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if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”
January 12, 2026 at 7:01 PM
if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”
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I submitted an abstract to LPSC 2026.
I wanted to see how many abstracts were submitted this year. Mine went in at 11:58 pm Central, so is among the last to go in. It will be rejected, but for the student rate ($35) it was worth the experiment.
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I wanted to see how many abstracts were submitted this year. Mine went in at 11:58 pm Central, so is among the last to go in. It will be rejected, but for the student rate ($35) it was worth the experiment.
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January 9, 2026 at 6:03 AM
I submitted an abstract to LPSC 2026.
I wanted to see how many abstracts were submitted this year. Mine went in at 11:58 pm Central, so is among the last to go in. It will be rejected, but for the student rate ($35) it was worth the experiment.
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I wanted to see how many abstracts were submitted this year. Mine went in at 11:58 pm Central, so is among the last to go in. It will be rejected, but for the student rate ($35) it was worth the experiment.
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New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 2:03 PM
New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
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It’s been clear for years now that anonymized cellphone location data could produce this kind of information, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised someone made a tool to sell this capability to LEOs.
Here's the sort of thing Webloc can do:
- zoom in on specific phone, see where else that device has been locally or around country
- click a 'route' button to see the specific route
- click a nighttime button to see where at night; their likely home
No warrant www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
- zoom in on specific phone, see where else that device has been locally or around country
- click a 'route' button to see the specific route
- click a nighttime button to see where at night; their likely home
No warrant www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
January 8, 2026 at 4:45 PM
It’s been clear for years now that anonymized cellphone location data could produce this kind of information, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised someone made a tool to sell this capability to LEOs.
The thing that's gross is how clearly they don't care about the facts of the situation. The DOJ and (executive branch overall) position will be that the ICE agent was in the right, and that is a given before any evidence is considered and will not be reconsidered regardless of the evidence.
They are desperate to frame a 37-year-old mother in a Honda Pilot as a well-trained “domestic terrorist.”
Noem: "People need to stop using their vehicles as weapons ... it's clear that it's being coordinated. People are being trained"
January 8, 2026 at 2:10 PM
The thing that's gross is how clearly they don't care about the facts of the situation. The DOJ and (executive branch overall) position will be that the ICE agent was in the right, and that is a given before any evidence is considered and will not be reconsidered regardless of the evidence.
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Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis.
Say bad things are bad.
Say bad things are bad.
January 7, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis.
Say bad things are bad.
Say bad things are bad.
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If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
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This is designed to have a chilling effect on all retired service members. The message is that if you speak out, you risk your retirement pay.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Sen. Mark Kelly will face administrative action
January 5, 2026 at 3:27 PM
This is designed to have a chilling effect on all retired service members. The message is that if you speak out, you risk your retirement pay.
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🎙️🇻🇪 Trump said the U.S. is going to run Venezuela. Does that mean Americans on street corners in Venezuela?
🇺🇸 Hegseth: It means we set the terms. Trump sets the terms…it means the oil that was taken from us is returned.
🇺🇸 Hegseth: It means we set the terms. Trump sets the terms…it means the oil that was taken from us is returned.
January 4, 2026 at 10:47 AM
🎙️🇻🇪 Trump said the U.S. is going to run Venezuela. Does that mean Americans on street corners in Venezuela?
🇺🇸 Hegseth: It means we set the terms. Trump sets the terms…it means the oil that was taken from us is returned.
🇺🇸 Hegseth: It means we set the terms. Trump sets the terms…it means the oil that was taken from us is returned.
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Okay, it looks like I need to write a new lawsuit.
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Okay, it looks like I need to write a new lawsuit.
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“We can’t tell people about the torture until the torturers tell us it’s fine” is a hell of an argument
December 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
“We can’t tell people about the torture until the torturers tell us it’s fine” is a hell of an argument
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2/ read the story that made Stephen Miller sad. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/how-...
How Rep. Dan Goldman’s Office Became a ‘Triage Center’ for ICE Detainees
It began in the spring, when Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) went to...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:48 AM
2/ read the story that made Stephen Miller sad. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/how-...
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Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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“Once-unthinkable” here should be “in wild and blatant violation of the law and the US Constitution.”
At NIH alone:
The RIFs were illegal (as a judge, Illston, ruled). The grant terminations were illegal (Young ruling). The probationary firings were illegal (Alsop ruling).
We must say this. 1/
At NIH alone:
The RIFs were illegal (as a judge, Illston, ruled). The grant terminations were illegal (Young ruling). The probationary firings were illegal (Alsop ruling).
We must say this. 1/
This account of how the Trump admin carried out a once-unthinkable overhaul of government in 2025 is based on a year’s worth of messages and interviews with more than 1,200 current and former federal workers. Please read from me and @merylkornfield.bsky.social. wapo.st/4b14KAy
The year Trump broke the federal government
How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy.
wapo.st
December 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“Once-unthinkable” here should be “in wild and blatant violation of the law and the US Constitution.”
At NIH alone:
The RIFs were illegal (as a judge, Illston, ruled). The grant terminations were illegal (Young ruling). The probationary firings were illegal (Alsop ruling).
We must say this. 1/
At NIH alone:
The RIFs were illegal (as a judge, Illston, ruled). The grant terminations were illegal (Young ruling). The probationary firings were illegal (Alsop ruling).
We must say this. 1/
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NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
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"Well, here comes the future and you can't run from it / If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it"
--Billy Bragg, "Waiting For the Great Leap Forwards"
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/ice-...
--Billy Bragg, "Waiting For the Great Leap Forwards"
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/ice-...
ICE Accidentally Publishes A 'Watch List' Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do - Above the Law
This is... disturbing.
abovethelaw.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"Well, here comes the future and you can't run from it / If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it"
--Billy Bragg, "Waiting For the Great Leap Forwards"
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/ice-...
--Billy Bragg, "Waiting For the Great Leap Forwards"
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/ice-...
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A reminder that immigration judges work for the Justice Department, meaning they are not actual judges, and the administration now calls them “deportation judges” after pushing a bunch of them out.
A federal judge ruled Thu morning that no order of removal for Abrego Garcia had ever existed. By Thu evening, an immigration judge had conjured a “Immigration Court’s Sua Sponte Order Correcting Scrivener’s Error," Abrego Garcia's lawyers tell the judge in the emergency overnight filing:
December 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that immigration judges work for the Justice Department, meaning they are not actual judges, and the administration now calls them “deportation judges” after pushing a bunch of them out.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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The single most politically impactful act of media conglomeration since 1968 isn't AOL-TimeWarner or AT&T Time Warner or Facebook-Instagram or PenguinRandomHouse, it's Clear Channel-Jacor.
People are dismissing network television like they did radio 20 years ago. If a bunch of liberal rich people invested in non-profit independent radio across the country twenty years ago we would live in a fundamentally different country
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The single most politically impactful act of media conglomeration since 1968 isn't AOL-TimeWarner or AT&T Time Warner or Facebook-Instagram or PenguinRandomHouse, it's Clear Channel-Jacor.
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it’s important to remember how jewish germans and jewish poles and jewish francophiles survived.
they gamed out the system and decided at what point their risk tolerance could no longer be held in abeyance.
trans americans would be wise to look at the survivors of the holocaust and other genocides
they gamed out the system and decided at what point their risk tolerance could no longer be held in abeyance.
trans americans would be wise to look at the survivors of the holocaust and other genocides
December 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
it’s important to remember how jewish germans and jewish poles and jewish francophiles survived.
they gamed out the system and decided at what point their risk tolerance could no longer be held in abeyance.
trans americans would be wise to look at the survivors of the holocaust and other genocides
they gamed out the system and decided at what point their risk tolerance could no longer be held in abeyance.
trans americans would be wise to look at the survivors of the holocaust and other genocides
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This is a fucking nightmare and right now I am very, very angry with the people who put Trump back in office.
More and more kids are going to die from preventable diseases.
As I have said for months, RFK Jr. has more power to singlehandedly kill more Americans than any other cabinet secretary.
More and more kids are going to die from preventable diseases.
As I have said for months, RFK Jr. has more power to singlehandedly kill more Americans than any other cabinet secretary.
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Begins Process to Align U.S. Core Childhood Vaccine Recommendations with Best Practices from Peer, Developed Countries
ALIGNING THE CHILDHOOD VACCINE SCHEDULE WITH INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum to begin the
www.whitehouse.gov
December 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This is a fucking nightmare and right now I am very, very angry with the people who put Trump back in office.
More and more kids are going to die from preventable diseases.
As I have said for months, RFK Jr. has more power to singlehandedly kill more Americans than any other cabinet secretary.
More and more kids are going to die from preventable diseases.
As I have said for months, RFK Jr. has more power to singlehandedly kill more Americans than any other cabinet secretary.
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I'm devastated by what the field has lost in terms of pandemic prevention research and infrastructure, but even more for the (to date, 60+) PhD students and postdocs on the project, many of whom face an immediate funding cliff at the end of the year. NSF had the funds for them and just didn't pay /3
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I'm devastated by what the field has lost in terms of pandemic prevention research and infrastructure, but even more for the (to date, 60+) PhD students and postdocs on the project, many of whom face an immediate funding cliff at the end of the year. NSF had the funds for them and just didn't pay /3