NEW on CNN: In several old videos we found, Pete Hegseth blasted Trump in 2016 warning he could issue unlawful orders that troops should refuse, calling him an “armchair tough guy” with five draft deferments. Now he’s attacking Democrats for saying same. LINK: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...

Good morning all! Breakfast time with 🎨Fernand Botero. Have a great day. #food #art

In today’s video, I breakdown 3 reasons why U.S. foreign spending on HIV is not “aid” or an”gift”

Too true, as my mom used to say

When I said “there are worse things than Netflix buying Warner Bros., Paramount is exactly what I meant.

Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.) Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I found a tiny octopus on the tide pool🐙✨️ Small as it is, it’s every bit an octopus ... and absolutely adorable!! It even shoots ink🫧 ͛.*

Day 8️⃣ of our Ocean Art Advent Calendar... Microscopic magic of the sea-son! Diatoms, radiolarians and other plankton that form the foundation of ocean life. Beautiful artwork by Rebecca Cusack. hashtag#MicroscopyMonday hashtag#OceanScience hashtag#FestiveOceanArt

In fairness, Ms Stahl, you knew she was a snake the last time she used you to promote her narrative without holding her to account for anything because it made good tv.

the best christmas movie without Alistair Sim. Just not the remake, which was an abomination before the lord. www.imdb.com/title/tt0048...

This is why I’m cautiously optimistic — in the long run.

Artomyces pyxidatus, the Crown-tipped Coral or Candelabra Coral fungus, was not seen in the UK over the entire 20th century, its last record in 1886 until a spate of recent findings around 2022, which is when I found this specimen (in East Kent). Where did it disappear all this time?

More of this !!

I have a list. Who do I give my list to?

I took care of numerous kids with fulminant hepatitis B in the 90s before the switch to getting the first vaccine at birth. I don’t recall having one since. I do not miss caring for that disease.

Hand polished agate is the perfect test subject for my new light! Looking good! 😁 Lakes District, BC, Canada #northgirlrocks #rockhound #BCrock #ExploreNature #geologyrocks #handpolished #agate

Artist: S-Crimmy https://b3ta.com/board/11423341 From the 'Movie Poster Recycling' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/movieposterrecycling/popular/ #MoviePosterRecycling

Some great fossil finds coming in today! Clearly the rough weather has done some good to the beaches with plenty of fool's gold ammonites about and even a beautiful set of 3 articulated ichthyosaur vertebra!

Thomas Mann’s books fall out of copyright (UK/EU) next month, which means - new editions and translations! Here are two from Pushkin Press: Death in Venice, and three stories (Tonio Kröger, Disorder and Early Sorrow, and Mario and the Magician). All translated by Lesley Chamberlain.

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

The irony of someone with an Irish name thinking Trump doesn’t have thoughts about his own ancestors. My Dougherty grandma saw NINA (No Irish Need Apply) signs growing up in Manhattan before the General Slocum fire, and if the young nativist’s family was here yet, his did too.

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The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.

The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.

Farm to table fine dining has an embarrassment of godfathers but only one mother. www.pbs.org/show/finding...

Welcome back to #FossilFriday! Here is a Petoskey Stone which is Michigan's state stone. It is a colonial rugose coral known as Hexagonaria percarinata. This comes from the Middle Devonian (Givitian) Gravel Point Formation (Traverse Group). Each corallite that you see would have housed a polyp.

You may see people advising you to grab WB-owned titles on physical media and you may wonder if this is overreacting. It isn't. Movie studios have always put preservation and convenient availability last, outright junking films that they no longer value. Being a movie fan is rife with stress.

“You cannot say I did it; never shake thy gory locks at me!”

BERMAN: Did you see any evidence of them trying to use a radio in the video you saw? TOM COTTON: Well I saw lots of evidence of them standing on the boat that had been capsized BERMAN: That wasn't my question. Did you see any evidence? COTTON: No, I didn't

Trump is going to try to stop this deal. He wanted his buddy, Larry Ellison (Paramount Skydance), to land this (& to control CNN). Netflix will buy pieces of Warner Bros. Discovery: — WBD's film studio, IPs & HBO Max; - WBD will still spin out its cable networks, i.e. TNT & CNN. 🧾 is.gd/I9iWtS

When your wacky culture warrior family likes your brother better and you end up in IT. gothamist.com/news/nypd-co...

This is a labradorite appreciation post

How many parents does it take to raise a homicidal maniac? Two, then one, then none.

The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami. They are lying to us.

And Then There Were None 1945 is today's film on my Crime playlist. youtu.be/fFB-kySGDTc Ten strangers are invited to an island, accused of past crimes, and murdered one by one, Please subscribe to the YouTube Channel. Please buy the physical media if you can #filmsky

Weekend at Tapper’s

The head of IBM said it would take ~$1.5 trillion per year for AI centers just to pay the interest on their dept. Since their only paying gig is replacing workers (Average American cost ~$100k/yr each), that's >15 million full time American jobs eliminated permanently just to cover the mortgage.

This is a sincere question: why are _A Star is Born_, _Dance Girl, Dance_, and _Crossfire_ in this collection? www.criterionchannel.com/queersighted...

I don’t think the administration’s strategy of getting the most popular entertainers today to loudly denounce their evil agenda as a way to boost views on their crimes against humanity is actually going to work out the way they think

Interesting interview: John T Edge on his new memoir and NOLA www.nola.com/gambit/food_...

“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.” — Bertrand Russell

A district court previously found Habba was unlawfully appointed U.S. Attorney for New Jersey.

It’s Election Day in TN 7th District. Already, 84,356 people have cast their ballots early. If you haven’t voted yet, please make a plan to do so today!

The interesting part of this story is that Jared’s daddy hooked McGreevey up with that fitness instructor. Also, the fitness instructor’s blackmail demands included chartering a medical school named after Jared’s grandparents. apnews.com/article/mcgr...

The Post is saying the disquieting part out loud. "Hegseth, with White House help, tries to distance himself from boat strike fallout" wapo.st/4oyWISF

When Biden gave the worst debate performance in history, my job as a neutral reporter was to write about it incessantly until he dropped out. When Trump gave the second worst debate performance in history, against Harris, my job was to lend credence to his claim that immigrants were eating pets.