ICE’s own data and Human Rights Watch: Only 3% of the Venezuelans sent to CECOT had any kind of criminal record.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

We had a sunny day on winter solstice! Here are my shadow and our dog’s shadow at Solar noon— the shortest shadows we’d cast all day! 😊

Christmas boat parade

The first bit of this video added a new bucket list item for me: Shadow picture at Solar noon on the winter solstice! We’re not likely to have enough sunlight for shadows on Sunday here in Ketchikan… but maybe! 🤞

🔥 The climate emergency hasn't gone away - it's here & now. But our gvts aren't acting with urgency. Our 12-min video on the 6 Markers of Climate Emergency shows what real action looks like. Watch the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJdK... And visit: www.davidsuzukiinstitute.ca/ceu

Snow! Enjoyed an amazing walk in a winter wonderland today and saw 9 trumpeter swans at Ward Lake 🥰

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

We have a beaver near Ward Lake who has been very active in their snacking lately. It’s interesting to see how some trees and branches get a light treatment while others become a favorite for continued gnawing. #ketchikan #AlaskaSky

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

Take a journey through time down a new NSF COLDEX ice core borehole just completed by the team in #Antarctica! If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc

Our Click to Call is set up! Let's get these phones ringing off the hook with voters demanding that our representatives take a stand, and give Bobby the Boot! There is not a moment too soon to #impeachrfkjr standupforscience.net/impeac...

Experimenting with jam recipes from berries we picked this summer. Salal with Alaska blueberry is AMAZING 😋 I did a 1:1 ratio of blueberries to salal but didn’t measure how much sugar pectin etc. Hopeful I can duplicate the results because this jar isn’t going to last long.

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment. They are openly saying this. Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

Loved watching the clouds today. @brunota2003.bsky.social any insight in how/why the upper and lower clouds layers seem to be moving in opposite directions?

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

😳 foreign tourism to the US has already dropped significantly. This isn’t going to help it recover.

imagine investing in public media and ensuring that media literacy (and spotting unreliable narrators) was integral in primary school education

Rosy oysterlings and late oysters are out in abundance right now, and they’re both so beautiful. #AlaskaSky

This is so wrong ☹️

May I present the perfect way to start one’s day:

The swans are back for the winter at Ward Lake! Today while I was walking, there was a spontaneous gathering of people watching them. Everyone whispered and moved slowly while sharing in the joy. It was a lovely moment. #AlaskaSky

Happy Thanksgiving! We picked cranberries this morning and enjoyed a beautiful walk. Today I’m thankful for nature, family, friends, and the beauty of the Tongass. #AlaskaSky

Oof is right.

"One constituent, a retired marketing executive named Susan, told him that she’s currently paying about $600 a month with ACA tax credits. Next year, that will jump to $2,120, a 250 percent increase." prospect.org/2025/11/21/a...

Adorable! 😍

blue sky over muskeg and late oyster mushrooms growing from alder. sights from Sunday morning botany club yesterday. #AlaskaSky

Check out this crazy mosaic image of the auroral oval from space on the night of Nov 11-12! You an can see just how extended the oval was due to the impressive solar storm that impacted and delivered a G4 (Kp 9-) geomagnetic storm - the third strongest of solar cycle 25!

Bit tricky to see due to clouds, but we caught a few glimpses of the aurora tonight! 🥰

Enough hail this morning in Ketchikan to pile up and leave little white drifts here and there. Not quite the same as getting snow, but still pretty.

Had a big tidal swing in #ketchikan this week with a 19.47 ft high tide and -4 low. #AlaskaSky

To any other self-employed folks who had health insurance thru the state marketplace, WHAT DO WE DO? 🥺😭 The cheapest option for our family of 5 is $2,854 a month with a $15,000 deductible! #AlaskaSky #ACAtaxcredit

Kristi Noem is telling bald-faced lies about ICE arrests. More than 70% of those detained have no criminal convictions. 170+ of those arrested or detained have been American citizens.

Hurricanes feed off of warm water. Watch how quickly the eye of #Melissa collapsed as it moved onto land and over the mountainous terrain of Jamaica, and how quickly it is reforming now that it has moved back over water! I will be adding this radar loop to my earth science lectures.

First snow of the season in Ketchikan! @alaskawx.bsky.social I’m guessing the snowline is between 2,000-2,500 ft Pretty high up and not a lot, but I’m still happy to see it. 🥰

The Middle East is warming twice as fast as the globe thanks in no small part to its own oil + gas emissions—but from youth activists to engineers, people here are proving that even in the hottest places, change is happening. Read on MailChimp: shorturl.at/SvFiy Read on LinkedIn: shorturl.at/fjOiY

The @nytimes.com climate section is profiling federal scientists who have been terminated and their work. I spoke with tsunami expert Corina Allen, who worked to ensure tsunami alerts made it to the public. She was fired in February. Read her story and others': www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...

Sunday Morning Botany Club highlights: toothed jelly fungus, lunch creek waterfall, and salmon egg slime molds 💜🫟💜 The #Tongass is displaying a fabulous diversity of fungi right now. #AlaskaSky

More than 300 gathered for #NoKings today in Ketchikan, Alaska. We held signs, marched, and then had speeches and great music.

Today I found the cutest little mushrooms EVER! They only grow on spruce cones and are like something straight out of a fairy tale. Strobilurus occidentalis, aka spruce cone mushroom or spruce conesprout.

Do you pick bog cranberries and lingonberries before or after the first frost? Haven’t had a frost here yet, but I found a great berry spot while enjoying the morning sunshine and they were too delicious to pass up!

Sunday botany walk highlight #1: Bog cranberries! 🌱They shine like ruby jewels in the muskeg. 🌱Crisp texture and wonderful flavor. 🌱A delightful ratio of plant to fruit. If our blueberry bush adopted the same ratio, it would make berries the size of beach balls.

Went out first thing this morning to try fishing from shore. Didn’t catch any fish, but a whale came by! Tossed the rod in the car and ran/watched along the highway for 20 minutes. What a great way to start the day 🥰 #AlaskaSky

Today’s Sunday morning botany hike was magical. #AlaskaSky #Tongass

Public comment on the reorganization is open through Sep. 30. www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

Get the facts. There’s no benefit to logging the Tongass. None. At a certain point it appears MAGA just wants to destroy stuff because they can. #SaveRoadless #ProtectTheTongass #akleg #akgov

To those who say SE Alaska doesn’t have fall colors, I present tomorrow’s weather forecast. #AlaskaSky #Autumn

Fully 80% of the CDC's budget goes out to state and local health departments. Slashing the CDC's budget is going to be felt by "every person in every community across this country, whether they realize it or not.” my latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Mark is right, Trump is pushing costs up, and driving us toward a shut down.