Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

Hot wings Male Lesser Kestrel Photographer unknown

Stephen Miller said the building was “filled with TdA terrorists.” DOJ prosecutors have not filed criminal charges or shown evidence that anyone arrested in the raid belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social and @blockclubchi.bsky.social

Morning.

Mono Lake as seen from the road leading to Bodie, CA. #landscapes #outdoorphotography #pdxphotographer #beautifulEarth

I can't stop thinking about this and how this father tried to kill his kids in a pretty horrific way

Oh my. When you've lost the Babylon Bee …

Autumn Valley (2017) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.

I hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving. I know today can be really hard, it is for me too. If you’re missing somebody important at your table today, I’m sorry and I empathize 💔 Sweet Cher loves you all and hopes you find some joy today no matter what! #corgi #corgicrew #dogsofbluesky

When America Has Your Back . Cartoon by Kevin KAL Kallaugher

In a Field of Flowers #art ✧ #painting ✧ #flowers ✧ #horse

“Network” premieres today in ‘76 “.. we thought we were making a satire,” said Lumet. “But the extraordinary and frightening thing is how quickly it stopped being satire .. When the truth becomes entertainment, when rage becomes a commodity, the culture begins to eat itself.” @ditzkoff.bsky.social

His favorite show is on. The National Dog Show. He waits all year for this.

Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.

Today - and every day - is a good day to read Justice Stevens’ dissent in Heller v DC. The bonkers 5-4 decision that not only made it legal to carry firearms in DC but also declared that the first 13 words of 2A were “merely preferatory”. www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/0...

We found more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using "less lethal" weapons in ways that appear to flout the government's own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

One woman said her father called in June to say he was going to be paroled after serving 20 years for car theft. Then in September, she got another call: He was instead being transferred to await deportation. It was the last time she heard from him. With @veritenews.org

Leotia viscosa aka Chicken Lips. Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends #hiking

Wild turkeys once nearly disappeared, but today they’re thriving.

After years of struggling to find enough workers for some of the nation’s toughest lockups, the Federal Bureau of Prisons is facing a new challenge: Corrections officers are jumping ship for more lucrative jobs at ICE. By @keribla.bsky.social

Rolling out the welcome mat, like a pro.

James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars. Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.

Tis the season ❄️ Love this one by Pascal Campion.

They are aware that Russians quite literally wrote the capitulation document that some people in the White House and sadly many people in the media refer to as a peace plan.

"Tesla nearly halved (-48%) its operations in the European Union, with 5,647 registrations in October compared with 10,867 in the same month last year, making it the car brand with the worst performance in the last month." It's a cult, but a dying one! mobilityportal.eu/byd-doubles-...

They didn’t even try to name it something less obvious lmao

If you’re wondering why there’s a lull in the Epstein files discussion, it’s because the law that just passed gave Pamela Jo 30 days to release the files. So we’re all waiting to see how she tries to sabotage it. The discussion will pick back up in earnest on December 20th.

Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.

VP of EU Commission Kaja Kallas: “We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate.”

The powerful and resilient Tina Turner was born #OTD in 1939. She made one of the greatest comebacks in #music history (in her mid-40s). Results? 👇 + Moniker: Queen of Rock 'n' Roll + 12 Grammys + Second Rock & Roll HOF induction + One of the best-selling recording artists of all time #legend

I’m so jealous. Must be nice having a functional high court.

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma. Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply. With @readfrontier.bsky.social

Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

This seems like a play to cut NPS profitability to make it easier to open these lands up to extraction. 35% of NPS visitors are from overseas

“.. The unusual government intervention .. is fueling some concerns, including the opacity of the process, the potential for favoritism, corruption and market distortions, along with the possible loss of taxpayer funds should the investments fail.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

The Trump administration announced that starting Jan. 1, the cost of an annual national park pass for non-U.S. residents will jump from $80 to $250 more than triple the current price.

HANNIBAL (2013) Dir. David Slade Developed by Bryan Fuller

Over 24 million Americans are enrolled in marketplace insurance plans, and more than 22 million qualify for the subsidies that help cover rising premium costs.

White privilege is just a fancy way of saying “you don’t have to deal with racism”, it doesn’t mean you have a Rolls Royce and a staff of servants. It does mean you don’t have to worry about ICE tackling you in the hallway because a neighbor said you “look illegal.”

the "view that working-class individuals are more prejudiced towards immigrants & ethnic minorities is shown to be a function of economic threat - highly educated people also express prejudice towards these groups when the latter are described as highly educated & therefore pose an economic threat."

The federal civil complaint against Justice and his wife alleged that they “neglected" notices demanding payments of unpaid federal income taxes and penalties.

Every American should have this in their wallet:

Pamela Jo has until December 20th to release the Epstein files. She must include explanations for everything she redacts or withholds.

Breaking: BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.

In 1924, Calvin Coolidge's 16-yr-old son played tennis on the White House grounds w/o wearing socks. He got a blister and was dead from infection a week later. This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.

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The best thing about having a cat is when he’ll walk in the room carrying a slice of ham but you don’t have any ham in the house. Where’d you get the ham little guy?