Some short videos from yesterday’s trip to Snoqualmie Falls, capturing the high runoff from the recent atmospheric river. #snoqualmiefalls #waterfall #washingtonstate

Focus on the value of intention and commitment, those are good muscles to build.

Kinda wild hearing a Star Wars trailer from "the distant past" literally be for a re-release that was almost exactly 9 months before I was born. They should totally redo this trailer for the 50th anniversary.

#GVerse What a lovely tribute! #RobReiner Incredibly powerful and moving!

In this festive time of year I'm struck by how these 1992 Muppet Christmas Carol lyrics for Scrooge fit exactly with our Humbug in Chief. No friends, skinflint, no cheer, though no possiblity of redemption in his case, sad how little has changed in human nature for some. Keep hope alive for others.

Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history. n.pr/3KZCl3a

On this day in 1843 A Christmas Carol by Dickens, published for first time. “I will honor Christmas in my heart, & try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”

This audience member might have just broken Jon #AfterTheCut

We can dream of the poetic justice and irony if one of the things that turns people against the demented man-child in chief would be his cruel lack of decorum towards the beloved Rob Reiner.

Well, this is an utter disaster for science. This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next. 🧪

An amazing article reflecting on a past dinner. In the present, I can't help thinking that in psychology they say suicide can be anger turned inward & homicide is that same feeling turned outward. Sometimes great love and support still can't provide solutions to someone else's journey. So sad.

Paris #photography #blackandwhite

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

@maddow.bsky.social and @timothysnyder.bsky.social So glad you are Live in Chicago on MSNow talking about "On Tyranny" and supporting techniques to keep all of our communities safe. We the People. Thank you both for your voices.

The 5 Essential Star Wars Rebels Everyone Should Watch At Least One, according to @slashfilm.bsky.social • The Honorable Ones • Twilight of the Apprentice • Trials of the Darksaber • Twin Suns • A World Between Worlds

Early Childhood Educators have a critical job, our society needs to compensate them accordingly. If more men did this work it would likely happen. Lets value our teachers with pay.

Unfettered access to firearms, weapons of war against human kind, are destroying our country. We need to stop it. At the same time we must do better to help people before they seek violence as a solution. Mental health, poverty, propaganda-first stop guns. Thanks for your attention to this trauma.

Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Matthew Garber, and Karen Dotrice star in Robert Stevenson's multi Academy Award winning American musical fantasy comedy film "MARY POPPINS" with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers 🎬 Walt Disney Productions #DickVanDyke100

A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”

Interesting data and hypothesis.

Unreal! If it weren't real though truly appalling. It would have been shorter just to say which few words the regime considers supports their narrow world view.

No one is going to want to come here

NEW: Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them. They finally got their wish.

@jordanklepper.bsky.social tackles naked ICE protests, Trump's Nobel Peace Prize campaign, and inflatable frogs in our new special, Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Give the Man a Prize, tonight at 11:30/10:30c after The Daily Show on Comedy Central

ANDOR has been recognized by the American Film Institute as one of the Top 10 Television Programs of the Year

Are there any US medical professionals looking to escape to a common sense country? British Columbia Canada is hiring. Get your fresh start here, we have resources to help you come to Canada. applicants.healthmatchbc.org/JobsBoard/HM...

Wishful thinking but Hopefully there's going to soon be some openings for cabinet positions due to extreme criminality. I have a good "MaL face" recommendation since that and cosplay dress is required.

She actually had really good insights (as opposed to him).

Meet the new Deputy Chief of Staff at the CDC.

Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them. Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded. “Make America Healthy Again.”

Bhattacharya’s NIH 😢 “Earlier this year, it delayed reviewing grants in order to vet research by political appointees, culled projects that mentioned D.E.I. and fired thousands of employees or pressured them to retire early.”

Breakthroughs happen many times when you're able to re-imagine your project as a different form of puzzle. NYC Postdocs: Join us on Wednesday at Columbia University for this exciting Night Science session on puzzle switching! Registration is free and we have a few spots left.

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year...🎶🎶

Loved this series from the beginning (w/exception of Lizzo and Jack Black-yikes). But I won't be seeing this in a theater. I know they're expensive to make but that's why Disney+ and park prices keep getting jacked. This just seems like a money grab because it was successful. This is not the way.

President Biden is a good man, always has been and he tried to help our country recover from the damage of the current administration's last debacles. People were just too impatient... and believed a felonious liar (allegedly).

Swiss Alps coming out of the clouds and into the sun.

Just saw Me. Bean, Season 1 is on Hulu. His holiday episodes are among the best.

An author-signed book is one of the most affordable gifts you can give a friend or loved one. The American Museum of Natural History shop stocks a dozen of my books, pre-signed by me. You’ll pay near-list price or a Black-Friday price, but proceeds go to the Museum. shop.amnh.org/catalogsearc...

happy bday feminist writer Rita Mae Brown, b.1944, Hanover, PA. “Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.” “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”

Anyone with actual taste sees this façade of a space for the outer reflection of inner need to overcome inadequacy. Every time I see it I literally think of a putty knife scraping off the fake applique. I don't envy those tasked with a short turnaround on the next administration have to gut it all.

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We need a new, strong Senate Minority Leader. My choice👇

BREAKING: Bird Flu Wipes Out Nearly Half of South Georgia’s Elephant Seal Mothers as H5N1 Tears Through Top Predator Nurseries More than 50,000 animals gone in a single season.

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again. #sciencematters

🌲 Christmas tree arrived at WH - it's so weird/surreal that people pretend any of this is normal. Especially since a big portion of the actual house is missing where people who wanted to honor, visit & celebrate our country no longer have a place (or desire?) to go. "Everything he touches dies."

A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.38 (lookback time 4.26 billion years) with coordinates (150.52382, 2.19769). 42 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals. The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry. Where is the MAHA outcry?

Very talented engineer.

Yet another unique way to stimulate cellular immunity against cancer. “Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.” #ScienceSunday

Folks have tried to bring attention to this pattern for years. Hopefully this administration and their influential oligarchical buddies illustrating it as never before will wake people up.