Ironweeds

A racoon and his emotional support meth pipe. Trump’s new plane. Afrikaners as refugees. Worcester neighbors rise up. Fetterman crashes out. Israel continues its genocide. China’s new thorium reactor. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pet-raccoon-meth-pipe-mouth-drivers-seat-ohio-traffic-stop/ 

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-poised-accept-palace-sky-gift-trump/story?id=121680511 

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/massacre-thai-restaurant-market-gaza-city-israeli-airstrikes

https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/fbi-opens-formal-investigation-ny-attorney-20316868.php 

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5391815/first-afrikaners-granted-refugee-status-due-to-arrive-in-u-s

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/05/08/two-arrested-after-neighbors-try-to-stop-ice-agents-from-detaining-worcester-mother/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/09/trump-deportation-habeas-corpus-miller.html

https://newrepublic.com/post/194996/john-fetterman-explodes-union-meeting-freaking-staff

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a64550626/thorium-reactor-nuclear-power/

ICE drags a mother and her daughters out of bed and robs them blind. Driverless semis make a debut in Texas. Local sheriffs warn that a water gun game could get you killed. By them. MTA wants to use predictive AI, flouting countless cautionary tales. John Fetterman is not doing so well. New executive orders are spicy. A man’s venom filled blood could create useful antivenoms. And Massachusetts' wealth tax didn’t scare off the rich people. 

https://newrepublic.com/post/194557/ice-invades-wrong-home-oklahoma-girls-underwear-life-savings

https://kfor.com/news/local/this-family-is-all-of-us-federal-lawmaker-criticizes-oklahoma-ice-raid-homeland-security-responds/ 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/business/first-driverless-semis-started-regular-routes?cid=ios_app

https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/sheriff-warns-of-dangers-in-senior-assassin-water-gun-game

https://www.theverge.com/news/658524/mta-ai-predictive-crime-new-york-subway-platforms

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/john-fetterman-struggle-mental-health-clinical-depression.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/law/s/05KVifmfoa

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/04/28/massachusetts-millionaires-tax-institute-policy-studies-newsletter 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5d0l7el36o

Trump wants to send “homegrowns” to CECOT. RFK JR wants to create a list of autistic people. Musk sends DOGE into the NLRB. DHS tweets home address of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura to 2.4 million followers. George Santos gets the book thrown at him. And Freshkills Park is getting turned into a pollinator playground.  

https://www.europesays.com/2009702/

https://x.com/FrankLuntz/status/1911463710029488317

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-autism-study-medical-records/ 

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kilmar-abrego-garcia-wife-safe-house-b2738214.html

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/george-santos-sentencing-fraud?cid=ios_app 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-paula-white-cain-faith-office-husband-b2738449.html

https://www.silive.com/news/2025/04/it-was-the-worlds-largest-landfill-now-staten-island-park-to-get-50k-flowers-to-lure-bees-and-butterflies.html

This episode covers the Trump administration’s increasingly brutal treatment of immigrants and how the detention system is handling it (not well). 

https://inthesetimes.com/article/democratic-party-free-speech-trump-deportation-mahmoud-khalil 

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/730757-miami-dems-demand-krome-detention-center-tour-amid-reports-of-inhumane-conditions/

https://michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/ice-director-envisions-amazon-like-mass-deportation-system-prime-but-with-human-beings/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/us/mahmoud-khalil-arrest-update-columbia-university?cid=ios_app

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/us/immigration-detainees-trump-ice-students-visa?cid=ios_app

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-supermanagerial-reich/ 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62gnzzeg34o

https://www.bupipedream.com/news/at-least-five-student-visas-have-been-revoked-university-confirms/165800/ 

https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/albany-seeing-fewer-crashes-after-25mph-speed-limit-change

This week we are cursed with a loss, as Britney is out, but we are blessed with a guest - our good friend Adam Pelletier, who is a worker at the NLRB and organizer in the Federal Unionists Network. We talk about the "Hands Off!" rally in Albany, tariffs, and uncommon grounds is organizing a union!

https://on.ft.com/44cQfWQIn

https://labornotes.org/2025/04/federal-unionists-say-its-not-game-over-its-game

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/protesters-tell-trump-musk-hands-off-federal-20260299.php 

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-harbor-tom-homan-jaime-cook

Wildflower: https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/uncommon-grounds-workers-saratoga-clifton-park-20254954.php

Florida legislators think children have had it too good for too long and need to be put to work. It’s poppin off in the group chat. The White House wants to use gold to buy Bitcoin. Trump signs some alarming executive orders. And two cities are looking to deprioritize cars in their urban planning.  

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/florida-child-labor-laws/index.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/white-house-says-gold-reserves-213421472.html

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-election-order-calling-proof-us-citizenship-vote-2025-03-26/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/speaker-mike-johnson-floats-eliminating-federal-courts-rcna197986

https://web.archive.org/web/20250326135414/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/ 

https://deadline.com/2025/03/trump-smithsonian-order-improper-ideology-national-monuments-1236352842/

https://labornotes.org/blogs/2025/03/trump-goes-nuclear-federal-workforce 

https://web.archive.org/web/20250329132455/https://www.ft.com/content/2ac76276-16ad-4cc0-ae16-1c5a2ffc3f36 

https://newrepublic.com/article/193352/trump-car-tariffs-vehicle-auto-ceo-wrecks-spin

https://www.theenergymix.com/paris-votes-for-500-more-car-free-streets-while-uk-town-builds-for-bikes/ 

Trump tangles with the Department of Education. ICE detains a canadian woman for two weeks. Israel kills 200 children in less than a week. And electric tricycles are giving women in Zimbabwe a newfound freedom to travel.

https://apnews.com/article/women-zimbabwe-rural-electric-tricycles-9a298da6e5f394bc6394cf61b940b4ed

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/20/us/trump-education-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c&pvid=2DD82E4C-44AC-4985-8442-57B037CF9456 

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html

https://x.com/seamus_malek/status/1902445414923817024?s=46

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2025/03/22/ice-irs-immigrants-deport/ 

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/unicef-more-200-children-killed-tuesday-gaza

Tesler boycott and protests. Illegal detentions and possible deportations. A cop kills a cyclist while watching Matt Walsh video. Solar farms may help rejuvenate barren ecosystems. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-72860-8

https://vtdigger.org/2025/03/07/shelburne-police-officer-had-youtube-video-playing-in-cruiser-at-time-of-fatal-crash-court-records-say/ 

https://on.ft.com/41MXr9p 

https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-440828980a4ee7bf4ddcf3d123e02b3e

https://abc7ny.com/post/dhs-arrests-another-student-involved-columbia-university-protests-mahmoud-khalil-detained/16022464/

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-03-14/green-card-holder-from-new-hampshire-interrogated-at-logan-airport-detained 

A rabid white supremacist interacts with powerful government X accounts. The EPA wants to bar states from warning about dangerous chemicals. Measles in Texas. The great DEI military purge. Beavers get the goods and more! 

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/captive-dreamer-elon-musk-jd-vance/ 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14458011/Luigi-Mangione-sex-tape-bombshell.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton 

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/trump-epa-pesticides-regulations-health/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/health/texas-measles-outbreak-kennedy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c&pvid=A2C0AC22-DE31-4D17-BF69-3B4367A4FD3C

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-official-tells-americans-to-buy-chickens-to-deal-with-egg-pricing-crisis/

https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074

https://apnews.com/article/collective-bargaining-agreement-tsa-homeland-security-e3eb1d5e0ae8e1b4a6fdb87cd7f6bd39

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQZuzIzY8YQ&t=4s

Musk blows a $22 million Starlink deal over a tweet.The USPS does more than you might think. Kathy Hocul demands CUNY to remove a job call for a Palestinian Studies position. Trump crushes USAID projects around the world. The asteroid won’t hit Earth, but the Moon better look out. 

https://www.cryptopolitan.com/crypto-trader-kills-himself-on-x-live-to-create-a-meme-coin/ 

https://mexicodailypost.com/2025/02/24/carlos-slim-orders-to-cancel-his-collaboration-with-elon-musks-starlink/  

https://jacobin.com/2025/02/usps-rural-areas-services-privatization/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/kathy-hochul-palestinian-studies-cuny-job

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/services-collapsing-usaid-cuts-health-contracts-worldwide-2025-02-27/

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/asteroid-wont-hit-earth-but-might-hit-moon-a-potential-science-bonanza/