As climate change has pushed global temperatures to record levels, the Amazon has become increasingly combustible. After four decades of research, one scientist is trying to encourage small shifts in behavior there that might help stop fires before they begin. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...

Any speculator who bought Trump’s memecoin at its peak after it was announced inauguration weekend would have lost almost the entire value of their investment by this month. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Family Awareness: A Relational Path to Freedom in Family Life - tricycle.org/dharmatalks/...

In a world where Trump punches down, be like Pope Leo and lift people up.

As Congress Passes Epstein Files Release, Questions Grow Over Trump’s Next Moves truthout.org/articles/con...

NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation. The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate. The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia. Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer. A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro www.propublica.org/article/andr...

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

re-upping this today -- if you haven't read it yet, it is really worth a look:

"Experts have called the possibility of losing elimination status for measles 'deeply embarrassing' for a wealthy country with the medical resources of the United States..." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...

In normaler times, this is front page, above the fold, all caps behavior by an American president

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me

Across the country, public libraries are running “food for fines” campaigns for Thanksgiving and the Holidays. action.everylibrary.org/foodforfines via @everylibrary.bsky.social

They are total #THUGS Period.

Jail #ICE and #CBP THEY are the true #Criminals

#ICE and #CBP GET the HELL OUT of Our Cities NOW! YOU ALL Belong Behind Bars!!!⚖️⚖️⚖️

#WTF!!!

“Following the arrival of the U.S. Border Patrol in Charlotte Saturday morning, hundreds of protesters gathered at First Ward Park in the afternoon and marched through uptown, delivering a clear message to federal agents: ‘Get out’...” www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

"They were intimate enough for her to see him flossing his teeth, his dopp kit overflowing with prescriptions. She writes that despite being 'sober' for decades, Kennedy [RFK Jr.] told her he still uses psychedelics, and smoked dimethyltryptamine, or DMT..." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...

"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..." Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Organizing with Care: Building Community Through Solidarity” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Zohran Mamdani's campaign field director shares how a grassroots campaign fueled by over 104,000 volunteers propelled the underdog candidate to victory.

Speak up against Trump Administration's New Wars! Call Congress! Protest, Boycott, Demand Actions NOW!

Here we go AGAIN: #WagtheDog another illegal war to Distract, Deflect and Defund our Tax dollars for the profiteers and to change the focus from Trump/ Epstein Crimes, Trump Administration Corruption, Collusion, Incompetence. #NOToWars #NoToTrumpDistractions #YesToTrumpAccountability

Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Big Tech billionaires are counting on AI to make them even richer -- and they can’t have any regulatory protections getting in the way of that. That's alarming news for the rest of us. Watch.vhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imtkNL4v2ks

He’s gonna do a commutation.

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/

The country is about to learn (again) that being anti pedophile was never a core principle of conservatives - it was like states rights, only used when convenient. MAGA will not care that Trump is all over the files. Watch.

Happy discharge petition day to all who celebrate... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Instead of folding like cheap chairs, Democrats should have forced the GOP to end the shutdown by killing the filibuster. Holding onto the archaic, antidemocratic tradition doesn't help them stop fascism, it makes them complicit to it. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Trump administration’s systematic targeting of US knowledge infrastructure spans the entire production chain, from soup to nuts. Without reliable statistics, research funding, or accessible data, information asymmetries will surely increase, writes Amelia Acker.

#BREAKING: Over a public dissent from Justice Jackson, #SCOTUS *extends* the temporary pause of the district court’s order that had mandated full SNAP payments for November—keeping that ruling (and those payments) on hold through the end of the day this Thursday:

We just launched the biggest primary program in Indivisible’s history. Help us (literally) send Schumer and the surrender caucus a message. open.substack.com/pub/ezralevi...

Let us be incredibly, abundantly clear: We are demanding that Chuck Schumer resign for his continued betrayal of the American people. If he does not willingly step aside, we are calling on the Senators in the Dem caucus to remove him and Dick Durbin from Senate leadership.

The Supreme Court has extended its short-term order allowing Trump administration to withhold paying full food stamp payments in November.

Touching grass isn't enough, I need to be reminded of the timelessness of the human need to create beauty and connection.

Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.

Since May, Avelo has been under fire for contracting with ICE to use their planes for deportation flights. Company leaders explained the “partnership” with ICE as “too valuable not to pursue”.

Speculation is that ICE could be trying to move people out to clean the holding cells and to set up cots to comply with the latest judicial order to address inhumane conditions inside the facility. The judge is currently scheduled to inspect the facility Thursday morning.

We witnessed about a dozen detainees put on to the plane. There may have been more. As they started to load the plane, they blocked our initial view with firetrucks, so we had to relocate and may have missed some people.