Nick Gross

Large reorganization with very small flare. No obvious CME on the GOES coronagraph either.

An Earth-directed CME is on the way! Predicted arrival time is 10 UT on Feb 18 +/- 7 hr according to the NASA M2M WSA ENLIL+Cone model.

The model is predicting Kp 6-8 possible, but I always take these with a grain of salt and am only thinking G1-G2 for this CME (if it arrives).

#heliophysics

BREAKING: Donald Trump has reportedly been fuming all weekend over how everyone keeps calling his administration the “Epstein Administration.”

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

This should be called the Epstein Presidency. Is there anyone in this regime that isn't in the files?

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from.

We'll let their words speak for themselves.

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

“Maybe a better way to look at this is ‘people preparedness’. One way for people to be prepared (for the next pandemic) is to be healthier, eat better and exercise, so you’re less likely to get sick or have a poor outcome,” Powers added.

Right. This will protect you from a novel pathogen.🤦‍♂️

Local police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump’s immigration crackdown Local police assisted federal immigration agents by repeatedly searching school cameras that record license plate numbers, data show

Police sharing school district license plate surveillance data with ICE. “Police depts. across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by ‘The 74’ reveals." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Laws restricting abortions linked to rise in 'abhorrently high' maternal mortality rates Rising state-level abortion restrictions in the United States were linked to a similar, parallel rise in maternal deaths from 2005 to 2023, according to research presented at The Pregnancy Meeting. ...

Researchers have found that 6 of 10 abortion restrictions — bans on Medicaid funding for abortion, mandated waiting periods, 2nd-trimester abortion bans, ACA marketplace insurance coverage bans, biased counseling laws, and ultrasound requirements — were linked to higher rates of maternal mortality.

A new Farm Bill aka (Farmer welfare program bailout) is going to be debated soon. In the bill the Republicans have slipped in a provision to block Americans from suing big pesticide companies that are poisoning them with cancer causing chemicals.

Trump's former attorney. "THIS IS NOT A DRILL!"

Can we make this happen?
Let’s make this happen!

We are Little Russia
MTG did the same
Standing up to bullies is
the only way.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.

!!! No explanation except vague special security concerns. No notice to airlines or passengers. If we were going to use military action in Mexico, it would include closing the airport called the “gateway to Mexico.”

apnews.com/article/faa-...

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

A backgrounder is someone who conducts background checks.

RESISTANCE IS MANDATORY

Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......

Why isn’t every politician, leader, prosecutor, and news channels focused on this. The President is accused with significant proof of killing and raping minors.

Sending a Finn to talk to the Russians hardly looks like appeasement. By openly joining NATO after decades of "neutrality", Finland sent a big signal that it is fully aware of the threat Russia posses. This seems more like sending your most hardline negotiator to hold the line.

Memorial In Remembrance & Witness: Wokiksuye Wokiksuye – In Remembrance & Witness Wokiksuye pronunciation: [woh – GEEK – sue – yea] Please join First Peoples of Mni Sóta Makoce for official public memorial ceremony in collaboration with the Goo...

Please join us today, Saturday 2/7, at Powderhorn Park for a public memorial.
🕊️ Program begins at 1:00 PM
🎶 Arrive at 12:00 PM or anytime after as music plays and the community gathers
Come stand together in remembrance, strength, and solidarity.
More details here: bit.ly/MPLS-Feb7
#MinnesotaStrong

Whistleblower responds after DOJ confirms DOGE mishandled Social Security data The Social Security Administration says members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the agency accessed and shared sensitive data. The latest disclosure from the Trump administration seemed to confirm...

We’re grateful to this whistleblower for speaking the truth and recognizing the power of our lawsuit against DOGE.

We will keep fighting to protect sensitive Social Security data from being unlawfully accessed and shared.

omg i just realized it is the coffee bowl.

starbucks v. dunkin

A Letter to Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post Dear Jeff Bezos and the leadership team of The Washington Post...

An open letter Jeff Bezos and Washington Post leadership:

More attention here, please.

as someone who pushes hard against conspiratorial thinking in my professional and political life, it is deeply irritating when, on top of the untold human harms Epstein caused, it turns out he was at the center of at least half a dozen actual conspiracies

Three rules in FBI firearm training:

1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot

Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like