The dismantling of New York’s precedent-setting climate law is hard to sit with. Here’s how one of its original architects, the Alliance for a Green Economy, puts it:

part of the problem with ”liberals” (and i do mean everyone left of center) is not admitting when america is truly the world’s best at some things. no other country plays close to the same science game. republicans are out to destroy our country, and isolate us, just like an abusive husband

Once again, in order to provide a sense of scale, the Berlin Wall border regime resulted in 140 deaths in 28 years. This program to supposedly defend the US border from drugs has resulted in the targeted killing of more than 200 since September 2025.

What on Earth?! This video is from Greenpeace. 💔

Goodness gracious

rude af

One of the foundational lessons in my life was "don't judge someone on what they say, judge them on what they DO." My lifelong frustration has been how often this adage is reversed in practice. A smooth bullshitter nearly always prevails.

"Third Way" liberal politics involves *saying* things that working people love, but *doing* things that sociopathic plutocrats love. It works ...right up until voters notice that you're not *doing* the things. That realisation breeds cynicism and fury and paves the way for fascist strongmen. 2/

This is how Trump’s racist reactionary policies are going to be pocketed by people who don’t really oppose them outside of the crude nature of its implementation.

Turns out when someone offers u a seat on a rocket ship, like ai, you do gotta ask questions Like did some fuckaass billionaire build it

Analysis | By all accounts, the deal Donald Trump is negotiating with Iran would be worse than the one Barack Obama got without a war or fuel spikes. However, Trump will be doing it while White.

It’s a stupidly high bar but I believe this to be Craig Brown’s finest work

In the end we were just his latest casino and whatnot.

Ashamed that I voted for more buses for the Fairport School District. I just assumed that a beneficiary of low-cost Fairport Electric rates and one of the wealthiest districts in the state would want the best for the future of our community's children. The all caps and bold here is just awful.

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Ugh how did I miss this last week

for all you americans (e.g. me) keeping score at home, 40 degrees is dangerously hot all the more so in western europe, which was built up for habitation in normal times where this didn't happen much

Did my part to repair international relations by eating in lunch in a Persian restaurant in Hamilton, Ontario today

"Near the Mercedez-Benz stadium" is the cherry on top here. The public subsidy for this stadium is in the hundreds of millions, including that it pays zero property taxes as it generates profits for the Falcons

Community colleges are spending millions on AI-powered chatbots that students say often give inaccurate answers. Many might see upgrades this year.

Here's more details on this whole bonkers concept of vibe-coding an app from scratch every time you need a function **already served by an existing app** a stunning representation of waste-by-default

From the family chat, for the Hunger Games fans

Sorry but it’s pretty funny that “broadly left-leaning politician, in a development inexplicable to those close to him, becomes much more ideologically conservative after a medical event known to have caused lasting brain impairment” is a plainly true story political media just has to kind of ignore

Who's got the deets on Dominic Pezzola #ROC?

🚨 A new frontier of coordinated disinformation. Fossil fuel industry front groups are using AI platforms to flood clean air regulators with fake public comments—submitted under real residents' names, without their consent. @robbonta.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Lol being on the same side as Iran

Call me an ageist if you want, but I think that for the future of our country it is inadvisable to vote for anyone over the age of 60. Let’s let people whose actual future is at stake make the decisions.

Small action to do today. There are suggestions for what to write in the thread below to make it even quicker and easier.

Trump is putting no effort into becoming less unpopular but a TON into putting elements of a coup in place. Some of them may remain invisible, but the ones we can see point to his general approach: violent intimidation + corrupt judges + executive branch and congressional coconspirators + bribes.

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

Gonna use this quote from the article in my new book "The Future of Bullshitters in an Age of Automated Bullshit"

Here’s a video from the same podcast as linked in my previous post where you can hear the audio too. I love this because it really lays bare how LLMs fool us - but really they’re just slotting words into linguistic patterns that we’re familiar with. Genres like a podcast or LinkedIn post.

Love this photo my son took of The Bean last weekend

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

Jared Polis should resign today and never return to politics.

My taxes are going to murder school children overseas and to let pardoned insurrectionist pedophiles get their hush money payoffs to victims, meanwhile, the papers of record want to let me know the real danger is the guy who taxes second homes in Manhattan to balance budgets and feed hungry kids.

From nonexistent studies in White House reports to hallucinated sources in EU cybersecurity briefs, AI tools are increasingly slipping "fake facts" into official government records https://restofworld.org/2026/government-ai-hallucinations-south-africa-deloitte/?utm_campaign=row-social

Majority Black districts in the South that civil rights activists fought and died for are being wiped off the map in a matter of days but the insurrectionists who tried to overturn the 2020 election are being given $1.7 billion from the government

The coup rolls on - with the incredible go fund me of a vast chunk of your tax dollars diverted from health care etc to pay Trump’s private goon squad.

taking tax dollars to pay insurrectionists. which (by the way) the 14th amendment is supposed to prohibit: "[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States...."

Somehow Trump's blatant, breathtakingly over-the-top, corruption is underappreciated. It is unreal to think this goes on before our very eyes. There has never been anything like it in American history. He is looting the country in plain sight.

I know this is besides the point, but look at that dumbass barn behind him

From 490E

“Yet most political commentators won't put whiteness at the center of their thinking. It's as if doing so would violate a kind of unwritten agreement to believe collectively that everyone wants equality, no one has bad intentions, and anti-Black prejudice is a thing of the past.”

Yeah baby

I'm not aware of any unambiguously left-wing concept that did not give some way for willful misinterpretation btw "Antifa" or "CRT" are as mild as it gets, and yet

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

A whole lot of men believe this and I have to tell you after having to hear this shit over and over again over a lifetime from men dumber than me it's a goddamned miracle I'm not in jail.

Look who's on this list ROC