Veterans from Common Defense installed a PROSECUTE ICE sculpture outside of the MN Capitol Building. A couple hours later, pardoned Jan 6th insurrectionist, Jake Lang, destroyed it & was promptly arrested on suspicion of destroying property. Pathetic attention seeking loser. Before & after 👇🏼

Shame on Tom Llamas and #NBC News for featuring an Oval Office interview where #Trump is spouting all manner of brazen lies with little or no pushback. Pathetic. Journalistic malpractice. #politics

Remember that midnight raid in Chicago supposedly to arrest Tren del Aragua members? Newly revealed court docs show that the raid was facilitated by the building owners who are now accused of using the raid to evict tenants. DHS never mentions TDA in their filings: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Peak cognitive dissonance achieved! Watching a slick TV promo for #ICE telling me that 'Every deportation makes us safer' -- while watching #MSNOW where nearly host and guest decries ICE's fascist excesses, even the right-leaning 'Morning Joe'. Ah #capitalism at work.

Trump: "I have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass anything."

Reading this my immediate thought was that Weiss wants to turn CBS into a pipeline supplying 'talent' to the White House, just like Fox 'News' is.

Time to start mocking Trump for having not won any victories, compared to Napoleon. I mean, holy hell, a one-day invasion of Venezuela, only to keep the same corrupt regime? You want a victory arch for THAT?

some Public Service Journalism: I took that Minnesota judge's pdf list of court orders that ICE violated, found all the cases on CourtListener and linked to the dockets reason.com/2026/01/30/j...

Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia

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I don't usually quote-post my own work but adding some extra tags for some people who love #robins @alan6789.bsky.social #RobinsForJanet #WinterRobin #ForJanet

American Robins are very common, but every now I can get one in some nice light with a bit of a dramatic flair. Clifton, Virginia, USA 8-Jan-2026. #birds

It won't be long before the Mango Maniac issues an executive order dictating that all polls must show his approval rating at 150%.

"LIVE, FROM DAVOS, IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT!"

The male house finch in the background was flying in to have a sip at the bird bath but aborted the landing once he saw the male red-winged blackbird. Not his idea of a good drinkin' buddy I guess. Clifton, Virginia, USA 8-Jan-2026. #birds

Trump: I need to take over Greenland now, because if I don’t, Russia will. Also Trump: Vladimir will you please join my Board of Peace?

Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...

This level of absurdity reminds me of ‘El Presidente’ in the opening scene of the movie Bananas.

A tiny Goldcrest, forever captured in soft wool. Its bright crown stripe gleams like a secret sunbeam. #goldcrest #kinglet #nature #bird #birds #needlefelting #art #sculpture

Canada geese seldom enter the scene quietly. Loud and splashy is the rule. Huntley Meadows Park, Alexandria, Virginia, USA 13-Jan-2026. #birds

A great blue heron with a classic statue-like pose atop its log-pedestal. If you zoom in closely to the beak tip you will see some of the bird's own feathers, the result of recent preening. Huntley Meadows Park, Alexandria, Virginia, USA 13-Jan-2026 #birds

A red-shouldered hawk looking pensive in the morning light. Huntley Meadows Park, Alexandria, Virginia, USA 13-Feb-2026. #birds

Northern Shoveler drake and its reflection, Huntley Meadows Park, Alexandria, Virginia, USA 13-JAN-2026. #birds

Ah, the pause that refreshes! An American Goldfinch shakes off some excess water after drinking deeply at the bird bath. Clifton, Virginia, USA 12-JAN-2026. #birds

Well gosh, just seizing property leads to a legal quagmire. Who could possibly have foreseen that? /sarc #Trump #Fascism #Autocracy

It's a gray rainy day here, so how about a bit of #monochrome? I believe this treatment shows the feather texture well. American Crow (on a sunnier day), Clifton, Virginia, USA 8-JAN-2026. #birds #photography

God damn it all, I DO NOT WANT #AI inserting itself into all my tools. My #GMAIL was working just find. Just signed in and see this crap. #AIslop #Gemini #Google #rant

I usually photograph flying birds with their wings outstretched, but this 'tuck position' allows for a nice tight shot. Mallard drake, Huntley Meadows Park, Alexandria, Virginia, USA 6-JAN-2025 #birds

Claims by #ICE that the shooting in Minneapolis were self defense are not credible. Looks like murder to me.

Minneapolis mayor says ICE officer’s killing of a motorist was ‘reckless’ and wasn’t self-defense

This leopard looked cozy nestled in the V of this tree with its tail hanging down, lit by the low light of the setting sun. #photography #wlidlife #cats flic.kr/p/2rQJaMH

Today was one of those crappy mostly overcast sky days that is miserable for wildlife photography. When I did get a good subject, it was often backlit. But for one brief stretch I had the sun behind me and a little bit of it poked through. Mallard drake, Alexandria, Virginia USA 06JAN2026. #birds

A ring-billed gull with a little bit of edible treasure. I like that this angle shows off the sporty wing tips on this model. Huntley Meadows Park, Alexandria, Virginia, USA 6JAN2026. #birds

This is just one of my reactions to today's news. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scr...

#CaughtinMotion is #birdoftheday theme, and I had to scrape my eBird photos for this shot of a Green-tailed Towhee at Cabin Lake, Lake County, Oregon from 2024.

It’s New-Year’s Eve and looking back on the 815 species of #bird we saw this calendar year in Cuba, Costa Rica, England and the US, these Pygmy Nuthatches we saw in Deschutes County Oregon make my #favoritePic of 2025 Happy New Year bluesky friends!

With all this talk of how to end Russias war against Ukraine, and a cease fire, keep this in mind: If Ukraine ceases firing, Ukraine will cease to exist. If Russia ceases firing. the war will cease to exist. Pretty clear

This is one of the best turkey vulture pictures I've ever seen. Usually they are seen on the ground gnawing away at something that may be barely recognizable. Beautiful perch and lighting, especially of that face only a mother could love!

Black-capped Chickadee #birds

Can any #Photoshop people help me out here? I'd like to merge these two photos, but the Automate-Photomerge fails because there's no overlap. I don't mind doing manual positioning, but can't figure out where to even begin with that. #birds #photography #postprocessing

Blue jay close-up at a bird-bath. Clifton, Virginia, USA 13-Dec-2025. #birds

A row of Sandhill Cranes #birds

The blue jay that got to the bird bath first has strong opinions about the arrival of a second blue jay. Clifton, Virginia, USA, 13-DEC-2025 #birds

happy day after Christmas! here's a calla lily from #mygarden for #FloralFriday 🌱 #JBCFlowers

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night

"They paved paradise and put up an #AI data center". Catharpin, VA may not be quite paradise, but it's a nice sparsely populated area with lots of woods and farms. Northern #Virginia is being devoured by these ugly beasts. #datacenter. www.princewilliamtimes.com/localnews/br...