ICE fund vs. world's top defense budgets United States China Russia India Saudi Arabia United Kingdom Japan Australia France Ukraine Germany Poland Turkey South Korea Canada ICE Italy Israel Netherlands Brazil Switzerland $126.0 billion $75.0 billion $74.8 billion $71.5 billion $57.0 billion $55.7 billion $55.0 billion $53.7 billion $50.0 billion $48.7 billion $47.0 billion $46.3 billion $41.0 billion $37.5 billion _$30.9 billion $30.5 billion $27.0 billion $26.1 billion $25.0 billion

ICE now has more funding than the military in Israel, Italy, Brazil and elsewhere.

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.

Remember, bridge weight limits are just a woke DEI conspiracy

"You know, maybe today will be the day that the headlines won't make me weep," I thought.

Ah, silly me...

FREEDOM TO FLY: Take Action to Protect Trans Passport Access | A4TE The U.S. Department of State has opened public comment periods on three important passport applications, and we must flood all three with our opposition to anti-trans changes before it's too late.

Efforts to erase trans people continue with cutting off access to accurate proof of citizenship and identity documents. Passports aren't just key for travel but also prove citizenship when a correct birth certificate is unavailable. Please add your comments
transequality.org/news/freedom...

Don’t forget… today is the day to start practicing for a general strike

Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books It’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.

hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

Feeling this so much

Also, Planned Parenthood

Please reach out to Wyatt Rolla at the ACLU of Virginia. Use the ACLU-VA intake email (intake@acluva.org) and put it to Wyatt’s attention

Octavia E. Butler, the late-pioneering Black science fiction novelist who wrote about a wildfire from climate change starting on February 1, 2025, in her novel "Parable of the Sower," is buried in an Altadena cemetery. The cemetery caught fire, the LA Times reports.

Oh...

www.axios.com/2025/01/13/w...

Yup. And my favorite further complication, the “mana source”

i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same