Mary Beth Williams

If you believe climate change is an existential threat, then don't support any Democratic member of Congress who advocates for: 1. Generative AI 2. Cryptocurrency mining 3. Indoor cannabis cultivation unless they can immediately point to a detailed plan to make said activity carbon neutral.

Cod size shifting baseline moment at the end of Netflix’s BELOW really got to me

A little throwback to when our beaver family went bobbing for baby pumpkins! 🦫 Tiny pumpkins, big chomps, and some spooktacular fall fun. 🎃 Ready for more animal antics? Join us for Zoo Boo and celebrate the season with us! 🐾 👻

It's the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings today, so I'm reposting my recent piece on the Anglo-Saxon women who made the Bayeux Tapestry – and what the rarely seen reverse of it might tell us about their experiences. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/the-bayeux...

Here it is: My big October update on the now near-record/record-strength El Niño event and the still-increasing likelihood of significant California impacts this winter. This deep-dive post is meant to accompany my Tuesday 1pm PT livestream.

Three months ago today, Johan Sebastián Guerrero was killed in the streets of Biddeford by Donald Trump’s rogue agency, ICE...

1/ The Speech or Debate Clause probably doesn't apply to the Omar search. BUT, whenever I talk about Speech or Debate immunity and argue that it should be interpreted capaciously, the pushback I always get is that we don't want to turn members of Congress into "super-citizens".

Obviously we are talking about Omar today, but the BS case against Rep. McIver is the most undercovered Trump abuse of power story out there.

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Up until very recently indeed, airlines were the only businesses that I dealt with regularly that practiced "price discrimination," charging different customers different prices for the same seats.

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOpenNotFlying. Sandhill crane colts trying out that flapping thing. Kensington Metro Park, MI

As CDC redesigns annual health survey, it removes questions about disabilities www.statnews.com/2026/10/01/c...

Good. Get the **** out of my home state.

Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal rules Canada failing to prosecute genocide of Indigenous people, uphold international law #law #legal #legalnews toronto.citynews.ca/2026/09/30/p...

A whole new avenue of prosecuting 4th Amendment claims may have just opened up in Texas. I still need to pull up the pleadings to see how the plaintiff's attorney's defeated QI (probably due to the arresting officer admitting the official reason for the stop was pretexual.)

I’m currently on another yet deep dive on Charles I, and I can’t help but draw parallels with our current Mad King. Except I actually feel some sympathy for Chuck the Headless, scads more than the orange tyrant would ever deserve.

I hope the gods have found an appropriate means of causing perpetual suffering for John Marshall.

As someone who studies fish diversification, intrigued that apparently swedish fish have diversified

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i love this

I woke up to Canada being invaded by the 19th century Mexican navy.

The fish are in the Creek. The bears too.

Which one????

Banned: Macklemore's powerful statement deserves reading. www.instagram.com/p/DdRdsy0m2H...

UPDATE: DOJ decided to play fast and loose this morning. Without even filing a notice of appeal in the DSCC case, SG Sauer made arguments to SCOTUS about the merits of the DSCC case injunction in a "supplemental brief" in the stay application pending in the California/LWV cases out of Mass.

Mathematicians out here saying it is not the proof that matters, but the human understanding of the proof. We are all humanists now.

🛡️ What does the Viking legacy look like today? Tom Birkett and his team have launched a project exploring how ideas and narratives about the #Vikings have evolved across Europe over the past 200 years. 👉 t.co/0L4WD9EsLL 📸 ©️Clare Keogh @norsemap.bsky.social @norseincork.bsky.social @ucc.ie

mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance

As an historian of cod fishing, this nearly brought me to tears. Incredible recovery, but it’s definitely not the time to pull back protection.

NEW: A US judge blocked the Trump administration from carrying out for now the president’s latest effort to impose new limits on automatic birthright citizenship after losing an earlier legal fight before the Supreme Court www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Ruling: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

“Fear Mongols” was actually what Genghis Khan called his army

Seriously? Come on, Andy. Don’t pull this sh*t.

It’s hard to fathom the sheer scale of the devastation that occurred in Nepal and Tibet. The latest estimates suggest that the glacier-rock collapse mobilized more than 142 million m³ of material. Here’s what that volume looks like when placed over Manhattan, New York City for scale.

And anyone in the media who accepts the premise that Trump has actually renamed the Gulf of Mexico or Lake Ontario should be similarly mocked. Don't be a bootlicker!

Boosting for my other WC friends. These boys look adorable, and orange kitties have their own lovely personalities.

Almost every celestial event is a no-go up here in the PNW, so I was shocked (shocked!) that we actually have a clear night to see the lunar eclipse. Had to walk down the street to get past the tree cover, but at least we got to see it.

As a family who lived in an RV and traveled for four years, the Wild Thornberrys were everything good. RIP Nigel.

The USPS can't determine that the dozen or so "home warranty" offers I get every week are scams and yet I'm supposed to trust them to determine if anyone is qualified to vote?