@ivan-ehlers.bsky.social Worth taking time to read this one

Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.

No. We don’t need to “modify ICE training.” We need to close DHS. Dismantle it. It’s an outdated expensive bureaucracy that’s been usurped by violent white supremacists. Shut it down.

Our favorite sighting of the day on a foggy afternoon at the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge. We were on the Waterfowl route and came across the first Short-eared Owl we've ever seen in CA #birdwatching

I tend to really hate the Tule Fogs in our Central Valley, but sometimes walking along the Tuolumne River trail there's a certain moody ambiance.

Community members in Minneapolis surround ICE agents as they conduct a "citizenship test" on a brown-skinned man pumping gas at a gas station, ultimately forcing the agents back into their cars.

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

Still waiting for those Epstein files to be released

Are Americans really going to except a federal police state where masked men kill people in broad daylight with impunity? Really? The answer must be no.

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

This is an image of a federal agent shooting chemical munitions at a crowd at point blank range in Minneapolis on the day Renee Good was executed Whatever your feelings on law enforcement, understand they don't apply here whatsoever because ICE categorically *has nothing to do with law enforcement*

DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.” (H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )

All across the country, we want to give a huge shout-out to everyone who showed up, organized, and stood together in the streets Minneapolis, St. Paul, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles,

My favorite shot from a day at the Merced National Wildlife Refuge. It's a Vermilion Flycatcher, very rare in these parts, but this one has returned to the same set of trees for three or four years now. #birdwatching

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

Storm aftermath. Rainbow and flooding Dry Creek. It drains a few 100 sq miles in the Sierra foothills and is undammed. It was at 5,000 cubic feet per second, about 20 times that of the nearby Tuolumne right now (which is controlled by Don Pedro Dam). Normal is a few tens of cfs.

A break in the weather allowed us to explore a bit of the California Prairie today, with some nice views into the snow-covered Sierra Nevada mountains. #California

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Thank you to all the performers who are canceling their events at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Is it bad that nobody justifiably believes anything Putin says while the President of the United States believes everything he says?

geotripper.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi... There are flood stories all across the west right now, but Wrightwood is of special interest. It has a history. #CAfloods

This was an extraordinary sight today. At Dyersville Bar the main fork and South fork of the Eel River converge. After the storms this week, something close to 150,000 cubic feet per second was flowing by. In the summer the river may have only a few hundred CFS. #floods

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

www.modbee.com/news/local/a... I'm quoted in there somewhere. This dam is not a good idea.

How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀 LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽‍♂️

Our Christmas travels have left precious little time for birding, but we got out to Alder Dune Lake near Florence for an hour today and saw some nice birds: Varied Thrushes, Spotted Towhee, American Robin, and a Dark-eyed Junco.

FLASHBACK… Seems relevant today…

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

Sunset in Florence Oregon today after a whopper of a storm yesterday.

A bit of a storm today in Florence, Oregon! The rain is bad enough, but the wind is nearly unprecedented. Trees are down all over the region.

I miss the days when FBI Directors caught mass shooters and didn’t fly to wresting events on a government jet to watch their girlfriend sing.

I consider myself a fairly patient person, but I can't listen to another second of this ridiculous, wheezing idiot. I'm done. Nothing he is saying aligns with anything that is really happening in the real world.

Due to a combination of widespread anomalous to record-breaking warmth & a mix of low precip (in Rockies/northern Sierra) and heavy warm rain (vs snow, in Pac NW), numerous locations throughout the American West are reporting their lowest Dec 15 snow water equivalents on record.

No judge. No jury. Just the Secretary of War.

OPINION by @stevebenen.com: “Trump is who he appears to be: a small and petty man, incapable of empathy or grace, obsessed with his grievances, unaware of what it means to be “presidential” and unable to control his worst instincts.” READ MORE: www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

It was only a matter of time…

Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.) Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The United States gives far too much power, money, and influence to silly people with heads full of nonsense.

New post: Under resilient ridge, prolonged tule fog episode brings cold & damp weather to Central Valley but anomalously warm/dry weather elsewhere. Plus, update on what turned out to be record-wet autumn in some spots & PacNW flood risk this wk. elsewhere.

This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.

Only my fellow Central Valley dwellers will get the full significance of this pic. It's the moment I had to return to the inversion layer that has been trapping us in the Tule Fog for weeks. We were up in the Sierra Nevada. The sun was wonderful! 60⁰ in Sonora, 45⁰ back home.

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a... This is North Korea level batshit crazy. And horrifically racist.

Seeking out the last of the Fall colors at Humboldt Redwoods State Park. #redwood

We’re the only country that lets the gun lobby write the laws and then pretends to be shocked when children end up in coffins. NEW UPDATE: The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office has announced that four of the victims shot in the Stockton mass shooting were ages 8, 9, 14, and 21.

From our travels in Redwood Country: A gathering of elk in Orick, or waiting to audition for the role of Santa's reindeer.

Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.

Headed south on the Oregon Coast! McCullough Memorial Bridge at Coos Bay and Port Orford. #oregoncoast

Reporters who fact-check Trump to his face are not “stupid”, they are not “piggies”, and they are not “ugly”. They are doing their jobs, and doing it under pressure most of us will never experience. We should be grateful for their service. I appreciate their courage now more than ever.

There was no "Emergency" situation with crime in DC. This stunt got a 20 year old young woman killed. It. Got. A. Woman. Killed.