An alligator floats on the surface of calm, dark water dotted with leaves.
New records show that #Florida applied for nearly $1.5 billion in federal funding to keep the massive immigrant detention center in the #Everglades afloat.
The facility is harming the waters and endangered plants and animals in one of Florida’s most cherished wild places.
Read on ➡️ bit.ly/3MShznh
As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in
Here's the full note from Walsh.
Very little snow across the West during a winter that has brought record warmth
Sierra Nevada: 66% of avg
Upper Colorado River region: 66%
Oregon: 34%
"Projections show that our winters are going to look a lot more like this in the future."
www.latimes.com/environment/... @coveringclimatenow.org
“It’s a real impingement on state authority here that shouldn’t stand,” said Julie Teel Simmonds, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, before the judge’s initial ruling was issued Thursday.
“They’re trying to basically seize control over these #pipelines.”
“If Sable ultimately is not able... to reopen this pipeline I think it’ll just be confirmation that state and local governments have a say. It’ll just reaffirm the Feds can’t come in and force things down on states and locals.”
calmatters.org/environment/...
Steller sea lions are the largest member of the family Otariidae, the “eared seals.”
They're also one of the species threatened by the Trump's latest push to open more than 100 million acres off the coast of #Alaska to highly destructive seabed mining.
Take action 👉 bit.ly/3OQcITX
BREAKING
Former ICE agent:
On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
This is the eighth death in ICE custody in the last seven weeks.
Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla collectively received $51 billion in tax breaks, thanks to the Trump and GOP corporate tax cuts signed into law last year.
Together they effectively paid a federal tax rate of 4.9%, according to @itep.org.
itep.org/trump-meta-t...
Consumer Advocates Could Derail Blackstone’s Utility Acquisition in New Mexico
prospect.org/2026/02/19/b...
SoCal air quality officials rejected a proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances after being overwhelmed by more than 20,000 public comments in opposition. Well, turns out many of those comments were powered by AI!
Crazy investigation by @hayleysmith.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
A detainee died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Indiana on Monday, with the cause of death under investigation, ICE said, marking at least the seventh death in 2026 in federal immigration custody reut.rs/4aY1wgH
An artistic rendering of an avocado with a football helmet and a monarch butterfly on a football field. White text in a black box reads: "Beware killer guac. About 290 million pounds of avocados are imported from Mexico ahead of game day, putting monarch butterflies on the defensive.
🏈🥑 On #SuperBowlSunday more people in the U.S. eat avocados than any other day.
To produce all that guac, the industry is scarfing up swaths of Mexican forest.
Join us in urging U.S. grocers to adopt avocado-sourcing policies that prevent #deforestation ➡️ bit.ly/4tlE1oZ
The Trump administration tried to kill Energy Star last year. But the efficiency program has emerged stronger, with dedicated funding that reverses a decade-long trend of declining budgets. Here's my story for @npr.org: www.npr.org/2026/02/03/n...
Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.
🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.
Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.
Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
SCOOP: ICE has done more than 60 secret flights on Air Wisconsin since mid-January, according to @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social. I watched one load this afternoon.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/air-wisconsi...
oof. So sorry Dino. You're so good at this.
We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program.
This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.
Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
Federal paramilitaries running up on the rooftops to fire irritants and flash bangs down into a peaceable assembly full of little kids
Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
🚨 CPJ strongly condemns the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for their reporting on a protest in Minnesota, arrests which mark a serious escalation of attacks on the press in the United States.
Read more: cpj.org/2026/01/cpj-...
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
