Douglas Main
@dmain.bsky.social
Environmental journalist, writer, artist, naturalist. Bylines: The Guardian, The Atlantic, NYT, Tech Review. Former senior editor/writer at Nat Geo.
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This is why domestic "shuffle" flights between ICE detention centers have skyrocketed, much moreso than ICE deportation flights.
When you are moved to a different jurisdiction, you have to refile your habeas petition all over again. They want to wear people down so they'll give up on their cases.
When you are moved to a different jurisdiction, you have to refile your habeas petition all over again. They want to wear people down so they'll give up on their cases.
February 10, 2026 at 3:26 PM
This is why domestic "shuffle" flights between ICE detention centers have skyrocketed, much moreso than ICE deportation flights.
When you are moved to a different jurisdiction, you have to refile your habeas petition all over again. They want to wear people down so they'll give up on their cases.
When you are moved to a different jurisdiction, you have to refile your habeas petition all over again. They want to wear people down so they'll give up on their cases.
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U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
February 9, 2026 at 4:07 PM
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
I think way too many journalists have given MAHA folks a platform and credibility.
Even if some of their goals are noble, they support a criminal and comically corrupt regime — beholden to Big Oil, Big Ag, etc — that is *obviously* not really genuinely interested in making Americans healthy.
Even if some of their goals are noble, they support a criminal and comically corrupt regime — beholden to Big Oil, Big Ag, etc — that is *obviously* not really genuinely interested in making Americans healthy.
February 7, 2026 at 12:22 AM
I think way too many journalists have given MAHA folks a platform and credibility.
Even if some of their goals are noble, they support a criminal and comically corrupt regime — beholden to Big Oil, Big Ag, etc — that is *obviously* not really genuinely interested in making Americans healthy.
Even if some of their goals are noble, they support a criminal and comically corrupt regime — beholden to Big Oil, Big Ag, etc — that is *obviously* not really genuinely interested in making Americans healthy.
Yeah, let's Make America Healthy Again, by:
-supporting the worst president in history on environmental and health issues
-who empowers/appoints industry lobbyists
-who is comically yet predictably corrupt
...and then I'll complain when he & his people do exactly what you'd expect.
Insane!
-supporting the worst president in history on environmental and health issues
-who empowers/appoints industry lobbyists
-who is comically yet predictably corrupt
...and then I'll complain when he & his people do exactly what you'd expect.
Insane!
February 7, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Yeah, let's Make America Healthy Again, by:
-supporting the worst president in history on environmental and health issues
-who empowers/appoints industry lobbyists
-who is comically yet predictably corrupt
...and then I'll complain when he & his people do exactly what you'd expect.
Insane!
-supporting the worst president in history on environmental and health issues
-who empowers/appoints industry lobbyists
-who is comically yet predictably corrupt
...and then I'll complain when he & his people do exactly what you'd expect.
Insane!
Funny to see this framed in terms what MAHA folks thinks. With all due respect, did you really think Trump was going to protect you from dangerous chemicals? Why did you think that? I appreciate the message, but hard not to be frustrated when these MAHA people helped us get into this mess.
February 7, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Funny to see this framed in terms what MAHA folks thinks. With all due respect, did you really think Trump was going to protect you from dangerous chemicals? Why did you think that? I appreciate the message, but hard not to be frustrated when these MAHA people helped us get into this mess.
Even herbicide-friendly extension folks, and many farmers, are against using this stuff, because it so readily evaporates and drifts.
It finds its way deep inside of forests, your neighbor's lilac bushes, organic vegetable farms. It kills and stunts leaves and harms these plants. Not good.
It finds its way deep inside of forests, your neighbor's lilac bushes, organic vegetable farms. It kills and stunts leaves and harms these plants. Not good.
February 7, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Even herbicide-friendly extension folks, and many farmers, are against using this stuff, because it so readily evaporates and drifts.
It finds its way deep inside of forests, your neighbor's lilac bushes, organic vegetable farms. It kills and stunts leaves and harms these plants. Not good.
It finds its way deep inside of forests, your neighbor's lilac bushes, organic vegetable farms. It kills and stunts leaves and harms these plants. Not good.
ooooof. Not unexpected, still bad: EPA re-approves Dicamba, the pesticide that easily drifts outside of fields when sprayed to harm trees, vegetables, other crops, and which courts twice said shouldn't be used, for this obvious reason.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...
E.P.A. Re-approves Controversial Herbicide That Drifts to Nearby Land
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:03 AM
ooooof. Not unexpected, still bad: EPA re-approves Dicamba, the pesticide that easily drifts outside of fields when sprayed to harm trees, vegetables, other crops, and which courts twice said shouldn't be used, for this obvious reason.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...
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Donald Trump reminds us every day that he's a miserable, corrupt, fascist, ignorant strongman. I guess today he wanted to remind us that he's also a racist.
February 6, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Donald Trump reminds us every day that he's a miserable, corrupt, fascist, ignorant strongman. I guess today he wanted to remind us that he's also a racist.
Trump just killed the CIA World Fact Book, which I fondly remember consulting from time to time since HS, yet another thing made worse for no good reason
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell - CIA
www.cia.gov
February 6, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Trump just killed the CIA World Fact Book, which I fondly remember consulting from time to time since HS, yet another thing made worse for no good reason
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
This is so weird man. AI characters are not actually people! OFC the ai, made by a dude, looks like an attractive woman. Everything about this skeeves me out.
blog.mindvalley.com/eliza-the-ai/
blog.mindvalley.com/eliza-the-ai/
February 5, 2026 at 11:55 PM
This is so weird man. AI characters are not actually people! OFC the ai, made by a dude, looks like an attractive woman. Everything about this skeeves me out.
blog.mindvalley.com/eliza-the-ai/
blog.mindvalley.com/eliza-the-ai/
what a deeply misguided man
February 5, 2026 at 5:30 PM
what a deeply misguided man
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Perfection
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Perfection
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We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
This is another effort that has taken a HUGE amount of local activism, led by community folks who care.
It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back.
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back.
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
New Mexico Senate approves bill to ban ICE detention centers
The New Mexico Legislature approved the Immigration Safety Act. House bill 9 bars the state from allowing ICE detention centers.
www.elpasotimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:01 AM
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
What does at 14/86 female/male equity rate mean?
doesn't seem like a good thing but I dunno
(this is a Dutch artificial turf company)
www.tencategrass.com/our-story/at...
doesn't seem like a good thing but I dunno
(this is a Dutch artificial turf company)
www.tencategrass.com/our-story/at...
February 5, 2026 at 1:32 AM
What does at 14/86 female/male equity rate mean?
doesn't seem like a good thing but I dunno
(this is a Dutch artificial turf company)
www.tencategrass.com/our-story/at...
doesn't seem like a good thing but I dunno
(this is a Dutch artificial turf company)
www.tencategrass.com/our-story/at...
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That Jeff Bezos's Amazon gave Brett Ratner, someone photographed with Jeffrey Epstein and in the Epstein Files, $75 million to make a doc about Melania Trump, while he chooses to destroy The Washington Post, says about all you need to know.
February 4, 2026 at 9:48 PM
That Jeff Bezos's Amazon gave Brett Ratner, someone photographed with Jeffrey Epstein and in the Epstein Files, $75 million to make a doc about Melania Trump, while he chooses to destroy The Washington Post, says about all you need to know.
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The big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons
NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning.
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:05 PM
The big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons
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A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
February 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
Goddam it
NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning.
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Goddam it
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38,000 mentions of Trump, but they weren’t friends or anything.
NYT reports that the partial Epstein Files reference Trump at least 38K times.
Haitians eating cats & dogs propaganda
•MAGA: [clutches pearls]
Somali day care fraud propaganda
•MAGA: [clutches pearls]
Trump 38K times in Epstein Files
•MAGA: THIS PROVES NOTHING!
White narcissism is a helluva drug
Haitians eating cats & dogs propaganda
•MAGA: [clutches pearls]
Somali day care fraud propaganda
•MAGA: [clutches pearls]
Trump 38K times in Epstein Files
•MAGA: THIS PROVES NOTHING!
White narcissism is a helluva drug
February 3, 2026 at 2:31 AM
38,000 mentions of Trump, but they weren’t friends or anything.
Another observation: U of I young Republicans have a photo of smiling youthful people on their page.
It's a stock photo from Unsplash, which you can find a the link below. "A group of friends at a coffee shop."
unsplash.com/photos/a-gro...
It's a stock photo from Unsplash, which you can find a the link below. "A group of friends at a coffee shop."
unsplash.com/photos/a-gro...
February 2, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Disgusting stuff. Also FWIW, the pic on their page of smiling young women is a stock photo from Unsplash.
bsky.app/profile/dmai...
bsky.app/profile/dmai...
Another observation: U of I young Republicans have a photo of smiling youthful people on their page.
It's a stock photo from Unsplash, which you can find a the link below. "A group of friends at a coffee shop."
unsplash.com/photos/a-gro...
It's a stock photo from Unsplash, which you can find a the link below. "A group of friends at a coffee shop."
unsplash.com/photos/a-gro...
February 2, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Disgusting stuff. Also FWIW, the pic on their page of smiling young women is a stock photo from Unsplash.
bsky.app/profile/dmai...
bsky.app/profile/dmai...
Another observation: U of I young Republicans have a photo of smiling youthful people on their page.
It's a stock photo from Unsplash, which you can find a the link below. "A group of friends at a coffee shop."
unsplash.com/photos/a-gro...
It's a stock photo from Unsplash, which you can find a the link below. "A group of friends at a coffee shop."
unsplash.com/photos/a-gro...
February 2, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Another observation: U of I young Republicans have a photo of smiling youthful people on their page.
It's a stock photo from Unsplash, which you can find a the link below. "A group of friends at a coffee shop."
unsplash.com/photos/a-gro...
It's a stock photo from Unsplash, which you can find a the link below. "A group of friends at a coffee shop."
unsplash.com/photos/a-gro...
How can you call Good and Pretti "traitors" who believed they were "above the law" and imply they should be "felled"?
It's quite obvious that they were documenting ICE agents acting "above the law."
Can your eyes not see? What terrible thing went wrong in your short life to end up like this?
It's quite obvious that they were documenting ICE agents acting "above the law."
Can your eyes not see? What terrible thing went wrong in your short life to end up like this?
February 2, 2026 at 7:12 PM
How can you call Good and Pretti "traitors" who believed they were "above the law" and imply they should be "felled"?
It's quite obvious that they were documenting ICE agents acting "above the law."
Can your eyes not see? What terrible thing went wrong in your short life to end up like this?
It's quite obvious that they were documenting ICE agents acting "above the law."
Can your eyes not see? What terrible thing went wrong in your short life to end up like this?