When given the opportunity, I will always add an Utena reference

Kagan: The so-called irreparable harm that the Trump administration says it suffers is merely "the price of living under a Constitution that gives Congress the power to make spending decisions through the enactment of appropriations laws...a frustration any President must bear."

Ancient nets hidden in Jomon pottery sherds reveal Japan’s oldest fishing technology. X-ray CT reconstructs 6,000-year-old knots and mesh, showing how tools were recycled into ceramics. #Jomon #Archaeology #Japan #FishingHistory www.anthropology.net/p/nets-in-cl...

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

💃Bring on the weekend, Pompeii style 💃 These dancing maenads are here to invite you to join in a Bacchic rite or two as part of the culmination of the week. These gorgeous figures were part of the Villa of Cicero in Pompeii. #FrescoFriday #AncientRome

This #FrescoFriday we travel to the villa of Publius Fannius Synistor to enjoy the complex and engaging architectural fresco complete with theatrical masks! The use of colour, perspective, and drama all come together to create a brilliant and arresting whole. #AncientRome

#FrescoFriday - A bit of a cheat, I grant you, as this is a Late Bronze Age painted funerary stele: ca. 12th Century BC. While the eye may be drawn to the procession of warriors, I love the hedgehog in the lower register! #Archaeology 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Athens (3256). 📸 My Own

I am the gar I long and thin I have a jaw things fit within Yet sometimes shapes are wrong for head so do my best & lik the bread

The interest in parental rights is as pretextual as the interest in state rights

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail." Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

#octocoralFriday!

like just imagine the way your entire soul and body would exhale if you thought someone poisoned your husband and the cops were like “hysteria much?” and then Sherlock Holmes rolled up like “lol. lmao. you fools. let me obliterate you” you would not give one shit about the drugs or the attitude

Georgia’s senators want answers from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on why detainees are dying at the highest rate ever recorded. 10 in the first 6 months, 15 total, after Noem cut oversight positions focused on civil rights. Humanity is not optional, no matter what your views are.

Alejandra is not overselling this. This executive order, if weaponized by a lawless administration like Trump, could lead to the dismantling of institutional/nonprofit opposition to Trump. It can also be used for surveillance and disruption ops similar to the civil rights era and red scare.

Car mechanic Luke Seaborn was the de facto face of Georgia Pathways to Coverage, the state's Medicaid work requirement program. Then technical glitches and red tape caused him to lose his coverage — twice. (Published May)

IT'S HAPPENING: House Democrats are introducing articles of impeachment against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr for slashing research funding and spreading medical misinformation.

This beautiful glass bowl looks modern, yet it’s about 2,250 years old! 🤩 Made using an innovative technique in which thin threads of twisted glass were spiralled over a convex mould. Wonderful example of the skill of ancient artisans! Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 me #Archaeology

Justice Eddins has been assailing SCOTUS. In another decision this month, he said the Roberts Court is "pretend law." In this decision, he said federal rights protections are "suddenly fluid," he describes Dobbs as "stripping autonomy" and "force births."

Manuscript notes and character sketches written by Maria Edgeworth in planning her novels; some pages are extended by sewn-on scraps of paper. Amazing to see these, and the original case she stored them in!

42,000 years ago on France’s Atlantic fringe, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared beads, pigments, and tools. A jewelry workshop at Saint-Césaire reshapes ideas of contact and culture. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Neanderthals www.anthropology.net/p/shells-pig...

Vibrant colour projected onto a 2,600 year-old wall panel offers a glimpse of the past lived in glorious technicolour! From the North Palace at Nineveh (present day Iraq), where the walls were decorated with brightly painted reliefs. 🎥 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

Around 18,000 years ago, a member of a Paleolithic culture made a musical instrument from this shell. Only recently did archaeologists discover the modifications that made it playable. How it sounded: archaeology.org/issues/may-june-2021/artifacts/artifact-france-magdalenian-shell-instrument/

New paper by Petrulevičius & Gutiérrez presents the oldest winged insects 🦟 from Argentina 🇦🇷 dating back to the early #Carboniferous - More insight into the early diversification of animal life & ecosystems on land. ⬇️ #Paleontology #Science onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Good morning & sorry for the delay in #BirdOfTheDay Today we are going for 'Any Bird Having a Bath' and the alternative is a Robin. i've got a Goldfinch, Jackdaw, Great-crested Grebe & Herring Gull all taking a dip in the water. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #birdphotography #ukbirding #water

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Yes. What our alter ego said. 🤦‍♀️

Octopus Frontlet, Moche culture, Peru, AD 300–600. Gold, chrysocolla, shells. Museo de la Nación, Ministerio de Cultura del Perú

ProPublica identified 155 counties in the Deep South with private schools that opened as likely segregation academies. One in Amite County, Mississippi, has never — over nearly 30 years of surveys — reported enrolling more than one Black student. (Published Dec. 2024)

1. In a groundbreaking legal filing, transgender patients, represented by Women's Law Project, have filed a legal complaint against UPMC for capitulating to Trump and dropping trans care. Federal funding threats do not override state law. Subscribe to support our journalism.

1. Trump has dug in on anti-trans provisions in the shutdown fight this morning, cancelling a meeting with Dems unless they cave on trans people. His post to Truth Social is a clear indication that Republicans are making targeting trans people a priority. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Spotted on the DC Metro today! @propublica.org

The Royal Comb Venus: a gorgeous venerid with spines along its posterior. Its genus, Hysteroconcha, means womb shell, while the species is dione (mother of Aphrodite). Apparently Linnaeus was creepy in his description of the shell, and was called out about it (265) www.conchology.be?t=94&ID=894&...

A megaraptoran skeleton! From the end of the Cretaceous! Excited about the announcement of Joaquinraptor, the top predator down south when tyrannosaurs ruled the north. The Schwarzengger to T. rex's DeVito (at least in the arms category). My thoughts: www.livescience.com/animals/dino...

#MosaicMonday River #Nile scene, detail of Ducks, a Cobra snake and a Mongoose. The mosaic currently resides in Naples’ National Archaeological Museum, with inventory references connecting it to Pompeii and Casa del Fauno #Italy #romanarchaeology #Art #History #Roman #Archaeology

#MosaicMonday - A mythological panel showing Perseus, holding the head of Medusa, as he defeats the sea-monster Ketos. From the central peristyle of the House of the Fountains at Conimbriga, Portugal: ca. Late 3rd Century AD. #Myth #Archaeology 🏺 Image: Conimbriga Monographic Museum

Small water sausage committing finger shenanigans !

Something truly extraordinary. The remarkable rainforest Lamington Crayfish on its daily forest walk. Isn't nature remarkable!

this is a fascinating comparison from @mford.bsky.social i don’t think I’ll be able to un-see newrepublic.com/article/1997...

🎉🎉🎉 omg, I may never get a better shot of a Northern Flicker in flight! I spotted this beauty on a Central Park tree trunk this morning, and it was kind enough to fly right at me! ❤️💛🖤 #Flicker #CentralPark #birding

It's not a peacock. It's a rocket-propelled goose. #MosaicMonday

This is a spectacular prep job of a Platycerid snail in my friend's collection. #FossilFriday

#birds #mohawk #greenherson

Many-colored Rush-Tyrant. Lake Batuco, Chile. For a member of the flycatcher family, this species wins the prize for most colorful, hence the name. Its red under tail coverts are hidden from view in this image. #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography #birdphotography #Nikon

Irelands largest stone circle is the Grange Lios embanked stone circle in Lough Gur, County Limerick. It was occupied in the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Early Christian, Medieval, Early Modern and Modern periods. It consists of 113 stone with a diameter of 46 m. #StandingStoneSunday

Ram in a Thicket; 2600-2400 BC; #gold, copper, shell, lapis lazuli and limestone; height: 45.7 cm; from the Royal Cemetery at Ur (Dhi Qar Governorate, #Iraq);  British Museum (#London) #AncientBlueSky #Art #History #Archaeology

Wonderful! Here's the Callanish Stones, Isle of Lewis. Taken in December a few years ago.

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich." A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

Shanah Tovah Umetukah! - שנה טובה ומתוקה Wishing everyone a good and sweet New Year! May you be inscribed for a good year in the Book of Life. blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-ancient-... Photo my own #RoshHashana #jewishnewyear 🍎🍯

Tonicha Upham, Death Rituals: The Rūs and 'Vikings' in Arabic and Persian, is available #OpenAccess until 2 October. #MedievalSky www.cambridge.org/core/element...