NEW YORKERS:
As of 12:00 AM, New York’s law prohibiting most law enforcement officials from wearing masks while carrying out their duties is now in effect.
New Yorkers have a right to know who is exercising law enforcement authority in their communities.
🚨 Former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert has admitted to molesting at least four children while working as a wrestling coach.
A judge called him a "serial child molester."
There's a native bee you've probably never noticed that pollinates orchards more efficiently than honey bees: the blue orchard mason bee.
Blue orchard bees are more efficient orchard pollinators than honey bees because they fly in cooler, cloudier conditions, and they carry pollen on the underside of their bodies instead of packing it neatly onto their back legs.
Basically, they are messy on purpose. They crawl into a flower, get pollen all over themselves, then drag that pollen into the next flower. Terrible personal hygiene but great pollination.
You can help these bees out by providing nesting tunnels: about 5/16 inch wide, roughly 5 to 6 inches deep, closed at the back, smooth at the entrance, protected from heavy rain, and ideally made with tubes or trays you can clean or replace.
They also need mud, because the female uses it to wall off each chamber after she lays an egg: pollen ball, egg, mud wall, repeat, until one tunnel becomes a row of tiny sealed rooms with one future bee inside each.
This bee really doesn't need a decorative hotel. She needs a tunnel, flowers, mud, and a yard that hasn't been perfectly manicured.
Recent reports reveal ICE agents tracked a woman down and demanded she delete an Instagram post from January.
She had posted the name of the ICE agent who shot and killed Renée Good.
A Richmond County deputy has been arrested and fired after he is accused of misusing license plate readers.
The sheriff’s office conducted a routine audit of its Flock License Plate Reader (LPR) camera system on June 25.
#Surveillance#Privacy#DeFlock
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Here it is, my occasional reminder that balloons don't get up to grandma in heaven. They come back to Earth as trash.
Sometimes stuck in a tree. Sometimes floating in a river. Sometimes wrapped around the neck of an animal.
Keep the celebration of life, but lose the balloon release.
Newly-released body camera footage shows the moment an Oklahoma man was arrested for speaking out against a proposed data center.
He was charged with criminal trespass (a $200 offense) after going a few seconds over his allotted 3-minute public comment slot at a city council meeting.
That little rock stack in the creek probably felt harmless. I get it. People see flat rocks, build a tiny tower, take a picture, and move on. It feels like nothing.
But in a stream, rocks aren't toys and decorations: they're crucial habitat.
Dragonfly larvae cling to them. Caddisflies build around them. Mayflies, stoneflies, water beetles, snails, crayfish, salamanders, fish eggs - all kinds of tiny stream life use the cracks, shadows, undersides, and flow breaks around those rocks.
Before dragonflies ever become the thing you see flying around your yard, they spend most of their lives underwater as predators. Some species stay there for years. They eat mosquito larvae, midges, and other small aquatic animals long before they ever grow wings.
So when a rock gets pulled out of the creek and stacked on the bank, whatever was living on it or under it may suddenly be exposed to air, sun, heat, and predators.
One person stacking three rocks destroys an entire stream, that's the wrong way to think about it.
But that the habit scales badly. One person does it. Then another. Then twenty people do it. Pretty soon a living creek bed has been rearranged into somebody's little art project.
And for bigger animals, the stakes can be even higher. Hellbenders, North America’s giant aquatic salamanders, live under large flat rocks. Males prepare nest spaces under them and guard the eggs there. Move the wrong rock at the wrong time and you killed a nursery.
This isn't about never having fun outside. It's just one of those small things we can stop doing once we know better.
🚨 The Utah Republican Party paid a firm $4.3 million to falsify the signatures of dead people.
The election fraud was conducted in an attempt to legalize gerrymandering in Utah.
76-year-old Martha was inside her own home when a Tesla, reportedly on autopilot, came crashing through her wall and took her life. This is not the first time we have had these conversations about Teslas. The federal government has now opened an investigation and we will be watching closely. Martha deserved to be safe in her own home. Our prayers go out to her family.
.@syracusedotcom reports two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday to demand that she take down an Insta post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). https://t.co/WIB1hbqx5W
Today, Tamir Rice should be celebrating his 24th birthday with his friends and family. But police shot and killed him while he was playing in the park at only 12 years old.
Like far too many Black children in America, Tamir was robbed of his life before it even really began. We’ll always fight for the justice Tamir and his family deserved and to combat the racist systems that enabled his murder.
ICE raid polling place on Election Day—demand poll worker delete social media post.
Agents threaten her with federal & state prosecution—for anti-ICE comment.
Post they claim illegal:
"I think today is a great day for Jonathan Ross to be indicted."
He shot & killed Renee Good on January 7, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
ICE claims she "doxxed" the agent's name—even though she was just quoting what was already being publicly reported in the news.
She did not share personal information such as an address or phone number.
Paigelynne Gonyea said she has contacted an attorney—who made it clear that law enforcement are not allowed to conduct business at a polling place.
Incident occurred at the Central Library in downtown Syracuse, New York.
She does not have an account on this platform—so posting video here first to help raise awareness.
Ossoff: Let's be very clear about what the president is saying to the American people. The president is saying that he will not sign a bill whose purpose is to make housing affordable unless his allies in congress pass a voter suppression bill to rig the election. He is saying, I won't even sign a bill that will give economic relief to Americans unless the rules of this election are changed so that he, Donald Trump, cannot be held accountable for all of his misdeeds because that's what he really fears most of all is that when there is a change in the balance of power, and when we restore checks and balances, he knows that there will be subpoenas flying that officials from his administration will be testifying under oath about the full range of misconduct and corruption that we already know has been happening since the moment he was sworn in.
Roanoke paused Flock Raven installs after 16 audio devices were placed in locations not approved by City Council.
Nothing says “public trust” like installing surveillance tech in the wrong spots and finding out after a citizen complaint.
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WATCH: The progression and steps that workers took as Reflecting Pool was reconstructed between April 27 and May 14th 2026.
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