“It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone. The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties.”

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · yesterday

My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:

NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...

Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home

The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.

newrepublic.com

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

Quiet mass resistance led Congress to end compulsory draft registration. But a plan for “automatic” registration threatens that victory.

Automatic draft registration undoes a victory decades in the making

Quiet mass resistance led Congress to end compulsory draft registration, but a plan for “automatic” registration threatens that victory.

wagingnonviolence.org

“The tragic irony is that a war supposedly to prevent Iran from building a bomb may increase the propensity to do just that. Worsening the danger is Trump’s commitment to help Saudi Arabia acquire uranium enrichment and plutonium separation facilities.” #JCPOA #nuclear #WaronIran

Waging Nonviolence@wagingnonviolence.org · 3mo ago

To create a safer world, millions of Americans need to mobilize to end the war on Iran, prevent nuclear proliferation, halt the arms race and slash military budgets.

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

Carly Goodman@carlygoodman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Extremely evil/cursed take from the WaPo this morning

“The reference to the STONE AGE indicates that objects would be targeted seemingly because they contribute to the viability of a MODERN SOCIETY in Iran, which is completely UNRELATED to the question of contribution to MILITARY ACTION –the necessary CONDITION for targeting in WAR”

Ruby S.@rubyji.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Never thought I would miss "law & order" International law experts ‘seriously concerned’ about ‘strikes on schools, health centres and homes’ in contravention of Geneva conventions www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

Howard Thurman: "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." @anglicanpacifists.bsky.social @for-usa.bsky.social #StationsOfTheCross #HolyWeek #HowardThurman #newlife #transformation #resurrection ⛪🕯️🙏

Dietrich Bonheoffer: "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil." @bonhoeffersociety.bsky.social @unionseminary.bsky.social #StationsOfTheCross #HolyWeek #Bonhoeffer #courage #sacrifice #justice 📕⛪🕯️

BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees. Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out. It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.

Bishop Barbara Harris: "If you don't want to stand out, then don't go into ministry. If you don't want to be a witness, then don't follow Jesus." #StationsOfTheCross #FollowJesus #HolyWeek #prayer #witness #justice #Episcopal ⛪🕯️📕

Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever. Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

Q: You're a constitutional lawyer. Can you detail the 4th Amendment protections someone has if ICE approaches their home w/an administrative warrant? MIKE JOHNSON: When ICE goes to execute a warrant, it's issued by an immigration judge, & that is a sufficient legal authority to go apprehend someone

“Imagine if we had to follow the law”

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

"Hootsuite could receive up to $2.8 million USD for contract with US immigration enforcement". If your organization has a hootsuite account, contact their sales (they don't have tech support so don't bother with that) & threaten to cancel

Hootsuite could receive up to $2.8 million USD for contract with US immigration enforcement | BetaKit

Years after scrapping a contract with ICE, Hootsuite is providing monitoring technology to DHS.

betakit.com

Time for Arsenal men to sign Kevin Schade to address forward line concerns; & women to add San Diego Wave’s VP Justyne Freud to our back room reshuffle; thereby finally enacting our long awaited Schade’n’Freud scheme @arsenalvisionpodcast.com @tim-stillman.bsky.social @philcosta.bsky.social

This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.

Jesse Thorn@jessethorn.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"'I have my ID!' Mubashir shouted repeatedly, as heard on the video. The agents do not respond." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Even with bipartisan approval, the U.S. is withholding billions in funding for PEPFAR and the Global Fund, lifesaving programs that strengthen health systems worldwide. Congress approved the funds. Now they must be released. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4p3Jc9M?form=FUNETGJVZGW

Approved Funding Sits in Banks While Patients Suffer

The U.S. government is withholding billions of dollars from two major programs--PEPFAR and the Global Fund--despite funding being Congressionally approved and promised.

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2025 has been the deadliest year for detained immigrants in the U.S. in over 20 years. 90% of the immigrants held at Mississippi’s Adams Correctional Facility have not been charged with a crime.

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 7mo ago

Authorities have reported the death of a Nicaraguan immigrant in ICE custody in a hospital in Natchez, Mississippi, the seventh reported death of an immigrant in ICE custody this month. buff.ly/NntUdNz

Advance copies of "The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin & Audre Lorde" have arrived from Rima’s publisher, woohoo! Feb. 3rd release date from @natlanticbooks.bsky.social - order via www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/the-fir... #jamesbaldwin #audrelorde #buddhism #bookrelease

My latest, about @siembranc.bsky.social and how they organized in North Carolina to counter Operation Charlotte's Web and Border Patrol's latest anti-immigrant crackdown, co-published in @thenation.com and @southernstudies.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/poli...

How North Carolina Rose Up Against Trump’s Latest Anti-Immigrant Crackdown

“Operation Charlotte’s Web” may mobilize North Carolina’s working-class Latino members and allies to shift the political balance of power at the local, state, and national levels.

thenation.com

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It didn’t even take 6 hours.

“Other major cities such as Cape Town, South Africa, Mexico City and Jakarta, Indonesia, as well as parts of California, are also facing day zero scenarios as they sink and run out of water.”

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of Iran, the country’s president has said. www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Trump just gave $40 billion in taxpayer dollars to Argentina to bail out its libertarian president.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

Trump on SNAP: "Our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars -- it could be anything. We have to remain liquid. We can't give everything away."

#arsecast and @arseblog.com fan Zohran Mamdani elected next mayor in NYC. Will he wear his Goodly Morning tee to the inauguration?

This looks like a concentration camp.

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle: