Valerie Anastasio

That's a stunner.

All the science and health-based actions are crippling.

The flags! Very moving.

(honest question, not snark!) I am genuinely curious how a country this sprawling achieves authoritarianism. Happens state by state?

Are Americans consolidatable at scale? What iPhone/BigMac/Latte/Bluey/Xbox/Senior discount would do that, do you think?

Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.

10/10 ICE protest sign

Can relate friend

Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails

@anandwrites.bsky.social wrote about this a few months ago. That there is a tacit understanding among the elite that their class is rife with abuses and one just learned to look away: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Its almost natural to attribute positive characteristics (like intelligence, worthiness, goodness) to people that possess money and/or good looks, when you live in a society the places high value on money and good looks.

If They Call Me A Domestic Terrorist This morning, I stumbled across an amazing poem by a wonderful man named Michael F.

Sharing this amazing poem with the kind permission of the author. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Menopause is a natural stage of life that affects millions of women across the country.

But too many of us can’t access accurate information & care, leading to discomfort & health disparities.

With @demwomencaucus.bsky.social, I am urging HHS & FDA to strengthen & expand menopause research.

The Day of Truth and Freedom: UU Clergy and Laypeople Join Multifaith March in Minneapolis Against ICE Developing story: Follow UU World’s live updates, including dispatches from Minneapolis.

200+ UU colleagues are in #Minneapolis protesting ICE www.uuworld.org/articles/min...

I don’t take corporate PAC money—no one should. On the 16th anniversary of Citizens United it’s long past time we get dark money out of politics once and for all.

“The system’s power comes not from its truth but from everyone’s willingness to perform as if it were true.”

Mark Carney explains how totalitarianism works.

The lesson couldn’t be more clear: do not obey in advance. That is how freedom erodes and dignity disappears.

fwiw this is the kind of stuff that is going to get us through, not playing rambo

What a career! Geodesy is the science of determining the shape of the earth. Precise Orbit Determination requires an accurate geoid model of the gravitational field of the 🌍 . (Can be shape or density fluctuations.)
Dr West pioneered both POD & active radar measurements of ocean heights from space

I can’t believe we’re on the verge of WW3 because baby waah waah didn’t get his shiny

That kind of Greenland pride can sustain you indefinitely through old age, Derek.

🔥 #Imagine

Buddhist Monks walking for Peace
From TX to DC

Their site🚨
dhammacetiya.com/walk-for-pea...
or
www.youtube.com/@walk_for_pe...

♻️Share widely

🙏🔥🙏
#WalkforPeaceUSA #Buddhist #Monk #WalkForPeace #Aloka #Ukraine #Venezuela #Greenland #Mexico #impeach #vote #resist #nokings #USaggression

That was a gorgeous little escape, Mr Juaners! Muchas gracias!

Extremely entertaining and artistically very satisfying. Top shelf.

Professional comics know how to land a punchline.

But the first old white moderate guy to break ranks with Team Don't Fight and figure out how to grab hold of a week's worth of news cycles is going to make a VERY big splash.

This! Turning the asset into the basis for additional leverage changes it's function and should be a taxable event.

www.apdaparkinson.org/article/golf...

How beautiful. Thank you, David.

'russia can't occupy our hearts,' Zelensky says in Christmas address ⁠

"... We ask for peace for Ukraine.

We fight for it.

And we pray for it.

And we deserve it.

That every Ukrainian family may live in harmony."

www.president.gov.ua/en/news/priv...

I'm down

I made granola instead one year, and people were PISSED

Yay! Prime holiday baking background TV content!!