2/15/26 11:30 pm in Ottertail County

Hoarfrost on Sunday morning

Northern Lights made a brief appearance around 8:00 pm. Photo taken in Ottertail County

Last night, Prof. Bunny gave us a history lesson. Miss Angelina is here with the notes and translations. 📝 (Via @missangelina.com_ on IG) #badbunnybowl

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

@amyklobuchar.com Worth a try! Please do everything in your power to bring Liam home

This guy is an embarrassment

Eggroll Queen is one of my kids' favorite food trucks in town, and they're hurting. Consider helping, perhaps? www.facebook.com/eggrollqueen...

Stella Carlson - known as "Pink Jacket Lady" - is a hero! Anderson Cooper is gentle as she recounts how her phone & whistle don't feel like enough. And yet, with them, she created irrefutable evidence of Alex Pretti's murder. And now gives a sincere & articulate call for justice.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Interrupting my ruminations on how corrupt ICE is to let ya'll know there's some potential for northern lights tonight. I'm gonna hope for an extra strong storm cuz it's way too cold to be driving out into the middle of nowhere to watch it. The CME has already hit. Now we wait to see if it ramps up

@democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social Just do it! Not another dime. Democrats threaten to withhold funding after ICE killing in Minneapolis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Courage is contagious

The forecasted aurora didn't live up to the hype but we did manage to catch a couple short-lived sub-storms from Lake Minnetonka

An amazing night to remember with vivid reds and aurora overhead! Photos taken near Zimmerman, MN.

Northern lights in Minnesota (Ottertail County) 12:00 AM

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More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff... Do you support or oppose "defund the police"? Support - 21% Oppose - 74% Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services? Support - 54% Oppose - 41%

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes. That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

Dutch late night TV has its take

This is exactly correct. It's not a coincidence this is happening within (yet another) merger deal. The merger will be approved or denied based on how they comply, not based on whether or not it is in the "public interest."

This is why they’re deleting studies

new press release from hamoudi sabri, who is unable to attend today's TRO hearing. he addresses mayor frey's claim that people "want" encampments, and shares a heartbreaking story from yesterday's eviction - the ashes of a woman's daughter were disposed of in the sweep

This is the first time we estimate he has a negative approval rating among Texas voters: www.economist.com/interactive/...

In happier news, we have another shot at northern lights tonight (Sunday) in MN with the coronal hole facing us. Current HPI numbers are looking decent for around 9 pm

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Yikes. Fox & Friends host claims that homelessness has gotten so bad that the only solution might be to "just kill them." The other hosts nod in agreement. I had to double check this was real. It is.

Last night's much-hyped solar storm was a bust for Aurora chasers. After bouncing around in the early evening, the Bz stayed mostly positive so it never got a chance to really ramp up. Hopefully we get another shot soon.

Finally some potential for northern lights tonight! Will need to find clear skies first though. Good luck to everyone out tonight! Share your photos if you catch anything. :)

No, you did not give those of us who happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor any due process. And that was profoundly wrong. It destroyed our lives.

Public health experts dismayed by RFK Jr.'s defunding of mRNA vaccine research www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

Jumped on the paddle board bandwagon. Best purchase of the year. #minneapolis

Analysis | Tulsi Gabbard's willingness to make up charges against Barack Obama could delay by weeks, if not months, her eventual hiring as a network news contributor.

NEW: Read Mr Abrego's account of unthinkable torture inside CECOT prison in El Salvador. My latest: content warning: www.muellershewrote.com/p/mr-abregos...

Twin Cities bsky right now. Awoooo!

I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:

Tesla Employees Scramble To Make Office Look Like They’ve Been Sleeping There theonion.com/tesla-e...

This is an astoundingly good interview. The LA Port Director explains very clearly how profoundly trade is coming to a screeching halt. This summer will be tough.

“Mr. Rodríguez, we’re going to miss you,” a girl told the teacher after singing. 
“I’m going to miss you, too,” he said, fighting back tears of his own. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Very dangerous change to the US approach for vaccine approvals. This would put Covid vaccines a year or more behind circulating strains of the virus. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

Lots of uncertainty in today's severe weather forecast. In related news, DOGE has suspended and cut weather balloon launches southwest of MN, giving meteorologists and weather models less data to go off of. Less certainty and less accuracy in forecasts should be expected unless funding is restored.

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

Due process rights are fundamental to our nation–Trump taking them away from one person, is a threat to every one.

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

Claim by the White House: The Supreme Court ruling made it “very clear” that Trump was “well within his constitutional authority” to carry out deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. What the Supreme Court actually ruled: