TODAY: Saturday, 2pm, at The Haven. Our Charlottesville community is fortunate to have neighbors who are showing up, together.

Second man shares horrific story of being blinded by officers at anti-ICE rally in Santa Ana

🚨Border Patrol whistleblower outraged by ICE's conduct exposes over a dozen secret ICE programs in documents leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/21-secret-...

The administration takes another step to implement Project 2025 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/c...

preview says 3, as of now the headline is updated to 6

NEW: Coal-fired power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, for the first time since 1973. The drop came after record clean energy additions in both countries, and was the first time that clean energy was a major driver of falling coal power use.

Protester blinded, skull fractured by DHS agent during Santa Ana demonstration, family says ugh, horrific video www.latimes.com/california/s...

This is a bulls-eye piece. We are where we are right now because of the Court. Its sustained assault on our democracy to grab and preserve Republican power no matter the people’s will is a project that preceded Trump, and will succeed Trump. We must confront the Court to take our power back.

Federal agents ram a man's vehicle demanding ID at Park/35th in Minneapolis today. The man says he was let go once they realized he was a US citizen. Crowd grew w/ agents then releasing tear gas & pepper spraying some along w/ press and their cameras. More: chaddavis.photography/sets/ice-in-...

Seems like this is the way to talk about affordability and ICE at the same time rather than the Jeffries/schumer “this is a distraction” stuff.

*ORSTED WINS RULING TO RESUME US WIND PROJECT HALTED BY TRUMP

Make America healthy again?

I broke the story yesterday that masked ICE agents (not DOJ) were removing items including a personal computer from the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. I have yet to see a single news outlet cover this or an elected official even acknowledge it.

1,000 days of war in Sudan — by the numbers ➤ Humanitarian need: About 33.7 million people now require humanitarian assistance, the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. ➤ Displacement: Roughly 9.3mn people are... Sudan expert Cameron Hudson says the brutal war will likely continue in 2026 👇

At what juncture will centrist “permitting reform” proponents read the writing on the wall, stop pressing for legislation in this Congress, stop aligning with O&G and Big Tech, stop attacking climate NGOs, and start building power for the future, not the fossil fuel-soaked past?

For doubters.

WATCH: More than 80% of U.S. children attend public schools. Some of the Education Department’s ultraconservative advisers, led by Secretary Linda McMahon, want to change that. Here’s an inside look at their dismantling of public education:

Rebuilding Venezuelan oil production doesn't make economic and would be an environmental catastrophe. My new analysis shows that getting Venezuelan oil production to 1997 levels would create new annual emissions on par with entire countries like France & Thailand- the 19th biggest national emitter

🔴 Gaza | Jan. 8, 2026 Israel has unleashed a wave of deadly attacks across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 10 Palestinians, including children as young as 5, and wounding many others, as it continues to flagrantly violate the ceasefire agreement signed Oct. 10, 2025 daily. List of...

Videos people created with Grok are more extreme than images on X: - A review of around 800 Grok videos found around 10% appeared to involve sexual content and minors - Some videos involved violent sexual scenes - Celebrities and real people were put into explicit videos, including Princess Diana

This is *excellent* forensic journalism by The Times: clear explanation using video evidence. This is the best of Times journalism. Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Larger context on the ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota: Fed. officers have fatally shot at least 3 other people in the last 5 months & wounded or threatened others. We describe a few of the recent incidents and patterns we've noticed here. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/07/i...

This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Whether you've only been once, lots of times, or if this is your first time, come on by!

Something I see a lot of folks missing in discussions about what's happening Venezuela, particularly around oil, is the role U.S. oil majors' interest in Guyana—and the threat Venezuela posed to it—has in all of it. Explainer here: drilled.media/news/guyana-...

If you're looking for the backstory to the US action (attack? raid? invasion?) in Venezuela, you should definitely check out Moe Tkacik's impressively comprehensive account in the Prospect. prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

This is what every craven international leader not immediately condemning the attack on Venezuela is enabling

I'll spell it out: Offering that Maduro is bad but the strikes and kidnappings violated legal procedure, is discursively like closing the back door to Trump while opening the front door. You concede the moral case, and offer a legal one that nobody without a lanyard knows of or gives a shit about.

New paper: China's current rate of Wind-Water-Solar (WWS) installations puts it on a trajectory to transition to 100% WWS across all energy sectors by 2051 US & India won't get there until past 2130 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

The Trump administration’s release of the Epstein grand jury documents are entirely redacted. It’s 119 pages of just black rectangles.

I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece. Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...

I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.

New York Times is so adamant that anything involving sex trafficking or intelligence is a conspiracy, so they’re backed into using passive voice or goofy little asides about mysteries that just cannot possibly be explained.

With support from Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, Running Tide billed itself as on the cutting edge of carbon removal. In the end, it resorted to dumping thousands of tons of wood chips in the sea. www.wired.com/story/how-th...

Okay not *only* about oil, also about showing dominance and probably some sort of petty grievance in there too. But definitely ALSO helpful to some US oil majors (notably Exxon and Chevron)

You can spend your whole life trying to use historical materialism to explain the world, but then sometimes a perfectly viable industry is crippled just because of the feelings of one stupid asshole who’s in charge. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Even in the darkest of times, some people manage to find the light.

Tfw what you, and many others, have been screaming about finally gets traction: "a big and growing number of countries recognise that a managed, collectively navigated route to fossil fuel phaseout is preferable to the chaotic absence of planning we currently have" cc: @gruberte.bsky.social

Boast from EPA chief Lee Zelda: “We will do more deregulation in one year than entire federal governments in the past have done across all federal agencies combined.”

Are we here yet?

Some much needed good news. “Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.” Guft link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/c...

"The wins come as the cost of electricity has become a major consumer issue. The defeated Republican incumbents had voted to approve six rate increases over the last two years, resulting in an estimated average increase of about $500 per year for the average household." Public power is inevitable.

Real shame to see radical centrists like spanberger being so divisive the day before an election. As a swing voter, I find it incredibly alienating that she puts purity politics over reaching out and making compromise.

So excited for this report to come out. We are going to need a massive reboot of the offshore industry if/when this country wants to tackle the climate crisis in the future. And it’s going to have to be led by the public sector.

Important legal victory for climate and for disadvantaged communities in Louisiana. #ClimateInTheCourts www.eenews.net/articles/lou...