Behold, the USS Defiant, a vessel so impractical, so ostentatious, it redefines the very meaning of "military industrial complex." Forget stealth, tactical advantage, or even basic common sense. This isn't a warship; it's a floating monument to... well, something. #DefendersOfDemocracy

Well, genius, a President is a politician. The fact you trust a pathologically lying, narcissistic, sociopath tells me a great deal about your poor choices.

BREAKING: A sixth person was found dead after a Mexican navy plane on a medical mission crashed near Galveston, Texas.

Folks have been driving for frickin’ ever and yet the concept of merging continues to evade so many #LetMeIn

running out of words for the depravity on display here

Before Christmas 2023 there was a magnificent display of Nacreous Clouds (AKA Polar Stratospheric Clouds). 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

OMG! I finally got to see The Damned for the first time on this last tour and it was AMAZING! Literally top 5 of so many concerts! All original! Such a yuge fan! @richardblade.bsky.social #SiriusXM #1stWave #musicsky #punkrock

Here we go again. DNC purity tests loses it all for #Democrats. "Look at this guy winning in NY! Gotta stop that!" A generation of failure clings to power & refuses to allow the next to take the reins. "Big Tent" IS A LIE @msnowreports.bsky.social @burgessev.bsky.social @valdemings.bsky.social

BREAKING: Russell Brand has been charged with additional counts of rape and sexual assault. In a new statement, police said the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) authorized an additional rape charge and a sexual assault charge involving two more women.

"Rob and Michele Reiner knew it firsthand during years of agonizing struggle to help their younger son. Their deaths, allegedly by his hand, are almost unbearably public and personal at the same time." lnk.thebulwark.com/3YFWH4H

. TRUMP SOLD NUCLEAR SECRETS, 3 TIMES. - Jack Smith #JackSmith #Trump #IMPEACH .

I didn't write nearly as much as I wanted to this year — and I had tons of ideas for reported pieces, critical analyses, and other articles that never saw the light of day. But here's a thread of some of the stories I worked on that I am most proud of: bsky.app/profile/cand...

Hubble has imaged the largest planet-forming disk ever seen! At 400 billion miles wide, it is roughly 40 times the diameter of our solar system. The disk is unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent, offering new insights into how planetary systems form: https://bit.ly/477sQ9b 🔭 🧪

Epstein files show Trump flagged by prosecutor for 'many' flights on sex offender's plane www.rawstory.com/trump-267482...

On Lawfare Daily, Loren Voss spoke to @kschake.bsky.social and @carriealee.bsky.social about how they assess a healthy civil-military relationship, the current state of civil-military affairs, potential unlawful orders, and what we should watch going forward. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...

The DOJ wants the public to know that while there may be some horrifying things pertaining to Donald Trump in the latest Epstein files release, none of it is true

Julie has been covering this longer than most. The DOJ is not following the law. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp

Collecting DNA seems fine, sure it won't be misused etc www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The mark of a free society is that there is the right to protest & to free speech. Greta Thunberg has been arrested in London for holding a pro-Palestine poster; tens of thousands of far right rioted at the Cenotaph pro-Israel, causing public disorder & violence. Only 25 of them were arrested!

Lawrence O'Donnell @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social youtu.be/y8wUQarJ4oA?...

An email in a new batch of Jeffrey Epstein files reveals Trump flew on the late sex offender's private jet "many more times" than previously known

🇬🇧 London police have arrested Swedish activist Greta Thunberg at a demonstration in support of pro-Palestinian hunger strikers, Palestinian activist groups said. ➡️ u.afp.com/S8Yg

The best space pictures of 2025, from supernovae to moon landings ->New Scientist | #space #moon | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

17% of voters who voted for Trump last year now disapprove of his job performance. A strikingly high number.

"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz

Posting our YE Ws heading into 2026. Arguably one of the most successful public policy rollouts of my lifetime. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ideally, an oversight mechanism should be established to ensure that these autonomous weapons and drones will not reach outlaw military militias and rogue regimes.

Jillian Shriner, who is divorcing Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, said she was "doing the best I knew to protect my family" in an April 8 LAPD standoff.

The latest strike came the same day President Donald Trump issued warnings to the presidents of Venezuela and Colombia.

Soon after the county announced charges against Clint Massie, the sheriff began receiving calls from alleged victims across the U.S. Two of them, he realized, were sisters. Neither knew what had happened to the other, or that each had come forward. With @startribune.com

apnews.com/article/holi...: Sales are up 4.2% for first 7 weeks of the holiday shopping period but the pace lags last year

Trump's anti-corporate DEI campaign faces high legal hurdles reut.rs/44HFXO3

apnews.com/article/pris... rules Trump administration must allow court challenges for Venezuelan migrants sent to prison

From @albumism.com: Albumism’s @rayna has selected Roger O'Donnell’s ‘Projections’ as one of her 10 favorite albums of 2025 | Explore the other albums featured in her Top 10 + all of our writers’ picks here: album.ink/WritersFaves25 @rogerodonnell.com

apnews.com/article/kilm... allows Kilmar Abrego Garcia to remain free while she considers immigration issues

The Justice Department released a letter allegedly written by Jeffrey Epstein Monday that it then quickly removed from its website — and its contents, some critics say, "directly" implicates President Donald Trump.

A world where every tool, every service, every byte of memory is metered, monitored, and reclaimed the moment you stop paying tribute.

And so the new model emerges: subscription to life itself. Not ownership, but access. Not possession, but permission. A society where everything you use—your home, your tools, your entertainment, your transportation—must be continuously rented from the titans who own the infrastructure of existence.

Levee!! ✊✊✊ @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social

Under the deal, the team would play in a new stadium in Kansas in 2031. Missouri officials say they're disappointed, ready to respond if deal falls through.

70% of Americans in new Marist poll say prices have jumped so much that life is unaffordable--including 50% of Republicans. Yet what is Trump focused on? Renaming the Kennedy Center after himself, naming US navy ships after himself, his $400 million ballroom and starting a war with Venezuela.

When police returned Reggie Williams’ wallet, an officer told him: Don’t do anything bad and keep your ID on you. To Williams, the warning echoed a slavery-era requirement that free African Americans carry documents to prove they weren’t enslaved. (Published Nov. with @mlk50.com)

The perimeter of the Baltoscandian ice sheet was banded by a giant sand belt, something of the "frozen Sahara". We still have in Lithuania and Poland, now overgrown by pine forests, huge northern dune fields... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... kirj.ee/earth-public... 🧪 #Geology ⚒️

The same people who bemoan teaching boys about misogyny will be noticeable in their silence re this horrendous crime. Victims don't need their selective "support". They need a system which recognises this behaviour starts young & challenges it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Europe is failing Ukraine ->POLITICO Europe | #russia ukraine war #stand with ukraine | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband

The NY Times headline reads “Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry." This is false. He took a side: that of neo-Nazis and other assorted bigots and nuts. I think he thinks it's strategic. An analysis. www.salon.com/2025/12/23/j...

Zhytomyr region has been under Russian attack for the second day in a row. 3 people were injured in the attack, including two children born in 2014 and 2021. All were taken to medical facilities. Tragically, the child born in 2021 died in hospital‼️

“Trump-class battleships?” 🤣🤣 Trump’s narcissism reaches new heights of comedy.