📷 Tower of David, Jerusalem, #Palestine, 1900s

Airmen can wear colored T-shirts on Friday and callsign nametags on daily flight duty under a new policy update. trib.al/7xUp595

Some things I see people talk about have me more & more convinced people should take more political science classes, a lot of things that people are discovering in real time that political scientists have been writing about for some time (quite a while in most cases, more recent work in other cases)

Friday's planned participation of Jewish left-wing activists in the Palestinian olive harvest in the West Bank was derailed by the IDF and Israel police, who only appear to stop those suspected of nonviolence: @haaretzcom.bsky.social editorial www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

As an absolute minimum Southern Water should be providing staff and equipment to help clean this up. Why are they not legally required to do this? More, why have they not offered? Relying on volunteers using dustpans and brushes is not going to provide the best outcome.

“Interested in my commentary on her outfits.” I absolutely guarantee she was not.

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

Note: This would be at least the 11th time this year that apparent ICE/Border Patrol/DHS agents have conducted immigration enforcement on or immediately near church grounds. RNS broke down this trend back in August: religionnews.com/2025/08/04/w...

Newsom is the front-runner right now in exactly the same way Jeb! was the front-runner in late 2013. He has ZERO juice, but he is catnip to the juiceless opinionators who are the only people gossiping about “who is the frontrunner right now.”

NEWS: President Trump has issued a *second* pardon for Jan. 6 defendant Dan Wilson. Wilson, a militia member, remained in prison on a firearms conviction unrelated to the Capitol attack. But Trump's new pardon explicitly covers the gun charges. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

My cavalry cannot charge until I find my micro USB cable

"Woolf stands alongside fellow protesters.... A moment later, one officer can be seen grabbing Woolf by the wrist and yanking. "Demonstrators attempted to hold onto Woolf, but 4 officers wrenched him from the crowd and tossed him to the ground" Via @jackjenkins.me religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

2nd photo here, also by Vondruska 2/2

A thread of two photos, each worth more than 1,000 words: The Rev. Michael Woolf of Lake Street Church in Evanston, Ill., is detained by Illinois State Police at a protest outside the Broadview ICE facility Via Freelance photographer Jim Vondruska/Reuters 1/2 www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!? Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.

With @arynbraun.bsky.social, this week we ran this big look at what ICE/CBP has become under Donald Trump and how the agencies increasingly resemble a sort of national police force he can send to whatever city he likes to intimidate people: www.economist.com/interactive/...

Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s being inundated with threats because of Trump’s rhetoric. Violent threats are wrong no matter what. This is an opportunity for MTG and others on the right to reflect on all the violent threats Trump has incited through the years - including on Jan. 6.

What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…” Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Methinks the wearer of these never had to go outside!

Marines no longer lose free trip home if they take US leave while moving between overseas assignments www.stripes.com/branches/mar...

Proud dad moment as I listened to Tiny Human explaining immigrant policy to her friend in the backseat of the car as I drove.

la construction du FH Bochum sur la Lennershofstrasse. Les principaux bâtiments A et C étaient déjà achevés ici 1977.

While some elements of AI are genuinely new, the harms it enables are evolutions of those we have seen before, writes Sarah Barrington. It is time to recognize the myth of the “unprecedented” and hold tech accountable, she says.

about UK politics but also of relevance to the other side of the pond: "Good politics also requires something else - a healthy public sphere, in which at least the most egregiously bad ideas and bad actors are subject to sufficient scrutiny that they are weeded out. Which is what we don’t have."

For #Caturday Behold the mouse! 🐭🐈 So says the inscription on this #medieval badge of a cat with mouse in mouth! Lead alloy, circa 1300-1500. 📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology

We know all you can think about today is that it's #WorldPeacockDay. So here's our "Shell Mosaic", which some people claim actually shows a peacock's fan tail. Those people are clearly insane, but it's not World Shell Day, and this is the best we can do. 🐚🤔🦚

Noem spent over $200 million in taxpayer dollars to film videos over 2xs last year’s budget. The money was funneled using a “no bid” contract to an unknown LLC created days earlier and is tied to the husband of her deputy at DHS. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 apple.news/AZPU7INIQR3C...

THANKSGIVING RECIPES THREAD 🧵🍁🦃 I’m Head Chef at this year’s Bower family Thanksgiving. The soup season thread was a hit, so now I’m turning to Bluesky for your best Turkey Day recipes. What’s the one dish you can’t live without? Drop recipes and tips in the replies ⬇️ (Photo: my fave appetizer)

But in more than 40 years as a journalist, I only encountered this one time. It's vanishingly rare, despite what movies and TV shows portray.

I have actually fired a reporter for this very thing.

Dropping off absurd number of packages, and a man in line asks “What do you have that’s selling so well??” So I was like “Um…*gulp* eel …facts…adventcalendsrs” “Oh! You’re squid facts!” My city gets me 🥰

Insects on the engraved title-page of August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof’s ‘Der monatlich-herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigung’ (Nuremberg, 1746-61), vol. 2. S391.c.74.1-4 @theul.bsky.social

#SteepleSaturday From Papal Palace of Avignon, the steeple of Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Doms d'Avignon. Built 12th C, tower collapsed and reconstructed in 15th. Gilded Virgin Mary added on top in 19th. @drrjwarren.bsky.social posted her lovely painting on other side, but I can't find it! Pls repost.

A Great Egret standing in the shallow water. #Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #PhotographersUnited #BlueskyArtShow #EastCoastKin

Because tariffs are taxes, and consumers pay? www.reuters.com/business/tru...

Trump and Hegseth's "Department of War" rebranding is more than just a name. It signals their vision of a force that disdains legality, as if whoever commits the most war crimes wins. But as new research by @doncasler.bsky.social and @robertralston.bsky.social shows, the change is very unpopular,

More 12th grade boys want to eventually get married than 12th grade girls. Anecdotally, my 15 year old daughter on dating: "I'd be glad to date, but the boys either are too egotistical, too racist, or both." www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Historians, what do we know about the analytical ability of people in previous centuries?

<waves hands at…everything>

The Aedes aegypti mosquito that can carry dengue, yellow fever, and Zika was thought to be too reliant on a hot and wet climate to survive in the Mountain West. But now, a population is thriving in Western Colorado. www.wired.com/story/a-dise...

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Women in their 20s, 30s and 40 who ate more ultraprocessed foods had higher risks of developing precancerous colorectal polyps before they turned 50 compared with those who consumed fewer, according to a study.