Reed Hampton

Figure of Western U.S. snow cover area from 2001 to 2026 illustrates a staggering decline in current coverage compared to historical norms. While the historical data for mid-January typically clusters between 400,000 and 600,000 square miles, the line for 2026 sits in unprecedented territory at the very bottom of the graph. On January 15, 2026, the snow cover area plummeted to a record low of 142,700 square miles—less than one-third of the median and the lowest point in the entire 25-year satellite record. This visual gap emphasizes a severe "snow drought," with the 2026 data point trailing significantly behind even the previous record lows, highlighting an extreme and alarming anomaly in winter precipitation.

The western U.S. faces its lowest snowpack on record despite average or above-average rainfall. Warmer temperatures mean more precipitation falls as rain rather than snow, and will worsen droughts in areas like the Pacific Northwest and the Colorado River Basin.

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We’re just not a free country.

Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

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The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon.

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“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

DC inboxes are full! Washingtonians can call local offices of Sens Cantwell and Murray to demand they vote no on any funding for DHS. Took me less than five minutes to leave a message!
#ICEOUTNOW

If you think American citizens should be summarily executed by masked federal agents, you’re not a patriot.

If you think the lawless goons loyal to our demented pedophile criminal president are greater than the people of Minnesota, you’re not a patriot.

You’re a fucking Nazi.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti Knew He Wanted to Help Others Shot and killed by immigration agents on a Minneapolis street, he wanted to be a ‘force of good in the world.’

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the man fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday, was a U.S. citizen with no criminal record, an official said. He was a registered nurse who worked in the intensive-care unit at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis. nyti.ms/4t3ekJW

A photo of the man murdered by ICE today, just before the shooting. He’s standing and holding a phone in his right hand and holding his empty left hand to the sky and looking behind him at a woman running away while an ICE agent closes in on him from the front. On the ground behind the man is a woman that the victim will soon try to help, leading several ICE agents to attack him and pin him to the ground, before shooting him several times.

We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara says the victim of today's fatal CBP shooting is a "37-year-old white male who is a Minneapolis resident and we believe he is an American citizen"

Miami Beach Nightclub Is Condemned for Playing Kanye West’s Song ‘Heil Hitler’ The club, Vendôme, was hosting several right-wing influencers, including Andrew and Tristan Tate, the brothers who are being investigated in Europe for alleged human trafficking.

A Miami Beach nightclub is drawing intense backlash for playing a rap song by Ye that glorifies Adolf Hitler, while hosting an entourage of right-wing influencers, including Andrew and Tristan Tate, brothers who face charges of rape and human trafficking.

This bill seems like it pretty much just makes cities take a position legislatively on neighborhood retail?

Requirements could easily be set so onerous that they are effectively banned if a municipality wants to 🤷‍♂️

this is just patently ridiculous, Trump is now running a sham investigation into Chair Powell just because he wants him to lower interest rates faster

Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell YouTube video by Federal Reserve

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
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Green Lake deserves better than a pitch‑black path after sunset. There’s a petition to add lights and make the park usable for everyone.
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What is the WA state government, particularly the governor’s office, doing to prevent abuses by federal agents?

Do we have identification laws for law enforcement agents? Are local police departments being instructed to enforce the law regardless of the perpetrators?

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

ICE agent fatally shoots woman in south Minneapolis Witnesses dispute the federal account that the agent fired “defensive shots” as Minnesota leaders call for independent investigation.

We now know the name of the woman murdered by ICE:

Renee Nicole Good

Speak her name.

Loudly.

Over and over and over again.

They will try to assassinate her character just as they assassinated her body.

Don’t let them get away with it.

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According to witnesses, this is the masked ICE agent who shot the driver in Minneapolis. He shot from the side into the vehicle.

This is him walking away from the crashed vehicle.

Jessica Tarlov reposted Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner This image captures the moment the agent fired his weapon for the second time. I don't know what else to say here. He's at a 90 degree angle to the driver, his life is not at risk and anyone claiming otherwise is lying. His goal in this moment is to shoot the driver. That's it.

Just like in Chicago, video evidence again proves to be one of most powerful fact checks against ICE.

unless you are deeply, personally in the tank for this regime - and obviously very many people are - you cannot watch the video and have any doubt that this woman didn't want to hurt anyone and was simply gunned down in the street

fuck their ghoulish attempts to rewrite reality

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people

really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed

Donald Trump wants you to forget that January 6 happened—but for one police officer who protected the Capitol, and another man who attacked it and was pardoned, there’s no forgetting, Jamie Thompson reports: theatln.tc/o2OQTnKk

News Team, These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the Ilearned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal that courtesy/opportunity. concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. for political optics rather than legal ones. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with We have been promoting this story on social media for days. DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a…

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Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.

‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’

"When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of ‘gold standard’ reputation for a single week of political quiet.”

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I mean, this is an execution