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Take a close look at this. NBC News published a major investigation this afternoon. Six reporters. Six named sources inside the US government. The story breaks open something the Trump administration has been hiding for two months. The damage Iran did to American military bases in the opening phase of the war is far worse than the Pentagon has admitted. Repairs will cost billions of dollars. Here is what NBC found.

Breaking WaPo: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation's nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were just terminated from their positions by Trump.

The National Science Board was established in 1950 to guide the governance of the National Science Foundation.

@LegDayReps Skin pigmentation changes over the millenia based on how much sunlight a population gets, that's all. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Ancient Britons were much darker, then gradually lightened due to the cool/cloudy weather. Face it: we were mostly (besides a few monks) Barbarians until the Middle Ages.

@NatureofHistory You should take a closer look into the genetics of those populations at that time, they were significantly whiter than they are today

Democrats’ Trump Derangement Syndrome has blinded them from having any real plan besides impeaching President Trump. It’s disappointing but not surprising. Republicans remain LASER FOCUSED on making life better for the American people.

There's a forest in Utah where every single tree is actually the same tree. 47,000 trunks growing out of one giant root system, all clones of the same parent. The whole thing weighs about 13 million pounds, around 40 blue whales worth. It's called Pando, and it's been alive for around 80,000 years. Humans hadn't even started painting in caves yet when this thing took root. It's the heaviest living thing on Earth. Trees do some properly weird stuff. When a giraffe starts eating an acacia tree in Africa, the tree releases a warning smell into the air within minutes. Other acacia trees nearby pick up that smell and immediately start pumping bitter chemicals into their own leaves, before the giraffe even gets there. Giraffes have actually figured this out and learned to walk upwind, so they can get a few bites in before the trees notice them. In 1997, a Canadian scientist named Suzanne Simard found that trees in a forest are connected to each other underground, through a giant web of tiny fungus threads that link them all together. Her experiments showed that one tree can send food and chemical messages to another tree through this fungus network. The press nicknamed it "the wood wide web." Some of the bigger claims about trees being one happy family are still being argued over by scientists, but the basic idea, that trees pass signals to each other underground, is now solid science. And some live for thousands of years. There's a tree in California called Methuselah, a kind of pine, that is almost 4,860 years old. It was already 200 years old when the first Egyptian pyramid was built. There's another one growing nearby that scientists think is over 5,000 years old. Both were already ancient when Stonehenge went up. Trees also do something to your body when you're around them. A Japanese researcher named Qing Li ran an experiment. He had people spend a few days walking in forests, then took their blood. The cells in their immune system that fight off viruses and tumors had jumped sharply, and the boost lasted for over a week after they got home. He had another group take the same kind of trip but to a city instead. They got nothing. The trees were releasing some kind of compound into the air that the city didn't have. The tallest tree in the world is in California too, a coast redwood named Hyperion. 381 feet tall (taller than the Statue of Liberty), around 700 years old. A single trunk holds 550 million leaves. You're sharing the planet with all of this.

@sbbc_1 @histories_arch Wow, you know all about it! Do you know what those satellite-array-looking things are above her forehead? Are they the heads of decorative pins? Thx

@histories_arch My grandma looked like that. It's a Sunday outfit, BTW. From Zeeland. Catholic.

She didn’t arrive in America quietly—she arrived fully herself.... Captured at Ellis Island between 1906-1914 by photographer Augustus F. Sherman, this Dutch woman isn’t dressed for fashion. She’s dressed for *recognition*. Many immigrants were photographed in traditional clothing not because it was their everyday wear, but because it reflected where they came from, who they were, and what they were about to leave behind. Look closely at the details: the structured cap, the layered textiles, the deliberate way everything is worn. None of it is accidental. In many Dutch communities, clothing could signal region, religion, even marital status—telling a story before a single word was spoken. Within hours or days—many of these women would change. They’d trade garments like these for something more “American.” They’d blend in. Adapt. Find a way forward. This photo captures the moment in between. © History Pictures #archaeohistories

@rfizzle3249 @histories_arch Do you blame your personal problems on things that happened 40 years ago, too?🤔 Covid shutdowns caused 🌎-wide inflation. Supply stopped, but demand continued. Classic inflation engine. Biden brought it down to 3%, then 🍊's tariffs & now war are spiking it back up. MAGA morals:

@NatureofHistory @histories_arch Democrats are considered the lowest of the low. Especially those that create hyperinflation like retards Carter and Biden. Carter, responsible for the dept of education. Fast forward 40 years…America is ranked dead last in education.

On September 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter entered the Catoctin Mountain Park Run, a 6.2-mile (10K) race organized by his own White House near Camp David in Maryland. Carter had only taken up jogging the previous year, though he trained hard, averaging 40 to 50 miles per week by the summer of 1979. The Catoctin course was notoriously hilly, rated an 8 out of 10 in difficulty by veteran road runners. Carter wore a yellow headband and the number 39 on his T-shirt, starting near the front of the pack. He split his first mile uphill in 8 minutes 25 seconds, then pushed even faster through his second mile in 7:45. He was attempting to cut a full four minutes off his previous best time on the course, pushing from 50 minutes down to 46. Around the four-mile mark, nearing the crest of a steep hill, Carter began to moan and falter, his face turning ashen and his legs going rubbery before a Secret Service agent caught him as he began to fall. Initial fears at the White House were that the 54-year-old president had suffered a heart attack. White House physician Dr. William Lukash diagnosed heat exhaustion, and Carter was given smelling salts and at least one liter of salt water intravenously. Remarkably, about 90 minutes after the collapse, Carter stood at the finish line handing out trophies to the winners. Photos of the ashen, staggering president flashed around the world almost immediately. The images of a faltering Carter became a powerful political metaphor, with commentators drawing direct comparisons to his struggling presidency, suggesting he should step aside in the 1980 race just as he had stepped aside in the footrace. The incident raised questions about his general wellbeing and fitness for office, amplifying doubts that were already circulating as his approval ratings sagged and Democratic challenger Ted Kennedy prepared a primary challenge. The collapse crystallized a broader public narrative that Carter was a man overextended and overwhelmed, personally and politically, becoming one of the most enduring symbolic images of his troubled final years in office. #archaeohistories

@jarvis_best 💀

I’m ready. Rip the bandaid off. Let’s do this.

@LegDayReps Our white ancestors were still knawing on bones in huts when Northern Africans were developing algebra and Asian fleets were trading silks and spices with India and the Levant. Brown people developed our morals & commercial culture thousands of years before we started farming.

@NatureofHistory Your magic words don't have any power anymore. We are going to save western civilization

@EcceManlet @histories_arch @archeohistories Maybe that was a case of, 'If I can't have it, no one can.' 🤔

@NatureofHistory @histories_arch @archeohistories He became against it in the Laws, but this was a change from his previous stance. Largely a souring toward sex in general, as he suggests banning it entirely except for one off reproductive events

Detail of a Fresco from the North wall of the Tomb of the Diver in Paestum, Italy 🇮🇹, a famous Ancient Greek fresco dating back to the 5th Century BC. The fresco was discovered in 1968 near Paestum, Italy, a rare example of Greek mural painting. It illustrates a symposium, an ancient Greek drinking party where men gathered for music, poetry, and conversation. The scene highlights intimate male friendships and love, often featuring a bearded older man (erastes) and a younger, beardless man (eromenos). The kind of love between two men that Plato described in Symposium focuses on the beauty of the soul above that of the body. As Plato clearly states in his works, the love (friendship if you prefer) between two men is above the love a man has for a woman, as in most cases this kind of love includes sex. According to Plato, spiritually loving another male highlights the absolute beauty of the soul and is the epitome of selfless love that can be compared only with love between a parent and his/her child. In other words, Plato worshiped what youngsters would nowadays describe as “bromance,” but he was strictly against what we define today as homosexuality. Museum of Paestum 🇮🇹 #archaeohistories

@PetitUdy @sciencegirl Always tip with a lottery ticket if you'd never even think of suing the server if she won. A tip is a gift. If you're not willing to give gifts with no strings attached, then they're not really gifts. True giving brings its own rewards. It can be the best feeling in the world. 🥰

@sciencegirl Lesson: Never tip with a lottery ticket unless you’re ready for a decade of lawsuits. Tonda kept the $10M because Alabama courts said gambling contracts are unenforceable. Coworkers, customer, and the state all lost.

@DimitriTilloi @HeraklesCithare Do we know if they pre-dated their Constantinople perch, or were they made for that? I saw them last year in Venice. The stairs to climb up there are quite steep! 😬

@HeraklesCithare Ils ont une histoire fascinante en tout cas !

Les chevaux de Saint-Marc à Venise, réalisés entre le IVe s. av. J.-C. et le IIe s. ap. J.-C. Ils ornaient l’hippodrome de Constantinople et furent pris lors de 4e croisade. Ils sont désormais dans le musée de la basilique (remplacés par des copies à l’extérieur).

Reuters got DOJ's own records. 4,000 law enforcement jobs cut. National Security Division down 38 percent. Civil rights division down more than half. Drug prosecutions at a 20-year low. 7,000 positions unfilled. A former DOJ employee said they have no idea who handles a major espionage case right now. This is the tough-on-crime record. It's in their own budget documents.

@LegDayReps Racists are always insecure. They need to cling to a group for their identity because they lack self-worth. They put down other people to try to feel better about themselves. They're afraid of everyone who doesn't look like them. Miserable creatures. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@SpeakerJohnson Full scale mass deportations would do more to make life better for the American people than anything else.

@Deb862258581390 @NRCC It's already illegal for non-citizens to vote. The SAVE Act would prevent millions of citizens from voting because many don't have passports or other acceptable docs. Voter fraud is EXTREMELY rare: ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/10/29/ohi… More: thehill.com/regulation/cou… x.com/i/status/19578…

@NRCC If the Republicans do not pass the Save Act no one will vote for you. If you can not commit to Americans only vote in our elections your not working for America you will lose and lose big.

INTERNAL DATA ALERT: The latest projections just hit our desks. The House Majority is sitting on a razor's edge, with several key seats trailing by less than 1%. If we lose control, the Democrats will launch a scorched-earth campaign to undo our progress. View the strategy.

@JasonPremoMFG @TheIncogNinja Except a lot of the comments are from angry MAGAs (or ex-MAGAs - lotta those around now). Speaking of low IQ, did you catch Bobby Jr. & DJT discussing math? ⬇️😬 x.com/i/status/20473…

@TheIncogNinja @SecretaryBurgum @POTUS Low IQ libs are so easy to trigger

Renovations are underway! Thank you @POTUS for investing in our capital. The Reflecting Pool is about to look better than ever!

@JB_Summers Do you hate woke morals, too? 🤔

@SecretaryBurgum @POTUS Beautiful! Let’s keep it this way! I would like visit the Smithsonian museums again with any new updates plus the national art gallery without WOKE art.

@MemeHistorian69 @thecavemommy Oh, you're missing out. So many gorgeous, historic places. So much great art! And great food!

@NatureofHistory @thecavemommy 0 my ancestors left that shithole 400y ago😆

What is with American’s compulsive obsession with showering everyday…… like I just shower when I’m dirty? If you’re dirty shower, if not don’t

@rfizzle3249 @histories_arch Do you have an engineering degree from Annapolis, like Carter had? 🤔 I see you golf. Do you know about Trump's reputation for cheating at golf? He's notorious.⬇️ I'm sure you know that most golfers consider cheaters the lowest of the low. Do you agree? palmbeachpost.com/story/news/tru…

@histories_arch @archeohistories The second biggest retard to become president. @JoeBiden has the title as top retard.

@MissLadyLee @giveashitnature Make sure you wash all the salt off of them. I place a rock next to the edge of the bath so tiny creatures have a path from the rock to dry land if they need it. No need for more than one rock - leave room for birds to splash around. Thanks! 🩵

@giveashitnature I’ll fix today. I live by the ocean and collect flat rocks. I’ll add a few of varying heights to each bird bath.

Your birdbath is missing half its potential users. And it's because you're missing a rock. Pollinators and smaller songbirds can't drink from a standard birdbath. The water is too deep, the edge is too slick, and they can't land safely. Bees drown in them. Butterflies avoid them. Chickadees, finches, and warblers wait for a puddle instead. A single large rock in the middle of the birdbath that breaks the water surface turns the whole thing into usable habitat. Now bees can land on the dry top of the rock and drink from the edge. Butterflies can perch. Small birds have a safe resting spot. It costs nothing. It takes thirty seconds. It doubles who uses the birdbath overnight. The things dying of thirst in your yard right now are the ones your birdbath was never built to help.

@giveashitnature I always put a rock in my birdbaths, but I put it to the side, next to the edge. That way, larger birds have the whole middle of the bath to splash around in, and putting it next to the edge provides a pathway from the rock to "dry land" for tiny creatures.