Should warrantless arrests by ICE & Border Patrol be reported as kidnappings? Ones involving children issued as amber alerts?

That's mostly "red" states. The one with the highest percentage is Iowa. The one with the biggest number is Texas. Kansas and Oklahoma are in the mix. After that, I'd need to look stuff up.

“Interior Secretary Doug Burgum questioned if using federal lands for wind and solar projects is even permissible under the law and began issuing stop-work orders and attempting to withdraw leases for existing offshore wind operations.” Their goal is to stop leases of federal land for green energy.

It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends. We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over. We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.

Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else? What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?

End of season Honey Nectar rose budding out. 🌱💗 #BlueSkyArtShow #small #roses #flowers #inthegarden #photography #beautyintheworld

Last weekend of my annual exhibition - 60 original watercolours on show www.jamesmccallum.co.uk

Goodnight. Let's not do today again. 🪶

for the ladies 🩷 ...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “In the past, when Trump has turned on Republicans, his base has tended to follow,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes. His inability to stand up to Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie “suggests that something has changed.”

Russia makes clear it won’t defend Venezuela defence-blog.com/russia-makes...

Tribal economies could be hit hard by the Trump administration move to gut the community finance fund.

Tribal nations and Native people mobilize to fulfill broken treaty obligations as SNAP and heating assistance program funds take a hit from now the longest shutdown in U.S. history.

Trump to Sends Aircraft Carrier with 75 planes to Launch Regime-Change WAR on Venezuela www.reuters.com/business/aer...

The "peace president" is going after that oil.

Media coverage of traffic deaths matters: calling pedestrians "jaywalkers" and treating crashes as random tragedies—not design failures—makes funding safer streets harder. Pedestrian deaths up 75% since 2010. We know the fixes; language shapes policy.

Here's sandhill crane dancing at sunset. Quick cell phone edit, so they'll be a better version someday. Great way to clear my head after an unfathomably stressful week. Winning is hard, especially given the constant losses in our communities. The only way out is through ❤️ 🪶

Tax more, get rid of insurance. Stop making CEOs rich. Put that money directly into health care systems. Like hospitals, clinic, and programs educating. Time to revamp your "system". It's not working.

So Donald Trump’s big donors and giant corporations get massive tax breaks, but Americans waiting for SNAP payments are told to eat dirt? Did I get that right?

It’s been 45 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona. Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear her in because she’s the final vote for the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

The exponential rise of clean energy. Countries around the world are adding renewables at a blistering pace — and this surge is happening in some surprising places. https://cnn.it/4hWmBu4

Finally some explanation for the Argentina bailout! Thanks Dr. Warren !

GOP’s Prop 50 lawsuit has problems: Hard to sue when your “harm” is just losing elections. Voters approved it — courts don’t love undoing democracy. & claiming “racial gerrymandering” while CA says “we followed the Voting Rights Act” isn’t the slam dunk they think it is. Good luck with that. 🥴

Breaking news: WARS for OIL are on the way under Trump ! Yet another lie !!

At what point do we start calling out the wealthiest beneficiaries of this regime by name and start boycotting?

For Georgia:

If you don’t see the overt racism…. It’s right here 😬

Johnny DuPree, a Democrat who served as the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for 16 years, has won a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat. With 92% of the vote in as of 9 p.m. Tuesday, DuPree led Republican Anna Rush in the special election for Mississippi Senate District 45 by a 71%-29%.

Theresa Gillespie Isom, a North Mississippi Democrat, has won a special election for Mississippi Senate District 2, flipping a Republican-held seat. Her victory means Democrats could be on the verge of breaking the Republican Party’s supermajority in the upper legislative chamber. buff.ly/oW1ugOe

After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be

The fact that Democrats won both elections yesterday for the Georgia Public Service Commission is remarkable enough (no Democrat had won a non-federal statewide race in GA since 2006). But both won by a margin of 63% to 37%. In Georgia. results.sos.ga.gov/results/publ...

(🧵/ 2) The Society for the Rule of Law Institute condemns the president’s treatment of U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert, his weaponization of the Justice Department, and those attorneys in his service who have betrayed their oaths and ethical obligations to enable this conduct.

All year, Virginians have seen our economy come under attack, jobs get ripped away, and prices skyrocket. They’re tired of the chaos. They’re ready for a Governor who will be laser-focused on growing our economy and lowering costs — a Governor who will put them first.

Cheney used 9/11 as a pretext to go into Iraq & steal the oil. *rump is using drugs as the pretext to invade Venezuela and steal the oil.

Please help to spread the word about the HUGE PROTEST at 11am on Wed 11/5 in Washington DC at the Washington Monument! 🙏🏼 refusefascism.org/events/nov5/

After a devastating landfall in Jamaica, Major Hurricane #Melissa has emerged north of the island. In a few hours it will strike again, this time in southern Cuba.

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

“But overall, in all the touring that Newsom has done across the country, going to southern states could be the best investment that he’ll make, because it shouldn’t just be up to Rust Belt swing states to determine an election.”

Autumn #Background #Wallpaper 🍂 #Midjourney #Synthart #AIart #AIArtistCommunity #srefshare #sref --sref 2171719534 --sv 6

They only attack those who are effective and can fear ruin their schemes — hence Colbert and Kimmel were first They also consistently go after AOC and swalwell

Crested Caracara #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #thelittlethings

First Colbert, now Kimmel. Last-minute settlements, secret side deals, multi-billion dollar mergers pending Donald Trump's approval. Trump silencing free speech stifles our democracy. It sure looks like giant media companies are enabling his authoritarianism.

When far-right influencers like Michael Flynn, Alex Jones, Charlie Kirk, Nick Fuentes, Steve Bannon & the QAnon Shaman believe Trump is protecting pedophiles, Trump is in trouble. MAGA dissent reveals deep fracture over trust in Trump. Demand integrity.

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

The Republicans most at risk of potential attacks from Trump / Israel operatives include Tucker Carlson, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, Thomas Massie, and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Each has publicly supported the release of the Epstein files & called out Israel, much like Charlie Kirk before his killing.

It is still more likely for an American to be struck by lightning than to commit mail voting fraud. 3/

The United States could have great things like this. But we like to spend our money on kidnapping people and trafficking them to concentration camps instead. #Priorities