jinxiemae in the desert

ICE Barbie Says Immigrants Are Too Dumb to Drive Semitrucks Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made the inane claim while bragging about arresting immigrant truck drivers.

Yet in 2010, Noem—then a congressional candidate—had “20 speeding tickets, three stop-sign violations, two seat-belt violations and a citation for driving with no driver’s license.” She had six court notices for failing to appear, and had two warrants out for her arrest. trib.al/s4Sj24q

The Good Samaritan, by Joseph Highmore, 1744, 📸 by @patricksmith04

“I will cut a bitch.”

This was very cool.

Vladeck: Even if you accept the predicate that these drug cartels are foreign terrorist organizations, that still doesn’t get you anywhere close to legal authority to use military force. They’re trying to blur and sort of collapse the distinction between two regimes we have…

At least 61 people have now been killed by Trump/Hegseth's military blowing up vessels in the Caribbean Sea & the Pacific.

@stevevladeck.bsky.social answers the question “Is this s—t legal?!”

Added BONUS: We also discuss the latest unusual development from SCOTUS.

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A tight portrait of a hand-held northern saw-whet owl. Only the bird’s head is in focus. It is looking to the left with wide yellow-orange eyes.

LIFER!!! This weekend I lived out a longtime dream, of seeing a northern saw-whet owl and thus knocking the number 1 white whale from my life list – by attending two banding sessions in central Saskatchewan. I saw six owls, and got to hold two (one even pooped on me – blessed!) #birds #LiferPie

Hurricane Melissa x Jamaica 🇯🇲

Posting pictures I have taken of birds to stop my feed here just being depressing politics #birds #birdsofbluesky Wire-tailed Swallow, Gambia, November 2023

Black bird with red eye sitting with its back towards the camera, looking to the right. It’s in a tree with very thin green branches and tiny leaves that look like dots against a foggy sky.

The gorgeous male Phainopepla in a Palo Verde tree after much needed rain, southern Arizona. #birds #arizonabirds

ICE GOONS, laughing and pepper spraying Pastor after shooting him in the face with pepper balls, proceeded to gas the crowd who were trying to protect him.

Painted at the very beginning of the 20thC, this work is among Klimt’s most abstract of paintings. Depicting the waters of the Attersee (Atter Lake) in Austria, it marks a key moment in his career, as he pioneered a new and distinctive approach to landscape painting.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

What makes this even funnier. Hegseth is using a supinated grip (palms toward him). The biceps are working harder and assisting the back muscles.

She is using a pronated grip (palms facing away) which puts more load on lats and forearms, less biceps.

The latter is harder to do than the former.

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell with white text over his shoulder: Disaster in Chief

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: Trump was 'on the verge of outright insanity' in deranged speech to military commanders youtu.be/gPpUI3xJx_c?...

If you live in these states, your ACA premiums are about to jump:

SD - Up 235%
LA - Up 150%
WV - Up 387%
WY - Up 382%
TN - Up 320%
MS - Up 314%
AK - Up 346%

Republicans are fighting to make sure this happens to their own constituents.

Pete Hegseth does not excel at physical fitness.

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Gavin Newsom responds to whatever the heck that Pete Hegseth speech was

Playing cards with bird art on them. Bird in The Hand Themed Playing Cards.

🪶 Bird People: Has anyone seen this deck of playing cards before". If you've bought them, how do you like them?
Bird in The Hand Themed Playing Cards

A great egret standing on a large rock on the water which can be seen by the blue colour in the background

Great Egret - 09/15/2025

#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography

“He (Governor Cox) at least set the table and invited us. I don’t know if we are going to show up.”
I joined @abbyphillips.bsky.social Table for Five show @cnn.com this week to discuss the Charlie Kirk assassination.

Rufous Hummingbird atop a rock next to a snow bank

Closeup of same hummingbird

I think of hummingbirds as tropical, or at least warmer weather birds...so this Rufous hummer at the top of Steens Mountain.9500 feet above sea level and next to a snowbank was a bit jarring. #birding

A small hummingbird with shimmering purple, blue, and green feathers perched on a branch against a soft green background.

Velvet-purple Coronet #hummingbird at @montezumalodge.bsky.social #Colombia

#birds #nature #hummingbirds

I don't support what happened to Charlie. Charlie supported what happened to Charlie.

Let’s Not Forget Who Charlie Kirk Really Was The right-wing influencer did not deserve to die, and we shouldn’t forget the many despicable things he said and did.

We can, and should, deplore Charlie Kirk's murder, without whitewashing who he was. ttps://www.thenation.com/article/society/charlie-kirk-assassination-tragedy/

The fact that @thenation.com published this, instead of, I don't know, firing @joanwalsh.bsky.social for having the audacity to remember the things he's actually said, is a pretty good example of why I work here, and not at some other places.

Congress passed a bipartisan law long ago mandating that a plaque honoring the officers who defended Capitol on J6 be displayed in the building. Mike Johnson has ignored that law and refuses to do it.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

Proof.