they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...

This is despicable. ICE is out of control.

$15 MILLION agreement to detain abducted men, Sen. Van Hollen says. That’s our money. Yet another reminder that we’ve got plenty of money to pay for good stuff that actually helps our communities.

Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit. ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

They don’t care. They don’t care that the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to bring an innocent man home to his family. They don’t care. They think it’s funny.

I don't really have anything especially profound to say, but yeah man this is it. They won't obey even the most milquetoast SCOTUS orders and are talking about sending US citizens to foreign gulags. It's happened here.

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

Not sure how these people sleep at night

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

Quite the coinky-dink that all these economic collapses always happen under Republican presidents.

I'm old enough to remember when, in the early days of the pandemic, @governor.ca.gov's then Sr. Climate Policy Advisor Kate Gordon tweeted about the need to incorporate remote work as a climate solution. For this and many other reasons RTO mandates are not it, Governor.

❝Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, … 1/3

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

Lemkin Institute issues a red flag alert for gcide in the US. So many of us tried to warn you all well before the election 🚩

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

It should prob be remembered that “birthright citizenship” was the product of the abolitionist mvt, which understood that no person of color would be safe from deportation or bondage if their citizenship could be questioned or taken away

There is no calamity so huge that there is not beauty and humor and joy to be had in the moments between actively working on solving or evading it. Learning to take those moments, embrace the hell out of them, is what will make it all worth it, at whatever point you reach the end.

"It's snowing in Florida - where's global warming now?!" If you've ever thought that (or heard anyone else say it), I have a Global Weirding episode for you!

Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

“I have been prepared for evil, for greed, for cruelty, for injustice – but I did not anticipate that the people in power would also be such huge losers.”

Fascist countries ban apps ⏰ Fascist countries ban websites 👩🏽‍💻 Fascist countries ban books 📚

The fires in Los Angeles County are climate change in action. Today, I spoke with BBC News about how drought is causing devastating impacts in what should be the rainy season. Thanks to climate change, the fire season in California is now year round.

PSA: The Family Man is available on Netflix. You’re welcome 🎄🎅🏽

Did y’all know that approx 90% of fentanyl smuggled into the U.S. are not by migrants crossing the border, but at legal ports of entry. Did y’all also know that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens? The more you know…

Now that the tsunami alert is cleared, take a few minutes to read one of the finest pieces of earthquake journalism I've read - deservedly won a Pulitzer when it came out. Channels John McPhee - the highest compliment I can pay to popular geology writing ⚒️

states rights unless its parents rights unless the parents are wrong in which case its states rights unless the state is wrong in which case its federal rights unless the feds are democrats in which case its parents rights unless the parents are wrong in which case

The question of whether the American military -- if called out against mass protests -- would fire on civilians is hopefully not something that will be put to the test. I do think it's clear at this point, however, that militarized American police absolutely would.

American unions, take note. This is how it’s done.

With a fully remote team of just 20 employees, Bluesky has surpassed 20 million users in its first year since opening to the public and is stealing thunder from rivals hundreds of times its size. At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive.

Mom, can you pick me up? I’m scared