Gerrymandered SCOTUS approves more extreme gerrymander of already gerrymandered House seats, furthering the cause of minority dictatorship. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

Donald J. Trump, as West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom drew her last breath. She had been placed in harm’s way only because of his disregard for the law and Constitution.

There was a time when the United States looked down its nose at the countries in South America for being lawless banana republics. Who's the banana republic now, bitches?

My L2 electric car charger can vary its current between 6 Amps and 40 Amps. Does anyone know whether it charges more or less efficiently at higher Amps?

On NC State’s campus, hundreds of students protest as fears of ICE persist ncnewsline.com/2025/11/21/o...

COP30 concluded just like anyone who's been paying attention should have expected. This article is correct that the outcome of the 2 week meeting on the edge of the Amazon is not "nearly enough to stave off the ravages of climate breakdown." #sigh 🔥🌎🔥 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

After two weeks of #COP30 negotiations, countries agreed to BEGIN DISCUSSIONS on fossil fuel phase out. And as the article says, "they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries." THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.

ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI

King Trump says Off with their heads

Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged

ICE PROTEST CHARLOTTE NC 💪 ✊ Tonight 11/19/25

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

reminder that Donald Trump said on the record that he partied with his buddy Jeffrey Epstein and women “on the younger side” and yet we’re pretending like the natural of their relationship is some big mystery

Terrific

Check out this site for current information on ICE sightings in North Carolina ojonc.org

Hundreds of people gathered in North Carolina to protest the U.S. Border Patrol’s operations in the region.

Such an important argument now. We're not making anyone healthier by continuing to fuel climate change. Ignoring science, ignoring climate change, and ignoring environmental health harms everyone's health. #COP30 theconversation.com/want-to-make...

Two Mexican businesses in Carrboro Plaza are closed

News observer says ice at Southeast Raleigh HS and Cary Home Depot. Elsewhere in Raleigh area.

I heard reports of ICE at Carrboro Plaza. Nothing happening there now. Anyone know more?

A lot of progress is being made at COP. Too bad the US isn’t part of it.

Now that the Sept and Oct data are (belatedly) in, it looks like 2025 will be the second warmest year in the record (~80% probability). The last three years are in a class of their own.

A beautiful MRI never seen before!

Can the world quit coal? "The world has affordable renewable energy technologies with which to replace coal-fired electricity generation – solar and wind are cheaper than fossil fuels in most places." #COP30

The 2025 update of the Global Carbon Budget is out.​​ While fossil CO2 emissions rise again and carbon sinks are weakened by climate change, deforestation emissions are down and many countries decarbonise their energy. No global emissions peak yet though. theconversation.com/the-worlds-c...

CAT Global Update 2025 🚨 Ten years after the #ParisAgreement we see little to no measurable progress in warming projections - for the fourth consecutive year. The 2035 #NDCs have made no difference to our warming outlook. 🔗 bit.ly/CAT_Global_2...

The new Global Carbon Budget 2025 report includes this sobering figure on the steep emission reductions needed to stabilize temperatures. globalcarbonbudget.org

With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels. 10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C 20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.

I’m embarrassed that the US - the world’s largest economy, #2 emitter, #1 contributor to current warming - has no government representative at #COP30 in Brazil Not only are we not leading, we are giving up power and business to countries that are. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/c...

"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."

The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

This line says it all - “At 99 percent of U.S. coal plants—209 out of 210—it would be cheaper to replace energy with new wind and solar than to keep them operating, a 2023 Energy Innovation analysis found.” So this is a policy to raise electricity prices, while also harming health. Well played.

Remember: The fundamental issue isn’t the size of the government or how to make government more “efficient.” It’s who our government is for. Should it work mainly for big corporations and billionaires — or for the rest of us?

Are we losing our democracy? 1. Stifles dissent and speech. 2. Persecutes political opponents. 3. Bypasses the legislature. 4. Uses military for domestic control. 5. Defies the courts. 6. Declares national emergencies on false pretenses. ... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Happy Halloween to the resistance.

Why?

Are we losing our democracy? 1. Stifles dissent and speech. 2. Persecutes political opponents. 3. Bypasses the legislature. 4. Uses military for domestic control. 5. Defies the courts. 6. Declares national emergencies on false pretenses. ... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Please don’t tell me Gates was persuaded by the DOE climate report written by the Fabricating Five.

These 5 people could caucus with the Democrats, giving them a majority & firmly opposing the fascism, any time. It might be nice for an enterprising journalist to ask them why they keep not doing this every day as the crimes & corruption continue & John Thune refuses to fulfill his oath of office.

Shockingly, because of the government shutdown, the hurricane hunters are going unpaid as they risk their lives for theise data. And staff at the National Hurricane Center are also without pay as they continue to perform their critical duties during this record-breaking storm.

Perhaps the most ominous satellite presentation we've seen. Cat 5 Melissa within 2 hours of landfall in Jamaica. Winds at 185 mph (tied for 2nd highest on record). Pressure at 892 mb (tied for 3rd lowest). Will be one of strongest Atlantic storms to make landfall ever recorded.

Much of ICE's national leadership was purged overnight, to be replaced with Border Patrol agents in the mold of its ultra-aggressive field commander Gregory Bovino. It might be the scariest development yet in the Trump admin's war on America. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/think-ice-...

#HurricaneMelissa is a monster storm by all measures. My thoughts are with Jamaica today. 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

Writing is my coping mechanism when I am worried about a weather situation. As an unprecedented storm like #HurricaneMelissa approaches Jamaica, I feel helpless, so I write. My Tuesday morning thoughts on the storm. www.forbes.com/sites/marsha... --

This Day in Labor History: October 27, 1948. An air inversion trapped the pollution spewed out by U.S. Steel-owned factories in Donora, Pennsylvania. The Donora Smog killed 20 people and sickened 6000 others. Let's talk about this horrible moment and how it spurred pollution controls!

🇺🇸 We’re better than fear, we’re braver than billionaires, we’re bigger than ever — and we’re going to win.

Murphy: "Trump is refusing to negotiate because he likes the fact the govt is closed, bc he thinks he can exercise King-like powers. He can pay the employees who are loyal to him. This is a leader who is trying to transition our govt from a democracy to something much closer to a totalitarian state"

Today’s Rs are unrecognizable from those of Reagan in policies, authoritarianism, and decency.