Federal testing improves detection of H5N1 avian flu in US dairy herds Early in the outbreak, the virus was more widespread than reported. www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...

Lawyers looking at the prospect of that loophole closing must be drooling right now.

NWS says we could see 2 to 3 inches of new snow this weekend, but that the real issue is "dangerously cold wind chills." So bundle up. And throw some egg-and-milked-up bread on the griddle.

My make-your-own robin ornament kit is a perfect present for a crafty friend. Eco-friendly too! littleconkers.co.uk/shop/robin-c... #CrochetKit #CraftKit #Craft

A day in the life of Immortals Lion Dance in L.A.’s Chinatown, where generations of dancers—some in their 70s—perform at parades, weddings, and on-screen in films. The full story: lataco.com/chinatown-li... By Julianne Le

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Report finds US biodefense lagging as biological risks intensify A bipartisan working group proposes affordable, common-sense actions to bolster biopreparedness. www.cidrap.umn.edu/b...

More avian flu outbreaks in Pennsylvania, Colorado Within the last 30 days, avian flu has been detected in 59 flocks. www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...

Study ties adult #RSV hospitalization to a higher risk of heart and lung problems in next 6 months The most common event was arrhythmia, followed by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation and congestive heart failure exacerbation. www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...

Campus measles outbreak grows in Florida Florida has the fourth most measles cases so far in 2026, with 21 confirmed. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m... Photo: CDC/ Cynthia S. Goldsmith; William Bellini, Ph.D.

"Disabled Black tech genius saves eugenics colony unable to save itself" and "child chooses her own gender and is oppressed for it" and "allegory for Israeli apartheid tortures our hero" and "we should stop destroying space with pollutants"

Everyone keeps saying Star Trek needs to return to the Good Old Days because it's too woke now when all they remember from TOS and TNG were the cis white men being captain. Meanwhile the Good Old Days were "Riker falls in love with agender person" and

And now it's time for some more voting! We've got another head-to-head of adult nonfiction. Noble competitors in the thread below. Like your fav to vote for it & the book with the most votes moves on!...

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred ICE and DHS from using taxpayer information provided by the IRS. Judge Talwani says that DHS' view that noncitizens lack 4th amendment rights — combined with ICE use of administrative warrants — is a recipe for abuse. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Many more people need to read this.

Google complies with administrative warrants for Gmail accounts? Is that what this is saying?? That’s horrifying

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

That’s right. The city cannot collaborate with the occupiers.

👀 The FDA webpage 🧠🪱 doesn't want you to see ❗❗ Given recent shenanigans with the autism advisory committee, we wanted to remind y'all that an FDA page warning about bogus autism cures was quietly pulled down But there's an archived link in this article 😉

Being an AUSA in this administration just sounds like the worst. No wonder everyone is quitting.

Aliya Rahman was on her way to a doctor's appointment when she was violently detained by ICE. She’s a U.S. citizen with a disability. Listen to her powerful testimony.

Last year, the acting director of ICE Todd Lyons said he wanted a deportation system "like Prime, but with human beings." "We need to get better at treating this like a business."

A former Amazon warehouse in Hutchins, Texas, was reportedly bought by ICE. The building is 1 million square feet and would imprison nearly 10,000 people. The facility underwent $500,000 in renovations at the end of last year for undisclosed reasons.

The number of people currently in ICE custody is now over 73,000, the most in history.

This winter has been a below-average one thus far, and this theme looks to continue into February. There are signs of some milder weather in the middle of the month, however. #MAwx #CTwx #RIwx #NHwx #MEwx #VTwx newenglandstormcenter.substack.com/p/new-englan...

Zohran Mamdani overcame millions of dollars of superPAC and billionaire money to win his race. One reason why? New York City’s public financing system. Watch:

There is a malignant tree in the graveyard of St. Mary of the Three Crowns at Danebury that always wakes when storm darkens the day to the point lanterns are needed. Bone-fed and cursed, its hiss can be heard above the wind. Its scraping words wish only doom to men. – #CLNolan

The Gallery Gerard Valentine’s Day Sale is live 🖤🐈‍⬛✨

Free #crochet pattern. Makes a lovely spring garland or even a necklace: bit.ly/2PhJeg1 #CrochetPattern #FreePattern

It's really adding some layers to the news. Everyone keep tweeting, you're doing amazing sweetie

My current cozy little hobby is reading up on the Nuremberg trials. One of the key things they did was use Nazi officials' braggadocious speeches as evidence. Give a speech taking credit for annexing Austria? Ok, that'll be a conviction for annexing Austria.

Vaccination lowered risk, but even with 3 doses, reinfection was associated with ~3× higher risk than a single infection. Small absolute percentages still matter at population scale Authors conclude: "prioritizing strategies that limit reinfections should remain a central public health objective"

New @thelancet.com Danish cohort of 4.4M adults found reinfection raised the risk of hospital-diagnosed long COVID by ~60% compared with one infection at 180 days Absolute risks were low in part because only severe, hospital-diagnosed LC cases were included. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

As a cishet, white woman I will NOT vote for someone who will discard rights for some people. I can't believe you would expect people to vote for more harm for themselves. We haven't even had a fucking primary. And we better primary the heck out of any Dem who would give up someone else's rights.

Well written and good to see it mentioned that ICE did the same thing the next day. The videos from these days shows how brutal DHS is in their attacks on protesters at the building. And they can see who is out there. It was sunny when they attacked on Saturday. They could see there were children

I also saw that it seems as though ICE broke their own windows to gas protestors in Eugene, OR.

Thank you, Marisa. Our childcare workers union was a sponsor and may families went to support. Did not factor in needing to send dozens of texts to check on people’s toddlers and grandparents to see if they had tear gas exposure to my weekend stress.

I'm sick of people saying: What did you expect? As a union member and staff I can't count the number of peaceful public actions I've been a part of in Portland, marches, strikes, picketing, etc while the police weren't on our side we never were harmed. They declared war on the labor movement.

Wow, Marisa. Love the quote from Portland Mayor Keith Wilson: "To those who continue to make these sickening decisions, go home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children. Ask yourselves why you continue to work for an agency responsible for murders on American streets."

It's awful. I live close to the facility, and my apartment got gassed. My kid got fitted for a gas mask last Sunday. This is him after his dad, former Marine, adjusted the straps.

Thank you. As we were hugging and crying together we talked a little about how radicalized everyone is feeling in the face of this overt facism. It's come home to all corners of the country. It's here. Now.

My son and daughter, both young adults in their 20's, were there. Today my daughter showed me a selfie video she took after she had gotten safe from the gas with tears running down her face. Because some fucking cowards don't like people peacefully exercising their rights to assemble and protest.

Everything moves so fast now. It's impossible to give every event the care and attention it deserves, especially when the bar is "at least no one died." But what happened in Portland outside the ICE building was evidence of yet another escalation—and a terrifying harbinger of things to come.

New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets. These are their stories:

We are fighting a regime that wants to run back to a mythical time in America. Nothing to do with the reality of the 1950s, never mind the 1850s. People knocked all this shot over to get closer to freedom without a memory of it. Now they had it and you want to take it? Baby, good luck. We'll win.

And like one of the weirder things to me personally is that when you get to digging around in the records (part of my grandfather's ancestry kept impeccable records) it is clear that people back then knew exactly what they were doing, they wrote letters and laws about the changes in racial identity

Nobody descended from people here before the Declaration of Independence should be cozying up to white supremacy. The blood tests say we're all related. And yes, the tests aren't proof of anything important in terms of modern identity now, but the paperwork and the blood call all of this shit stupid

Palantir needs to be obliterated the same as ICE, and Peter Thiel can face the Truth and Reconciliation committee he’s spent his entire life trying to negate. If we want to fix our country, this is non-negotiable.

It's almost as if it's possible to do good?

Yesterday's walk was an especially notable stumbling-across-fucking-brilliant-doors walk.