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no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

Live: Mayor Frey blasts ICE in fiery response to fatal shooting The mayor called for calm after a fatal shooting by an immigration agent in south Minneapolis. ICE said the agent acted defensively.

My very smart colleagues are doing excellent coverage of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis today. I would urge you to follow along with local sources familiar with the area and the residents here.

Elon Musk has proudly built an AI that can be exploited for what is basically child pornography.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk is calling for the execution of his political opponents.

And people are… ok with this?

Aaron Siri Says No One Has Identified Errors in His ACIP Presentation. Here Are Several. He's auditing regulatory paperwork, not science.

Aaron Siri Says No One Has Identified Errors in His ACIP Presentation. Here Are Several. Mr. Siri is not looking at the total data and misunderstands or misrepresents much of what he does address. open.substack.com/pub/jakescot... via @jakescottmd.bsky.social

ALA welcomes reinstatement of all federal IMLS grants to libraries Today, the American Library Association (ALA) greeted an announcement by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that it had reinstated all the agency’s grants.

The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge

"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."

The Trump Administration’s Data Center Push Could Open the Door for New Forever Chemicals The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers. Experts say this could lead to the fast approval of new types of forever chemicals—with limited oversight.

NEW from me: the Trump administration is moving new chemicals that have some link to data centers to the front of the line for approvals — creating huge loopholes to push all kinds of chemicals through, experts tell me, under potential political pressure

Costa Rica's rainforest reborn by butterflies In a remote corner of Costa Rica, a former cattle pasture has been restored as a lush rainforest, thanks to one family and thousands of butterflies.

A single choice to replant native flora opened the door for butterflies—and then birds, insects, wildflowers and other creatures returned too. Nature remembers how to heal.

www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...

After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing hens and spiking egg prices, the USDA didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. @natlash.bsky.social did. www.propublica.org/article/bird...

Tim Kaine is on MSNBC accusing Katy Tur of "overdramatizing" the way he and some other Democrats caved. "This is by far a minor-league issue within the Democratic Party," Kaine said.
He's completely out of touch, or just lying.

DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.

Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

it's jarring to think about how much federal funding used to go to stuff like cancer research, food safety, public health, science grants, and USAID and now it's private planes for ICE, $40 billion to Argentina and a ballroom where the East Wing of the White House used to be

Remember. When SNAP Benefits don't get distributed Friday grocery stores won't make sales. That's 12% of all sales and up to 60% for some stores. Stores will compensate by raising prices. Halting SNAP benefits won't just endanger our most vulnerable citizens, it'll affect us all. Stop the madness!

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.

He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

Because it is illegal

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

The Bering Sea— A reminder that beauty lives where danger breathes 😌

Good morning and happy Tuesday

nature NEWS 12 October 2025 Coral die-off marks Earth's first climate 'tipping point', scientists say A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread bleaching and death of warm-water corals around the world. By Jeff Tollefson

Warming waters cause corals to “bleach” when these organisms expel symbiotic algae that provide nutrients, oxygen & vibrant colors.

The latest global bleaching event - researchers estimate >84% of the planet's coral ecosystems have been affected since Jan 2023 - has made it clear the crisis is now.

Just to be absolutely clear:

The President of the United States has absolutely no power to “take away” any right enumerated in the Constitution from any person.

And that is how every single article, blog post, and social media commentary should start when discussing this ludicrous statement.

I know that Personal Rule is all the rage, but the power of the purse belongs to Congress and not King Donald Trump Stuart.

Congress gets to decide where tariff revenues go. Not the president.

OH, THE RAVAGES OF THE WAR ON CARNIVORISM

Fired feds, Trump lovers and veterans: Meet the people applying for ICE jobs At a recent DHS career expo in Provo, Utah, many attendees hoped to get hired to help with the Trump administration's deportation efforts.

One big takeaway re: people applying to ICE is that they believe the false picture of America Trump has painted: a country overrun by criminals from other countries. Wait until they see the reality of the job: zip-tying little kids and moms in the middle of the night.

www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...

This by @katmabu.bsky.social is the best speech I've heard yet by any politician about what ICE/Trump/Noem is doing and it's not close.

EMTALA was passed because hospitals were 'patient dumping' - transferring or refusing to treat emergency department patients based on their insurance status or ability to pay.
EMTALA was passed to protect people like JD Vance's family.

GOP

Last Week: "We control everything."

Today: "The shutdown was out of our control."

It matters who owns space www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Graph showing declines in hunger upon entering Snap

The very predictable effects of Trump’s attacks on SNAP is that more Americans will go hungry.

But the Trump administration has a solution for that: it is stopped collecting data on food insecurity. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

This is an attack on our communities. Libraries are one of the foundations upon which our communities are built upon. And librarians are gems we should cherish and not attack.

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

Demetre Daskalakis Saw the CDC Change from the Inside—And He’s Sounding the Alarm The former director of a CDC center reveals how political ideology is undermining science, threatening vaccine policy and endangering public health across the U.S.

"You see CDC being torn apart, 2,000 people who are no longer there, years of experience, centers that are being demolished." @drdemetre.bsky.social discusses the dire state of US public health w/ @feltman.bsky.social on @sciam.bsky.social Science Quickly: www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...