Jennifer L. Hoffman ✨😷

Friends, I recommend you ALL get on the phones and or send emails first thing tomorrow telling @democrats.senate.gov NO FUNDING FOR ICE. NONE.

They are, per Chris Coons, planning to negotiate body cameras. This willl not change the violence, the invasions of our cities.

Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

this is completely insane and more people need to say that doing this is completely insane

You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed.

ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos.

9 TOTAL.

ABOLISH ICE.

If you need something positive to do to help your community right now that will cost nothing but time, go give blood. Someone is always in need. (A family member's life was saved by donated blood.) For a list of blood donation centers & blood drives within 20 miles of your zip code, search AABB:

Donate to Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE, organized by Jac Kovarik I have been involved in rapid response in the Twin Cities area since the b… Jac Kovarik needs your support for Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul

www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

States can do this now. Pass laws stating that if you worked for ICE at any time after, say, Jan 8, 2026: you are permanently ineligible for a driver’s license or for employment by state or local governments or any private employer that receives state funding.

The calls are working!!!! Keep calling.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Yep, sounds very familiar.

I thought I was going to be able to hold it together until I started describing what it’s been like watching the news from MN lately. 😭 But they need to hear it! This affects all of us!

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Hey, does anyone know of a document that lays out what to do if a ruler quarters large bodies of armed troops among us, protects them for any murders which they should commit on us, abdicates government by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us?

www.5calls.org

Not one rep should have an empty voicemail by Monday ☎️

If you’re not calling, you’re not doing enough

The inciting incident is godawful - but the community response is *so badass* you'll want to hop a plane and join these folks on the barricades, but wait. Send them support as you're able, and take notes for when ICE comes for our own neighbors.

🚫 OPEN HOUSE CANCELLED FOR 1/24 🚫

Sorry, #Denver, no stargazing this Saturday due to unusually cold weather in the forecast! 🥶

Yep, even astronomers get cold feet sometimes. See below for an alternative indoor astro-event!

Next open house is February 21 -- hope to see you there!

we actually need to band together and let the dems know we will never donate another cent or vote for the party again if a single member of the party votes to give a single cent to ice ever again

Hey everyone.

I know everything is going to shit right now, but the deadline for this is MONDAY and we NEED MORE COMMENTS.

How to leave a comment is in the quote thread.

Please share and OBJECT. It is so, so important.

#colorado #denver

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

Chamberlin Observatory in Denver’s Observatory Park after an overnight snow frosted the ground and the trees. Photo by Daniel J. Schneider: https://schneidan.com/2016/05/29/yashica-mat/

Our Jan 24th Open House has been canceled due to bitterly cold temperatures with snow Friday night into Saturday.

Instead, consider joining Standley Lake Stargazing from 5:30 - 6:30 PM for an indoor astronomy session.

Details are here: www.arvadaco.gov/Calendar.asp...

Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges The Trump administration is dropping its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked guidance telling K-12 schools and colleges they'd lose federal money if they kept a wide range of practices the a...

A bit of good news, though I wonder whether schools will actually resume the DEI initiatives they abandoned, and I wonder whether that kind of un-enforced, fear-based capitulation was the administration's end-game all along.

www.wbez.org/education/20...

A grey and white cat lounges on his side in a sunbeam, showing off his pink heart-shaped nose.

Our only issue is dosing, because this grumpy old man is hard to pill. But we muddle along, because it does make vet visits easier for all of us.

Yep, we’re fans of the gaba. It helped a ton when my cat had a severe allergy attack and was miserable.

science peeps.

MUST READ thread before Monday night's forecasted G4 / SEVERE geomagnetic storm. Auroras could be seen as far south as the U.S.-Mexico border at times. Widespread mid-latitude displays are possible. Here's what you need to know to have a successful aurora chase tonight! 🧵

#heliophysics #aurora

Even my weekends are not sufficiently vorticious 😖

THIS. Are we supposed to be able to create some kind of time vortex to squeeze it all in?!

Ugh, I am SO not looking forward to reading applications this year.

Getting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers.

I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.