My thoughts on the Quantico meeting

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Trans rights are human rights.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.

The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it. Contemptible & pathetic.

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

At a time in history when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, democracy, and decency, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction — fawning over the most dangerous authoritarian America has ever witnessed.

The Roadless Rule is under threat! Today, the USDA opened a 21-day comment period on its plan to rollback protections for nearly one third of America’s National Forest land, including 8,700 climbing routes, 768 miles of whitewater paddling runs, and 25,000 miles of trail.

Painted Bunting at Caw Caw Interpretive Center, South Carolina #birds #nature

Here is the growing list of countries choosing to pause mail deliveries to the U.S. because of Trump's tariff chaos. Did anyone vote in 2024 to become the new Hermit Kingdom? Austria Australia Denmark France Germany India Italy Japan New Zealand Singapore Spain South Korea Sweden Thailand

Seven-year-old Mai Abu Arar, now reduced to skin and bones, is among tens of thousands of Palestinian children suffering malnutrition as Israel’s assault on Gaza City worsens a man-made famine aje.io/okedgi

Glaciers in the Alps and Pyrenees have lost about 40% of their mass since 2000. www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

NEVER FORGET — when the National Guard WASN’T called, and that he lied when he said he couldn’t.

EXCLUSIVE: @timmiller.bsky.social spoke to Andry as he shared his journey through U.S. detention that led to imprisonment in El Salvador. He speaks about abuse, survival, and rebuilding his life through faith and his hope for the future. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySs...

At a time in history when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, democracy, and decency, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction — fawning over the most dangerous authoritarian America has ever witnessed.

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

"No matter where I lived, I knew this was guaranteed because after moving into a new place, we’d plug in our old box television, adjust the shitty little antenna just so, and voila, like magic, there was PBS. It was free."

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire Gift 🔗

Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down after funding cut reut.rs/3UIh13q

NEW: I spoke with a woman named Andrea about her experience being detained by ICE after calling the cops for help during a domestic violence incident. She was recently postpartum, breastfeeding & put in an all-male facility. She was detained for 2.5 months.

An independent civil service is so important for so many reasons. One overlooked one is that it offers economic opportunities to people who would not otherwise get them from the private sector. bethesdamagazine.com/2025/07/29/d...

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape. Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.

You may not feel it, but the ground beneath you may be sinking. In fact, the surface of California’s Central Valley is nearly 30 vertical feet lower than it was a century ago. Why is this happening? Because our planet is rapidly drying. THREAD/

Today’s the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act—but the fight for access, dignity, and justice didn’t start in 1990, and it sure as hell didn’t end there. Anyone can become disabled at any time. So saving Medicaid is survival. For all of us. #SaveMedicaidSaveFamilies

A looming global water crisis may be under appreciated as climate change takes hold. Today I report on a new study that finds the planet is quickly drying, with mega-regions of water loss now stretching across continents. www.propublica.org/article/wate...

As you read these horrendous accounts from the men who were illegally renditioned to a Salvadoran torture prison, keep in mind that, on Monday, the corrupt GOP Congress is set to install as an appellate court judge the man who said "fuck court orders" when another judge tried to stop this.

Aid organizations report that thousands of children in Gaza are at risk of starvation while trucks full of food sit waiting across the border. The full flow of humanitarian assistance must be restored immediately. news.un.org/en/story/202...

As Trump and his allies in Congress try to gut public funding for PBS, watch this 1971 clip of Rev. Jesse Jackson and the kids of Sesame Street. This is why we need public broadcasting.

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for. UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families. Our full statement below. ⬇️ 1/

Happy birthday, America. Your gift? A new police state.

The Republican spending bill is a historic theft that will take from the poor to give to the already-rich. Republicans passed this knowing people will die. They know people will lose their health care. They know children will go hungry. They will own the tragic results. We can't let them forget.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Where is he? If we stop asking, stop demanding his return, we are complicit in his disappearance.

Difficult to overstate how depraved, racist, sociopathic, and fascistic the modern Republican Party has become.

Palantir poses a grave threat to Americans: “The danger inherent in Palantir’s AI-powered super-database on all Americans is connected to the vast wealth and power of those associated with the corporation, and their apparent disdain for democratic institutions.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I really don’t understand how anyone in this administration, or anyone who supports them, sleep at night.

7 things everyone should know about Trump's megabill: Cuts $930 billion from Medicaid 16 million lose health care Slashes nutrition aid by $186 billion Less income for bottom 40% of families Increases debt by $3.3 trillion $45 billion for immigration jails Billions for defense contractors

"The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival. Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort." —Justice Sotomayor

Honestly one of the best reasons I can give you to plant native plants right now is that everything fucking sucks & a lot of it feels (or is) totally out of our control (depending on who you are). One thing most people can do is plant a plant and then look at bees happily sipping on it.

Three years ago today, Trump's far-right Supreme Court majority ended Americans' federal right to abortion under Roe v. Wade. Since then, over 100 women have been denied emergency abortion care. Amber Nicole Thurman, 28, was one of them. Today, share her story. www.propublica.org/article/geor...

The video of John Spitzberg's arrest has been shared widely across social platforms, becoming a crystalizing moment for those protesting the Trump administration.

An intense, shocking read, raising all kinds of questions. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history..." www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

They hate us more than they hate Trump