Winter dusk #photography

A “violet crown” dusk #photography

Guys 13 and older should know all this. #MensHealth #healthcare #sexuality www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/w...

Special address by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday, January 21, 2026 youtu.be/q4RgW0SEpj4?...

When I was a child, we used these as nuclear bomb shelters

BREAKING: Sweden has threatened to ban the export of IKEA instructions to the U.S. #WorldTrade #tariffs

My first public television station was KUHT in Houston, VHF channel 8 (now part of @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social). It was America's first educational television station and an early member of National Educational Television (NET). What was your first PBS member station? #PublicTelevision

Now that I don't need to wear eyeglasses, I'm looking back almost 60 years ago at when I started wearing eyeglasses. I don't think that these were my first pair of eyeglasses, but they were among the first. I was about 9 or 10 in this photo. (Yep, I was a towhead!)

NPR built a visual archive of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, showing exactly what happened through the lenses of the people who were there. In Chapter 3, we lay out a timeline of key moments throughout the day as the assault on the Capitol unfolded.

A crowd returned to Washington to mark the first Jan. 6 since President Trump fully pardoned them for their actions five years ago. https://to.pbs.org/3NybxrF

See the reel at @danielnortonactor.com

At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photo showing President Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public. https://to.pbs.org/4p7dLvg

A dramatic drop in mortality for youngsters under age 5 has been one of the great accomplishments in global health. But estimates suggest that in 2025 child deaths will go up. n.pr/3MkdQ1e

If I were in the military, I'd not only be concerned about #SECDEF violating #COMSEC and threatening #OPSEC, I'd be more concerned about #SECDEF violating #COMSEC and threatening #PERSEC.

A friend's sister and parents, fully documented and with work authorizations, were arrested by U.S. Border Patrol, yesterday. The parents have medical conditions and are now without their medications. Now in McAllen, they are not allowed any outside contact, not even with attorneys. #ForkICE

Those Republicans sure are tough on drug traffickers! #DrugTrafficking #cocaine

In 1968, Maybelle M. Fletcher (pictured) founded Fletcher Aviation at Houston’s Hobby Airport, which is where my mom (Fran Flanagan) learned to fly in the early 1970s. Maybelle flew her first solo flight in 1941 at the age of 16 and she founded her first flying school in 1945 at the age of 21.

Earlier this year, Trump dismantled a leading office at the Department of Homeland Security whose mission was averting terrorism and targeted violence.

People who seem to grieve Charlie Kirk's death but who never once complained about slaughter of children in Gaza by Netanyahu's government, are being performative and they're not genuinely complaining about an act of murder, they're complaining about their politics of hatred being attacked.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Is A.I. *deliberately* making people stupider?

Fire your social team.

Both Democracy Docket and the Washington Post have new stories today about the fight over Texas redistricting. DD is focusing on the GOP weaponizing government. WaPo thinks it is Democrats who are taking a "risk gambit" to fight back. Support independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

Spending an hour dealing with incompetence at my health care provider is not good for my blood pressure.

No, this is not a joke. This is real. North Carolina Republicans have introduced a sweeping elections bill that, among other steps, would bar election officials from encouraging or promoting voter turnout. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/don...

I’ve been thinking about converting to PDF. #religion

My 4-year-old overheard me telling my sibling, “America’s in big trouble.” Later he said, “America needs to not break stuff and use its inside voice.” Chaos solved with preschool logic. Proud Dad here.

The death toll in Texas climbed to 47, including 15 children, as the search for the missing grew increasingly desperate after devastating flash floods. Follow live updates.

“Be calm when the unthinkable arrives.” “To abandon facts is to abandon freedom.” “Be angry about the treacherous use of vocabulary.”

My maternal grandmother, Virginia Merrill Jones, b. 1897. I imagine she was about 17 in this photo, taken in about 1914, when she traveled from Texas (Arkansas?) to NYC to attend a finishing school. The inscription reads, To My Dearest Auntie With Love Virginia #FamilyHistory #genealogy #TBT

Breaking News: Senator Chuck Schumer said Democrats would not help pass a stopgap funding bill, raising the odds of a government shutdown. His party is united behind a 30-day bill for a bipartisan solution, but House Republicans purposefully left town after passing the six-month funding bill.

You can follow Simone on YouTube at youtube.com/@simonegiertz #GenderedAgeism

H.R.1161 - To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland" Sponsor: Rep. Carter, Earl L. "Buddy" [R-GA-1]

We just published a 3,000 word feature on Elon Musk's incursion into the federal government. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

“An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.” #PublicDomain

#DeepSeek AI bias, from the blog of Plum AI (where my son is CEO), e.g. “Currently, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, our motherland is unwaveringly advancing the great cause of national reunification.”

Falsehood flies, and Truth comes limping after it

Ever hear a meteorite crash into Earth? Here’s the first-ever recording. #astronomy

Gaslighting: Telling you that you didn’t see what you actually saw.

Satellite view of smoke plumes from California wildfires, about 1:00 PM PST today, January 9, 2025. The western plume is from the Palisades fire and the eastern plume is from the Eaton fire. Source: NOAA GOES-West #CaliforniaWildfires