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There is No Scientific Justification to Revoke the Endangerment Finding The U.S. EPA's decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding will limit the government's ability to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

A copy of the zine "Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities A Guide to an Updated Model" with a black whistle and a couple copies of a blue sticker reading "Immigrants Welcome" with an image of boltcutters.

We've prepared a zine version of our text "Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities," describing the dynamic and resilient system that people in the Twin Cities have developed to keep the pressure on ICE.

Please print and distribute!

crimethinc.com/zines/rapid-...

Feathers hit the ground before the weight can leave the air.

YouTube video by Bleeding Heartland Iowa House hearing on "Charlie Kirk" bill to punish educators

Today Iowa House Republicanss advanced bill to revoke teacher licenses "for publicly celebrating any act of politically motivated violence, including the unlawful killing of Charles J. Kirk."
Bill is retroactive to September 10, 2025.
My video of the subcommittee:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV1S...

We turned our neighborhoods into surveillance panopticons to help Amazon get a foothold in thousands of law enforcement agencies, chiefly because it wanted to cut its annual shrinkage from package theft by a few percentage points.

You wouldn’t need guardrails if the roads didn’t exist.

Even acknowledging “guardrails“ is them saying “yes, these are potentially very dangerous tools.”

Not that any could or would try but the world is their oyster for any federal prosecutor seeking an indictment against all sorts of administration officials.

As in Minneapolis and other cities, "ordinary citizens" are saving our country. They are what's remarkable:

"it was even more remarkable that a group of ordinary citizens sitting on the grand jury in Federal District Court in Washington rejected the effort"

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Resistance to the building of concentration camps is of the utmost importance. Salute to every person doing their part to say not in my community.

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.

Oh FFS...these guys are so oblivious to what this country thinks of them.

Even the internet's favorite dog account calls out Ring video cameras what they are: Mass surveillance.

just an update from when we talked to the reporter: we’ve now successfully connected over 100 families for direct, peer to peer rent adoption. we’ve collected and immediately distributed…a lot.

it is a drop in the bucket, but all of this is. everyone is just doing what they can.

National Democrats see a path to winning Colorado Springs’ congressional seat for first time ever The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced that the 5th Congressional District is now on its list of “districts in play.” The designation may eventually come with money.

I realize "national democrats" could lose to my cat in a game of checkers but, still, the fact they see CO 5 (aka Colorado Springs) as a competitive district says a lot about the state of the republican party right now. And the evolution of that district.

coloradosun.com/2026/02/10/5...

The fact that Bad Bunny's halftime show made white bigots angry and feel excluded is A GOOD THING. It's one of the best things about it. It's not a problem to solve. It's a solution to pursue. Bigots *should* feel excluded. We should find *more* ways to celebrate the reality of USian diversity.

Most all public communications - nonprofits, campaigns, social media - seems to be just low context spoonfeeding of expected words and dialog. No inspiration or challenge.

"We need X because Y is bad and your $50 will do A, B, and C. All we need is 5 seconds and your card number. K thx bye."

Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Colorful doodles of a rainbow and hearts are found throughout the page. Translation: “I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been 113 days in detention I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I already miss my country and my house, I came on vacation for 10 Days and they took me into an ice office an officer interrogated me 2 hours without my mom, I was traveling with flight attendant because my mom lives in new york, they only wanted to arrest my mom, because my mom didn’t have documents to live in U.S.A., I always traveled with my tourist visa but ice used me to catch my mom and now I am in a jail and I am sad and I have fainted 2 times here inside. When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

the “suspected” political message in question

“god bless America” meaning the continents of North and South America is going to give the worst people alive a collective aneurysm :)

I've seen some discourse about how it seems like everyone in the elite circles knew about Epstein. I'm reminded of the piece of information about the Tuskegee Syphillis Study that I end classes with: Congress had hearings about the study and re-confirmed funding Every. Year. For. Forty. Years.

You can be mad at the people documenting all you want but that won't change the fact that state and local police departments have played (and will continue to play) an instrumental role in allowing DHS to operate unimpeded. That's kind of just what cops are designed to do.

Far too many people are saying, "We should do concentration camps better" but they should be saying, "We shouldn't have concentration camps at all."

Of course, these same people have not accepted that these are indeed concentration camps.

YouTube video by Yep Roc Records Nick Lowe - "All Men Are Liars" (Official Video)

It's hard to hear Trump, Vance, Homan and so many more and not be reminded of the words of the true prophet, Nick Lowe.

youtu.be/m6hzkBihaew?...

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)

"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?

Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…

Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.

Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

“The U.S. Army brought the leading citizens of Ohrdruf to tour the facility, which turned out to be part of the Buchenwald network of concentration camps. A U.S Army colonel told the German civilians who viewed the scenes that they were to blame. One of the Germans replied that what happened in the camp was 'done by a few people,’ and ‘you cannot blame us all.’ And the American, who could have been any one of our grandfathers, said 'This was done by those that the German people chose to lead them, and all are responsible.'" "The morning after the tour, the Mayor of Ohrdruf killed himself. And maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough. I ask you to consider what the Mayor of Ordruf might have thought before he died. Maybe he felt like a victim. He might have thought 'How is this my fault? I have no jurisdiction over this.' Maybe he would have said, 'This site was not subject to local zoning, what could I do?' But I think, when he reflected on the suffering that occurred at this camp, just outside of town, that those words would have sounded hollow even to him. Because in his heart he knew, as we do, that we are all responsible for what happens in our community.”

A resident named Walter calmly took the mic and recounted an April 9, 1945 newspaper clipping about the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp...

"And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough."
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...

I'm all for this sentiment, but please also understand the economic pain goes beyond our hospitality industry. When over half the workforce is mobilized as civil servants for weeks to months, it hurts every business. We will need goodwill and government support. This is an economic disaster.

Greenpeace urges Winter Olympics to drop oil sponsor amid climate change dispute Oil major Eni will be one of the premium domestic sponsors at the Winter Olympics

We know the oil industry is shameless in its reckless disregard for life on Earth.

Its sponsorship of the very events their industry will destroy shows how low they'll go.

Greenpeace urges Winter Olympics to drop oil sponsor as the climate crisis deepens
www.independent.co.uk/sport/winter...

Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

”We realized we could deal with a ticket, we could deal with going to jail at some point” Solberg said. “But we could not deal with the very real risk and high probability of us being injured, us being detained or us being killed.”

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I do not make this comparison lightly.