The nice old Monterey Pine outside the office window developed a widow maker crack, so they took it down in pieces...sure is bright in here now...
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The nice old Monterey Pine outside the office window developed a widow maker crack, so they took it down in pieces...sure is bright in here now...
Unilever/Magnum has been silencing Ben & Jerry’s when the brand has tried to speak out about social injustices & progressive values. It’s wrong.
Join me & sign Ben from Ben & Jerry's petition & be entered in a raffle to win a free pint of his pro-ceasefire sorbet! sign.moveon.org/petitions/un...
Join me & sign Ben from Ben & Jerry's petition & be entered in a raffle to win a free pint of his pro-ceasefire sorbet! sign.moveon.org/petitions/un...
Unilever: Stop silencing Ben & Jerry’s ice cream NOW!
Unilever/Magnum has been silencing Ben & Jerry’s when the brand has tried to speak out about social injustices & progressive values. It’s wrong.
Join me & sign Ben from Ben & Jerry's...
sign.moveon.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Unilever/Magnum has been silencing Ben & Jerry’s when the brand has tried to speak out about social injustices & progressive values. It’s wrong.
Join me & sign Ben from Ben & Jerry's petition & be entered in a raffle to win a free pint of his pro-ceasefire sorbet! sign.moveon.org/petitions/un...
Join me & sign Ben from Ben & Jerry's petition & be entered in a raffle to win a free pint of his pro-ceasefire sorbet! sign.moveon.org/petitions/un...
Some new fawns in town...
September 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Some new fawns in town...
Carolina Olguín Jacobson on when the ocean heats up: what 15 years of community-led monitoring revealed about marine protected areas in kelp forest
Carolina Olguín Jacobson on when the ocean heats up: what 15 years of community-led monitoring revealed about marine protected areas in kelp forest
In this week’s blog post we’re discussing tackling climate change through 15 years of community-led exploration of underwater kelp forests. Carolina Olguín Jacobson, author of “Recovery mode: Marin…
functionalecologists.com
July 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Carolina Olguín Jacobson on when the ocean heats up: what 15 years of community-led monitoring revealed about marine protected areas in kelp forest
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Frum: What a tariff is, is the equivalent of hitting yourself in the head. And he’s saying to the world: “We will not stop hitting ourselves in the head unless you all agree to hit yourselves in the head.”
July 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Frum: What a tariff is, is the equivalent of hitting yourself in the head. And he’s saying to the world: “We will not stop hitting ourselves in the head unless you all agree to hit yourselves in the head.”
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Just in case you didn't already hate people enough today.
July 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Just in case you didn't already hate people enough today.
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Mayor Bass: This morning, it was frightening in Los Angeles to see tanks essentially rolling into MacArthur Park.
It was an egregious show of force. I have no idea what their purpose was. I don’t even think they detained anyone.
Los Angeles was peaceful before June 5. We need to go back to that.
It was an egregious show of force. I have no idea what their purpose was. I don’t even think they detained anyone.
Los Angeles was peaceful before June 5. We need to go back to that.
July 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Mayor Bass: This morning, it was frightening in Los Angeles to see tanks essentially rolling into MacArthur Park.
It was an egregious show of force. I have no idea what their purpose was. I don’t even think they detained anyone.
Los Angeles was peaceful before June 5. We need to go back to that.
It was an egregious show of force. I have no idea what their purpose was. I don’t even think they detained anyone.
Los Angeles was peaceful before June 5. We need to go back to that.
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“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
As U.S. Dismantles Voice of America, Rival Powers Hope to Fill the Void
www.nytimes.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
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Remember when MTG whined she “wouldn’t have voted for it” if she’d read the AI part? Well, Democrats are forcing the Big Ugly Budget to be read out loud—and it’s being streamed live. But the Senate floor? Empty. Not a single GOP Senator there to hear the bill that will crush millions of Americans.
June 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Remember when MTG whined she “wouldn’t have voted for it” if she’d read the AI part? Well, Democrats are forcing the Big Ugly Budget to be read out loud—and it’s being streamed live. But the Senate floor? Empty. Not a single GOP Senator there to hear the bill that will crush millions of Americans.
Reposted by Alan Swithenbank
Litman: The irony of this just spillth over—because the Biden administration was subject to nationwide injunction after nationwide injunction in cases that didn’t warrant it. And they asked the Supreme Court, “Guys, can you do something about this?” The Republican justices declined to do so.
June 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Litman: The irony of this just spillth over—because the Biden administration was subject to nationwide injunction after nationwide injunction in cases that didn’t warrant it. And they asked the Supreme Court, “Guys, can you do something about this?” The Republican justices declined to do so.
Link to my AV synopsis of SF No Kings protest. Contains profanity. In gentler times I'd say don't watch if that bothers you. Now I say suck it up buttercup. If you haven't figured out that what Trump admin is doing to our country deserves profanity, you need to get educated in a big fucking hurry!
NoKingsSF 14June25
YouTube video by xenoophorus
www.youtube.com
June 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Link to my AV synopsis of SF No Kings protest. Contains profanity. In gentler times I'd say don't watch if that bothers you. Now I say suck it up buttercup. If you haven't figured out that what Trump admin is doing to our country deserves profanity, you need to get educated in a big fucking hurry!
Free exoskeleton blueprint could accelerate rehab robotics research
Free exoskeleton blueprint could accelerate rehab robotics research
A team from the Biomechatronic Lab at Northern Arizona University has developed the world’s first open-source exoskeleton blueprints to help grow the field of robotic exoskeleton research.
cosmosmagazine.com
June 28, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Free exoskeleton blueprint could accelerate rehab robotics research
New study shows how biomass changed over 500 million years
New study shows how biomass changed over 500 million years
While scientists have long known that biodiversity increased over geological time, this is the first study to calculate long-term trends in the total abundance of life. The findings strengthen evidenc...
news.stanford.edu
June 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
New study shows how biomass changed over 500 million years
A few of my images from today's No Kings protest in SF. I have quite a few more, plus a good bit of audio. I'll put together some sort of AV thing soon...;^)
June 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
A few of my images from today's No Kings protest in SF. I have quite a few more, plus a good bit of audio. I'll put together some sort of AV thing soon...;^)
Reposted by Alan Swithenbank
Wow, Orange Hitler’s parade seats are filling up fast! 🙄🤣🤣
June 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Wow, Orange Hitler’s parade seats are filling up fast! 🙄🤣🤣
I know where I'll be tomorrow. Find a local protest!
www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
June 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I know where I'll be tomorrow. Find a local protest!
www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
New hat for the 14th. No Kings!
June 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
New hat for the 14th. No Kings!
Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct
Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct
Stanford researchers hope new technique will flip lymphoma protein's normal action - from preventing cell death to triggering it.
med.stanford.edu
May 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct
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this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"
RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated.
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
May 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"
Ha! Finally! Caught two little buggars who have been quite annoying lately. A few blocks walk over to The Park, and they can find a hole or become hawk food; as fits their place in the grand scheme.
May 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Ha! Finally! Caught two little buggars who have been quite annoying lately. A few blocks walk over to The Park, and they can find a hole or become hawk food; as fits their place in the grand scheme.
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OPINION by @stevebenen.com:
Benen discusses Trump's bizarre idea of reopening Alcatraz.
“It’s unnecessary, impractical, inefficient and spectacularly expensive in equal measure.”
Benen discusses Trump's bizarre idea of reopening Alcatraz.
“It’s unnecessary, impractical, inefficient and spectacularly expensive in equal measure.”
Republicans scramble to pretend reopening Alcatraz is a good idea (but it’s really not)
The problem isn’t that Donald Trump pitched an absurd idea about reopening Alcatraz. The problem are his sycophants who are playing along.
www.msnbc.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
OPINION by @stevebenen.com:
Benen discusses Trump's bizarre idea of reopening Alcatraz.
“It’s unnecessary, impractical, inefficient and spectacularly expensive in equal measure.”
Benen discusses Trump's bizarre idea of reopening Alcatraz.
“It’s unnecessary, impractical, inefficient and spectacularly expensive in equal measure.”
Reposted by Alan Swithenbank
If you’re concerned about the impact of the proposed budget on Federal funding of science but aren’t sure what to say when you call your elected officials, remember that a coalition of professional societies representing nearly 100,000 scientists signed an open letter about this a few weeks ago.
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48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
www.ucs.org
May 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
If you’re concerned about the impact of the proposed budget on Federal funding of science but aren’t sure what to say when you call your elected officials, remember that a coalition of professional societies representing nearly 100,000 scientists signed an open letter about this a few weeks ago.
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Autistic 4th Grader Goes Viral For Powerful Rebuke To RFK Jr.: 'I'm Not Broken'
Autistic 4th Grader Goes Viral For Powerful Rebuke To RFK Jr.: 'I'm Not Broken'
Beautifully stated, young man!
www.comicsands.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Autistic 4th Grader Goes Viral For Powerful Rebuke To RFK Jr.: 'I'm Not Broken'
CDC Can’t Help Fix Milwaukee Schools Lead Poisoning Problem After Cuts
CDC Can't Help Fix Milwaukee Schools Lead Poisoning Problem After Cuts
The destruction of the Trump regime will be felt for generations.
gizmodo.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
CDC Can’t Help Fix Milwaukee Schools Lead Poisoning Problem After Cuts