Toben
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Left of the Dial
Art Director at @RAN.org by day 🌎
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Art Director at @RAN.org by day 🌎
Views are my own
Thanks, Bob
Bob Weir, a musician who took the environment seriously
Bob Weir, who died on January 10th, was best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. For decades he was also an unusually persistent environmental advocate, one who treated land, forests, and...
news.mongabay.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Thanks, Bob
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Several hundred people form a human banner spelling out “IT WAS MURDER — ICE OUT!!” at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach during a protest Saturday in response to the recent fatal shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent.
📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle
📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle
January 10, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Several hundred people form a human banner spelling out “IT WAS MURDER — ICE OUT!!” at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach during a protest Saturday in response to the recent fatal shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent.
📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle
📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle
There is no purpose for justice in this regime, only grievance, cruelty, and stupidity
Five Native Americans detained by ICE during ongoing raids in Minneapolis - ICT
Native American community members report increased ICE presence, fears of racial profiling
ictnews.org
January 10, 2026 at 4:06 AM
There is no purpose for justice in this regime, only grievance, cruelty, and stupidity
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The US stands alone in dismissing the problem of climate change.
January 8, 2026 at 11:24 PM
The US stands alone in dismissing the problem of climate change.
Worth amplifying this to your conservative news-consuming friends and family. Apparently even FOX is willfully repeating the regime line without airing the actual video (for fear of revealing what is perfectly clear, that this was a murder)
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Worth amplifying this to your conservative news-consuming friends and family. Apparently even FOX is willfully repeating the regime line without airing the actual video (for fear of revealing what is perfectly clear, that this was a murder)
Living in a world where I have reposted Bill Kristol multiple times is a bizarre plot twist but here we are..
Abolish ICE. Really.
Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "
January 8, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Living in a world where I have reposted Bill Kristol multiple times is a bizarre plot twist but here we are..
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Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
January 7, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
Project 2026 Oil-igarchy:
Heads They Win, Tails We Lose
Heads They Win, Tails We Lose
January 6, 2026 at 5:50 AM
Project 2026 Oil-igarchy:
Heads They Win, Tails We Lose
Heads They Win, Tails We Lose
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A national disgrace.
January 3, 2026 at 7:11 PM
A national disgrace.
The only thing absent from this tyrannical slop of a press conference was "That man tried to kill my Daddy”
January 3, 2026 at 5:36 PM
The only thing absent from this tyrannical slop of a press conference was "That man tried to kill my Daddy”
We are living through the cringiest imaginable simulation, powered by a computer programmed to projectile-vomiting all over itself on repeat .. 🤮 🖥️
ICE Barbie and ICE Baldy caught on camera dancing—very badly—to the Vanilla Ice classic ‘Ice Ice Baby’
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ICE Barbie and ICE Baldy Dance Badly to ‘Ice Ice Baby’ in Cringe NYE Vid
Noem and Miller swayed to Vanilla Ice at Trump’s bash in an on-the-nose moment for the architects of the deportation drive.
trib.al
January 3, 2026 at 4:24 AM
We are living through the cringiest imaginable simulation, powered by a computer programmed to projectile-vomiting all over itself on repeat .. 🤮 🖥️
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"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.)
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
The MAGAfication of Norman Rockwell
Trump uses the artist’s work—like other cultural icons—to promote Gestapo tactics and nativist ideas.
www.thebulwark.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.)
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
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“They put the LNG industry on speed dial inside the Oval Office.”
America's fossil fuel ambitions are driving up your energy bill [via @insideclimatenews.org]
America's fossil fuel ambitions are driving up your energy bill [via @insideclimatenews.org]
America's fossil fuel ambitions are driving up your energy bill
Liquefied natural gas exports have resulted in higher rates, a new analysis finds.
www.motherjones.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“They put the LNG industry on speed dial inside the Oval Office.”
America's fossil fuel ambitions are driving up your energy bill [via @insideclimatenews.org]
America's fossil fuel ambitions are driving up your energy bill [via @insideclimatenews.org]
Welcome to The United States of The Rules Were That You Weren’t Going to Fact-check Us..
State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'
The order is focused on applicants for H-1B visas, which are frequently used by tech companies and is part of a campaign by the Trump administration against online content moderation.
www.npr.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Welcome to The United States of The Rules Were That You Weren’t Going to Fact-check Us..
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I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
Late entry in the “Most San Francisco Thing to Happen in San Francisco in 2025” category..
A woman en route to a UCSF medical center gave birth inside a Waymo robotaxi, marking one of the most unusual incidents yet in San Francisco’s closely watched driverless experiment.
Woman delivers baby in Waymo robotaxi en route to San Francisco hospital
A woman en route to a UCSF medical center gave birth inside a Waymo robotaxi, marking one of the most unusual incidents yet in San Francisco’s closely watched driverless experiment.
bit.ly
December 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Late entry in the “Most San Francisco Thing to Happen in San Francisco in 2025” category..
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Outside of a #WorldCup event at the Kennedy Center: Bank of America continues to fund the methane gas buildout on the Gulf Coast, making huge profits at the expense of all of us, but especially Southwest Louisiana residents.
BofA must SAY NO to financing big methane export terminals like CP2
#NoLNG
BofA must SAY NO to financing big methane export terminals like CP2
#NoLNG
December 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The "War Against Woke Typefaces" is a war upon our collective Futura
At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The "War Against Woke Typefaces" is a war upon our collective Futura
The EPA has officially relegated all factual human causes of climate change to the Wayback machine..
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The EPA has officially relegated all factual human causes of climate change to the Wayback machine..
This administration cares more about protecting the rights of your car’s tailpipe than it does for those of women, children or immigrants
Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This administration cares more about protecting the rights of your car’s tailpipe than it does for those of women, children or immigrants
Donald Trump is America's Worst Idea
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Donald Trump is America's Worst Idea
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The president fails to realize how deeply Somali Americans love this country.
We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better.
We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better.
We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
Opinion | Ilhan Omar: Trump Knows He’s Failing. Cue the Bigotry.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The president fails to realize how deeply Somali Americans love this country.
We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better.
We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better.
We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...
There were no WMDs in Iraq, there is no fentanyl coming from Venezuela. It is always about oil and the most dangerous thing about it are the lies
December 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
There were no WMDs in Iraq, there is no fentanyl coming from Venezuela. It is always about oil and the most dangerous thing about it are the lies
Pretty solid analysis on what’s really going on behind the curtain at X(crement)..
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Pretty solid analysis on what’s really going on behind the curtain at X(crement)..
Some heroes wear carrier satchels, not capes ✊🏼📨📬🦅
A U.S. postal worker on Long Island is accused of trying to help a man escape from ICE custody earlier this month, according to a federal criminal complaint: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/YNagDp
US postal worker charged with breaking man out of ICE custody on Long Island
Police arrested the worker and the man she tried to free.
gothamist.visitlink.me
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Some heroes wear carrier satchels, not capes ✊🏼📨📬🦅