Yes, the plant’s owner is leaving it shut down. They’re not completely ignoring the order though; they’re challenging it in court

Yeah, they’re doing some serious sanewashing of today’s speech — no mention of confusing Iceland for Greenland several times, and treating the speech as a promise to not invade Greenland

Reforestation is great for the reasons you describe, but the alternative is not some future carbon capture technology; its a faster fossil fuels phase out.

It happened because of mass protests which emboldened legislators to make it happen, and the press was willing to cover them that way.

It does have other value, but they’re often not climate-impacting value. So you don’t want to claim a temporary offset is equivalent to a permanent burning of a fossil fuel.

Congressmembers have managed to inspect some. They don’t provide medical care:

“The most frequent feedback we got was the inadequacy of the medical care they are receiving,” said Schiff. He described meeting a diabetic detainee who he said has not received treatment for her condition in two months. “That’s frightening,” he said.

A fair number of people do seem to be deported to other countries rather than die in the camps.. Officially, the number who died in ICE custody is 32 during 2025, but it’s entirely possible that this number is an undercount. I will also note that ICE tends to deport people who are experiencing medical emergencies so that they die outside the US

That requires an extra contract with Palantir, so it hasn’t happened yet that I am aware of. They’re mainly beating US citizens to get them to point out which houses nonwhite neighbors live in.

The problem is not background checks or training; its that ICE and the Border Patrol see their mission as being to brutalize minorities. The whole agencies can’t be fixed, and need to go.

Its Minnesota Public Radio, running an Associated Press report. Fairly reliable as things go

Yeah, they apparently get a bonus for each kidnapping, irrespective of whether they have to subsequently release the person

The risk that you blow up a neighbor knocking on your front door, or a firefighter trying to get in and rescue you makes this not worthwhile.

Juries are refusing to convict for more minor things right now, so you stand a decent chance at a not guilty verdict.

Problem is that ICE wildly outnumbers the typical household when they show up, so you are not likely to survive

I don’t know how he was chosen, but ICE is asking people at gunpoint which houses their Asian neighbors live in.

Not even “libs” so much; the Hmong were supporters of the US in Vietnam, and had to flee the country as a result. It’s more breaking any potential local support for overseas military action so that the US is universally hated around the world.

The main problem is that retail electric prices are mostly not about generating cost; the cost of maintaining wiring, transformers, and such dominates in most places. And rooftop solar is more expensive than utility-scale solar, so it would get crowded out.

Because that wouldn’t pay the fossil fuels industry back for the billion dollar bribe they paid

Yes, and ICE is required by law to let them visit with no advance notice. ICE has been refusing access when they show up without warning.

You’re right. They were sent home by the courts, and had been limited to defense of federal buildings which as completely unnecessary.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/pentagon-withdraws-700-marines-from-los-angeles

There has not so far been a deployment of active-duty military against the American people. Courts sent the guard home when deployed by the President without permission of the state’s governor.

Edit: there was a deployment of Marines to Los Angeles, which was also ended by the courts

What happened after it is that Schumer started sending out talking points which are entirely about affordability, with no mention of ICE. Formal standing is nil, but it seems to have gotten through somehow