The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.
This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.
The Trump administration moved today to remove federal roadless protections from more than 44 million acres of national forest, a change that would open them to future road building and logging.
The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule prohibits most new road construction and timber harvest in designated roadless areas. The Forest Service filed a proposal today to rescind the national rule entirely.
The stated reason is wildfire. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins argues that the rule has kept millions of acres off-limits to treatments that could reduce fire risk, and that those decisions should be made by local forest managers. Timber groups make a similar case, arguing that the rule unnecessarily restricts thinning, timber harvest and access needed to manage overgrown forests.
But there's another side to the wildfire argument. Most U.S. wildfires are human-caused, and a 2026 study of Forest Service lands found wildfire ignition density within 50 meters of roads was about 4x higher than in roadless areas. Roads can give crews access for forest management and firefighting, but they also bring people, and with them more opportunities for fires to start.
Critics argue that this is about more than fire. Environmental groups see the repeal as part of a broader push to expand logging and other development on national forest land, and warn that new roads can fragment habitat and degrade streams.
Hunting and fishing groups have opposed the repeal because roadless areas include large blocks of remote elk, deer, trout and salmon habitat, along with some of the country's best backcountry hunting and fishing. Their argument is that forests can still be actively managed for wildfire without giving up the roadless protections altogether.
Clean drinking water is part of this too. A 2026 study estimated that rivers originating in roadless areas support drinking-water supplies for about 25 million Americans. Roads can also increase erosion and sediment entering forest streams.
The rule dates to the Clinton administration in 2001, and its history since then has been messy. The Bush administration replaced it with a state-petition system in 2005, but a federal court set that rule aside and reinstated the 2001 protections in 2006. The first Trump administration later removed Roadless Rule protections from Alaska's Tongass National Forest, a decision the Biden administration reversed.
The new proposal would go much further and rescind the national rule altogether.
I just want you to remember. That we live in a world where octopuses dream, otters have a favorite shell that they carry with them all their lives, cows have best friends, and bees have different "dialects" of dance depending on the region. Cats purr at a frequency that accelerates bone healing, the forest grows flowers first after a fire, and dolphins give each other names and respond to them. Penguins make proposals by giving each other the most beautiful pebble
"Family members are raising the alarm and are worried about the conditions on the Lincoln"
Trump: "No they're not. They're liars."
"Do you think these soldiers have been mistreated and deployed too long"
Trump: "No. Not long enough. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some golfing to do".
Put it on a loop and run it in every battleground state.
This graph really decimates "it began with agriculture" as an argument to distance the climate crisis from capitalism. The agricultural shock so clearly ends and evens out before the capitalist industrial nightmare breaks everything.
Reminder: Flock is just one example. Palantir is another. Digital ID is another.
We need to fight the entire surveillance industrial complex. And we need to fight as hard as we can.