Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

The Age Issue: More of Congress Is 70-Plus Than Ever Before (Gift Article) At the highest level, the U.S. government looks like a gerontocracy, with average ages around 60 in both the House and the Senate.

"Lawmakers under 45 — Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s cohort — used to be much better represented in Congress. In 1981, when the median age was at its lowest since at least 1951, some 37 percent of House and Senate members were younger than 45. In the current Congress, it’s only 16 percent."

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

BREAKING: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is firing 1,500 workers, and will soon have only about 200 remaining.

That means the CFPB will be largely unable to carry out its mission of overseeing financial institutions and regulating companies that scam consumers.

Where are they going to live? What are they going to eat? Our wildlife are being starved out as we speak.

You want flocks of passenger pigeons storming the stale fries in the McDonalds dumpster? Direwolves hit by cars while eating roadside trash?

THIS IS TRIAGE. Stop indulging in fantasy.

If you can't understand how dangerously misguided wasting finite resources on the ~attempt~ at "de-extinction" WHILE WE LIVE THROUGH A MASS EXTINCTION EVENT, then I don't know what else to say to you besides GO OUTSIDE AND LOOK AROUND.

Banking Collapse Update: The FDIC Dismantling is Underway An update to the original analysis on the FDIC dismantling.

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The Trump administration is committing crimes against humanity right before our eyes.

They are disappearing people who are in this country legally and sending them to El Salvadoran prison camps to be tortured.

Every official involved deserves nothing less than to be tried at The Hague.

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Current and former federal workers: We’re here in D.C. sending out our signal 🚨

Contact us confidentially on Signal at 917-512-0201 or go to propublica.org/tips.

Forget the Signal Chat, What About the Yemen War Crimes Revealed in It? Much of our media is missing the biggest story of all: US officials are not just breaking US and international law but confessing to it in writing.

“Forget the Signal Chat, What About the Yemen War Crimes Revealed in It?”

Much of our media is missing the biggest story of all: US officials are not just breaking US and international law but confessing to it in writing.

My latest for Zeteo, read/share/subscribe:

The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

NEW: The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion The Department of Government Efficiency is funded — and acts — like a federal agency. But the White House has shielded DOGE from the rules that govern such agencies, ProPublica found as it examines…

If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public.

If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.

I fear they’re coming for ALL school vaccine mandates next. Including measles, mumps and rubella.

Still can’t believe our country is being taken over by a billionaire Nazi who has changed his Twitter name to Harry Bolz. The biggest fucking loser of all time is the richest, and trying to be the most powerful, guy on Earth. That alone should show you capitalism is a failure

Elisabeth Potter, an Austin, Texas, plastic surgeon, claimed on Instagram Jan. 7 that UnitedHealth denied an in-patient stay after surgery related to cancer. “I had to scrub out mid-surgery to call United, only to find that the person on the line didn’t even have access to the patient’s full medical information, despite the procedure already being pre-approved,” Potter said in the post. One of Potter’s attorneys, Jessica Underwood, said Potter received a Jan. 13 letter from Clare Locke demanding that she correct her posts, apologize to UnitedHealth and condemn threats of violence that the law firm said resulted from the posts. But Underwood, of the law firm Nix Patterson, said Potter’s statements about the insurer were truthful. “Dr. Potter will not be silenced by UnitedHealthcare’s attempts to threaten and harass her,” Underwood said.

UnitedHealth has hired a defamation law firm to counter negative social media posts about the company.

Their first target appears to a plastic surgeon who said that UnitedHealth denied one of her patient an in-patient stay after surgery.

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There is less to lose and more to gain, by considered and consistent action to resist (so many ways!) than by fearfullly cowering and hoping you won't be affected. You will.

Not speaking up out of fear, and not resisting in any way you can, seals a terrible fate for all of us.

It's important that the pervasive feelings of UNSAFETY we are, and will be experiencing, do NOT make us cower and hide in fear.

Let that fear galvanize into determination, courage, resistance, and resilience.
Don't be afraid. We are in it together.

Trump has suggested dismantling Fema, a move that would cut off aid that has largely helped support Republican-leaning states like Louisiana and Florida that voted for him in last year’s US presidential election.

North Dakota Sued Interior at Least Five Times Under Gov. Doug Burgum. Now He’s Set to Run the Agency. The state was hostile to Interior Department policies during the Biden administration. A review of its lawsuits under Burgum reveals an aggressively pro-fossil fuel agenda.

Lawsuits filed by North Dakota under Gov. Burgum reveal an aggressively pro-fossil fuel agenda.

“Doug Burgum’s blatant conflicts with the oil industry cast doubt on his ability to fairly manage our public lands,” one government ethics watchdog said.

With @northdakotamonitor.com

Apparently I am now a community violation. Just talking about me is a violation. Lol

A quote from the paper stating that their results extend my advice about the importance of talking about climate change

Researchers found 15 people in Kansas City who had changed their mind about climate change, and asked them why. Fascinating!

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good thing we cut the fire dept funding by $23M while increasing the police dept budget by $138M. the cops will shoot at the fire.

Will Biden Pardon Lawyer Targated for Suing Chevron over Oil Spill in Amazon? Massachusetts Congressmember Jim McGovern calls on President Biden to pardon environmental activist Steven Donziger, who has been targeted for years by oil and gas giant Chevron. Donziger sued Chevron...

Will Biden Pardon Steven Donziger, Who Faced Retaliation for Suing Chevron over Oil Spill in Amazon?

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‘Who are we to judge,’ ask … judges, upholding TikTok ban We warned that the TikTok ban forgets the lessons of the Pentagon Papers case. Last week’s court decision upholding the law proved our point

The TikTok decision lets the gov attack press freedom under the guise of national security.

The Pentagon Papers case told courts to be skeptical of national security justifications for censorship.

This is the latest example of judges ignoring that instruction.