As summer fire-season ramps up across the west, its informative to compare the "root-zone" soil moisture % for the past 3 years: 2023 & 2024 exhibited above average soil-moisture for much of California, whereas this year the landscape is dryer for the southern half of the state

If the reconciliation bill passes, ICE could potentially have more employees than the FBI and more detention space than Federal Bureau of Prisons.

I do not agree with N.C. Senator Thom Tillis on much. But he’s right on this. Trump’s Republican Party does not allow for independent thought. The Republican Party today is a cult. Either you do as Trump wants, or you’re out. Pathetic.

Firefighters? Northern Idaho?

Because relocating innocent people fleeing chaos and danger isn’t the same as relocating a country. That’s the difference between defending human rights and politicizing suffering. America has always been strongest when we lead with compassion, not cruelty.

This administration is not our Judiciary

Look what we've done to our planet. Just LOOK! 1.1 billion hectares of forest GONE since 1900!

Yes. Political speech becomes a crime and all of a sudden you’re in a concentration camp. This absolutely *will* happen if e were don’t stop this bullshit soon.

🚨 FACT: ICE now has a $160 billion budget. That’s more than the entire United States Marine Corps. We’re not funding immigration enforcement; we’re funding a domestic military to hunt busboys and break up families.

to start When they're done with that, which group do they come for next?

we're all on the menu great job conservative fuckwits

Oil, gas, & mining kills 100-150 Americans per year. Logging, power linesmen, fishermen; we accept massively higher injury & death rates so you can eat salmon than we do so life can go interplanetary. Also reminder that it's twice as dangerous to be a rancher than a cop lol

Kind of like the Nazis.

I’m pissed, but mostly I’m just sad for the millions of people who will suffer because of what Republicans did today. Many, if not most, are Trump voters. And most probably have no idea what this law will actually mean for them. “Well, that’s what they voted for.“ “They

Hours after ICE became the highest federal law enforcement agency in America history (and likely in world history), the Supreme Court lifts the last obstacle to ICE deporting people to any random country around the world, even in conflict zones or where migrants are enslaved.

ice should be abolished. for as long as they are hiding their identity like this, and encouraged too, abuse like this is the responsibility for the whole agency. leadership *is* responsible

The War on Cars is over!

Anne Applebaum in The Atlantic: Trump says he wants peace. But every key decision his administration makes helps Putin keep fighting. Weapons blocked. Sanctions stalled. Disinfo unchallenged. She explains how the U.S. is realigning - toward Moscow. 1/

Insane

Stephen Miller has orchestrated an administration-wide propaganda campaign of lies about Abrego Garcia because if people don’t view him as a monster, they might start asking how many other human beings with no criminal records were sent to a foreign torture dungeon by “mistake.”