Toben
@tobend.bsky.social
Left of the Dial
Art Director at @RAN.org by day 🌎
Views are my own
Art Director at @RAN.org by day 🌎
Views are my own
Forsooth.. thou art 👹
are they not monsters?
January 22, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Forsooth.. thou art 👹
🏦+💰 = 🌎🔥
How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 8:17 PM
🏦+💰 = 🌎🔥
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DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.
January 17, 2026 at 6:23 PM
DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.
I recall many of us shouting this from rooftops 25 years ago, only to face scorns from naysayers standing in their socks at TSA checkpoints..
Nick Miroff: After 9/11, George W. Bush created the Department of Homeland Security to prevent future terror strikes. Now DHS shifted from defending the country against foreign terrorists to deploying agents on American streets for the purpose of terrorizing American citizens.
‘Maybe DHS Was a Bad Idea’
Two decades after its founding, the department has become what its critics feared.
www.theatlantic.com
January 17, 2026 at 5:38 PM
I recall many of us shouting this from rooftops 25 years ago, only to face scorns from naysayers standing in their socks at TSA checkpoints..
Even a Getty photojournalist can’t evade being terrorized by the monsters of ICE.
And as any photographer would know, throwing a Leica to safety is almost like desperately tossing your infant out of harm’s way
And as any photographer would know, throwing a Leica to safety is almost like desperately tossing your infant out of harm’s way
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Even a Getty photojournalist can’t evade being terrorized by the monsters of ICE.
And as any photographer would know, throwing a Leica to safety is almost like desperately tossing your infant out of harm’s way
And as any photographer would know, throwing a Leica to safety is almost like desperately tossing your infant out of harm’s way
What is more terrifying, our Country’s slow walk into the darkness of fascism, or the callous whispers of intention laden throughout its path?
Nazi-esque slogans on official government communications? Yes, that's where we're at
Official U.S. government accounts are posting content with direct ties to white supremacy and even Nazi Germany.
www.latimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:22 AM
What is more terrifying, our Country’s slow walk into the darkness of fascism, or the callous whispers of intention laden throughout its path?
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"Every day, judges are issuing rulings expressing their disgust and alarm at the immoral and illegal actions of this administration. It cannot be emphasized too often that respect for the law is the ballgame. When that goes, there is no republic to preserve."
www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-is-a-l...
www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-is-a-l...
ICE Is a Law-Breaking ‘Law Enforcement’ Agency
A Trump-appointed judge took the agency to task for its flagrant contempt.
www.thebulwark.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:26 AM
"Every day, judges are issuing rulings expressing their disgust and alarm at the immoral and illegal actions of this administration. It cannot be emphasized too often that respect for the law is the ballgame. When that goes, there is no republic to preserve."
www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-is-a-l...
www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-is-a-l...
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I don’t know which conservative Democrats need to hear this history lesson, but the German elected officials who voted to fund the Gestapo were considered Nazi collaborators.
History is watching.
History is watching.
January 15, 2026 at 3:39 AM
I don’t know which conservative Democrats need to hear this history lesson, but the German elected officials who voted to fund the Gestapo were considered Nazi collaborators.
History is watching.
History is watching.
If you’re concerned ICE may be recruiting and hiring America’s “worst of the worst” to terrorize our communities with reckless abandon and zero regard, this story will shock you but not surprise you…
A few months ago, ICE hired me
I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable
And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"
My latest for Slate
I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable
And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"
My latest for Slate
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
slate.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:41 PM
If you’re concerned ICE may be recruiting and hiring America’s “worst of the worst” to terrorize our communities with reckless abandon and zero regard, this story will shock you but not surprise you…
Thanks, Bob
Bob Weir, a musician who took the environment seriously
Bob Weir, who died on January 10th, was best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. For decades he was also an unusually persistent environmental advocate, one who treated land, forests, and...
news.mongabay.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Thanks, Bob
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Several hundred people form a human banner spelling out “IT WAS MURDER — ICE OUT!!” at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach during a protest Saturday in response to the recent fatal shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent.
📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle
📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle
January 10, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Several hundred people form a human banner spelling out “IT WAS MURDER — ICE OUT!!” at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach during a protest Saturday in response to the recent fatal shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent.
📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle
📸: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle
There is no purpose for justice in this regime, only grievance, cruelty, and stupidity
Five Native Americans detained by ICE during ongoing raids in Minneapolis - ICT
Native American community members report increased ICE presence, fears of racial profiling
ictnews.org
January 10, 2026 at 4:06 AM
There is no purpose for justice in this regime, only grievance, cruelty, and stupidity
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The US stands alone in dismissing the problem of climate change.
January 8, 2026 at 11:24 PM
The US stands alone in dismissing the problem of climate change.
Worth amplifying this to your conservative news-consuming friends and family. Apparently even FOX is willfully repeating the regime line without airing the actual video (for fear of revealing what is perfectly clear, that this was a murder)
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Worth amplifying this to your conservative news-consuming friends and family. Apparently even FOX is willfully repeating the regime line without airing the actual video (for fear of revealing what is perfectly clear, that this was a murder)
Living in a world where I have reposted Bill Kristol multiple times is a bizarre plot twist but here we are..
Abolish ICE. Really.
Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "
January 8, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Living in a world where I have reposted Bill Kristol multiple times is a bizarre plot twist but here we are..
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Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
January 7, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
Project 2026 Oil-igarchy:
Heads They Win, Tails We Lose
Heads They Win, Tails We Lose
January 6, 2026 at 5:50 AM
Project 2026 Oil-igarchy:
Heads They Win, Tails We Lose
Heads They Win, Tails We Lose
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A national disgrace.
January 3, 2026 at 7:11 PM
A national disgrace.
The only thing absent from this tyrannical slop of a press conference was "That man tried to kill my Daddy”
January 3, 2026 at 5:36 PM
The only thing absent from this tyrannical slop of a press conference was "That man tried to kill my Daddy”
We are living through the cringiest imaginable simulation, powered by a computer programmed to projectile-vomiting all over itself on repeat .. 🤮 🖥️
ICE Barbie and ICE Baldy caught on camera dancing—very badly—to the Vanilla Ice classic ‘Ice Ice Baby’
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ICE Barbie and ICE Baldy Dance Badly to ‘Ice Ice Baby’ in Cringe NYE Vid
Noem and Miller swayed to Vanilla Ice at Trump’s bash in an on-the-nose moment for the architects of the deportation drive.
trib.al
January 3, 2026 at 4:24 AM
We are living through the cringiest imaginable simulation, powered by a computer programmed to projectile-vomiting all over itself on repeat .. 🤮 🖥️
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"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.)
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
The MAGAfication of Norman Rockwell
Trump uses the artist’s work—like other cultural icons—to promote Gestapo tactics and nativist ideas.
www.thebulwark.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.)
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
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“They put the LNG industry on speed dial inside the Oval Office.”
America's fossil fuel ambitions are driving up your energy bill [via @insideclimatenews.org]
America's fossil fuel ambitions are driving up your energy bill [via @insideclimatenews.org]
America's fossil fuel ambitions are driving up your energy bill
Liquefied natural gas exports have resulted in higher rates, a new analysis finds.
www.motherjones.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“They put the LNG industry on speed dial inside the Oval Office.”
America's fossil fuel ambitions are driving up your energy bill [via @insideclimatenews.org]
America's fossil fuel ambitions are driving up your energy bill [via @insideclimatenews.org]
Welcome to The United States of The Rules Were That You Weren’t Going to Fact-check Us..
State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'
The order is focused on applicants for H-1B visas, which are frequently used by tech companies and is part of a campaign by the Trump administration against online content moderation.
www.npr.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Welcome to The United States of The Rules Were That You Weren’t Going to Fact-check Us..
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I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
Late entry in the “Most San Francisco Thing to Happen in San Francisco in 2025” category..
A woman en route to a UCSF medical center gave birth inside a Waymo robotaxi, marking one of the most unusual incidents yet in San Francisco’s closely watched driverless experiment.
Woman delivers baby in Waymo robotaxi en route to San Francisco hospital
A woman en route to a UCSF medical center gave birth inside a Waymo robotaxi, marking one of the most unusual incidents yet in San Francisco’s closely watched driverless experiment.
bit.ly
December 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Late entry in the “Most San Francisco Thing to Happen in San Francisco in 2025” category..