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BREAKING: In a blistering order, Judge Hinderaker details how the Trump admin only has done anything in the case of Ahmed Soliman when ordered to do so. As such, he now orders DOJ to address each of the 11 steps he sees as being needed to bring Soliman back to the U.S.

Any negotiations over Ukraine's future must include Ukraine. After years of fighting for their freedom, the Ukrainian people deserve a say in their country's future. A deal that rewards Putin's aggression isn't a lasting peace.

The small handful of Democrats running anti-trans ads should be embarrassed now and will be embarrassed in time. I've been saying it and still think it — www.lawdork.com/p/dangerous-... — and people who compromise in this way will change or won't be leaders, even if they are in office.

This handsome turkey vulture was watching me over their shoulder #birds #wildlife #photography #naturephotography

"Trump has left us in a sort of interregnum. Periods like this are dangerous, but only because the possibilities for change are boundless. The instability makes a new world seem possible, and invites interest in what the principles of this remade world will be."

I'm headed up to the tundra next week to observe the annual polar bear migration along the Hudson Bay in Canada and do science communication and educational outreach on the effects of our rapidly warming Arctic. Follow along with our trip at @polarbearsinternational.org:

A “super pollutant,” methane traps ~80 times more heat in the atmosphere in the short term than CO2 and is responsible for ~1/3 of the rise in global temperatures. Reducing methane leaks is a fast way to slow global warming—so, of course, Trump is relaxing requirements to curb methane emissions...

“Now, you may be asking: Why is this particular state race so important to (Leonard) Leo, who doesn’t live anywhere near Montana?” (Good example of Leonard Leo at work, under the radar. Applying money quietly, tiny squirt of WD40. Unlike Musk’s hammer) www.ms.now/news/news-an...

Sweet boys resting in the castle #pigeonsky

ICE will take down non criminal immigrants and US citizens but the actual criminal immigrants get hoisted in by Trump.

"NYPD is facing the prospect of being held in contempt of court over its ongoing failure to comply with public record requests years after they were filed." #NewYork #USA #AI #Technology #Policing #Surveillance #Courts

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country." ~Fmr. President Theodore Roosevelt, 1918. Roosevelt was born OTD in 1858. Image: NPS/Sagamore Hill collection.

ICYMI: “Two US State Department officials, Darren Beattie & Ricardo Pita, “led a campaign to restore the…Bolsonaro clan to power in Brazil and successfully pushed for sanctions aimed at tilting the election in their favor, according to 10 current and former US officials...” 10/24/26… 1/

Holding the Trump admin accountable for its crimes can seem distant, but there are meaningful steps both US domestic opposition & the international community can take, including supporting the ICC, enabling international investigations into disappearances & civilian deaths, & refunding foreign aid

i'd love to know what was going on at the biden department of justice for four years

Grand jury declines to indict Patriot as Trump’s DOJ attempted to seek vengeance against her for doing the right thing. 🇺🇸 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The most money is in the hands of the worst people

when they show you who they are, believe them it was never just about illegal immigration

Climate change got a rare day in court today when 15 Canadian youth, including @sophiamathur.bsky.social I believe, accused their federal government of violating their constitutional rights by failing to adequately address the country’s role in global warming. grist.org/justice/clim...

ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

Pursuant to a conversation we had here last week, it looks like it's harder to ditch industry standard software than some might assume: www.tomshardware.com/software/mic...

so as I understand the israeli election results, the opposition got slightly more results than bibi but with the arab parties holding the balance of power so either: - the opposition decides not to be racist and governs with the arab parties - unity government, netanyahu walks - more elections

Today we learned that it was a 28-year-old DOGE operative who gutted USAID, and HR had no record of him working there. Totally normal stuff.

There is truly nothing you could do to make fun of the NYT covering the Obama Cheesecake Factory quip instead of Trump being accused of rape. It’s completely beyond parody.

ICYMI - our Chief Medical Officer (former Texas health commissioner) is leaving after ~6 months on the job Officially it's to spend more time with her family But, uh... anyone noticing a pattern here?

november kofi rewards, featuring saskatchewan migratory warblers 🍂 most warblers have left by now (it’s snowing already) and i miss them dearly. sign up by november 1st! ko-fi.com/mushbeast

Sysco’s $29B grab for Restaurant Depot doesn’t just hurt independent restaurants. It hurts the small farmers who sell to them. More consolidation means fewer choices and higher prices for you.

“As I reported hours ago, Flávio Bolsonaro has arrived safely in United States. The mastermind behind this operation is U.S. Secretary of State @SecRubio . From the United States, free and safe, Flávio will lead the opposition against Lula.” - Simon Levy … WTF???? 1/

Raskin: "When historians look back on this miserable period of our history, they might say that the first problem was disregarding all those women who told us back in 2016 that they had been sexually harassed or assaulted by Donald Trump."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s senior adviser for religious issues has a years-long trail of racist, homophobic and conspiratorial posts online, according to a CNN investigation. The little-known aide has become central to the Pentagon chief’s turn toward Christian nationalist rhetoric.

She was the lead seamstress for the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore when he walked on the Moon. But history got her name wrong for more than 50 years. This photo was misidentified for decades. Her name is Jean Wilson, and in March 2026, the Smithsonian finally corrected the record. #SheShed #VivaHer

The conspiracy theories the Right came up with about the Clintons and Obama and Biden are absolutely true of Trump and Kushner and the rest of the ilk… every accusation has been a confession. Every damn one.

At the UN COP17 biodiversity summit, we’re urging governments to keep mining, oil, and gas operations out of crucial protected areas. These iconic landscapes are no place for extractive industries.

Despite hundreds of employees calling on the company to halt the sale, executives stood by the deal, saying the robots would not be weaponized: arstechnica.visitlink.me/KlTbOs

“Brazil probes foreign financing, including group [the Rockbridge Network] linked to Vance,” Peter Thiel, and Chris Buskirk 10/27/26 … 1/ share.google/AYBFyqwGiylo...

Pretty, pretty Mambo having a look outside, and Queso nearby upset that I am taking pictures of her. She may be new, but as a Bird of the Bird Room she is now under his protection. This includes defending her from the phone, which he hates.

Firefox brings back internet icons for new anti-tracking, anti-AI campaign mashable.com/tech/come-ba...

The Trump DOJ keeps finding innovative ways to humiliate itself in public

You've probably been reading about a confusing limitations in the latest Comey charge.It is tricky, though not inscrutable; and I have a YouTube out any minute that does my best to explain it. But it shouldn't obscure the headline of the case, which is the bottomless bloodlust of the administration.