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If you've heard me talk about Western U.S. wildfire, you've probably heard me mention that while baseline fire risk is lower in the (moister) East, the conditional risk can still be extremely high when conditions align (including, as here, in and downwind of pine barrens in New Jersey today).

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The dark, ugly subtext of the Pete Hegseth fiasco is that Trump/MAGA want Hegseth there because they seem him as their guy to carry out MAGA imperialist designs and domestic crackdowns if/when Trump orders them. @juliettekayyem.bsky.social is good on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1942...

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This article reminded me of so much time spent using Skype for #vost and #smemchat support back in the day. restofworld.org/2025/skype-s... @theredelm.bsky.social @sctr.bsky.social @densaer.bsky.social @cherylble.bsky.social

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

Just incredible that a sitting Senator can say something like this with every expectation that such comments will not be grounds for bipartisan calls for his immediate resignation or removal from office.

submitted 1 day ago • 144 comments

And: they were not deported to another country in a way that would have made it impossible for them to launch a defense!

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

This is deranged. Jan. 6 defendants were repped by one of the best public defender offices in the U.S. They were more likely to be released pretrial & got comparatively light sentences. SCOTUS threw out a bunch of convictions, which almost never happens. They got gold-plated due process!

submitted 1 day ago • 914 comments

ICYMI: This story by @makenakelly.bsky.social @telliotter.bsky.social has such granular details of what DOGE is building it makes my head spinning. DOGE is knitting together government databases from DHS, SSA, etc. to create a system that could later be searched to identify and surveil immigrants.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Mind-boggling that DHS's official position on this case is genuinely that a US citizen dad from Albuquerque visiting family in Tucson went up to a Border Patrol agent and said "Hi, I'm a Mexican man who entered here illegally, please deport me." Do they think we are dumb?

submitted 1 day ago • 196 comments

NEW: When a firefighter dies, a small team of federal health workers helps pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future. Trump laid off nearly all of them.

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They hate America, the constitution, and our democracy, and want a dictatorship instead. They’re not hiding it.

submitted 2 days ago • 785 comments

Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.

submitted 2 days ago • 256 comments

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

submitted 2 days ago • 1243 comments

That fear you have, that maybe even small decision to limit what you say or where you go, even for US citizens, it means we’re living under authoritarianism.

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Ruslan and Margaryta Vynohrad — mother and son captured together at Azovstal — hadn’t seen each other in 3 years. Ruslan thought his mom had been exchanged long ago, kept writing her letters. Today, they reunited… by chance, on the bus during the exchange. A moment beyond words.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Trump fabricates a photo of Mr. Garcia with MS-13 tattoo on his hand. This is NOT a real image. Trump and his regime fabricated it. Please understand that Trump regime would fabricate evidence to put you or your family in jail. This is what FASCISM regimes do. www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-...

submitted 4 days ago • 471 comments

The smartest thing Bluesky can do right now. I'll die on the hill that the main appeal of a microblogging service (as opposed to Insta, Vine etc) is getting your news, confirmed and quickly. That Twitter abandoned this makes it a huge lane for Bluesky to drive into.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

oh hell yeah! the security company lost its business license and the men are being charged with battery, false imprisonment, and other violations

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Guys, this is David Brooks in the NY Times. If it's like this 90 days into this presidency with people who wouldn't be caught dead saying it last year, imagine it in two years. Something good is happening, we just have to lift everybody up so they can see it. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

submitted 4 days ago • 189 comments

It would seem valuable to have a service to monitor this type of weather event, maybe even on a national level. A national weather service, if you will.

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I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that everyone is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

submitted 4 days ago • 421 comments

A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.

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So, covid.gov now redirects to, uh, this... www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...

submitted 4 days ago • 298 comments

There are many ways that gutting critical government services will lead to needless death and suffering. Gutting the National Weather Service strikes me as one of the dumbest

submitted 4 days ago • 70 comments

Alarming state of affairs. In past 3 months, Trump has: 1. Closed FBI Foreign Influence Task Force 2. Closed State Dept Global Misinformation office 3. Ordered CISA to no longer address misinfo 4. Redirected Cyber Command away from Russian disinfo 5. Fired NSA Director 6. Sacked 6 NSC officials

submitted 4 days ago • 49 comments

So many national emergencies to declare. So little time. 😔 @axios.com www.axios.com/newsletters/...

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We've got Bill Kristol saying abolish ICE and standing up for trans people, David Brooks quoting the communist manifesto, and Sen. Van Hollen forcing a dictator to give proof of life of a hostage in a death camp. Meanwhile, Dems like Newsom are doing podcasts with fascists. Make it make sense.

submitted 5 days ago • 171 comments

one senator insisted on seeing his constituent one that’s all it took to apply pressure what the ever living fuck are the rest of y’all doing???

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The freight guys have really started freaking out over the past 48-72 hours:

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NBC News EXCLUSIVE: A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 5 days ago • 143 comments

The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to end routine food safety inspections.

submitted 5 days ago • 448 comments

BREAKING: The FDA is planning to end most of its routine food safety inspections, according to CBS News. www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...

submitted 5 days ago • 132 comments

President Trump just fired almost the entire staff of the CFPB, who protect you from getting scammed by Wall Street. This is another assault on consumers and our democracy by Trump's lawless Administration. We will fight back with everything we've got.

submitted 5 days ago • 274 comments

Chris Krebs is America’s next profile in courage. The entire nation should support this honorable and courageous fellow citizen.

submitted 5 days ago • 210 comments

Bear in mind, Judge Wilkinson is a Reagan appointee who was repeatedly on SCOTUS shortlists. This is both an admonition and a dire warning.

submitted 5 days ago • 56 comments

INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw

submitted 5 days ago • 254 comments

Marco Rubio: censorship of Americans ends today Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license

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If they had any evidence of either, they would not have needed to kidnap him, traffic him to a foreign prison, and do everything possible to deny him due process. There's no evidence he has committed any crime or has any affiliation with any gang. Literally none. Hence their actions.

submitted 6 days ago • 171 comments

Congrats to TurboTax, which has worked for two decades to stop Americans from being able to file taxes for free. www.propublica.org/article/insi...

submitted 6 days ago • 33 comments

@chrislhayes.bsky.social breaks down each layer of the "sheer lawlessness" of the Trump deportation case. (1/2)

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NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —

submitted 6 days ago • 64 comments

A willing fascist threatening to prosecute regime opponents. Right out of the textbooks.

submitted 6 days ago • 51 comments

didn't take much for these guys to go from "big government is bad" to "what's the big deal if you're abducted by the government and trafficked to Mongolia"

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BREAKING: A National Weather Service offices in California announced service changes after the Trump administration fired hundreds of meteorologists. The Chronicle also obtained an agreement between the weather service union and the agency, detailing operational changes at weather forecast offices.

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