Looking at the mug shots Bondi posted of folks who allegedly impeded ICE officers... I'm reminded me of some of the iconic 1960s images of 'criminals' from counter sitins and freedom rides

Required reading.

Abolish. ice. 💔

They're also removing the remaining glaciers from Glacier National Park.

Kilauea erupted again yesterday in a fierce display. In only the 2nd time in 40 years, park officials closed the area due to the intensity. Fountains were officially recorded at 500 m high, grapefruit size tephra were being ejected, and tephra fall was measured up to 20 miles away. #volcano #hawaii

Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed. The next could be you. What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones. This is personal — to every one of us.

ICE must be pulled out, root and stem. It must be defunded, abolished, and expunged from the republic.

Fascinating proposal for the existence of a seventh kingdom of life--in addition to plants, animals, fungi, protists, bacteria and archaea. The @sciam.bsky.social article below is quite worthwhile, but here's the original paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Carney is describing US hegemonic suicide:

Carney is bluntly telling the world, and Americans, that the post WW2 order is gone and America is left behind.

The Carney Middle Powers Speech might just be the official punctuation ending the American Century. LINK: youtu.be/dTvFnC-oFGw?...

I'd like to report that Key West is still fairly warm and green.

I know some of you who follow me mostly care about ocean or climate but this is one of the most alarming things happening and is worth your attention.

This is how they played The First of Us

Email count dredged from 2,300+ down to 31. Please clap.

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

Is there a price high enough for you to give up your sovereignty? Would that price be high enough to cover the demise of NATO, the resulting permanent crash of the global dollar standard, and the surrender of Europe to the whims of Vladimir Putin? Funny, no number comes to mind.

The next Trekspertise essay, The Sanctuary Prophecy, is about 30% complete and already the most ambitious piece we’ve made. It’s shaping up as a 45-minute, documentary-style deep dive. Looking at a march release. Provided we are all still here then.

Renee Nicole Good

I was happy and excited to be on Story Corp from PBS, NPR and Library of Congress's American Folklife Center. archive.storycorps.org/interviews/j...

The people who most loudly complain "Why can't these immigrants just stay in their country???" are the same ones who most loudly celebrate American military and CIA interventionism in these countries to overthrow their governments. And they lack the self awareness to understand their own hypocrisy.

U.S. invading a Central/South American country to secure natural resources? Yeah, that's been done hundreds of times. One era between the Civil War & WW2 had so many examples, it was given a name, The Banana Wars. Map from Anina Bennett and my best collaboration: FRANK READE.

He was once squirrel the grey. But since defeating the balrog and smoting his ruin upon the mountainside, he is now squirrel the white. He's come back now at the turning of the tide.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️ www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

I need to start regularly using LeGuin’s derogatory word “propertarian”.

A tiny little trilobite!

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Stunning

"Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition." - E.O. Wilson

Is this what atheists believe?

Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice

I am constantly being asked if I work at a place where I'm shopping. In a Walmart, at a grocery store, in line to buy a thing at a market... "Excuse me, do you work here?" "No, sorry." I mean, in half these places, the employees wear uniforms. Do I dress this poorly?

When Americans insist "it can't happen here," they’re wrong. A sociologist who studies collective memory and identity examines how the U.S. forgot its own fascist movements and what that collective amnesia means today. buff.ly/9mzgR3S

A friend was processing the George Wallace collection at the Alabama state archives. She sent me a copy of a letter to Wallace parents asking him to not “stand in the schoolhouse door” in June 1963. It was from my parents.

The US government has initiated a lawsuit against the US Virgin Islands, addressing significant Second Amendment concerns regarding gun laws.

Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT? Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ

This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history!! Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!

Fair use.

You better believe it.

DNA is the new gold, oil, weapon.

“Who’s gonna stop you?”

Wonderful and the best one yet.

Before the European Enlightenment, cultures across the world engaged scientifically with the natural history, and showcased it visually with their own unique visual language and perception of the living world. I do not understand the current aversion to different "styles" in scientific visual art.

US-Japan archaeological team argues strong similarities between very earliest US lithic technology and lithic tech from Hokkaido means that isolated groups on Hokkaido may have used boats to hop along Beringia coast to Americas 18-22K yrs ago (no walk across the land bridge at all). (From Oct.)