"Last week the US announced the 'descoping' of the Ocean Observing Initiative which was part of a programme observing the AMOC" Trump is scrapping US part of AMOC monitoring system On basis that if we don't know what's happening - then it isn't happening theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Extremely, extremely worrying number - and likely a significant undercount. The daily case figures coming out of DRC right now are comparable to what we were seeing in West Africa as the 2014 outbreak began really exploding.

The algae always comes back…

The double standard on the issue of age could not be clearer @russell_nm @USATODAY

This is the official channel of the United States Army broadcasting a private corporations live feed. This is illegal. No one in the Republican Congress will lift a finger.

it's notable to me that the administration tried to frame tonight's UFC event as a "gift to Americans" but you can't watch it unless you have a paid subscription to Paramount

Trump used the Armed Forces Full Honor Cordon — soldiers who escort fallen heroes and heads of state — to usher UFC fighters past Abraham Lincoln’s statue like they’re celebrities on a red carpet. I am LIVID. And everyone else should be too.

NOW RELEASE IT ON SPOTIFY!!!!

When billionaires own the platforms, the satellites, the payment rails, the AI models, and the political megaphones, that is not a free market. That is the private government of the oligarchs.

and this was bts 365 days ago

The Ellisons now own TikTok, Paramount, Warner Bros, CBS News, HBO, Comedy Central, and CNN, among other major channels. They are also the largest private donor to "Friends of the IDF." They also paid $7 billion for streaming rights to UFC, which is hosting an event at the White House. Trump voters who aren't millionaires don't realize they're supporting a gang of criminals who are openly screwing them and their families. Tragic.

At least 88 corporations paid $0 in federal income tax last year. Those 88 corporations also happened to spend $852 MILLION on political lobbying the last three election cycles. They're essentially making a 3,000% return on investment. The system is rigged.

Like I keep saying, cows don’t vote. This is a good visual aid for folks who aren’t from California and have never driven from one end of the state to the other. Republicans win thousands of square miles of mountains, deserts, and tumbleweeds. Democrats win where the people are.

With all the corruption flooding out of this administration, you may have missed this one. The Trump DOJ just killed a criminal investigation into the coal empire owned by Senator Jim Justice, a Republican and one of Trump’s closest allies. Prosecutors and EPA investigators were probing whether his family’s mining companies criminally violated the Clean Water Act after racking up tens of thousands of alleged pollution violations over the past decade. The arsenic and other dangerous chemicals coal mines leach into our water are exactly what these laws exist to stop. Career prosecutors believed they had a strong case. They had begun gathering evidence and issuing subpoenas. Then the Deputy Attorney General’s office, run at the time by Todd Blanche, told them “pencils down.” A former prosecutor of 24 years said he had never heard of a criminal probe being shut down like this. There should be no untouchables list. This is the pattern, plain as day. Go after the President’s enemies, protect his friends. And now Trump wants to make Blanche his permanent Attorney General. The man who shut this down should not be running the Justice Department. For this and so many other reasons, Todd Blanche must not be confirmed. propublica.org/article/trump…

A pivotal vote by longtime Sen. Susan Collins of Maine pushed Justice Kavanaugh over the finish line in 2018 after she famously said he considered Roe v. Wade “settled law” — a comment that turned out to be wrong. nbcnews.com/politics/2026-el…

I think Americans would rather have affordable groceries and health care.

ONE MORE NIGHT!

The crowd at the White House UFC fight will be one of the most diverse ever. There will be convicted felons, rapists, pedophiles, sex traffickers, domestic abusers and insurrectionists.

Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country.  We could have 13 seats matching the district structure of the federal judiciary, but also a process that makes it less partisan. We cannot have partisan warfare every time there's an opening on the court

Buttigieg: We didn't know it, but we've all been trusting our lives to the restraint of whoever the president might be. And now we have a president who is completely unrestrained. And so the only answer to that is a functioning Congress. It turns out we do not have a functioning Congress. The House of Representatives is not representative. One of the most important organs of our democracy is not democratic. They say, "Oh, no. We're not manipulating the map to disempower black people. We're manipulating the map to disempower Democrats who happen to be black people.” So, the time has come to make it impossible to manipulate the map for any reason and just have fair maps.