Coalie!

dry corn mills are no joke

"the D.C. National Guard is on track to spend more than $602 million per year on the deployment — a sum slightly larger than the operating 2026 budget for the Metropolitan Police Department, which employs about 4,900 officers"

Another completely insane ICE real estate deal in Pennsylvania. $119M for a warehouse in Tremont, PA, to house "detainees." That's over $200M for two warehouses in PA, so far. That's your taxes and mine going to buy overpriced real estate for human rights violations. share.inquirer.com/TuvE1X

NEW: 150 days of Kavanaugh stops, and it just keeps getting worse. Kavanaugh stops would always be bad. As a tool in the Trump administration's authoritarianism arsenal, they are worse. The consequences are everywhere. This evening, at Law Dork:

Very big win here. A federal judge says it's just fine for funds and pension plans to boycott fossil fuels www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/c...

This sounds good but ICE and CBP have an OBBBA slush fund bigger than their annual budget so it's not like there would be disruptions. Now if DeLauro was saying that rescinding the slush fund was the starting point of negotiations...

I'm hearing that the Bezos @washingtonpost.com has fired ALL of its staff photographers.

Caroline Kitchener's first byline as an @theatlantic.com intern in 2017:

You know I'm starting to think Reid Hoffman should have less influence over the Democratic Party

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Paul Weiss was being run by Brad Karp

Now is a great time to follow and join @amzn4climate.bsky.social

Man I miss the days when @corporate.comcast.com was reliably the worst consumer-facing company

Other great candidates include my friend and climate activist @cammiecroft.bsky.social And @popdemocaction.bsky.social co-ED @analiliafornj.bsky.social

Yes, @mattyglesias.bsky.social has also argued, in The Atlantic (of course), that older men pursuing sexual relationships with sixteen year olds is not pedophilia.

Presented by BP!

I haven't fired any of Hill Heat's staff today Hillheat.news/subscribe

Remember, ruining the ability of our democracy to fund itself is the point, not a mistake

jfc

boy those Microsoft billionaires

so, not a fan?

It's very noticeable how much climate science has dropped from my feed of @agu.org participants

Please watch.

The great thing about militarizing the electric grid is that it extends the police state everywhere

Watch members of Congress put the corpse of NASA earth science into the ground, today at 10 am.

NAVSUP WEXMAC 2.2 TITUS (Region 27) is one of the acronymic vehicles the Trump regime is using to put the U.S. military’s awesome logistical capacity at work building the concentration camps financed by the One Big Brutal Bill Act and the measureless Pentagon budget.

It was a bit difficult to explain to my son why Bezos was destroying the @washingtonpost.com but he did get that slop is cheaper to make

They were just following task orders.

Trump's War of Terror on the Territorial Integrity of the United States Presented by WEXMAC 2.2 TITUS and LOGCAP V JTF-SB

ha they redacted "Donald Trump" (not the Epstein Files here, just the emergency $21 million no-bid contract awarded to KBR to help build up the migrant concentration camp at Ft. Bliss in March 2025)

The Epstein Files is the reverse Climategate

At the last minute, one of two GOP holdouts on the vote setting up the floor proceedings for the government-funding deal switched to aye so that it passed 217-215.

oh look it's Nathan Myhrvold, the Microsoft billionaire involved with the Freakonomics climate denialism chapter, forwarding the Dr. Strangelove-esque Lowell Wood's forwarding of a Steve Koonin climate denial column to Jeffrey Epstein. Most recently, Koonin was on the Trump DOE climate-denial group

The DC chapter of the @workingfamilies.org is launching on Friday and will feature @janeese4dc.bsky.social for Mayor, @robertwhitedc.bsky.social for Delegate, @djheatdc.bsky.social, Philly Councilmember @kendraphlcouncil.bsky.social, and more

Stephen Miller came out of his hole and saw his shadow, so it’s at least two more weeks of a continuing resolution for the Department of Homeland Security.

Lol I was so wrong, what I get for believing Lucy Jeffries wouldn't pull away the football. A large contingent of corporatist Ds are ready to vote with GOP

Pathetic move by @delauro.house.gov to do Mike Johnson's work for him. I understand the appropriator institutionalist argument, but this is a deadly misread of the moment. Happy to eat my words if DeLauro gets Cole to cast the key vote on something America needs, but I doubt it

Damn

This is the perfect Ken Klippenstein story

Today, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction allowing construction to resume on Sunrise Wind offshore Long Island. With the ruling, all five under-construction offshore wind projects halted by the Trump administration have been allowed to resume work.

@freedcproject.bsky.social Rules Committee considering the DC tax code override right now. @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social testifying against H.J. Res. 142

lol Comer just said the House needs to find the Clintons in contempt to "demonstrate to the American people justice is applied to everyone regardless of power, pedigree or prestige"

Tom Cole is now pretending he's unaware that federal agents enjoy immunity

I know I'm a pissy pedant but man do I hate that good Democrats like @fernandez.house.gov keep saying that the 14th Amendment only protects U.S. citizens. It recognizes that every single person - citizen or not - enjoys inalienable rights and should be treated so within the bounds of the U.S.A.

FERC has only one commissioner left who, at least professionally, believes in and cares about climate change, Judy Chang, the former Undersecretary of Energy and Climate Solutions for Massachusetts. But you wouldn't know it from her prepared testimony for Wednesday's FERC hearing

sorry, this is less a slush fund than a blank check

"One day her kitchen manager was pepper-sprayed and detained for six hours before being released without charges, so the restaurant closed."

"See also Magna Carta"