Sierra Leone imported enough solar to increase generation by 60+% of total installed capacity. The future of energy abundance is in Africa 👀

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America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

James: His critics said that he should wait his turn. His critics said that he did not have the experience. His critics said they did not have the right name. Well, now all of them know his god damn name.

i really think this is more about Newsom wanting to do it than it is about being scared of Trump

Cis Americans, if you do one single thing today please let it be to contact your representative. You have no idea how many US trans people I follow who are freaked the fuck out And for everyone else, if America does it, your country will use America as an example of how they can do it too. Speak up

A lesson to be learned here

this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness

is that good

real scream in an empty stairwell hours

now was that so hard?

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

*taps sign repeatedly and more and more aggressively until I tap right through it*

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

Tomorrow morning, 8AM, Prospect Park West & President St, if you're mad at Schumer let's show it.

i will say again that this crop of congressional republicans are the most pathetic, supine people to ever serve in congress www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

People who say shit like this about trans people are my enemy. They are my family's enemy. They are dead to me forever. If they run for something in my vicinity I will work to destroy them. Do they understand this story is repeated several million times?

As a cishet dude, when I see a Dem ditch trans rights, it sends a message: you ain't got no fight in you, no principles, just another empty suit. Think I'm some too-online outlier? Go ask your expensive consultants why people don't bother to vote. It's because they know you're all empty suits.

The placement of "trans issues" here is, without exaggeration, one of the most depraved things I've ever seen in the pages of this publication.

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

I think if you could stage a significantly large protest and actually achieve media coverage that cut between that and the half-empty chamber it would probably do some good. Also president crowd size would probably have a stroke

"The white house approved the payments but musk's henchmen manually blocked them" doesn't sound like the white house was being dishonest it sounds like a coup d'état

When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a...

“One staffer who lost her job worked in the department’s office of special education, helping students with disabilities. In an interview, she said she had moved across the country with her partner to take the position last summer, spending all her savings in the process.”

This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!

This is an absolute scandal. Trump and Marco Rubio abandoned American workers and their families abroad, delaying waivers to provide for their safe return to the United States. As these civil servants lost their possessions, housing, and money, Elon Musk was slandering them with bogus accusations.

the “administrative state” in practice is a lot of very hard working, practically anonymous people doing the thankless work of making this country run and a drug-addled dipshit is slandering them in order to steal our money for himself

There should be an immediate pledge from Democratic Party leadership committing to rehiring everyone purged from this alongside backpay as soon as there’s a Democratic president.

This is not a U.S. Marshal, Federal Protective Service, or any other federal law enforcement officer. This is a private security guard from Triple Canopy. He has no authority to block members of Congress who have oversight of the EPA from entering the building.

playing despair badminton with Abi, just passing the Bleak back and forth

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

okay so what legal authority does elon musk have to commandeer the office of personnel management and access reams of sensitive data? www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

We've created a tracker that covers all executive orders affecting LGBTQ folks along with federal and state legislation. We're at 334 anti-LGBTQ bills. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Credit @alli.gay @erininthemorning.com @evanurquhart.bsky.social @miralazine.bsky.social @lizsaila.bsky.social

The campaign against trans rights is also about stripping away everyone’s protections against discrimination, reviving, as Douglass put it “the moral blindness” of those who “persuade themselves that they are safe, though the rights of others may be struck down.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

as he died to make men holy, let us die to make them free

we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

even if i am not summarily fired on monday morning i’ll still have spent a week bathing in cortisol, which i guess is half the point of all this shit

microdosing despair a lot these days, i’m sure it’s good for me

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

it's so cool dems let themselves get iran hostage'd again but like a thousand times dumber and more cruel than the first time

caught an imax showing of interstellar at the udvar hazy theatre and boy does that shit hold up. whew!!

finally got a watch i like and the lifestyle is honestly crazy. im just checking the time constantly. it’s 1:08pm for instance

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

should I go see KAYTRANADA in DC?

more users are joining and the hog grows longer

trump is not invulnerable.

bunny is a rider