Here's some blue skies over Yosemite last week. Speaking of blue skies, I'm now there as Geotripper too. I have almost 4,000 mostly non-bot followers here who I'm not quite ready to abandon, despite the dumpster fire X has become. If you are over there, please give me a follow.

Hey crystallographers: I've been taking students to Black Chasm Cave in the Sierra Mother Lode for 3 decades, mainly for the incredible helictites. Yesterday I noticed (for the 1st time) this very long single crystal of calcite. Does this happen often? #crystallography

Every sign has a story. I wonder what this one was?

The fact that Trump is calling Mace and Boebert today pleading with them to remove their names from the Epstein petition at the last minute tells you everything you need to know about how incriminating the info in the files is to him and his cronies.

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece and we are robbing people of their food assistance and of their healthcare to pay for it. How is this even on the floor? How can we vote to enrich

Your health insurance premium just shot up. Your groceries cost more than ever. Your electric bill too. And what is your President's focus today? Lobbying Congress... to keep suppressing the Epstein files.

The media should demand a statement from every religious leader/pastor who supported Trump

Not the same detail as people are getting from farther north, but only the third time I've seen the auroras from Central California, in the prairies east of Modesto. There were a few wispy clouds in the mix.

Went out salmon hunting on the Tuolumne River today! Saw a few, but also a beautiful sunset on the river and five Great Horned Owls!

JD's family has spent $35M on vacations. Kash Patel used a $60M FBI jet to go on a date. Trump spent $98M to golf for 24% of the days of this term. All our tax dollars. But you think single moms getting $6 a day for SNAP is the problem?

Remember when Donald Trump said there would be people standing in bread lines trying to get food if Kamala Harris won? People are standing in line for food in Cleveland because of Donald Trump. It’s always pure projection.

It would be nice if polls or pundits credited the Democrat gains last Tuesday on something other than the shutdown or kitchen table issues - how about the president is nuts, I miss empathy, I don't like seeing pedophiles protected, or my fellow Trumpers are creeping me out - ?

It’s been 45 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona. Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear her in because she’s the final vote for the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

And yet no Jake Tapper book or George Clooney OP ED

It's absolutely NUTS that Republicans spent the past month LYING that only Dems had the power to end the shutdown, and then Sen. Schumer made an offer that would end the shutdown, and they rejected it. And then they left. And now, on his way to Mar-a-Lago, trump is trying to

ICE violently tackles man with special needs—for being "noncompliant." Agents claim he refused to answer questions—neighbors say he is nonverbal autistic. "Why they beating up this special boy?" said employee. "They should call a city doctor." "He comes into my store every day

Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨

If a judge orders you to release funds for hungry children and you continue to fight it, it’s time to take a step back and re-evaluate how you got there. No political leverage is worth corrupting your soul.

The shutdown in a nutshell: Dems are steadfast and united in their commitment to protect Americans' health care. Reps are steadfast and united in their commitment to protect pedophiles.

This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now. 100% serious here.

I have never seen an American President so desperate to force children and seniors to go hungry. Donald Trump is appealing a federal court's order requiring him to pay the full SNAP benefits for this month. This is as ugly and cruel as it gets.