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There is nothing in the Constitution that forbids a president from mass redacting FBI documents to hide evidence of his sex crimes. So the Democrat Party's outrage du jour is, as always, much ado about nothing.
by Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley
December 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
There is nothing in the Constitution that forbids a president from mass redacting FBI documents to hide evidence of his sex crimes. So the Democrat Party's outrage du jour is, as always, much ado about nothing.
by Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley
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Still munching away 🎄
December 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Still munching away 🎄
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My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail
December 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail
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WE'RE MAKING 2026 MILKY WAY PLANS NOW, EVERYONE! lightpollutionmap.app
December 27, 2025 at 6:31 AM
WE'RE MAKING 2026 MILKY WAY PLANS NOW, EVERYONE! lightpollutionmap.app
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sooo good that every single ad now is for developing a life-ruining gambling addiction
December 27, 2025 at 6:33 AM
sooo good that every single ad now is for developing a life-ruining gambling addiction
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Antonio Canova - Cupid & Psyche
December 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Antonio Canova - Cupid & Psyche
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"RFK Jr. likes to pretend that we need to run tests on already-tested, already-proven-safe vaccines to see if they're safe; the idea that we need to see what's in the files to know if Trump is a predator and a criminal and a misogynist has some of the same agenda of delay and decoy."
Feminism Versus Trump and Epstein
We already knew that Jeffrey Epstein had sexually assaulted and exploited dozens of girls and young women, that he had done so openly, that his dehumanization of the vulnerable had not prevented a who...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"RFK Jr. likes to pretend that we need to run tests on already-tested, already-proven-safe vaccines to see if they're safe; the idea that we need to see what's in the files to know if Trump is a predator and a criminal and a misogynist has some of the same agenda of delay and decoy."
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I think people today don't understand just how dramatically the night sky has changed - it looked like it does in super remote areas *everywhere* before the invention of electric lighting, and light pollution that obscures the sky has gotten dramatically worse in the last 25 years.
If you ever have the experience of seeing a night sky out in the deep countryside you can understand this; it really is a fundamentally different experience, and I can't imagine it not being formative to people.
December 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I think people today don't understand just how dramatically the night sky has changed - it looked like it does in super remote areas *everywhere* before the invention of electric lighting, and light pollution that obscures the sky has gotten dramatically worse in the last 25 years.
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Last picture for this thread, and I'm going to try and fix up the video from earlier and then go to bed. This is the other encounter that I captured. As I mentioned earlier there were three contacts and I got two of them. This is the second one. Unfortunately not as clean a shot 🪶
April 28, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Last picture for this thread, and I'm going to try and fix up the video from earlier and then go to bed. This is the other encounter that I captured. As I mentioned earlier there were three contacts and I got two of them. This is the second one. Unfortunately not as clean a shot 🪶
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Holy shit I fucking got it. I've been awake since 4:03am, I drove 95 miles, got here at 7:10am, and at 4:29pm one of the peregrine falcons attacked TWO pelicans and made contact on THREE attempts. 17 useful frames.
Here's a fast edit on my phone.
Let's fucking go and log off! 🪶
Here's a fast edit on my phone.
Let's fucking go and log off! 🪶
April 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Holy shit I fucking got it. I've been awake since 4:03am, I drove 95 miles, got here at 7:10am, and at 4:29pm one of the peregrine falcons attacked TWO pelicans and made contact on THREE attempts. 17 useful frames.
Here's a fast edit on my phone.
Let's fucking go and log off! 🪶
Here's a fast edit on my phone.
Let's fucking go and log off! 🪶
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The rare event of snow at Joshua Tree National Park, December 2019
#Scape #Nature #Landscape #NationalParks #California
#Scape #Nature #Landscape #NationalParks #California
December 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The rare event of snow at Joshua Tree National Park, December 2019
#Scape #Nature #Landscape #NationalParks #California
#Scape #Nature #Landscape #NationalParks #California
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It is about this: because so many people do not give a shit about romance, shit gets tried in romance first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
December 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
It is about this: because so many people do not give a shit about romance, shit gets tried in romance first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
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The old 36" Lick refractor. At the opposite end of the building is the 1m reflector that I used to get the observations for my PhD thesis.
Wow, xmas morning wind gusts up to 114 mph on Mount Hamilton, east of San Jose. Damaged the Lick Observatory. 🔭 🧪 bsky.app/profile/look...
December 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The old 36" Lick refractor. At the opposite end of the building is the 1m reflector that I used to get the observations for my PhD thesis.
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A Keel-billed Toucan in my garden this morning. At @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica
#ToucanoftheDay #toucans #birds #nature
#ToucanoftheDay #toucans #birds #nature
December 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A Keel-billed Toucan in my garden this morning. At @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica
#ToucanoftheDay #toucans #birds #nature
#ToucanoftheDay #toucans #birds #nature
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It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
December 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
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This is a more poorly lit eye, but it was physically closer, so i was more willing to risk a slower shutter speed(1/500) to get the ISO down(450).
Great opportunity when it was a captive audience! (drinking from a feeder) 🪶
Great opportunity when it was a captive audience! (drinking from a feeder) 🪶
December 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is a more poorly lit eye, but it was physically closer, so i was more willing to risk a slower shutter speed(1/500) to get the ISO down(450).
Great opportunity when it was a captive audience! (drinking from a feeder) 🪶
Great opportunity when it was a captive audience! (drinking from a feeder) 🪶
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A Great Blue Heron spreads its wings while standing on a rock near Big Beach in Ucluelet. I shot this in February of 2022. I wonder how many photos I've taken of that same heron, since...
#Ucluelet #Tofino #VancouverIsland
#Ucluelet #Tofino #VancouverIsland
December 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
A Great Blue Heron spreads its wings while standing on a rock near Big Beach in Ucluelet. I shot this in February of 2022. I wonder how many photos I've taken of that same heron, since...
#Ucluelet #Tofino #VancouverIsland
#Ucluelet #Tofino #VancouverIsland
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A Red-tailed Hawk that had just flown in to perch along the path. Check out the pupils! The pupil in the sunlight is smaller, while the pupil in the shade is larger. Most raptors can adjust their pupil size independently based on the amount of light that is reaching the eye, which optimizes vision.
December 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
A Red-tailed Hawk that had just flown in to perch along the path. Check out the pupils! The pupil in the sunlight is smaller, while the pupil in the shade is larger. Most raptors can adjust their pupil size independently based on the amount of light that is reaching the eye, which optimizes vision.
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Fiber and social justice go together. The Luddites were protesting capitalists “moving fast and breaking things”.
What they were breaking was the social contract.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
What they were breaking was the social contract.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Weapons of mass construction’: the US ‘craftivists’ using yarn to fight back against Trump
Fiber artists across the US are using their craft to protest against everything from national guard deployments to rollbacks on abortion rights
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Fiber and social justice go together. The Luddites were protesting capitalists “moving fast and breaking things”.
What they were breaking was the social contract.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
What they were breaking was the social contract.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Coots look like they got a deal to design their own shoes like professional athletes.
December 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Coots look like they got a deal to design their own shoes like professional athletes.
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As the year begins to quiet, we’re pausing, like a great egret choosing a steady perch over the constantly moving kelp forest canopy. Nature has a gentle way of reminding us to slow down, reflect, and find balance. Here’s to calm moments, the quiet between chapters, and new beginnings. 💙🌊
December 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
As the year begins to quiet, we’re pausing, like a great egret choosing a steady perch over the constantly moving kelp forest canopy. Nature has a gentle way of reminding us to slow down, reflect, and find balance. Here’s to calm moments, the quiet between chapters, and new beginnings. 💙🌊
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It’s hard to escape being drawn in by the compelling gaze of this woman, depicted with extraordinary realism by early 18th century German portraitist Balthasar Denner (Oil on copperplate, Hermitage Museum)
www.hermitagemuseum.org/digital-coll...
www.hermitagemuseum.org/digital-coll...
December 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
It’s hard to escape being drawn in by the compelling gaze of this woman, depicted with extraordinary realism by early 18th century German portraitist Balthasar Denner (Oil on copperplate, Hermitage Museum)
www.hermitagemuseum.org/digital-coll...
www.hermitagemuseum.org/digital-coll...
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RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
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Chickadee in a holly tree
😃 (2022)
😃 (2022)
December 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Chickadee in a holly tree
😃 (2022)
😃 (2022)