cactus hugging lady terminator

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

When will it be enough for you, @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ? When will you be moved? You should be standing in the streets of Minneapolis. You should be shouting from the rooftops. What a pathetic pair of cowards.

There were eight ice "agents" attacking this guy, wrestling with him. And then they shot and killed him.

EIGHT!

How fucking much is enough?
How much is Congress willing to accept before reigning in this horrific, out of control bullshit. How many people have to be murdered?
How many???

There's this episode of Star Trek where Captain Picard is captured and tortured, and the main way that the torturer tries to break him is by showing him four lights, and telling him that there are five.

There are four lights.

This is not a post about Star Trek.

I hope one day they do have to answer to whatever god they think they're praying to

I am no fan of Maduro. He is a repressive dictator. So was Duterte, so is Bukele, so is Putin, and so is that asshole.

I categorically reject that idea that the United States has the right to just capture foreign leaders we don’t like.

Dark eyed junco with a seed in its mouth from foraging in the snow.

Good morning!

Hundreds protest Trump’s move to dismantle NCAR, a premier climate and weather hub The Saturday protest comes as Colorado senators are holding up a government spending bill in an attempt to ensure NCAR gets funded.

The story by @ishan-thakore.bsky.social

See, my white husband loves the Westminster HMart - because you see the bakery pretty much first thing 😂

Him: CAKE 😍

Me: I need MORE SPICES 🔥

Him: oh no.

I believe in you!

SAUCE CHIEN — French Cooking Academy The Sauce Chien (Dog Sauce) is one of the French West Indies best kept secrets.

Another recommendation, to make at home: share.google/HkAm82SY4VLB...

Special Report: The night everything at DCA finally went wrong D.C. midair crash was the result of a complete collapse of the protections designed to keep aviation safe — and the institutions that design and maintain them

For the last few months, I've been working on a story about January's crash near Washington, D.C. What I learned was that it was simply an accident waiting to happen.

Special Report: The night everything at DCA finally went wrong (via @theaircurrent.com) theaircurrent.com/aviation-saf...

It's a delight! Not TOO spicy, but it has this *pickled* flavor to it that brightens everything so much.

The Yellowbird serrano hot sauce 😍

Snapshot of PDS Red Flag Warning from National Weather Service in Boulder, CO. The text begins: URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Denver/Boulder CO 508 PM MST Thu Dec 18 2025 ...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION FOR IN AND IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO THE FOOTHILLS, BETWEEN 5500 AND 9000 FEET, FOR BOULDER AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES ON FRIDAY... Strong west winds, sustained 45-55 mph with gusts upwards of 85-105 mph, are expected in the foothills of Boulder and Jefferson Counties beginning early Friday morning. Relative humidity values are expected to drop into the low teens, possibly upper single digits. While Red Flag conditions, critical fire weather, are expected across a larger area in northern Colorado, the most extreme conditions are expected to be along Highway 93 from Jefferson County into Boulder County and along US-36 north of Boulder to the Larimer County line and westward. There will be a high potential for fast moving wildfires...

NWS in Boulder, CO has just issued a rare "Particularly Dangerous Situation" (PDS) Red Flag Warning for extreme fire weather risk on Friday. Historically, PDS RFW issuances (including in California) have pinpointed days on which the most dangerous wildfires have occurred. #COwx

Psst: Notice where this wind/weather data is coming from. It's coming from NCAR.

One tiny blip of the kajillion things NCAR does to improve/advance weather forecasting.

#COwx

Every few years or so we hear about a new female speech pattern (vocal fry, uptalk) to which we are invited to object. It doesn't take very long to determine that what these people are actually objecting to is that women are speaking at all.

🤬

Nah, don't feel silly. We need more joy in this timeline, honestly.

Alaska is amazing!

Yes...very strange...it's almost as though there weren't nearly ENOUGH controller absences to suit certain interests, so a pain point had to be created out of thin air 🤔🤣

Controllers *still* being used as pawns, details at eleven...#airtrafficcontrol

Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

When it’s fishermen they’re pretending are low level drug runners, they’ll bomb and then circle back to finish off the survivors.

But someone convicted in a court of masterminding a massive cocaine trafficking scheme? Well, he’s wearing a suit. Come on.

I don't even know you, but I believe you're still great ❤️

I watched those two (with "Ravn" callsigns) fly through last night, enroute to KMHV. I wondered if it was the end. Too bad :(

Agreed on both counts! I try to issue sincere compliments whenever possible - you never know how much it'll brighten a person's day :)

It truly is SO HARD to learn to gracefully accept a compliment. Still working on that, in my mid-forties...

I contain multitudes

Oh

Oh shit

My multitudes containment system is failing, everyone retreat to a safe distance

You'll be visited by three spirits. The three spirits: