"You could see the other weapons they carried: stuffed animals (plush, scale models of deadly threats to human life), insufficiently deferential smiles, a disrespectful attitude toward law enforcement—carried openly, in the car, where a child could see them."

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

"By reaching into the skinny accounts of incarcerated people and the family members who support them, these governments place vulnerable people in financial ruin while often failing to generate sustainable revenue streams."

Black women republicans. Latino ICE agents. Usha Vance having sex with JD Vance ON PURPOSE. We live in wild times. Stay safe out there, y’all.

Excellent question! 1. No idea, but I’d guess it’s *close* to that of water. 2. Not sure, but I’d expect it’s indeed different for some species/groups. I guess you could compare it to snot in the cold of Minnesota?

However lawless you think the immigration agencies have become, it's worse than you think. Judges have ruled against ICE's new mandatory detention policy by a margin of 308-14. They have also held that a nationwide class is eligible for bond hearings. Yet ICE continues to enact the policy.

it seems too obvious to even keep pointing it out but if you have ever had experience with an elder relative sliding into dementia you are familiar with the ways they repeat the same nonsensical anecdotes

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: a glass mosaic face bead. 1st century AD. 📷️ Landesmuseum Württemberg

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

*clears throat* *taps mic* I had some edits thank you to @sbarolo.bsky.social and @ajdemas.bsky.social for their Jeremiah and Lazarus jokes which gave me the idea for this

Toad sat on the edge of his bed. “Blah,” said Toad. “I feel down in the dumps.” “Why?” asked Frog. “I am thinking about tomorrow,” said Toad.

Ice Age art! A lovely little horse figurine sculpted from mammoth tusk around 15,000 years ago! Known as ‘The Little Horse of Lourdes’ it was found in 1886 in the cave of Les Espélugues, Lourdes, Haute-Pyrénées, France. 📷 by me. #Archaeology

-how’s grandpa today? Did he recognize you? -[heavy melancholy sigh] Oh, you know. Enigmatic and expansive. Called the nurse “Red Starburst” three times and tried to eat his IV tube.

People don't really think through how the Nazis actively made it harder for Jews to leave The idea that all Americans are guaranteed any kind of freedom of movement, including boarding a flight, is quite the presumption at this point.

this place needs more jokes about the brooklyn beckham wedding drama

"For the success of Dalmatians, Anderson was rewarded with a year-long silent treatment from Disney, and several demotions... Only toward the end of Disney’s life did they really reconcile over it."

As writer, I would love to not have to keep using the "Everything GOP smacks of rape culture/domestic violence" metaphor, vary it up a bit, but they just keep going to the same well! It is what it is.

People who do not live with #Disability or #ChronicIllness will never understand what it is to grieve the life you had and the life you worked towards, every day: I used to snowboard, haul rocks & boulders, trail run, work home remodels, make jewelry, paint, find & hold a job + more. No more 😞

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory

each day we’re forced to confront the craziest shit you could possibly imagine and each day we’re forced to wash the same spoon for the millionth time

"Drink whole milk, you'll come in 5th place" is an incredible ad campaign.

this is the content i wanna be remembered for

Watch this video of @milesobrien.com from a Korean Icebreaker in Antarctica. Glad he mentioned that the US no longer has this capability because of the Trump regime. There are also two @nytimes.com reporters on the same ship. 🌊

UPDATE: We met ChongLy Thao, who goes by Scott, today along w his son, Chris. Scott told us about being taken, driven around til the agents figured out he was a U.S. citizen & not their alleged target, then dropped back off at home w no apology.Came back later and ICE was back, idling in the street.

Tonight at Pacific City - thanx to Pilar French. #OregonCoast and other areas already seeing it. www.beachconnection.net/news/g4-geom...

In Australia, the young typically remain in their mother’s pouch until around age four.

“The truth always lies somewhere in the middle” has to be one of my least favorite phrases. Sometimes, one side is actually truthful and one side is actually malicious and lying!

Bluesky doesn’t have the juice but it is the only app where someone is live posting a bus driver in what may or may not be a Speed scenario

Suffered cosmic loss yet continues holding it together quite impressively. -me, updating my dating profile

If you’re not following @musicologyduck.bsky.social you’re missing the wildest live thread I’ve seen in ages

The company sent another bus to get us and I feel like I probably should have taken the metro but I’m hoping there’s a company rep at Union Station to scream at

Today's pigeon is from a photo @musicologyduck.bsky.social took, of a pigeon eating an entire human size portion of spaghetti off the ground

This is a really important story, and one that explains the place of the Hmong community in the Twin Cities and why this entire occupation is really just ethnic cleansing (my words). Also, props to Marisa for doing the work to get this story right when so many out-of-town journalists have failed.

borg porn ass-imilation

i like how this hyperlink goes directly to "list of memorials to martin luther king jr."

I was browsing for something pretty to post for #BlueMonday but instead found…this thing. Sorry. 😬 Faience blue and white model of a recumbent #lion late 18/19th c. France, possibly Luneville H 13¾in. (34.9 cm) L 17¾in. (45.1 cm) www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-3...

With a lot of people seeing the aurora even pretty far south, it’s remarkable to recall that it is *never* mentioned in Norse mythology. (As discussed here, some modern people try to make Bifrǫst the aurora, but it’s explicitly labeled as the regnbogi—“rainbow.”) Full video: youtu.be/_QLkE3mnkQk

it seems like meltdown may starts earlier every year

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

We're often asked what we do with all the plastic we pick up from beaches. These rope floats are off to @carlsayer.bsky.social at UCL for use in eel surveys and conservation work

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"Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn." -MLK

#GiftArticle from the NYT, about how the raids of CA farm workers last year were practice for what’s happening now, and the source of Bovino’s rise to power. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

FASCINATING. Oregon's complicated history is so much more than the black exclusion laws.

Here's staff on an ICE deportation flight giving us the finger on Nov 16, 2025, at Minneapolis - St. Paul International Airport. Berk Benson photo.

Note to self: Avoid low hanging branches.

This MLK Day I'm going to tell a story from May 1968 when a right wing provocateur got the nation talking about how "white conservative Christians" like him were reguularly victimized by Black/leftist mobs while the "liberal elite" looked the other way. The story was a lie, & the "victim" was a Nazi