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The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

Introducing the "tree ring plot": a new way to visualize global surface temperatures. Each ring is a year, and each colored cell represents a day in global average temperatures (compared to a 1850-1900 preindustrial baseline).

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

They simply want to cancel an entire field of science because they don't like the answers it has come up with. It's like the burning of the library of Alexandria. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

“It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.” ― Brian Friel

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing—straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

The 8 year old becoming aware of the patriarchy everyday. Comes into my office very frustrated & frankly outraged: ‘Why is the lion the king of the jungle? It does not live in the jungle and most important the girls do EVERYTHING! It should be the queen of the savannah, Mummy! ‘

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

It's happening. In spite of the best efforts from the worst people, It's happening #EnergyTransition #Climate #CleanEnergy www.dailyclimate.org/solar-and-wi...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

NEW PIECE: I'm finally back & just in time to provide the big picture analysis of the Trump Tariff stock market crash. I'll have a follow up piece about the stock market tomorrow & at least one payments system piece later this week. www.crisesnotes.com/trumps-liber...

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

"Because I could not stop for Death, I paid $1,600 every month to COBRA, until I died of measles, about which the doctors—and not the podcast my mom liked—were correct."

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Connected with lots of smart, welcoming people at Tally's Word of South music/ literary festival today. Got to soak up the wisdom of my fellow NF panelists Ray Arsenault and Evan Bennett, had lunch with members of Parliament-Funkadelic, and got sassy with the Shindellas.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Honored to accept the silver Florida Book Award for Melted Away tonight.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

#episky #medsky #academicsky #IDsky

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Nevada skies so dark that even the Milky Way shines through the clouds. #Astrophotography

submitted 34 days ago • 38 comments

NYers, email your reps now--say no to mask bans in New York: action.aclu.org/send-message...

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France special forces practicing drills in Greenland and a French nuclear powered submarine in Halifax, Canada.

submitted 38 days ago • 79 comments

"Should both sides of the Atlantic succumb, the future that unfolds will be unrecognizable to most — a world of barbed, militarized borders, blotted freedoms, and sapped economic and cultural ties." CAP's @robertbenson92.bsky.social for @inkstickmedia.com:

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

It’s Akira Kurosawa’s birthday. The older I get, the more I think about this quote: ‘I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.’

submitted 38 days ago • 12 comments

Annnnnd we're off. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has just called a snap election for April 28. "We [need] to act to fight the Americans," Carney just told reporters in Ottawa. Over the past week, Carney has been working on new military and defensive deals with Australia, France, and the UK.

submitted 38 days ago • 45 comments

If I see one more grown and well paid man say they couldn’t do a marginally brave thing because they were afraid of threats I am going to lose my mind

submitted 41 days ago • 37 comments

Since launching on Election Day, the Journalist Safety Urgent Care Helpline has helped 40+ newsrooms & 200+ journalists at risk. Facing violent threats, doxxing, & legal intimidation, US journalists and newsrooms are finding it harder to do their vital work. pen.org/journalist-s...

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

I've quoted this passage from Trump -- where he states his intent to cause riots and US economic collapse -- so many times. He flat-out announced it on Fox News in February 2014. In my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT I quote my own 2016 essay warning of his plan: www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

submitted 92 days ago • 104 comments

Scary stuff can always happen at the US border, but we're into full-on "fascists are randomly disappearing people for no reason whatsoever with plausible deniability" territory right now.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

If you're in Illinois and: - Palestinian, or protesting the genocide in Occupied Palestine; or - trans, or protesting for trans rights; and you are arrested or discriminated against, I can represent you pro bono. Please email me at [email protected]. I will take as many cases as I can.

submitted 46 days ago • 78 comments

Remembering Diane Arbus on her birthday 🎂 📷 Tod Papageorge, 1967 "The best photographs waft before your eyes with the visceral immediacy — and spotty specificity — of a remembered dream." - Arthur Lubow

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

I nominate a plastic bag wistfully floating in the wind to be the Senate minority leader. I suspect it will maintain current levels of leadership

submitted 48 days ago • 5 comments

Trump (the genius) is about to place a 200% tax on Guinness the week of St Patrick's Day...

submitted 48 days ago • 129 comments