It’s official: Republicans have let funding for FEMA, TSA and the Coast Guard lapse. Rather than work with House Democrats on commonsense reforms to ICE, Republicans have chosen to SHUT DOWN the entire Department of Homeland Security.

Because it’s not really about trying to get troops to vote Republican-that would be bad enough. It’s about conditioning the military to obey a man and not their oath to the Constitution. It’s why Hegseth & Trump were so adamant about prosecuting the 6 Dems who spoke up about it.

Canadian mogul Jim Pattinson, owner of the Jim Pattinson Group, tried to sell a 550,000 sq ft warehouse in VA to DHS ICE but canceled the sale due to public pressure. His divisions are listed on the company website. www.jimpattison.com/industries/

Just watched our Secretary of State laud the Scientific Revolution and deride climate science as a “cult,” almost in same breath. The distorting effect of fossil fuel’s corrupt influence is astounding, like a warped fun-house mirror.

ICE and Border Patrol do have huge reserves of funding due to Trump’s Big Ugly Bill, but Republicans have acknowledged that this shutdown will deplete those funds more quickly and possibly disrupt some ICE and CBP operations.

It’s the CO2 emissions.

Voter fraud is not a real problem. Our problem isn’t non-citizens illegally voting in our elections. The real problem is American citizens not voting in our elections. And our even bigger problem is voter suppression.

Guess Tom Homan wasn't telling the truth about withdrawing ICE from Minneapolis?

Hegseth to US military: if you get into MIT, we won't let you attend because of the risk that you will be exposed to ideas hostile to MAGA when you study there.

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People who denied Corey Lewandowski an officially issued firearm were passed over for promotions. trib.al/i6aLrmb

Worth the lusten

My #ScienceUnderSiege co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I join @philippmarkolin.bsky.social for the inaugural episode of the #ScienceCounterpunch podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4PF...

The whole world will pay the price Trump’s EPA can’t simply erase climate change — and we’ll all pay the price @michaelemann.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Excellent editorial on the EPA decision to revoke the endangerment finding on greenhouse gases.

"Trump’s EPA can’t simply erase climate change — and we’ll all pay the price" | My op-ed with Bob Ward in @sfchronicle.com: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Moving Climate Change And Vaccines Out Of The Anti-Science Crosshairs | Great review of our (@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & my) book #ScienceUnderSiege for #HealthAffairs⁩ ⁦by Angela K Shen⁩: www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

I'll be talking about the Trump administration's repeal of the EPA "Endangerment Finding" and what it means for climate action in the U.S., tomorrow morning ~9:20am ET on The #WeatherChannel "Weekend Recharge" www.weathergroup.com/shows/weeken...

Just added this to my WordPress site, so it's free to read. homunculusmusic.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/e...

Evil takes a human form in Regina George, er, Pam Bondi

Scientists thought they understood global warming. Then the past three years happened. The last 30 years are the fastest warming period since 1880, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Noem to Congress: if you don't fund us, then we don't have to obey the law. But if you do fund us, we also won't obey the law.

⚡️ Zelenskyy: We cannot just withdraw. There are 200,000 Ukrainians living there. It is our land.

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Doesn’t get any plainer. #PlanetDeathWarrant

Happy Valentine’s Day 💙

We murdered three more people in a boat today

Facts: The federal government has no authority over elections. States certify their own elections. Mail in voting is still legal. Any chance to Election Clause of the Constitution requires 2/3 of both House and Senate and 3/4 of States to amend the Constitution....that ain't happening.

NFL franchise owners in the EPSTEIN e-mails & assorted docs Partial list: *Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots *Steve Tisch, co-owner of the New York Giants *Stephen Ross, owner of the Miami Dolphins *Zygi Wilf, owner of the Minnesota Vikings *Arthur Blank, owner of the Atlanta Falcons

This guy raped little girls.

@jakubkrupa.bsky.social does it again.

👏, at least some countries take climate change seriously and respect the science? Or just luck?

@barackobama.bsky.social: "Bad Bunny's halftime show... This is what a community is. People who did not speak Spanish and have never been to Puerto Rico saw that elderly woman serving a drink and the kids dancing with their grandmas... There's room for everybody here. That I think is where we win."

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Nuclear physicist Fay Ajzenberg-Selove was born #OTD in 1926. She authored decades of authoritative compilations on light nuclei energy levels (researchers' "nuclear bible"). Recipient, National Medal of Science (US 2007) for advancing nuclear #physics. Advocate for #WomenInScience. #WomenInSTEM

Judge rules ICE likely violated Minnesota detainees' constitutional rights #ICEOUT #Whipple #FDT #Epstein #GTFO thehill.com/regulation/c...

And I still want a taco truck on every corner or another international equivalent!

everyone’s saying “people are NIMBYs about concentration camps” and yeah, I don’t want a concentration camp in my neighborhood, or anywhere you know who I don’t mind in my neighborhood? free immigrants, undocumented or otherwise

The President of the United States raped underage women. Attorney General Pam Bondi has seen the proof in the Epstein files and doesn't care. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

@barackobama.bsky.social: "When I was POTUS, I suppose I could have simply unilaterally ordered the military to go into some red state and harass and intimidate a governor or cut off funding for states that didn't vote for me... but that is contrary to how I think our democracy is supposed to work."

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

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Always awesome @stephaniemiller.bsky.social show, but Thursday might have been the best this week with Dr. Doom @irwinredlener.bsky.social and @frangeladuo.bsky.social .

Concerned, but never acts correctly. Wake up Maine and vote for someone who works for you the people and not just trump and the oligarchy.

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

The GOP’s “Save America Act” (previously just “SAVE”) requires that states implement voter purge programs using programs such as the “SAVE” system, which had an error rate of at least 14% in one of the counties that used it, per the Texas Tribune & ProPublica. 14%! #NoOnSAVE 1/

First, read this and learn about the SAVE Act. Then call your senators. We can’t afford to let them impose a poll tax on our right to vote. joycevance.substack.com/p/voting-a-r...

And note if they “accidentally” purge you from the voter rolls using an error-prone database (oopsie!, you’ll have to re-register under their cumbersome new rules by going *in person* with your narrowly-defined documentary of proof of citizenship, before the deadline. If they tell you you’re purged.

You can expect authoritarian violence at the US #Midterms. Be prepared.