They Were MAGA Believers Until a Border Stop Changed Everything George and Esmeralda Doilez made news, and a change in understanding.

This is an important interview. A couple stopped and profiled by border patrol comes to a realization: who they voted for lied to them. It takes courage to admit it, and more to go public.

open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Seriously there’s only 2 ice there? Jump them! Rip off their masks and dox them! Test them the way they’re treating good people!

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

California and New York paying taxes to this federal government in 2025 is tantamount to England and France paying taxes to Germany in 1940.

The money is going to be used *against* you.

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼🤬🤬🤬🤬

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

Another hero gone

Hella emergencies; ship positions still up

#flotilla

GSF tracker is down, but the Sumud Nasantara tracker is still working fine. Showing quite a few emergencies.

magic.mapim.dev/sumudnusantara

GSF tracker will come back eventually. Probably very high traffic.

On this day in 1962 Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is first published.

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature...

The image shows two X posts. The first, by Patrick Wyman, expresses outrage over a decision, calling a historical event at Wounded Knee a massacre of mostly women and children, labeling it one of the most shameful events in American history and questioning the morality of defending it. The second, by a user named Secretary of War Pete, states that under his direction, soldiers who fought at the Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their medals, declaring the decision final and their historical place settled, accompanied by an image of a man in a suit speaking at a podium with an American flag backdrop.

I have assumed this for some time, but we are seeing it play out in real time.

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move.

1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Labor activist Chris Smalls is back in the United States (via Chuck Modi)

This happened to me when I graduated college and Bush Jr cut science funding. I couldn’t find anything in my field. I had to work as a barista instead. My science career went no where.

My husband is a scientist and was laid off in February. His unemployment is about to run out because there’s no jobs! There’s no funding, no one is hiring. He’s never been unemployed this long before and I don’t know what we’ll do. I’m disabled. We have a daughter. We’re freaking out.

Bright orange and pink peony flowers with green leaves over blue in the background. Beige box with black text in center “May life treat you exactly the same way you treat servers, store clerks, senior citizens, children, and farm workers.”

Uh. Aside from twitter starting in 2006, Mamdani was ELEVEN YEARS OLD in 2001.