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Professor, birder, photographer, hiker, community organizer, lover of rescue dogs and cats and so much more. All power to the people!
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That’s the smell of social cohesion in the air, and eyes and throats, I guess. This is so predictable. “Australia news live: Police use pepper spray as Sydney protesters attempt to march; thousands rally in Melbourne to oppose Isaac Herzog’s visit” www.theguardian.com/aust%E2%80%9...
Australia news live: police use pepper spray as Sydney protesters attempt to march; thousands rally in Melbourne to oppose Isaac Herzog’s visit
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www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:45 AM
That’s the smell of social cohesion in the air, and eyes and throats, I guess. This is so predictable. “Australia news live: Police use pepper spray as Sydney protesters attempt to march; thousands rally in Melbourne to oppose Isaac Herzog’s visit” www.theguardian.com/aust%E2%80%9...
Translation: I had way too much ketamine today.
SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.
February 9, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Translation: I had way too much ketamine today.
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Researchers estimate that the life expectancy for people forced to work in cane fields was mid 20s.
They were slaughterhouses. Being sent to one was functionally a death sentence.
They were slaughterhouses. Being sent to one was functionally a death sentence.
Mortality rates were so high on sugar plantations during slavery that slaveholders used to coerce enslaved people working other crops like cotton with threats to sell them or their loved ones to sugar plantations.
That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
February 9, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Researchers estimate that the life expectancy for people forced to work in cane fields was mid 20s.
They were slaughterhouses. Being sent to one was functionally a death sentence.
They were slaughterhouses. Being sent to one was functionally a death sentence.
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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 AM
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
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Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...
The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico
The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.
www.latitudemedia.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...
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If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico
The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.
slate.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:59 AM
If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
This is the country I want!!!
#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
February 9, 2026 at 2:34 AM
This is the country I want!!!
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🚨 An 86 page memo the DOJ deleted from the Epstein files exposing heavily implicated powerful perpetrators/co-conspirators.
This substacker lays it out for us.
substack.com/@redactedrep...
This substacker lays it out for us.
substack.com/@redactedrep...
Potential Co-Conspirators Epstein DOJ Deleted 86 Page Memo
Watch now | Jean Lue Brunel, Redacted Name, Leslie Wexner
substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:50 PM
🚨 An 86 page memo the DOJ deleted from the Epstein files exposing heavily implicated powerful perpetrators/co-conspirators.
This substacker lays it out for us.
substack.com/@redactedrep...
This substacker lays it out for us.
substack.com/@redactedrep...
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The worst joke you can think of and it's true.
February 8, 2026 at 11:08 PM
The worst joke you can think of and it's true.
Are you still on X? If yes, why?
February 8, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Are you still on X? If yes, why?
There has been no de-escalation in Minneapolis/St. Paul. In fact, all reputable reports say that things have escalated without the mainstream media there. Please keep calling out their behavior. @governorwalz.mn.gov This is happening on your watch. You are either for or against the people.
Friends in Minneapolis are very worried about this development. Both in terms of state police's role in arresting protestors and the worry that this could set off the kind of spiral of distrust and destruction that followed George Floyd's murder.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
At Least 50 Arrested After Protests Escalate Outside Minnesota Federal Building
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:57 PM
There has been no de-escalation in Minneapolis/St. Paul. In fact, all reputable reports say that things have escalated without the mainstream media there. Please keep calling out their behavior. @governorwalz.mn.gov This is happening on your watch. You are either for or against the people.
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How can any prosecutor worth his salt suggest in light of evidence like this Epstein did not run a sex-trafficking ring? Todd Blanche needs to step down. And Patel.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
Jeffrey Epstein's Global Reach
There are emails from men and women who were helping Epstein procure girls in Australia, London, Paris, Russia, Sweden ...
open.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:08 PM
How can any prosecutor worth his salt suggest in light of evidence like this Epstein did not run a sex-trafficking ring? Todd Blanche needs to step down. And Patel.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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"Fifteen months after they began talks for their first union contract, more than 900 professors at New York University will begin voting on whether to authorize a strike on Monday, Feb. 9."
@uawregion9a.bsky.social
www.work-bites.com/view-all/nyu...
@uawregion9a.bsky.social
www.work-bites.com/view-all/nyu...
NYU ‘Falls Flat’ Without Us: More than 900 NYU Professors to Vote on Strike Authorization — Work-Bites
By Steve Wishnia Fifteen months after they began talks for their first union contract, more than 900 professors at New York University will begin voting on whether to authorize a strike on Monday, F...
www.work-bites.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:34 AM
"Fifteen months after they began talks for their first union contract, more than 900 professors at New York University will begin voting on whether to authorize a strike on Monday, Feb. 9."
@uawregion9a.bsky.social
www.work-bites.com/view-all/nyu...
@uawregion9a.bsky.social
www.work-bites.com/view-all/nyu...
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Cruelty is the goal of this administration
Putting a child who's recovering back into detention proves it
Did you vote for this?
Will you choose it again?
Putting a child who's recovering back into detention proves it
Did you vote for this?
Will you choose it again?
February 8, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Cruelty is the goal of this administration
Putting a child who's recovering back into detention proves it
Did you vote for this?
Will you choose it again?
Putting a child who's recovering back into detention proves it
Did you vote for this?
Will you choose it again?
The #BirdoftheDay theme today is #posted - a bird on a post or fence. It's also #SuperbOwlSunday This cutie is a Short Eared Owl, aka "Shortie." #owls #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #nature #wildlifephotography 🪶
February 8, 2026 at 6:25 PM
The #BirdoftheDay theme today is #posted - a bird on a post or fence. It's also #SuperbOwlSunday This cutie is a Short Eared Owl, aka "Shortie." #owls #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #nature #wildlifephotography 🪶
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If ICE gets even one of these facilities fully up and running, it’ll immediately be the second-largest jail in the country behind only Rikers Island.
The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.
ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.
www.nbcnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:43 AM
If ICE gets even one of these facilities fully up and running, it’ll immediately be the second-largest jail in the country behind only Rikers Island.
This is so sad...and preventable.
Measles Outbreak in South Carolina Linked to Brain Swelling in Kids
Several children have come down with serious complications like encephalitis and pneumonia, state health officials reported this week. gizmodo.com/measles-outb... Yes, there are serious complications with measles!
Several children have come down with serious complications like encephalitis and pneumonia, state health officials reported this week. gizmodo.com/measles-outb... Yes, there are serious complications with measles!
Measles Outbreak in South Carolina Linked to Brain Swelling in Kids
Several children have come down with serious complications like encephalitis and pneumonia, state health officials reported this week.
gizmodo.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:50 AM
This is so sad...and preventable.
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BOUIE: “.. I try to avoid superlatives in my writing, but there is simply no question that this is the most flagrant display of presidential racism since Woodrow Wilson screened D.W. Griffith’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’ in the White House in 1915.”
@jamellebouie.net
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...
@jamellebouie.net
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...
February 8, 2026 at 5:47 AM
BOUIE: “.. I try to avoid superlatives in my writing, but there is simply no question that this is the most flagrant display of presidential racism since Woodrow Wilson screened D.W. Griffith’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’ in the White House in 1915.”
@jamellebouie.net
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...
@jamellebouie.net
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...
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The night skies over the park are amazing. If you bring a scope, it opens up all kinds of possibilities.
photo credit
Craig Goodwin
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Craig Goodwin
February 8, 2026 at 4:06 AM
The night skies over the park are amazing. If you bring a scope, it opens up all kinds of possibilities.
photo credit
Craig Goodwin
photo credit
Craig Goodwin
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NEW: Leqaa Kordia — who’s been in ICE detention for nearly a year, since ICE took her the same week as Mahmoud Khalil — has been hospitalized after having a seizure.
Her whereabouts & health are now unknown.
The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.
Her whereabouts & health are now unknown.
The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.
February 8, 2026 at 3:44 AM
NEW: Leqaa Kordia — who’s been in ICE detention for nearly a year, since ICE took her the same week as Mahmoud Khalil — has been hospitalized after having a seizure.
Her whereabouts & health are now unknown.
The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.
Her whereabouts & health are now unknown.
The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.
Wow!
The aurora last night in Beaver, Alaska was just incredible. This is a real-time video (not sped up) of the crazy motion I saw. Also, look how BRIGHT it is, wow!
February 8, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Wow!
What the hell?!?!?
February 8, 2026 at 3:11 AM
What the hell?!?!?
URGENT: Can you help? Heard on NPR originally: "the U.S. State Department will soon begin deleting all State Department tweets posted before January 20, 2025. Not archiving them publicly. Not moving them to a legacy account. Deleting them. Timeline: unknown."
February 8, 2026 at 2:04 AM
URGENT: Can you help? Heard on NPR originally: "the U.S. State Department will soon begin deleting all State Department tweets posted before January 20, 2025. Not archiving them publicly. Not moving them to a legacy account. Deleting them. Timeline: unknown."