A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho

ICE sacked some tiny Idaho town and deported ~4 percent of the population at a stroke, it's liable to collapse the local economy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

let’s not lose sight of the biggest story from tonight: the jets drafted a super bowl winning quarterback

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

Concentration camps:

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Just a reminder that @mikemcmahan.bsky.social had the right of it. Though, you should NOT print out a sheet of these and slap tag them. You totally should not do that even though 6 fit nicely on an A4 sheet and are nice and readable from 20 feet away. Definitely don't put them over Flock lenses.

@mikemcmahan.bsky.social forgot to post this earlier for you. We represented some Lower Decks on Halloween

About 7 million

This is the speech from Andor that sticks with me the most

“The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident”

Every day this line feels more and more relevant.

Oh My.

HOLY SHITTTTT!!!!!!

@beckychb013.bsky.social rereading Record of a Spaceborn Few and Tessa's email to George about AI taking over jobs made me pause a bit. Nvidia's CEO wants AI to take over a lot of jobs. But as Jeff Goldblum said in Jurassic Park, "... they didn't stop to think if they should"

Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭

Doing ok. Surviving tariffs and kids' extracurriculars. Liam starts High School in the fall. So we're old now.

Hope you and Stephanie are doing well!

Already have it!

Just ordered it! The kids love Lower Decks!

Woman holds a protest sign that reads “Fighting Fascism is a full time job!!” with a hand-drawn cartoon of Shax from Star Trek Lower Decks.

Pasadena, CA showed up with stellar signs. Here’s my favorite #HandsOff

@mikemcmahan.bsky.social If the 1701-D Lego set rumors are true, then I want a Cerritos set to follow it! Would be a great build for the family!

From the quilting community on Reddit: Muppet Christmas Carol Explore this post and more from the quilting community

@eanmeyer.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/quilting/s...

A Very Spidey Christmas - YouTube

@marcbernardin.bsky.social it's that time of year again youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Do a ballista next year!

@eanmeyer.bsky.social Trying something new. Might shave it for New Years

@mikemcmahan.bsky.social I've got a sick kid, so we have to wait for the finale. Trying to get him well at warp speed! Love you and the ST:LD crew that made this journey possible ❤️ 🖖

Loved this soon much! Can't wait for the finale (with mixed feelings). Will definitely miss the series, but will enjoy rewatching 🖖