Breaking: National Weather Service declares El Nino is here and has a high chance to become very strong, ranking among the strongest on record.
More info: www.capitalweather.com/weather-serv...
really upsetting coda to the case of Calvin Duncan, an exoneree who, as I wrote last month, was elected by New Orleans voters in a landslide, prompting state Republicans to pass a law *abolishing* his position:
Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the law last week
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
““I would end up in the emergency room by the end of the day… And then in a nursing home.”
There’s still time to NOT make these cuts happen — and we’ll keep fighting! #ProtectMediCal #ProtectMedicaid www.dailynews.com/2026/06/05/n...
I KNOW we’re all still in the midst of Knicks euphoria… but I am GIFTING this article!
This is DAMNING on MULTIPLE LEVELS.
It is LONG, but you can LISTEN TO IT and YOU MUST!
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/m...
Caroline Lucas: "We need to recognise that what happened on the streets of Belfast was being orchestrated by the far right, by Elon Musk, by a network of people who actually want this to happen, so it wasn't quite as spontaneous as it looked.. and that has to be stopped"
In the Mid-Atlantic, El Niños tend to boost winter precipitation.
“When we stop investing in preventative care, we will end up paying for emergency, acute care that is extremely expensive,” said state Sen. Caroline Menjivar (D–San Fernando Valley).
Cassandra Robertson, a law professor, said that the denaturalization efforts “are an attempt to suppress the political speech of naturalized citizens.” “Once it becomes easy to take somebody’s citizenship away,” she added, “it becomes easy to take anybody’s citizenship away.”
They banned stuffed animals in Dilley.
“They can’t go to sleep with a stuffed animal,” Welch said. “They can’t go to sleep with a security blanket, that’s just not allowed.”
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Elon Musk knows that as he and other billionaires continue to accumulate more and more of the total wealth of humanity, there are bound to be riots.
That's why he is using his resources to ensure that anger is directed at the most vulnerable ones, not at the ones who are hoarding wealth and power.
Capital Weather
Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network
Los Angeles! Important thread:
The legislative response to Calvin Duncan’s landslide victory has a long, shameful history in Louisiana.
"Experts said the El Nino, a natural warming cycle, should further heat a globe already warming from fossil fuel pollution and will likely turbocharge extreme weather across the planet. Meteorologists forecast it will rival — or exceed — a record El Nino that began in 1997...."
“The government has used this power in the past to target people it views as political opponents,” said a law professor.
So:
*Exoneree Calvin Duncan won an election for clerk of criminal court in Orleans Parish.
*The state legislature, AFTER seeing the election results, enacted a law eliminating the position.
*The Louisiana Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, has now upheld that law.
cases.justia.com/louisiana/su...
Truthout
NEW from @ms.now + @themarshallproject.org: ICE has detained *over 500 babies and toddlers* during Trump's second term. www.ms.now/news/trump-i...
Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors.
This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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On an average day, ICE has 25 children aged 3 or younger in custody, according to joint research by MS NOW and The Marshall Project.
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Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers acting as if it wasn’t safe to intervene
If you are mad about how broken LA feels, confused why no one seems to be in charge, and brokenhearted that I lost my election to an anti-housing MAGA funded incumbent, let me direct your energy toward the LA City Charter, which is going through a big rewrite. 🧵cc @fairrepla.bsky.social
