Also, know the talk is always about how cool the paint jobs are on the skeleton helmets, but Janine Flock's got a SUPER reflective chrome helmet she's used for years. As a photographer I love that thing. This is a great shot from IBSF photographer Viesturs Lacis

Back at Parker River, MA today and finally got my lifer snowy owl!!!!!!! It was a distant scope sighting so no photos, but winter isn’t over yet… Lots of fun glamour shots of other species! Pictured: horned lark, lifer eastern towhee, northern cardinal, and white-throated sparrow 🪶🌿

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Shabbat shalom all y'all.

Shabbat shalom all y'all.

We can have a lot of feelings about this but what we're NOT gonna do is imply that Jason Brown shouldn't have been at the last Olympics, thank you.

Please consider sharing the post below. Feeling especially powerless and helpless this week, but this is one concrete way to still support Amelia.

INBOX: Another federal judge has issued an order (mostly) blocking DHS from raiding churches for now. The injunction applies to most of the plaintiffs, which include five ELCA Lutheran synods, two Baptist organizations, and Metropolitan Community Churches. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

The way the Olympics works is exactly like this: one of the worst days of one kid’s life is one of the best days of somebody else’s.

Alex Vesia addressed the media today for the first time about his daughter’s death during the World Series. He thanked the Dodgers and Blue Jays for their support, and encouraged people who are struggling to seek therapy. Hat tip to @fabianardaya.bsky.social for transcribing Vesia’s full statement.

🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/pfrazee.com And we are live with office hours!

The poise and grace in which Maxim Naumov has shown as he navigates the unfathomable tragedy of losing both parents in a plane crash is remarkable His dad’s favourite saying was “expect the unexpected” and Max just told me it’s helped him through all of this. What an inspiration

It's especially important to make sure this shit doesn't pass without comment in cases where the assumption is that it's safe to talk like this because there are no Jewish people in the room. It should never be safe to talk like this. I am not a safe space for hate.

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I keep seeing lists of countries with mail voting tonight that include France. Those are incorrect, there’s no mail voting in France. How it works there: boltsmag.org/how-voting-w...

GIFT LINK: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

A service I haven’t offered in a while: If you know someone who _would benefit from_ having someone explain immigration policy to them for an hour, or be here to ask questions, or whatever, hit me up via DM. “Would benefit” = not just “change my mind” but “actually work to inform/persuade others.”

If, like most of us, you sometimes struggle with impostor syndrome, please remember that even Charles Darwin – just a few years after elucidating the mechanism by which all life on this planet evolves – sometimes thought: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."

Mystifying "failed to load blob" error message as I tried to add a link to a quote post.

St. Louis planning officials heard hours of comment on newly proposed zoning rules for data centers Wednesday night at a packed public hearing. The vast majority of speakers said they are against any data center development in the city:

BREAKING: Following Law Dork's filing on Tuesday, the court in U.H.A. v. Bondi lifted the sealing requirement — aka, our third request — for the documents to be submitted, including the ICE rescission memo relating to 8 USC 1159. Subscribe to Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

Still around 100 community reports of ICE activity around the Twin Cities today, the most of any state by far. In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

"The final word here belongs to Heraskevych and if I can editorialize for a moment, I think he leaves Italy as an Olympic hero. To give up his Olympic dreams for a larger principle is a decision history will judge him well on."

Best advertisement I’ve seen so far at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival

"It was going so well until it wasn't" - if I still did cross-stitch

An interesting bit in Border Czar Homan's news conference today is he touted more than 200 arrests under USC 111 (assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers). That figure would include this 76-year-old who was pepper sprayed in the face for yelling at an agent

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

BREAKING: Judge blocks Hegseth effort to punish Sen. Kelly. "This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees." Background: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-k...

Breaking: Judge grants Mark Kelly a preliminary injunction against Hegseth, who is reconsidering his rank: "This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Sen. Kelly's First Amendment freedoms & threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees."

“What are we doing here? I had a whole bunch of things to say, but watching this display — what is this? You guys are supposed to be in charge of making laws. And whenever we come up here, you just disregard what you’re actually supposed to be doing in order to attack vulnerable communities.”

A 76-year-old veteran and nurse was tackled and detained at the site of Alex Pretti's killing. Agents told him his phone was evidence in an investigation into him assaulting an officer. “I didn’t assault an officer. I got assaulted by three officers." minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/12/w...

Reading this thread is bearing witness and it’s important. I’m going to find some money I don’t have and donate it

The IOC disqualified him this morning over his helmet featuring images of Ukrainian athletes killed in the war with Russia.

Journalist's Resource is cutting way back. I remember when it launched. It played an important role in connecting journalists with academic expertise, taking its inspiration from Walter Lippmann. Sorry to hear this, and best wishes to Carmen Nobel and Denise-Marie Ordway, who are losing their jobs.

"For less than one minute while sledding across the Cortina Sliding Center track, Hereaskevych wanted the world to get a glimpse of athletes lost to the tragic war in his homeland. The IOC bureaucracy cited the rulebook and said no. So he said no right back, sacrificing his Olympics."

What began as a public hearing on a parental rights bill quickly went off the rails on Tuesday as the Missouri Senate Education Committee veered into talk of furries and allegations of homophobia. #moleg #mogov

Happy bday Charles Darwin (born #OTD 1809)! 🎉 Check out Charles Darwin’s Library on #BHLib, a virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Darwin, drawing on original copies & surrogates, providing full transcriptions of his annotations & marks: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/d...

One third of women in America no longer have access to abortion because of Susan Collins’ vote for Justice Kavanaugh. It was not “the right vote.” Susan, you don’t have the judgment to represent Maine in the U.S. Senate.

@siobhanleachman.bsky.social this one’s for you

I am so grateful to be in a position to push for improved court transparency with action, with representation from @publicjustice.bsky.social. It is all the more important here b/c the case at issue appears to involve another unilateral DHS policy change aimed at restricting immigrants' rights.

📸: Leila Navidi @mprnews.org

The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.

Tekiah gedolah! #JewsAgainstICE

PASSED: the House just passed the resolution to end Trump's tariffs on Canada. Not many crosses from Republicans, a lot of vulnerable incumbents took a dumb vote here to stick with Trump and GOP leadership. Goes to the Senate, which is likely to pass it. Will share the vote sheet when I have it!

My 8yo just asked me: "Let's say a Sith lord went to a neutral planet, will the Jedi be able to go to that planet and help, or not because that planet is neutral?" Please ask me about Gay. I can answer that one!

“The incident today at Selby and Western underscores the fact that ICE is still present, causing chaos, and putting residents at risk,” St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her said in a statement Wednesday.