"Climate change is the single greatest threat to a sustainable future but, at the same time, addressing the climate challenge presents a golden opportunity to promote prosperity, security and a brighter future for all." —Ban Ki-moon, former UN Secretary-General, Remarks at Climate Leaders’ Summit, April 11, 2024 The greatest existential threat humanity faces isn’t hiding in a military bunker or a terrorist cell. It’s in plain sight: the accelerating collapse of our only home’s life-support systems. Trump’s first term was environmental arson. He gutted the EPA, installed fossil fuel executives in key positions, shredded over one hundred environmental protections, and abandoned the Paris Climate Agreement. Scientists were silenced. Research was suppressed. The words “climate change” vanished from government websites as if deleting terms could delete reality.

How war language is being used to collapse the distance between immigration enforcement, political retaliation, and the criminalization of dissent… "The curse of empathy is to see yourself in every death, and to see the child hidden in the body of every corpse." —John D. MacDonald A five year old child — Liam Conejo Ramos — was taken from his home and sent hundreds of miles away to a detention facility for-profit concentration camp in Texas. He was never accused of a crime, didn't cross our southern border alone, and is so young he barely understands what's happening to him; odds are he has no understanding of why he's being treated with such brutality. Nobody told little Liam about Tom Homan and Stephen Miller being so eager to punish brown-skinned immigrants, delighting in their pain, rationalizing it as a "deterrent" to "illegal immigration" that's "poisoning the blood" of white America, as Donald Trump himself pointed out on the election trail.

Trump's recalibration follows the same step-back, step-forward playbook used by Orbán, Putin, and every modern strongman… Over on Threads last night, sierracascadia posted: "CNN BREAKING: Kristin Holmes reports Stephen Miller is saying 'there may have been a breach of protocol' and Noem is blabbering about how she was in touch with Trump and Miller for her talking points. Miller is saying that he got his information CBP trying to shove it down to Bovino! This fucking clown show guys. They are all going down." Meanwhile, Democrats are celebrating the replacement of Nazi-cosplayer Greg Bovino and eager puppy-killer and adulterer Kristi Noem with Tom Homan, who merely takes $50,000 bribes in burger bags and is therefore presumably more reasonable. Blue collar versus white collar, and all that. But, wait a minute. Slow down. It's way too premature to toast the dawn of a new era.

What the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti reveal about who really controls this country and how... Kristi Noem, Donald Trump, Greg Bovino, and even whiskey Pete Hegseth are all out there trying to tell us that Alex Pretti was a domestic terrorist who came to a protest with the intention to "massacre" ICE agents. But that's not their real message. Back in 1980, I went into Uganda during the Civil War against Idi Amin to take over a refugee camp up in the Karamoja region. When I was leaving the country, going through the Entebbe airport (which had only intermittent electricity and considerable damage from the war), I was confronted by three armed men, two of them Tanzanian soldiers (who'd just successfully occupied the country as Amin fled to Saudi Arabia) and one a local Ugandan policeman. One of the soldiers had an AK-47 over his shoulder and he grabbed the clip and rotated the gun down so the barrel was pointed right at my nose from a distance of about 6 inches. "I could kill you right here, right now," he said with a smile, "and nobody will ever know. Nobody will ever punish me. Now, give us half of your money." His message was essentially the same message that the Trump regime is trying to communicate to all of us today