SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency @heatmap.news

BREAKING: Federal judge issues TRO following a second day of hearings, blocking the Trump administration from “ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois” from now through Oct. 23. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: NY State AG Letitia James indicted by federal grand jury in Virginia www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

I’ve been laboring under the believe that “set” is the English word with the most definitions. Turns out that’s years out of date. The top prize now goes to “run.”

Can’t wait until we learn why they’re out to get Tylenol. It’s too random not to have a grift.

Hold on, are 2027 model year cars available in Q1 of the year before now?? What?

This is wild, via @jmetr22b.bsky.social of the Chicago Tribune: From U.S. District Chief Judge Virginia Kendall in the Northern District of Illinois: “At no point did I, nor the Building Security Committee, authorize or request the National Guard’s assistance to secure the Dirksen Courthouse.”

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

It's obvious his aides, led by Miller, are feeding him this BS. It's elder abuse on some level. But he's also the President FFS Media needs to stop pretending this isn't a massive scandal

Mitchell, who took over OPD last year, surprised many by announcing today that he will leave in December.

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

🚨A quarter of all FBI agents have been assigned to immigration enforcement www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed www.404media.co/apple-banned...

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

This whole article is a must read. It sets a new high water mark for how bad things have gotten. It’s important not to look away.

NEW: Trump is moving to kill all funding for proposed Texas and Louisiana mega-hubs to capture CO₂ from the atmosphere The bipartisan-backed hubs represented a rare clean tech industry where the US was on the cutting edge by @emilypont.bsky.social for @heatmap.news heatmap.news/politics/doe...

“A federal team in El Paso that once pursued child traffickers has been disbanded. “A task force in Kansas focused on stemming fentanyl has been redirected. “Highway checkpoints near the border—on roads identified as major drug-trafficking routes—have gone unstaffed” 🎁 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Qualcomm buys open-source electronics firm Arduino. “Qualcomm said Arduino ‘will retain its independent brand, tools and mission.’” I wonder how long that independence will last… [reuters.com]

We don't, there will be a new (and hopefully better) normal after this, that said, for the rest of our lives we'll have to be aware a non-trivial number of neighbors and fellows voted for actual fascism, and that's always going to be a bummer

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

93 million U.S. residents are immigrants or are U.S. born and have at least one immigrant parent.

I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Wind-Water-Solar pushing out gas in California Fossil gas down 17.4% year to date in 2025 v '24 and down 37.4% v '23 Wind up 2.1% v '24 and 5.1% v '23 Solar up 15.1% v '24 and 44.8% v '23 Batteries up 58.4% v '24 and 206.4% v '23 Demand down 1.4% v '24 and 1% v '23

BREAKING: A federal judge ORDERS an evidentiary hearing to determine whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been vindictively prosecuted. Abrego’s lawyers carried their burden of demonstrating enough evidence to warrant it.

“The source told CBS News that [Kash Patel and Dan Bongino] asked for "large, beefy" agents to conduct an arrest of Comey "in full kit," including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo.” The leadership of the FBI is now in the hands of infantile psychopaths.

Breaking on MSNBC: An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey. This news was first reported by Reuters.

This one felt like a big deal and I tried to do a thoughtful speech of how we have achieved so much.

Title text: ""Measure zero times, cut zero times." --carpenter who has achieved enlightenment and realized the wood is fine where it is" Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3149#Transcript

Our write-up of the brief we filed Monday in TR v. ROSS:

If anybody wants a project to make Bluesky better, I've got one: On Twitter, when you posted a CourtListener PDF link, it would try to get the preview of it, and we'd serve up a little thumbnail and some metadata for the PDF. Bluesky doesn't do previews for PDFs at all, so this doesn't work.

“ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture of each planned delivery in 2025, detailing the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached hungry people because of the administration’s cut.” projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated: If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

We're a growing organization, and donations like these really make a huge difference in what we can get done. Our server fees are now around $1000 per day. Please consider becoming a member so we can do more advocacy and work: donate.free.law/forms/member...

For a long time we’ve thought that firms should be supporting FLP more, but we didn’t know how. We’re hoping this provides a nice way to bring them in the tent. If you are at a firm, we’d love to chat about how you can join.

Arsonist puts out fire he started with fire extinguisher he stole.

We've been trying to find dev help on Upwork and it has been utterly—almost hilariously—sad. During interviews: 1. The person that showed up wasn't the same person as on upwork 2. One person was an AI avatar? 3. Another person just couldn't do the work (despite resume) Upwork is a dumpster fire.

The regime is deporting an Atlanta journalist and being pretty open about the fact that it‘s in direct retaliation for his coverage: “An immigration judge granted Guevara a $7,500 bond in July, but the government filed a stay, claiming that his reporting on law enforcement activity was dangerous”

Went for a little shoppy shop in the Elmwood the other day. I didn’t spend as much as I would have, thanks to some of the business owners who showed me where NOT to go.

We will regret not acting faster on climate change.

A company called Blackdot has built a tattooing robot. The company says the machine is less painful and the tattoos look like they are laser-printed. [blackdot.tattoo]

The obvious next step is for blue states to find a mechanism to withhold taxes from the federal government. Blue states subsidize the red states, and that is an obvious power differential that it is past time to leverage.

The more my taxes are denied to me, the more I think about whether CA, OR, WA should just bail on the whole experiment. What’s the point of a nation if you’re just taxed without the benefits?

"I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected. "Is he correct?"