curated news excerpts & citations
James Eagle: A thousand years of spring shift due to climate change
… From the ninth century through to the early twentieth century peak bloom usually arrived around the same part of April with year to year noise but no clear trend. The climate system was noisy yet stable.
That stability breaks in the modern period. …
What makes this dataset powerful is its length. Very few climate indicators stretch back over a thousand years with consistent observation. That long baseline makes it hard to dismiss the recent change as natural fluctuation. Compared with the slow drift of the previous centuries the modern shift is abrupt.
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404 Media: Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
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Radley Balko: “The courts are dead.” An interview with a fired immigration judge
George Pappas talks about how Trump ended due process for immigrants, and how to fight back. “The law has failed us,” he says. “So now we have to turn to politics.”
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Thom Hartmann: Renee Nicole Good Is Dead. Benjamin Franklin Warned Us This Would Happen…
The Founders didn’t build this country for secret police and point-blank executions…
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – January 8, 2026
On MS NOW today, columnist Philip Bump broke down when talking about the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis. “I have a six year old,” he said. “And…seeing the image of the stuffed animals in the glove compartment of her car—really emotional for me and…what I take away from this is, for me that’s the thing that stands out: that this was a family that could have been like mine.”
Bump went on to emphasize that “there are a lot of situations, a lot of incidents that have involved ICE, have involved the government over the course of the past thirteen months in which there is resonance for other families in similar ways,” but what he hit on in his first reaction to Good’s killing was the one the administration must fear most of all. Good was a white, suburban mother, whose ex-husband told reporters she was a Christian stay-at-home mom, and Bump is a white man.
President Donald J. Trump’s people see that demographic as their base. …
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Daily Mail: Daily Mail investigation reveals the shocking truth about the agents ICE has hired
The Trump administration’s frantic push to hire 10,000 new deportation officers by year’s end has spiraled into what insiders describe as a national embarrassment – with lax vetting and a signing bonus of up to $50,000 luring in a wave of woefully unfit recruits.
…‘We have people failing open-book tests and we have folks that can barely read or write English,’ one Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told the Daily Mail.
‘We even had a 469-lb man sent to the academy whose own doctor certified him not at all fit for any physical activity.’
Insiders say the vetting process has been so rushed that officials didn’t even wait for drug test results to come back before hiring recruits and flying them off to Georgia, only to discover afterward that tests came back positive.
(Daily Mail more…)
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Boing Boing: “We executed one of you”: MAGA cheers ICE killing of a mother of three
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Newsweek: Full list of ICE shootings since Donald Trump took office
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Decoding Fox News: Fox News Got Everything Wrong About Trump’s Invasion of Venezuela
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive
Accountability Initiative ICE List
GriftMatrix
Trump Action Tracker
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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