Mike Allen

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.

They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

Incredible font matching here

Trump's delusional rantings for the day, sending a medical ship to Greenland to "take care of the many sick people," who apparently aren't included in their Universal Healthcare System.

So Governor of Louisiana Jeff Landry, who's state ranks dead last in health care for the past 4 years, is joining with Trump, who cut off ACA subsidies to millions, to send a medical ship to Greenland, a nation with universal health care, to "help their sick people".
Are ya fucking kidding me?

From a reliable source.
Trump's first reaction to the SCOTUS tariff decision.

We should try electing some kind of deliberative body that makes decisions about levying taxes.

The mysterious symptom popping up in some GLP-1 users What if you lost weight and didn’t care — about anything?

I think we may have discovered Soma www.vox.com/explain-it-t...

This will make trump very popular with under 16s in Oz🤣https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-content-bans-europe-elsewhere-2026-02-18/

How will Trump react?
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A brilliant bit of news: this painting has found a home in the US. I am enormously grateful for the support.

Credit: Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Brazil's Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, center, winner of an alpine ski, men's giant slalom race, jumps in celebration on the podium flanked by second placed Switzerland's Marco Odermatt, left, and third placed Switzerland's Loic Meillard, at the 2026 Winter Olympics.(AP)

What a great photo of Brazilian alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the first South American to ever win a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

Society Garlic

Society Garlic. ILCE-6400,F/5,1/200 sec.,ISO-100, E 30mm F3.5 Macro. I used auto; I do not know what I'm doing with a macro lense. Pretty little thing that has flowered a couple of times in the few months that I've had it. Low maintenance 😎

Birds on a light pole

Birds on a light pole

Plant in pot

Here's something restful. Alternanthera Dentata. A few years old and thriving despite my black thumb. SONY ILCE-6000 1/400 sec. ISO-100 50 mm (auto)

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"I was only following orders" wasn't an acceptable excuse at the Nuremberg trials & won't work now.

#AccountabilityIsComing

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.

"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."

"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."

ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

A Bush Stone-Curlew one of two similar species found in Australia, the other the Beach Stone-Curlew. A very long-legged wader.

Just in from a friend in what looks like a rather wet Cairns, Australia, a Bush Stone-Curlew for #BirdsSeenIn2026

USA: We cannot compete cheap Chinese production workers.
China: Xiaomi just unveiled a factory that makes 1 phone per second, runs 24/7, has no production workers, and operates in the dark.

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

Back from Colorado. Drive was long but the view was lovely

Being disconnected for several days was really nice

Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6

Thanks Larry, I'm glad someone pays attention to current affairs 🐈‍⬛

I haven't looked at volume, but I'm guessing a few stockbrokers and options traders had a good week on the "Trump Effect"

Leonard Nimoy was more than a colleague—he was a friend, an ally, and my political soulmate. Leonard played a half-human, half-Vulcan officer—a being caught between two worlds. Yet in his own life, he was perhaps the most profoundly human person I have ever known.

If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help.

The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later:

thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/

‘Purrsonal’ favorite
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Morning all. Warming up and a bit breezy! Fire danger is high so please take care! Enjoy the Day 🌞

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Reform: The Seven Dwarfs if all of them were Dopey

Time to put grandpa in a home I’m sorry GOP