Rodger Payne

Finally, an acknowledgement that there will be a legal fight. The executive does not have unlimited discretion here.

Actually that's 9 am ET. Oops.

*company (typo)

As Neta Crawford demonstrated very well in her award-winning book, the Pentagon has been terrible for the climate for decades. grawemeyer.org/2024-world-o...

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We Are Nothing Like the Gestapo.

Trump will sign contracts that a future Congress or President can basically transition to a fossil fuel compaby compensation program. He cannot mandate that the coal is burned past his presidency.

You're only young once but you can be immature forever.

SCOTUS had the opportunity to rule on that in Goldwater but decided it was a political question.

Not that simple if they manage to trash the regulation. Any proposed re-regulation has to go through all the hoops that any new regulation has to clear.

The Paris Climate Agreement can come back in the way you describe. Unclear about the UNFCCC since Senate ratified the treaty.

Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation

Not a word here about the great doubt that victory would stick after legal battles.... Because climate change is dangerous to human health and the science is overwhelming.

Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

ICE’s pending $30 billion budget exceeds the military spending of nearly every country, including Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and Iran.

ICE + CBP funding for 2026 would total $66 billion, higher than all but 7 militaries worldwide.

If ICE gets even one of these facilities fully up and running, it’ll immediately be the second-largest jail in the country behind only Rikers Island.

An AI startup founder says he's planning a 'March for Billionaires' in protest of California's wealth tax | TechCrunch The organizer of the event swears it's not a joke.

I can't think of anything I'd want to do less with my time than attending a protest against taxing billionaires. This is an insane amount of bootlicking energy.

Their story was immortalized by a teenage girl who aspired to be a journalist or writer. Her work demonstrates that the stories of ordinary people are often centrally important.

Entry to Anne Frank house in Amsterdam.

Promotional graphics for Anne Frank house.

Visited the Anne Frank house today where 8 non-violent refugees and immigrants hid from a fascist regime that didn't recognize their humanity. All but one of them were murdered by that regime.

Still relevant.

When I was at @duckofminerva.bsky.social I used to post images like this when traveling. Feeling nostalgic today.

Not good.

To be clear, though - one reason Orbán doesn't do this is because his authoritarian regime is consolidated to a degree that Trump's is not.

Not even a proper citation to Fargo season 1.

Steve Levitsky, the co-author of How Democracies Die, on the dangerous place we have reached as Trump escalates:

“Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."

No one should tolerate this in a free society. No one.

100 gigawatts is FIFTY (50) Hoover Dams

U.N. secretary general says global body is at risk of fiscal collapse The United States owes nearly $2.2 billion in overdue and current assessments for the regular U.N. operating budget.

The US may harm the UN most by withholding its funding contribution.

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This just in from Amnesty International: "U.S. authorities must immediately release journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort. Journalism is not a crime. Reporting on protests is not a crime. Arresting journalists for their reporting is a clear example of an authoritarian practice."

Checking out the International Court of Justice.

For no particular reason, note that ICC is not far away.

Understand that 370 days ago even bringing a motion like this would probably have been treated as sanctionably frivolous

Today it was granted ex parte

Imagine this in a trial.

Devastating first-hand witness to Alex Pretti's killing

Declaration filed in federal court:

"I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

NRA @NRA This sentiment from the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California is dangerous and wrong. Responsible public voices should be awaiting a full investigation, not making generalizations and demonizing law-abiding citizens. Quote F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli @USAttyEssayli · 15h If you approach law enforcement with a gun, there is a high likelihood they will be legally justified in shooting you. Don’t do it! x.com/dhsgov/status/… Readers added context The U.S. Constitution (particularly the 2nd, 4th, and 14th amendments) prohibit officers from shooting citizens merely for possessing a weapon that is not an “imminent threat”. This was reaffirmed in Graham v Connor, which says force must be reasonable.

Even the NRA is not having it. Bill Essayli is the makebelieve US Attorney for LA, who was already DQed by a judge.

Today the coin came up tails.