If you're interested in why this summer was so cool along the coast, how I approach wildfire prediction, or my broader philosophy on climate communication, check my wide-ranging two-part conversation on West Marin Community Radio (KWMR)'s "Epicenter!" kwmr.org/post/17695

82-year-old lost his wallet with green card. He was arrested at the appointment he made to replace his green card. Now in a hospital in Guatemala, a country to which he has no connection. May we regain our lost humanity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A new report by Human Rights Watch and partner nonprofits released today confirms that migrants at the downtown Miami ICE facility were indeed shackled with hands tied behind their backs, forced to kneel, and made to eat from styrofoam plates “like dogs.”

Durbin: "Either they mislead the American people with this conspiracy theory for years, or they're covering it up now."

Firing everyone who could tell you what you're doing is unethical or illegal does not make what you're doing ethical or legal.

Where are the children being held? 🚨 Children, handcuffed and chained, being moved out of the LA Federal Building. July 10 - ICE & CBP raided two Glass House Farms sites in Camarillo and Carpinteria. Up to 319 undocumented workers arrested. At least 10 migrant kids were found. The youngest was 14.

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

The state of things this week under our medical establishment.

FOX: CNN has a report accusing you of slowing the process in Texas. NOEM: Well there you go. Fake news CNN is absolutely trash, what they are doing. (That's not a denial.)

When a government starts targeting former intelligence officials, law enforcement leaders, and anyone who once investigated or criticized those in power, it’s not just a red flag, it’s a page straight from the authoritarian playbook.

Eastern Bluebird.❤️

🧵 Albuquerque, NM — A man was violently tased & tackled inside the Walmart at 2250 Coors Blvd by unidentified masked thugs in ICE & HSI vests. He screamed for help as he was dragged out. A bystander filmed it—then was kicked out of the store. Walmart is complicit in covering up a public kidnapping.

"For people like Trump, DeSantis and Noem, this is a sick game of hunting, kidnapping, harming and discarding human beings,” Rep. Maxwell Frost said.

In practice, Texas transparency rules mean a lobbyist could buy the same elected official a steak dinner every night, and as long as the daily cost stays under $132.60, they don’t need to say who benefited. With @kutnews.bsky.social & @texastribune.org

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AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

It’s costing taxpayers $450/M annually & Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp is already flooding. Imagine a hurricane. People are going to die. There’s always enough money to hurt folks, but when it comes to public transit, low-income housing, schools, or public healthcare, “Sorry, we’re broke.”

McGovern: Listen to this quote from Murkowski who just caved and voted for this. "My hope is that the house is going to look at this and recognize we are not there yet."  If you really believe that, why the hell did you vote for the bill?

Enough! This is exactly why ICE should be required to identify themselves. If ICE looks like criminals and thugs, they should be regarded as such. 🚨 Yesterday, an L.A. man was arrested for impersonating a federal agent. Loaded gun, fake documents, cop gear and even blinking & blue on his car

A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest, far more than usual PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government

As Republicans attempt to defund Planned Parenthood, remember — these clinics provide essential health care for millions of women.

Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this? Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids. She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms. Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen. 🧵

Finally a corporation is reacting to what’s happening here. Don’t be surprised that it’s not a car company or a shampoo brand. They’re all still pretending that life is normal. It’s a bookstore. Barnes and Noble fills their store display windows with Orwell’s 1984 and Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale.

At the Granada Relocation Center (aka Amache), over 10,000 people, all of Japanese descent & including children, lived “behind barbed wire &under armed guard.” 2/3 were American citizens. 1 of 10 Japanese incarceration camps in the US after Pearl Harbor bombing. www.koaa.com/advocates-of...

Jeffries: "Not a scintilla of evidence to date has been presented that I have seen to justify the notion that there was an imminent threat to the United States of America. If the administration has evidence to the contrary, come up to present it."

In LA, we have the right to film law enforcement in public spaces, as long as we do not interfere. Arturo Hermosillo says he was arrested for doing exactly that. He was in his van when he saw an older woman, a local tamale vendor, lying on the ground during an immigration raid & started recording.

Bernie's reaction was us all.

She called it, we didn't listen.

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Kamala's parents could have aptly named her Cassandra instead. 😥

What was that about World War III?

The President has surrounded himself with stooges and sycophants who enable his worst, most lawless impulses. That makes all of us less safe.

Senator Klobuchar calls it what it is: a big, beautiful betrayal. This bill gives $400,000 tax breaks to millionaires while kicking 16 million people off their health care. Working families lose care so the wealthy can get richer. #HandsOffMedicaid

HAPPENING NOW: New Yorkers are protesting against ICE’s illegal arrest of NYC comptroller Brad Lander.

Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this

Sad but true regarding Sen. Lee's dad's likely disappointment. Dad looks like he was a kind-hearted person. Research confirms what we intuitively know: that dark triad & more humane traits show in people's faces. Our chronic expressions clearly show our inner world www.newsweek.com/psychopathy-...

Would you look at that.

Sad but true regarding dad's likely disappointment. Rex Lee looks like he was a kind-hearted person. Research confirms what we intuitively know: that dark triad & more humane traits show in people's faces. Our chronic expressions clearly tell tales of our inner world www.newsweek.com/psychopathy-...

Sen Mike Lee's response to the 9/11 First Responder (as described by Stewart) is absolutely chilling. Unfortunately not surprising that he responded to Minnesota Rep Hortman's and her husband's murder with heartless false propaganda.

NYC Comptroller, Brad Lander, repeatedly asks for these masked people (purported federal agents) to produce a judicial warrant.

Thank goodness for those who fight profound injustice with their unique skills and capacities.

Zohran Mamdani, who recently cross-endorsed with Lander, called for the comptroller’s immediate release. “This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice,” said Mamdani.

U.S. Sen. Mike Lee is facing backlash–including a direct confrontation with Sen. Tina Smith–after making a joke on X about Rep. Hortman’s assassination. minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/16/s...

This photo. ICE is a gang.

Literally two months ago: Judge restricts Border Patrol in California: ‘You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin’ calmatters.org/justice/2025...