Your tax dollars: pay the company nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS of your tax money to just walk away. Because, and I am not making this up, the president thinks offshore wind turbines are ugly and claims without evidence that they “drive whales crazy.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/c...

What crap. First, ICE and CBP have more than they need, this is extra money. Second, they are not "the police". The demand is that they act like police instead of like thugs. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

“I told him, ‘I’m a U.S. citizen!’ He told me, ‘I don’t care.’” Everyone should read this account of an ICE raid on a home in Vermont. This is what secret police do. Great reporting from @sevendaysvt.bsky.social: www.sevendaysvt.com/news/teen-sh...

He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.

10 days until NO KINGS YOLO 3 Mar 28 10:30am River Walk Park, 651 2nd St. W. Sacto gathering & activities, walk across Tower Bridge to State Capitol linktr.ee/no_kings_yolo for info on getting there & for parking. Don't worry about the Causeway! @indivisible.org www.mobilize.us/indivisibley...

Trump's plan: pay developer $1B to NOT develop two offshore wind farms. Your taxes at work, people, and your energy bills. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/c...

minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/16/i... #ICEOUT #MN #Dilley #ICE #DHS #CBP

This is a $10B payment from the Ellisons and their buddies to the Treasury. Just for scale, last year they cut all federal funding for PBS and NPR, which "saved" $1B. www.techdirt.com/2026/03/16/t...

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Professor Vali Nast, Johns Hopkins: “The strike on Kharg Island could be a turning point in this war. Trump may see escalation as his off-ramp but so could Iran. The end will likely not be Iranian backing off but inflaming the Gulf.”

This is really interesting, about how secret police forces like ICE are grown. They cannot be given impunity.

The share of Sacramento's housing stock that is a fully dedicated to short-term rentals is a rounding error, a fraction of a percent. This isn't about housing affordability and it's funny how many people involved are pretending like it is. www.cbsnews.com/amp/sacramen...

ICE Detains Business Owner, $21,000 Cash Vanishes With No Body Cam Evidence

Two weeks until No Kings III !!! Let's make this the largest national rally ever to preserve democracy and end illegal wars, illegal tariffs, and illegal detention.

I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is. People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

They blew up an elementary school Tom www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

So you don't heave a missile into an elementary school, then fire a second missile into the school to finish off the survivors is why a professional military engages in dumb, politically correct rules of engagement. But no, American exceptionalism > 175 schoolgirls.

The eventual Nuremberg-style trial of Pete Hegseth for war crimes is going to be must-see TV.

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

This US citizen was detained by ICE for three years. This agency needs to be abolished and replaced with something accountable. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

nobody tell Noem let's see how long we can keep this going

Dear fellows from the outer worlds… Anyone with access to the following works that could provide a copy/scan/pics? Boles W. 1990 Glowing parrots—need for a study of hidden colours. Birds Int., 3, 76–79. Boles W. 1991 Black light signature for birds. Aust. Nat. Hist., 23, 752. Deeply grateful!

When I think “fun place to shop,” I think “ICE agents might confront me next to the spatulas”

[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone] Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

“Why didn’t we have this Hillary in 2016?” You did have this Hillary — you just falsely believed she was nothing but an ice-cold bitch. Now that you’re dealing with Donald Trump, you wish that bitch were here to rescue you.

Did Schumer know this was an option?

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

NY Times now reporting at least 75 dead in the school we bombed in Minab, Iran. And Hegseth is out there saying "no stupid rules of engagement" over and over again. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/w...

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

Rep. James Talarico argues the legal basis for the impeachment of DHS Sec. Kristi Noem, citing specific abuses of power and the necessity of federal agent prosecution.

in two days is one of the biggest Election Days of the year so i made a guide to what you should know — piece by piece, local election by local election sunday is the best time to explore it! boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Finally, the White House communications director steps in to clarify the decision to go to war. "NO PANICANS!” Mr. Cheung said in a statement on X. “TRUST IN TRUMP!" www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

“Alberto Gutierrez was taken by ICE agents on January 9 in Echo Park. According to the family, Gutierrez began to feel seriously ill last Friday, and his repeated requests for medical attention was denied. Gutierrez died around 1:00 am on February 27. He was the sole provider for his wife and son.”

You mean you don’t trust this guy to keep us safe? 😂😂🤣. Me, either. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Then what happened?

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Everything about this story is awful from start to finish. A blind man who doesn't speak English gets lost, Buffalo police tase and arrest him, he's handed over to Border Patrol, and they leave him on the far side of town. Now he's dead. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

Wow, forgot what a coherent leader sounds like

Mother with legal permission to live in US was deported less than 24 hours after her green card hearing, despite chronicling 27 years in California—her high school diploma, years of tax filings, vaccine records and paperwork showing she had repeatedly obtained federal permission to remain in the US.

Congratulations to @melmason.bsky.social Melanie Mason, new Politico Bureau Chief for California. Used to love her on the ol' California Politics podcast. Post on Bluesky, Melanie!

ICE abducted a father of a six-year-old who is undergoing cancer treatment in a suburb outside Pittsburgh on Sunday and took him to a detention center in West Virginia. The cruelty is boundless.

I refuse to get used to our government murdering people on the high seas. If they can do it to these people, they can do it to you.

Weekly listener, and I donate. Dave is an awesome independent climate/energy/environment interviewer. He talks to people about the grid, geothermal, batteries, agriculture, Australian rooftop solar...all kinds of inspiration.

Trump, July 19: "All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service." Witkoff, Sunday: "They're probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material."

decided to drop her a line myself