felinecannonball
@felinecannon.bsky.social
“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something... but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
Pseudonymous geologist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Signed up for too many starter packs.
Pseudonymous geologist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Signed up for too many starter packs.
Pinned
he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed
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The degree to which a recording exists or command staff was present taking extemporaneous notes needs to be immediately subject to a Congressional subpeona by the HASC & SASC. These records need to be preserved immediately & someone with integrity in uniform needs to accept what's coming & confess.
REPORTER: Does the administration deny that that second strike happened, or did it happen and the administration denies that Hegseth gave the order?
LEAVITT: The latter. Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes. He worked well within his authority and the law.
LEAVITT: The latter. Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes. He worked well within his authority and the law.
December 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The degree to which a recording exists or command staff was present taking extemporaneous notes needs to be immediately subject to a Congressional subpeona by the HASC & SASC. These records need to be preserved immediately & someone with integrity in uniform needs to accept what's coming & confess.
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DOJ says immigration judges, as "inferior officers," may be fired on the basis of sex, religion, race, or national origin. Leaving aside the law, it's *politically* remarkable they're taking this position.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
DOJ says immigration judges, as "inferior officers," may be fired on the basis of sex, religion, race, or national origin. Leaving aside the law, it's *politically* remarkable they're taking this position.
washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/former-...
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For those following DHS's entry onto religious property-- No More Deaths is affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson.
🚨 On Sunday, November 23, U.S. Border Patrol illegally entered the No More Deaths’ humanitarian aid station and arrested three people who were receiving aid, without a warrant.
December 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
For those following DHS's entry onto religious property-- No More Deaths is affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson.
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2/2 Part of the pain in watching that response is knowing how the reported patently illegal orders will affect US servicemembers.
I highly recommend this essay by @marknevitt.bsky.social (Commander, JAGC (ret.)):
I highly recommend this essay by @marknevitt.bsky.social (Commander, JAGC (ret.)):
Killing Shipwrecked Survivors is Not Just Illegal—It Endangers U.S. Servicemembers
If the United States chooses a path where killing defenseless survivors becomes acceptable, American servicemembers will pay the price for that choice.
www.justsecurity.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
2/2 Part of the pain in watching that response is knowing how the reported patently illegal orders will affect US servicemembers.
I highly recommend this essay by @marknevitt.bsky.social (Commander, JAGC (ret.)):
I highly recommend this essay by @marknevitt.bsky.social (Commander, JAGC (ret.)):
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Today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that NY Attorney General Letitia James can't enforce false advertising and consumer protection laws against crisis pregnncy centers over their promotion of pseudoscientific and potentially dangerous abortion pill "reversal."
Abortion ‘Reversal’ Speech Protected From NY State Regulation (1)
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) is barred from enforcing state false advertising and consumer protection laws against anti-abortion medical centers in the state that promote abortion “reve...
news.bloomberglaw.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that NY Attorney General Letitia James can't enforce false advertising and consumer protection laws against crisis pregnncy centers over their promotion of pseudoscientific and potentially dangerous abortion pill "reversal."
People willing to give their credit card info to a hallucinating chatbot are the new marks and retail CEOs want a piece of the pie.
December 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
People willing to give their credit card info to a hallucinating chatbot are the new marks and retail CEOs want a piece of the pie.
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The legal fight over Trump's global tariffs has largely been driven by small/mid-size businesses, but households names are cropping up on the growing list of businesses filing lawsuits to secure refunds if SCOTUS strikes them down. One of the latest to hit the docket? Costco
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Costco Joins Companies Suing for Refunds If Trump’s Tariffs Fall
Costco Wholesale Corp. joined a fast-growing list of businesses suing the Trump administration to ensure eligibility for refunds if the US Supreme Court strikes down the president’s signature global…
www.bloomberg.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The legal fight over Trump's global tariffs has largely been driven by small/mid-size businesses, but households names are cropping up on the growing list of businesses filing lawsuits to secure refunds if SCOTUS strikes them down. One of the latest to hit the docket? Costco
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buff.ly/qe80lke
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"The BBC World Service has spoken to chemical weapons experts, whistleblowers from Georgia's riot police, and doctors, and found the evidence points to the use of an agent that the French military named "camite"."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
December 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"The BBC World Service has spoken to chemical weapons experts, whistleblowers from Georgia's riot police, and doctors, and found the evidence points to the use of an agent that the French military named "camite"."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Russia and Saudi Arabia signed a mutual visa waiver agreement.
December 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Russia and Saudi Arabia signed a mutual visa waiver agreement.
Lodgepole pines are often crooked. Not great for a regular lodge, but you might be able to use one for a "lodge of mystery" at one of those spatial vortex tourist attractions.
December 1, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Lodgepole pines are often crooked. Not great for a regular lodge, but you might be able to use one for a "lodge of mystery" at one of those spatial vortex tourist attractions.
Sierran rocks and the Sierran plants that love them
December 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Sierran rocks and the Sierran plants that love them
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Ok, the 3 local National Wildlife Refuges I knew were:
* Don Edwards San Francisco Bay
* San Pablo Bay
* Farallon Islands
The 4 I missed:
* Salinas River
* Ellicott Slough
* Marin Islands
* Antioch Dunes
All are part of the San Francisco Bay NWR Complex. Links at the bottom of this page:
* Don Edwards San Francisco Bay
* San Pablo Bay
* Farallon Islands
The 4 I missed:
* Salinas River
* Ellicott Slough
* Marin Islands
* Antioch Dunes
All are part of the San Francisco Bay NWR Complex. Links at the bottom of this page:
December 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Ok, the 3 local National Wildlife Refuges I knew were:
* Don Edwards San Francisco Bay
* San Pablo Bay
* Farallon Islands
The 4 I missed:
* Salinas River
* Ellicott Slough
* Marin Islands
* Antioch Dunes
All are part of the San Francisco Bay NWR Complex. Links at the bottom of this page:
* Don Edwards San Francisco Bay
* San Pablo Bay
* Farallon Islands
The 4 I missed:
* Salinas River
* Ellicott Slough
* Marin Islands
* Antioch Dunes
All are part of the San Francisco Bay NWR Complex. Links at the bottom of this page:
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This is all true but
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This is all true but
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
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"Nothing refracts the light of being like music. Nothing reflects the health of a culture and nothing predicts its durability better than how well it treats its song-makers."
Beautiful!
Beautiful!
Meet the woman who set out to save tribal music when the U.S. government set out to erase indigenous culture, traveling far and wide with her cylinder phonograph, trousers, and bow tie www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/03/f...
The Woman Who Saved Native Song
“We understand the people better if we know their music, and we appreciate the music better if we understand the people themselves.”
www.themarginalian.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"Nothing refracts the light of being like music. Nothing reflects the health of a culture and nothing predicts its durability better than how well it treats its song-makers."
Beautiful!
Beautiful!
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President Hernandez was responsible for smuggling 500 TONS of cocaine into the United States! He was the top dog; the Pablo Escobar figure! He wasn’t just “selling drugs in that country.”
Reporter: You have made so clear how you want to keep drugs out of the US—
Trump: Right
Reporter: Can you explain why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?
Trump: If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president
Trump: Right
Reporter: Can you explain why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?
Trump: If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president
December 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
President Hernandez was responsible for smuggling 500 TONS of cocaine into the United States! He was the top dog; the Pablo Escobar figure! He wasn’t just “selling drugs in that country.”
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Look at this image (and thread - use the translate service).
This one reads along the lines of:
"..Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) without cleaning.
In just 15 minutes of acquisition, we counted 1,659 satellite trails (about 400 individual ones).
Words cannot describe the pollution of near space."
🔭
This one reads along the lines of:
"..Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) without cleaning.
In just 15 minutes of acquisition, we counted 1,659 satellite trails (about 400 individual ones).
Words cannot describe the pollution of near space."
🔭
3/4. En esta imagen se muestra el mismo campo estelar del Cometa C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) sin limpiar.
En solo 15 minutos de adquisición, contamos 1659 trazas de satélites (unos 400 individuales).
Sobran las palabras para describir la contaminación del espacio cercano.
En solo 15 minutos de adquisición, contamos 1659 trazas de satélites (unos 400 individuales).
Sobran las palabras para describir la contaminación del espacio cercano.
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Look at this image (and thread - use the translate service).
This one reads along the lines of:
"..Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) without cleaning.
In just 15 minutes of acquisition, we counted 1,659 satellite trails (about 400 individual ones).
Words cannot describe the pollution of near space."
🔭
This one reads along the lines of:
"..Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) without cleaning.
In just 15 minutes of acquisition, we counted 1,659 satellite trails (about 400 individual ones).
Words cannot describe the pollution of near space."
🔭
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Universe: "just shove everything in that corner"
Hubble image of Arp 321, also known as Hickson 40.
This group of galaxies include three spiral galaxies, an elliptical galaxy, and a lenticular (lens-like) galaxy.
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Judy Schmidt
Source
This group of galaxies include three spiral galaxies, an elliptical galaxy, and a lenticular (lens-like) galaxy.
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Judy Schmidt
Source
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Universe: "just shove everything in that corner"
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Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO₂ than they absorb
Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Loss of tropical moist broadleaf forest has turned Africa’s forests from a carbon sink into a source - Scientific Reports
Africa’s forests and woody savannas have historically acted as a carbon sink, removing atmospheric carbon and storing it as biomass. However, our novel analysis reveals a critical transition from a ca...
www.nature.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO₂ than they absorb
Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The perfect paper title doesn't exi... - wonderful work just out in Science from Hugo Merchant and team: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The perfect paper title doesn't exi... - wonderful work just out in Science from Hugo Merchant and team: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Incredible
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Incredible
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For the most part, it's looking like a mostly dry and warm start to December across much of the Southwest including much of California--with the major exception of the Central Valley, where a cold/damp tule fog layer may persist for a while yet. [Thread]
November 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
For the most part, it's looking like a mostly dry and warm start to December across much of the Southwest including much of California--with the major exception of the Central Valley, where a cold/damp tule fog layer may persist for a while yet. [Thread]
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Unironically heartened to see the Senate Minority Leader vowing accountability.
November 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Unironically heartened to see the Senate Minority Leader vowing accountability.
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Saturday morning light show. #aurora #astronomy
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Saturday morning light show. #aurora #astronomy