Yvonne Castillo

…because (to this Administration) optics trump public safety.

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.

www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Embarrassing to be from the US. Our current leaders do not represent us and I will never understand how people voted for this.

SEEING IS BELIEVING

DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite.

📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported.

DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.

NEWS: Illinois investigating allegation that South Shore apartment owner and management tipped federal officials about the presence of Venezuelan immigrants in the building in order to intimidate and coerce the building’s Black and Hispanic tenants into leaving.

5-year-old boy among four students detained by ICE, according to school leaders School district leaders argue ICE agents are following students and their parents while driving to and from school.

ICE just detained a 5-year-old child.

Don’t tell us this is about “the worst of the worst.” That’s a lie.

Absolutely vile.

This is sickeningly cruel and inhumane.

Jesus fucking Christ

If you will not fight to abolish, end, eliminate, pick your verb, this, you are not fit to represent anyone let alone swear an oath to protect and defend our nation and her people.

Another proud day for America.

Our city has been over-run by Nazi ghouls kidnapping people to traffic them to concentration camps and other countries.
Did you ever think you'd see the day when masked gunmen jump out of moving vehicles and chase families down the street in your own neighborhood?
FUCK ICE forever and ever.

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Worth noting losses to federal science extend well beyond these programs, e.g., to Dept of Agriculture, Dept of the Interior, and elsewhere. We've lost 30% of our federal colleagues at the USGS National Climate Adaptation Science Center in the past year.

Rebuilding will take decades.

I said yesterday in a post that we need our leaders in government to be loud and righteously indignant -at a level that matches the level of obscene abuse by this Administration…and I meant it. Watch this courageous immigrant lawyer demonstrate the volume and tone that’s needed.

hard to believe that the Charlie Kirk firings / pearl clutchings happened mere months ago but here we are

How Trump’s Greenland obsession could land him in a military stockade OPINION: If President Trump’s threat to annex Greenland ever became an actual order — that would be illegal. Highly illegal. And he would be subject to a U.S. military tribunal.

Best take on Greenland- Tr*mp’s order to attack would be illegal under our current NATO treaties and the military should arrest him rather than follow illegal orders.

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

This is the reporting from @apmreports.org the doctor is citing.

Renee Good had a pulse for at least 8 minutes and 34 seconds.

www.apmreports.org/story/2026/0...

No Kings is projected on to a mountainside above the town’s lights

Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

Minnesota, like all the regime does, is a trial balloon and a message. Thank you to the absolute heroes who are putting their bodies on the line for all of us.

Dems are stuck in a polite governance paradigm when all of them need to be atomically loud with spitting level-moral indignation at the indecency and morally corrupt Administration.

Don’t worry, Dems, we will support your outrage. We all need it.

Danish parliamentarian fresh on the scene doing better retail politics than any American Democrat

Correct

Listen for yourself

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

Americans should be under no illusions about what most US troops can be expected to do if Trump orders an attack on Greenland. Realistically, the only way to stop him if he's determined is an act of Congress, which should happen immediately.

Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.

My story:

people.com/nj-girl-foun...

"6 years old... walking by herself on the street, crying, crying out for her dad, asking, 'Where's Papi? Where's Papi?'..."

Cops at her front door, holding a phone to her face, asking if that's her Facebook account.

What the fuck are we doing here?

I’m Mexican-American —born and raised in the US, just as my parents were, and I carry both my birth certificate and my social security card in my wallet. Have been doing this for months. It’s ridiculous.

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status.

Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

Running our government like a 6th grade class President.