Not easy to be this stupid. But they did it!

This is bad.

🚨 TOMORROW | Join Ember and Renewables First at #LondonClimateActionWeek for the launch of our new report unpacking #Pakistan’s distributed solar boom and what it means for the future of electrification in emerging economies 🇵🇰 ☀️ ⬇️ Last chance to sign up! ember-energy.org/lat...

🗣️ “So many other emerging countries also have pent-up energy demand, weighed down by the problems and cost of fossil fuels,” says Ember’s Dave Jones Pakistan’s example “provides experience to show how fast clean energy growth can happen." Full report 👇 ember-energy.org/lat...

🚨 NEW | #Pakistan’s distributed solar boom has boosted its electricity demand by a FIFTH in just two years, transforming the country's energy system and accelerating its electrification rate to match the global average 🇵🇰📈 🧵👇1/6 ember-energy.org/lat...

Distributed solar is accelerating electrification in ALMOST EVERY sector of #Pakistan’s economy 🇵🇰 🌞 However, it has reshaped energy use across each sector differently 👇🧵 1/6 ember-energy.org/lat...

they cant even define “woke” but i’m sure they nailed “communism”

My number one requirement for Dems: do they know who the real enemy is.

It's not easy being meme-d. #Oh-Gee-I-See-Algae 👀

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%... "That's just how it is."

Despite being a lot smaller than Ireland, the Netherlands has already deployed 15 times more solar PV capacity than us, with plans to quadruple this in the years ahead, as I discovered on a recent visit. My report is in today’s @businesspost.bsky.social www.businesspost.ie/analysis-opi...

An unexpected coalition has emerged to fight data centers in rural America. Politicians, take heed. kansasreflector.com/2026/06/28/a....

Ossoff: "Illegal tariffs, failed war, healthcare cuts, and unmatched corruption. 34% approval and a presidential legacy cemented in disgrace."

Terrible news

We fought against the invisible We looked to one another for comfort We held the hands of friends and lovers We did not turn our backs We embraced We embraced —E Ethelbert Miller

Russians deliberately targeted a team from the international humanitarian organization Norwegian People's Aid with a ballistic missile in the village of Novopetrivka, Kherson region. Two mine clearance specialists were killed after sustaining critical injuries. Four other specialists were wounded.

Putin claims Russia has fully replaced imports in aviation and that its aircraft now outperform Western models. The gap between Putin's "reality" and what's actually happening keeps growing.

"Gasoline wars" is probably the best way to describe what's happening at gas stations across Russia right now. After 26 years of Putin's rule, Russia is bankrupt - a corrupt, impoverished country that is running out of fuel. It is hated across the civilized world.

Among 16 housing reforms ranked by climate impact and political feasibility, transit-oriented development scores highest on emissions reduction. Parking reform scores highest on bipartisan viability and boosts housing near transit 71% on its own. cayimby.org/blog/the-mos...

RECORD YEAR: 2025 was the biggest year ever for renewables. A record 692 GW was added, mostly solar. More importantly, non-fossil sources generated 43% of the world's electricity and fossil generation fell. More in Bright Spots: open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...

The sheer weirdness of these people cannot be exaggerated. “There can be no viler act, apart from homosexuality and sodomy, than sexually abusing innocent children.” That goes way beyond homophobia as we usually think of it. It’s passionately held and consciously nourished hatred.

The county gets ever more appallingly cruel, unequal & inhumane

Iran was treated abysmally in this World Cup. I wonder how the U.S. will feel when a future host does this to one of our teams. Because that will happen. That’s the precedent that was set.

NEW: Today, we applied for federal funding for a new passenger rail project here in Wisconsin! After the Walker-era rail debacle, Wisconsinites deserve a passenger rail that will serve OUR communities [instead of Nigeria's]. IYKYK

Easy to believe

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

Fifa treatment of Iran. US treatment of Iran A historic sporting disgrace.

We ought to go further & force American tech to sell their UK / EU operations. We can no longer trust America or its politicians to deal with the UK / EU fairly.

STOP CALLING IT A CEASEFIRE WHEN THERE CLEARLY HASN’T BEEN A CEASING OF FIRING! Reporters and media should be required to prove that they understand the meaning of words!

The cruelty is the point

Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.

If they get an NBA team in Mexico City they're winning rings within 5 years. That's just how this works now

When they said, "wear a suit," I just assumed…  Find a public pool near you at nycgovparks.org.

The average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/25/r...

Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.

Less than 24 hours after RFK Jr. became health secretary, his press secretary delivered an order from him to the CDC: Take down your ad campaign promoting flu vaccines. That same day, the CDC reported flu-related ailments that season had killed 68 children — 11 that week alone — and 16,000 overall.

Liberal minded people, members of a minority or not, urgently need to get our heads round the fact that there is ALWAYS a reaction against gains in equality and not get allowed to ourselves to be seduced by the idea that it wouldn’t have happened if the less privileged group had been more discreet.

This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

President Obama says he has "a room" in Trump's head. "A suite in his head." "Look, first of all, when I was president, the last thing I had time to do was worry about what somebody said, or what my predecessor did. They're gone. I've got work to do."

SCOTUS handed down 4 major rulings this week. Corporate media covered each in isolation, buried in legal jargon, stripped of stakes. That ends here. Four assaults on human rights. One clear message: corporations and the powerful win, everyone else loses. Here is my non-legalese analysis.

𝗨𝗡 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝘂̈𝗿𝗸 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗨𝗦 𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗱𝘆.

My comedy hero Mel Brooks is 100 tomorrow. Young Frankenstein is my favourite film of his. The attention to detail, the clear love of the genre but for me it’s when I fell in comedic love with Cloris Leachman and her extraordinary performance as Frau Blücher. *horses whinny in the distance*

Happy June! 🌈

“Of course, she knows this. She’s just a liar.” 🔥

“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero #SpeedKills

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social