Not much went right this year but to hear of fresh sightings bringing the total to 14 new documented calves for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale is most welcome news in these final days of 2025 (photo credit: Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute, NOAA permit #26919)

I'm listening to the If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social about this book and it sounds INSANELY DISHONEST holy shit political science professors. Stupid and morally rancid.

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The thing that’s so funny about TCW is that he writes with the confidence of someone whose ideas have been broadly embraced rather than endlessly lampooned but I guess if the Atlantic gave me carte blanche to show my whole ass I’d let my freak flag fly too

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ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

The land of the free
And the home of the brave
Now need 5 years of social media posts to see if you said anything negative about the giant man child president?

Not a serious nation
Not a serious president

#fucktrump

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Has anyone checked on Stephen Miller since the Mamdani meeting?

This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.

I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.

Note to restaurants: I will rearrange my day to eat at an establishment that displays a "FUCK ICE" sign.

I will cancel plans. I will leave the chicken in the freezer. I will stand with you.

I have a new favorite genre and it is local politics sock puppet satire

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Social mobility has been declining for decades but that's fine, we don't need the talents of 340 million people as long as we have the several dozen children of our stupidest oligarchs

I hate it when your mid drive and you stop and notice a little wee spider clinging to your side mirror for dear life😢

Give Amtrak DoD's budget

I don’t bother anyone about watching millionaires pass balls around, dunk balls, kick balls, hit balls with sticks or hit/kick each other in rings.

…so I don’t get why I can’t watch millionaires wear costumes & raise $ to preserve centuries of textile & fashion history…valid aspects of study.