Britt Lundgren

South Jersey guy becomes the face of ICE resistance | Will Bunch Newsletter Last Friday, Joseph Zobel, “an average Joe who grew up in Haddon Heights” saw a video that shocked him. First interview with the ICE protester whose viral video reaction has been seen 3 million times.

‪Will Bunch‬: I have the first interview with the 36-year-old South Jersey man whose tearful protest against an ICE raid at a school bus stop has been watched more than 3 million times. How a non-political Eagles fan Everyman became the face of ICE resistance
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In 2003 I had the privilege of hearing Jackson speak at a teach-in protesting the war in Iraq. There he encouraged UChicago students to advocate for peace but also to be more engaged with the local community & invited us to attend a Rainbow PUSH Coalition meeting. I went w/ a friend the next week.

It's the Enterprise NCC 1701-D but it's a pancake. There's strawberry slices for the red part of the nacelles, and a strawberry slice on top of the saucer.

Being totally on brand while we're out at the pancake place for the big kid's birthday

Here at Penn State, we rejected Simple Syllabus until they agreed to certain data protection concessions.

So don't blame the company. Blame the universities adopting the tech.

Universities should be protecting their students and professors — and academic freedom, of course.

Social media post from the Chicago Sun Times with an image of a runner in a red shirt and black shirts. The headline reads "Joabe Bayer Barbosa set out to become the first person to run every black cl in Chicago -- 1,979 streets later, he's almost done." And "A Chicago grad student is nearly done running every block of the city. What comes next?"

That part of grad school when you'll do anything to not be writing.

Lights are out.

White House Withholds Funding for NASA Science Missions Despite Recent Budget Bill NASA has been forced to pause funds for Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other missions until further notice.

gizmodo.com/white-house-...

This baby herniated a disk two weeks ago, resulting in a very sad and scary late night emergency vet visit. It wasn't looking good at first, but after a lot of rest and meds she (and her humans) are finally doing much better ❤️🐈

We have PhD positions open in my group at Macquarie for radial velocity exoplanet projects!

"When Musk & Hegseth argue that a racially diverse nation is inherently weak, they're not returning us to some long-established American tradition from which we've recently strayed. They are, instead, parroting the exact same propaganda that Nazi Germany promoted against America during World War II"

Protect Academic Freedom, Vote No to Revising The Code The UNC System Board of Governors will vote to amend the UNC System Code with new restrictions on academic freedom at its February 26 meeting. The Board of Governors plans to rewrite the very definiti...

Sign here to call on the UNC Board of Governors to Protect Academic Freedom, and Vote No to Revising the UNC System Code: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

Important story.

Also important to note that "UNC" administrators cannot secretly record faculty. UNC Chapel HIll administrators can.

This isn't just a semantic difference--it's the difference b/w a policy applying to 1 campus or 16 campuses.

#HigherEd #AcademicSky #ncpol

Early voting starts today and runs through Saturday, February 28. Find your polling place here:
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#ncpol #ncpolitics #election2026 #bluewave #ncdemocrats

Border Officials Are Said to Have Caused El Paso Closure by Firing Anti-Drone Laser

"People familiar with the episode said the use of the technology was not coordinated with the Federal Aviation Administration. Officials targeted what they thought was a drug cartel drone, but turned out to be a party balloon, they said."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

Many of my friends and family members chose to change their names when they got married. Call me old fashioned, but I think they should still be able to vote.

Chart of Physics doctorates earned from 1978 to 2024, with a steady increase in the number of women but overarching trends closely tracking the number of men earning PhDs

Chart showing doctorates earned in astronomy from 1978 to 2024 with women making steady gains and closing in on parity, and an overarching increase in number of PhDs earned linked to the increasing numbers of women entering the field.

The AIP stats team has released its latest data of physics & astronomy PhD trends, with breakdown by gender. What is extraordinary to me is how clearly the overall trends exhibit an important gender dimension, and that that story is quite different between physics and astronomy.

Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**

He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.

Why Tons of Americans Losing Their Jobs and Many Others Unable to Find Work is Good, Actually

By Peter Navarro

Because the country is marginally whiter. And that’s so important you should lower your economic expectations.

Mr. Navarro is senior advisor to the president on trade and manufacturing.

Jake Paul cheers from the second row as his fiancée, Jutta Leerdam, wins Olympic speedskating gold YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul was in the stands for speedskating at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics to watch his fiancée, Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands, win the gold medal in the women's 1,000 ...

The 1000m speed skating coverage only gets weirder... apnews.com/article/jake...

Screen grab of Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park, with the line: "You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could you didn't stop to think if you should"

It's super weird that NBC is broadcasting live heart rate monitor output from athletes' moms.

ICE agents leave Ace of Spades ‘death cards’ on detained immigrants’ cars Federal officials say the cards are unauthorized and now the subject of an investigation.

My parents told me about this new disgusting development, which is happening where they live. www.cpr.org/2026/01/23/i...

10/10 amazing. please go be silly

From AIP FYI: "The FCC is fast-tracking a SpaceX proposal to launch more than one million data center satellites, which is now open for public comment" www.fcc.gov/document/sb-...

Senate committee delays consideration of bill to streamline FCC satellite licensing A Senate committee has delayed consideration of a bill intended to expedite FCC reviews of satellite licenses amid concerns it may be too permissive.

Cantwell cited a SpaceX application to deploy 1M satellites for an orbital data center, w/ few details about spacecraft characteristics or orbits. “Literally, the FCC could fail to take any action on this, & within one and a half years, 1M satellites would be approved” spacenews.com/senate-commi...

Shunned by customers, this payment method will soon disappear at Whole Foods stores Customers either didn’t like it or didn’t find it useful.

Relatedly, last week I asked a Whole Foods cashier if anyone actually pays with their palm, and she said "yeah, a lot... crazy, right" www.oregonlive.com/retail/2026/...

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

That sort of thing won’t ever be used in the wrong way. Oh wait:

techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a...

Help "families" find "lost dogs" 🤔

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

The NC Primary Election is March 3; Buncombe Co residents can check their registration status and find the early voting schedule & sample ballots here: www.buncombenc.gov/199/Election...