David Jekel

Facing racism in the sport head on, Surya Bonaly landed the banned backflip on one foot and made history anyway ⛸️ 💥

Can we get this boosted

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Platform Ventures got Port KC tax incentives to build a warehouse. Now they’re selling it to ICE Platform Ventures pitched a warehouse development as a job creator for south Kansas City. Port KC is concerned that a sale to ICE would undermine job growth in the area.

A warehouse in south Kansas City could be sold to the federal government to become an ICE detention center. That warehouse, owned by Platform Ventures, had received a $21 million tax incentive from the Port Authority of Kansas City.

This Danish bottom trawler is now getting pretty annoying. Again and again visiting South-Norwegian waters just between our marine national parks. Landing large amounts of halibut back home to Denmark. That fish is now protected all year round in Norwegian Skagerrak.
This is illegal catch, guys!

Kosten kein Gegenargument: Finanzminister Klingbeil will Heim-Olympia Für Finanzminister Lars Klingbeil spricht das Kosten-Argument nicht gegen eine deutsche Olympia-Bewerbung. »Wir können uns Olympische Spiele leisten und wir sollten uns Olympische Spiele leisten. Sie machen unser Land stärker und besser<«, sagte der Vizekanzler der »Bild am Sonntag<<. Der SPD-Vorsitzende verwies auf den Erfolg der Sommerspiele in Paris vor zwei Jahren und erinnerte an die Fußball-WM 2006 in Deutschland, das sogenannte >>>Sommermärchen».

Neeee, Klimaschutz, Sozialstaat, ausreichend finanzierte Schulen, Klimaanpassung, können wir wegen Kosten leider alles nicht ordentlich machen, aber Olympische Spiele - was kostet die Welt!

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

Awkward for everyone on Substack...
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

New Mexico governor signs Immigrant Safety Act among other bills into law New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed four bipartisan bills into law, focusing on improving health care access, investing in statewide infrastructur

"The new law forbids counties and local law enforcement from contracting with ICE. It mandates that public bodies terminate any existing immigration detention agreements and prohibits the use of public property for federal civil immigration detention..."

kfoxtv.com/news/local/n...

ICE in Business Casual

Too many of you are asking, “How did we get here?”
Or declaring, “This is not who we are.”

What you refuse to acknowledge is that a straight line can be drawn from your day-to-day behavior as white people in this country to the state-sanctioned violence now roaming its streets.

Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit says The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.

“Amalia had been healthy before immigration officers arrested her family… Amalia’s health quickly deteriorated [in Dilley]. On Jan. 18, she was rushed to a children’s hospital where doctors treated her for pneumonia, Covid-19, RSV and severe respiratory distress.”

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I think each of us in academia knows people in our departments or fields who are horrible people and also know who’s protecting them. These revelations should not be a surprise to any of us.

YouTube video by DVB English News US Temporary Protected Status termination paused for Myanmar

A US federal judge paused the termination of Temporary Protected Status for nearly 4,000 Myanmar people who couldn’t return after the 2021 military coup. Find out more in our Newsroom interview, available wherever you get #podcasts #WhatshappeninginMyanmar youtu.be/cUefu_I4KSk

Your art!

This guy got beaten by a bunch of masked thugs whose salaries are paid by our taxes simply for being Mexican. Help him out.

I would enjoying getting flowers as a gift but actually I would want the whole living plant to put in my yard (once I have a yard…)

really grim watching the US try to starve cuba into submission. after the rest of the world let america-israel do genocide in gaza it feels like washington took the lesson that no one will stand up to them no matter how blatantly exterminationist they get

Need a mood boost?

Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl

An anthurium with a very very dark leaf with bright pink veins outlined with prominent silver crystal veination

A bright green and white monstera leaf with a primary fenestration on each side. The right side is about 60% creamy white with a thin minty strip, and the rest bright green. You can sort of see it’s planted in sphagnum moss

An anthurium leaf that is bright green with a yellow marbling burning in. It’s very pointy and called a variegated anthurium pterodactyl for a reason

Some dark green jagged red angel wing begonia with bright pink polka dots

hello it is 8:33 pm on Saturday night on the east coast of the USA & if you’re feeling the weight of the world, I invite you to gaze upon some foliage with me. Here are some of my current favorite leaves. The horrors will wait for us to find ourselves in the polka dots & rally to face the fascists.

Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.

we need real change in this country, not better management

Time for more hibernation!!

it really scares me that we can't get more than a few democrats on the record that every child should be freed from the concentration camps

Indigenous and campesino communities in Cuenca, Ecuador met with Canadian ambassador Craig Kowalik yesterday.

They delivered a clear message: NO Canada-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement, and NO to Canadian mining in the Kimsakocha páramo.

Sudan Doctors Network:
Twenty-two people, including the medical director of Al-Kuweik Military Hospital & three medical staff members, were killed, & eight others were injured in a bombing carried out by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) targeting Al-Kuweik Hospital in South Kordofan State
#KeepEyesOnSudan

What’s needed to protect sage grouse? Less grazing. - High Country News Two tribes are showing how saving sage grouse, and other iconic species of the West’s vast sagebrush steppe, will require are assessment of the widespread cattle grazing that has become an emblem of t...

Here’s a good, deep dive on what’s needed in sage grouse country. The upshot: less grazing, more cultural burning.
www.hcn.org/issues/58-2/...

Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."

Two cases of tuberculosis detected at El Paso ICE facility
Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified.

U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."

www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...

You started it today by quote-dunking to argue with an Indigenous person! Just calm down

This right here is why people hate WS.

It's not *just* that he's a milquetoast liberal.

It's not *just* that he thinks he knows better than other leftists.

It's that he quote-tweets minority women to dunk on them.

Could have been a reply, but he needs the thrill of visibly correcting a woman.

It's easy to tell sometimes who doesn't check their sources when they see shit posted online (especially for shock value). Megan Thee Stallion said it best. Lol

A torrent frog waving its leg and surrounded by dark blue text. From top to bottom: Hylodidae [Torrent Frogs] Some live near waterfalls Slender-bodied Lives in Brazil and Argentina

Hoppy New Year: The Neotropical torrent frogs live near streams, and some prefer fast-moving water. Because of their noisy habitat, a few species use body language instead of vocalization to communicate.
#hoppynewyear #hylodidae #torrentfrog #frog #amphibian #education #art #SciArt