As much as I'd like to stay up and wait for the ISS to land over Southern California, got to work in the morning. If anyone is staying up, take pictures. Not sure if there will be a sonic boom on landing? Anyway. If you see an unidentified flying object landing in the Pacific Ocean, it's astronauts returning from the ISS due to a medical emergency. Probably around midnight. Probably visible from San Francisco all the way to SoCal #ISS #space #sonicboom #VenturaCounty #SanDiegoCounty #LosAngelesCounty #SantaBarbaraCounty
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Latest ICE shooting in MN, video, Fascism, ICE, Extremely Traumatic
Video from the family of the person shot by ICE this evening. The Spanish translation is correct (per my Spanish). They called 911 begging the police for help, before ICE shot into the house and wounded the man.


Instagram
Jesus Freakin Congress on Instagram: "In the video, the family is heard calling the police for help, saying ICE agents followed the man for about 30 minutes.
When he reached his home, he ran inside. An agent then opened fired toward the house, hitting him in the leg.
Let’s be clear about what that means.
Law enforcement is not allowed to use lethal force just because someone runs.
Law enforcement is not allowed to fire toward an occupied home.
Law enforcement is not allowed to seize someone inside their home without a judicial warrant, absent extremely narrow circumstances.
This shot was fired in the direction of a house with children inside.
This was not a split-second traffic stop.
This was not an imminent threat to anyone inside that home.
If families are calling the police because federal agents are firing toward their house, the question isn’t whether this is normal. The question is how much longer the government will keep violating the Constitution before someone else is killed."
5,096 likes, 188 comments - thejfreakinc on January 14, 2026: "In the video, the family is heard calling the police for help, saying ICE agents fol...

Mutual aid request from MN Governor, Response to Fascism
Notable to hear Minnesota Gov. Walz specifically ask people to give other people mutual aid. i.e. normally in the US this would be the job of state/federal government to support the citizens. Tactic acknowledgement (IMHO) that the government is not able to provide aid (legal constraints? funding constraints? etc. etc.) Quite unusual, imho. (usually "mutual aid" seen as an anarchist/leftist concept, as I understand it?).
Anyone with a million dollars burning a hole in your pocket? Feel like getting scammed today? Here's your opportunity!
KTLA: $1 million room reservations now being taken for future hotel on the moon
https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/1-million-room-reservations-now-being-taken-for-future-hotel-on-the-moon/
#moon #hotel


Fascism, ICE, MN
404 Media: How One Guy Crowdsourced More Than 500 Dashcams for Minneapolis to Film ICE


404 Media
How One Guy Crowdsourced More Than 500 Dashcams for Minneapolis to Film ICE
βWe have to make sure people are watching. We have to make sure weβre keeping track of our community members.β
Fascism, Neo-Nazi Content, ICE, MN
The Intercept: DHS Used Neo-Nazi Anthem for Recruitment After Fatal Minneapolis ICE Shooting
The federal government is openly embracing white nationalist online content β including in a recruitment post after Jonathan Ross killed Renee Good.


The Intercept
DHS Used Neo-Nazi Anthem for Recruitment After Fatal Minneapolis ICE Shooting
The federal government is openly embracing white nationalist online content β including in a recent recruitment post.

LA Times: Insured losses from wildfire, storms and floods hit record high globally
" Record insured losses from wildfires, storms and floods hit $98 billion globally last year, with L.A. Countyβs January wildfires the costliest disaster of 2025.
Climate change is driving these secondary perils to become more severe and frequent, according to Munich Reβs analysis of rising global temperatures."
(paywall)
#climate #disasters #wildfires #climateemergency #insurance

Los Angeles Times
Insured losses from wildfire, storms and floods hit record high globally
Never before has the insurance industry faced such big losses tied to floods, severe thunderstorms and wildfires, according to a fresh study that l...
New USB hub installed and running. Found a different power supply, plugged into the old hub, which seems to be still functional, so just the power supply was the problem. Need a way to check USB voltage outputs before putting it back in action... Maybe will slice open an unused/old USB cable, should have kept one of the bad ones around here. π€ #electronics
See, it's not just me about the January heat being absolutely bizarre.
#CAwx

Mastodon
Daniel Swain (@weatherwest@mastodon.social)
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Well, it's now official (per NOAA): Dec (and Nov-Dec) 2025 were the warmest such periods on record for Western U.S. (and also fo...
Oooh, look, mall in LA (Westminster Mall) has gone post-apocalyptic. There's another one (?) in LA which was used for a lot of zombie movies after similar issues when they shut down.


ABC7 Los Angeles
Vandals target shuttered Westminster Mall, leave behind extensive damage
Instead of shoppers, the once-thriving Westminster Mall is now drawing vandals, leaving behind shattered glass and extensive damage throughout the ...