Derrick Crowe

People are very worked up about The Mandalorian and Grogu. The movie isnt out yet! Relax! See it or dont, but jeez it's tiresome people hating everything before they see it #starwars

I feel like Tom Gores and the Pistons should be included here, his private equity firm owns the prison phone monopoly, it's at least adjacent to the DHS concentration camp industrial complex.

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

An El Niño is brewing And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight.

One thing that may dramatically shake up our political life on this planet is the advent of a strong new El Niño. (Also our, you know, life life)

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Trump Sought Vast Budget Cuts. Congress Granted Few.

Burying the lede in paragraph 21: "At the White House, officials said they still believe that they can proceed with their attempts to dissolve the department and relocate its staff this year, arguing that the new funding legislation did not explicitly prevent them from doing so."

Yet another impeachable offense for when people who believe in the Constitution get control of Congress

I cannot stress to you enough: Trump and the ideologues and greed-addled executives and shareholders behind him are walking us into a very real death spiral that future presidents may not be able to reverse if he gets away with it. He has to be stopped.

Worse, the culprit for the acceleration appears to be that warming is interfering with low-level cloud formation, which has been flagged in earlier studies as a wild card that could drive not 2 degrees of warming, but extreme warming up in the range of 12 degrees C, which would be catastrophic.

Scientists thought they understood global warming. Then the past three years happened. The fastest warming period since 1880 occurred in the past 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data.

Trump is gutting the legal basis for protecting people from fossil fuel emissions that cause #globalwarming and other hazards. *But, as this article shows, he's doing it at precisely the moment that warming has suddenly started speeding up.* www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules

What a disgrace. #Climate impacts will be devastating. The immediate impacts will be disgusting. Have #asthma? Good fucking luck! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...

Esp. given that it wasn't even a good Star Wars.

Remember when we thought you could look up to a president?

Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.

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Fascism and the English Language Telling the Truth about Attacks on Immigrants

Last July, I wrote a follow up to "Fascism and the English Language" specifically covering immigrant rights language. Concentration camps was correct then & is now. So too is not using "immigration" as qualifier for acts that are crimes.

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This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

Here's the thing: This was true in 2024. In the very same surveys where media shouted from rooftops that majorities supported "mass deportation" MORE people supported having people stay. But the latter didn't merit airtime. Chart credit: @mikepod.bsky.social

Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.

I really don't care about anyone's "he can't do this because states run elections!" argument.

This is an explicit pledge to rule lawlessly by the commander-in-chief of the world's most powerful military, who is also currently constructing a nationwide system of detention camps.

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Nuremberg Trials.

Millions of Dollars from Now-Defunct USAID Reportedly Paying For Russell Vought’s Security Detail Russell Vought reportedly diverted millions of dollars earmarked for the federal agency that once provided global humanitarian and economic aid.

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tRumpstein's budget chief Russell Vought reportedly DIVERTED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS EARMARKED FOR USAID!!!

THE FEDERAL AGENCY THAT ONCE PROVIDED GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN AND ECONOMIC AID 😪

IN ORDER TO PAY FOR HIS SECURITY DETAIL!!!

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Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noem’s blankie.

One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.

About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

So infuriating.

I forgot who said it, but “genocide by rug pull” really is an apt phrase for this outcome.

Vaguely recall how Biden admin emails to Twitter were the biggest attack on free speech ever. There was a whole twitter files thing about that.

Curious where are Elon, Taibbi, Bari and crew on this?

Instead of Pandering, Democrats Should Try Changing Voters’ Minds How can the party of liberalism make liberal ideas more popular? By creating a more liberal electorate. Yes, it can be done. Here are five ways how.

"Democratic politicians urgently need to adopt the GOP view of public opinion—that it’s movable, and it’s their job to move it." newrepublic.com/article/2058...

oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:

Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

Bondi getting appropriately savaged for citing Culver City