View from Artemis II today. Crescent Earth. A view humans haven't captured since 1972.

Please make a terrible ruckus about this, if you live in Oregon

the 'restrictions' are worth stating explicitly. Anthropic doesn't want its AI to be used to make decisions about whether to kill someone without some human oversight. Hegseth says he won't accept that restriction.

Trump Judge Could Try to End Telemedicine Abortion: February 23 News Roundup Plus, what you missed on Autonomy News last week.

A judge will hear arguments Tuesday on whether to halt telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide. Telehealth abortions made up 27% of all abortions in 2025 and have helped people access care in states with bans. The law firm that helped end Roe v. Wade is involved:

The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

So good! "I don’t know how people use ChatGPT to write grocery lists. I don’t want a grocery list made by a computer designed to tell kids to kill themselves. I can just remember to buy cherry tomatoes and yogurt. If I forget, I will go back to the store. That’s fine."

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

One thing we have two weeks to do: Debunk Stephen Miller's lies that the invasions have ever been primarily about deporting the worst of the worst.

Another thing: Show that w/GOP consent, Trump has SHIFTED govt spending from nice things like VA care (&cancer cures) to pay goons who shoot VA nurses.

ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Finally get to nice weather where you can open your window and not have heat, humidity or wildfire smoke but the damn cop helicopter is circling over my house 😡

This country does not take long to remind us of who it doesn’t value, today the reminder is for children.

The resistance is active in DC—you’re just not looking closely enough It's not massive protests on Pennsylvania Avenue, but happenstance hecklers and Nextdoor posts.

The DC resistance isn’t manifesting this week as recognizable members of Congress marching up and down Pennsylvania Avenue with CNN cameras in tow, but as an array of ordinary DC residents documenting what’s happening in their neighborhoods and mobilizing pop-up actions.

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

Abortion is still legal in the District, even living in a police state. Still, there is very real fear around traveling to DC right now, especially for those most targeted by federal law enforcement. Check out our full guide & share widely!

Bikes Not Bombs - emergency ride to support the unhoused community - tonight, 5:45 meet 6:30 roll - mcpherson square

🚨 HEY DC 🚨 if you can participate in tonight’s emergency ride to provide critical resources to your unhoused neighbors you should. MPD & feds are expected to sweep EVERY tent of EVERY encampment as soon as 6:30pm tonight. stand up for your community and show the feds whose streets these are

Comer: "We're gonna support doing this in other cities if it works out in Washington DC. We spend a lot on our military. Our military has been in many countries around the world for the past two decades walking the streets trying to reduce crime. We need to focus on the big cities in America now."

10 cops from MPD, US Marshals, and an unidentified agency likely to be DHS/ICE are standing on a residential street at night. 3 marshals (2 white women, 1 white man) are in the foreground/bottom right of the photo, standing and watching from my side of the street. Across the street, 3 MPD are standing on the sidewalk facing the house/with their backs to me. 4 federal agents are visible on the porch talking to someone who is inside the house, where the front door is open. The background of the other houses is blurred to preserve anonymity and safety.

Last night, I got home a few mins before 9pm. By the time I was outside to walk the dog at 9:05, there were a dozen federal agents and local cops on the stairs and lawn of the house directly across the street from me.

This is what the federal enforcement looks like in DC right now:

Yeah, I think this what makes it hard for Americans who haven’t experienced autocracy elsewhere to realize—life under authoritarianism can still look like pleasant summers, bbq on the weekend, after work happy hour with friends—until snap, a coworker or family member goes missing

we are DC. and we keep us safe. www.instagram.com/p/DNOw-52yyg...

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The Plot to Effectively Ban Abortion Nationwide Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes Lawmakers and activists are working to shutter clinics and restrict access to abortion pills. The end result would be catastrophic.

NEW: The Senate bill "defunding" Planned Parenthood is just one front in the war to ban abortion without explicitly banning it.

The right is vying to cut off federal funds, shutter clinics, restrict abortion pills, and let protestors terrorize abortion seekers—and put abortion entirely out of reach

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Republicans just voted to murder 140 Americans a day, every single day of the year. They're killing 51,000 of a us a year.

ICYMI

senate subcommittee begins review Monday of the budget that would kill the National Endowments for Arts & Humanities

if you’re in Oregon (or AK, GA, KY, MD, ND, NE, NM, NY, OK, SD, WI or WV) we’ve got info and call scripts to help you contact your senator (yes, even Republicans!) before 6/22

The Weather & Climate Livestream Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.

Hi friends - In the face of unprecedented cuts to the basic research science funding, climate scientists are staging an 100-hour live stream of why science matters. There will be many talks on all sorts of things (I'm Saturday at 12:30 PT). Please share widely! wcstreamathon.netlify.app. 🌊🧪

Millions Of Voters Risk Disenfranchisement Under Republican Proposal Republicans have dodged questions on what happens to voters who don’t have the right paperwork.

The House is set to vote today on the SAVE Act, a GOP bill to require proof-of-citizenship documents to register or re-register to vote. Millions of people don't have access to those documents. (Do you know where you birth certificate is? Has your name changed?)
www.huffpost.com/entry/proof-...

NEW: As early as next week, Senators plan to introduce the first bipartisan bill to repeal Section 230, the landmark internet law

I spoke with congressional aides to get the details of the ambitious effort, which internet experts described as akin to extortion
www.theinformation.com/articles/exc...

The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.