I dunno, I'm glad they verified ICE so that I knew I wasn't blocking a parody account by mistake. Verification isn't about prestige. Thinking that is one of the things that doomed and damned Twitter. It's about knowing who isn't a dog on the Internet.

This means YOU 👈🏼

Just applied to be verified, under reasons free entry I wrote: "I am a certified soccer referee in fact, and I do bring joy to the timeline and have been here for years. Plus I want to be verified before @jcsalterego.bsky.social , because I'm petty like that and it would make him big mad."

Yesterday, these incompetent fucks were just going door-to-door in a neighborhood near my house at 8:30 in the morning. School buses were driving through trying to pick up kids, people were out walking their dogs, and people were taking out their trash cans.

Secretary of The Interior Doug Burgum has cancelled the grazing permits of a large nonprofit bison operation in Montana because it doesn't serve a commercial purpose. By @jordyhansen.bsky.social: dailymontanan.com/2026/01/16/b... #mtnews #mtpol #montana

A federal judge bars DHS and ICE agents in Minneapolis from using "pepper-spray or similar nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools" against peaceful protesters. Federal agents there now also cannot stop vehicles that are following them at a safe distance. storage.courtlistener.com/rec...

NEWS: A federal judge found that ICE had repeatedly retaliated against peaceful protesters in unconstitutional ways — and barred agents involved in Minnesota's "Operation Metro Surge" from using similar tactics and force. w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

NCAR models help forecast tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, extreme heat, drought and the potential for wildfires. "NCAR science and models have been part of bringing that warning to the people who need to hear it," @weatherwest.bsky.social told @livescience.com www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

I had not thought about this and it’s worth considering (And I liked Mastodon when I was on it, fwiw, and I’ll go back if necessary.)

Interesting.

Tylenol during pregnancy is safe without increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability of offspring A new review of the evidence just out www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Fans of the Chicago Bears have come to expect the unexpected, but a Lombard woman never predicted the way her life would change when she walked into Soldier Field on Nov. 9. Read more: https://tinyurl.com/bd3pxeyk 

Pre inflation America is still alive but only at that one Chinese spot that only takes cash.

The Minneapolis AFL-CIO calling for a general strike is a big deal and we should treat it like a big deal. Also it's a good idea. LFG minneapolisunions.org/system/files...

Arlington Heights calls for state lawmakers to act on Chicago Bears proposed new stadium trib.al/XdyM2aB

IYKYK… This is simultaneously: Cheap (😀 2025) Expensive (😫 1995)

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

I grew up in rural Ireland. Every movie I saw as a child involved getting in the car and driving to the only cinema in the County.

Quick, someone ask Burgum about all the drills shutting down in the Bakken Shale

When you can trust doing business with China more than the USA…the world of trade relationships is shifting.

We’re recalibrating Canada’s relationship with China — strategically, pragmatically, and decisively — to the benefit of the people of both our nations.

Broadview is restricting the items people will be allowed to bring inside it’s designated protest area near the ICE facility — under threat of removal or arrest — ahead of a protest tomorrow, which the village said it expects to bring 2-5k people to Lexington and Beach Street.

If you hate AI and Nazis I'm happy to report that my novel went on pre-order today and writing it involved, and supports, neither. bsky.app/profile/seam...

That @cbsnews.com had the temerity to run that dogshit about the guy and his fake internal injuries gonna make it real hard for anyone to ever take them seriously again. Even after this shit is over and Bari is long gone. Imagine tanking that entire brand built up over decades for an aging pedo

When you hear a LEO say “bad shoot”, that has a specific meaning to other officers and agents. It means zero understanding and grace- bro you done fucked up. Seeing this term over and over is significant.

why is every company trying to make nonconsensual porn of my family. i just want food.

Nope. That’s not going to work for me. You show up in that, I’m cancelling.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris returned to Chicago on Friday to encourage residents to “bear down” and resist the Trump administration and its ongoing immigration enforcement.

this is so insane

I always enjoy reading Ken Childs in the morning, and even in the CST pre dawn hours if I can’t sleep. A winter sports timeline cleanse.

Honestly though if they ever take me out, I don’t want anyone saying “rest in power.” Avenge me.

Each winter, high-elevation snow blankets mountains for skiers and sledders, forming a natural reservoir that will slowly melt as winter warms into spring and provide a steady flow into creeks and rivers.

New party identification polling from Gallup this week shows Americans are moving against Trump faster than they did in his first term. Adults were R+4 in 2024, now D+8. That 12-pt drop is 3x the change in the first year of his first term. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/backlash-t...

NEW: The Trump administration is directing USDA employees to investigate foreign scientists who collaborate with the agency on research papers for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” By @lisalsong.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social

I see that @michellegoldberg.bsky.social and I wrote about the similar things today: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o...

SCAM ALERT – IMPORTANT The cat has already been fed.

This could be the unified Dem position. It is wildly popular. Puts the regime on defense on two fronts at the same time. Good policy, good politics.

Reagan-appointed judge on deportations of pro-Palestinian students: “The big problem in this case is that the Cabinet secretaries and ostensibly, the president of the United States, are not honoring the First Amendment.” White House spokesperson says judge is engaging in “left-wing activism.”

Workers who cut kitchen countertops made from quartz—engineered stone—are dying from the dust, which causes a lethal lung disease. Many have sued the companies that produce the raw product. Now, Republicans are trying to ban the lawsuits👇

Thousands of employees whose contracts end this year will lose their jobs, FEMA managers said at personnel meetings this week. The cuts could hobble the nation's disaster agency. n.pr/49XXPXO

Denmark and Greenland are stepping up lobbying of US lawmakers in an effort to head off President Donald Trump’s push to take control of Greenland.

Not to be too hyperbolic but I feel like price discrimination at this granular a level, if done at scale, kinda takes a sledgehammer to some of the fundamentals of microeconomics. www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

Sometimes when you read accounts of how people in the North went from ‘Slavery seems kinda bad IDK’ to ‘We will not rest until every slaver is hanging from the gallows’ in like six months in 1861. Well it’s a lot more understandable now.

I always hate when darth has to hibernate during the politically terrible winters

Payday loan companies are now advertising short term cash to buy groceries. Doesn’t seem great.

A homicide in a camp where members of politically disfavored ethnic groups are concentrated.

Just learned that feds want to use the Patuxent Research Refuge for DHS and Secret Service training and are planning to clear a whole lot of forest intended for conversation and scientific research to do so. I called my congressperson. There is a lot going on but they cannot have Patuxent for this

Wow I don’t know if this is an Alaska only thing. But the wealthier you are the more justified you thought the killing of R Good was.