TracyMar

Mom, wife, Para Educator, knitter, reader, sometime political activist, occasional cat costume judge.

[Seán Ono Lennon @seanonolennon]

There used to be an FBI warning on every dumb video you rented from blockbuster. Can’t they put warnings on all AI video content and make that a thing so we never have to guess what’s real ever again?

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

This is a current picture of Tehran for you uneducated, never-served, warhawks licking your chops of bombing it.

It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, girls in schools, pets, regular working class people with dreams.

You're sick to want war.
You’re sick to want Trump.

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

🚨 JUST IN: A migratory bird just shattered world records — flying 8,425 miles (13,560 km) NON-STOP across the Pacific without landing once.

The bar-tailed godwit doesn’t stop to eat, drink, or sleep during its migration across the Pacific Ocean. Its journey from Alaska to Australia takes roughly 11 days of continuous flight, covering over 13,000 kilometers through storms, headwinds, and open ocean with zero land beneath it the entire time.

Before departure, it does something almost surgical to its own body. It shrinks its digestive organs down to almost nothing, converting the stomach, intestines, and liver into raw fuel. The bird essentially eats its own gut to make room for fat reserves that will power its wings for nearly two weeks straight.

The brain doesn’t fully sleep either. Half of it stays active while the other half rests, alternating in shifts mid-flight at altitude over the open Pacific. The godwit is simultaneously unconscious and navigating with magnetic field sensitivity that no human instrument in the 18th century could replicate.

What makes this genuinely staggering beyond the physical record is the navigational precision involved. The bird leaves Alaska and arrives in New Zealand with accuracy that would embarrass early GPS systems. It reads Earth’s magnetic field, atmospheric pressure gradients, star positions, and potentially quantum-level compass mechanisms inside its eye that literally let it see magnetic field lines overlaid on its visual field.

Evolution spent millions of years building an aerospace navigation system inside a 300 gram animal.

We spend billions engineering machines that do what this bird does on instinct, fat reserves, and half a sleeping brain.
The longest recorded non-stop flight by a commercial aircraft is around 20 hours.

This bird does 11 days.

Without a runway.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The March 15, 2025, killing of Ruben Ray Martinez drew almost no public attention.

But Martinez is now the first known American citizen shot to death by federal immigration agents during President Trump’s second term. https://t.co/UuEi5ICMVB

[ELM22.0 @ELMAGAIN]

Just over 5700 Native Women went missing last year. There was zero national media coverage, no FBI Taskforce, no 24hr round the clock updates, and only the families shed tears:

Indigenous women make up less than 1% of our nations population.
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics in 2024 (latest year of compiled verifiable numbers)
....Native American women made up 16% of all female homicide victims, nation wide.
....Native American women made up 11% of all reported cases of missing women, nation wide.
....Native American juvenile females made up 13.5% of all missing juveniles of either sex nationwide.
....Native American females (adult & children) made up 42% of all rescued or recovered (deceased) victims of Sex Trafficking/Sexual Slavery nation wide.
....Statistically, 78% of all Native American women will be sexually assaulted by a non-native adult male at least once before she is 18 years old.
....Statistically, 57% of all Native American women will be sexually assaulted at least twice before they are 35 years old.

THIS HAS GOT TO BE ADDRESSED AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL.

#MMIW... #NoMoreStolenSisters

[sarah @sahouraxo]

This is the front page of the Tehran Times today.

Trump fired a Tomahawk missile on a school full of children in Minab, Iran.

Then launched another missile to kill the parents who rushed in to rescue them.

168 schoolkids killed. Then their parents.

History will never forget.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: DHS agents are now illegally arresting U.S. citizens at airports… and trafficking them across state lines.

A 28-year-old U.S. citizen, Sunny Naqvi, was detained by DHS, for 43 hours, after landing at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.

She wasn’t charged with a crime, and she wasn’t accused of doing anything illegal…

Agents reportedly detained her over what they called a “curious travel history.”

Even though Sunny was born in Illinois…they still disappeared her.

After being held for about 30 hours inside the airport, agents secretly moved Sunny to an ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois.

While this was happening, federal agents repeatedly told her family she was NOT in custody, even though her phone location showed she was inside the facility.

Then it gets worse.

According to witnesses, agents asked for Sunny’s phone number so they could “look for her phone.”

Minutes later, the phone was opened, her messages were read, and the device was shut off, cutting off the family’s ability to track her.

After that, agents transported the U.S. citizen across state lines, to another detention facility in Dodge County, Wisconsin.

And then she was eventually released early Saturday morning… in a random state, alone.

Her phone was dead, and she had no transportation.

So, a U.S. citizen detained by the federal government had to hitchhike to a hotel, just to be able to reunite with her family.

And this is what people need to understand…

When federal agents can detain U.S. citizens without charges… lie to families about their custody, search personal phones, and secretly transport people across state lines…

That puts every single American in danger.

Because they can do it to anyone.

[Love Music @khnh80044]

He wrote ‘Santa Baby’ in 1953…
and at 94 he’s sitting down to play Moonlight Sonata for his daughter’s birthday like it’s nothing.
Proof that real talent doesn’t retire, it just gets more beautiful✨💖

[alyssum 👾 @a_lil_bow]

The elite are irrelevant. Society literally doesn’t need them.

We need garbage collectors, teachers, fire fighters, librarians, farmers.

The more we realize we need each other, the closer we are to a better world.

[Nicki 🫧🪷 @nickimoraa]

America is the only country where one of the most popular TV shows of all time is based on the American healthcare system being so bad that a teacher had to become a meth producer to fund his cancer treatments.

And this was an entirely plausible plot.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Some police departments in states including Indiana and Michigan have introduced programs that allow residents to resolve minor parking violations by donating pet supplies to local animal shelters. In Muncie, Indiana, officials recently gave drivers the option to pay parking tickets with cat food or litter, which was then delivered directly to the city’s shelter.

The program was created after officers learned the shelter was caring for hundreds of animals during peak “kitten season” and needed additional support. Community participation exceeded expectations, with donation areas filling within days. Many residents also contributed even without receiving tickets.

Organizers say the initiative helps reduce administrative workload while providing much-needed resources to shelters, highlighting how small policy changes can encourage community involvement and charitable giving.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Here's a farming practice you haven't been told about.

In North America and the UK, 80% of commercial oat crops are sprayed with glyphosate two to three weeks before harvest. Not to kill weeds. Not for pest control. To kill the oat plant itself.

When you spray a standing crop with herbicide, the plant dies uniformly. This is called desiccation. It means the entire field ripens simultaneously, which makes mechanical harvesting more efficient and profitable. The dying plant pulls all remaining moisture into the grain. Yields increase. Scheduling becomes predictable.

The consequence is that the grain is harvested shortly after being drenched in herbicide. The glyphosate residues are baked in.

The Environmental Working Group tested 61 oat-based products in 2019. Every single oat-based baby food tested contained detectable glyphosate. The majority of conventional products exceeded their benchmark for children's health.

The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in 2015. Bayer, who bought Monsanto, has paid out $11 billion in legal settlements to farmers and consumers who developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma after exposure.

Your oat milk latte is pre-sprayed with a probable carcinogen to make harvesting 15% more cost-efficient.

The barista made a lovely leaf in it though.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The Kelpies are two monumental stainless-steel horse-head sculptures in Falkirk, Scotland, each about 30 meters (100 feet) tall and weighing roughly 300 tons.

Honouring Scotland’s industrial heritage and the working horses that once powered its canals.

[TracyMar @TracyMar]

I see a Triathlon in this young hero's future.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Emergency call released of 13-year-old Austin Appelbee telling authorities to get a helicopter after he swam for four hours to reach the shore.

Appelbee was heard calmly telling authorities that his mom and siblings were stranded at sea.

The boy was heard explaining that his mom told him to swim to shore after they had been swept out about 2.5 miles.

After four hours of swimming, Appelbee had to run about 1.25 miles to reach a phone.

"I’m sitting on the beach right now, and I have to also explain. I think I need an ambulance because I think I have hypothermia … I feel like I’m about to pass out."

Swims for four hours, sprints 1.25 miles, his body is failing, and he calmly instructs emergency responders to send out a helicopter.

Wild.

[Kateri Seraphina @KateriSeraphina]

Cet athlète, et avant tout homme, s’appelle Hunter Hess. C’est un skieur de 27 ans, champion de freestyle, membre de l’équipe américaine, et il est ces jours-ci au centre de l’attention aux Jeux Olympiques de Milan-Cortina.
Et en ce moment, il est littéralement victime d’une chasse aux sorcières sans précédent, organisée et menée rien de moins que par l’homme le plus puissant du monde et président des États-Unis, Donald Trump.
La raison ?
Parce que Hess a « osé » exprimer son opinion en tant que citoyen libre sur ce qui se passe dans l’Amérique raciste et fasciste de Trump.
De plus, il l’a fait avec des mots sobres, mesurés et impossibles à ne pas partager :
« Selon mes valeurs, représenter les États-Unis en ce moment suscite en moi des sentiments partagés. »
« C’est un peu difficile. Beaucoup de choses se passent qui ne me plaisent pas. »
Et cela a suffi pour être insulté par Trump, devant son pays et le monde entier :
« Le skieur olympique américain Hunter Hess, un vrai perdant, affirme qu’il ne représente pas son pays aux Jeux olympiques d’hiver actuels. »
« Si c’est le cas, il n’aurait même pas dû postuler pour l’équipe, c’est dommage qu’il en fasse partie. Il est vraiment difficile d’encourager une personne comme ça », l’a-t-il attaqué sur Truth.
En pratique, un licenciement pur et simple.
Nous sommes obligés d’être loyaux envers la patrie et le leader, comme dans les régimes totalitaires.
Soit tu es avec moi. Soit tu te tais. Soit tu es exclu.
Voici le message terrifiant que Trump envoie.
Il ne le saura jamais, mais je veux exprimer ma solidarité humaine et personnelle à cet athlète courageux qui ne s’est pas caché, qui a mis son visage et ses idées en avant, sachant à quoi il s’exposait.
Ce qui, en effet, est arrivé rapidement…
Je pense que tout le monde dans le sport, ses collègues, et quiconque partage les valeurs olympiques, devrait aujourd’hui être du côté de cet homme au dos droit et à la tête haute.
#fblifestyle

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Rep. Torres on the SAVE Act: 69 million women who follow the traditional practice of changing their name after marriage do not have a birth certificate that matches their legal name. Republicans know this and want to use that to block them from voting. This is voter suppression

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

I’m a librarian. We have rules. Strict ones. A little girl, maybe 9, came to my desk trembling. She pushed a copy of Harry Potter across the counter. It was ruined. Soaked. Muddy. "I... I dropped it in a puddle," she whispered. "I don't have the money to replace it." She was terrified. I looked at her file. She checked out three books a week. Never late. I looked at the book. Then I looked at her cheap, worn-out sneakers. I scanned the book. beep. "What book?" I asked. She looked confused. "The one... right there." I slid the ruined book into the trash can behind me. "I don't see a book. Our system says you returned it yesterday. Must have been a glitch." I grabbed a brand new copy from the shelf and handed it to her. "This one is checked out to you now. Try to keep it dry, okay?" She didn't say a word. She just grabbed my hand, squeezed it hard, and ran off. I paid for the lost book out of my paycheck. Best $15 I ever spent.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This is awesome

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

At the Epstein hearing today, Rep. Jayapal asked all the Epstein victims to raise their hand if AG Pam Bondi/DOJ has refused to meet with them.

All of them raised their hands.

Every. Single. One.