after the outbreak in Lake Tahoe. #pedanticzebra

People need to understand that Chicago is a preview, not a culmination.

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

I’ll be offering three lectures (via Zoom) on the Amarna Letters, upcoming in January, courtesy of the 92nd Street Y. It’s not free, unfortunately, but hopefully worth the price of admission. For more details, click on the link below: roundtable.org/live-courses...

Ask him why so many air traffic controllers are retiring at once. Ask him if it has anything to do with Reagan firing 11K union strikers in 1981 and having to replace them all at once. Ask him how the mass firings this year will impact us the same way 40 years from now. Ask him, Jake.

If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks. So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.

Some trees, like poplar, naturally shed their leaves later in the season add the urban heat island effect and you find Black Poplars like these who have not received a memo about yellowing leaves yet in November.💚 #ColorADay #GreenSat #trees #nature #photograpy #eastCoastKin

#WonderWoman starring Lynda Carter premiered on this day 50 years ago, November 7, 1975. No shade at all to anyone else who has played her or will ever play her on screen, but much like Christopher Reeve & Superman, Lynda Carter as Diana will always be the blueprint. Plus, Lynda is a hero IRL too.

🔊ON 😍👇🏾'Men’s Eastern #War Dance🏹 Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research: Thank you 2 every1 who came out 2day 4 Puneesuwak (Honoring) the #Veterans. Ur presence helped make this evening a powerful tribute 2 all who hv served.' (FB VID: Nov 8, 2025) #NativeAmericans #Indigenous #FirstNations

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#FossilFriday Here are 3 beautiful Pentremites sp. Blastoids I collected from the Upper Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous, Serpukhovian) Lower Bangor Limestone in Russellville, Alabama.

Mandatory holidays for migration. #birds #birding

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

These green books are toxic. Here's why #Ontario #Video Poison books that contain arsenic in their cover or spine have been identified in some of Western University's libraries in London, Ont. /1 thread www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

The late-night TV show Jimmy Kimmel Live! is stepping up to help during the ongoing US federal government shutdown by opening a new center for food donations. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Ubiquitous to the area and always causing trouble- California Scrub Jay

Not sure if this is AI, sure cute though. I wish Bsky had an automatic AI blocker thingy. I'd use it. I'm way too gullible for this era of tech.

On second review, this looks to be just smoke grenades / flashbang. Bovino has been carrying around a CS gas canister in his hand though, so not ruling out that gas was deployed elsewhere this morning—it's been incredibly chaotic, with agents attacking people in multiple locations.

Protea «Pink Ice» - memories from LE JARDIN SERRE DE LA MADON in Menton.😍🇫🇷 #photographyofbluesky #bluesky #nature #NaturePhotography #gardening #gardens #protea #NaturePhoto #inspiration

As Americans go hungry, Trump’s out golfing on your dime using your tax dollars. Don’t worry, it’s only about $3–4 million per trip.

Detroit, Michigan is in the eastern time zone. Please check flight information monitors for the correct local time. Two flights scheduled for me today, and everything is delayed a couple hours. I have a short night booked in Florida and sleep is shrinking. But I'll probably get there. #25for25

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

🧊✈️ Lots of white bags & chains ⛓️😲

Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari on why Speaker Mike Johnson kicked her out of his office...

🧊✈️ SEATTLE ⛓️😲 ⚠️ Four buses of detainees prepare to embark on this Creepy White Avelo Jet (tail: N805VL) bound for the Fort Bliss Concentration Camp in El Paso 👀

A crew of 3 sets out the unwieldy irrigation pipes that need to be set in place to water the vegetables in Mettler, CA. #WeFeedYou Una cuadrilla de 3 trabajadores coloca las pesadas tuberías de riego que deben instalarse para regar los vegetales en Mettler, California. #SoyEsencial

The MAGA response to Zohran Mamdani winning NYC: Creepy tradwives openly promoting an "aspirational lifestyle" and claiming that the "far left" controls every element of "women's media." (All media is owned by billionaires.)

Because of travel chaos, the Texas Book Festival, one of the best things that happens every year in this city, is having to keep a running list of author cancellations on all of its social media so that can people can plan accordingly. ☹️

Honey wasps are a real thing 🤷‍♀️ bugguide.net/node/view/84...