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Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment - a cheat sheet The numbers clearly show this is a pointless distraction for the climate movement

Trying to focus how to make energy production more sustainable both locally and globally, and to not be so reactive re data centers.

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ICE to spend $38bn turning warehouses into detention centers, documents show US homeland security eyeing 24 buildings, some as ‘primary locations’ for deportations, in escalation of Trump agenda

Details of processing plan in doc from DHS to NH gov

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Is this how don/gop help restore American manufacturing? Buying empty warehouses for ICE?

ICE says it has purchased Hudson Valley site for detention facilities An ICE spokesperson said Thursday that it had purchased a site in the Hudson Valley.

ICE buys the Chester, NY warehouse. It was sold by Icahn Enterpises — a company with ties to Trump insider Carl Icahn — for an undisclosed sum.

Can you please post your interview with man in ice detention here on BlueSky ? Thank you.

Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning “Everything depends on the individual human being, regardless of how small a number of like-minded people there is… on each person… creatively making the meaning of life a reality…

11 months after his release from the concentration camps, Viktor Frankl gave a set of lectures on moving beyond optimism and pessimism to find life's deepest source of meaning. They were lost for decades, never before published in English—and now they are: www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/06/y...

In ‘Melt the ICE’ wool caps, a red tasseled symbol of resistance comes from Minneapolis to Philadelphia

This isn’t the first time the Philadelphia region’s craftivist movement has brought its knitting needles and crochet hooks to bear on national politics.

HB3486: Stop Illegal Entry Act of 2025
Status: Received in the Senate. 2025-09-15
Sponsors:
- Republican: 6

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@detentionwatchnetwork.org

Join us for our second webinar with organizers from FL, KS, and CA on how they are resisting detention expansion to Abolish ICE! 

📆Thursday, February 19th, 2026 at 13:00-14:30 PT/ 15:00-16:30 CT/ 16:00-17:30 ET
🔗Register here: bit.ly/RESISTANCE101

ACLU of Pa., Parady La's family seek records after Upper Darby man dies in ICE custody: 'We need accountability' Attorneys have requested records and video footage from ICE and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

whyy.org/articles/par...

Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.

A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

Stelson: Scott Perry is the most vulnerable extremist in the country. If we don’t win here in Pennsylvania’s 10th, we are not going to win the U.S. House—and we must flip the House.

Comparing Biden, Obama and current detention policies

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Mass Deportation: Analyzing the Trump Administration's Attacks on Immigrants, Democracy, and America - American Immigration Council The first six months of President Trump’s return to office have marked the most extreme changes to the immigration system in modern U.S. history.

www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/mass-...

Yes! Open the windows; shake out the duvets; fresh air in! Keep🧊out!

Local heroes in MN, among police force.

Sharing in case you’re looking for an organization in MN to support.

Also Russian:
Toska (melancholy, anguish, combined with sense of injustice)

What words are you using?
Native speakers of the languages/words here and above, are any appropriate for communicating the complex emotions many Americans are feeling?

Trying to find the right words to describe how you are feeling #USpolitics
AI suggestions:
German
Verzweiflung (total despair)
Weltschmerz (world-pain, frustration at injustice)

Japanese
Hifun Kōgai (heartbreak /rage over injustice)

Old Norse
Angr (intense anguish combined with vexation)

“They also projected a vision to show how the new economy would work for the common good, winning in the process more and more allies, including members of the fearful middle classes.”
Model for Dems?

“ Instead, they modeled self-discipline and used the disruptive, nonviolent power of noncooperation to force a power shift. “ cont.

“….the smartest thing the Swedish and Norwegian left did was to avoid getting baited by their Nazi antagonists into street-fighting and mounting chaos.” cont

How to take on fascism without getting played Focusing on fascists as the enemy is mistaking the symptom for the cause.

How to take on fascism without getting played (2018) wagingnonviolence.org/2018/12/how-...

Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do? All Americans live in a “dual state.” Here’s what that means — and how to help others see it.

You are living in a "dual state." Acting morally begins with understanding that.

My latest for @vox.com:

www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Alex Pretti Add his name to Renee Good's.

You’ve probably all read this but in case you haven’t, let this energize and fortify you as we fight to protect our democracy.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara: "The video speaks for itself. We have identified this person - 37-year-old, white male, resident of the city. The only interaction that we are aware of with law enforcement has been for traffic tickets and we believe he is a lawfully gun owner with a permit to carry"

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.

Here is a photo he used for several accounts.