We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.

In 2016, San Antonio cop Matthew Luckhurst was fired after giving a homeless man a sandwich filled with feces. Last month, he became police chief in Benavides, Texas.

It gets worse: “David Brouillette has a history of terrifying and violent behavior, according to those relatives. They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat

all ICE does is lie to smear the innocent people they murder

If your art is your contribution to the struggle, that's very worthy too. Many have gone to their graves feeling proud having contributed that. If you're getting art out there that moves people & connects them to their humanity, you're important soldiers we need for our survival. So onward soldiers.

NEW: We reported two years ago that Chicago police had made 200,000 secret traffic stops, failing to disclose them as required by law. Chicago police then admitted the problem, & promised to 'fix' it in a legislative hearing. We just investigated again: The problem... got WORSE.

I hope the college students who protested the US-funded massacre of Palestinian civilians, while being vilified by their universities and politicians and even the president, understand that they are actually having an impact, just much slower than they hoped

The news is always "This absolute fool was dismantled in hearings today. He is manifestly unqualified for the position and would be an existential danger if confirmed. Disaster. He is set to be confirmed immediately." When you ask why everyone is furious and exhausted all the time, this is why.

NEW: Alice Gilman, a cofounder of R3 Bio — a startup that's said it wants to create nonsentient "organ sacks" — tried to delay the publication of an interview she gave in February to the podcast Skyline Drive. Why? Unclear. But she alluded to being a "federal asset." futurism.com/future-socie...

A bombshell FOIA request has revealed how the FBI and Department of Justice trained its investigators to scrub the Epstein files clean. trib.al/dNbUbM3

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

what a magic eye puzzle of a headline depending on what reality you're living in

Your periodic reminder that in 2022 Darien rejected participation in the Open Choice school program citing the “financial burden” of 16 additional kindergartners from Norwalk www.ctinsider.com/data/article...

“His most recent piece for the student paper, which was published last month, criticized what he described as discriminatory hiring practices in academia biased against white men” well knock me over with a feather

ICE murdered another person.

There’s no difference between men marching in white masks and men marching in white hoods. None.

The Coast Guard just removed the Clearwater from the tall ship parade in NYC for having "Save the Clean Water Act" and "Indigenous Rights, Racial Justice, Climate Solutions” banners. They were escorted out by the Coast Guard, US Navy, and NYPD. www.instagram.com/p/DaYOP8OlIq...

I'm still seeing people talk on this app like it's only the children of immigrants who are born here who benefit from birthright citizenship. Everyone born here benefits from it. It's how you are a citizen.

Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office. n.pr/4aWVKvt

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

Agree -- this would be helpful.

"So this very much looks like a deliberate war crime. It's an attack I fear the USA will regret for a long time. It is no different than Al-Qaeda deliberately targeting civilians. If the US gets attacked in return, it will only be served what seems to be official American policy on a cold plate."

1. Progressive Champions PAC, a super PAC created last month, says on its website that its mission is to “elect bold, progressive candidates up and down the ballot.” A Popular Information investigaiton reveals that it's a GOP front group. Following along for receipts. 🧵

i really, truly, find this offensive

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

Unsurprising open corruption from FIFA & the Trump regime: FIFA rents an office in Trump Tower. “The rent goes to President Trump’s family business, but soccer officials say the space sits largely idle.” That’s called a bribe. [nytimes.com]

splice "I love it. I love the inflation." and "I don't think about Americans' financial situation." together and hang it around the neck of every Republican running in November

"Dozens of women continue the relay of the labor and hunger strike saying, 'We are mothers, daughters, sisters. We are people and we demand justice.'"

a glaring omission from much of the convo about the Delaney Hall labor and hunger strike imo is the fact that *these people shouldn't be laboring in the first place* this is slavery, & even the 13th Amendment's 'punishment for a crime' exception doesn't apply! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The SCOTUS has become so bold that they went from "This is the outcome we want, so we'll pretend/twist the law to fit the decision we want to get to" to "This is the outcome we want, so we're not even going to consider lower court rationale, apply the law, or pretend like laws matters for our side."

The true nightmare will be automated drone swarms of hundreds or even thousands of automated drones that attack targets on sight. No human involved and inevitable death from above. Humans can't stop innovating when it comes to killing other people. It's depraved.

Mikie Sherrill is so fucking lucky protesters weren't killed.

A New Jersey State Police officer drove the sharp edge of his riot shield directly into a protester’s neck outside Delaney Hall in Newark in an apparent attempt to kill them. 🔊 Share this with everyone.

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Mikie Sherrill is pulling the same stunt Pritzker and Walz did, defending state police violence against peaceful anti-ICE protesters as necessary to protect the public from DHS, who would be “so much worse” and it’s incredible they don’t hear how abusive this logic is

Electric Biscuit

The DNC being excessively rude online to Trump’s White House policy architect would hit harder if it were coupled with the party’s full stop blockade of voting for his appointees

as much as i appreciate the democrats responding with vigor for once, the fact that republicans are using "transgender" as a slur for a political candidate is fucking horrifying and dems need to quickly figure out a way to address it head on. calling stephen miller ugly isn't a long-term fix.

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Hundreds inside an ICE concentration camp are on a work and hunger strike at Delaney Hall in New Jersey and other hunger strikes have been announced in New Mexico and Southern California. In Tacoma, WA, over 100 detainees announced the formation of the 'Union of People Kidnapped by ICE.'

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

ED WEEK: “For the second consecutive year, Tennessee legislators failed in their efforts to limit undocumented students’ access to free, public education… (Republicans) faced sustained opposition from grassroots coalitions of advocacy groups & educators.” www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

hey so lots going on i know but this right here is a whole fucking slow motion ongoing tragedy

I have been thinking a lot about the dozens of people ICE has sent to what is now the Ebola outbreak zone, especially Adriana Zapata, and I really appreciate @melodyschreiber.com reporting this out. 🙏🙏🙏

New York Giants players, including linebacker Abdul Carter, (rightfully) seem pissed about Jaxson Dart palling around with the president. It’s the kind of thing a player should think about before backing an overtly white supremacist politician.