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Another person has died in ICE custody — this is the 28th known death this year. The cruelty of this rogue agency is beyond unconscionable. Abolish ICE.

Italian researchers built a robot that grows like a vine, 3D-printing its own body from the tip and steering toward light and away from gravity.

Snack break with Hudson the muskox. 🍃 📹: Animal care staff Russell

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The Inca Tern's one of a kind call

Pink Verconia norba sea slug captured on video underwater: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

A lawful permanent resident who lived in Texas for decades died in ICE custody in Laredo, prompting questions about his medical care.

If your apps are down in Europe… #news

Stunning Indah 😻 Her animal care team describes Indah as a “calm, mellow tiger who goes with the flow.” They say she’s also very social and personable, and chuffs at the other tigers. She is a fast learner and loves to explore. 🐅 📸: Animal care staff Katie

Meta took down the No Kings organizing page today - the biggest day of protest this fall. They provided zero explanation. It stayed down for the entire afternoon until most of the protests were done. Outrageous. Put this on the January investigation list.

Otterly gourd times with the Asian small-clawed otter family at Zoo Boo! 🎃 The otters are loving exploring and interacting with the massive, 200-pound carved and decorated pumpkin as part of their fall fun enrichment! 📹 Video (and pumpkin carving) by animal care staff Marco

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

Homeland Security Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u... I’m almost in tears. Leave the Somali people in my state of MN alone. They are our community. Leave MN alone. It’s intentional. It’s retribution. For what? The Trump administration has no reason for doing this.

Hours after President Trump announced a deal to buy Russian diesel, a Russian attack in Ukraine, on Saturday killed at least 20 people. The Kremlin said there would be no immediate resumption of discussions to end the war. Trump said Ukraine should “get a new president.” trib.al/6soAOJj

Happy Friday! 😛 Makara, our 16-year-old skink, is showing off her adorable tongue. Prehensile-tailed skinks are the world's largest skinks, reaching up to 32 inches in length. Its slow movements and camouflaged coloring help them avoid being seen. They live in trees and are excellent climbers.

Turn up the sound to hear a chorus of howls from our critically endangered Red Wolf pack! 🐺 Born in April, these pups are growing up fast, and they’re enjoying some nighttime howling with their parents, Violet and Fiddle. 🌙

The Trump administration is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using an H-1B visa.

Senate Banking just launched the Trumpflation Tracker. The affordability crisis is not a “hoax” like Donald Trump says. See for yourself how much more you’re paying because of Trump’s failed economic agenda

Pierce County: Vote APPROVE to appoint the Pierce County Sheriff, improve accountability, and end Sheriff Swank's term early. #PierceCountyVotes #TacomaWA

Let books be. Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, an annual observation started more than 40 years ago in response to a sudden surge in attempts to censor or remove books in libraries, schools, and bookstores. Sound familiar? Find ways to get involved and spread the word: https://bit.ly/4yvixbB.

Banned Books Week starts today! This year’s theme is: #LetBooksBe What do you think books should be? Share your answer in the comments: ✨ Let Books Be Free 🎉 Let Books Be Fun 🌎 Let Books Be Diverse 💡 Let Books Be Thought-Provoking ❤️ Let Books Be Themselves

And this adorable porcupette’s name is… BRAMBLE! 🩷 Thank you for voting! Bramble is a prickly plant with tangled branches, a nod to her spiky quills and curious nature.

A little unexpected shake-up in Tacoma today! During today’s 4.2 magnitude earthquake, some of our aquarium animals were briefly startled, but everyone is safe and doing well. Most guests and staff didn’t feel the earthquake at all.

Happy Sea Otter Awareness Week, Moea! 🦦 Our rescued Southern sea otter is an estimated 17 years old. She is calm, confident, and loves spending time with her fellow otter pal, Clara. She’s also a foodie at heart, and her name is too! "Moea" is a nod to the scientific name for sweet potato. 🍠

The Washington Post once got attention by cracking and exposing Watergate. Now, it's going viral with articles about whether you should drink iced coffee at interviews. What a comedown.

DHS claimed nearly 16,000 noncitizens were on Nevada’s voter rolls. After further review: 185. Nevada checked those 185. All of them were citizens. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

After alleging thousands of noncitizen voters, Trump's definitive list of 185 was entirely made up of actual US citizens.

MURRAY: The Trump admin falsely labeled birth control as abortion. Do you agree that an IUD is an abortifacient? OVERTON: If confirmed, I'll be fully briefed M: That's not an answer. The prospect of an FDA commissioner who doesn't know that birth control isn't an abortion is deeply alarming O: 😊

The new prickly pal needs a name! 💖 Our prehensile-tailed porcupette is doing really well, gaining weight (now 2 lbs), and trying solids. She also loves hibiscus! The one-month-old wasn’t getting enough milk from her mom, so staff is hand-rearing her to ensure she continues to grow and thrive. 1/2

As we deal with the devastation to our health care system from the Big Bad Betrayal Bill, I encourage everyone with Apple Health to make sure your information is current. Look out for communications from Apple Health. Help loved ones verify their information.

Meet Sven and Freya, our adorable Arctic foxes, for #NationalFoxDay! 🦊 Arctic foxes have an incredible seasonal coat change (brown in summer, snowy white in winter), perfect camouflage for their Arctic home. We’re so grateful to give these two fox friends a safe and enriching forever home. 💙

DHS watchdog finds immigrants held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in outdoor cages the size of phone booths

🚨NEW: They locked migrants in tiny metal cages and called them “calming areas.” Now a federal watchdog is exposing what happened inside “Alligator Alcatraz.”

Meet the new gorilla boys 🦍

I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

I want Washingtonians to know about the upcoming impacts of the Big Bad Betrayal Bill signed by Donald Trump last year. Starting Oct. 1, H.R. 1 drastically limits the Medicaid eligibility for lawfully present immigrants. Before the state took action, 14,000 lawful immigrants were set to lose...

The results are in: our prickly new arrival is a girl! DNA testing has confirmed that our first-ever prehensile-tailed porcupupette is female, and she’s growing quickly. Born to parents Nigel and Quillow, the one-pound porcupette will remain behind the scenes with its first-time parents.

No bones, no brains, no teeth, fins, or even blood; in fact, jellies are mostly water. But they survive in oceans around the world and are mesmerizingly beautiful. Drift with the jellies at our Pacific Seas Aquarium.

CNN: You're not going to trust mail voting if SCOTUS allows this? BLUMENTHAL: I won't. And I think most Americans will view mail voting as lacking credibility because the Postal Service is gonna be screening your ballot & sending them back if it finds a single discrepancy, & you may not know

Sony argues licensing warning labels are unnecessary because everyone already knows they don't own their digital games https://kotaku.com/sony-argues-no-ones-dumb-enough-to-think-they-actually-own-a-digital-game-2000730015

Lot of horrific details in this story like the ICE thugs drinking on the deportation flight. I want to start hearing very clear plans from political leaders about how they intend to pursue accountability. I also don't think 'rehab ICE' is a defensible position. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...

Too bad Mitch’s name wasn’t Dianne Feinstein otherwise the New York Times would have printed 88 stories a week

Lake jimothy #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon

We're not going to let the Trump Administration disenfranchise Washingtonians.

Prehensile-tailed porcupines are born with bright reddish-orange hair to provide camouflage and protection for their soft quills. As the baby grows, it'll shed its hair, revealing spiny black-and-white quills. Learn more at www.pdza.org/tiny-porcupine-makes-history