Laura Castañón

Back porch with several large windows completely covered in snow. The biggest window has a large metal dragonfly hanging in it because I don't want birds to fly into it. There are also some long gauzy curtains, cushions, and general mess because it's winter, please don't judge me

We've lost visual

Wait, they're not even proposing building into the woods?? I walk there with my folks a lot (not locals but it's the only park where you can legally have off-leash dogs) and people are acting like the whole area will be paved.

Breaking down the whole Bad Bunny halftime show so I don't have to:

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Glad all the millennials are on the same page here

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

we got you 😭 www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Great story, with possibly the greatest author's disclosure of all time:

"Disclosure: Prior to his election, the author was Councilor Green’s DM in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign."

"we live in hell but we are going to fucking win" is exactly how I'm feeling these days

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

Truly surreal to be in Tierra del Fuego and hear an Argentinian guide accurately explaining ICE and Renee Good's murder to a woman from Barcelona. Four different countries represented in our group, all giving me looks of sympathy.

"Seems like you don't really have a government anymore"

“ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do” played over video of ICE engaging in acts of violence should be the wall to wall DNC media strategy right now

Yup. Everything in this thread, up to and including the end. You don't eat around the cockroach.

ICE Agent Kills Woman, DHS Tells Obvious, Insane Lies About It | Defector On Wednesday in Minneapolis, masked government agents apparently representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded a stationary vehicle stopped in the middle of a residential street.…

ICE agent kills woman, DHS tells obvious, insane lies about it: defector.com/ice-agent-ki...

My dad introduced me to Phil Ochs as a kid (I wrote a parody of Draft Dodger Rag for a 4th grade project about the circulatory system like a Very Normal Child) and I've had his music stuck in my head all year. Can't imagine why.

A pixar-ass looking homemade lamp. The body is a stack of oval rocks, with flat 3-toed feet made of copper wire. His copper wire arms/hands are holding up his poorly constructed blue lampshade head, which has two yellow-orange eyes on it, illuminated by the bulb. He is perfect and I made him for a gift exchange so THIS PHOTO IS ALL I HAVE LEFT. They grow up so fast...

I'm pleased to announce the creation (birth?) of my perfect luminous son.

A gaff-rigged schooner! It's got a topsail up on the mainmast, which is why the sail shape at the back looks a little funky.

Additional old boat fun fact: The red-brown sail color is called tanbark, because it used to come from oak tannins

Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

My 5yo nephew is going to look after my crestie (with parent supervision) while I'm out of town and I swear that gecko has never been in more responsible hands. He will NEVER forget to mist her at bedtime.

Tasseled wobbegongs are wonderful, but this is the underappreciated goosefish! Great camouflage paired with an angler spine to attract fish snacks (and the occasional diving seabird).

The Deer, They Are A-Changin' Something magical is happening in your backyard.

It's that time of year! The time when deer guts start to undergo a magical transformation!

(Also the time of year many well-intentioned people accidentally mess the whole thing up, leading to dead deer!)

🧪

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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

"One formative influence was Watson’s making his one and only important scientific discovery when he was only 25. ... he discovered nothing afterward, even as colleagues were cracking the genetic code or deciphering how DNA is translated into the molecules that make cells (and life) work."

In the last 18 hours, I was broken up with, got to pet a live opossum, fangirled at a writer I randomly saw at a taxidermy museum, and am starting my favorite conference. Having a normal one!

A small crab break is exactly what I needed

🔥🔥WATCH: “Rappers are smarter than economists”👇🏽

@dossdiscourse.bsky.social explains more cops doesn’t lower crime it just means more money for private prisons— Addressing poverty/hunger/health care lowers crime… but Trump’s trillions transfer just made all that MUCH WORSE… meaning crime will rise.

Ok, but grouping ages 16-39 as one category? And referring to them all as "young adults"?? What.

(Have not read the article, only responding to the chart 😁)

We spent eight years giving the best centrist, moderate argument the Democratic Party could make the best chance possible.

And that gave us Trump.

So it's time for something different.

Time, and past time.