3 dead, 12 hurt in suspected tornadoes in southwest Michigan A twister was seen damaging the Three Rivers area, including ripping the roof off a Menards store and pulling apart a storage unit.

www.detroitnews.com/story/weathe...

Tornadoes in Michigan on March 6

I learned how to perform emergency field amputations in less than a minute

Does anybody have advice about setting up an iPad for a person with early Alzheimer’s so it stops installing updates and asking for a passcode that they will forget in 15 minutes? #ios #apple #ipad

what's that? don't like seeing your legal name on government documents? would rather it be your preferred name? huh. huh huh huh.

Eisenhower

Its a WOPR of a discovery....

I really don’t understand why so many 18th century US records on FamilySearch are restricted in some way. Explain it to me like I’m an archivist who believes in open access.

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Mitch McConnell, may you rot in hell.

Cleaning out his mom's house, Boston man finds his ancestor's freedom papers Researchers in Boston are diving deep into his family tree to connect the missing links.

Wow! This is the kind of treasure most genealogists wish to find! www.wcvb.com/article/bost...? #genealogy #familyhistory

‘Very Republican, very patriotic’: right-leaning civic centers now offer courses at US public colleges Republican lawmakers push for conservative professors to counter purported leftwing indoctrination in schools

Want to know more about the sweeping trend of state mandated taxpayer financed and hyper empowered civics centers, and the political project they embody, as in Ohio? See this excellent @theguardian.com article @osuaaup.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

oh no. i just read this article and looked at my university’s senate notes from earlier this month. it think my university just approved a course from this center.

i had no idea any of this was happening until now.

“Soon, thousands of Ohio college students will be funneled through these centers […] This time, it has a new provision: all students earning a bachelor’s degree will have to take an American civic literacy course.”

WHAT.

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Why do men’s organizations have to be such jackasses? It’s like most of them can’t put their testosterone laden egos aside to work towards a common cause. I’m sure women orgs have drama too, but my experience has been they get things done. Full stop.

Soooooo right tonight

Videos of dogs loving the east coast blizzard are keeping my soul alive right now. 🥹

By the way, Trump still has not publicly congratulated the U.S. women's hockey team. That seems to be lost in all this. No statement. No social media post. No call to them. Nothing.

My university started sneaking "AI readiness" into faculty evaluation rubrics. Suggested reviewer language for spring post-tenure + contingent faculty review prompts reviewers to assess whether courses are "AI ready." We've had no shared governance discussion about this as far as I know+

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.

He finally died.

I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

1/n On Doomerism/Mansplaining/Helpful Hints: This morning, I was still trying to understand a man who felt some compulsion to explain to the whistle goblins how they could do it better. Never mind that they’ve been doing this for MONTHS already and already tried his “better” method and

The court opinion is an excellent read IMHO.

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

A friend is looking for an appreciative home for their late relative's library (books & other docs) focused on the history, religion and culture of India and Bangladesh (ancient-modern & around the time of Indian partition), & the history of Islam (particularly in South Asia and Bengal). #askbluesky

Seems about right

And now we have severe thunderstorm warnings.