On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

So female associates of Epstein in the files are resigning or in jail like Maxwell, but men are going to keep their jobs. This what happens when rape culture is policy

All I can think when business leaders say this: They really, really do not want to pay people's salaries, and are willing to believe any fiction that says they won't have to. (Also, that their co growth is limited, and can only be achieved through cuts)

someone explain "confidential" to him pls

Canada is no longer taking Trump's threats seriously, and that's a good thing. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

NEW: A federal tool meant to find noncitizens on voter rolls is consistently marking citizens as noncitizens, especially if they were born outside the U.S., causing chaos as election clerks try not to disenfranchise voters, @zachdespart.bsky.social and I found. 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/save...

“Though Black women only account for about 14% of the workforce, they represented over half of all women’s job losses during the U.S. employment market’s most volatile months in 2025, like March, April, June, and December.”

Going car-free is the best thing most people can do for climate. To reduce car dependency, cities should promote car-free living, supporting compact cities through policy, and investing in public transportation, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, and shared mobility options.

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

Somebody please explain to me very slowly why basic constitutional rights are suddenly up for debate, as if they weren't legally embedded for over 200 years.

Coal is also expensive, contrary to what the administration says. If we use data from @energyinnovation.org's Coal Crossover 3.0 report, we can estimate that replacing the generation from these plants with renewables would save $663.9M annually. energyinnovation.org/report/the-c...

I worry that hateful ideas like this are gaining traction. Misogyny has always run deep in the US (oh yes, even in the so-called liberal NE), and US current political elites are doing a lot to entrench these attitudes. Scary times, on so many levels.

It's like they watched The Simpsons and thought the Mr Burns episodes were policy initiatives.

The SAVE Act has passed the House, making it harder for 69 million American women to vote. This isn’t about voter fraud or undocumented immigrants. This is about suppressing the female vote. They want to repeal the 19th and this is a step in that direction.

The US cannot be trusted to lead a critical minerals coalition ft.trib.al/1P5SZY6 | opinion

Breaking: House passes new version of SAVE Act, worst voter suppression bill considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million Americans w/out access to citizenship papers -69 mil married women who took partner’s name -21 mil w/out valid drivers license www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Minnesota still needs your attention

“I’ve mentioned before that concentration camp regimes in their early stages often make use of large open infrastructure to convert into detention spaces. Dachau was converted from a shuttered factory into a concentration camp in 1933.”

I'd love to see a quant breakdown of how he treats countries based on leaders' gender.

We don't know what's happening, but there's no good news here. As long as we keep burning fossil fuels, the world will continue to become more dangerous and chaotic.

Really crazy to hear Lyons keep saying ICE agents in MN are simply carrying out targeted, intelligence-driven enforcement operations. ICE is literally circling elementary schools in this Minneapolis suburb every day, looking for brown and Black children to nab. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

Seeing bike paths under attack in Montreal is really doing my head in. So many people depend on them! And so many people visit Mtl *because* of them! And lets not forget - so many of our infrastructure problems here are DUE TO cars. Letters like this are so important. We need to push back.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

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It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

slowly approaching fair value ($0)

Martin Wolf is very clear on trad wives:

When I worked in Paris, our office was in a building that used to be a brothel....frequented by Toulouse-Lautrec.

sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on

Anybody who wants to help reject an ICE prison camp in their community, this has some concrete things you can do to get the project killed

Just in the past few months in Minnesota, there have been as many ICE employees arrested for sex trafficking as there's been people executed by ICE agents

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...

But seriously, we have all the audits we need: the numbers of cyclists who use these lanes every. Single. Day. Ohhhh I'm so mad.

Basically the only thing keeping me in Montreal is the bike path system. If they touch that, I'm outta here.

Pretty good summary of the forces arrayed against the CO2 endangerment finding. I think they are counting their chickens prematurely. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

Whatever the EPA tries to do this week, understand that a) it will still be challenged in court (probably successfully - though it might take a while); b) EPA is not doing much in any case; and c) most of the action in the US is at the state and local level.

For CIM Magazine, I wrote about how miners are using AI to improve exploration: magazine.cim.org/en/technolog...

Little to add to Trump's Endangerment Finding move that hasn't already been said, but here's the key bit: Framing matters. This isn't "economics" vs climate, or some kind of noble "cost-cutting" crusade. It's a handout to narrow fossil interests, counter to economic forces.

Hundreds of millions spent on human misery

Ive been awake for 2 hours now. Going to be a rough day.

the use of performance enhancing drugs by olympic athletes is getting out of hand

Having spent most of my working life in transport policy, this is the essential truth that so many people - including politicians with responsibility for transport decisions - don’t or won’t get. To reduce congestion, you reduce capacity and reduce speed. The empirical evidence is overwhelming.

"In the USA, discourse and politics are undermining civil rights and dismantling science. Scientists can no longer afford neutrality. It is time for us to take collective political action to defend academic freedom and the communities that science is meant to serve."

"According to guild steward Sarah Kaplan, a Post Metro reporter, the paper is dropping between 350 and 375 journalists. With the newsroom’s pre-layoff strength at 790 people, that means between 44 percent and 47.5 percent of the newsroom has been axed." washingtonian.com/2026/02/09/a...

NEW: There's been another round of layoffs at the lab formerly known as NREL. Weeks after scrubbing “renewable energy” from its name, the National Laboratory of the Rockies in Golden has cut 134 staffers. www.cpr.org/2026/02/09/n...

How is it possible that anything about the funding fight does not include at the absolute minimum releasing every child from these concentration camps?

NEW: Galvion, a Montreal-based military hardware company, is supplying ballistic helmets to ICE as part of a US$15.5-million deal between the agency and a U.S. reseller. Story by @patriquin.bsky.social. thelogic.co/news/galvion...

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."