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We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.

For the first time, humans have tracked an individual butterfly, as shown in the Monarch migration of north America.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
@bc-suffolk.bsky.social

“Will you release all the files within 30 days?”

BONDI: “We’ll continue to follow the law.”🤔

“You said no addition investigation was warranted. What changed?”

BONDI: “Information.” 🙃

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver and Co did a great explanation of what public media does, and who exactly the funding recission actually hurts (Hint: it's not liberal elites.) Also very proud to see my old friend and former WBEZ reporter Lauren Chooljian featured for her amazing work.

youtu.be/yknMJOgy2pA?...

Oh my.

James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.

Get this man in the Senate.

Today we won a big victory in Texas but the fight for democracy is not over. We all need to steel ourselves for the battles ahead. We won't win them all, but we can never lose sight of what we need to do to prepare fee and fair elections.

Terrific

a tornadic supercell just west of the Missouri River on the border of North Dakota and South Dakota between Selfridge, ND and McLaughlin, SD - this storm produced multiple tornadoes west of the river before the real show began a few hours later near Mound City, SD - 8/28/2024

An ADSBx map showing the New England Patriots team plane taking off out of Alexandria, LA, and heading west.

Uhhhhhhhh is the New England Patriots team plane doing an ICE flight right now?

It just took off out of ICE detention hub airport. Military charter flights go out of there occasionally too, but with a different callsign. Not certain but very weird! 🤔

BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.

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Poland says 2 Ukrainians working for Russia are suspected of being involved in railway blast Prime Minister Donald Tusk says two Ukrainian citizens working for Russia are suspected of blowing up a railway line in Poland.

Two Ukrainian citizens working for Russia are suspected of blowing up a railway line in Poland over the weekend, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

The lift that Scotland as a nation will get from being at The World cup will be huge, the feel good factor will be around for the best part of the year...Me & my lot also get a chance to get the Scotland tops on & flags out behind enemy lines 😉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😂

Trump sides with murderer MBS and ignores the sex trafficked women and unanimous votes to release.

The Trump reign is over.
This is the #NoKings Era now! Stop protecting predators. !

Jobless Claims Rose More Than Expected Last Month To 232,000, Delayed Data Shows Economists projected a cooling labor market for weeks during the government shutdown.

Economists projected a cooling labor market for weeks during the government shutdown.

Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:

“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”

Swalwell: Kristi Noem and Tom Homan, you should familiarize yourselves with this room. Get to know that witness chair — you’re going to be parked in it for a long time. Accountability is coming.

NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.

Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution

www.alternet.org House Republican lashes out at stock trading ban watered down by her own party

House Republican lashes out at stock trading ban watered down by her own party

BBC Two - Once Upon a Time in Space The human story of space exploration.

Just popping in to say this is a stunning piece of thought provoking film documentary and thoroughly worth your time:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The age of keeping whales and dolphins in captivity must finally come to an end Research shows it is not possible for captive cetaceans to thrive in concrete pools

From Lori Marino, founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project; also of @safinacenter.bsky.social (gift link). www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd5...

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Cartoon by @jesseduquette.bsky.social.

Part 2

Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.

Sarah Ferguson’s new children’s book ‘pulped’ after scrutiny over Jeffrey Epstein links Copies of Flora and Fern: Kindness Along the Way, which was set to be published in October, have been sent for recycling Thousands of copies of Sarah Ferguson’s new children’s book have reportedly been withdrawn and “pulped” in the wake of the renewed scrutiny over her links to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The book had been due for publication on 9 October, but was postponed until 20 November. It has now been removed entirely from publication schedules, and publishing sources have claimed that printed copies are being sent for recycling. Continue reading...

Sarah Ferguson’s new children’s book ‘pulped’ after scrutiny over Jeffrey Epstein links

Russian spy ship enters British waters and shines lasers at military pilots Defence secretary reveals details of recent incursions as he warns UK is facing ‘new era of threat’ from hostile countries A Russian spy ship has entered British waters and shone lasers at military pilots, the defence secretary has said, as he warned the UK was facing a “new era of threat” from hostile countries around the world. John Healey said on Wednesday the Yantar surveillance ship had crossed in and out of the UK’s exclusive economic zone multiple times in recent weeks, not for the first time this year. Continue reading...

Russian spy ship enters British waters and shines lasers at military pilots

Scott Turner shamelessly lies: "When we came into this administration, our fiscal house was not in order. Inflation was at an all time high."

Trump is in Full Retreat A scandal that he inflamed engulfs his presidency

Protecting survivors of Epstein’s pedophile ring wasn’t what drove Trump to want the files released. Realizing he was losing control of his MAGA base was.

Some incredible bullshit in flight