Someone captured my colleagues an I servicing the cameras during Kīlauea’s episode 42. We stopped to discuss what we were seeing, but because I talk with my hands it looks like I’m fixing to push someone in… Credit: Volcano Hideaways

Thinking about the ins and outs of starting a “modern protest song open mic night” once a month maybe. Thinking the origin is 1985, Live Aid/Farm Aid and forward. Excludes most Dylan Ochs Baez Guthrie Seeger et al. I wonder how many people have 15 minutes of modern protest music.

ICE loves to lurk around churches, grabbing people as they leave or when they’re lining up at church food pantries.

Ordering acid to the house, did he use Silk Road?

Hey what possible use could a guy who was friends with history’s worst sex trafficker have for 55 gallon drums of acid

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 16 Page6: Actor Ted Levine has denounced his role of "Buffalo Bill" in The Silence of the Lambs in which he played a serial killer who murdered women to sew their skin into a female suit. The movie declared he wasn't trans but was universally understood as such.

Cases of measles cropped up in two centers for unauthorized immigrants in Arizona and Texas last month. They are almost 1,000 miles apart, yet the centers have one thing in common: They are operated by CoreCivic, a publicly traded detention company with a checkered track record.

Grey wolf

last month the US secretly deported nine asylum seekers to cameroon where they’ve been trapped at a local government-owned compound until they agree to return to their home countries where they face persecution and death. none have history of violence.

Giant robot Lula, the only good robot.

pronouncing headache like mustache

From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.

Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured? Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.

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"**Under pressure from the White House**, Mr. Bedford [FAA administrator] rescinded the order on Wednesday"

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

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I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

Maybe it will happen this year!

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American Century of Humiliation is manifesting in ways I did not predict.

Minneapolis Has Shown Us the Power of Mass Non-Cooperation Our latest, now up at the Guardian, draws from the new preface to our just-released 10th anniversary edition of This Is an Uprising. Check out the article below and the book here! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Oh shit the Englers are involved.

Will FIFA rescind his peace prize? Gosh, I hope so.

Trump’s endless, opaque bombing obliterates all hope of a free Somalia Over the past 13 months, the US has carried out 157 airstrikes, drone strikes and ground raids in the east African country, writes Steve Bloomfield https://bit.ly/4cuVXYg

No one is saying you can’t take mental notes, for later, right?

Inside: OH MY GOD HOW DID YOU NOT SEE THIS EARLIER YOU FUCKING MORON Outside: *clap them on the back* Hell yeah brother here’s a sign glad to have you on board

I told my wife about this and she said “didn’t you already tell me about this” and like…that was someone else a week ago in Minnesota. It’s happening in multiple places.

Inevitably, their affair ended: Howard worried excessively about what the pack would think, and Agnes simply ate the flowers.

It seems like a pretty basic rule that no training should suggest that employees speaking to customers say that suicide is "one option." www.govexec.com/management/2...

Roses are red, These times are quite trying

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

Trash, recycling and food waste collection will be on the regular schedule next week. Yard waste is cancelled as Monday, February 16 is a holiday.

What the congressman reports below is disgusting. He reveals the utter lack of decency and humanity in the Trump administration, especially in the telling detail at the end.

Tiny (~275sq/ft) yet clean and safe studio apartment near Clarendon in Arlington becoming available in 2 weeks for $1,250/mo. I'd love to find a friend to fill it. Anyone interested?

(Jay Mewes voice) You mean fuckin' HOBEY?

Man, I'm really not sure this guy should be given the glossy NYT treatment? youtu.be/wprWGdfXxnQ?...

SCOOP: Social Security workers are being told to give the details of appointments customers are making to ICE, raising the prospect of secret police abducting people going to mandatory SSA appointments. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, @telliotter.bsky.social, and @leahfeiger.bsky.social have more.

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20+ hrs after the Trump admin was supposed to disburse $200M withheld from the Hudson River tunnel project, “there is no sign of a wire transfer of any money,” the NJ and NY AGs say in a new filing, requesting an emergency status conference this afternoon storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Just saw a cybertruck out the window from eight floors up, and I hope no one was walking past the office when I flipped it off. For civil servants, that’s gonna be a lifelong grudge, I suspect. Every new tesla may as well have that shithead with his two hats on the side.

Sewage is dumping into the Potomac again because a giant clump of non-flusable wipes broke the pumps that were pumping sewage away from the broken pipe that caused the initial leak. Stop flushing wipes, I swear to god

Shortly after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good, right-wing media seized on a story that could reset the narrative. DHS said an immigrant attacked federal officers with a shovel, and the story was everywhere in MAGA media. The case has since fallen apart & prosecutors just dropped the charges.

POV you are about to lose at Guess Who

I wonder what put the holes in Theo Vonn’s ideas? Long-time nitrous user, perhaps?

They only have strut