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We are unilaterally disarming ourselves against hurricanes

NEW: ICE is using a facial recognition smartphone app that pulls faces from CBP's database of people who cross the border: 404media.co/ice-is-using-a…

49-year-old citizen of Canada died while in ICE custody. He was being at the Federal Detention Center in Miami.

#breaking A California appeals court has ordered dismissal of the case against Diana Teran, the former prosecutor who was prosecuted under state hacking statutes after she sent court records to a colleague as part of an effort to track bad cops.

This is remarkable. New Quinnipiac poll finds support for path to legalization for most undocumented immigrants has risen to 64%. Only 31% want most of them deported. That's a 14 point net swing for legalization since Trump took office. On immigration generally, he's at 41-57!

"We’re back to tracking hurricanes like it’s 1999. Except this isn’t a party. And people could die." My latest column for NBC 6 South Florida is about the latest blow of this country's incomprehensible affront to #science since January. nbcmiami.com/news/local/joh…

For people who saw a fireball... From the American Meteor Society: It looks to be a "daytime fireball" caused a sonic boom. This is usually indicative of a meteorite dropping a fireball, but not always. Word that meteorites may have hit a home in Henry County, GA.

A spokesperson for Robert Caro just confirmed Bill Moyers never did come around and agree to speak to him. Alas.

An pastor filmed as ICE agents arrested two of his church members. He told the agents that the Iranian couple was fleeing religious persecution. They're asylum-seekers, he said. "It doesn't matter," one of the agents replied. My latest for Christianity Today tinyurl.com/2w4m66ce

IDF officers and soldiers tell Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Fla Ron DeSantis gives Fox News a tour of Everglades airport seized from Miami-Dade County to construct a detention camp for immigration offenders he calls “illegals.” Says most will come from Fla, so likely to include many Miami-Dade residents.

Here’s the thing: The “Medieval Warm Period” wasn’t actually warmer globally, and the “Little Ice Age” was mostly experienced as cooler winters in the Northern Hemisphere. Both periods were largely consistent with the slow, long-term cooling Earth was undergoing (on average, with

NEW and BREAKING: UVA's president has resigned in face of demands by Trump admin/DOJ that he step down. Hundreds of millions of dollars in fed funding for school were on the line. Major Trump victory in Trump v. Higher Ed w/Michael C. Bender nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/…

Trump’s reorganizing of law enforcement agencies has proceeded with secrecy. DEA leaders have been excluded from planning meetings, as have some DOJ officials, sources said. propublica.org/article/stephe…

So far, mum is the word from Miami-Dade’s elected commissioners and mayor on whether sergeants-at-arms acted properly on Thursday. Sergeants-at-arms also serve as drivers and personal security for the mayor and commissioners. Have I missed any statements or interviews ? Tag me

common sense ai law coming out of denmark this week:

I sought comment from NOAA and Department of Defense 🇺🇸 on this and received a reply today from NOAA's spokesperson. They suggest we use the surviving ATMS microwave that degrades significantly at the edges. You can see how much worse off we'd be with Erick last week if we only had ATMS.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham terminated a privately funded scholarship for Black medical students in response to threats from the Trump admin eji.org/news/fearing-r…

The Climate.gov domain has been shut down. It now redirects to a NOAA Climate landing page. All the content and tools that used to live on Climate dot gov are gone. Maybe some will find a new life within the NOAA domain, but I won't hold my breath.