Sam Goldstein

Ahhh, she did it! 🤩 Congrats, Dr. Kiefer! @reina-kiefer.bsky.social

Picture of a car navigation screen with a very red commute prediction of 25 mins (which is less than usual) to travel 6 miles.

3 years later and this commute still feels criminal. Like, sure, as someone who drove in LA and Baltimore then you might expect it from big city traffic. But tiny Gainesville?! Poor transportation/city planning 💯. Plus they don't know how to zipper merge here at all, which makes it even worse.

this is like

the thesis statement of our times

Ben Stiller is calling out the White House after it used a clip from Tropic Thunder in a video promoting the Iran war.

“We never gave you permission and have no interest in being part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie,” Stiller wrote.

Harry Styles in a blue, glittery, streamer like coat lying back in a photo.

Happy Harry Styles New Album Release Day to all who celebrate! 💃🏼🤩🪩💋

🫠 Good looking out! Didn't even catch it. Ahhhh!

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

when we wrote about this pew data on trust in science came out, some outside experts wished pew had data on figures in the current admin

this @appc.upenn.edu survey released today has data comparing trust in several professional societies, agencies, and officials

A brown/tan pitbull mix who resembled a sea lion is half resting (his upper body) on his mom's pregnant belly while she lies on the couch.

Spotted: a cute and friendly land sea lion.

A picture of a pregnant belly in the foreground of the photo while the main focus is the background with a TV featuring Robin Williams as Mrs. Doubtfire with the cake cream on his face or his "nightly meringue mask."

I hope our little Robin will be as kind and funny as one of his main namesakes. 🥰 #RobinWilliams

I know that I am not the first or even the 50th person to make this observation, but genuinely, I don’t think the founders of this country could’ve ever imagined a future where Congress would so readily abandon it’s own power in service of a tyrant.

Minnesota is mourning the loss of Sergeant First Class Nicole M. Amor of White Bear Lake who was killed in Kuwait on Sunday.

She answered the call to serve and gave her life in service to our state and nation. Minnesotans are wrapping our arms around her loved ones.

A screenshot from a live update feed on AP about the war in Iran that mentions Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, a service member killed in the conflict. It has quotes from her husband about the escalating tensions she felt where she was stationed and constant concern she experienced.

Now I can almost see Sgt 1st Class Nicole Amor sitting there. She was days away from returning home to her husband and children. Instead, after texting back and forth hours before her death...her husband just never got a response from her again.

The "fallen comrade" table pictured and symbolism explained in the form of the traditional toast.

We had a fallen comrade table and toast on Saturday. It felt much more poignant than it ever has before given what is happening in Iran and seeing the names/faces of those service members we senselessly lost.

Rubio Today: It’s false to say I said the U.S. had to attack because Israel was going to attack. That’s not what I said.

Rubio Yesterday: We knew Israel was going to strike Iran, and that would trigger attacks on U.S. forces. If we didn’t act first, Americans would suffer higher casualties.

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

A man in dinner dress blues naval uniform and a woman in formal wear pose together in a kitsch bar.

"To the Mess!" Dining Out: his last and my first. Been to plenty of the Navy Balls though! We were all sent to the grog, but mine was non-alcoholic 😜. I even witnessed a senior officer ride a rocking horse with a tiny cowboy hat. Good times.

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"That's the way it is," says the five-time draft dodger to our military families who fear their loved one in uniform could be next.

What a disgrace.

“war of choice” is a too kind way, in this case, of saying “war of aggression” — and aggression is itself a war crime that generally results in many others.

The defining feature of the Trump administration is glee at the suffering of girls.

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A quote from Iranian writer, and the graphic novelist behind Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

Originally from Third Place Books on IG. But oh so relevant.

Wow, this is ridiculously foolish. And yet so unsurprising.

Howard Shore LOTR soundtrack(s) would be another good one!

It seems super random...but Andre (3000) Benjamin's flute instrumental album from a couple years back, for some reason, helped me feel very productive! New Blue Sun.

Let's say I was somehow on the fence and had an open mind (which to be clear, isn't the case), I am supposed to submit questions before I hear the lecture? Huh? 🤦🏼‍♀️🙄

An invitation sent to faculty, staff and students from University of Florida's VP of Research for a "moderated discussion with NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya."

Really, UF? Bad form. 🤢😡