More reasons to like trees, and their microbes.

More great work from Gaige at Texas Observer on the real impacts of LNG facilities on the local communities where they are located.

“Here’s what I learned: you want to make an ICE agent angry? They didn’t care about people shouting Nazi at them... But tell them you don’t want to get shot & watch them melt down like the MAGA snowflakes they are … that simple expression of wanting to stay alive, sent this guy into a rage.”

ICE THUGS arrested a pastor & kept asking him "Are you afraid?" numerous occasions. The pastor said NO. Eventually the THUGS let him go stating that "You're WHITE, you're no fun to us!!" This is how sick & deranged these THUGS are, thanks to this REGIME‼️ youtu.be/lcSOyVrc5HM?...

I’d double ❤️ this, if I could.

Some 600 immigrant kids were sent to federal custody by ICE in 2025. A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf. Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn. (Published Nov. 2025)

A career federal agent says that in 25 years, a fleeing vehicle has never justified killing its occupant, and officers should never stand in front of a running car. CBS reportedly pulled the interview, but it posted on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Minnesota is followed by fatal shootings of a husband & wife during a traffic stop. Once again Gov is saying the driver tried to run Border Patrol over. Let’s see thst body camera footage.

Cartoon on ICE Agent Kills Woman During Minneapolis Immigration Raid

OMG, the Senate has come to life, voting 52 to 47 agreeing to put forward (for debate and another vote) a resolution invoking the War Powers Act.

It doesn’t appear the administration wants to release unedited body cam footage from the ICE agent who shot and killed a U.S. citizen today. DHS says it’s “up to the FBI,” an agency that has already played a key role in burying other major cases, including the Epstein files.

FINALLY

Minneapolis ICE fatal shooting of woman in car.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

The White House would like us to forget this, but we will not.

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine. We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.

Well, well, well. That didn't take long.

Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"

Quoting BlueSky poster ‘The War Monitor’: Trump got his war …

How far will big money go to keep profits? At least this far: “In retracting the study … the journal … cited ‘serious ethical concerns regarding the independence and accountability of the authors work’” … There were indications that the authors had received financial compensation from Monsanto”

💰

Snorf. Click, it’s worth it.

A mantra for our times. Applies to many moneyed soulless orgs vs grassroots, not only to local gov vs fed. Jumaane Williams, sworn in as New York City’s public advocate: “Even as the federal government drives us to despair, local leadership can invite inspiration”

Private Equity funds & algorithmic price fixing from RealPage software keep rent & housing unaffordable across the US, not California environmental rules like CEQA. Go Ro.

A U.S. citizen and military veteran was violently detained by ICE and held for three days without charges, denied phone calls, a lawyer, and medical care, even after suffering chemical burns during the arrest.

Media investigations found that at least 170 U.S. citizens were detained by ICE as of October, some for days, including children, and those are only the cases that made the news.

Here a novel idea, let’s let the survivors redact the Epstein files.

Thank you to all the performers who are canceling their events at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

A friend of a friend left California over a year ago looking for affordability. He’s moving back. While he found cheaper housing & rent and cheaper fuel, other items, food for example, cost about as much. And though his job title improved, salary & lifestyle differences were not forthcoming.

Merry Climate Change Christmas,

Projected images and words on an overpass at San Tomas Expressway & Moorpark in San Jose, CA tonight.

Images projected onto an overpass at San Tomas Expressway & Moorpark in San Jose, CA

Surveillance pricing is a term that sounds right out of some dystopia, but that’s exactly what instacart’s “smart rounding” is. It’s more than inflation, imagine pretty soon having surge pricing for shopping at the grocery store

This petition is open to all. Tell the city of Palo Alto, CA to ditch plastic! Sign the petition! No plastic grass on playgrounds or athletic fields! tiny.cc/NoPlasticPal...

English, from Finnish, “There are about 400 wolves in Finland & we are so worried about that. We should be more worried about microplastics, which have been found in human brains and even testicles.” In the SF Bay Area this might be, “Canada Geese are in our parks & we are so worried about that …”

#CLIMATE #CHANGE “The acidic & toxic water is killing insects & other aquatic life relied on by salmon & other fish that are a key food source for the region’s 10,000 residents … in Kobuk Valley National Park … the Akillik River … changed … to orange … killing all the fish and aquatic life.”

Most plastic + chemicals added to plastic are made from gas + oil. In 2018, writes @bethgardiner.bsky.social , Saudi Aramco announced plans to drive growth in demand for oil by increasing plastic production. 🧵 1/5 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)

With support from Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, Running Tide billed itself as on the cutting edge of carbon removal. In the end, it resorted to dumping thousands of tons of wood chips in the sea. www.wired.com/story/how-th...

NEW: Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them. They finally got their wish.

The AP now confirms a U.S. raid in Syria killed a man who wasn’t ISIS at all, but an undercover informant working *for us* against the terror group. His family says he wasn’t a terrorist, he was helping fight them. This is beyond disgraceful.

It rains and rains in SoCal, so T decides to pump water from NorCal to the south because … everyone likes to dump unneeded water into the LA ocean while killing fish in Northern California? www.watereducation.org/e-mail-blast...

Ok, I’m interested … “If nature can build polymers [like DNA or proteins or cellulose] that serve a purpose & then disappear, Gu reasoned, perhaps human-made plastics …could do the same … Gu’s research focused on making … bonds easier to break when needed … [making] the process programmable.” 1/

“A Dishonorable Strike Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder” By Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith (a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute & former head of the Office of Legal Counsel) 1/

It’s not a great deal if you don’t need it. And especially this year, others really need support. So for all of us who have enough, let’s refuse to get sucked into the holiday shopping frenzy and share instead of shop. We don’t need more stuff, we need communities where all our neighbors are safe.

Eww.

Why orthodox, staid Dems need to be largely replaced. (Obviously GOP could care less about struggling folks.)

Want to give your loved ones something different? Forego tedious shopping, give something unique: make a gift, cook a gift, provide a service - homework help, housecleaning, transportation, gardening assistance, etc. - or gift your time & schedule a hangout. Surprise somebody!

A new report by the Forests & Finance Coalition finds that despite years of voluntary climate commitments, banks and other financial institutions have continued to increase their investments in companies linked to deforestation.