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Fire at a Nightclub in Goa, India, Kills at Least 25

At least 25 people died and six others were injured when a fire tore through a nightclub early Sunday in the coastal Indian state of Goa.

Of course anyone with half a brain knew how this was going to end long ago: Walk away from Ukraine, walk away from NATO, blame Zelensky, lots of business deals between Trump, his cronies, and our new “friends” the murderous, corrupt, lying Russians.

T HE SUSPECTED DRUG TRAFFICKERS, the lone survivors of a U.S. airstrike, were sprawled on a table-size piece of floating wreckage in the Caribbean for more than 40 minutes. They were unarmed, incommunicado, and adrift as they repeatedly attempted to right what remained of their boat. At one point, the men raised their arms and seemed to signal to the U.S. aircraft above, a gesture some who watched a video of the incident interpreted as a sign of surrender. Then a second explosion finished the men off, leaving only a bloody stain on the surface of the sea. Footage of the two men's desperate final moments made some viewers nauseated, leading one to nearly vomit. "It was worse than we had been led to believe," one person told us.

link: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Release the Epstein Files

Looking out on a vast valley/saddle between two running sets of peaks and crags. Evergreen trees cover the mountainsides all around. Some large rocks and a little snow can also be seen. They sky is bright but mostly white clouds.

When you hike up high and get to see how far you've come, it's weird! A saddle between peaks in the Washington Cascades.

#nature #love #majestic #scape #landscape #sky #eastcoastkin #PNW #photography #nokings #joy #WA
#mountains #goodmorning #bluesky #hiking

We're bringing in trillions in foreign investments....

All to ourselves.

Photo of a developing slime mold that’s lime green in colour and comprised of hundreds of tiny green spheres.

A developing a Lamproderma slime mold.
Northwest Territories, Canada. Photo covers about 6” of width. Pic from a few years ago in August. A day later this had matured into a several iridescent colours.
#myxo #slime #fungifriends

Produce from farmers market: snap peas, peppers, cherry tomatoes, berries

December farmers market haul.

I love living in California. ❤️

Recent data and analyses show that the genetic difference between humans and our closest relatives (chimps and bonobos) is not 2% but about 15%.

whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/12/07/h...

A high alpine lake sits at the base of a steep gray cirque in the North Cascades. Light breaks through drifting clouds and highlights the green meadow around the shoreline. A narrow wooden boardwalk leads toward the water, with evergreens climbing the rocky slope on the right.

Steep stone walls wrap around this alpine lake like a quiet amphitheater. Cool shadows on the cliffs, bright, warm greens under pockets of sun, and still water holding both at once. Happy #Stunday!

#photography #pnw #landscapephotography #mountains #nature #landscape #hiking

"The group rallied amid frigid conditions at the Target store on East Lake Street, alleging it allowed agents to stage raids in the parking lot.

'You cannot celebrate our communities on your commercials while letting ICE stalk them in your parking lot'...”

www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...

A night photograph of a landscape, with a distant mountain and a wooden cottage nearby, green aurora lights the sky.

I still dream of that time when I saw lights dance in the sky.

#EastCoastKin #photography #longexposure #sky #BlueSkyArtShow #Iceland #aurora #artyear #onlybeautifulthings #landscape #scape

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

A full moon partly obscured by cloud

The full moon looks beautiful tonight

time.com Elon Musk and Trump Officials Go to War With the E.U.

Elon Musk and Trump Officials Go to War With E.U. Over $140M Fine for X

A photo of Elie lighthouse in fife from above. There is a walkway going over to it. You can see the sea in the background and a boat going left. The sky is pale blue with a few clouds.

I have such a love for lighthouses. I'd love to spend the night in one. #filmphoto 🎞️

It’s important to remember there are two scandals here:

1. The Administration has likely committed war crimes.

2. But the entire operation - which now includes two dozen attacks - is illegal. In our democracy, the President CANNOT wage war without the consent of the people.

California's child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.

Reporters spoke with 61 young field workers, some 12 years old, about working in California’s farm fields, exposed to chemical fertilizers, paid below minimum wage, provided no water, shade or bathrooms. Most work to support parents who toil under the same conditions.
www.latimes.com/california/s...

Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”

In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.

Theater for the Many At a time when theater is prohibitively expensive for the vast majority, the theater company Working Theater partners with labor unions to recreate a working-class theater for the 21st century.

A single Broadway ticket costs more than what working Americans make in a week.Theatrical training is [un]affordable for working-classes..performing artists overwhelmingly are from..upper-middle classes.Working Theater brings working-class people into the performing arts. jacobin.com/2025/12/thea...

Conservatives on the Supreme Court have been acting with impunity. Illegally giving Trump powers he does not possess by the Constitution; they are acting in bad faith. Impeachment and prosecution and should be options These justices should be held accountable with incarceration in their futures.

We are flying into Charlotte, NC during a thunderstorm. Part of the wing is showing. All around are thunderheads popping up, with one directly over us which casts a dark shadow underneath.

Flying through a thunderstorm. A large dark cloud is directly out the window with rain under the dark belly of the cloud. There is a tiny bit of a prism (rainbow) on the cloud.

#BlueskyArtShow #Sky

Landing in a thunderstorm.

#EastCoastKin #Clouds #Thunderstorm #Flying

#SundayStunday #SundaySilence

Image Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Axolotl2.jpg Axolotl

"The thymus is the primary site of T cell development, central to the establishment of self-tolerance and adaptive immune function."

Read about therapeutic approaches for promoting thymus regeneration from studies on juvenile axolotls.
🧪 #Science #Biology #Immunology
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ocean Beach Pier extends across the frame at sunset. The sky shows a gradient from deep blue at the top to warm orange near the horizon. The pier and its lights form a long horizontal line above the water. Reflections of the pier posts and the sunset colors appear across the wet sand in the foreground.

King tides bring the best sunsets. Last night in Ocean Beach in San Diego, California

#sandiego #sdca #oceanbeach #beach #surfing #surf #dogbeach #ocean #waves #kingtides #lowtide #surfob

This feature isn't named, but it should be. Even in a landscape of rock, it stands out.
#Stunday
#hiking
#lanscapes

Winter scenes

The dripping of trees and the squelchy slipping of leaves

So tired, I woke up at 12.30. Nearly didn’t get out as little time left but every turn of the cranks is a little further forward

a bald man with a beard and mustache is looking at the camera in a dark room . Alt: a bald man with a beard and mustache is looking at the camera in a dark room .

Happy 60th birthday 🎂 Jeffrey Wright #movies

Let us hope
'cause it sure sucks right now