Maggie

George Zoley was on a conference call just a few hours ago talking about GEO's outstanding 2025. For fiscal year 2025, the company clocked an 800% increase in profit, thanks to our tax dollars. Just a massive wealth distribution upwards to this guy and his fellow profiteers. 800%.

Trump just nominated a corporate stooge with no conservation experience to run the National Park Service.

It's another huge step in this admin's plan to hand America’s most cherished public lands over to extractive industries, real estate developers & corporate interests.

We're fighting back.

yes jeremy carl is a white nationalist, he wrote a whole book about it. he also trains sheriffs.

Caged by concrete, killed by cars: California moves to save coastal mountain lions from extinction Isolated by freeways and cities, coastal mountain lions risk inbreeding to extinction. The state just gave them new protections.

Tiffany Yap, science director at @biologicaldiversity.org explains to @calmatters.org why today’s vote is so important. “These populations are facing an extinction vortex. We need these protections to get more connectivity on our roads.” calmatters.org/environment/...

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Huge win for California mountain lions: Today they were granted protection under the state #EndangeredSpeciesAct 🙌🐾

Now, six populations within Southern #California and the Central Coast will receive much-needed protections under the Act.

More info on this win for the wild ➡️ bit.ly/4tzC4FI

We are all passengers in Trump’s death cab The nihilism of the regime is its most terrifying attribute.

We are all passengers in Trump’s death cab
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And now Gail Slater, the chief antitrust enforcer at DOJ, has just resigned, a prelude to this settlement happening. Slater was cut out of the negotiations with MAGA lobbyists on the Live Nation case.
DOJ is just a corrupt shell at this point.

The Trump admin is imprisoning pregnant children—many who are victims of rape—in Texas, where they will be forced to carry high-risk pregnancies without proper medical care. A particularly horrifying example of the violent misogyny and racism that are the bedrock of their political project.

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change

Nice day for the fossil fuel magnates. For every other living thing on earth, sorry, try Mars: Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

Tribe buys 10,000 acres north of Lake Tahoe from city of Santa Clara in historic land deal The sale of Loyalton Ranch comes 175 years after the Washoe people were forced from lands during the Gold Rush.

“In the 1850s, settlers…poured into California to seek their fortunes during the Gold Rush. The Washoe people, who had lived around Lake Tahoe for thousands of years, were pushed out. ‘Being able to regain the land is part of a healing process for our people,’” said the tribe’s chairman. Gift Link

The AG's job is to be the people's lawyer, to stand for those who cannot stand for themselves. Bondi's inability to look at Epstein victims is not just shame, it is an admission that she serves a different master than justice.

I can't imagine wanting a job this desperately. truly debased.

This woman is yelling "Why do you care about mass child sexual abuse? The market is up!" and showing her entire rear end to the world, and we need to force them into this corner as often as possible.

but to them it clearly is a game. none of this is about actually answering questions or anything resembling dialogue. it’s a spectacle to be clipped and ginned up into something else entirely, a performance of fealty to the leader, etc. you won’t get answers from these kind of folks by asking them.

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This absolutely NOT the way to handle narcissists. Don't EVER ever ever let them know they got to you. They will deliberately provoke you and then sit back proudly as you look like the unhinged person. Look at Bondi with her arms folded. She is proud as a peacock that she upset this woman.

Google Handed ICE Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.

jeeeeeeesus: theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

class action lawsuit against Brett Kavanaugh...

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

A great deep dive on how the fossil fuel shills did it.

We also need more stories about the stakes. Like the trillions in costs & hundreds of thousands of deaths these ghouls and their policies will cause. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

we have to completely gut the Democratic Party to get any hope for prosecutions.

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.

As ICE and CBP testify in Congress, we have updated our tracker of deaths at the hands of immigration enforcers. 25 have been killed with another 18 seriously injured, and there have also been 44 deaths in ICE/CBP custody.
Wondering if this will come up at the hearing.
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He fled torture in Uganda. ICE is trying to send him back. People like Pastor Steven Tendo “are exactly who our asylum system is meant to protect.”

“I followed the rules. I’ve done great in the community. I’ve never abused any of the conditions of the stay or of my supervision…I’m so scared, I cannot go back."

ICE brutally detained a minister in Vermont. Now, the Trump administration wants to send him back to Uganda, where he was tortured.

A wolf has come to Los Angeles County for the first time in more than a century Around 6 a.m. Saturday, the 3-year-old female arrived in the mountains north of Santa Clarita, as tracked by a GPS collar.

A wolf has come to Los Angeles County for the first time in more than a century

www.latimes.com/environment/...

It's unsurprising that the Nazis waged a relentless war on creativity, especially the modern and the avant-garde, in everything from architecture and design to painting. Hitler himself was a failed painter whose work was most notably deficient in his inability to realistically capture human subjects. As Charlie English writes in his account of the Nazi war on art, In this sense, Hitler's painting supports Arendt's theory of National Socialism-that it was defined by its banality and lack of empathy. The Nazis relied on the ability of people not to imagine themselves in someone else's shoes. The lack of a connection was very much the point. There is a right-wing war on empathy that observers like Bradley_ Onishi have been cataloguing for months and that was most recently documented by Hillary_ Clinton for The Atlantic. But I don't believe you can decouple this from the war on art and artists.

I share the belief that the arts are central to the cause of human freedom. This isn't only because of the expansive potential of the imagination. It's also because of the well of universal feeling and experience from which art draws in order to evoke something in its audience. And this experience pulls us—as listeners, viewers, observers, whether the medium—into a cycle of mutual edification. Art helps us to know one another better and to know ourselves more honestly. And it helps us to process our awe and terror at the world and our existence. It's why those with authoritarian impulses always want to control it, to limit what it shows us, and to silence its practitioners. What they fear most is the plain truth of being human.

The war on empathy and the war on the arts are part of the same project.

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Its a flex. He's a gangsta dotcha know.

does Karen Bass have any support? like, will a single person vote for her again?