Grocery prices are rising due to higher fuel and transportation costs. Produce, from berries to limes, provides a stark example, USDA data shows. Fruits and vegetables that are transported long distances and kept cold are particularly vulnerable. #BlackskyNews www.businessinsider.com/grocery-prod...

The FBI's New Center for Political Pre-Crime: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbis-new-p...

I think people who are looking at the criticisms of NASA spaceflight and saying that it's not the reason based on spreadsheets that the US doesn't have (healthcare or insert social program) are really missing the point. It's not a question of dollars - it's a question of priorities.

It’s amazing that tons of people, including celebrities who have public reputations to uphold, will openly support a man who released a song called “Heil Hitler” AND is credibly accused of sexual violence and abuse but will NOT openly support celebrity women who have come forward about being abused

If you were to tell people on the left that we need to go fight for progressivism on Gab or Truth Social everyone would laugh. That’s what Twitter is now.

“Before the war began, the U.S. Department of Agriculture projected consumers would see food prices jump only about 3% in 2026. But a report from the agency in March predicts that food prices could increase as much as 6.1% this year.”

How Trump’s Iran war could make the world more reliant on coal

The article itself is paywalled but the video showing flying drones shooting the person-shaped dummy there in the image plays automatically and I do have concerns

Great example of bad science policy communication 👇🏽 This post does not communicate that they don’t propose cuts to the Artemis program. In fact it proposes an increase to their budget. The cut is to the science programs: the curiosity and saving planet earth programs. 🔭🧪 #scicomm

"Spring bloom has been mostly early across the country, with central states seeing conditions for bloom 2-5 weeks early than a long-term average (1991-2020). Denver, CO is 35 days early, and Nashville, TN is 17 days early." Information from @usa-npn.bsky.social: www.usanpn.org/data/maps/sp...

Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used by ICE. www.404media.co/how-thomson-...

MIT calculates that living wages around the country, and the current federal minimum wage, don’t cover basic quality of life anywhere. trib.al/RpmMUE3 This debate is as much about our national values as it is about economic policy: “How little do you think the least person deserves in our economy?”

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Like fossil fuel executives, AI titans have long insisted that their technology is inevitable. That, too, seems not to be true. https://bit.ly/4sjj24B

A President simply cannot do this. It’s not like “controversial” or “breaking norms.” The President not controlling our money is the main structural support beam of American democracy. It’s the whole fucking thing. You let him do this, you have ended the separation of powers.

I wrote about media rushing to turn Iran potentially capturing an American POW—who was bombing their country—as a “escalation” by Iran and Iran taking “hostages”, and the broader default setting of western media that turns everything our enemies do, no matter how defensive, into Sinister Terrorism

“Israel’s army has demanded evacuations in areas of southern Lebanon and Beirut, which are comparable in size to New York City.” [This refers to all five boroughs.] “The strikes carried out by [Israel and the US] in the war have stretched across a vast area of more than four million square miles.”

The Trump regime is now trying to incite an act of retributive terrorism within the United States.

Thousands in Texas protest against border wall through national park: ‘big love for Big Bend’

Watched If I Had Legs I Would Kick You this weekend. It's categorized as a drama, but I swear, that movie is a horror film about being a parent. It definitely made me feel affirmed in my child-free choices. Y'all who are out there doing a good (or even decent) job raising your kids, god bless.

It's always interesting how the U.S. MSM runs around accusing others (specifically Muslims of waging *Holy* wars) but the Christofascists in charge of the US government aren't apparently waging *Holy* war. I haven't seen a single mainstream media mention of this. Drudge has framed this war correctly

Anyone in Congress who is not actively stopping Trump from committing war crimes right now, is complicit and should be tried along with Trump.

He was willing to testify against the cartel — but ICE got to him first. A look at how the Trump administration's immigration enforcement blitz led federal prosecutors to lose a trial against two alleged drug traffickers. www.latimes.com/california/s...

There’s a coordinated misinformation effort on the right about fraud in California. Nick Shirley and Chris Rufo is shouting about hospice abd Medicare fraud. They’re also going into Skid Row to find people they say are getting paid to commit voter fraud. The goal is to vilify CA and social services.

I think about this a lot.

New legislation proposed in California would certify foods as not being ultra-processed. It's a bad idea. We should be using the regulatory state to improve diets, but by focusing on the specifics of nutrition and not on broad generalizations. My latest for TNR. newrepublic.com/article/2086...

Targeting civilians is a war crime. Destroying things they cannot survive without is a war crime. Collective punishment is a war crime. Source: The Geneva Conventions

I greatly enjoyed this conversation on one of my favourite podcasts (an underappreciated one, IMO). It starts out about AI but it's really about fighting fascism.

The 6 arrested yesterday, along with the 9 arrested Wednesday, brings the total to 15 arrested at the Idaho State Capitol building this week in Boise while resisting the extreme anti trans bathroom ban, Idaho HB 752. This law is the most extreme in the country but citizens are not going silently.

Nope, not how this works www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Trump has called on Congress to pass a record $1.5T defense budget. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. The military industrial complex is cheering right now.

Deleted posts targeting the person complaining about book promotion because I’ve been told they weren’t intending to troll, they’re actually a writer grappling with how to promote their own book and wrote a bad post about it (ironic). The convo is important though so I’ll repost without targeting.

In light of the conversation about how hard it is to promote your own book: Post a link to buy your book here and I’ll boost it cause you destroyed yourself to get it done, your publisher won’t help you sell it, and you deserve cheers and admiration for your accomplishment.

Three-week-old mountain lion cub rescued by California biologists

Why We Fear AI is a book about the political economy of AI! If knowledge is power, then what is the attempt to put knowledge into an extremely expensive privately controlled thing about? www.commonnotions.org/why-we-fear-ai

A major satellite imagery provider, Planet Labs, is indefinitely withholding access to imagery over Iran and the conflict region more broadly, citing a request from the U.S. government.

Homeless People Left Outside With Nowhere to Go youtu.be/7K3kiXpVHvw

Lab grown smoked salmon on bagels with cream cheese now! Hype cycles and haters aside, cell ag the single coolest food technology and I really badly want it to succeed. www.fastcompany.com/91513827/i-a...

The Bush administration literally paved the way for all of the horrors we're experiencing now.

Crews are making progress against a smoky wildfire in Southern California that broke out Friday morning.

Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...

In the US today, nonaligned, politically inactive or indifferent people are a majority of the electorate. Your chance of activating an inactive person is exponentially higher than your chance of convincing a fascist socialism is good. I mean, reread that last sentence and hear how absurd it sounds.

very good @madisoncondon.bsky.social piece here about why high-emissions scenarios are so useful, and why criticism of those scenarios ended up forming part of the broader push to delay climate action and support fossil fuels -> progressivereform.org/publications...

“People did not have a consensual, popular agreement to work with these tech companies, and the police were collecting this data without our knowledge,” says one resident of Madison, Wisconsin, where county leaders signed a contract with Flock.

This is going to leave the US so deeply unskilled. This is exactly how technofascists like to see it. As @olivia.science & I wrote: “the AI industry has lobbied government agencies to mandate the use of its products, claiming that without them, students will be unprepared for the job market.”

In the new TMK, we're joined by @katemac.bsky.social and @70sbachchan.bsky.social from @thepolycrisis.bsky.social to chat about the war in Iran, fossil fuel demand destruction, forced energy transitions, plus much more. www.patreon.com/posts/154551...

Hospital Decides Cancer-Sniffing Leopard More Trouble Than It’s Worth

People really memory holed-covid, due to a huge far right propaganda effort. That's why all you hear about is lockdowns, and not: - hospitals out of capacity - Skype calls with family members in quarantine as they died - bodies stored in freezer trailors - mass graves in NYC

For years I've been looking for the right guest to do a pod on this. The car-sales model that is dictated by law in the US -- you must go to a dealership & suffer for hours in order to buy one -- is one of the most nakedly anti-social special interest giveaways in history. Needs to be killed dead.