@middleseatview.bsky.social my stock of kits is full. I defer my prize to your next avgeek-centric photo request, or to @estoriafilms.bsky.social whose photo was awesome. And thanks for hosting.

Guardsman land Chinook on summit of Longs Peak in Rocky Mtn Ntl Park to save two winter climbers. www.denver7.com/news/mountai...

@bsky.app app being a buggy POS this morning has crashed six times on my iPad.

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

This extraordinary photo captures federal immigration agents immobilizing a protester on the ground and spraying chemical irritant into his face. It runs on the front page of tonight's Minneapolis @startribune.com. It reminds me of the brutality used against civil rights protesters in the 1960s.

Is it just me or does the CFB championship game feel about 80% commercials, 20% football? 🤦🏽‍♂️

The deputy AG says there will be no investigation of the agent who shot Renee Good. Agents "have to protect themselves." "We don't just go out and investigate every time an officer is forced to defend himself against somebody [who's] putting his life in danger. ... So no, we are not investigating."

A new poll from CNN finds that 58% of Americans believe Trump's first year in office has been a failure

This review of videos of the ICE killing of a US citizen in Minnesota suggest that the victim was simply trying to leave and did not endanger anyone. ICE refused to allow people to provide medical aid to the dying woman. And then the administration lied about it. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

The world's biggest earth science conference is happening right now, and there are literally hundreds of presentations involving NCAR people. It's impossible to understate how central the lab is to the climate and weather science enterprise

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

I mean, this is an execution

“Hegseth’s formal power and personal incompetence—to say nothing of his apparently nonexistent moral compass—mean he remains dangerous even if he is otherwise insignificant.”

Based on recent experiences, the entry scanning to Lufthansa lounges needs improvement. There’s always a 20+ person line, and a solo person scanning.

Flying DEN-FRA-BLL on this brand new United 787-9, for my first trip to Denmark. Looking forward to the next chapter. #avgeek

Veterans Day 2025 anntelnaes.substack.com/p/veterans-day

11/9/2025- The Casualty www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/no...

Outside looking in…

He’s a soybean farmer the way the CEO of Dole is a fruit salad farmer.

Uh, is this even a verified account, or just a walking Hatch Act violation? Do they know they manage the Interior for ALL Americans?

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/shot-in-th... @anntelnaes.bsky.social

Well put…

Is @phoenix.tapbots.com going to be ready soon? Sign me up guys!

On the new acting CDC director. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

share of likely republican voters that approve of trump running for an unconstitutional third presidential term: 53% -data for progress

"Lt. Gen. Kruse was removed, presumably for failing to echo President Trump’s “obliteration” comment about U.S. strikes on Iran...Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Allvin announced early retirement...Their firing and forced resignation send a dangerous message." www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...

Unhinged. The real authoritarian crime spree in Washington is being led by Trump. Pardons for MAGA thugs who violently attacked and injured law enforcement and shut down the peaceful transfer of power. A felony and home raid for someone who threw a deli sandwich at DHS.

13 Things United Airlines Does Well, From Routes, To Bedding, To Cold Brew onemileatatime.com/insights/thi...

He called the CDC a cesspool of corruption that lied about the COVID vaccines. Now someone has committed violence because of the same misinformation.

The original motivation behind the presidential fitness effort was preparedness. Eisenhower saw fitness as a national security concern. Kennedy cast it as a patriotic duty. Obama reframed it as a public health imperative. What will it be in Trump's hands?

Pretty much sums up my experience as well… www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/b...

The animating belief of QAnon was that an elite pedophile ring was being protected by the deep state and Donald Trump was the hero who was going to expose it all. Which, ironically, is exactly what is happening right now. Only Trump’s not the hero, he’s the deep state.

8/1/2025- The Trade War www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ju...

Garden of conspiracy…

Oh what I would pay for my BluSky app to know where I last was scrolled to on my timeline, and start there upon revisiting.

My congressman in action:

one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.

What. Is. Happening. NBC Los Angeles news write-up here: www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/h...

always have to remember the right will get hysterical over every issue of the day it does not matter about validity or truth it is all about feeding their constant outrage machine

Gift article: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

There are so many horrific things underway in the Trump administration that it's difficult to prioritize. But the sell-off of millions of acres of public lands would be a huge step backward for our nation, and it would be irrecoverable.

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

This is our school. It is a wonderful place!

NEW: Organizer of Boulder event to support Israeli hostages tells 9News they were ambushed by a man throwing Molotov cocktail like devices, burning five people. www.9news.com/mobile/artic...

6/1/2025- Free Speech www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ma...

If Barack Obama or Joe Biden had proposed this, the GOP would be in the streets with pitchforks and torches. I guess the new "conservative" position is, "I want the state to know everything about me at all times." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

Sliding down the slippery slope. "The Trump administration is planning to dispatch hundreds of border agents to help ICE arrest unauthorized immigrants in the US interior...Officials at DHS have also asked for 20,000 National Guard troops to support operations." www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...

If you support this, you should be ashamed of yourself