Good morning! Day 2 of #SanDiegoBirdFestival begins. I’m on the Birding the Border field trip. First stop Tijuana River Estuary 🪶

THIS WEEKEND again, same place*...8am start, Sunday ends by 5pm! Sat.Feb. 28th thru Sun. March 1st *SAN DIEGO Mission Bay Conference Center! FREE, lots of good stuff, along with outdoor activities. #SanDiegoBirdFestival #BirdFestival #SanDiego

New Hoka hiking boots just in time for the #SanDiegoBirdFestival. Who will I see at the low tide estuary walk today? 🪶

I must be a genius by now! 🪶

Pritzker’s invoice to White House: (via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

I’d been asked to draw this but was too busy storyboarding the episode. It was the art dept graphics folk made it so everyone can calm down now

The technology I'm excited for is seeing a doctor who will actually listen to me, cure me, and not bankrupt me in the process. And whatever that medical table is doing.

Any Republican or Democrat who continues to support Palantir, takes money from them, or refuses to hold them accountable is not your friend and should not be supported.

He's basically Taika Waititi's psychotic tech CEO from FREE GUY, if he had also done enough drugs to kill a bull elephant

OMG i’m on the schedule starting March 10th. I forgot how to put make up on. I forgot how to socialize. And I hope I didn’t forget how to do my job!!! Yikes now that my shifts are in my calendar IT’S REAL.

Spring is in the air here in San Diego! Today I had a Rufous and an Allen’s at the hummingbird feeder and I saw CA Towhees and Mourning Doves copulating. House Wren is back, too. 🪶

Heck yeah! @kaylaiacovino.com never ceases to amaze me. So proud to call her friend.

the LDS Church did not allow black priests, opposed interracial marriage, supported racial segregation in its communities and church schools & taught that righteous Black people would be made white after death until 1978 unsurprising they're making a big PR push during the Nazi revival

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York just confirmed what we have long known: it’s not foreign countries paying for Trump’s tariff taxes. Nearly 90% of the cost has been borne by American consumers and businesses — driving up prices and squeezing families at the checkout.

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

sen.gary peters is on the alex pretti congressional review committee. ice agents are trained by IDF? and both @peters.senate.gov and @slotkin.senate.gov are bankrolled by aipac?? how can we POSSIBLY trust them to do what’s right for the american people when it’s israel first for them? #abolishice

Geordi, Is there a way to enter our authorization codes by typing them instead of speaking aloud to the computer? Several crew members have complained that they need to memorize a new code after each use because coworkers overheard them. Worf

🖖 ROCKY!

JFC Bezos didn’t even bring them home!!

The Peregrine Falcon almost looks fake! His feet, cere, and eye ring are so crazy bright yellow they look painted on! The PEFA recovery from near extinction story is amazing. It is thought, from a biological standpoint, that they have over-rebounded in number. 🪶

I was surprised at how small the Swainson’s hawk was compared the other buteos we saw. 🪶

The next time you see a hawk and say “Oh it’s just a Red-tail” remember these photos. RTHA are stunning birds! 🪶 Here are 3 of them, one typical, one dark morph, and one immature.

At Hawkwatch we were also introduced to 2 Great Horned Owls. One of them is missing its left wing, due to being hit by a car. 🦉 These guys are about the twice the size of little Barney the Barn Owl.

I went to Hawkwatch in Ramona, CA yesterday and met Barney the Barn Owl. 🦉 He is OLD, and has cataracts! He is the cutest little old man tho…

It’s almost like Putin is running our foreign policy.

I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them

This guy is awesome.

And what about residents who need to park in the disabled spots that are in those 5 lots? Is there an exemption? I'm still salty as a north county resident. $16 in addition to the already expensive museum entry is a lot. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/02/06/s...

Welp. Time to cancel my WAPO subscription. I was having on to it since my kid moved to DC for college and is now working there. Last straw Bezos. Byeee

I went to IKEA for my 1st time ever. Holy shit. It’s like a giant corn maze of furnishings. It involved more walking than a theme park & if I’d known I would’ve worn better shoes. If I had gone alone I probably would have cried. I walked and walked forever and thought I’d never find the end.

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Donald Trump’s approval numbers are in the tank, which may or may not have something to do with the fact that on multiple occasions in recent weeks he has teased the idea of somehow canceling the midterm elections.

Donald Trump is suing the federal government for $10 billion. That is your money. Never in our history have we seen something like this. The billionaire President always has a new plan to make himself richer, but never a plan to make your bills more affordable.

Trump Moves to Reopen California Offshore Drilling, Triggering Unified West Coast Opposition

Visa announces it will allow customers to direct credit card rewards into Trump accounts. Trump is calling the move a “big deal.” Visa, the largest credit card processsor in the US, is facing an antitrust lawsuit filed under Biden's DOJ.

Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.

Officials are quickly moving people they’ve apprehended out of state, making it difficult for loved ones to reach them

I hadn’t seen If These Walls Could Talk (dumb title for it, but ok) before. It was powerful! If you haven’t seen it take a look and you’ll be refocused on why we are fighting for what we do!! Still as relevant now (if not more so) than when Cher (!) directed it in 1996. www.imdb.com/title/tt0116...

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

This is complete bullshit, and it's a criminal administration's transparent effort to cover up a crime. www.ms.now/news/no-civi...

This mid-afternoon Alex Pretti vigil at the Portland VA was not heavily promoted. But the crowd probably stretches a quarter mile or more. Americans are galvanized and grieving.

The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...

California exceeds clean car goal despite declining federal support

Air Force One tonight

Trump's guilty as sin.

Massive crowds have taken to the streets of Nuuk to protest the Trump administration with one message: Greenland is not for sale. It is not negotiable.

Our final day in Morro Bay. We are heading home tomorrow morning. It's been otterly delightful. www.starfleetmom.com/2026/01/an-o...