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Jeff Duda
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Research meteorologist. Owner/manager of Stormtrack. Animal lover. Runner. Hiker. But that's not all!!!

Go, Hawks! (Go Cyclones, too)

*ALL posts/statements I make here are of my personal opinion and do not represent those of my employer!*
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anaphoristand.bsky.social
This is some genuinely psycho shit...
Pam Bondi loves dogs. Always had them, one after another. She got involved with dog shelters and dog rescue, and once pulled off to the side of a busy road and got out of her car to chase down a stray. Another dog she helped was a Saint Bernard named Master Tank. She adopted him from a shelter after he was lost during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, not long after her own Saint Bernard had died. The story has been told but bears repeating. Master Tank belonged to Steve and Dorreen Couture and their grandson, who was 4, recovering from the murder-suicide of his parents and losing his dog during the storm. Bondi said the dog was a “walking skeleton” and “dying from heartworms” when she adopted him. The Coutures eventually tracked down Master Tank, but instead of giving him back, Bondi hired a lawyer, who accused the Coutures of abusing the dog, which Bondi had renamed Noah. “She lied,” Dorreen told a Palm Beach Post columnist years later. “My little grandson begged her to take the dog home, and she refused. She thought she would just wear us down. That we were unstable people and would just quit.” The case was settled out of court, with Bondi securing visitation rights, but she never did visit. She got another dog.
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
jeffdudaphdco.bsky.social
💯

I gotta get me one of these.
February 10, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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nihilist-arbys.bsky.social
You'll probably die of a disease that could be cured or prevented by an absolutely stupid amount of money you don't have.

Many corporations each spent 10 or 100 times that to make 30-second displays of flickering lights to sell you garbage during a football game.

Please eat arbys for some reason
February 9, 2026 at 12:48 AM
jeffdudaphdco.bsky.social
Super Bowl commercials so far:

DON'T FORGET TO BET ON THE GAME. THE ONLY WAY TO SHOW SUPPORT FOR AMERICA AND BE A TRUE FOOTBALL FAN IS TO BET ON THE GAME.

BET SOME, AND THEN BET SOME MORE.

DO NOT STOP BETTING.
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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redditcfb.com
Throwback to 1977 where the NFL and Goodyear cooperated with the plot of Black Sunday, a movie that had terrorists crashing a shrapnel-bomb-laden Goodyear Blimp into the Orange Bowl during Super Bowl X:
February 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
jeffdudaphdco.bsky.social
LOL...I took the same goddamn picture on two separate occasions while on road trips in Utah. It's a scenic rest area off I-70 within the San Rafael Swell area, which is probably why I visited it both times. They were shot with the same camera, but different lenses (24 mm vs. 14 mm).
Taken 8/21/2022. 1/400 s exposure, 14 mm, f/10, ISO 200 Shot 4/18/2021. 1/500 s exposure at 24 mm, f/9, ISO 160
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 AM
jeffdudaphdco.bsky.social
Submission #481AB58 for rock album cover art
February 7, 2026 at 5:47 AM
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cato.org
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
February 3, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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foiaball.com
They say online dating in NYC is bad now, but in 2012 you could have been matched with Jeffrey Epstein
February 3, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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karenhao.bsky.social
Absolutely damning from @aaronschaffer.com, @willoremus.com, & @nitasha.bsky.social.

To get more data, Anthropic:
* "destructively scanned" millions of books
* downloaded the shadow library LibGen
* hailed another shadow library's arrival as "just in time!!!"

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books
Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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propublica.org
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
jeffdudaphdco.bsky.social
Five classes I took in college (course names probably not correct)

Music History 2 (Romantic Era thru mid 20th century)

Introduction to Abstract Algebra

Educational Psychology

Physics of Sound

Philosophy and Human History (classical philosophy)
subletteweather.com Sean Sublette @subletteweather.com · 11d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

• Drama and Mass Media

• European history since the Renaissance

• The American Experience: 1900-1950

• Numerical Weather Prediction

• Dynamic Meteorology I & II
jessicacalarco.com Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

American Society
Sociology of Childhood
Education Policy
Creative Nonfiction
Logic*
January 31, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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atrupar.com
This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.

(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
January 31, 2026 at 6:13 PM
jeffdudaphdco.bsky.social
Future Jeopardy fan?
January 31, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
We live in a world where a convicted child rapist and sex trafficker is treated better in prison than the children who’ve been detained by ICE.

Ghislaine Maxwell gets to be in a cushy minimum security facility …

5 year old Liam Ramos is locked up in a camp where kids are screaming “let us out”.
January 30, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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neguse.house.gov
Our fight against Trump’s reckless threat to dismantle NCAR continues, and we are building a bipartisan coalition to stop it.

I urge all Coloradans to make their voices heard during the NSF's public comment period.

See the Daily Camera’s reporting 👇🏽
Rep. Joe Neguse urges residents to send comments to NSF in support of NCAR
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, a Lafayette Democrat, is urging all Boulder and Colorado residents to submit written comments to the National Science Foundation in support of the National Center for Atmosphe…
www.dailycamera.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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milestaylor.bsky.social
Trump says he has the power to seize ballots — and now his spy chief is joining FBI raids of election offices.

But guess what?

I co-wrote the order he’s talking about. He’s lying. And a crime might be in progress.

www.defiance.news/p/why-we-sho...
Why we should worry that Trump's spy chief was spotted at an FBI raid of an election office
The incident is beyond suspicious. In fact, it’s a real-time flag of potential corruption — and the president's ambition to rig the coming elections.
www.defiance.news
January 29, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
An extraordinary document. Read it.

“Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
On January 8, 2026, petitioner Juan T.R. filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.' The Court issued an order requiring respondents to file an answer no later than January 12, 2026. See 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (requiring judges to either "forthwith award the writ" or order the respondent to show cause, within three days, why the writ should not be granted). Respondents failed to answer. Accordingly, the Court granted the writ in part and ordered respondents to afford Juan a bond hearing within seven days or, failing that, to immediately release him from detention. ECF No. 4. Respondents neither held a bond hearing within the required time nor released Juan. ECF No. 6. The Court then issued a show-cause order and scheduled a hearing at which it ordered the personal appearance of Todd Lyons, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE"). ECF No. 7. The Court noted, however, that if the parties filed a stipulation indicating that Juan had been released, the Court would cancel the hearing and would not require Lyons to appear. Id. The parties have now filed such a stipulation (ECF No. 9), and thus, as promised, the Court will cancel the hearing, and Lyons will not be required to appear. That does not end the Court's concerns, however. Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. The extent of ICE's noncompliance is almost certainly substantially understated. This list is confined to orders issued since January 1, 2026, and the list was hurriedly compiled by extraordinarily busy judges. Undoubtedly, mistakes were made, and orders that should have appeared on this list were omitted. This list should give pause to anyone —no matter his or her political beliefs— who cares about the rule of law. ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence. The Court warns ICE that future noncompliance with court orders may result in future show-cause orders requiring the personal appearances of Lyons or other government officials. ICE is not a law unto itself. ICE has every right to challenge the orders of this Court, but, like any litigant, ICE must follow those orders unless and until they are overturned or vacated Juan asks that the Court schedule a hearing at which he may present evidence and argument concerning the hardships that he has suffered as a result of respondents' failure to abide by the January 14 order. See In re Tetracycline Cases, 927 F.2d 411, 413 (8th Cir. 1991) ("Civil contempt sanctions may be imposed for either or both of two distinct purposes, to coerce compliance with a court order, and to compensate the complainant for actual losses sustained by him as a result of the defendants' contumacy." (quoting In re Chase & Sanborn Corp., 872 F.2d 397, 400-01 (11th Cir.1989))). The Court will not schedule a hearing at this time. If Juan wants to seek monetary sanctions, he may file a properly supported motion to that effect. ORDER Based on the foregoing, and on all of the files, records, and proceedings herein, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT the hearing currently scheduled for Friday, January 30, 2026, at 1:00 pm in Courtroom 15 (MPLS) is CANCELED.
January 28, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
January 29, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
This is why everyone should ignore the stories about Trump's de-escalation. The administration is *not* pivoting. It is pretending to pivot until the heat from the public and Congress dies down. Meanwhile, on the ground, it's more of the same, with slightly conciliatory language before the cameras.
iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14d
More ICE door-to-door operations are taking place in Blaine, Minnesota, on 1/28/26.
January 28, 2026 at 10:48 PM
jeffdudaphdco.bsky.social
Several years ago Wikipedia became my default first choice for information searching about intellectual topics online, beating out web search engines.

Started donating about a year ago.
bwjones.bsky.social BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 14d
And @wikipedia.org is here on Bsky!

Give them a follow, and throw them a little cash to help their mission of being a resource of facts in a world where information is both becoming more critical and being more poisoned.
nature.com Nature @nature.com · 14d
Wikipedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem

go.nature.com/4pXIv2d
January 28, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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macfarlanenews.bsky.social
We are now 40 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files
January 28, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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redditcfb.com
It happened here. Where next?
January 28, 2026 at 1:12 AM
jeffdudaphdco.bsky.social
I can't say I understand this setup. The entrance to the exhibit hall appears to be "boarded"/"taped"/closed off, yet there are numerous vendors active in the hall and no one is stopping people from just walking right on through anyway.

Is that supposed to be a flow limiter or something?
January 27, 2026 at 4:12 PM