Dave Marley

Empire Podcast on Gaza. William Dalrymple spoke about this and other history at the Newcastle City Hall tonight. Palestine has been named for over 3000 years. The people today share ancient DNA with Samaritans.

No words adequate could express my deepest condemnation for this ongoing violence by settlers

"Look at us:We are a community of light. Don't forget that,in case it gets really dark."

It’s a reminder that even in chaos,the strength of a community of people choosing light over darkness matters.Simple,yet heavy:we can’t just hope for change,we have to be the light,or risk letting the dark win.

Santa is wearing his wire-rim glasses, a green shirt, and red suspenders. On a cloudy day, he is standing in a small parking lot with green trees in the background. He is holding a small poster that reads: MEDICARE FOR ALL - Health Care is a Right.

MEDICARE FOR ALL!
Astronomical health costs and lack of access drive individuals, families and businesses past their breaking point, while insurance companies continue to soak-up billions of health care dollars, as millions of children’s basic needs go unmet.
Medicare4All.org
Also, restore SNAP now!

What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard In the two months before Trump’s decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-s...

Our review of 700+ videos of the Portland protests shows a wide gap between the reality on the ground and the characterizations by Trump, Fox News and DHS, which said its office in the city was under “coordinated assault by violent groups.”

By @robwdavis.bsky.social and Steve Suo

November 8, 2025 A picture for tonight after a very long week.

November 8, 2025

A monochrome image of a great egret (foreground) and a snowy egret and their reflections in a pond. At right are the dark rippled reflections of tall reeds.

Egrets, great and snowy
#photography #birds #egret #nature #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono 📷🦉🪶

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Light-colored sand showing various patterns: roughly parallel ridges at bottom right and center, and scattered rounded shapes. The more distant sand at the top of the image appears darker and possibly rougher.

Sand on the beach at Lake Michigan.

ICE Gestapo wasting our tax $$. POC protesters r going to b targeted cuz many in ICE r KKK! #iceout #arrestnoem

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Sir Joh unexpectedly ordered forestry to investigate the natural values of the Conondales.

By the early 80s, Corben had been employed to help but there was a problem: the gastric-brooding frogs and several other species had vanished.''

“I hated the National party!” Ingram says. “But he was an unexpected delight.
“Suddenly you saw the charm and the warmth of the man up close and he was just fascinated.
“He kept getting me to imitate the calls of the frogs and the birds.”

#wildoz

I visited Grand Street Senior Housing on the Lower East Side today and tried a little Bomba y Plena…

Milky Way over Trona Pinnacles

Here's another shot I took last week on my final Milky Way trip of the season. I still have tons of MW stuff to edit and/or re-edit from my 14 trips to the desert this year but I'm already looking forward to next season! #photography

Forget the polls. Take nothing for granted. And let's work our hearts out these next seven days.

Vote now: zohranfornyc.com/vote

Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

OTD 27 October in 1728, James Cook was born in the village of Marton.

OTD 27 October in 1728, James Cook was born in the village of Marton. At the age of 17 he was apprenticed to a grocer and haberdasher in Staithes. The call of the sea proved too strong however, and in summer 1746 he found a new apprenticeship with Quaker shipowners John

Wide shot of a packed stadium.

Good evening from Queens.

New York is not for sale.

A mother moose and two young moose lay on the side of the road in grass with a light dusting of snow.

Mama and two baby moose taking a mid morning nap.

US drones over Gaza.

Gaza: US-Drohnen überwachen offenbar Waffenruhe im Gazastreifen Das US-Militär lässt offenbar Drohnen über dem Gazastreifen kreisen. Ziel der Mission ist es, die Waffenruhe zwischen Israel und der Hamas zu kontrollieren, berichtet die »New York Times«. Die USA wollen sich ein eigenes Bild machen.

Gaza: US-Drohnen überwachen offenbar Waffenruhe im Gazastreifen: Das US-Militär lässt offenbar Drohnen über dem Gazastreifen kreisen. Ziel der Mission ist es, die Waffenruhe zwischen Israel und der Hamas zu kontrollieren, berichtet die »New York Times«. Die USA wollen sich ein eigenes Bild machen.

One witness called it ‘a nasty ten minutes’. Lobengula fled a burning Bulawayo and died on the run'.

alone but three years later, the BSAC attacked his capital at Bulawayo, alleging with Victorian high effrontery that they were protecting the Shona from robbery and murder. When the Ndebele charged the Maxims head on, they were annihilated.

The Ndebele were renowned fighters skilled with their spears, but the BSAC’s tiny police force had the new Maxim guns, which automated killing. Their five machine guns could spit 4500 bullets in the ninety seconds it took a body of Ndebele warriors to make contact. Lobengula wisely left the force

Michael Ledger-Lomas · Wriggling, Wriggling: Ruthless Cecil Rhodes Cecil Rhodes saw the ‘native question’ very differently from imperial officials and missionaries who tried to...

‘His desire for territory was more existential than ideological. Rhodes was desperate to leave a mark on the world and had no domestic attachments to fulfil or distract him.’

@michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social on what drove Cecil Rhodes: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sir Keir Starmer has been specifically named in a UN report for complicity in Israel's genocide.

The report states that the UK government played "a key role in military collaboration with Israel... a collective crime... with detailed knowledge and cooperation in the destruction of Gaza." 🧵

How America has fallen.

...and also got himself elected President 4x