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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.

Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.

Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

This is me now

Pamela Jo Bondi incriminatingly revealed (she's smart that way) that ICE in Minneapolis is *not* about immigration. It's about extortion to interfere with upcoming elections. And because Donald got his delicate feelings hurt that the city didn't vote for him.

A picture of the Mary Tyler Moore statue in downtown Minneapolis, depicting the iconic moment from the show where she throws her hat in the air. But the hat has been covered over with a protesters cardboard sign, reading “FUCK ICE.”

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

January 20, 2026 World leaders are gathered at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, which is taking place from January 19 to January 23.

January 20, 2026

January 9, 2026 Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.

January 9, 2026

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.

Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.

Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.

Unbelievable.

The FIFA trophy for Trump, gold hands reaching up to a gold planet....

The desperate hands of the global south seek to take back an overheated world. Seriously, what's next? The McHamburglar trophy in gourmet cooking? The Pol Pot Human Rights medal? The Jeffrey Epstein childcare grant? The Vladimir Putin democracy fellowship? The Weinstein-Cosby feminism prize?

Evacuation Day: Marking the End of the Revolutionary War We know how to honor the image of soldiers charging forward, but we often forget to cheer the backs of troops as they peaceably depart.

Today is the anniversary of the British evacuating New York City after the end of the Revolutionary War. Here's how I learned about it: the piece that introduced me to the terrific work of @bencarp.bsky.social

Insiders warn how dismantling federal agencies could put science at risk From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...

Trump's America.

Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the USA is losing

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson What Can We Do to Stop Him?

Heather Cox Richardson: November 2025 elections are what we need to focus on right now, and outcomes for issues like preserving mail-in ballots and appointing state supreme court members will depend heavily on voter turnout. @hcrichardson.bsky.social
#elections2025
youtube.com/shorts/PoUVk...

These guys destroyed USAID (budget $28bn) causing a potential 14m preventable deaths by 2030 because the deficit but can find $40bn to bail out their buddies who stand to lose money in an Argentinian crash.

Russell Vought is the tool of a dangerous elite He wields his budget hammer not in service to the people or the Constitution, but for the billionaire class.

In ordinary times, Americans go about their daily lives without much worry about who is running the Office of Management and Budget, a powerful, low-profile agency tasked with executing the federal budget.

These are not ordinary times. @contrariannews.org
contrarian.substack.com/p/russell-vo...

What Kimmel and Colbert can learn from ancient comedians who ticked off their leaders Thousands of years before Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert got under President Trump's skin, ancient Greek and Roman poets and philosophers paid a heavy price for displeasing heads of state.

Thousands of years before Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert got under President Trump's skin, ancient Greek and Roman poets and philosophers paid a heavy price for displeasing heads of state.

Jimmy Kimmel’s “as I was saying” opener wasn’t random—it’s a callback to Jack Paar. In 1960 Paar walked off The Tonight Show after NBC cut a mild “WC” joke. 3 weeks later he returned, opening with the same line. Kimmel nodded to one of late night’s boldest moments. Brilliant bsky.app/profile/ever...

Rid me of this meddlesome priest, Pam! How mob boss Trump sped through all of Watergate in just a single weekend.

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/rid-me-of-...

The dismantling of the Forest Service - High Country News The Trump administration’s plans would remake the agency and public lands. The deadline to comment is Sept. 30.

www.hcn.org/articles/tru...

Russ Vought’s Scheme Has Been Unmasked Hundreds of billions in appropriated spending has been withheld, with dire consequences. Government funding shouldn’t be derailed like this.

Since January OMB Director Russ Vought has hidden over $410 billion in appropriated funds in order to push his own agenda. trib.al/8b60Vlr

No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped.

NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.

Humans Are Altering the Seas. Here’s What the Future Ocean Might Look Like. Some marine ecosystems could soon be unrecognizable, according to new research. We mapped the possibilities.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply

USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.

Trump’s Fake Emergencies Follow Authoritarian Playbook Trump is using fake crises to grab power, echoing tactics of autocrats. Americans must recognize the pattern and resist.

Trump's wannabe dictator playbook:

1) Create fake emergency
2) Bypass Congress and public debate
3) Grab emergency powers
4) Repeat

(from June)
www.theframelab.org/trumps-fake-...

Please let’s not call Trump’s meeting with Putin in Alaska a meeting for peace. It’s no meeting for peace when the murderous invader is conferring with his American asset.

Important.

The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in unprecedented ways.

heads up -- this is very well done.

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

Never again is now.

No evidence Hamas stole Gaza humanitarian aid, USAID report shows An analysis conducted by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) found no evidence that Hamas systematically stole US-funded humanitarian aid in Gaza, Reuters reported Friday. The findings...

True, though USAid food intended for Gaza (mostly its child-nutrition program, afaik) was repeatedly blocked as well, not only since Nov. 2023.

Apparently, it wasn't stolen by Hamas either

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

Sad, but an utter rejection of science and with it, any desire to limit the damage that the burning of fossil fuels causes is where Republicanism has gone.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...