2657 Followers
2678 Following
There is more homework as an adult, not less.
Prison officials warned inmates to not talk about Ghislaine Maxwell when she was transferred to Texas.
But the inmates are pissed a sex trafficker is there.
After one gave a quote to a local newspaper, prison officials yanked her out of a puppy training class & sent her to a more violent prison.
YouTube video by CNN
This is so important…
Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles.
In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected.
REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
Otherwise known as communism.
NEW PIECE: I'm back, finally, and its a long one. Superficially this moment is a vindication for Central Bank Independence but at a deeper level, cutting the Fed off from its independent agency brethren is its death warrant.
www.crisesnotes.com/trump-vs-pow...
Support Notes on the Crises! Hello readers; I’m long overdue for major updates across a whole range of issues. I have continued to work full time on Notes on the Crises but the work of setting...
@ketanjoshi.co answers the climate questions about data centers we have been waiting in vain for the tech companies to answer.
HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)?
Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts!
NEW POST -->>>
Google claims to have disclosed new information proving its own efficiency. But it has hidden the bigger picture. Guess what: I’ve got the bigger picture for you right here in this big old po…
This is horrifying. Also, you should read it.
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...
“To have her be a part of this process and potentially trade information for a lesser sentence feels very wrong, not just for those of us directly involved in the trial, but for so many of the women that she harmed.”
Survivor Annie Farmer: “The government charged her with perjury because they did not believe she was a reliable witness in the past.”
“… she was also involved very much in the abuse and perpetrating those crimes herself … She is serving a sentence for her own crimes …” www.npr.org/2025/08/12/n...
So, while the New York Times was publishing stories based on tips from Nazis about how Mamdani marked his ethnicity on college applications, their reporters sat for weeks on knowledge that Adams supporters were giving red envelopes with cash to reporters to influence positive coverage???
oh come ON
This is getting very bad:
*FBI raids top Trump critic's home *Trump loyalist gins up "mortgage fraud" pretexts for DOJ probes of Schiff, Letitia James, Lisa Cook *Bannon says ICE will monitor 2026 voting *DHS memo vows LA operations "for years to come"
New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1994...
Thus far little is known about Friday’s law enforcement action against a top Trump critic. But we’re seeing an escalation of authoritarian power on many fronts that has grown unmistakable.
Breaking News: President Trump said he would fire the Fed governor Lisa Cook if she did not resign, escalating pressure on the central bank.
President Trump said he would fire Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor, if she did not resign. But his ability to fire a Fed governor is limited.
