One of the less understood beauties of a transition to a renewable economy is: you cannot invade a country and steal its sunshine and its wind, and you will not need to. The uneven distribution of fossil fuel, esp. oil, has corroded geopolitics for more than a century....

the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile

I don't get it. Some of you accuse abolitionists of pipe dreams. The biggest pipe dreams are the ones that insist on prosecutions of the powerful. THIS IS NOT WHAT THE CURRENT CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT SYSTEM EXISTS TO DO. THE PURPOSE OF A SYSTEM IS WHAT IT DOES.

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power. Well said.

A thing media outlets could do to improve their credibility is to cease the practice by which the body of the article is attributed to a real person, but the headline, social media posts and push notifications linking to the article and placement of the article are all totally anonymously decided.

I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.

Trade deficit. I have bought food from say, Chilis. They have never bought food from me. There is a trade deficit with Chilis. I’m still doing fine. The trade deficit argument SOUNDS compelling, but it’s a straw man with no relevancy

And the answer is that we—each of us—needs to do what those in power are refusing to do. We need to act as if we are living through the moment that we are living through. We need to respond to the crisis as a crisis.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

You meet people where they're at, even if their power analysis and/or their application of their time and energy isn't totally strategic, YET. Because our biggest obstacle in resisting fascism is inertia, full stop.

If you are a liberal in deep blue territory, one thing you could try doing right now is figuring out how to replace your Democratic member of Congress next year. With very few exceptions, the typical safe seat Dem is not meeting the moment. Find someone who will and help them.

This is very helpful background for the guidance to "pick a lane". "There’s a concept called The Sphere of Concern vs. The Sphere of Influence that can help you handle and manage all the chaos." www.instagram.com/reel/DFp5yCg...

Fun fact: the USPS delivers to every address in the US. PO Box for someone with unstable housing? ✔️ Tiny post office on an island in the Bering Sea? ✔️ Big ass ranch in the middle of nowhere OK where the mailbox is a mile from the house? ✔️ FedEx, UPS, etc...aren't required to cover these!

This whole saga has, I think, demonstrated very well my contention that American political journalists believe that they deserve all of the respect and deference that comes with filling a vital societal role, while rejecting the idea that holding such a position also entails duties and obligations.

the idea that these tech guys are opposed to "government waste" is so completely fucking ridiculous. they feast on government waste. DOD budgets are a bloated mess. the pentagon has failed 7 straight audits. the big beneficiaries are tech companies providing defense services.

It’s OK to admit that we’re off the map of our experience. The rules & best practices some of us are accustomed to, in certain situations, may no longer apply. There are some questions I lovingly refuse to answer at this time bc I don’t know. We need more humility. Some of our expertise is outdated.

Y'all pick a lane. Then make a little progress in your lane each day. Every serious, experienced organizer I know is Doing Their Thing. Instead of freaking out about each bit of bad news, we're in our lanes rapidly building dual power infrastructure and networks that don't rely on the goverment.

I generally like Debbie Dingell, but this response to my plea to stand up and fight fascism is so weak and disappointing. These are not normal times, and we shouldn't act as though they are. No mention of protecting LGBTQ+ folks, immigrants, human and civil rights, or even democracy.

Compelling take from Adam Tooze on the historical legacy of the Biden presidency. Bidenism really did do better on economic inequality and real wages for the bottom of the distribution than any post-Reagan presidency. But it failed at its core mission: to end the Trump era.

Everyone should be aware of the line that has been crossed in the Trump trans military EO. No longer is this about "evidence," "science" or "protecting kids." Now, explicitly, black and white, it's about trans people being "liars," "dishonorable," "false." It's a big step towards very bad things.

“Clarifying” memo from OMB says: “Any program that provides direct benefits to individuals is not subject to the pause.”

BREAKING: The Trump administration has instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing HIV medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

What the fuck is this? AI qualifying as a prescriber?

The notion that a single person who voted for a half-literate moron like Trump cares about "merit" is a joke. The MAGA movement is built on the idea that merit doesn't matter. The main qualification is white maleness, but if you're a dumbass, bonus! www.salon.com/2025/01/23/d...

There's an queasy undercurrent of glee in a lot of the "BUCKLE UP YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW BAD IT'S GOING TO GET" posts from people who are almost certainly going to suffer the least. Like they're kind of excited to get back to being outraged every single day because that's their online personality now.

Teach a man to fish and he’ll eventually claim he just always had that knowledge innately and then try to explain to you how fishing works

load bearing post

Should the Archivist publish the ERA in the Federal Register? Sure. Yes, absolutely. Does her inaction make it not-part of the Constitution? No, absolutely not. The Constitution gives no such power to a random, unelected librarian. Not even close. 🙅🏻‍♀️🚫

"They didn't look for government handouts."

Braedon: I come from a nation that believed in fascist ideology for a while. And we don’t want to go to that again. We are close to it because people want to simplify complex problems. The essence of fascism is to simplify complex problems and feed people who don't have time to read some bullshit.

The best way I've seen the issue stated. This is going to be an issue with a lot of environmental policies.

"A forecasting model for COVID estimates that an individual attending a ... gathering of 10 people has a 1 in 8 chance of COVID exposure. For a person who traveled on a plane of 100 people to reach their holiday destination late last month, that likelihood of exposure increased to a 3 in 4 chance."

All the more amazing to see this while reading Samantha Harvey's novel Orbital. The photo credit conjures a real live human looking down from 250 miles above.

been saying this a lot but it feels like the absolute best thing you can do to prepare for what comes next is learn to get along with people who annoy you

This comic gets shared every year with the date changed. It is by Brazilian cartoonist Glauco Villas Boas (1957-2010).

Sigh. It wasn’t a nonevent BUT we took it seriously. It was a nonevent BECAUSE we took it seriously. Same dangerous attitude I’ve seen about ozone layer deterioration: if a major campaign of concerted action averted the problem, it must have been a fake problem. Not the correct lesson to draw!

Michigan landlords can't deny accommodations to potential renters based on their source of income, under new law

It is remarkable that there are still people who believe that the reason hundreds of thousands of people have nowhere to live is that we haven’t made having nowhere to live unpleasant enough.

people don’t like swatting, where someone calls the town’s death squad and sends them to someone’s house as a joke, but no one seems to question why every town needs a death squad on call

Did you know that you should end your alt text with a period? "End alt text with a period, even if it isn’t a full sentence. The period ensures that the screen reader pauses after reading the alt text." This was a new tip for me. Glad to learn something new! www.nngroup.com/articles/wri...

Sen. Patty Murray, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee:   "I'm ready to stay here through Christmas because we're not going to let Elon Musk run the government. Put simply, we should not let an unelected billionaire rip away research for pediatric cancer so he can get a tax cut."

i honestly think it would be way more effective if dems just plainly said "elon musk has trump on a leash and they're both trying to screw you"

Disney has no business owning ABC News if it's "Family Theme Park" reputation is at stake. It's why they don't own an airline. Mickey's burning husk after a crash would be very bad PR. Greed empowers billionaires to own all media and news as entertainment can be molded to fit any agenda.

Tim Apple knows how to play the game, but also, this is a tell about how tariffs are going to work.

How to filter out AI Images in Google Image Search. Sharing this with my students so I figured I'd also share it with everyone here. Hopefully this image is still relevant given Google's changes. Save this on your computer or phone and refer to it as needed.