It’s wild how many drivers plow through this stuff not appreciating that it’s salt water.

Fantastic lightning display across the entire horizon.

WATCH: “WE WILL NOT GO BACK… today is the day we see if multiracial democracy dies in Tennessee and across the South.” Powerful — ryan camp followed Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social the day Republicans stripped Memphis of representation. 🎥 www.instagram.com/reel/DYITOzA...

The agency’s leadership distanced itself from the controversial proposal even though staff helped research public-land sales, shares Public Domain.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

Hey media-- Pam Bondi is not a victim -- she willingly carried out Trump's political agenda to prosecute his political enemies and undermine free and fair elections. Todd Blache is not shouldering a "burden" or "walking a tightrope." He is a willing accomplice. Language matters.

A zoomed-in view that's just remarkable.

My 8-point article re: the “Save America Act”, which wld nationalize voter purges via a centralized computer system overhauled by DOGE in collaboration w/ SSA whose databases have allegedly been compromised by DOGE. The bill also makes it hard to prove you’re a citizen if the system flags you.

Irony dies a thousand deaths

What you need to know to stay safe out there on social media. Read the latest from Frank Figliuzzi for Lincoln Square: open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...

Blue-sky still not as good as Twitter was in this regard. Daniel was the only person in my feed talking about this - if your feed is full of info about this event let me know. I am still not following enough of the right people.

We were saddened to hear of the passing of Betty Reid Soskin, who taught about the Black experience during WWII at the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, CA. At 104, she was the oldest ranger serving at the NPS.

From @wired.com: “Federal records reveal ICE is secretly expanding into 150+ facilities across nearly every state — many near schools, medical offices, and places of worship… DHS asked the General Services Administration to hide lease listings and bypass normal procedures…”🤔

Spoiler: all but a few D’s and I’s take the money.

“‘What Oligarchy Looks Like’: AI Giants Pledge to Pump $100 Million Into 2026 Midterms *** The goal of the PAC is to elect a Congress that will prohibit individual states from passing their own AI regulations.” 2/11/26 … 1/ www.commondreams.org/news/ai-supe...

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Republicans’ new tax law decreased Amazon's taxes 87%, while the corporate giant's profits grew. The company’s U.S. taxes went $9 billion $1.2 billion. Amazon is also in the process of cutting 30,000 jobs.

"And all of this is happening not after the great shocks of a depression or a world war, not at a time when the country was reeling from earth-shattering events...The rise of Trump came at a time of relative peace and prosperity. We have no excuse for having succumbed to the degree we already have."

Exclusive: Homeland Security has used what’s known as an administrative subpoena, a legal tool that federal agencies can issue without an order from a judge or grand jury. Under President Trump, DHS has weaponized the tool to strangle free speech.

This entire answer from Mike Johnson — the speaker of the House and a lawyer — must be seen. It is fundamentally wrong on both points: as to administrative warrants (which need not be signed by immigration judges) and as to judicial warrants (which are not "new" for authorizing home entry).

Tom Homan in August: ICE agents “need a judicial warrant for a search” ⬇️

It is one thing to seize old ballots; it is quite another to imagine federal agents seizing ballots from county offices on election night or the day after. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/dojs...

“The Gilded Age saw an eruption of scandal and corruption that accompanied and even enabled the transformation of the American economy alongside explosive changes in technology,” Walter Russell Mead argues. “Trump’s Washington looks like the Gilded Age on steroids.”

The harping about 2020 was never about the past. It was and is about the future: using a lie about a "stolen election" to actually steal elections.

Joel Berry, Managing Editor of the Babylon Bee, wrote this AM that: “If we lose heart every time a feral Communist commits suicide by cop, our country isn’t gonna make it *** I’m so beyond letting my Christian compassion get weaponized by Leftist death-worshippers…” (His “Christian compassion”) 1/

I will never forgive the legacy media for failing to pick up where Heidi left off. Perhaps they were intimidated or fooled by what this network did to Heidi. Except what they did was the tell, ie, she was onto something big. Now some of the people in the same network are targeting Don Lemon.

"There are more of us than there are of them" is generally true under any government, but it is especially true in a country where the vast majority of police are state/local beyond federal commandeering, and federal agencies are built for elite specialization, not mass manpower occupying streets.

A critical mass of our “essential workers” in many industries, but especially healthcare, are immigrants.

This is what secret police do and repressive regimes.

“We have a nice little database.” Two weeks ago I wrote about the risk of Trump using his NSPM-7 memo to treat citizens exercising their rights like terrorists. Now it’s a reality. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

Opsec culture in activism legitimately needs to die

Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.

16 years ago, the Citizens United ruling set the stage for billionaires to take over our government. Now, under the Trump admin, corruption and self-enrichment are at an all-time high—leaving everyday Americans with less of a say in politics compared to the rich and powerful.

The pardons came about after the daughter of one of the defendants gave $2.5 million to MAGA Inc. on Dec. 31, 2024, and another $1 million donation in late July... www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

This was always their real flag

We have recently added ICE collaboration to our database tracking support for the right wing thanks to great work by 404 Media and the Nation. Will add this one as a source also. whofundstheright.org

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.” Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

ICE’s hiring process is even worse than expected (hiring ppl who don’t even finish the paperwork, future-dating untaken med clearances, etc.). Which seems like something Dem candidates should jump on NOW. Like: “We will claw back bonuses of anyone who should’ve failed their background check.”

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)

I know you rider, gonna miss me when I'm gone.

This is Minneapolis: -drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents -go to brunch with your wife -get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt -get groceries as helicopters roar overhead -deliver food & this vehicle passes you

California hit 0.00% on the Drought Monitor this week for the first time in 25 years.

Everyone should read this one paragraph.

CBP agents shot and wounded a married couple this afternoon in a medical clinic parking lot in Portland, the Oregonian reports: "One was shot in the leg and the other in the chest, Portland police sources said." Police didn't have info on their conditions. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...