"Ironically, the warming of the arctic region might result in cold arctic air intruding farther south than has been historically typical, due to weakening of the arctic jet stream (“the polar vortex”)." crcmich.org/PUBLICAT/202...

Patriots

🚨This is the new TikTok Privacy Policy I found on Reddit. Read it & pass this on. Looks like they can pull from USER CONTENT race, religious beliefs, mental/physical health diagnosis, sex life, status as transgender, citizenship/immigration status & more personal info.

Some things in the world are improving.

The highest paid job in the world should be the crews that fix water mains that bust in freezing weather.

A Trump quote without his face or voice. It's Trump without Trump. This quote is unedited and 100% accurate. It is from his press conference on January 20, 2026. - The big building with bars on the windows.

Yesterday, I drove refugees that had been shipped off to Texas all the way back home to St. Paul Seeing them reunite with their families reminded me this is their home. So keep sending them to Texas. I’ll keep driving ‘em back and introducing them to Bucc-ee’s and KC barbecue along the way.

I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out. For the record, the small example I chose: My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.

Telops "moved" this previous Wrong Way Waymo robot into the correct travel lane to stop in a No Stopping Anytime zone where it dropped off the passenger. Don't try doing this in front of SFPD, non-robots. Rare video captured the complete police & telops conversation. OP: x.morganlinton, 10/9/2024

I have never once in my life correctly spelled Massachusetts on the first try.

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

just like to emphasize again here that almost all Greenland mining is *extremely* theoretical, because the conditions are so bad that prices would have to be sky-high or other reserves largely exhausted to make them viable.

The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.

“You flee somewhere because you are being persecuted, and you arrive in a place where you say ‘Oh thank you god, I have arrived here; I am protected.’ Then you realize that, actually, we are not safe…”

No weather-induced highway pile-up will ever be as epic as the time a fireworks-hauling truck caught fire in Michigan (2015). Anyway, be safe out there. youtu.be/c_Qoo8sLD3c?...

CRC Sr. Research Associate Bob Schneider provides a primer on upcoming Michigan budget deliberations... crcmich.org/three-takeaw...

When asked, Rogers’ campaign claimed that it was the first the former representative knew of the connection between Telefonica and the Maduro regime, despite the incident being widely reported by both a Spanish news outlet and The Washington Post.

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

completely unironically, this is how we'll know

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

🚨 Detained by ICE? You can film even if detained. 🎥 🛑 Ask: “Am I free to leave?” Stay calm. Don’t resist. 📱 They can’t legally grab/search your phone without a warrant. Say: “I do not consent.” ⚠️ If they take it anyway: Don’t resist. It’s illegal—but stay safe. Support: gofund.me/153c27991

In a win for President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, a recent court ruling has cleared the way for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to resume using states’ Medicaid data to find people who are in the country illegally. From @stateline.org

How y'all's heat pumps working?

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Fvck this weather, also.

Millennials get to kill one last industry for old times' sake. As a treat.

If you didn’t know or even if you do this is an interesting analysis of how we subsidize suburban sprawl.

Apollo 10 faced a floating turd that no one would own up to

Winter in a place where you are irrelevant if you’re not in a car

WAR IS PEACE IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH DENMARK IS NORWAY

if you have a ring camera you are collaborating with ICE

Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2053...

These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.

I'm old enough to remember when misspelling potato ("potatoe") was enough to disqualify one for the Presidency of the United States. publicapologycentral.com/apologia-arc...

I demand to see Trump's long-form birth certificate.

Take an extremely vain and insecure 80-year old man in steep mental decline...surround him with weak sycophants, keep him watching propaganda, and make it clear to counterparties they can get what they want through obsequious flattery… And yeah, he’ll believe he’s legendarily accomplished.

They are my SECRET police you fool!

I has a Greenland-sized hole in my heart.

"He was legally authorized to work in the United States by the federal government and had a valid/current MN commercial driver's license."

This may incur some serious blowback, but so be it. If we don’t stand up for Greenland and Atlanticism now, then nothing matters. The preservation of NATO is table stakes for American national and economic security. I will not sit idly by and watch it die. www.linkedin.com/pulse/americ...

Newly released footage by France, from May 10, 2025 shows Trump’s reaction after President Macron informed him President Zelensky accepted his proposed 30-day ceasefire. Macron: “Zelensky accepted your proposal for a 30-day ceasefire.” Trump: “Oh, good. Nobel Prize please!”

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

When dogs see their soldier human return 😍❤️💓 Total Love and Joy 😍 #FridayVibes

I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

This photo of Trump accepting a used Nobel Peace Prize is real and was released by the White House