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here's a guy who loves killing endangered animals in foreign countries for sport with the same Putin apparatchik who paid for his wedding giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Rumor has it three Spider Men scared Jake Lang off from outside the event!! Such fearless crusaders!

Oh no 😭 One of the last members of the USS Enterprise has left. RIP Walter Marvin Koenig (1936-2026) Star Trek, Babylon 5, Moontrap, The Starlost, The Questor Tapes, Futurama... What a career in sci-fi. I will miss Pavel Chekov. Again 😞

🦟 The British miscellany London: Printed by R. Taylor & Co., and sold by the author, J. Sowerby by White, Johnson, Symonds, and all other booksellers, 1806. [Source]

IN A WORLD OF HER OWN (2016) Acrylic on Canvas - 36" x 48" This painting arose from musing on an interview that Stanley Kubrick gave in 1968, a source of inspiration I have gone back to over the years, revisiting comments made by the director. #art

The destruction of protected wildlife sanctuaries in Texas for border wall construction continues long after the slogan was forgotten. Here's what will be lost: 'Green Jay (Cyanocorax luxuosus) on a Collared Peccary (Pecari tajacu)' (📷: Steve Hillebrand, USFWS)

The moon over Chicago

Tonight’s Moon over the Terminal Tower in Cleveland, Ohio

King & Bay Henge.

Full moon late last night

Tonights Hunter's Full Moon rises over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. No AI, no composite. Single frame. #fullmoon #huntersmoon #maryland #chesapeake #baybridge #photography

Jon Ossoff’s closing argument went in for the kill.

GOP: Gang of Predators bsky.app/profile/majo...

Republicans, they're not like us.

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

I asked my cats if they will disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. Their answer was disturbing.

My contribution to Cheesecake Factory discourse: Aryan Brotherhood of Texas gang members assaulted a mixed-race family. I identified one of them because he worked at a Cheesecake Factory and their Instagram page posted pictures of him. He has a back tattoo with SS bolts and phrase "Aryan Soldier"

A far-right gentleman's club is turning on its own members over Israel, with critics saying the Old Glory Club is now more like the Old Gloryhole Club. My latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/right-wing...

“Unfortunately, finding a stray tabby under a car and gently tying your ballot to its tail with a ribbon almost certainly ensures your vote will miss the deadline for counting.” — Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State

Today is Sextidi the 6th of Brumaire in the year 235. Brumaire is the month of mist. Today we celebrate heliotrope. #JacobinDay See today's page

Had such a blast talking about Richard Hanania - fascist dweeb turned centrist darling - with the great @jaredlholt.bsky.social, @michaelehayden.bsky.social & @henryburke.bsky.social for the latest Posting Through It www.patreon.com/PostingThrou...

Richard Hanania's primary idea as a thinker is to flatter whoever holds power. Right now, that’s liberals--given the profound backlash against MAGA. Letting him in means admitting liberalism has room for someone who talks like an unreconstructed fascist.

Literally the first shot of this "historically accurate" Odyssey movie shows a boat that A) Has no steering oar. B) Is under full sail *and* full rowers while entering a cave, presumably to dock inside.

Bluesky has 6 kinds of users

No one can resist Cary Grant, the dog with the QR code to register-folks-to-vote! Brilliant idea by the great Jena Crisler🙏🙏🙏

New: In 2019, *1 day* after Trump rally crowd chanted "send her back!" abt Ilhan Omar, Schumer decried GOP "silence" over "despicable" chant Now, *14 days* after raid on Omar home, part of Trump attempt to literally "send her back," Schumer is silent. My story: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chuck-s...

"Fernando" works in the Salinas area and shares "We are working more than 8 hours because we fear the lettuce fields might become damaged due to the heavy rain. We, H2A workers have to finish strong to be called again next season. " #WeFeedYou

I talked to Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker who was arrested at work, while he was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. I called him again once he was deported to Mogadishu. Here's what he had to say.

They’re heeeeeere! And I am immediately using one to schlep posters to city hall for today’s hearing on the academy of natural sciences. Get one at SquidFacts.net

what is this????

(I swear this isn’t going to be a hype thread for my own book. But, also, here’s the preorder link): bookshop.org/p/books/vapo...

It's nearly the end of October, the clocks have gone back, and once again we are moving steadily into the darker months. 🌙 If you need a little more light in your life then don't forget that Orkney Library & Archive have a collection of loanable WINTERING WELL KITS! 💡

The jaunty pop up corpse-in-a-box is a winner 😄

Happy Medieval Monday-ween! If you haven't chosen a Halloween costume why not visit Digital Bodleian for some inspiration. These images are all taken from MS Douce 134: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/171e2f9a-37fa-4d0b-ac70-9cab486f7ace/surfaces/8fbb7f90-658f-4f91-afc0-b8b8e6393f41/.

Detroit's proposed $251 million spending plan includes $8.7 million to restore school libraries www.chalkbeat.org/detroit/2026...

My latest for National Geographic looks at the 131 new Hittite cuneiform tablets unearthed at Šamuḫa (c. 1400 BCE) & what they tell us about everything from augury to an epidemic that killed Hittite children. Thx to @digkabri.bsky.social, Theo van den Hout, @knpazuzu.bsky.social & ISAC for aid. 🪏

This was an intentional decision by the Alexandria Police Department to prioritize incarceration over immediate, life-saving medical care that was just minutes away. Prosecutors declined to pursue criminal charges.

"Growing anti-Indian rhetoric within the GOP is pushing some lifelong conservative Indian American voters to reconsider their allegiance to the Republican Party"

So as I headed to Ingram for the first time in March, I wanted to know who the local faces of the national immigration crackdown were. Who was driving the black Dodge Charger? www.propublica.org/article/depo...

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

Texas SB 8 requires that all county sheriffs with a jail must apply to join the 287(g) program by December 1.

I have added a couple of lists of some of my favorite books (all science fiction) -- I highly recommend everything listed! bookshop.org/shop/astroka...