She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

Glob-glob! Absolutely magical sea anemone larva (about 7 mm) from The Lombok Strait, Indonesia 🇮🇩

As an American, there is something to this in that cuisines develop to utilize the ingredients that a culture has readily available and what Americans had access to from the mid 1800s on was industrially packaged foodstuffs and shamelessness

This is the essential problem. The Constitution does not constrain any part of our government. The law does not constrain our president. The president's oath does not constrain him. The public voted him back into office. The press does its best to legitimate him. The failure is total, & our own.

A lot of sickness in this world stems from losing the Greatest Generation and the immense and needless suffering they witnessed passing from living memory.

The imperial presidency was a mistake. It has led to destruction of clean air and water, mass death abroad, destruction of cancer research, and now illegal war. We must re-empower Congress, the most democratic branch, and a strong civil service. We can. But that will require Supreme Court reform.

Marvellous 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus 🐙❤️ Excavated in 1903 from a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

other people can make inroads and find common ground with regretful trump voters, in my personal capacity as a private citizen i am committed to hating those dumb motherfuckers for the rest of my life

Farm Near High Park J.E.H. MacDonald 1911

I… they shot down their own drone?!

It bothers me how nobody seems to understand that this, trans people getting booted out of the military without their contractually obligated benefits, etc. is ultimately about if the promises of the government are worth a goddamn thing as long as the Republican Party exists.

Ancient DNA from a 3,000-year-old Irish hillfort connects Bronze Age goats to a breed still alive today. The Old Irish Goat carries genetic memory stretching back to the Late Bronze Age. #AncientDNA #Archaeozoology #OldIrishGoat www.anthropology.net/p/the-goat-t...

The intention of the anti trans project, from “just asking questions” to “fairness in sports” was always this: to make it illegal and impossible to be trans in society. To create pretexts for our arrest and removal, if we don’t put ourselves under house arrest. To punish us for being different.

Every conservative has one civil war or revolution they identify with, after which they maintain no further revolution is necessary.

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I literally cannot properly describe how much I hate these people

I don’t think people understand what’s this means: MEDICARE AND MEDICAID ARE BLOCKING ALL WHEELCHAIRS, WALKERS, CANES, INSULIN PUMPS, GLUCOSE MONITORS, CPAP MACHINES, NEBULIZERS, BEDS, CRUTCHES, COMODE CHAIRS, BED SORE PRESSURE PADS, CHAIR LIFTS, OXYGEN TANKS, BREATHING EQUIPMENT, to name a few.

It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...

I am not kidding that I will run through walls for candidates that promise to set up accountability commissions that track down everyone who facilitated these abused and prosecutes them. I want Nuremburg.

Every agent who participated in this should spend the rest of their life in prison.

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Indeed. Part of what is beautiful about so many metro systems is also what makes them sad: that they often represent a very brief moment of municipalities having money, ambition and power that vanished like breath on a mirror.

look i don't buy the idea that cuba is looking to start shit with the US so I'm willnig to entertain the idea that the cuban coast guard didn't fire first but otherwise: what the fuck?

Audiences around the country going absolutely apeshit and destroying theaters when the camera cuts back to Armand in his finery after the axe-handle arrow shot

What’s really striking in Saruman’s speech to Gandalf is how broadly (and unusually for Tolkien) relevant it is. Take out the one specific reference to the Elves and Númenor and it is just an absolute classic rationale for collaborating with evil in the confidence you can ultimately direct it.

there are some who caught on after J6 but at what point are elected Democrats going to realize the pleasantries behind closed doors are performative and this is genuine, not the other way around

It's the same thing with the Epstein files. If you take away Epstein, you've still got a class of people with effectively infinite resources that they can devote to whatever they want whether it's undermining democracy, crushing unions, and/or fucking kids.

An ICE agent shot and killed 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas almost an entire year ago and hid the shooting from the public. It’s only now coming to light, 11 months later, due to Freedom of Information Act requests. What else is the regime hiding from us?

Your average Iowan or Nebraskan salt-of-the-earth Midwest farmer hates Mexicans he’s never seen more than he cares about the state of his business and he voted accordingly in 2024

vote for Democrats or shut up forever

Former ICE agent: My first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a warrant. I watched ICE cut classes that teach our legal system, firearms training, use of force, lawful arrests, and the limits of officers' authority

"who up getting they snow plowed," I mutter as they wheel me away in a straightjacket, "who plowing on their nor' til I easter"

I remember being so mad at the arguments that I transcribed it on the spot

His is worse because in Tolkien you can just kind of assume it works behind the scenes whereas Martin shows us enough to make it clear it doesn't make sense

Sunlight breaking through the clouds over the Howgills. Taken from the top of Orton Scar. #morning #Cumbria #westmorlanddales #UK

So, to summarize, the president‘s speech was: 1.) fuck you, we’re doing tariffs anyway 2.) by the way, I’m gay

We should try electing some kind of deliberative body that makes decisions about levying taxes.

Yes, that’s right. Someone tore their ACL playing poker

I look forward to the days when the United States will be restored to at least a George III level of constitutional government

tariff grandpa rn

The Roman Pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! 🤩 It is the tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain, and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire! Dated 1st-2nd century AD. 📷 me #Archaeology

The sigh of relief upon completion of this Bronze-Age beaker, with decoration requiring around 2400 individual tool impressions. #Archaeology 🏺The burnishing on the surface is just the result of turning it round in my hands while decorating it. For more Prehistoric Pottery visit potted-history.co.uk

anti-histamine scrip ran out and can't be refilled until Friday and I'm so itchy my stomach hurts lol. feels like I'm covered with ants aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Pardoning drug lords but deporting sick little kids straight from the hospital really sums the whole thing up doesn’t it

"Look, if I was at Golgotha with my kids, it wouldn't have gone down like that."

There must be trials. Not as an emotive aspiration, rhetorical meme, or empty threat. A concrete plan. A dedicated special court for it. Structural legislation and prosecutors and funding and all the rest of it. Everything necessary for it can be done constitutionally. All it takes is the will.

Qualia? Why don't you spend some qualia time with your family instead