Shared by a colleague: info to help people change immigration hearings to online modality so they're not in danger appearing at courthouse in person ♨️🧊

Edit: there's a Spanish-language one downthread now! Feel free to post on social media or print out and stick up outside

#ICE #Immigration

Secretary of Ignorance

Via Leah McElrath:

The Department of Energy does NOT drill for oil. One would expect its secretary, the White House, and the president to know that.

This one goes out to the “Democrats don’t do anything” crowd.

Republicans are trying to get the Big Ugly Bill passed with a simple majority through budget reconciliation but they have a load of stuff in there that doesn’t follow the rules and Democrats are knocking it out.

This includes the REINS Act, which is awful, a ban on courts punishing Trump officials, and a few more things and they’re not done yet.

#ThanksDemocrats

Press | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget:
https://www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-member/newsroom/press/one-big-beautiful-bill-has-more-provisions-that-violate-the-byrd-rule-according-to-senate-parliamentarian

"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."

(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/19/google-bribes-inaturalist-to-use-generative-ai-volunteers-quit-in-outrage/