James Umbanhowar
@jumbanho.bsky.social
Part time ecologist. I spend more time on Mastodon @jumbanho@mas.to
Looks like a westbound blue line train hit a police car (not shown) at 5th Avenue
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Looks like a westbound blue line train hit a police car (not shown) at 5th Avenue
Another article highlighting how the US continues to fall back on road safety: www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
November 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Another article highlighting how the US continues to fall back on road safety: www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
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This Sunday is World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. A leading cause of preventable death. A cause that is trending in the wrong direction.
While 2025 is better than the record high last year (so far), it is far short of the State goals.
1 death is too many. MN is 33,300% past that.
While 2025 is better than the record high last year (so far), it is far short of the State goals.
1 death is too many. MN is 33,300% past that.
Reports, Statistics and Data | Minnesota Department of Public Safety
The Office of Traffic Safety tracks information related to vehicle crashes in Minnesota.
dps.mn.gov
November 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This Sunday is World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. A leading cause of preventable death. A cause that is trending in the wrong direction.
While 2025 is better than the record high last year (so far), it is far short of the State goals.
1 death is too many. MN is 33,300% past that.
While 2025 is better than the record high last year (so far), it is far short of the State goals.
1 death is too many. MN is 33,300% past that.
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I'll only do this if it comes in Tamagotchi form
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I'll only do this if it comes in Tamagotchi form
This is almost as cringe as Olivia Reingold trying to be funny.
True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is almost as cringe as Olivia Reingold trying to be funny.
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it’s like “american beauty” meets “being there”.
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
it’s like “american beauty” meets “being there”.
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“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
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I keep thinking about this bit in @hunterw.bsky.social's piece on Rod Dreher's tete-a-tete with Vance, and how it connects with Christian Zionists being furious with Kevin Roberts. 🧵
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jd-vanc...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jd-vanc...
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I keep thinking about this bit in @hunterw.bsky.social's piece on Rod Dreher's tete-a-tete with Vance, and how it connects with Christian Zionists being furious with Kevin Roberts. 🧵
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jd-vanc...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jd-vanc...
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What a sentence.
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
What a sentence.
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Georg Cantor, landscaper: the infinity pools come in at least two sizes
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Georg Cantor, landscaper: the infinity pools come in at least two sizes
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Another gem from the archives that I'd missed on the first round through. Camponotus aeneopilosus, the golden-tailed sugar ant, carrying a pupa through the brood nest. Victoria, Australia, 2012.
November 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Another gem from the archives that I'd missed on the first round through. Camponotus aeneopilosus, the golden-tailed sugar ant, carrying a pupa through the brood nest. Victoria, Australia, 2012.
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WE call ourselves smug, Y’ALL don’t get to call us smug! But this paragraph is gonna have me fist-pumping all damn day:
(archive today version: archive.is/OcaC9 )
(archive today version: archive.is/OcaC9 )
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
WE call ourselves smug, Y’ALL don’t get to call us smug! But this paragraph is gonna have me fist-pumping all damn day:
(archive today version: archive.is/OcaC9 )
(archive today version: archive.is/OcaC9 )
Oh, look, someone who calls themself "the Edgy Optimist" writing about how Trump isn't a threat to democracy without mentioning ICE and prosecutions of political opponents: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Trump’s profiteering hardly portends the end of democracy
There are periods in American history when graft was the rule, not the exception.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Oh, look, someone who calls themself "the Edgy Optimist" writing about how Trump isn't a threat to democracy without mentioning ICE and prosecutions of political opponents: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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A real news site should do a graphic of all the names that show up in the Epstein emails and their level of power/wealth.
I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 AM
A real news site should do a graphic of all the names that show up in the Epstein emails and their level of power/wealth.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I love that this article names cities that are local tax havens. For Twin Cities they are: Woodland, Minnetonka Beach, Greenwood, Wayzata, Tonka Bay, Sunfish Lake, and Orono
Very cool article about how our fragmentation of local tax bases allows some suburbs to effectively act as tax havens at the expense of central metro areas.
(The link preview is bad, but it's:
Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality
by Manduca, Highsmith, & Waggoner)
(The link preview is bad, but it's:
Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality
by Manduca, Highsmith, & Waggoner)
Validate User
academic.oup.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I love that this article names cities that are local tax havens. For Twin Cities they are: Woodland, Minnetonka Beach, Greenwood, Wayzata, Tonka Bay, Sunfish Lake, and Orono
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Very cool article about how our fragmentation of local tax bases allows some suburbs to effectively act as tax havens at the expense of central metro areas.
(The link preview is bad, but it's:
Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality
by Manduca, Highsmith, & Waggoner)
(The link preview is bad, but it's:
Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality
by Manduca, Highsmith, & Waggoner)
Validate User
academic.oup.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Very cool article about how our fragmentation of local tax bases allows some suburbs to effectively act as tax havens at the expense of central metro areas.
(The link preview is bad, but it's:
Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality
by Manduca, Highsmith, & Waggoner)
(The link preview is bad, but it's:
Tax base fragmentation as a dimension of metropolitan inequality
by Manduca, Highsmith, & Waggoner)
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OVERT ACT 125 In additional furtherance of the conspiracy, DEFENDANTS met on November 12, 2025 to discuss ways to wield official government power to prevent further news of the child sex trafficking ring from becoming public.
Exclusive: Top Trump administration officials plan to meet today to discuss House efforts to force the release of the Epstein files. https://cnn.it/3WSyk2Y
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
OVERT ACT 125 In additional furtherance of the conspiracy, DEFENDANTS met on November 12, 2025 to discuss ways to wield official government power to prevent further news of the child sex trafficking ring from becoming public.
The dudes associated with him were pretty apparently as into his eugenics as they were his pedophilia.
The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The dudes associated with him were pretty apparently as into his eugenics as they were his pedophilia.
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Sometimes I search Google News for murder-suicide, to see the endless sequence of American women in situations everyone thought were great till they were killed by their husbands...which is very much some child domestic violence survivor shit. anyway:
www.latrobebulletinnews.com/news/local/f...
www.latrobebulletinnews.com/news/local/f...
Former Latrobe CEO and wife died in alleged murder-suicide
The CEO of a company once based in Burrell Township has died along with his wife in their home in Winter Garden, Florida.
www.latrobebulletinnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Sometimes I search Google News for murder-suicide, to see the endless sequence of American women in situations everyone thought were great till they were killed by their husbands...which is very much some child domestic violence survivor shit. anyway:
www.latrobebulletinnews.com/news/local/f...
www.latrobebulletinnews.com/news/local/f...
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Why. Were. So. Many. Men. Regularly. Emailing. Jeff. Epstein. After. He. Was. A. Known. Pedophile?
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Why. Were. So. Many. Men. Regularly. Emailing. Jeff. Epstein. After. He. Was. A. Known. Pedophile?
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In 2015, a man commented "looks great!" on a picture of a cake his niece had baked, and that is the last normal thing anyone has said on the internet.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
In 2015, a man commented "looks great!" on a picture of a cake his niece had baked, and that is the last normal thing anyone has said on the internet.
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This one is definitely in my top 10 tunes of all time; I have the original 12" & it makes me weep when I play it
Inspired by Pinochet's brutal murder of Victor Jara, it was made to raise funds for the UK Chile Solidarity campaign
Robert Wyatt/Tracey Thorn/Claudia Figueroa
youtu.be/mtcaeEQV06A?...
Inspired by Pinochet's brutal murder of Victor Jara, it was made to raise funds for the UK Chile Solidarity campaign
Robert Wyatt/Tracey Thorn/Claudia Figueroa
youtu.be/mtcaeEQV06A?...
Working Week featuring Robert Wyatt/Tracey Thorn/Claudia Figueroa "Venceremos" FULL 12" version
YouTube video by SoulStylistJukeBox
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This one is definitely in my top 10 tunes of all time; I have the original 12" & it makes me weep when I play it
Inspired by Pinochet's brutal murder of Victor Jara, it was made to raise funds for the UK Chile Solidarity campaign
Robert Wyatt/Tracey Thorn/Claudia Figueroa
youtu.be/mtcaeEQV06A?...
Inspired by Pinochet's brutal murder of Victor Jara, it was made to raise funds for the UK Chile Solidarity campaign
Robert Wyatt/Tracey Thorn/Claudia Figueroa
youtu.be/mtcaeEQV06A?...
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This is terrible, but all too common a practice across the board.
The NYT once ran three long in-print pieces on a large-scale bailout in NYC and didn’t interview a single person bailed out or from their community: just police chiefs, DAs, public defenders, etc.
All elites, ignoring the impacted.
The NYT once ran three long in-print pieces on a large-scale bailout in NYC and didn’t interview a single person bailed out or from their community: just police chiefs, DAs, public defenders, etc.
All elites, ignoring the impacted.
An analysis of news pieces about Trump’s anti-trans decrees found that “70 percent did not include a quote from a single trans person. Instead, journalists turned to cisgender sources — mostly government officials — to speak about trans people, their lives, and how they would be affected.”
NEW: Firings of LGBTQ staff at NBC and Condé Nast have worsened an already dire picture for legacy news media when it comes to covering the trans community.
From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
November 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This is terrible, but all too common a practice across the board.
The NYT once ran three long in-print pieces on a large-scale bailout in NYC and didn’t interview a single person bailed out or from their community: just police chiefs, DAs, public defenders, etc.
All elites, ignoring the impacted.
The NYT once ran three long in-print pieces on a large-scale bailout in NYC and didn’t interview a single person bailed out or from their community: just police chiefs, DAs, public defenders, etc.
All elites, ignoring the impacted.
The second major maritime disaster in two days in 1975 (after Edmund Fitz)
Happy Exploding Whale Day! Get out there and make it count.
50 years ago, today, a whale exploded on an Oregon beach. 20 years later, before social media or video sharing sights or smartphones, it would become the first viral Internet video.
We sent it to each other in the mail.
The History of Exploding Whales Is the History of the Internet Itself
We sent it to each other in the mail.
The History of Exploding Whales Is the History of the Internet Itself
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The second major maritime disaster in two days in 1975 (after Edmund Fitz)