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Birder K
@birderk.bsky.social
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She/her Just another broke girl w/binoculars. Will answer bird feeder & bird ID questions!
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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · Nov 19
I was reminded earlier today that I need to reconstruct my Twitter thread over here at some point on our backyard bird creek we made many years ago. Pinning this as point to start from whenever I can get to it. In the meantime, enjoy this fall Kinglet Pool Party. #birds
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gregpak.net
The function of consumer-facing "A.i." is to enrich billionaires by deploying faux sci fi woo woo bullshit to normalize crappy, dangerous products that worsen and sometimes even end people's lives.

Institute the corporate death sentence for all companies that injure and kill people with this trash.
February 10, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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mprnews.org
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
www.mprnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:11 AM
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akivamcohen.bsky.social
"I just wish her well"
February 10, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.
wsj.com The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1h
An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University
Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk
The Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment.
on.wsj.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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richardkimnyc.bsky.social
BREAKING: ICE officials under a judge’s order to clean up overcrowded & squalid conditions on 10th floor at 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate, secret floor where they decided that ruling didn’t apply, the Trump admin admitted in court Monday.

www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...
ICE Moved Detainees to Previously Undisclosed Floor of 26 Federal Plaza
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reduce overcrowding and squalid conditions at a Manhattan holding room. Months later, he finds ICE merely shifted floors.
www.thecity.nyc
February 10, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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cheriepriest.com
These are instruments of battle; if you ever get blasted in the face by a dozen of them from 8 feet away for half an hour because you’re on the front row for your valedictorian brother’s college graduation, you’ll be well reminded of it. I salute this dude 👇
lataco.bsky.social L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 55m
Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.

The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...

By Julianne Le
February 10, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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jerthorp.bsky.social
It was a good day for ducks in NYC.

Hooded merganser was a patch bird for me!

🪶
Bufflehead Red-breasted merganser Hooded merganser Gadwalls
February 10, 2026 at 1:37 AM
birderk.bsky.social
It’s bird trading cards in the mail day! Holding off on opening the cards until later tonight, but I had to take a look at this month’s print. Monthly mail of pretty art makes me happy. ☺️
#BirdArt #HappyMail
Photo of a 5x7 print of watercolor art from Christina Baal. It features an Arctic Loon in flight over artistic waves with a moon and pink aurora sky in the background. This print is part of a monthly reward for supporting her Drawing 10000 Birds Patreon.
February 10, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
It's been a rough day/months/years

You deserve to take a break and look at this image and caption I found on a US Geological Survey website about water and capillary action:
Image of two serious-looking museum workers in suits carrying the Mona Lisa. Poorly photoshopped onto the image is the image of paper towels, a spilling red beverage, and the text "quick! the paper towels!" and "I love capillary action!" The caption reads: We know that no one will ever spill a bottle of Cherry Berry Go drink on the Mona Lisa, but if it happened, capillary action and paper towels would be there to help clean up the mess."
February 10, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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gregdoucette.bsky.social
It's honestly just funny that the first half of my life was spent listening to politicians bitch incessantly about the deficit and the national debt

And now it's "YOLO more Gestapo"

bsky.app/profile/fsqu...
fsquared.bsky.social fsquared @fsquared.bsky.social · 2h
Isn't it amazing that if we, for years, had applied even half of this level of budget to actually having a well staffed, well resourced, immigration system (careful and far more rapid consideration of asylum, effective chasing down of the truly "worst", etc.) we'd be in a far better world today.
February 9, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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archangelbeth.bsky.social
Call your
Electeds and scream.
stephensemler.bsky.social Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 7h
After a string of ICE murders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries proposed reforms — and $11 billion more for ICE.

Including reconciliation bill funding, the Schumer-Jeffries plan would give ICE a $30 billion budget, higher than all but 15 militaries worldwide:
www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...
ICE funding exceeds the military budgets of all but 15 countries. This table ranks the proposed $30 billion ICE budget for 2026 among the largest military budgets worldwide. It has 3 columns — ranking, military or agency, and funding — and 40 rows, 39 of which are country military budgets and 1 is the ICE budget. ICE is ranked 16th, larger than the military budgets of countries including Canada, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Sweden, Iran, and Switzerland. The ICE budget refers to the proposed 2026 discretionary spending in H.R.7147 plus average annual reconciliation funding in P.L.119-21. Military budgets are sourced from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Chart and analysis by Stephen Semler.
February 10, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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pamdorra.bsky.social
Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.
A multicolored quilt made of of scraps with the words WE KNOW WHAT WE SAW staggered down it with a large beautiful eye centered between the words. The eye has a rainbow camera aperture as the iris. It is quilted densely.
February 9, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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us.theconversation.com
On Feb. 19, 1942, FDR’s Executive Order 9066 led to the incarceration of nearly 127,000 Japanese Americans without charges or evidence of disloyalty.

One of their granddaughters researches this sad history – and writes about the objects they created in camps to help them endure.
Held captive in their own country during World War II, Japanese Americans used nature to cope with their unjustified imprisonment
Incarcerated in rough barracks surrounded by barbed wire and armed soldiers, Japanese Americans made functional and beautiful items to ease their suffering.
buff.ly
February 10, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Ok friends, final push:

We got married, and it was wonderful!

I'd like to spread the good news around to some wonderful science, conservation, and education charities I love.

Please consider making a donation in honor of David and Eileen's wedding:

www.southernfriedscience.com/im-getting-m...
I’m getting married! Want to honor us? Here are some great charities you can donate to.
Some, as they say, personal news: I’m getting married! I’d love to use this happy occassion to spread good news around. To that end, if you’re so inclined to make a donation &#822…
www.southernfriedscience.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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ruthz.bsky.social
One of the many things I loved about the Bad Bunny love letter to PR was this moment right here. This image. All of these hands reaching up to catch him.

What I saw in this moment: Bad Bunny said to his people… I got you. And you know what his people said right back? We got you too.

Beautiful.
Bad Bunny in white falling backwards and a crowd of people lifting up their hands to catch him
February 10, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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saskajanet.bsky.social
Do yourself a favour and take a moment to appreciate all the feather textures on display here. What an amazing creature! An uncommonly beautiful Common Raven #birds
A very large black bird perched on a horizontal tree limb with more limbs in the background. Bird has its back to the viewer with head turned to the left in profile.
February 10, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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kirstensneathart.bsky.social
Happy New week! Here is day 4 of #birbfest2026 The Golden-Headed Manakin. Cute little one! Have a great week! #birbfest #birdart #goldenheadedmanakin
Watercolor painting of a little yellow and black bird. Green background.
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...
Dear Ms. Wolfe, Petitioner-Appellee Rümeysa Öztürk submits this Rule 28(j) letter to advise the Court that on January 29, 2026, the immigration court held that the Department of Homeland Security had not met its burden of proving removability, and the immigration court thereby terminated removal proceedings against Ms. Öztürk.' This development underscores the dangers of the government's interpretation of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Under the government's view, it could punitively detain any noncitizen in retaliation for her speech for many months, so long as it simultaneously institutes removal proceedings—no matter how unmeritorious—all without any federal court review of the lawfulness of detention at any time. To be clear, the termination of Ms. Öztürk's removal proceedings does not moot her habeas case. (By contrast, as Ms. Öztürk has argued, this appeal is moot. Br. 18-20.) Without habeas jurisdiction and the bail order that is currently in place, any government appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals would again subject Ms. Öztürk to re-detention. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.6(a). For that reason, she continues to suffer the threat of continuing "now-or-never" First and Fifth Amendment harms. Br. in Opp. 55-57.
February 9, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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birdingmagazine.bsky.social
Hm. Looks I haven't been around here in a little while. :-)
Well, let's jumpstart things with an announcement that I'll be at the @boulderbookstore.bsky.social this coming Wed., Feb. 11, starting at 6:30pm. Let's talk birds! And sign a few books. ;-)

See you soon!
February 10, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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mollyknight.bsky.social
Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsk... X Megyn Kelly just shouting "FOOTBALL IS OURS" at Piers Morgan about Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show is the perfect example of this moment in time. Put it in a time capsule and send it out into space. PIERS MORGAN _UNCENSORED FOLLOW US XI @piersuncensored
February 10, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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elliottpayne.org
Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.
February 9, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
High schools all over New Hampshire have been having walk outs. *New Hampshire* ok? This generation is letting this radicalize them.
lexmcmenamin.com Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 10h
in their walkout speech, Nathalie told their classmates,

"We’re being dehumanized and there’s nothing we can really do about it because we’re high schoolers... Not only are our parents being hunted, taken and kidnapped, but it’s also our little siblings being used as bait and then being taken."
These are the high schoolers taking a stand against ICE: ‘You can’t let despair take over’
Thousands of students across the US have been walking out of their schools to protest ICE in their communities
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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pbsnews.org
The timing of winter, the amount of snowfall and temperatures are all less reliable and less predictable because Earth is warming at a record rate, said Shel Winkley, a Climate Central meteorologist.
https://to.pbs.org/3MeUvyK
Olympic town warms as climate change puts Winter Games on thin ice
The International Olympic Committee said last week it could move up the start date for future Winter Games to January from February because of rising temperatures.
www.pbs.org
February 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
PLEASE PAY ATTENTION THIS STORY

THIS WOMAN SHOULD NOT BE ROTTING IN A PRISON CAMP

(no one should be)
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10h
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Leqaa Kordia is Palestinian and is the last pro-Palestine student protestor who is still being held in government custody. She has recently suffered a medical emergency while incarcerated. Please fill out this form to send a letter to your congressional reps demanding her release:
Tell Congress: Free Leqaa Kordia from ICE detention!
Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old Palestinian woman from Paterson, NJ, who courageously protested the genocide in Gaza, has been held in ICE detention for nearly 11 months. The Trump administration and IC...
actionnetwork.org
February 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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ufw.bsky.social
It's appropriate on #BlackHistoryMonth we uplift Kevin's voice. He's been a Jamaican H2A worker for the last 10 yrs & is excited over the implementation of his UFW contract at NYs Wafler Farms. He's looking forward to getting the benefits his contract provides. #UnionsForAll
February 9, 2026 at 11:01 PM