Chuck Darwin

Charles Darwin's Address Book published for the first time!
Full of surprises and new information.
One of Darwin's water-cure doctors was charged with manslaughter!? The fireworks manufacturer he ordered from later blew himself up?
darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialInt...

Kim Perales (@KimPerales@toad.social) Attached: 1 image Americans fall behind on payments:🚨Average client seeking help from credit-counseling agencies across the C: now makes ~$70K/yr, w🚨unsec debt levels approaching $35K, acc to the NFC...

Americans are falling behind on payments:
🚨Average client seeking help from credit-counseling agencies across the C:
now makes ~$70K/yr,
w🚨unsec debt levels approaching $35K, acc to the NFCC.
Before the pandemic: typical client: $40K/yr & $10K/unsec debt.

-- Kim Perales
toad.social/@KimPerales/...

Happy #DarwinDay! 🧪
#OTD Charles Darwin was born 217 years ago today.

It’s not all cheetahs versus gazelles
Darwin the botanist • UNESCO recognition • Darwin’s address book • Charles Lyell • Leonard Jenyns • punctuated equilibria • what the heck are chins for? • and lots more…

Augie Ray (@augieray@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 image It is extremely hard to fathom the depth of sycophancy in the GOP these days. How could anyone see Pam Bondi's embarrassing, unprofessional, evasive, and angry performance before Co...

It is extremely hard to fathom the depth of sycophancy in the GOP these days. How could anyone see Pam Bondi's embarrassing, unprofessional, evasive, and angry performance before Congress and think "Yep, that's what we want from our US Attorney General."

-- Augie Ray

Trump Orders Defense, Energy Departments to Reinvest in Coal One study showed that coal power plants led to nearly half a million U.S. deaths over a 20-year period.

Trump announced his plans while hosting an event at the White House, where he also received an
“Undisputed Champion of Coal” award
from a coal-based special interest group.
truthout.org/articles/tru...

Next up: Bondi & Co. settle Trump's lawsuit against the IRS (i.e., his own government) for a bazillion dollars.

Lesson of Trump 2.0 vs. 1.0 -- if you're going to go corrupt, go all the way.

If you have to call your roving band of marauders "legitimate law enforcement" in a news conference, they're not.

You've lost.

Erik Jonker (@ErikJonker@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 image Amazing picture, almost art, which tells the story of how the US is breaking down... The contrast between the military-style ICE officers and the citizens is stark. ( A Star Tribune...

Amazing picture, almost art, which tells the story of how the US is breaking down... The contrast between the military-style ICE officers and the citizens is stark.
( A Star Tribune photo of observers capturing the ICE incident today in Saint Paul.)
#minnesota #saintpaul #starttribune
-- Erik Jonker

it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) REP. NEGUSE: “The man in that video… allegedly yelling 'kill em' at police officers on 1/6 — His name is Jared Wise. This is who you choose to hire at DOJ?" BONDI: "I believe he was pardoned by Presi...

REP. NEGUSE: “The man in that video… allegedly yelling 'kill em' at police officers on 1/6
— His name is Jared Wise.
This is who you choose to hire at DOJ?"

BONDI: "I believe he was pardoned by President Trump."

Pam Bondi lashes out as lawmakers press her on Epstein, cases against Trump foes The attorney general lobbed insults when lawmakers questioned her decisions and portrayed the Justice Department as unfairly maligned by Democrats and Trump critics.

Bondi came armed with scripted insults for Democrats.

“I’m not going to get in the gutter with these people,” Bondi said repeatedly.

She lashed out at the committee’s top Democrat,
Rep. Jamie Raskin:

“You don’t tell me anything,
you washed-up loser lawyer,” she said
“You’re not even a lawyer.”

ICE Is Crashing the US Court System in Minnesota Petitions demanding people get the chance to be released from ICE custody have overwhelmed courts throughout the US.

Petitions demanding people get
the chance to be released from ICE custody
have overwhelmed courts throughout the US.

www.wired.com/story/ice-cr...

The secretive, destructive work of an ICE attorney: ‘My job is to do what I’m told’ ICE lawyers in New York City earn more than $100,000 a year, enjoy generous benefits and post about rich social lives. Their work is vital to Trump’s deportation agenda

ICE lawyers in New York City earn more than $100,000 a year,
enjoy generous benefits and post about rich social lives.

Their work is vital to Trump’s deportation agenda

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump official allies with Europe’s far right in attacks on migration and hate speech policies US state department’s Sarah B Rogers has become face of White House’s hostility to European liberal democracies

US state department’s
Sarah B Rogers
has become face of
White House’s hostility to
European liberal democracies

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Watch these habeas cases carefully.

They are among the main things impeding the Trump regime’s effort to create a full blown system of concentration camps in this country.

That is the fight we are in now:
blocking the expansion of such camps as well as shutting down existing ones.

Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence: Fourth Edition 2025 The 4th edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence updates the topics covered in the 2011 3rd Edition with the latest science and expands to d...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
has maintained a copy of the original “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence,” on its own website

even as the Federal Judicial Center has removed the version with the climate change chapter from its own

More Immigrants Are Challenging Their ICE Detention Than Ever Before Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court. This total is more than were filed under the last three administrations combined — including Tru...

More Immigrants Than Ever Are Challenging Detention

An analysis of habeas cases since 2009 shows that
immigrants have filed more challenges to their detention in the first 13 months of Trump’s second term
than in the last three administrations combined
— and the number keeps rising.

Gray wolf appears in Los Angeles county for first time in more than 100 years Three-year-old black coat female, known as BEY03F, crossed into LA county around 6am on 7 February

The continental United States was historically home to thousands of gray wolves, but hunters and trappers extirpated the species, with the last wild wolf in California shot in 1924

Mark Carney Took the Stand the Rest of the World Must Now Take Disentangling Canada from the United States is a mammoth undertaking. But Carney clearly means business.

The United States is on the cusp of becoming a pariah state, ruled by a spoiled man-child who is increasingly and openly mocked for his obvious failings. It only takes one person to say the emperor has no clothes to give others the courage to act. trib.al/6H5ge4v

DOJ seeks to undo Bannon’s conviction for defying Jan. 6 subpoena Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for D.C., said a judge should dismiss Stephen K. Bannon indictment over defying a Jan. 6 subpoena “in the interests of justice.”

DOJ seeks to undo Bannon’s conviction for defying Jan. 6 subpoena

-- its latest shift in a legal position to benefit a close ally of Trump.

DoJ asked the Supreme Court to send Bannon’s case back to the district court,
where the U.S. attorney filed a motion to dismiss the charges against Bannon

Mike Johnson Is Very Annoyed By the Fourth Amendment’s Existence For a constitutional lawyer, the House Speaker sounds alarmingly unfamiliar with how the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement works.

I feel like I am going a little bit crazy listening to Democratic lawmakers "demand" that ICE get judicial warrants before it arrests people in their homes, given that the Fourth Amendment has imposed this requirement on law enforcement officers for, oh, roughly 250 years now

Read this and weep,
Mr Trump
skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

Economist/YouGov poll now has Trump at 🔥 -13% (40% approve, 53% disapprove)
👉on immigration, his worst rating since the start of his term

They also polled on
👉Minneapolis (40% say all ICE should leave, 14% say
# should be reduced)

👉Abolish ICE (47% yes, 42% no)

@unroll.skywriter.blue unroll

The Economist/YouGov poll now has Trump at a -13% (40% approve, 53% disapprove) on immigration, the worst rating for him on this poll since the start of his term.

They also polled on Minneapolis (40% say all ICE should leave, 14% say number should be reduced) and Abolish ICE (47% yes, 42% no).

Is this secret? ICE needs the space because they're hiring 10,000 new officers and support staff for them, all of which need physical office space.

Did you leave with all the nannies?

This win for the fossil fuel industry will open the door to deregulation and more pollution @unroll.skywriter.blue unroll please

CALIFORNIA BILLIONAIRE TAX CAMPAIGN THANKS U.S. SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS FOR ENDORSEMENT — California Billionaire Tax Sanders backs 5% billionaire wealth tax to keep hospitals and emergency rooms open and to prevent millions from losing coverage

Bernie Sanders backs 5% billionaire wealth tax to keep hospitals and emergency rooms open and to prevent millions from losing coverage

www.cabillionairetax.org/news/press-r...

Irish man held in ICE detention says he fears for his life and asks Ireland for help Seamus Culleton describes conditions as ‘torture’ as he pleads with taoiseach to raise his case with Donald Trump

The detention prevented him from attending the final interview in October for his green card that would have confirmed his legal status, said Okoye.
“It’s inexplicable that this man has been in detention.”

Federal judge blocks California from enforcing ICE mask ban Judge rules that law discriminates against federal government because it does not apply to state authorities

A federal judge on Monday
blocked a California law from going into effect that would
ban federal immigration agents from covering their faces,

... but they will still be required to wear clear identification showing their agency and badge number.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...