When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
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Hey, US Men’s Hockey: Congrats on the win. But fuck you for showing up to the #SOTU.
What’s on your #SOTU bingo card?
www.lwv.org/blog/state-u...
A hero, indeed. Rest in power.
We (Climate Integrity) are about to drop our analysis of the fossil fuel industry donations to the major parties ahead of the 2025 federal election.
As a small spoiler - there's still a lot of dirty money flowing in politics.
transparency.aec.gov.au/ClientEntity...
An Italian court has recognised refugee status for an EU citizen - a Hungarian national who faces persecution for being Roma and transgender
Analysis by Chiara Scissa:
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/01/mutu...
thankfully donald trump is speedrunning administration and political movement suicide. this should be extremely bad for him and his movement long term. democrats please stand against this the world is begging for you to stand strong against imperialism
Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
I was at the Sierra Club during the period described in this article and although I have my criticisms, it gets the issues in the Club fundamentally wrong. A 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Please ask #Maine friends to Vote NO on Ballot 1: absentee ballots: boltsmag.org/maine-questi...
and #Pennsylvania friends to vote YES to retain judges. It's critical the Dems keep the Supreme Court
DHS is funneling $10B through the US Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of concentration camps across the US www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
It appears the earlier secondary eyewall merged with the primary eyewall quickly, similar what happened in Hurricane Milton. That merger may have paused intensification, but Melissa appears to be making its move to Cat. 5 tonight. Certainly has that look. Next set of recon. missions will be telling.
The Supreme Court is on the verge of gutting the Voting Rights Act's equal opportunity protections for minority voters — 12 years after they first rolled back its safeguards against voter suppression.
NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
There’s always more, and it’s always worse. But it’s never new....
1965:
quotes from cybertruck owners
We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...
I've really come to think that many people recoil from climate politics, as they did from Covid politics, not *in spite* of the fact that the problem obviously calls for (can only be solved by) solidarity & cooperation, but *because* of it.
📺 In this video, Johan Rockström explains the key findings of the 2025 Planetary Health Check: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndPV...
Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
PSA on links: On Bluesky, there’s no limit to the number of links you can share, and they will receive the same visibility as your other posts 💙
Motherfucking wind farms…
BREAKING: Judge rules that during its large-scale enforcement operation in LA, DHS/ICE has been arresting people without probable cause -- based on factors like accent and line of work.
She orders the agencies to stop.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
READ the CONSTITUTION & OUR LAWS
DHS is urging police to consider a wide range of normal activities as violent tactics, including riding a bike & livestreaming
a senior ACLU atty says the gov has no business treating constitutionally protected activities as threats
www.wired.com/story/dhs-te... .
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The Peace Candidate.
💥 Shareholders of 30 of the world's largest corporations are about to run the table -- voting unanimously to reject anti-DEI proposals in 2025. Mastercard shareholders will vote on an anti-DEI proposal on Tuesday. MA Board urges shareholders to vote to reject.
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Shareholders understand what right-wing ideologues don’t: DEI policies aren’t just good for humanity, they’re good for business.