Gregory Pijanowski
@gpijanowski.bsky.social
Science teacher, history buff, traveler, photographer, likes dogs and cats equally, but no, I don't play basketball. Blog at: https://www.pigeonroost.net/
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Exactly one Allied combat fatality happened in Greenland during World War II, and he was a Danish soldier on patrol killed in a firefight with a German weather station crew.
Ogles: "It's important that we have a stake in Greenland, that they are quite frankly a protectorate of the US. They've been in relationship with Denmark - that needs to end. We've spilled more blood protecting Greenland than the Danes... we are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere"
January 7, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Exactly one Allied combat fatality happened in Greenland during World War II, and he was a Danish soldier on patrol killed in a firefight with a German weather station crew.
The Maduro escapade won't gloss this over.
NEW from me:
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since early COVID or the Great Recession—the country has lost 65k jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transport, & mining employment decline, while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since early COVID or the Great Recession—the country has lost 65k jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transport, & mining employment decline, while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...
America is Losing Blue Collar Jobs
For the First Time Since Early COVID & the Great Recession, the US is Losing Jobs in Manufacturing, Construction, & Other Blue Collar Industries
www.apricitas.io
January 7, 2026 at 2:19 PM
The Maduro escapade won't gloss this over.
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The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.
January 7, 2026 at 1:41 AM
The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.
"This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President” - I have questions...
Trump: “I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America. This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President”
January 6, 2026 at 11:52 PM
"This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President” - I have questions...
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Tires cause up to 90% of road microplastics, with the average tire losing 6- 9 pounds of rubber in a lifetime. Just how bad is the toxicity?
What Actually Happens To Tire Tread When It Wears Away, And Is It Harmful? - Jalopnik
www.jalopnik.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Tires cause up to 90% of road microplastics, with the average tire losing 6- 9 pounds of rubber in a lifetime. Just how bad is the toxicity?
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With Trump very transparently saying that the invasion of Venezuela was to take their oil, let's dive into oil markets. TL;DR - it's not at all clear to me that Trump or the people around him have any coherent long term strategy.
January 5, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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This croc was the size of a school bus. The Mesozoic Era was rough.
First scholarly accurate replica of the ‘dinosaur-killer’ Deinosuchus schwimmeri: news.columbusstate.edu/posts/resear...
#SciArt #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Crocodile #Deinosuchus #JurassicWorld
#SciArt #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Crocodile #Deinosuchus #JurassicWorld
January 5, 2026 at 3:42 PM
This croc was the size of a school bus. The Mesozoic Era was rough.
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🧵Day 3 and we have a new meaning for "running Venezuela," courtesy of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, who is in charge of Venezuela as well as the National Archives. We're going to insist they do what's in the US national interest. Time for some principal-agent theory. 1/
January 5, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Um, ok.
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Um, ok.
Let's not give LAPD any ideas.
When the LAPD arrests a dude at a gas station they don’t take over the gas station and use it to gas up all the cop cars tho
STEPHANOPOULOS: Why wasn't congressional authorization necessary?
RUBIO: It wasn't necessary because this was not an invasion. We didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation.
RUBIO: It wasn't necessary because this was not an invasion. We didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation.
January 4, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Let's not give LAPD any ideas.
There are a lot of media people who, quite dumbly, want access to celebrity rather than report the news.
From the perspective of reporting the news, it doesn’t strike me that there is a functional difference between a president who answers the phone at 4:30am in the morning but doesn’t answer a reporter’s questions, versus a president who doesn’t agreed to be interviewed.
January 4, 2026 at 4:13 PM
There are a lot of media people who, quite dumbly, want access to celebrity rather than report the news.
Thread: grew up in this area but never heard of this incident. A lot of waste from the original Manhattan Project was dumped in the region during the war years..
At 4:50 AM today in 1958, 32 cars of a 78-car eastbound train carrying assembled nuclear bomb casings loaded with high explosives from the Atomic Energy Commission’s nuclear weapons assembly plant in Burlington, Iowa, derailed on Nickel Plate Road near Hamburg, New York, ~15 miles south of Buffalo.
January 4, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Thread: grew up in this area but never heard of this incident. A lot of waste from the original Manhattan Project was dumped in the region during the war years..
It's becoming more and more clear they had no plan beyond kidnapping Maduro. We don't have anyone in Venezuela and we don't control their military. Unless a full scale invasion is planned (I hope not), this isn't happening.
WELKER: Mr. Secretary, are you running Venezuela right now?
MARCO RUBIO: Yeah. People are fixating on that. Here's the bottom line -- we expect to see changes in Venezuela
MARCO RUBIO: Yeah. People are fixating on that. Here's the bottom line -- we expect to see changes in Venezuela
January 4, 2026 at 3:51 PM
It's becoming more and more clear they had no plan beyond kidnapping Maduro. We don't have anyone in Venezuela and we don't control their military. Unless a full scale invasion is planned (I hope not), this isn't happening.
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1) Venezuela has a government.
2) This is being thrown together at the last minute by people who—amazing as it sounds—are even less intelligent, qualified, and competent than the GWBush-era dunces who tried to make imperialism happen in Iraq & Afghanistan and failed miserably. What could go wrong?
2) This is being thrown together at the last minute by people who—amazing as it sounds—are even less intelligent, qualified, and competent than the GWBush-era dunces who tried to make imperialism happen in Iraq & Afghanistan and failed miserably. What could go wrong?
With Nicolás Maduro out of power, the Trump administration is racing to assemble an interim governing structure for Venezuela.
After Maduro Ouster, Trump Takes On the Risks of Governing Venezuela
The administration is racing to get an interim government in place, even as pushback from Maduro’s allies raise fears of instability.
on.wsj.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:43 AM
1) Venezuela has a government.
2) This is being thrown together at the last minute by people who—amazing as it sounds—are even less intelligent, qualified, and competent than the GWBush-era dunces who tried to make imperialism happen in Iraq & Afghanistan and failed miserably. What could go wrong?
2) This is being thrown together at the last minute by people who—amazing as it sounds—are even less intelligent, qualified, and competent than the GWBush-era dunces who tried to make imperialism happen in Iraq & Afghanistan and failed miserably. What could go wrong?
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I’ve been working full time to stop this war since last summer and the one scenario I feared the most is materializing — Trump is making a play for Venezuela’s oil. I’m not saying an insurgency will definitely form, but Trump’s ploy creates the perfect storm for an absolutely disastrous occupation.🧵
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."
January 4, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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Putting the "napping" in kidnapping.
January 4, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Putting the "napping" in kidnapping.
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ACTUAL GOOD NEWS EVERYONE: The Paleontological Research Institution and the Museum of the Earth have made it through the crisis!
Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI
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Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI
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‘Every Single Dollar Mattered’: Donations Save Museum of the Earth From Foreclosure
Just days before a year-end foreclosure deadline, the Museum of the Earth has paid off its mortgage following a wide fundraising campaign that rescued the Ithaca area landmark.
www.ithaca.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:29 AM
ACTUAL GOOD NEWS EVERYONE: The Paleontological Research Institution and the Museum of the Earth have made it through the crisis!
Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI
www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...
Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI
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Truth as the first casualty in war is even more so in the age of AI.
THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
January 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Truth as the first casualty in war is even more so in the age of AI.
Well yeah, Trump's word is less than zero so one should be angry but not surprised.
Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"
January 3, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Well yeah, Trump's word is less than zero so one should be angry but not surprised.
A change of pace - the Bills are closing out their stadium tomorrow and this was the most prominent game I went to there. Bills won 30-13.
January 3, 2026 at 8:37 PM
A change of pace - the Bills are closing out their stadium tomorrow and this was the most prominent game I went to there. Bills won 30-13.
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So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.
January 3, 2026 at 7:22 PM
So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.
Trump is actually a dullard - a emotionally impoverished dude who only cares about self aggrandizement. He does have one talent though - duping a very dumb and/or compromised press corp.
January 3, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Trump is actually a dullard - a emotionally impoverished dude who only cares about self aggrandizement. He does have one talent though - duping a very dumb and/or compromised press corp.
I drove through the Permian Basin in Texas just last week and the towns there had a lot of really intense poverty. If American locals don't share in the wealth extraction of oil fields, I doubt the people of Venezuela will either.
Trump: "This partnership of Venezuela with the United States of America, a country that everybody wants to be involved with because of what we're able to do and accomplish, will make the people of Venezuela rich, independent, and safe."
January 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I drove through the Permian Basin in Texas just last week and the towns there had a lot of really intense poverty. If American locals don't share in the wealth extraction of oil fields, I doubt the people of Venezuela will either.
Although I can't really speak for the people of Venezuela, I'm guessing they won't be thrilled to have an American pedophile running their lives.
FOX & FRIENDS: What do you think is next for the Venezuelan people now that you have removed Maduro so he can face American justice?
TRUMP: Well, we're making that decision now. We can't take a chance on letting somebody else run it, just take over where he left off. So we're making that decision
TRUMP: Well, we're making that decision now. We can't take a chance on letting somebody else run it, just take over where he left off. So we're making that decision
January 3, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Although I can't really speak for the people of Venezuela, I'm guessing they won't be thrilled to have an American pedophile running their lives.
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It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
January 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.