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A M4.9 quake occurred this evening north of Indio. It is east of the San Andreas fault, far enough away to not change the likelihood of a quake on the San Andreas. It's located very near the minor EW-striking Blue Cut fault earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Grocery prices are up, and so are energy prices. Donald Trump lies incessantly about both, and the American people are onto him. trib.al/bZrE2Y6 Support The New Republic, and our long-established reputation of confronting lies, with 50% off TODAY: trib.al/VmkmGvB

Has America ever seen a more disastrous administration after just 10 months? I feel like I know the answer…

Talk about burying the lede: “The bunker under the East Wing will also be upgraded, sources told CBS News. The White House Military Office is handling the renovation of the bunker, which is known as the President's Emergency Operations Center.” 10/22/25 www.cbsnews.com/news/demolis...

I’m pretty sure Stephen Miller would steal a lifejacket from a toddler.

Wait until he hears that Reagan didn't trust the Russians.

Today's task: Tell your Reps to file a motion to vacate the chair in the House. Johnson has refused to do his job. The motion can be filed by any Representative. abcnews.go.com/Politics/hou...

Is it a coup? Feels like it. Really good reporting here. www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartman...

Everything is so stupid

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Fire survivors: What’s most important to you as LA rebuilds? Financial support? Fireproofing? Utilities? Engaged California is inviting anyone who has been impacted to help create an action plan for the future. Your voice. Your community. You help decide. Sign up now: engaged.ca.gov/fires

Imagine getting fired because math hurt a man’s feelings. We’re being governed by a walking Yelp review.

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —MLK Jr.

It’s okay if you are feeling tired, exhausted, stressed or furious. No one should have to endure all this.

Merrick Garland couldn’t have done a worse job. What a failure.

Just like they said they were going to in project 2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/c...

The Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times has obtained a list of more than 700 people who have been detained or appear to be scheduled to be sent to the Florida-run immigration detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz.

next time you're in a national park, take some photos of the signage and upload it to help these archivists www.404media.co/save-our-sig...

An important but chilling read.

This is just sick. via @ktla.com: Footage obtained by KTLA shows a young man crying, saying his mother had just been taken, and children and protesters running from tear gas that was deployed when a crowd gathered at an immigration raid at a Ventura County farm this afternoon

Reality show flight path bungler Sean Duffey is now in charge of NASA. Apologies to the rest of the planets.

New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time "American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

Stop pretending. The so-called ICE agents creeping around LA aren’t chasing violent criminals. If you don’t see the racial profiling, you’re either in denial or fine with it. And since they’re incognito, no one can give a straight answer on how we’re supposed to know they’re even legit.

ICE is going to get someone killed. This was outside 100 Montgomery in SF’s Financial District. If you needed proof these rookie hires aren’t trained, here it is. Real feds de-escalate. They call for backup. They don’t drag people down the street w/a car. Hope everyone’s OK. (Multi-angle footage)

The US is experiencing its worst measles outbreak in over 30 years, with 1,288 cases reported just six months into the year. The vaccine-preventable disease has led to three deaths, two children in Texas and an adult in New Mexico, and dozens of hospitalizations.

We love to see digital civic experimentation at every level of government. After the LA fires, impacted community members submitted over 1,300 comments through @engaged-california.bsky.social, a new platform to help people directly communicate with their neighbors and elected officials.

“lack of access to water, inadequate food, denial of religious rights, no water to take a bath, maggots in the food…” www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/a...

Unconstitutional.

This is a cover-up. Five Florida lawmakers were blocked from entering Alligator Alcatraz—told it was “unsafe.” But Trump, DeSantis, and Noem toured it last week just fine. So why can’t lawmakers do their legal oversight? And if it’s too dangerous for them, what about the migrants trapped inside?

Democracies do not use their military to try and intimidate their own citizens with “shows of presence”. This is fascism.

Forever

The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 called for dismantling the NOAA, which provides warnings of natural disasters, such as the deadly floods in Texas. The irony is that Heritage wanted these cuts because it’s angry that NOAA helps prove the reality of climate change--the thing causing floods.

Just wow! Can we appreciate the fact that a team from Mexico is in Texas helping with the search and rescue. 👏🏽

Love you, Canada! 🇨🇦 Canadians get the Florida boycott. Air Canada is cutting back its flights to Florida. 💚✊

Emmy-winning Austin, TX based TV meteorologist on Facebook:

76% of Americans think that democracy is under a serious threat, according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. And their faith in political leadership in the White House and Congress is low.

This was never just about undocumented immigrants, they’re going after all immigrants, documented or not, even people born in the U.S.

The Perfect Storm 1. The National Weather Service vacancy rate at its Texas offices doubled since Trump took office. 2. Kerr County (which voted 77% for Trump) did not have a warning system because local residents didn’t want to spend the money. 3. Climate change is making this happen more often.

Stop travelling to America. It’s not safe & your tourist dollars shouldn’t support fascism If you’re American, stop going to Florida They built a concentration camp in 8 days They’ve opted to kidnap and detain thousands instead of housing the homeless, feeding the hungry & providing healthcare

While Kristi Noem’s out here blaming everyone but herself, here’s her own April press release bragging about clawing back $882M in disaster resilience grants. The kind that could’ve helped in Texas. They’d rather wage culture wars than actually protect human lives.

Thou shalt boycott Florida.

Again: Regardless of the role NWS played here, Trump/DOGE cutting these key departments is not making us safer and is only paving the way for more tragedies in the future and making them harder to recover from.