Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

Sad trombone

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

Posting tonight ti shine a light on what the Alien Enemies Act looks like IRL. Our @immdef.bsky.social client fled Venezuela last year & came to US to seek asylum. He has a strong claim. He was detained upon entry because ICE alleged his tattoos are gang related. They are absolutely not. 🧵

More than $3 trillion of wealth evaporated from the S&P 500 since Inauguration Day as policies meant to put us in the Golden Age hurtle us back to the Iron Age.

So this was a campaign promise not an observation.

The story behind my jacket. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPYm...

What would John Lewis do tonight if he were still with us? He would cause GOOD TROUBLE. Boycotting the speech is not that - that's playing into Trump's hands. Instead, dear Congresspeople, show up. Shout down the lies. Spread the truth. Push Trump's buttons - make him show himself for what he is.

.. @daily-stoic.bsky.social 💕

Apparently 1620 wasn't such a good year either! #GraveHumor #Genealogy

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Waitsfield on Saturday morning to protest Vice President JD Vance, who is visiting Vermont with his family for a ski trip this weekend.

I wish reading the news felt less like binge watching the final season of a long running series that’s been a major part of your life for decades.

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

Here’s a good model for responding to this dipshit’s letters:

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

There's no widespread fraud in Social Security payments, as Elon Musk claims. The number of people receiving benefits by age is available online. In Dec 2024, 89,106 people 99yo & older received benefits. There are about 101,000 people in the US over the age of 100. www.ssa.gov/oact/progdat...

reading the Declaration of Independence and it is so fucking wild to me how Trump is literally doing like 75% of this

This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as a shadow government across the entire federal government. Each agency/dept will be assigned a DOGE minder who will work with the Secry or Director and essentially be in charge of all new hiring and/or firing. People have been saying the Elon is ...

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.

If DOGE messes with the National Archives, I'm going to be REALLY pissed. #genealogy

Why is Elon Musk hiding what they are doing inside the USAID building?

Is there a word for when a bunch of private citizens following orders from an unelected billionaire occupy government buildings and cut off communications

A man of Japanese ancestry wears his WWI US Navy uniform as he enters an incarceration camp in 1942. catalog.archives.gov/id/537044

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

Regarding Pete Hegseth, I can't get past the fact that he doesn't wash his hands. I'm a NO right there. www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

Worth reminding

A millionaire co-founder of real estate investment firm, who bragged about not paying taxes, offered to throw cash at any concierge private fire department to protect only *his* house. We are living in the age of selfish plutocrats. (The account was subsequently deleted.)

everything about this new Meta AI bot is so dystopian but for me the AI-generated images of nonexistent donated coats is up there

For all my math peeps out there: 2025 is pretty amazing mathematical arrangement. 1. 2025 is a perfect square (45×45=2025) 2. 2025 is the sum of digits of cubes from 1 to 9 (1³ + 2³ + 3³ + ... + 9³ = 2025) 3. 2025 is the first square year after 1936 (Cont…)

When I volunteer to help people with their #genealogy I always warn them to be prepared to find out unpleasant things about your ancestors. Well, just this week, as I'm working on my husband's tree, I come to find his 3GGfather was a murderer, who disemboweled a man. Yikes. #GenHour

TRUMP: I’m going to use the FBI illegally to go after my political enemies! BIDEN: Um, I guess I’ll pardon my son then because fuck that. MEDIA: Biden is breaking norms!

OMG, these are the initial vetting questions for NIH Director 🤦‍♂️ H/T @statsepi.bsky.social

You all MOCKED George Lucas and said this was boring or dumb but who’s laughing now???

A broad 25% tariff on all goods imports from Canada and Mexico would, before substitution & other 2nd stage effects, put upward pressure on the level of consumer prices of +0.6%. That's the equivalent of an average loss in after-tax income of about $980 per household in 2023$.

UMass/Amherst (left) and Wesleyan University are both warning their international students to be on American soil before noon on Jan 20 -- Inauguration Day.

Relatives not US citizens in 1940 (or some who were but weren't sure themselves), you need to check out AR-2s, newly available from NARA. You may get maiden names, arrival info, signatures+more. And you get them quickly! #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2024/08/alie...

Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app is there a way to help Leigh and stop this kind of squatting?

Congratulations to Matt Gaetz on breaking the Susan Collins concern-o-meter.

Animation of daily normal precipitation throughout the year using stations data from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Probably my favorite animation.

On this Veterans Day, I’m thinking of my dad who joined the Navy during the Korean War so he could go to college on the GI bill. He grew up in rural Arkansas, was the first of his family to go to college, and then grad school. As a physics PhD he worked in the space program, among other things.

Judge James Ho wants you to know he isn’t *that* committed to birthright citizenship reason.com/volokh/2024/...