WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

UPDATE: Dems lead every city council race in Aurora, Colorado - and could flip a 7-3 GOP majority into a 6-4 Dem edge - including what would be a shocking upset of MAGA media star Danielle Jurinsky, whose claims of a "complete gang takeover" led Trump to call Aurora "conquered." #copolitics

No Kings!

Thanks for making our hike today political, US Forest Service (take note, @altnps.bsky.social ).

#Skycards new item update (note, @jasonchampton.bsky.social ) - I bought an airport lockpick for 200 coins to see if that would unlock Monaco. It got me there (for the item plus ~100 travel cost), but did *not* unlock it. It opened the tasks - which include 3 “domestic” (Monaco!) flights. So no dice

CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo

#Skycards alert -Osprey 2 (not *that kind of Osprey), 9.95, near Los Angeles!

The moose have been here all along! www.westword.com/news/moose-i...

#Skycards alert - Beech 2000 Starship, 9.96 rarity, currently passing by Boulder, CO, says it’s heading to Tampa but seems to be flying NW!

Our criminal federal government is trying to get access to state voting machines. At least in Colorado, all the Republican county clerks refused! www.denverpost.com/2025/07/16/c...

#Skycards Sunday- 9.99 Yakovlev Yak-18 near Fremont, CA!

And more #Skycards fun today - a one of a kind 9.99 Swearingen SJ-30 heading to San Antonio TX!

#Skycards alert: DC-8-70, 9.94 rarity, heading from Miami to Port-au-Prince, currently near the Bahamas!

Article about our friend’s detained mom: www.nola.com/news/politic... Yet another case of performative cruelty.

Hi all, I need some immigration advice. A friend of my daughter’s has a mom who is Iranian, married to US citizen, under deportation order but has been living quietly under an Order of Supervision and checking in faithfully for 27 YEARS. ICE just detained her. (1/2)…

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

Over 100 people at our little organic neighborhood protest in northeast Denver! #NoKings

Deploying the military on U.S. soil as law enforcement against Americans was on page 555 of Project 2025. So don’t say “I didn’t vote for this,” because you did. This isn’t a response. This was always their plan.

JUST IN: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sues interim US Attorney Alina Habba for "false arrest and malicious prosecution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If I’m reading this correctly — and I’d like to think that I am — the U.S. Court of International Trade just handed the Trump administration its biggest, most sweeping legal defeat this year. reason.com/volokh/2025/...

The Pretenders at Radio City Music Hall in the 1990s. They played all the hits with the enthusiasm of someone doing chores. The feeling that they hated every minute of it was palpable. It was a double bill with The B52s, who were, of course, enthusiasm personified.

THE piece you need to read on the mega -security risk a Qatar-grifted Air Force One would represent, by @vermontgmg.bsky.social bit.ly/4jSrt3y

very clear that official policy of the united states right now is to accept any white person abroad who claims asylum status

BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has barred the administation from removing migrants under the Alien Enemies Act, saying Trump's invocation of that law in the context of Tren de Aragua was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: A coalition of students from more than 15 law schools across the country have signed a pledge not to work for any firm that “gives in to Trump administration demands…” Signatories include students from Harvard, Georgetown, University of Chicago, UT-Austin… docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New at The Watch: A Texas attorney gave some free legal advice to an undocumented family. Then two law enforcement officers showed up at his door. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

And, one more link for people with Yale connections: Please check out and consider signing this additional letter. It says that alums want the university to do the right thing — and will support and stand by it when it does. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

People with Yale connections, please check out and consider signing onto this letter asking Yale leaders to join others — notably including Yale's own faculty — in taking a stand. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

And remember, it would be trivially easy to deport these same people through normal procedures. Trump picked this Alien Enemy fight because he wants unreviewable, unlimited powers.

“It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process..” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you're going to watch Murderbot on Apple TV, consider adding it to your watchlist. It's kind of like pre-ordering a book, it tells the streaming service that you're there for our show. Link for US viewers: tv.apple.com/us/show/murd... (You can also search for it on the app.)

#Skycards UK alert: Porterfield Collegiate, 9.93 rarity, west of London!

#Skycards alert - Socata ST-10 Diplomate, rarity 9.93, ESE of Orleans, France

If they can deport legal residents without consequences for "administrative error," that means they can deport _you_ without consequences for "errors"

This is terrifying. This could be me. This person was born here, brown, was nearly deported. “Let me be clear: You do not need a passport to live in this country. Millions of Americans have never had one. It's not required for citizenship. It’s not even required to vote.”

In @nybooks.com: www.nybooks.com/online/2025/... Hat tip @brianleiter.bsky.social

Two rare #Skycards aircraft near Innsbruck, Austria now - one of a kind Dornier CD-2 Seastar and Oberlerchner Job-15

#Skycards: Grumman 🧸😸 near Medford OR!

I’m traveling. Stopped briefly at a Wendy’s in Hays, KS. Bunch of old white farmers sitting at a table. As I walked past, the one phrase I overheard was “Impeach that judge.” It’s a fucking cult.

Ignoring a court order on the grounds that “ah-ah-ah, the law doesn’t apply once you get to international waters!!” is absolutely sanctionable. 8th grade-ass lawyering. Completely unserious.

Uhh, @flightradar24.com , what is this? #Skycards

In addition to claiming, falsely, that a federal court order has no force outside U.S. territory, government lawyers are continuing to argue that the President can deport anyone he wants (“Article II”) without any court having jurisdiction, ever. Breathtaking.

In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?" (From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)

#Skycards rare plane: Aero Commander 560 near Mt Pleasant, Michigan

This is a great idea. @raskin.house.gov invites others to join him in filing a FOIA request to find out what personal data on us DOGE has collected. Link to a FOIA form & submission info on his website: jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...

Good morning #Skycards folks - AD Aerospace T-211 (9.93) near my home in Colorado!

More #Skycards today- Partenavia Spartacus, 9.90 rarity, near Long Beach CA

Krym je Ukrajina! 🇺🇦 A já mám konečně díky ruSSáckému letu, který to otočil zpátky a tomu,že Flightradar 24 to má nastaveno správně, odemčeno první ukrajinské letiště. Teď ještě heliport v Monaku a mise Trans-Europe express je moje! #SkyCards

#Skycards also this little guy near Nantes, France: