Jack Settelmaier

I love great conversations, as long as they're shorter than 140 (old school) characters! ;)

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Breaking news: A Ford dealership in Kansas can't release a sold F-250 because a robin moved in first.

An employee at the dealership located outside Kansas City noticed a robin building a nest on the tire of a brand new F-250 that was already sold. The robin laid four eggs and successfully hatched them.

The truck is now stuck on the lot until the chicks fledge, because the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 makes it illegal to disturb an active nest of any native bird in the United States.

The buyer has been a good sport. The dealership called it the only F-250 in America currently protected under federal law.

[Jack Settelmaier @fwjack2]

Nice work by this Revolving Door Project group!

[The American Prospect @TheProspect]

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought has made good on his promise to put federal workers in “trauma.” https://t.co/aeoWc47HDt

[Jack Settelmaier @fwjack2]

SC farmers fight to keep Carolina Gold rice in restaurants https://t.co/VyqU7QJ73o

[Jack Settelmaier @fwjack2]

Great NYC winter photos in this Substack post.

[Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett]

An Atmosphere of Great Drama
The winter of '26 is one for the history books -- and there's more to come. The Polar Vortex is weakening, as systems of ice-building, albedo reflection, and sea currents yield to climate change.
More snow coming in '26.
https://t.co/NQ9hf69dmw

[Mariia Kramarenko @KramarenkoMari3]

Not so fun fact, the organizers of the games were so unprepared for a Ukrainian to win gold that the ceremony was delayed for an hour.
They initially hung the Ukrainian flag upside down and realized they didn't even have a recording of the national anthem. After Ukrainian team refusing offers to play the russian or soviet anthem instead (!!!), a Ukrainian team official had to rush back to the Olympic Village to retrieve a recording found in the bag of fellow skater Liudmyla Mykhailovska for the Ukrainian anthem to be played.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Republicans in Congress voted in lockstep with Trump in 2025. Politicians ALWAYS voting the party line means they are more loyal to the party than to their people. Voting behavior such as this is problematic. Source: https://t.co/dp6MFP0vDA

[Karen Tumulty @ktumulty]

My late cousin, who I adored and miss every day, once said to me: Never make fun of someone for mispronouncing a word. It means they learned it by reading.

[Max Kozlov @maxdkozlov]

"This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board." —@_david_ho_

https://t.co/YVuyoyunwQ

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

This cat dragged a stray kitten home...but It was a bobcat cub …and then

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

This is brilliant.
♥️ 🎶🎻

[Jack Settelmaier @fwjack2]

@engeljen Sorry, the OPI, if that is what you’re referring to, was clearly a valid call.

[Jack Settelmaier @fwjack2]

@BigJoeBastardi I’ll never forget get how cold that ‘89 December was living in a MD apartment in suburban DC. The heat pump just could not keep up! Amazingly, that winter (DJF) ended up above normal as JF were SO warm. Crazy winter!

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

75 years ago today, the Chuck Jones masterpiece Rabbit of Seville was released.

If you are of a certain age, chances are Bugs Bunny introduced you to opera.

[Dave Dameshek @Dameshek]

See?
And some of yinz was worried they were out of ideas

[Penguins Jesus @PenguinsJesus]

Tonight is the 99th game featuring Sidney Crosby & Alex Ovechkin:

Sid - 55 Wins, 46 G, 79 A, 125 PTS

Ovi - 43 Wins, 53 G, 48 A, 101 PTS

[CSPAN @cspan]

#GovernmentShutdown Day 2

[Jack Settelmaier @fwjack2]

@wxphx @AmericanAir Sounds horrible. :( It certainly wasn’t DFW weather. Cool/Dry post-frontal.

[Jack Settelmaier @fwjack2]

@jaycordeira The next SPC outlook, 3.5 hours later, did have the brown further south, fwiw. I love reviewing outlooks and LSRs on this SPC event archive page! https://t.co/XJBswUOUCs

[Jack Settelmaier @fwjack2]

@Dameshek As you say, don’t get over your skis. :)

[Jack Settelmaier @fwjack2]

@Dameshek Don’t overlook Terps, and a Wisky team w/ an interim coach. :)