I keep thinking about how there isn’t more pushback to what’s happening to US (besides amazing grassroots response to ICE in Chicago, MN, etc.) People from outside of US seem surprised by lack of national uprising. There are explanations. Many here want to do something, but don’t know what. (1/3)

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One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

Red-shouldered hawk #birdoftheday #perfectperch

This ICE agent and the man he’s accusing of not being a US citizen have the same damn accent. If this were a movie, this scene would be on the cutting room floor.

Trump Supports the Protesters, Except Those Protesting Him www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

@alan678.bsky.social #birdoftheday #raptor Bald Eagle pic I took by the Delaware Bay

It is in no way “law enforcement” to beat up an American 10th grader and steal and sell his possessions.

Trump Unmasked www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/o...

Trump Has Another Justification for the Shooting of Renee Good: Disrespect www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

F.B.I. Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Is Examining Victim’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

This juvenile western screech owl did not appreciate being woken from its nap. @robcrank68.bsky.social #moodyfaces #birdoftheday

This is really freaking weird.

Good news for CA! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Snow geese in eastern Delaware #birdoftheday #feathersandform

TL cleanse. My Tufted Titmouse shot for the contribution to #birdoftheday and #shortbeaks

Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.

Per WASH POST, Stephen Miller will play an “elevated role” in Venezuela (what could go wrong!) and Machado won’t be president because she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize Trump wants (yes, seriously) Couldn’t make it up if we tried www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Speaking with Vanity Fair in November, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles admitted that a military strike in Venezuela would require a congressional act of war. “If he were to authorize some activity on land, then it’s war, then [we’d need] Congress."

The Trump Administration Approved a Big Lithium Mine. A Top Official’s Husband Profited. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/c...

To repeat: this has never been about his concern for birds.

Trump is posting more photos of dead birds and wind turbines today. In one photo he captioned “Eagles going down!”, it’s actually a photo of a red kite from 2010 in Spain. The other photo is from 2006 in Taiwan.

Editor's picks from 2025: Cristiano Lima-Strong’s reporting on the industry’s lobbying efforts over two AI safety bills in the California legislative session offered a sharp look at the state's outsize role in setting rules for Silicon Valley.

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what a US Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. My column on the condemnation of good journalism.

I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.

I am telling you that a large part of their dysfunction is that several Trump officials imagine themselves, constantly, as being in a social media sizzle reel where they display status and dominance over others. Their online personas are driving their actual behavior.

Absolute legend

This is a harrowing account of city under siege www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Well, this is an utter disaster for science. This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next. 🧪

Brown Univ. shooting refuels gun legislation push Following Saturday's shooting at Brown University, lawmakers are reigniting their push for policies to prevent future gun violence in some corners. Rep. Pramila Jayapal joins “The Weekend: Primetime” to discuss.

One citizen said that federal agents in Idaho pointed guns at her children, ages 6 and 8, and dragged her 14-year-old daughter out of a truck and zip-tied her. The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.” By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Premier of New South Wales responds to mass shooting by vowing to tighten gun laws. Donald Trump responds to mass shooting by saying “things happen.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl. Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist. They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed. Another horrific story. More details below.

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

MAHA Moms Are Angry at the E.P.A. Lee Zeldin Is Trying to Win Them Back. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/c...

This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.

“We have asked them point-blank about language to prevent replacing therapists with artificial intelligence, and they have been very clear that they want the ‘flexibility’ to increase #AI and reduce their need for us.” www.kqed.org/science/1999... via @kqednews.kqed.org

Polling: "Do you think the rich have too much political power in the U.S.?" Yes: 80% No: 8% Independent voters are 81%/6% on this; even Trump voters are 68%/18%. Maybe a political party could lead on this issue. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

Your crazy uncle is not well.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea