Our use of fossil fuels is certainly a factor here

This was achieved with help from us humans.

biden total spend on ukraine: $180 billion the pentagon just asked for $200 billion for war in iran.

“In China, more than half of new car sales are now electric. In Nepal, it's more than 70%. As oil prices rise, residents with EVs are less vulnerable than if they had to rely on fuel.”

Gillibrand: "How they missed this was a girls' school is very concerning to me. If Sec. Hegseth did not cut the funding for this area of review by 90%, if he did not continually try to undermine the rules & procedures our service members & generals take - I think he should resign bc of this failure"

Blood of innocent children on his hands! “The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90%….Hegseth's decision to scale back those efforts meant that the U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. forces in the Middle East, had only one staffer assigned to civilian casualty mitigation operations.”

Errors on your credit report can raise your interest rates, block you from renting, or cost you a job. The CFPB once forced credit bureaus to fix those mistakes. Now, under this administration, oversight is collapsing and the agency is handling fewer disputes even as complaints keep piling up.

Since the 2008 financial crisis, the CFPB has returned $21B to consumers by policing predatory lenders, junk fees, and scams. Now the administration is sidelining that watchdog and turning it into what @newyorker.com calls a “zombie regulator” just as debt and financial risks are rising.

These poor kids. This family did nothing wrong except believe in the United States.

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

This angle of Shohei Ohtani’s grand slam is pure chills

Absolute shame that the White Sox let him go. Jason is so incredibly talented, distinct voice, sharp mind, and a genuinely good guy. During Covid, Jason even took time to record encouraging videos for any fan who messaged him. The White Sox blew it on this one.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/b...

This entire interview is so informative. If you want to understand the complexities of this war, and the mistakes the United States is making take a serious listen.

When the modern electric vehicle was still in its infancy, drivers worried that vehicles would need expensive battery replacements within a few years. But battery lifespans are exceeding expectations. n.pr/4r5CqBw

Got a cab near the Department of Education. Hadn’t seen the Charlie Kirk banner before.

Infringing on our rights AND wasting our money. ICE is a failed experiment. Shut them down.

Playing politics with disaster relief funding is a new low, even for the Trump Administration. Let’s call it for what it really is: a politically motivated decision that punishes thousands of Illinois families in a critical moment of need.

We'll pick it up from here. Spring Training and the World Baseball Classic are right around the corner!

Absolutely vomitous

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Not having any nuclear treaties is certainly not a recipe for safety and national security.

For the first time in more than half a century, there are no limits on the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals. https://to.pbs.org/49ZOkaW

Why the fuck did no other media member in the room stand up for @kaitlancollins.bsky.social? This has been going on forever. Trump, the coward, is constantly throwing ugly sexist insults at female reporters. When the fuck will White House media members defend their female colleagues?

Black History Month is a time to recognize the lived, shared experience of all Black folks who have fundamentally shaped, challenged, and ultimately strengthened America. It’s about taking an unvarnished look at the past so that we can create a better future.

There is no reason any of these men need any of this gear. This entire situation is not only dangerous and illegal. It is absurd and stupid. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Chemical Formula xkcd.com/3200/

Watch Nobel Peace Prize winner and journalist Maria Ressa talk about technology and disinformation at the Doomsday Clock announcement. "The operating system has been corrupted." @thebulletin.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulvU...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

“The orders … loosen protections for ground water and the environment and eliminate at least one key safety role. The new orders cut back on requirements for keeping records, and they raise the amount of radiation a worker can be exposed to before an official accident investigation is triggered.”

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

For every new STEM PhD hired by the US Government in 2025, 11 quit/retired/fired. Eleven.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

This five year old is still in jail

Teachers in K–12 schools across the US are discovering hazardous and unlabeled chemicals in their classroom laboratories. With small education budgets, they face challenges evaluating and paying to remove those chemicals without harming students or themselves. cen.acs.org/education/k-... #chemsky🧪

On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

The Trump regime is smearing this man - Alex Pretti - as a “domestic terrorist.” We can’t let them get away with it. Alex Pretti was a patriotic American - far more so than the ICE agent who murdered him on the streets of Minneapolis today. Far more so than Trump, Stephen Miller, or any of them.

Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c 1. continuing, not 1 off. 2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it 3. literally at hand of federal government, which is 4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.

Pritzker: "The GOP is nowhere to be found. They're the ones that scream and yell about 'federal tyranny' about interference with states' rights. And now, their president is violating states' rights and attacking our states and Republicans are nowhere to be found to talk about it."

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Those who try to erase the past will never learn its lessons.

We're not allowed to see the faces of the taxpayer-funded goon squad who is committing crimes in the streets, but the goon squad is allowed to record the faces of taxpayers who have committed no crimes.