#climate #migration #democracy / @amorandexile author / sometimes hunter/gatherer / perpetual hack
China to See Solar Capacity Outstrip Coal Capacity This Year
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“They’re trapped in this little confinement cell, a dark cell with no sunlight, with multiple people,” said Shaan Chatterjee, an attorney at New England Immigration Law. “They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation.”
"In January 2025, the Trump administration rescinded a Biden-era policy that used to prohibit the arrest of people within 1,000 feet of [sensitive] areas."
Zero reason to arrest a dad at his kid's school. Pure cruelty.
‘They took a dad:’ ICE agents pick up father outside Boise Bench preschool
Estefania Mondragón, executive director of PODER of Idaho, called the immigration agents’ choice to take a father into custody outside his child’s school “disgusting.”
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What SF billionaire is going to pony up a $100 mil so
@propublica.org @statesnewsroom.com @grist.org @19thnews.org @motherjones.com @texastribune.org etc. can just scoop up all these
@washingtonpost.com reporters next week?
We are all the Prime Minister of Spain
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.
“MJF broke character and looked around in disbelief as the chant grew louder. King, a Los Angeles native, nodded in approval. Even the commentator went silent as the crowd continued, ‘F--- ICE! F--- ICE! F--- ICE!’”
Nothing says prayer breakfast like concentration camps
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "One of my favorite people, President Bukele ... he operates rather large prisons. Very strong prisons."
Lol-grimace
Add the CIA World Factbook to the long and growing list of disappearing government datasets:
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
Somebody sue them please.
NEW: This year’s
#2030Census test in Huntsville, Ala., and Spartanburg, S.C., is using an unrelated survey form that includes a U.S. citizenship question, according to a regulatory filing (To be clear, this is for the “2026 Census Test,” not an actual census)
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PR...
Sue!
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Estella is an icon.
Brad Little is spineless douche.
“The governor knows me well. I have been active in this community almost my entire life, and for him not to have allowed me the courtesy and give me a call or, you know, even email me anything, I think that is what is the most frustrating to me."
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Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed.
Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country
The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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love to see it
NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program.
This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.
Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
Virginia’s New Governor Ends ICE Program. Local Contracts Remain, For Now. - Bolts
Abigail Spanberger left the 287(g) program, which empowered state law enforcement to detain immigrants. Will Democrats also bar local police and sheriffs from the program?
dammit
couriernewsroom.com/news/vanessa...
"Immigration has become the tip of the spear for this administration’s broader assault on core constitutional pillars. And it’s essential that all of us who have been horrified by this past year work to define – and fight for – an alternative vision in 2026."
Vanessa Cárdenas: A New Vision for Immigration and Our Country
Americans are hungry for an alternative to Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda
Four more Outer Banks houses have fallen into the ocean
www.huffpost.com/entry/outer-...
More Beach Houses Collapse Into North Carolina’s Outer Banks In Insurance Nightmare
Coastal erosion and rising sea levels are blamed for the loss of more than 30 homes, which often are left to topple due to high removal costs.
Pretty good campaign platform from Durand Bernarr in
@hammerandhope.bsky.social
"Men gotta hold each other accountable... One of my homies, I done got him on flossing. I done got him using a bidet now.”
hammerandhope.org/article/dura...
Caught Up in the Rapture of the Singer Durand Bernarr
A lot of people can sing, but what sets him apart is his humor, playfulness, and old-school soul.
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
A new edition of the 1 Million Experiments zine is here! It’s terrific as usual and includes a new zine which is a treasure. To jump-start neighborly relations, try one of the 50 (mostly untried) ways to meet your neighbors. Get into some Porchside Abolition.
open.substack.com/pub/millione...
#11: Porch Side Abolition
New Zine: "50 Ways To Meet Your Neighbor"
This whole series too, describing modern facism:
Toscano: a politics of domination, supremacy and exclusion that emerges from the crises of mass electoral democracies
Walia: explicitly expressing supremacist ideology, rooted in colonialism, and a counter-revolutionary force aligned with capitalism
This whole series.
I'm starting with
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
"The “three-legged stool” powering AI consists of tech, fossil fuels, and the state, creating new markets where each “leg” was faltering... The public is really not part of this at all." (but we think we are)
Palantir Government?
majority of revenues come from govt contracts. Deployed at
-ICE
-HHS since last March to audit grants & job descriptions for anything related to "DEI" or "gender ideology"
-Pentagon, a $10 billion contract!
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/p...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.
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Great work
Pulled Funds Threaten Historic Quilts
Visit the post for more.
Folks:
This is important.
SHEAR—the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)—is tracking examples of the regime erasing history.
More at the link below.
This graf is basically Bad Bunny's acceptance speech
Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.
It's a tour de force:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.
It's a tour de force:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...Trump Admin 0-5 on big offshore wind cases.
Reagan appointee "unpersuaded by the government’s claims about national security after reviewing the classified report under seal."
BOEM caused “irreparable harm” to the developer of Sunrise Wind.
#Fail🐳
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/c... (🎁)
Judge Hands Trump a Fifth Loss in His Effort to Halt Offshore Wind Projects
2027 Super Bowl ad
60-year-old Robin Wright: Farm boy? Order me dinner
64-year-old Cary Elwes: As you wish
Horrific AI recreation of Peter Falk's voice: What she realized that day was that when he said "as you wish," what he really meant was "I'll get UberEats"
If you click through the video says that the man attacked the kids at a protest at a high school.
I don't want to weigh in on that.
What I want to point out is that one of the teens is wearing a "Kill your local pedophile hoodie" the another one is wearing one that says "choose kindness always"
Texas — Trump supporter fights kids
Kids win
www.instagram.com/reel/DUS-0sy...
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Ice out
In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.
So fucking ugly and nasty and dumb.
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
prior post, in epic contrast to this event on Friday, and at least EIGHT other ICE OUT /
#abolishice events across Idaho this week, including a massive solidarity bike ride this afternoon.
www.theidaho97.org/ice-out-acti...
ICE OUT actions across Idaho this week
Join one of at least NINE ICE OUT protests across Idaho this week.
BOISE: Around 1,000 people attended the ICE OUT event in solidarity with Minnesota and those impacted by ICE at the Idaho State Capitol
A 🧵 of photos
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BOISE: The pro-ICE event at the Idaho State Capitol building was a massive flop.
It appears they reserved the entire park and had the streets blocked off all the way through Cecil D. Andrus Park. You can barely make them out, not filling up the steps in front of the building.
BOISE: Right-wing out of town group, Idaho Liberty Dogs, will be invading downtown Boise on Saturday, January 31st, at 1 PM for a Vanilla Ice themed PRO-ICE rally at the Idaho State Capitol Building.
Expect them to be armed and have state and local police support. Usually bait conflict for media.
The co-author of "How Democracies Die" thinks Trump is going further in his crackdown on the press than strongmen around the world. Via
@status.news
(Almost everyone who studies these things is shocked not by what he's doing, but by how fast its moving.)
This one church protest is breaking the third wall of Christian nationalism in the US.
Se excerpt on City Church ties to Doug Wilson in Idaho.
Excited to see what @unfccc will do without the dead weight. 🤷♀️
www.dw.com/en/the-paris...
US withdrawal from Paris Agreement comes into effect
Major emitter the US has officially left the Paris Agreement and global emissions keep rising a decade on from the deal. Yet renewables' growth shows climate action can work. Here's what's been done a...
Big win against climate disinformation: a US federal judge ruled DOE broke the law by using a secret, biased climate panel to undermine science-based policy. As CAAD members, UCS & EDF led the charge - proving that coordinated, science-driven advocacy can stop disinfo from shaping climate policy
A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules
Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were taken into custody today by DOJ.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/p... For reasons obscure. Gharges have not been released yet. The First Amendment alarm is about as high as it gets.
Journalist Don Lemon taken into custody after Minnesota church protest | CNN Politics
Lemon and another independent journalist, George Fort, have been taken into federal custody in connection to a protest at a church earlier this month in St. Paul, Minnesota.
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
"As historian Greg Grandin writes, the Border Patrol has been a 'cult of brutality' since 1924, when it was created."
@ Todd Miller in
@theborderchronicle.bsky.social
www.theborderchronicle.com/border-patro...
Border Patrol Nation?
For decades, the Border Patrol has operated with extraconstitutional powers along the U.S.-Mexico divide. Now it’s leading the charge in U.S. cities across the country.
"Whether it’s reading pulses of the land, shifting winds, or a magnetic pull, there are many signals that it might be time to move on from a place. And there are as many signs to stay." -
@willowonearth.bsky.social
atmos.earth/ecological-w...
Migration Is Natural. Only Humans Criminalize It. | Atmos
More than lines on a map, a home is made by those who live there: citizens and neighbors, holding each other's sanctity hand-in-hand.
I'm at the data center. I'm at the nation's biggest air pollution permit. (I don't see you, dog.)
www.texasobserver.org/developer-ca...
Country’s Largest Air Pollution Permit Issued to Power Plant for Data Centers in West Texas, Developer Says
It’s among a handful of similarly colossal ventures announced during 2025, making Texas the global epicenter of a gas power buildout.
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US measles cases this year already exceed the total for the whole of 2023 and 2024 combined, and it is only January. Yikes.
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Since the first of the year.
Whoa. D.Minn's chief judge Patrick Schiltz dockets a list of "96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases."
www.courtlistener.com/docket/72120...
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Federal judge in Minnesota today:
ICE has violated AT LEAST 96 court orders in 2026 alone.
"This should give pause to anyone...ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...I just visited Liam and his father. I also met with countless more children and families who have done nothing wrong and should not be detained.
My full update on visiting the Dilley detention center:
youtu.be/j9FcMwyWN2I?...
I just visited Liam and his father. My full update on visiting the Dilley detention center:
YouTube video by JoaquinCastroTX
Our country is going through a mass effort at ethnic cleansing, and we need to get into the practice of saying that out loud.
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Good news. Basic rule of law holds on again.
I hope the 100 or so folks Trump goons already rounded up SUE!
REAKING: A federal judge in Minnesota has barred the Trump administration from arresting / detaining the state's 5,600 refugees while they await lawful permanent resident status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
At least 9 ICE murders in January, so far
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
US witnessed many ICE-related deaths in 2026. Here are their stories
Shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good are two of at least nine deaths related to immigration enforcement in US.
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Former Border Patrol chief known for illegal coverups leads Pretti homicide investigation.
Pretti’s investigation is being done by illegal and corrupt investigators.
States don't regulate migration, but Idaho keeps trying to (and keeps losing).
idahocapitalsun.com/2026/01/27/f...
Federal judge rejects Idaho’s ask to dismiss lawsuit challenging state immigration law • Idaho Capital Sun
A federal judge in Idaho on Friday largely rejected the state’s attempts to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a 2025 state immigration law.
"an egregious and unlawful betrayal of the promise made to refugees, pursuant to the Refugee Act of 1980 to offer safety, stability and a path to a safe home,” **the lawsuit** said.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u... (🎁)
They ‘Had Done Everything Right.’ ICE Detained Them Anyway.
More Trump chaos in Minneapolis today.
Get ICE OUT of our cities and towns.
Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Warning: video is hard to watch
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being.
@theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
Law enforcement is keeping details under wraps, but here's what we know so far:
BREAKING: Border Patrol shoots person in southern Arizona
Emergency crews “found the patient in custody and in critical condition” 15 miles north of the US-Mexico border.
Border Patrol shot someone south of Tucson this morning. Three gunshot wounds. No other details atm.
Italy is upset and they have every right to be. This is disgusting
‘A militia that kills’: uproar in Italy over ICE security role at Winter Olympics
Milan’s mayor says agents ‘clearly not welcome’ in co-host city and that Italy can take care of security itself
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘A militia that kills’: uproar in Italy over ICE security role at Winter Olympics
Milan’s mayor says agents ‘clearly not welcome’ in co-host city and that Italy can take care of security itself
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