Billy Berek

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning.

“SAY HER NAME!”
“RENEE GOOD!”

“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” she said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”

The woman killed by ICE was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old who was the mother of a 4-year old child whose father already died a few years ago.

The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Tweet by Heritage Foundation co founder criticizing Heritage Action threat to Indiana

The Heritage Foundation is cracking

As oil market surplus keeps rising, something’s got to give – Analysis - IEA As oil market surplus keeps rising, something’s got to give - A commentary by Toril Bosoni

"The global oil market may be at a tipping point as signs of a significant supply glut emerge" writes the IEA.

Tepid demand due to "subpar economic conditions, increasing vehicle efficiencies, & robust electric vehicle sales in many markets." 😮

www.iea.org/commentaries...

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

🚨 Launched: State of Wildfires Report 2024-25

The Americas felt the harsh reality of what it means to live on a more fire-prone planet, with extreme #wildfire episodes made 2-3 times more likely by #climate change.

🔥 Full details via our brand new website: stateofwildfires.com/latest-report/

Zoom invite

Chicago, get trained THIS MORNING 10:30a CT

ICE watch and community defense

Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

RFK Jr. keeps repeating this ridiculous, ignorant bullshit.

Trust in expertise is literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I wrote a whole-ass thread about it last time around; maybe worth revisiting.

bsky.app/profile/carl...

Mr. Wright falsely claimed that critics of an Energy Department report — written by five researchers who reject the established scientific consensus that the burning of oil, gas and coal is dangerously heating the planet — did not dispute any of the report’s data or facts. “They just didn’t like that the conclusion of our report was, climate change is a real physical phenomenon that’s unfolding, it’s just not the crisis it’s often sold to be.” In fact, 85 scientists submitted a sweeping critique of the report detailing a litany of inaccuracies, including claims that sea level rise is not accelerating; that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will help plants grow; and that computer models exaggerate future temperature increases. The American Meteorological Society, a leading science organization, also outlined what it called “foundational flaws” in the report. And the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the nation’s leading scientific advisory body, also contradicted the Energy Department report, saying the evidence that greenhouse gases threaten human health has only grown over time.

this is sooooooo f'ing sweet. every time Sec. Chris Wright lies about the DOE Climate Working Group report, reporters cite our response.

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE                THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Shipping challenges on the rain-starved Mississippi…again A lack of rain, particularly in areas that drain into the Ohio River, is leading to restrictions on barge sizes on the Mississippi River. On September 13,

Shipping challenges on the rain-starved Mississippi…again: Another year of low levels is hitting the shipping industry in a rare four-year run of drought

www.freightwaves.com/news/shippin...

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

Please behold these two images one after the other — and remember that Manchin now works at a lobbying firm and is a private equity adviser

The US right claimed free speech was sacred – until the Charlie Kirk killing Rightwingers had long complained of a censorious leftwing ‘cancel culture’ but seem happy to now reframe that as ‘consequence culture’

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

I'm forcing a subpoena on
FCC Director Brendan Carr for censoring free speech.

Israel’s killing of 31 Yemeni journalists marks deadliest global attack in 16 years - Committee to Protect Journalists Washington, D.C., September 19, 2025—Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, which killed 31 journalists and media support workers on September 10, signal that it...

The list of war crimes just keeps growing .
cpj.org/2025/09/isra...

Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Votes to Limit Access to Covid Shots

I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject.

Gift link:

"I never stood with Bibi."

"We want our leaders to show moral courage and to stand with those who are absolutely bound at the moment in suffering."
#nzpol

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

I was reminded yesterday that he blamed the Lahaina fires on native Hawaiians because they didn't pray to a Christian God.

Just dropped: @financialtimes.com excellent special report on electrification. I told them:

“Overhauling the world’s energy system from fossil fuels is less daunting with electrification's efficiency gains—making the energy transition outlook more optimistic than it seems."

Feels like an entire movement taught that energy is dictated by market forces - and fossil fuels can't simply be legislated out of existence - has left all of us worse off in terms of a widespread ability to quickly generate meaningful opposition to fascism organized around a petrofuture.

When even Rand Paul thinks you’re despicable.

On Saturday, September 6th, thousands gathered across Chicago to protest President Trump’s plan to deploy National Guard troops to the city.

Protesters carried signs and chanted “No Trump, No Troops, No Occupation.”

📷 steel brooks

#Chicago

A hoard of people march in the streets with protest signs. Even in heels, I am too short to properly show the massive scale of the crowd.

The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump.

Join us.

To be an immigrant who receives federal benefits of any kind you have to be either a permanent resident or someone who has survived human trafficking; children and spouses surviving domestic battery; an asylum seeker; or a member of narrowly defined Cuban or Haitian groups. This is public info.