Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

In Missoula, Montana, the Missoulian features a sweeping aerial shot of the rally:

#NoKings Missoula MT

we were all happy for an evening and that’s not nothing

237 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Celestine: - A sulphate mineral - A source of strontium, which is used in fireworks - Often associated with gypsum, anhydrite and halite - Its name comes from the Latin word "caelestis" (celestial) because it sometimes has a sky blue colour #minerals #MineralMonday

John Bolton: "I thought Trump looked very tired up there. I mean, very tired. Not disappointed. Tired. And we'll have to reflect on what that means."

This airs at 8 am EDT tomorrow at aljazeera.com/live and then will be repayable at some point at www.aljazeera.com/program/head.... It’ll be better than anything you usually watch in the morning, I’m sure. @mehdirhasan.bsky.social was terrific.

Mars glaciers are purer and more uniform than previously thought www.psi.edu/blog/mars-gl... #Mars 🧪 #PlanetSci

This is exactly the kind of work the Catholic Church should be doing. Glad they’re stepping up. 🙏🏽 Archdiocese of Los Angeles launches program to help families impacted by immigration raids. The raids have made immigrants worried to leave their homes.

Gaza is starving, and Israel is responsible. www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

"Comey, who had worked in the U.S. attorney’s office for nearly a decade, prosecuted both Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell." lol. lmao.

A selection of the foxes that have taken over Rollin Field, just loads of them everywhere, denning in the long jump pit, playing on the bleachers, good times. #missoula

Warnock: If I'm honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book?  The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….

Israel's Defense Minister Katz: Israel did not destroy all of Iran's highly enriched uranium, The U.S.-Israeli position is that Iran will be asked to "hand over that material." We all know that won’t happen, think we may be a few months away from things getting kinetic again.

Tell your Senators to Vote NO on Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cuts...

Pink double bloom peonies from the backyard

The IDF has issued a 2-kilometer evacuation order for people at the Arak Nuclear Complex (IR-40) in central Iran due to impending IAF attacks.

Missoula Montana

June 13, 2025

The founding fathers did not live and die to see this moment. It’s time for all of us to stand up peacefully.

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

I think we’ve found the source of the violence

"My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. And I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." — Rep. Barbara Jordan in 1974 ⚖️

Backyard visitor

So… this was supposed to be about Paul Revere’s ride, but the Senator just unloaded about the Trump administration and its Republican enablers. Far more newsworthy than I expected. (You can probably see me shifting to “crap, this was not the interview I prepped!” but the result was memorable.)

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

Missoula MT

Breaking News: Susan Crawford, a liberal judge, won a pivotal Wisconsin Supreme Court seat despite $25 million in spending by Elon Musk on her opponent. nyti.ms/4jbwPWD

This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

I feel confident in predicting history will judge this decade or so as the absolutely stupidest time in American history. Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.

“Dear @aoc.bsky.social I Chair the Democratic Party in Shelby Co. in Jim Jordan's district. I would be glad to host you. We met with his staff today in a cramped room because he won't come. I'll pay your flight and accommodations. DM me. We'll talk modern agriculture too.” — Christopher Gibbs 🏆

Chicago #TeslaTakedown How it started How it's going

Pillars of gas and dust in the Orion Nebula. (M. Robberto and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team) #nebula #stars #astrophysics #space #cosmos

Dude says we have to take care of our law enforcement FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS

🟣 JUPITER | PJ70 Jet N5 2025-03-02 15:28 UT | Mission Phase 70 source: www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/proc... Credit : #NASA / #SwRI / #MSSS / Jackie Branc © CC BY #Jupiter #Juno #JunoCam #gas_giant

@profabelmendez.bsky.social and his group continue working on the WOW signal, including providing some historical background. #planetsci 🧪

I had to find several sources reporting this before i believed it was real That's amazing.

A few weeks ago I was honored to receive as a gift a beautiful icon from the Ukrainian artists Oleksandr Klymenko and Sofia Atlantova, who "write" Orthodox icons on the discarded lids of ammunition boxes from the war in Ukraine. Slava Ukraini.

Tom Friedman: "This is a total perversion of U.S. foreign policy practiced by every president since World War I. My fellow Americans, we are in completely uncharted waters, led by a president, who — well, I cannot believe he is a Russian agent, but he sure plays one on TV.​"

Start loudly reciting the oath of office as a group over and over and over and over until you get arrested

I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.

History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.

On behalf of many Americans, don’t thank us we THANK YOU Ukraine for your work.