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Photograph of a car with a squirrel inside of it, perched on the steering wheel. The car is the color of champaign at a beige convention, and the squirrel is the color of squirrels. The squirrel is holding a package of crackers in it's mouth. They are the kind like you get at a restaurant, where you get two crackers wrapped in plastic.

The driver's side window is slightly cracked. This is how the squirrel got in, and how it got out. It threw the crackers out first, and then climbed out after them. Everything in this operation suggested that this was not the squirrel's first rodeo.

Photograph of a car with a squirrel inside of it, perched on the steering wheel. The car is the color of champaign at a beige convention, and the squirrel is the color of squirrels. The squirrel is holding a package of crackers in it's mouth. They are the kind like you get at a restaurant, where you get two crackers wrapped in plastic. The driver's side window is slightly cracked. This is how the squirrel got in, and how it got out. It threw the crackers out first, and then climbed out after them. Everything in this operation suggested that this was not the squirrel's first rodeo.

A closeup of the squirrel sitting on the steering wheel. The squirrel deserves a name, so we'll call her Anjeloma, and she's what you might call a winner. She is still squirrel colored. The crackers are white, and labeled "Zest." As if Anjeloma needed more zest. Squirrel, please.

You can't see much of the car, but you can see smudges of grunge at the edges of the windshield, where the wipers have cast aside the debris of previous rains and pollen-falls.

A closeup of the squirrel sitting on the steering wheel. The squirrel deserves a name, so we'll call her Anjeloma, and she's what you might call a winner. She is still squirrel colored. The crackers are white, and labeled "Zest." As if Anjeloma needed more zest. Squirrel, please. You can't see much of the car, but you can see smudges of grunge at the edges of the windshield, where the wipers have cast aside the debris of previous rains and pollen-falls.

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.

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These are children who had their letters taken away by ICE.

Can it get any lower than this?

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#EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClass

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Woman with face partly obscured behind the flag of the Episcopal Church: white field, blue corner, res cross

Woman with face partly obscured behind the flag of the Episcopal Church: white field, blue corner, res cross

NO KINGS NYC! You are warmly invited to march with the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Meet at 2:00 at the Lincoln Center fountain. Look for the #EpiscopalChurch flag. // #NoKings

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If you want to truly be in awe of the person running the sanitation department in NYC, read @rznagle.bsky.social ethnography, Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City. Truly one of my favorite books about NYC.

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This month’s SciFri Book Club pick is here! 📚

We’re reading “Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World” by @elizkolbert.bsky.social for March and April. Start reading with us:
buff.ly/WaRgEwO

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This
Is
Awesome

@tomflood.bsky.social
@brenttoderian.bsky.social
@grantennis.bsky.social

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Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth

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Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office

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Fucking love this guy.

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

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Join me on January 29th from 6-8pm CET (12-2pm EST) for @climaterealityproject.org's "The Climate Reality Check: Exposing Misinformation, Disinformation and Greenwashing" webinar online via zoom.

Follow this link for registration: climatereality.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’

Interesting to see the Guardian's @dpcarrington.bsky.social weighing in on this. My take, as someone covering microplastics heavily for the past year (and currently sitting at a 200+ person conference with many of the scientists in question):

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...

Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager

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Star Trek, esp TOS, is sacrosanct -- this a-hole talking about it at all is like someone taking a sh*t in a church

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“When oil drilling accelerates in the middle of a climate apocalypse and the Orange Blob plans invasions in South America and Greenland like it’s a walk in the park, it is clear that this civilisation is already running on smack fumes”

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Trying to be here less, but not so much less that I miss important news that I can only find here because the news is broken. Thank God @hellgatenyc.com got me covered for NYC news…

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No Wars No Kings No Ice March and Rally · Indivisible Brooklyn From Minneapolis to Caracas, Trump is killing people in order to entrench rule by bullies for the benefit of billionaires. Our leaders in Congress must do their duty to stop this regime’s criminal att...

www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...

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We Shall Overcome: Religious Resistance to ICE

My latest @patheos.com piece www.patheos.com/blogs/theglo...

#AcademicSky #ICE #Catholic #Religion

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For those who missed the memo, the new US food pyramid - a masterclass in nutritional misinformation - was concocted by Big Meat & Dairy.

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Lotta people get mad at me when I criticize Democratic messaging but THIS IS HOW DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE TALKING. Like normal people using normal language to communicate normal human emotions about the fucked up situation.

THIS.

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Also, the world is moving away from this stuff… it’ll drag around for a few decades, but the speed renewables are being deployed and improved is basically killing the FF industry. Its peak is behind us.

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The mass of CO₂ humans put into the atmosphere in 2025 is 4x the mass of all plastic humans have ever produced.

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Mayor Mamdani has the opportunity to do the greatest thing ever.

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Jan 1, 2026

Mayor Zohran Mamdani (wearing a suit from SuitSupply), and the first lady, Rama Sawaf Duwaji (wearing a brown wool coat with faux fur from Palestinian-Lebanese designer Cynthia Merhej)

#zohranmamdani

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Insta: @vuralelibol

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As Eric Adams heads off into that great Turkish Airlines lounge in the sky, we remember his legacy

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and forgive us our emails, as we forgive those who email against us

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It’s time to think seriously about cutting off the supply of fossil fuels A new paper makes the case for supply-side climate policy.

Since all the VSPs seem to have recently discovered the circa-2012 point that "supply-side restrictions on fossil fuels are pointless," here's a piece I wrote in Vox that presents the other side of that argument:

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Special Best-of-2025 #ScholarSunday Thread! – Black and White and Read All Over As promised, here’s a year-end #ScholarSunday thread featuring some of the best public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new books, & more from throughout 2025. I really appreciate folks who...

As promised, here’s a year-end #ScholarSunday thread featuring some of the best public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new books, & more from throughout 2025. I really appreciate folks who shared work, their own & that of others, for this meta-thread! 🗃️

blackwhiteandread.com/special-best...

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