You see? Humans can do good

“Still I Rise” - Maya Angelou “You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise.” Stay strong. Unite. 💪❤️

As a fire scientist, I am devastated for my many good friends and colleagues who will be affected by the mass closure of so many research stations and offices. Many will leave the agency. USFS has pioneered so much foundational fire science. The consequences of this will be catastrophic.

These posts are getting cleverer

We live thousands of miles away, in warmth, in safety, in abundance. We read about the melting ice, the lost chicks, the shattered colonies, and we feel something guilt, sorrow, fleeting anger but it passes. It passes because life continues around us

“That’s a nice Basilica you got there, be ashamed if something happened to it.”

I think in the “Great Judgement” of things, Colby might find himself on the wrong side of Peter’s Gate

He said the quiet part out loud. You work for us, not him, Blanche.

"Regrettably, in too many schools, the scientific theme soon grew into a storm of arctic air that blew away any serious concern for the artistry of language in the books and stories that children were increasingly denied the time to read." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Reading the Wall Street Journal’s ten items Iran pushed to get to a two week negotiable peace - which the Trump administration agreed to - only reminds me of this: “War. What is it good for?” Edwin Starr (1970

Reminder: “best of AI” is oxymoronic language

Just more proof, the world is moving towards renewables

Had a wonderful time at the Southwestern Social Sciences Association conference. Looking forward to San Antonio in 2027. I’ll be the history program chair if you want to submit panels & it’s interdisciplinary if you have any non-history pals who want to join you. sssaonline.org/annual-meeti... 🗃️

Would be great if Manfred instituted this rule in MLB: only dogs can be bat boys.

230 years ago, on the 4th of April 1796, Georges Cuvier delivered the first paleontological lecture. He discussed skeletal remains of Indian and African elephants as wel as mammoth and mastodon fossils. Cuvier is sometimes referred to as the 'founding father of paleontology'. #otd #history 🗃️

Indigenous languages - & all foreign languages - are important. I was proud to chair @shafrhistorians.bsky.social Hogan committee this year whose recipient will improve his Indigenous Hawai’ian language to conduct research & center Hawai’ian voices in research 🗃️ #skystorians bsky.app/profile/shaf...

Fifty-eight years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Exactly 6 years later, Hank Aaron tied Babe Ruth’s home run record in Cincinnati. Jesse Jackson had urged Aaron to ask for a moment of silence to honor King. The Reds refused. From my current MS. 🗃️

Took photos today mostly of Savannah architecture #photography

Arrived in Savannah, Georgia late afternoon. Took some photos #photography

How are you spending your Friday night? I'm looking through pictures of a recent archival trip and studying inventories of plantations on Barbados. Here's the names of 8 white indentured servants, 60 black enslaved men, 64 women, and 33 children (!!!) of the Byde Mill plantation in 1675.

I do not know if an updated COVID19 vaccine will be available for Fall in the United States. All because little men got their feelings hurt because their ideas are fucking dumb and thousands of scientists told them that. firstwordpharma.com/story/7157141

I literally STOPPED WRITING rather than use AI. If I can't do it myself, what's the point?? Writing is an expression of humanity, of communicating ideas and connecting shared experiences. I'm building a practice again, but I'd rather never write another word than use AI to do it.

Or, now hear me out, the Epstein class could just pay folks a living wage

“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” - Jonathan Swift. #photography

If you need a social media wipe, here’s a short vid of my #chickens playing Cabbage Ball.

A Senator dubbing the U.S. Constitution a “suicide pact,” was not on my April 2026 bingo card.

Cut science, find out

If an AI robot is made in the USA but with parts from Taiwan, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, China, Mexico, Estonia, and Norway… when the power on button is initiated, somewhere in Duluth, Minnesota, will it be a birthright citizen? Now replace “AI robot” with “human.”

Ancient Romans used citizenship as a tool in conquered lands. It’s in the New Testament. “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's.” Born poor in defeated Palestine? Not a citizen. But do pay your taxes. #Birthright

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Happy April Fools Day The jesters foretold in 1981 that someday “The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum “ youtu.be/sWLdZFCMx8Y?...

"...the U.S. Forest Service announced plans to move its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City, Utah. It will also close or repurpose all nine of its regional offices, create 15 state offices, and shutter research and development facilities in more than 30 states." 1/

Because when I think of U.S. victories, I think of SE Asia.

Never did I ever expect a U.S. president to handle outgoing communications and international policy via poorly written tweets. How do you expect anyone or a country to take you seriously when everything you do and say is utterly childish or a lie? What an embarrassing moment in time 🙄

Preventing cheap EV imports is anti-capitalism at its most egregious

We will invade and take Greenland We will make Canada the 51st State Me thinks they forget the words that come out of their mouths and that these “bro” “alpha-male” postures don’t protect them from the meaning of the words they spout!

BREAKING Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to stop funding NPR and PBS is “unlawful and unenforceable,” a federal judge ruled. Doc buff.ly/WcnQN4A

After years of research, Daphna Renan & I are thrilled to announce preorders of SUPREMACY. Why is US democracy so broken? One reason is we've wrongly accepted that 9 justices have the final say over the Constitution. This book traces how that happened—& how we can reclaim power to govern ourselves.

Again, for those in the back row, oil dependency is disappearing globally thanks to wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, and nuclear power. It’s not 1973 anymore. Nor is it 1990

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The future value of human life comes to the fore in this NPR interview about AI Expert talks about the Pentagon's use of artificial intelligence www.npr.org/2026/03/30/n...

8 million No Kings protesters Zero police officers beaten Zero police officers killed Zero feces smeared on walls.

I wrote this op ed for Time Magazine/Made By History when the first version of the Save Act was going around, and this version isn't any better. This is a disfranchising bill. 🗃️ time.com/7280834/save...

I did not know about this kind of insidious pricing. Thank you for highlighting it!

Mainstream journalists are abdicating their duty. Cartoonists are the real heroes of the moment.

For what purpose? The USA led the world in science. Yes. Past tense.

Over eight million Americans took to the streets today, which makes No Kings 3 the biggest single day of protest in the history of our country. #NoKings