YES the whole US is set up like this. So much institutional and cultural queasiness about the government doing *anything* that we are enabling massive amounts of fraud by middlemen
Esperante R et al. (2025) Morphotypes, preservation, and taphonomy of dinosaur footprints, tail traces, and swim tracks in the largest tracksite in the world: Carreras Pampa (Upper Cretaceous), Torotoro National Park, Bolivia. PLoS One 20(12): e0335973. https://t.co/ivYRVEdDTv
BREAKING: A new UN report finds that Israel’s assault on Gaza - with the destruction of health care, education, infrastructure, even the banking system - has erased 69 years of human development, marking the worst economic collapse ever recorded.
This is not war: it is genocide.
Track by Track: Revealing Sauropod Turning and Lateralised Gait at the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite (Upper Jurassic, Bluff Sandstone, Colorado) https://t.co/1G8DbW73no #mdpigeomatics via @Geomatics_MDPI
We UGS are talking about conducting paleo inventories of unexplored regions of the Blanding Basin in the spring, for which we will be recruiting volunteers. Some head scratching areas...late Jurassic vs early Cret. You can bet we will score some awesome discoveries in vast area.
Nothrotheriops Shasta ground sloth in a Pleistocene low desert refugium near the Colorado River, before creosote moved in. One of my older pieces, colored pencil on paperboard, 1991. #paleoart
Everything progressives want to accomplish is impossible because it has to go through a labyrinth of constitutional roadblocks and arcane legislative barriers and meanwhile Trump can say "movies cost twice as much now" and it's just "well I guess movies cost twice as much now".
Greta Thunberg: Attacks & smear campaigns won’t stop us. This mission is about Gaza—2M people trapped under siege, starved & bombed daily. We call on governments to ensure safe passage & on people everywhere to raise their voices
BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes. https://t.co/7QQTJ3maiA
Charlie Kirk's last words being "counting or not counting gang violence" is hilarious. He got shot doing what he loved, debating race based gun violence statistics.