Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

If I remember my history correctly, there was a time when Germany wanted/needed all of Europe www.economist.com/the-americas...

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You know things are not good when the Onion isn’t far from reality theonion.com/revised-nati...

Sixty minutes CECOT segment www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley 🌎🧪 Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...

A wave goodbye from two friends in the Santa Barbara channel 🐋🌎

Something to brighten your day amidst all the other darkness. Breaching humpbacks off Channel Islands National Park. 🌎🐋

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Let this be a warning to any troublemakers who think it’s ok to care about child safety U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

Want to see where there are Flock traffic cameras tracking your location? Check out this website deflock.me/map#map=17/3...

Who needs to hear about sciency stuff anyway? 🌎https://www.bangordailynews.com/2025/09/23/hancock/hancock-environment/acadia-removes-signs-climate-change/?fbclid=IwZnRzaANBi5BleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpFrk9FgmfqvVZ87eTOzeI8bg5_0DQ4tU0iNMxyB02DTq4QKYsFaJTgwXlKS_aem_4vuhzufMGt5qvoUVajHoRw#mfyt652cc2t9wg529z9

The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. George Orwell

It won’t be long before they start revising the rest of the public displays to fit view of what science should look like www.facebook.com/100064681689... 🌎

175 year and going strong

Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced.

Don’t worry “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects” was overrated. The founders surely never intended for people to be able to have secure encrypted messages. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Join us if you are in Ventura on Monday

Corp. for Public Broadcasting shuts down after federal funding cuts

Still timely today. Tom Lehrer rest in peace youtu.be/HHhZF66C1Dc?...

You can help record the signage of the National Park Service before it is erased 🌎 www.linkedin.com/posts/george...

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. - Ray Bradbury 🌎 www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

My research findings were clear: mental wellness in the face of ecological distress was anchored not in thoughts, but in action

1984 has finally arrived in 2025. Real history can sometimes be messy and make some people sad. That is doubleplus ungood and the ministry of revisionist history needs your help to make sure that the only stories we tell ourselves about our past are happy ones. 🌎

5,500+ celebrating No Kings Day in Ventura, CA

A Justice Department legal opinion released Tuesday disavowed a 1938 determination that monuments created by previous presidents under the Antiquities Act can't be revoked.

Trump is planning a military parade in DC on June 14, but the biggest story of that day will be the actions we take everywhere else. I'm rallying at the Ventura County Government Center on No Kings Day to reject strongman politics and corruption. app.sosha.ai/s/XwlubaRS

It continues … 🌎 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Amidst all the other chaos around us, enjoy a few pictures of island fox pups from Channel Islands National Park. 🌎

Great crowd, including Neil Young, supporting democracy in Ventura today

A little something to brighten your day

We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. Mario Vargas Llosa

www.bbc.com/future/artic... 🌎

At least a temporary victory 🌎https://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?guid=e0d51046-731e-4949-8546-6d6341b69c54&v=sdk

For my friends in higher education www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Just one example of the strain on our parks www.sfgate.com/california-p...

Hundreds show up to support national park workers at the 45th anniversary of Channel Islands National Park

Montalvo Elementary School celebrates 25 years of dual language programs

Help support those who protect our parks 🌎

Gray whale in Magdalena Bay, Baja Sur 🌎🐋

On Tuesday the school board in Ventura, California will consider a budget proposal that will eliminate all librarian positions 📖 www.change.org/p/protect-vu...

This is happening all around me www.latimes.com/california/n...

CA 261 orca pod in the Santa Barbara Channel 🌎