Mel in the mountains

Oh I love this show so much, can't wait for the movie!!

Today was a pretty good day. Night night.

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance.

Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons (Published 2018)

I can't believe it's been 7 1/2 years since @atherton.bsky.social scared the shit out of me with this great primer on the thorny issues around AI-driven autonomous weapons, and things have only gotten scarier www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/m...

JUST IN: A federal judge in Oregon has barred ICE from conducting warrantless arrests without probable cause in the state, saying the agency's "dragnets" have flouted "clear and undisputed" law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

He's a special kind of stupid.

THIS IS WAG THE DOG. WE DON'T NEED A WAR. WAR IS NEVER EVER EVER A GOOD THING.

(Isn't this obvious??)

Warner Brothers, time to consider more than the $$$

So cool. Geology is unreal sometimes.

If standing for children means preventing trauma and abuse, then we should also talk about family separation, documented detention abuse, and U.S. citizens wrongly detained under ICE. Protecting Americans requires facts, not fear-based generalizations. So fuck off temu himmler

Austin area folks: Austin Animal Services is over capacity & needs help with foster & adopt. Additionally there is a Central Texas wide name your adoption fee event coming up, March 6-8. Please consider fostering if you can't adopt. Homes without children & pets are unicorn homes for some dogs.

Here’s a thought for James Comer.

There IS a First Lady who has had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And it’s not Hillary Clinton.

It might be worthwhile for Comer to subpoena the First Lady who actually knows Epstein.

You know, just to see what she knows.

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

Cruelty is the point.

Troy ArmstrongPatton on Instagram: "Huge movement of people leaving MAGA @jacknelsonband wrote the perfect song for the perfect time!🚨 Did you turn in your Red Hat yet?" 82K likes, 3,348 comments - armstrongpatton on February 9, 2026: "Huge movement of people leaving MAGA @jacknelsonband wrote the perfect song for the perfect time!🚨 Did you turn in your Red Hat yet?".

Now this is what I'm talking bout y'all.
www.instagram.com/reel/DUjk4lE...

America’s Character and the Rule of Law with George Conway III YouTube video by UW Office of Public Lectures

Here's the speech I gave tonight as part of the Univ. of Washington Grad School's Public Lecture.

It's about how impeachment can save our republic and rekindle its spirit of liberty.

Starts 30 minutes in:

youtube.com/live/3UkV400_t0Y?si=2UcSsVW93k-xxqSb

Mexico Got Help Killing Drug Lord From Secretive U.S. Campaign Led by FBI and ICE The U.S. military’s intelligence sharing came as part of a new “counter cartel” task force focused on the U.S.–Mexico borderlands.

"To date, the military has conducted more than 40 airstrikes against alleged drug traffickers, killing at least 137 people without producing a shred of evidence to support its claims. While those strikes have been concentrated in the Caribbean Sea…1/2

“It’s no longer a political calculus. It’s a moral and legal and Constitutional obligation of Congress to [impeach]. It would be a violation of the oath of office for a member of Congress not to push for impeachment when it is possible.”

Thank you for all you do.

I'm heading to the Senate floor in a few moments to lay out the detailed story of ICE abuse - teargassing schools, murdering American citizens with impunity, disappearing legal immigrants. And why we should not fund ICE until they stop terrorizing our communities.

Animal Lovers Race to Protect Bald Eagle Couple's Nesting Grounds from Nearby Development as $10M Deadline Nears Friends of Big Bear Valley says a luxury housing project could drive the famous eagle pair, Jackie and Shadow, from their nesting grounds. After decades of legal battles, conservationists now have unt...

Would sure be nice to preserve their habitat. #Birds #Raptors

How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All The Golden State has an opportunity to save American democracy from big corporate money

This is fantastic! Robert Reich: How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Farmers were promised $400 million in drought aid. Trump's USDA ghosted them. More than a year later, not a penny has been spent and no one knows what happened to the money.

Contracts signed, work lined up. For Trump loved the American farmers so much he has denied them $400 million in water & irrigation grants needed to keep their crops alive & feeding livestock & America. Their vite once again bites them in the ass
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

how bout the president ?

And more dangerous.
And more difficult.
And more embarrassing ...

Good for her. I'm proud of these women.

Measles was wiped out in the U.S. 25 years ago and now we’re already past 1,000 cases in February because vaccination rates dropped below the safety line. This is what happens when public health gets gutted and people stop trusting basic science.

I love wisteria. Beautiful picture, thanks for sharing. (There's a native species and an invasive one, but both are aggressive. Just keep an eye on it ... )

We also call them Naked Ladies! 😊

Democracy is dying in America.

ICE is a murderous secret police force. We’re about to bomb Iran for Israel. Your kids are shot at in school daily, and pedophiles run our government. There’s no healthcare, and your food is poisonous.

We need real leaders - not career politicians.