Just holing up here with my shelves full of real books written over the past century muttering something resentfully about pre-war scotch

A Bed of Red Azaleas, by Alma Thomas, 1968 (rotated, detail), 📸 by David Stluka

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music Several dozen folks did Some even dubbed music over the original clip. I haven't been able to get this out of my head. So I give you A Bluesky exclusive: Reservoir Ducks 🐣 🪶

Make it viral.

you did not see this kitty pull a glizzy heist good morning

The 19th annual Big Cheese Drop returned to Plymouth on New Year’s Eve, bringing families downtown for a festive celebration sponsored by Sartori and presented by the Plymouth Arts Center.

Milwaukee’s skyline in spring, summer, fall and winter of 2025

When you see an ESB on tap, order an ESB if you want to see another ESB on tap.

Here’s to 2026

This is a reminder of how much it matters that pediatricians, public health specialists, scientists and members of the public who care about vaccines and science based recommendations continue to speak up. Many voices break through. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

i know everyone's in nfl mode, but this volleyball is intense

As a longtime Wisconsin policy nerd, pretty crushing to hear of @wisconsineye.bsky.social going dark this week. An irreplaceable resource. Obviously, it's been there for the big events and votes...but this video hammers home how important it is for the small moments too. youtu.be/VMRaJvIdOys?...

One of the most frustrating things about both parenting and politics is that it takes at least ten times longer to clean up a mess than to make the mess in the first place.

If your origins are Southern Italian, Irish, Polish etc. some version of this claim - the immigrant is a criminal underclass incompatible with the true Americans - has been around forever. They hate that the idea of America is more important than any group.

We’ll probably never again see such a casual, celebratory, & memorable gathering of Jim Henson’s family of characters as is found in 1987’s A MUPPET FAMILY CHRISTMAS…

You will be visited by three spirits

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 2 is highlighting A Fateful Flourish, from one of my local sandhill cranes! I never get tired of watching them dance - prints of this and other things are out A Fateful Flourish on Darkroom rhenyard.darkroom.com/products/164...

It's almost as if child food insecurity is a policy choice. #Bioethics

CIDRAP’s Vaccine Integrity Project has released a major evidence review: 400+ studies/reports, 40 years of data—and the conclusion is unmistakable. There is no evidence supporting a delay in the hepatitis B birth dose. Full report: www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...

Always felt cheated we didn't get a Wisconsin... 1. The Peshtigo Fire 2. Harvey Kuenn 3. Dugout canoes of Lake Mendota 4. The Ringling Bros 5. Harry Houdini 6. Otis Redding 7. Hodags 8. Milwaukee Bridge War 9. Chester Thordarson and Rock Island 10. Blatz Beer

MEPS seems to be gone as of now. This is very bad. These are critical pieces of data about health care and they belong to the American public.

If you see something (a bird), say something (that's a little guy).

News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.

Took a day trip yesterday to see the Sandhill Cranes gather at sunset at the Jasper-Pulaski FWA and it was absolutely and totally worth it. 😍 #birds

I mean at some point I made Cornhole Death Star. Smh.

Let's time-travel and travel, in general, to one of #Wisconsin's most scenic areas, an area known far and wide - #DoorCounty! A few years ago...during lockdown, in fact, Naomi and I went up for a weekend and did our part to support the local economy... www.doorcounty.com #VisitWisconsin

“the AI teddy bear turned evil and depraved immediately” I mean yeah dude have you seen movies

Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.

PSC experts @pamherd.bsky.social and Luke Shaefer @umfordschool.bsky.social help us understand the consequences of blocking SNAP benefits, which mostly go to children or disabled elderly adults. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be... fordschool.umich.edu/news/2025/ef...

Wisconsin should be proud of this. Our state seal *literally* has a horn of plenty on it, the idea that we're a land of nourishment and abundance. Governor Evers is fighting for that idea; the Trump Administration is fighting to keep families from feeding their kids.

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

SNAP benefits are currently being held hostage by the Trump administration and their fate now lies with the Supreme Court. Beneath the legal arguments are real people who simply need food—a former federal worker, a single mother of 4, a disabled man. I spoke to them. Here are their stories:

“The network of veterinary labs that's responsible for testing ceased its regular meetings because of the shutdown, Poulsen says. "The shutdown just kind of pours gas on a smoldering fire and makes us vulnerable," he says. "It's a national security issue."

If you are looking for a pick-me-up, you could do worse than exploring the recent history of Bucks true buzzer-beaters, with a cacophony of celebratory video. www.jsonline.com/story/sports...

As my forthcoming book Coverage Denied illustrates, health insurance barriers (delays, denials) are a truly American experience, affecting the marginalized, the privileged & everyone in between. We shouldn’t have to depend on social networks to get prescribed care. www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Big W.P. Kinsella "The Iowa Baseball Confederacy" vibes in LA last night en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iow...

The easy shorthand in the headlines is a central part of the problem. It normalizes the lawless authoritarianism, over & over:

Demolishing the White House and just demanding straight up cash from the Treasury. 10 months in.

You ever think about how mundane and disappointing the rest of Elliott from ET’s life must have been

One nice thing about living in a liberal democracy rather than a police state is that you do not spend time feeling paranoid about whether the government is monitoring you, whether the people around you are agents of the state.

listening to this season end on the radio, lying on my floor like cameron in ferris bueller

What in the heck are you talking abo--- ok, I get it

aw heck yeah @wiscobirder.bsky.social bird book drop