If the state of Delaware prohibited companies incorporated there from spending on elections in any way, Citizens United would be dead in the water. Delaware incorporates more companies than any other state. It’s a blue state. Let’s get cracking on moving Delaware lawmakers on this!

"Intentions are the best, aren’t they? What’s fun about them is the way you can separate them from what you actually do and what actually happens as a result, like turkey skin sloughing off of a perfect slab of white meat." www.the-reframe.com/how-to-talk-...

I was today years old when I learned that gum is made of plastic… I’m done with it. Here chew on some plastic. Great. Thanks.

I thought this was fairly well established, but: here's another new study showing that wind and solar complement each other and make for a more stable grid when combined.

Manufacturing Consent - movie and book by Noam Chomsky

“A consumer-grade leaf blower emits more pollutants than a 6,200-pound 2011 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor”

… and Binding Civic Assemblies (aka Citizen Assemblies)

Two oaths (enlisted and officers) - “the enlisted oath is also intentionally anchored in obedience of the chain of command. The accountability lies one level up.”…[at the officers (whose oath requires them to ensure the commands are lawful)]. Curious how it’s working so far???

Grief is like a deep, dark hole. It calls like a siren: Come to me, lose yourself here. And you fight it and you fight it and you fight it, but when you finally do succumb and jump down into it, you can't quite believe how deep it is, Charlie Brown

WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown & all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by @notjustbikes with @UrbanThree & @StrongTowns. And then please SHARE it as much as possible. youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI

We have a tendency in weather to focus on the shiny object. Right now that shiny object is the cold, which is elusive. The reality: over the past week, the US has seen a Blow Torch. 100s of heat records to just a dozen cold. The heat continues through midweek.

I know people are mocking this question but short haul flights like the ones between DC and NY are among the most carbon intensive and need to be eliminated. And the actual time difference btwn the two is negligible when you factor in security. I was surprised he flew.

A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer. Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."

Similar analysis on our democracy as @xrnyc.bsky.social on climate by - we need to wake people up to the emergency… so scaring people before the “crisis is at their doorstep” thecycle.substack.com/p/why-we-can...? By @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social

hey so, the drummer for ekko astral, miri tyler, just dropped a new solo album and it’s absolutely incredible i’ve been hearing these gorgeous songs at her solo shows for years and now it’s finally out highly suggest you consider buying and streaming this opus this new music friday! seriously!!!!!

Everyone apologize to Eddington, they called it.

Let’s stop hemming and hawing - he’s a traitor and everyone that does his bidding is too…and likely the people who can do something but don’t (looking at you other branches)

huge news: a key house committee just advanced a major bipartisan permitting deal that would block future presidents from rescinding permits for political reasons good for anyone who wants to build renewables, bad for anyone who wants to block pipelines via @heatmap.news

In that the people most willing to compromise their values and adopt a vapid worthless and destructive belief system are the ones most likely to be adopted into the wealthy elites and thus get the most opportunities.

Great to hear the insights of @jael.bsky.social in her journalist (climate and more) manifestation… next …also listen to insights in music. Two great takes that go great together

we have got to destroy ICE and salt the earth I will not vote for any federal candidate who doesn’t vow to abolish ICE I will not vote for any state or local candidate who doesn’t agree to fight ICE

the first trans member of congress got nearly the entire house democratic caucus to sign onto a letter saying misgendering trans people is not only wrong but violates the rules of that chamber of congress you don’t see that happen in most countries tbh

This is the hardest I have seen any member of Congress work to try and address transphobia in Congress, and her ability to get nearly all Democratic lawmakers to sign onto this letter is something any first would applaud

It does feel like we're all going insane. We *know* he's implicated in Epstein's abuse. He's lashing out, in a misogynistic way, when questioned about it. We know. Why isn't every news stations 24hour coverage of the president being a child abuser? It should be wall-to-wall

lol he sounds like the fucking Penguin here

I want to dig into this, since my book VERY FINE PEOPLE comes out today, and it's in large part about precisely this sort of polemic trickery in service of bullshit apologia of supremacy. There's a sleight of hand at the start that catapults us into a massive lie.

There are still people who will tell you Trump didn't defend the Nazis in Charlottesville with his "very fine people" comments because of that bad-faith snopes article, but all you have to do is watch the way he can't stop defending Nazis. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

'It seems that Epstein was not a CIA or Mossad asset—not because he didn’t have it in him, but because that was too lowly a role. Rather, he was a power broker, an American oligarch, who played a major role in shaping western policy, which brought him in contact with spy agencies and diplomats.'

@scootercaster.com on the hell site is the source. Always good stuff… and more

under any other administration this alone would have been a massive news-cycle-swallowing scandal, now the AG is just like "yes, the president weaponized us, to distract from all the news implicating him with the pedophile rape gang he participated in with his best friend"

I looked at the twenty-nine mentions of LOLITA in the Epstein emails released this week, and what they say about America today.

Broadview.

“YOU back up”

They don't leave because it's where there is the most money to be had from the collective value generated by human beings, and despite what they insist, they don't generate wealth; they collect it.

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out

“effective campaigns of democratic renewal will thus focus on reshaping the meaning of certain identities that have been captured by anti-democratic forces—such as rurality or masculinity—and shifting the relative salience of others—such as class.”

Great and fun local NYC journalists help you through what might otherwise seem boring… maybe one day I’ll see them live

another manifestation of this is when you criticize the right and somebody tsk tsks "they say the same thing about the left," like, yeah, somebody is lying, are you interested in who? because the answer is easily discoverable

Red light and speed cameras everywhere. For revenue but especially to disqualify drivers who are unsafe / compel them to change and become aware they are driving murder machines. Also/especially improve street design #ThereAreNoAccidents

enough power for one million homes is dead

"A lot of highly-placed Democrats were ashamed of those things that Mamdani was not ashamed of. Were? Are. Are terrified of those things. They often run campaigns that begin by agreeing with Republicans that the good things they aren't are bad things they are." www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...

China’s rise as the world’s clean energy superpower is reshaping global decarbonisation. The full implications are only starting to sink in. An important new FT piece highlights that while much of the debate has focused on how Europe and the US should respond, the bigger story might be elsewhere.

“It gives me no joy to admit that there are certain kinds of professors who love little more than seeing their names in the paper.…But I like to think even they would’ve been able to spot the coiled wires and rusty springs of this particular trap.”

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

2/3. Revolution by the people. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Good precedent

Heard an entrepreneur worry about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social $30 by 2030 proposal. But the real villain for small businesses in NYC isn’t higher wages — it’s commercial rent extraction by real-estate giants. Let’s pair wage justice with rent justice.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.