In good news, a little one was born in Utah🦒 www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

I think today we all need some pelicans.

We have updated DetentionReports.com with the most recently released data from ICE. Many people have asked that we add a map to the home page. We have added this feature. Click one of the blue icons to proceed to the report of the corresponding detention facility. detentionreports.com

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🧡💚💜 #bird #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…” From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days

Crowned Lapwing a common, noisy, and bold, ground-dwelling bird widely distributed across dry, open grasslands, savannas of eastern and southern Africa. Photo: Serengeti Plains #tanzania #lapwing #birdsofafrcia markscheflen.com #birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #biodiversity

my smaller son has got "what's wrong with you" conflated with "what's up with you" so he's walking around the indoor play co-op asking the other kids whats wrong with them lmao

Cosmic Clouds™ is a striking modern shrub rose introduced by Weeks® Roses (USA). It showcases dramatic clusters of deep magenta-purple blooms with a silver reverse, packed with petals and strong fruity fragrance—perfect for making a bold statement in your garden!

The aurora last night in Beaver, Alaska was just incredible. This is a real-time video (not sped up) of the crazy motion I saw. Also, look how BRIGHT it is, wow!

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress. “She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me. But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

Dual launch of Blue Jays at the stump.

February 5th 2026 Osteospermum

Yes, I am thrilled with this surprise show at my front door. It’s amazing to me. Only two years getting to know dahlias. They are a firm favourite. I’m still waiting for others to flower. I guess they just arrive at different times?

you know it's bad when they would rather us think that a rando staffer has unfettered access to the social media accounts of the President of the United States, where we also now know that world leaders direct message him

jays picking, pecking choosing the heftiest treats the joy of peanuts #2WordPrompt #Hefty #Treat #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #WildlifePhotography #Nature #Birds #Birding #BlueJay #ImageAndVerse #Haiga #EastCoastKin

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

Killing the CIA World Factbook might seem like small potatoes, but it was a touchstone of curated facts in a sea of disinformation.

Garden gate - St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff, Wales #gate #garden #StFagans #thursgate #classicMono

Happy Thrasher Thursday to those who observe… 🪶

Indian roller, Tissa, Sri Lanka this week. #birds #birding #Birdphotograhy #Naturelovers #SriLanka #Wildlifephotograhy

Blue #Borage AKA #Starflower For #BlueTue Seen on. My #DailyWalk. #Photography

#Chickadees are #Smart! Love this guys’ videos.

Barn Owls have some extraordinary adaptations to help them hunt at night, such as silent flight, sensitive hearing and the ability to spot movement in very low light. folksy.com/find/item/85... #BarnOwl #Owl #Birds #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #bsnm

A Great Blue Heron takes off from the icy shoreline to head upstream.

Look out below! This great gray owl was hunting along the road near my cottage last month. When you get a good look at the wing like this, you can tell that it's a hatch year bird (less than a year old). After hatch year birds will have different coloured flight feathers as some are replaced. #birds

A very colorful Brown Pelican on Stearns Wharf in #SantaBarbara today! #Birds #Nature #Photography

I was looking to see if I'd anything for Rob's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Reflections and thought I'd post this reflection of a Gray Heron. I posted the original already but I noticed the reflection looked interesting and the bird has an nice new hair do. #Photography #EastCoastKin #Ireland

I've been posting about this for a long time. Time to raise awareness again: the SAVE Act would disenfranchise tens of millions of American women (including myself) whose legal names do not match the names on their birth certificates. Lawyers say a Real ID DL wouldn't suffice to be able to vote.

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

Something beautiful for this day: Pansy, Yakima, Washington (October 2033). #flowers

getting gassed once probably won't cause much beyond an irregular period. but there's deliberately little research on what large doses do over long periods of time. the data we have suggests extra care is warranted. www.sph.umn.edu/news/new-stu...

I was not far from the ICE building when they started launching gas at the crowd from atop the building, and I did not hear any warning over the building loud speakers. I heard someone in the crowd say “they’re coming out” right before flash bangs hit the pavement. www.opb.org/article/2026...

Turkey Oak at New Shute House, England A quercus cerris about 250 years old, with one of the largest unsupported crowns of any tree in the UK. Photo: Jeroen Philippona

Just left an ICE Protest in Portland OR that started at City Hall and marched to the ICE building. Main demand was "revoke" the lease that lets the agency use their building. Crowd was 500-1000. They gassed massively after about an hour. Had to pull a lot of 16-17 year old girls out of the gas.

Today's flower break, taken just up the street. #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport

Little buddy getting loaded up on passion flower pollen #flowers #bees #macro #photography #art

trundle, trundle, trundle 😍 🌿

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

The La Park Floribunda Rose is an upright, well-branched rose bush that boasts unmatched color in its beautiful blooms. These 4- to 4½-inch blooms are a swirl of primrose, apricot, peach, pink, and blush pink tones. No two flowers will be just alike, and all will be beautiful! By Jackson Perkins.

I witnessed ICE using tear gas on children. They shattered a window of low-income housing where a disabled vet lives. He got gassed in his own home.

I was at the peaceful Union-led protest earlier today in Portland. ICE shot munitions into an apartment window above our heads and glass rained down all around. They also gassed tons of families protesting with their kids, completely unprovoked and without warning.

Hey Texas. Check and double check your voter registration. The GOP just lost in an R+17 district so take nothing for granted.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson issues late-night statement, telling ICE officers to resign and ‘ask yourselves why you have gassed children.’ www.instagram.com/p/DUNC_tJlm4...

I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep