The dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.

Hey @tetzoo.bsky.social look what’s back. Or as I like to say, “Jerry Springer for Biologists”. www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2025/12...

This 🧵 right here about what is being done instead of what should be done. Sobering to consider.

AP finds federal and state authorities in Louisiana are monitoring the online activities of ICE critics. Chilling. apnews.com/article/immi...

NEW — Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources, one resident writes. Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget. thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...

Hey @mayorofchicago.bsky.social this is NOT what to do. Take that $5M for ShotSpotter and put it back into the libraries.

Also: NYT locks their stuff behind paywalls. If all you can see is this headline, you’re gonna miss the context noted in this thread. But that’s the point: deliberate misinformation, distortion of truth.

(1) To me, this is the first shot in a new strategy to kill what is regarded as “America’s Best Idea” The National Park System…

At least Rep Salazar is being honest?

Enjoying @pbs.org #AmericanRevolution… and so is my cat!

IYKYK and you can hear this in your mind with just a look

Yeah, where else can they get whatever they want, whenever they want and be seen in all the hottest places and do the most business? Hint: not Alabama.

Shame on #IU. You claim to want "intellectual diversity" but when someone offers it, you remove her because it's not what you want to hear. Always bothers me that the student did not just drop the class but sent a complaint all the way to Sen. Banks. I smell a snitch.

Folks, #MLB is already crying poor in advance of the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement that will expire at the end of 2026. $1.8B in "losses" gasp! 🤯 [clutches pearls]. I mean, that averages $60M per team all owned by billionaires... www.forbes.com/sites/peterc...

Hey @julianastratton.bsky.social @robinlynnekelly.bsky.social @rajaforil.bsky.social wondering if any of you would have done what @durbin.senate.gov just did and betray Illinois & the US by allowing the government to reopen by sacrificing the ACA subsidies?

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Trump is fighting as hard as he can to starve kids for negotiating leverage.

Ballgame over in NYC! #Mamdani wins! www.youtube.com/watch?v=le1Q...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

“60 Minutes paid me a lot of money” In an edited-out part of the Trump interview Trump brags about extorting CBS for millions for… editing out a part of Kamala’s interview. (He also makes it clear new CBS chief Bari Weiss is in his pocket) #RIPCBS

2016 was still a better #WorldSeries. 2025 can be #2.

Easy there #BlueJays fans. This is just like what us #Cubs fans experienced in 2016. Get your best speech-giver up!!

That’s TARGETTING! #OSU #PSU how do you wave that off? Oh wait…

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world. That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness. And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

Our VP is an openly racist POS. But that should surprise no one.

Turns out, #Nanotyrannus is real... like really real and I was wrong. But that's how science works: change with new data. But it being shown valid does not excuse years of shoddy science before this paper. #Paleontology #FossilFriday

Nanotyrannus is real. For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex. But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species. Isn’t science fun?! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

This! As pointed out elsewhere, previous work was crappy and kept repeating debunked talking points. The folks who worked on this specimen got *new* data that at the very least shows the “Dueling” specimen is NanoT. This is what we all were clamoring for.

I’ve often compared #Nanotyrannus to Bigfoot… but today it seems at long last for the former: WE HAVE A BODY! Now, if Nature would kindly release the paper so we can all read it? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...

Ever since the Newt Gingrich era, I’ve seen Republicans repeatedly shut down the US government and the media always treats it as a failure of negotiation instead of recognizing that conservatives don’t WANT a government. Sarah Kendzior lays it out here 👇🏼

THIS IS NOT HARD #BlueJays. WALK OHTANI. All 👏The 👏 Time 👏 Every 👏 Time 👏 He should not get another AB. #WorldSeries

At what point do the #BlueJays just give the #Dodgers' Ohtani the "Bonds Treatment" and just walk him every time no matter what? #WorldSeries

#Caturday vibes in our house! #GoDucks from a mini Smilodon and a Tortnado!

How can we message this to most of America? How can we convince them that this will hurt them just as much as others? That no matter how many are deported or “moochers” kicked-off those “savings” don’t exist and won’t come to them? Break thru that, you win.

The Leverage cast seeing the Louvre heist and collectively posting, "Not it," is the whimsy we deserve.

Found elsewhere.

For those wondering why #IU decided to kill the print edition of the IDS, unsurprisingly, their "news" was highly critical of #PlagiaristPam and her MAGA admin. Enter Purdue University. #BoilerUp Thank you!

Today, #IU ended their print student newspaper. The @idsnews.bsky.social was a major source for news; but the current admin is bowing to #MAGA state governance and #PlagiaristPam is happily doing their bidding. They clearly don't want students knowing the truth.

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

Dear #GoDucks, In 2014, Mariota & Co lost a bad game to UA at home. Kinda just like this. They rebounded and made it to the National Championship. Ball is in your court. You know what to do!

Ok #GoDucks. You got a gift right there with great field position. MAKE 👏IT👏COUNT

#GoDucks is killing me already. Defense looks similarly off as with PSU when they seem to get lazy and that’s letting IU hang around despite gift calls. And that missed FG could loom large. And the #Cubs haven’t even played yet!

#IU Coach Cignetti getting caught telling a young player (maybe 2) to "toughen up" when they took care of themselves is 🤢. I was pulling for #GoDucks in this one just because of IU's fascist admin, but now I want Lanning to run the score up. Make that missed PI call just the first karmic retribution

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Smilodon Smilodon't

ICE are a bunch of bullies. You stand up to them, they backdown. #AbolishICE

Calling on @govpritzker.illinois.gov to do more than just utter strong words. Governor, it may be time to get out of your comfort zone for the people of Illinois and stop this.

#Cubs Boyd was GASSED at the end of the year so you start him on short rest? And why is Assad not on the roster? You don’t have the arms to do bullpen games throughout the whole postseason. We’re paying $8M for decisions like this?

#AbolishICE NOW! Calling on my Congressfolks (and soon-to-be Congressfolks): will you commit to abolishing ICE and prosecuting all involved Nuremberg style? @underwood.house.gov @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @julianastratton.bsky.social @rajaforil.bsky.social @robinlynnekelly.bsky.social

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov look a little too chummy with a guy they call too dangerous to be in power. And they let those hats exist in their presence? You throw them on the ground and walk out gentlemen. You both got played for a photo-op. Neither are up to the challenge.