The WSJ on how unbelievably stupid Noem and Lewandowski are. I don’t care that I’m late to this; it’s to good to pass up. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Foggy morning in Late Pleistocene Patagonia. #Art #SciArt #artbyjulio

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SNAP benefits are currently being held hostage by the Trump administration and their fate now lies with the Supreme Court. Beneath the legal arguments are real people who simply need food—a former federal worker, a single mother of 4, a disabled man. I spoke to them. Here are their stories:

Cue the two hundred "nice dream, but MY family can't possibly fit in a normal car and asking me to try for the safety of other road users is the real violence" responses

Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚 The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602... This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks. I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

This might be read as dooming, but it actually gives me hope. We, as a society, *can* just all decide to call this all a load of horseshit and get rid of it. It's not impossible. There was a time before all of this, and there will be a time after it.

dash rendar james "sawyer" ford why did i never see it before

Denver finally going Lambert Mode

I was at the Sierra Club during the period described in this article and although I have my criticisms, it gets the issues in the Club fundamentally wrong. A 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Millennials haven’t had easy lives but at least we’ll always have this beat drop at 3:07

Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3 📷 D. v. Recklinghausen 🏺

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

if you see anyone expressing shock that a candidate who exudes warmth and authenticity and wants to improve the quality of life for working class people won over a rapist whose entire campaign was "that guys a terrorist" that's not a smart person. you don't have to listen to that person anymore.

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

I wrote this in June and the disgusting way since then that Cuomo and the oligarchs have been willing to tear the social fabric of the city apart to stop him has only made it more true and Zohran’s victory more thunderous. Next we stop ICE.

not the lesson everyone will grab onto tonight but this proves soundcloud rappers are the future of electoral politics

I yearn for a political party where not endorsing Mamdani while praising Dick Cheney gets you automatically booted out

It would be good if we had a functional Supreme Court at this point.

"I am openly defying a court order so I can starve children if Democrats don't let me take healthcare away from millions" once again we are in 'too evil for a saturday morning cartoon' territory

literally been excited to read this all morning

people have completely memory holed this which is a shame because I don't know that I've seen anything like it before or since. Natalie Maines, performing in London, said she was ashamed that George W. Bush was from Texas, and in response she and her bandmates had their lives destroyed

Seventeen Fingered AI Generated Child: "Do you remember conquering the Sumerian city-states with Sargon of Akkad? There was always a big tank of lobsters! Do you still get lobsters when you conquer city-states with Sargon of Akkad?"

It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today) www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...

there was a time i never thought i could hate a politician more than i hated that guy. in retrospect, very naive of me

No one commissioned a Cheney obit from me except a friend who subsequently left his outlet. If you’re an editor and you pay more than $1.50/word, reach out. If I hate your outlet, be prepared to pay more. If these terms are not acceptable, my book works as a Cheney obituary:

the extrajudicial boat murders have become so prevalent they meet the official definition of serial killing

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

I’m doing research for a project and found out about the “don’t buy where you can’t work” movement during the depression, where Black people boycotted and picketed places that wouldn’t hire us. Shout out to everyone who’s not going back to Target!

I will venmo any reporter $400 to ask trump "what does SNAP stand for"

For years people made fun of big tech for inventing things that already exist and they responded with their magnum opus: inventing fascism. Incredible work

FACT: you should be sappier with your friends and loved ones. there is no reason not to be.

average american’s interaction with insurance (charges that dont reflect real prices, which generally will go down if you call and ask for a basic explanation but rely on you not arguing) is a major root of american governance failure imo

This remains one of my fav studies - and a true first of its kind! The first off-Earth archaeological fieldwork, with the experiment designed by @drspacejunk.bsky.social and then undertaken / analysed / reported by the International Space Station Archaeological Project. So good!

My former boss encountered an uncapped well on BLM land while out doing a site survey. She luckily noticed all the dead birds and small animals on the ground before she got too close.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

the only moral action is to abolish ICE and punish those who are members of ICE

study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them. After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer." www.calonews.com/featured-top...

Baldur's Gate 3 brought actors back to record 'they/them' pronoun lines: 'A game-changer' https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/28/baldurs-gate-3-non-binary/?utm_content=1762099204&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

I think part of the problem is people confuse being broke with being poor.

On DHS’s unauthorized use of Norman Rockwell’s paintings across social media, an op-ed from our family today in @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

As called by Ben Shulman on Blue Jays radio:

“70% of wage-earning adults who rely on government programs like SNAP and Medicaid work full-time, many at hugely profitable companies like Walmart and McDonald’s whose low wages are effectively subsidized by tax dollars without any of the blame or paternalistic lectures.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby