Mark Shore
@markshore.bsky.social
interests are politics, how states collapse, the media, and science, especially climate change, astronomy and geosciences
"A Republic, if you can keep it." Ben Franklin
photo: red sunset over the Pacific from the coast of Hawai'i
"A Republic, if you can keep it." Ben Franklin
photo: red sunset over the Pacific from the coast of Hawai'i
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New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
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Once again JPAI revealing himself as the most clueless motherfucker in the 94305 zip code.
If not for Jay, things would get political, he explains.
If not for Jay, things would get political, he explains.
December 23, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Once again JPAI revealing himself as the most clueless motherfucker in the 94305 zip code.
If not for Jay, things would get political, he explains.
If not for Jay, things would get political, he explains.
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This year's bracket:
December 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This year's bracket:
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🎆Welcome to the Round of 16 of the 2025 Headline of the Year Contest!🎆
Voting will be open in 4 locations for each round for about a day.
16 headlines.
Only 1 winner.
A reminder of the nominees:
bsky.app/profile/paul...
Voting will be open in 4 locations for each round for about a day.
16 headlines.
Only 1 winner.
A reminder of the nominees:
bsky.app/profile/paul...
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
🎆Welcome to the Round of 16 of the 2025 Headline of the Year Contest!🎆
Voting will be open in 4 locations for each round for about a day.
16 headlines.
Only 1 winner.
A reminder of the nominees:
bsky.app/profile/paul...
Voting will be open in 4 locations for each round for about a day.
16 headlines.
Only 1 winner.
A reminder of the nominees:
bsky.app/profile/paul...
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You don't need to be an anarchist to think that ICE should be abolished
You can be a good governance liberal who thinks that the agency has demonstrated an institutional disrespect for the Constitution, and therefore advocate for unwinding the agency and rolling its functions into a revived INS.
You can be a good governance liberal who thinks that the agency has demonstrated an institutional disrespect for the Constitution, and therefore advocate for unwinding the agency and rolling its functions into a revived INS.
ICE have revealed themselves to be nothing more than the partisan militia of MAGA. When Trump became president, he did not "execute Order 66." They have been yearning for the Day of the Rope since their founding, and all Trump did was give free rein to their basest impulses.
December 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
You don't need to be an anarchist to think that ICE should be abolished
You can be a good governance liberal who thinks that the agency has demonstrated an institutional disrespect for the Constitution, and therefore advocate for unwinding the agency and rolling its functions into a revived INS.
You can be a good governance liberal who thinks that the agency has demonstrated an institutional disrespect for the Constitution, and therefore advocate for unwinding the agency and rolling its functions into a revived INS.
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DEVIL: You shall stay forever young, but this picture of you will bear the marks of your sin!
DORIAN: Can I hide it?
DEVIL: Well, yes, but—
DORIAN: And there are no other consequences?
DEVIL: This… This picture will become so foul!
DORIAN: Again, probably I’ll hide the picture.
DORIAN: Can I hide it?
DEVIL: Well, yes, but—
DORIAN: And there are no other consequences?
DEVIL: This… This picture will become so foul!
DORIAN: Again, probably I’ll hide the picture.
July 2, 2023 at 3:01 PM
DEVIL: You shall stay forever young, but this picture of you will bear the marks of your sin!
DORIAN: Can I hide it?
DEVIL: Well, yes, but—
DORIAN: And there are no other consequences?
DEVIL: This… This picture will become so foul!
DORIAN: Again, probably I’ll hide the picture.
DORIAN: Can I hide it?
DEVIL: Well, yes, but—
DORIAN: And there are no other consequences?
DEVIL: This… This picture will become so foul!
DORIAN: Again, probably I’ll hide the picture.
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My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books.
December 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books.
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once upon a time when elected officials nominated anti-vaxxers to prominent roles in charge of public health newspapers would run entire front page stories asking every doctor in town how much of a menace to public health that person would be & gosh it would have been nice if they still did that
December 27, 2025 at 6:27 AM
once upon a time when elected officials nominated anti-vaxxers to prominent roles in charge of public health newspapers would run entire front page stories asking every doctor in town how much of a menace to public health that person would be & gosh it would have been nice if they still did that
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Producers in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico extract roughly half of the U.S.’s crude. They also produce copious amounts of toxic, salty water, which they pump back into the ground. Reservoirs that collect the fluids are overflowing—
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
America’s Biggest Oil Field Is Turning Into a Pressure Cooker
Drillers’ injection of wastewater is creating mayhem across the Permian Basin, raising concern about the future of fossil-fuel production there.
www.wsj.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Producers in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico extract roughly half of the U.S.’s crude. They also produce copious amounts of toxic, salty water, which they pump back into the ground. Reservoirs that collect the fluids are overflowing—
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Striking nativist editorializing by the federal judge who just upheld the $100,000 tax on high-skill immigrants.
She opines that it’s “troubling” that universities hire talent from abroad at all, instead of only native grads.
Then admits (!) that opinion is irrelevant (So why write it? Venting?)
She opines that it’s “troubling” that universities hire talent from abroad at all, instead of only native grads.
Then admits (!) that opinion is irrelevant (So why write it? Venting?)
December 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Striking nativist editorializing by the federal judge who just upheld the $100,000 tax on high-skill immigrants.
She opines that it’s “troubling” that universities hire talent from abroad at all, instead of only native grads.
Then admits (!) that opinion is irrelevant (So why write it? Venting?)
She opines that it’s “troubling” that universities hire talent from abroad at all, instead of only native grads.
Then admits (!) that opinion is irrelevant (So why write it? Venting?)
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December 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Every jaw in the room dropped. He had done the unthinkable. He had not only told them his beliefs, but he had done it with the equal degree of certainty that they had employed in telling him theirs. And there's this unspoken rule in America: Only Christians are allowed to do this.
December 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Every jaw in the room dropped. He had done the unthinkable. He had not only told them his beliefs, but he had done it with the equal degree of certainty that they had employed in telling him theirs. And there's this unspoken rule in America: Only Christians are allowed to do this.
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Who died and made him the Vicar of Christ.
Pope Leo calls for kindness to strangers and the poor in Christmas message
Refusing to help those in need is tantamount to rejecting God himself, says pontiff during Christmas Eve mass
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Who died and made him the Vicar of Christ.
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The idea that humans are The Old Ones to ants is brilliant
youtube.com/shorts/hEf_S...
youtube.com/shorts/hEf_S...
Ants Summon Humans
YouTube video by NaTaS
youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The idea that humans are The Old Ones to ants is brilliant
youtube.com/shorts/hEf_S...
youtube.com/shorts/hEf_S...
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low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like.
we forget these things at our peril
we forget these things at our peril
December 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like.
we forget these things at our peril
we forget these things at our peril
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Cats were domesticated about 10,000 years ago, when wild cats encountered the first human settlements and saw an opportunity to constantly be in the way
December 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Cats were domesticated about 10,000 years ago, when wild cats encountered the first human settlements and saw an opportunity to constantly be in the way
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Things are really not good around the North Pole. Anomalous warmth continues, alongside record low #Arctic sea ice conditions. Nearly every time I check the data, there seems to be yet another new record this fall.
More graphics: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
More graphics: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
December 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Things are really not good around the North Pole. Anomalous warmth continues, alongside record low #Arctic sea ice conditions. Nearly every time I check the data, there seems to be yet another new record this fall.
More graphics: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
More graphics: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
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In a new short film, Oscar-winning documentarian Thomas Lennon follows a group of scientists in New Jersey who are conducting a sobering experiment: studying the slow destruction of their coastal research station by rising seas.
Watch the film: bit.ly/4pO6DVI
Watch the film: bit.ly/4pO6DVI
December 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
In a new short film, Oscar-winning documentarian Thomas Lennon follows a group of scientists in New Jersey who are conducting a sobering experiment: studying the slow destruction of their coastal research station by rising seas.
Watch the film: bit.ly/4pO6DVI
Watch the film: bit.ly/4pO6DVI
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May be one of the most impressive technological things I have ever heard of. A Garmin autoland on a Super King Air safely lands after pilot becomes incapacitated. I'll never cease to be in awe of aviation safety tech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Nl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Nl...
PILOT INCAPACITATED | Plane Auto-Lands and Saves His Life!
YouTube video by VASAviation -
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
May be one of the most impressive technological things I have ever heard of. A Garmin autoland on a Super King Air safely lands after pilot becomes incapacitated. I'll never cease to be in awe of aviation safety tech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Nl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Nl...
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Trump's One "Yuuge" Mistake
Carney, Hodgson, Smith, Eby, Canadian oil CEOs are making the same mistake
#bcpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/trumps-one...
Carney, Hodgson, Smith, Eby, Canadian oil CEOs are making the same mistake
#bcpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/trumps-one...
Trump's One "Yuuge" Mistake
Carney, Hodgson, Smith, Eby, Canadian oil CEOs are making the same mistake
markhamhislop.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Trump's One "Yuuge" Mistake
Carney, Hodgson, Smith, Eby, Canadian oil CEOs are making the same mistake
#bcpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/trumps-one...
Carney, Hodgson, Smith, Eby, Canadian oil CEOs are making the same mistake
#bcpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/trumps-one...
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I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Trump calls it “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” I have a more accurate description: our political trauma. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-political-trauma
December 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Trump calls it “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” I have a more accurate description: our political trauma. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-political-trauma
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where'd the egg go and why's this dog here?
December 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
where'd the egg go and why's this dog here?
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What Trump and his allies are doing, after all, is not really about honoring him. These tributes are meant to carry the same message as an unrepaired hole in the wall left by a violent domestic abuser’s fist.
trib.al/EklhdfU
trib.al/EklhdfU
The Immanent Joy of Detrumpification
As the president graffitis his name to beloved institutions and builds monuments to his own vanity, we must focus on how much fun it will be to tear it all down.
trib.al
December 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
What Trump and his allies are doing, after all, is not really about honoring him. These tributes are meant to carry the same message as an unrepaired hole in the wall left by a violent domestic abuser’s fist.
trib.al/EklhdfU
trib.al/EklhdfU
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As we get close to the end of the year I thought I'd repost some of my favorites.
These aren't in any particular order, but how could I not start with my absolute favorite of the Kingbird riding on the osprey while carrying a fish?
#photography #birds
These aren't in any particular order, but how could I not start with my absolute favorite of the Kingbird riding on the osprey while carrying a fish?
#photography #birds
December 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
As we get close to the end of the year I thought I'd repost some of my favorites.
These aren't in any particular order, but how could I not start with my absolute favorite of the Kingbird riding on the osprey while carrying a fish?
#photography #birds
These aren't in any particular order, but how could I not start with my absolute favorite of the Kingbird riding on the osprey while carrying a fish?
#photography #birds