The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

Wow.

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

Used to be that robber barons would give away vast sums of wealth to charitable causes to launder their reputations. Now the billionaires just try to control the narrative by buying up the media companies

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

This is a well written, researched, and investigated article regarding the dangers of fracking waste/PFAS impacts on a TX community. #ncpol #PFAS

Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.

Turns out firing career diplomats and replacing them with Trump loyalists who learned international relations from Truth Social has consequences. Who knew. #holdfast

Martin, an 18-year-old citizen and soccer player, traveled with his Madison-area team to Minneapolis for a Futsal tournament (which my kid's team was going to play in, then opted out). While there, ICE stopped Martin and took his mom, who has been detained since. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

1. deregulate everything and destroy all regulators so nothing functions in the public interest under the pretense this "aids innovation" and "empowers entrepreneurs" 2. blame poor people and minorities when nothing works

The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"

I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

Trump just wants to be racist, eat fillet o' fish, and pick out the ugliest possible marble for his ballroom while Miller is trying to get his school shooter manifesto put into the CFR and Rubio is trying to get Trump to sign an EO that just says "invade cuba"

He got out of bed and had something to eat. Then Toad crossed out: Eat Breakfast.

#ncpol Keep calling our NC Senators.

you can tell this was a sudden decision because they just put fresh mulch in his habitrail yesterday

The midnight walkers.

I feel like when folk music starts getting this good again it’s usually a pretty good indicator that shit is FUCKED

They got Edina Moms excoriating the Administration and signing off with a a land acknowledgement. They are so fucked lol

Absolute liars. I’ve seen the videos from different perspectives. Horrific. What a tragedy. This administration is illegitimate and amoral. Our NC Senators should be ashamed if they do not speak out against this. #ncpol

This is a pretty neat tool that helps folks prepare and understand what to do if (when) the power goes out. alexdobrenko.github.io/storm-prep/ #NCwx #SCwx

“‘I have privilege. I was medically retired, I'm a combat vet, I'm white, I'm middle class. If I can't advocate for people who need it, then who else is going to do it? Who else is going to stand up and speak truth to power?’" Vermie told ABC News.”

Ho boy. I’m getting really heated about this, as I have been for the past week. I want every NC Congress person to stand up against this violation of basic rights. Time to abolish ICE. There is no reform for this. #ncpol

This administration is pining for Martial Law Stay strong Minneapolis! When they come back down here-it may be time for a multi racial version of the Deacons for Defense. #ncpol

I hope the good soldiers of Fort Liberty protect the people of Minneapolis and don’t pepper spray (or worse) people exercising the first amendment rights and don’t comply with illegal orders to arrest innocent CHILDREN and adults. The good people of NC stand with Minneapolis 💪🏻 #ncpol #mnpol

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. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket. He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War. Notice the suppressors 1/2

Odilon Redon Geraniums in a Pot, c.1905

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.

This dude is intense and correct

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

New story from @jcollins.bsky.social on ICE attempts to intimidate ICE Watch observers in Minneapolis, including ICE letting them know they know where they live—by leading them to their homes www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

That’s not how this works

Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.

That’s good stuff right there! And with a very familiar accent-you love to see it

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

every republican president destroys the economy

Glad to see this decency. #ncpol

Don't let this Jan 6th point get lost: Jack Smith testified to Congress he had "proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election." In other words, he could prove in court that Trump attempted a coup.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

Friends, I am excited to announce that my Center for Wildlife Studies biology and ecology of sharks course went so well that we're already running it again! Class starts in February and you can sign up now. 🧪🦑🌍🦈

This is a beautiful, interesting, and very sad piece. (gift link, not paywalled) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Veteran New York Times national security reporter David Sanger says what Trump is describing in Venezuela is an "American occupation."