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There’s more to palaeontology than digging up dinosaurs on the desert but watching documentaries make you feel like that’s all there is…but a lot of those insights discussed in those shows out in the field were gained in the lab or on computers… #dinosaurs #Palaeontology

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The problem with all the "Trump is going to start World War 3" and "Trump is going to draft your sons" lines is that when it doesn't happen (it was never going to happen) Trump now looks like a diplomatic genius for avoiding it to people who don't know how any of this stuff works.

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

So the US told Iran about Fordow ahead of time so it could pretend to destroy its nuclear program, and Iran told the US about Al-Udeid ahead of time so it could pretend to attack US forces

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

Trump - Iran results: - Iran walks away with enriched uranium - Iran no longer has to report its nuclear activities to international watchdogs - established anti-regime networks outed - Iran closer to Russia & China - lost infrastructure to be modernized - enrichment to resume

submitted 2 hours ago • 22 comments

The climate and biodiversity costs to opening up roadless areas are astronomical. The roadless rule protects over half of Tongass National Forest, which is home to over 400 species of wildlife and stores more than 10% of the carbon accumulated by all national forests across the US.

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

A deaf and mute Mongolian man seeking asylum has spent more than 80 days at an ICE facility. During that time, he has not had an opportunity to see a judge or communicate with anyone who understands Mongolian Sign Language, according to his sister and lawyer.

submitted 5 hours ago • 10 comments

A national disgrace, a truly monumental sin

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

I just want to put this here for posterity to show that this does, in fact, also happen to Republicans

submitted 6 hours ago • 28 comments

Forest Service plans to repeal rule that has blocked logging, mining in parts of Alaska and the West, reports James Brooks, @alaska.bsky.social, of @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/06/23/f...

submitted 7 hours ago • 10 comments

Dem messaging around the budget bill should be extremely simple: The Republicans want to sell our public lands to pay for bombs and secret police

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

The visuals are obvious. Which do you want to pay for?

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

My response to the GOP’s efforts to sell public lands as Trump Interior Secretary Doug Burgum arrives in New Mexico.

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

There are way too many things to be upset about these days, but I believe the destruction of public lands should be near the top of the list: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 10 hours ago • 15 comments

Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed a budget line item late Sunday that would have brought in an estimated $450 million in federal dollars to fund a summer food aid program for low-income children.

submitted 8 hours ago • 66 comments

Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede. Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 69 comments

ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her mother failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...

submitted 13 hours ago • 262 comments

I am disappointed by the coverage..

submitted 14 hours ago • 13 comments

It is worth reminding every American today that the people who hid Anne Frank were outlaws. The people who sent her to die in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were law-abiding citizens.

submitted 12 hours ago • 12 comments

"The federal agency tasked with helping military family members gain legal status now refers them for deportation, government memos show." apnews.com/article/ice-...

submitted 13 hours ago • 17 comments

Used up something like 70% of our big boy bunker busting bombs to not even fully destroy said facilities while missing the uranium just to end up in the exact same place we were a few days ago? Brilliant statesmanship

submitted 15 hours ago • 26 comments

That’s because movement conservativism was far ahead of the curve in inventing endlessly affirming discursive spaces where believers could opt to have their views affirmed. Fox News and talk radio previewed the epistemological breakdown that the internet brought home to EVERYONE.

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

25 years after measles was officially declared eliminated from the U.S., a cluster of cases that began in West Texas expanded into one of the largest outbreaks in a generation, spreading through communities with declining vaccination rates as three people died and dozens were hospitalized.

submitted 15 hours ago • 33 comments

I think this is Iran's attempt to be done with it. They gave warning and it was not a large attack, as it goes.

submitted 16 hours ago • 17 comments

It’s not pro-war, it’s just pro-“easy” war hence why Ukraine is still in the fight of its life sending new mechanized brigades into battle with T-64’s and BMP-2s built in the 1990’s

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

Wild to think that everyone could be free and happy and their true selves and have a basic income and healthcare and have their needs understood and met by society and not be displaced or killed and instead we’re choosing this

submitted 16 hours ago • 13 comments

This is widely, radically, insanely unconstitutional. It’s an and zone dance over any reasonable conception of free speech.

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

A deep sea scientist once told me "every time we throw a bucket down there we find something new." This week's bucket discovery are methane-eating sea spiders! This new species lives near #deepsea methane seeps, farms methane on their bodies, then eats its. Insane! 🕷️ www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

They don't know what "peace through strength" means or where it came from. They don't know what "deterrence" means. They don't understand any of this stuff. We live in Idiocracy.

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

Is it good when the praetorians don't trust the civilian head of the military enough that they plan diversions?

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-det... What is the purpose of law? It is to seek justice. Imperfect justice, since we are imperfect human beings. But that is its purpose. The purpose of any legal system in a free and democratic country must be justice, not oppression. An overly harsh or mechanical

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

think Ganz is right here: "The politics of national despair needs figures like Cuomo to become the default setting of American politics. Then figures like Trump can present themselves as alternatives. They represent almost identical brands of sleaze and corruption."

submitted 18 hours ago • 11 comments