Dean Thompson

October Harvest Moon: When to see the first supermoon of 2025 It will be visible on 7 October and Sarah Keith-Lucas explains why it will be the biggest and brightest full Moon so far this year.

Rare October Harvest Moon rising Tuesday marks first 'supermoon' of 2025. Not that rare. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

📷 Greg Gorman

Robert de Niro
born on this day, 1943

#FilmSky #MovieSky
#RobertdeNiro

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November.

Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts.

Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

CU Boulder retaliated against pro-Palestine demonstration by stifling students’ free speech, lawsuit alleges “The interim exclusion from campus prohibited Plaintiffs from engaging in First Amendment protected activity on campus and outside of the classroom,” the lawsuit stated.

New: CU Boulder retaliated against pro-Palestine demonstration by stifling students’ free speech, lawsuit alleges
www.denverpost.com/2025/01/13/c... via @denverpost.com

🤲🏽

Trump’s Treasury pick rejects minimum wage hike, champions tax breaks Scott Bessent summarized the incoming administration’s perspective perfectly: Yes to tax breaks for the wealthy, no to increasing the minimum wage.

Trump's treasury nominee Scott Bessent, who is worth ~$500 million, warned of "economic calamity" if Trump's tax cuts for the rich are not extended.

But when asked if we should raise the federal minimum wage above the current paltry $7.25/hr, he said no.

Economic populism.

WE ARE STILL IN THIS.
Wipe your tears.
This is the difficult business of hope and defying expectation.
We do not give up.
We run through the tape.

Y’all aren’t allowed to throw in the towel until I do. 😉

Big breath. Locked in. Let’s do this.

Free Leonard Peltier.

Seoul blanketed by heaviest November snow on record At least one person is reported to have died as a result of the weather, which has also grounded flights.

Seoul blanketed by heaviest November snow on record. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

Great to see that old message. For the DFW, not nearly enough of that. SMU is the team with the chance of winning the ACC, and making the CFB Playoffs. TCU will be bowling, UNT needs a win to go bowling, this week against East Carolina, next week at Temple.

World Central Kitchen Founded in 2010 by Chef José Andrés, World Central Kitchen (WCK) is a nonprofit organization that is first to the frontlines providing fresh meals in response to crises. Applying our model of quick ac...

Woke up to 150,000 followers, which is a heck of a way to say "good morning." Thank you, folks, for giving me a follow and for being part of Bluesky. If you're new, I hope you like it here. To celebrate 150K, I've made a donation to World Central Kitchen, which is feeding those in need.

wck.org

18M user count

18M! And @theo.io‘s user tracker threw up confetti! 🎉

bsky-users.theo.io

I’ve seen enough to make a call: Bluesky is going to be a legit competitor to Twitter.

Sweet.

South Korea and US hold joint amphibious landing drills South Korea and the United States held joint amphibious landing drills on Monday in South Korea's southeastern port city of Pohang.

South Korea and US hold joint amphibious landing drills

Houston researchers make nasal vaccine that prevents COVID from spreading A team of researchers from the University of Houston have developed a new vaccine to treat and prevent the spread of flu and multiple coronavirus strains.

Uhh… Intranasal COVID vaccine. 100% effective at stopping transmission, in animal models. Results validated in two papers in Nature. Hoping to start human trials within the year. Holy shit.

It’s super covidy out there folks! If you don’t want to get sick (or get others sick), now is a great time to take precautions (masks, ventilation, outdoor stuff, avoiding crowds, the usual). And for the sake of others, please stay home (or at least mask up) if you feel unwell and/or test positive!

Violet Affleck made a public comment opposing the proposed mask ban in #LosAngeles! 🔥 #LA #health

Violet Affleck: "To confront the Long COVID crisis I demand mask availability, air filtration and far-UVC light in government facilities, including jails and detention centers and mask mandates in county medical facilities. And most importantly, the county must oppose mask bans for any reason." 🔥🔥🔥

Folks.
I posted this quote in 2017.
From a Hamilton document I teach in a seminar.

And ever since, everyone in the world has been tossing it around the internet, claiming that Hamilton was a prophet.

PLEASE STOP.
HE WAS TALKING ABOUT BURR--& ABOUT DEMAGOGUES.
If it sounds like DJT, consider why.

The Onion Is Sold by G/O Media The satirical news website was bought by a new firm in Chicago that took inspiration for its name, Global Tetrahedron, from a book written by The Onion’s staff.

NEWS: My friends and I now own and run The Onion. I’ll be the CEO.

We’re keeping the entire staff, bringing back The Onion News Network, and will share the wealth with staff. Basically, we’re going to let them do whatever they want.

Get excited.

French lawmakers are gathered at the Palace of Versailles. A headline reads: "France Is First Country To Make Abortion a Constitutional Right." Photo by Thomas Padilla/Associated Press.

Breaking News: France voted to explicitly enshrine access to abortion in its Constitution, making it the first country in the world to do so. The impulse for the change was the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022.
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/w...

Decatur Fire Department determines fire at gender clinic was intentional The Decatur Fire Department confirmed on Jan. 26 that a fire at a gender clinic inside a historic building was intentionally set.

Authorities have found a fire at a gender clinic in Decatur, GA last fall was an intentional act of arson and federal authorities are now investigating the matter as a hate crime. This same clinic was sent a subpoena from TX AG Ken Paxton to report out-of-state patients from TX.

Russian and Chinese executives discuss Russia-Crimea tunnel project Talks about building a tunnel between Russia and Crimea were triggered by Russian concerns over the security of an 11-mile bridge across the Kerch Strait.

Russian and Chinese business executives with government ties have held secret discussions on plans to build an underwater tunnel connecting Russia to Crimea in hopes of establishing a transportation route that would be protected from attacks by Ukraine.