Reminded of Frederick Douglass's inclusive vision of American nationality today - more vital than ever.

More about the new climate data website 👇🏼 #ClimateChangeIReal #GlobalWarming #MotherEarthIsFeverish #Adaptation #Pinks

I wasn't sure my editor would go for this one and am pleased the Strib saw fit to publish it.

The biennial #Maine Energy Plan is currently being developed and regular citizens can participate through online surveys and email updates even if you're not keen to attend meetings. #MEpolitics

Now seeing that Thomas harbors the same doubts. bsky.app/profile/mfor...

I want to make a very narrow point that I haven't seen underscored in the coverage: There was one clear vote for the proposition that the children of unlawful entrants are categorically excluded from birthright citizenship: Alito's. Nobody else on the Court committed to that.

More than 85,000 acres have been burnt by a combined 8 large wildfires actively burning across Colorado. That’s about 133 square miles currently burning, close to the size of the entire city of Denver (about 155 square miles). #COwx

Even if SCOTUS strikes down Trump's birthright EO today, under no circumstance do you have to hand it to them when the text, legislative history/ intent, doctrine, supporting federal law is crystal clear AND as they lay waste to separation of powers, due process, rights in so many other areas.

Help keep and flip GOVERNOR & LT. GOVERNOR offices blue by donating to these candidates today! #Blue26 secure.actblue.com/donate/govsl...

“The rise of Fascism across the globe is directly linked to attempts to stifle any mitigation of the climate crisis. The Ukraine War, what’s happening in the Middle East, the surging power of the Oligarch class, each one influences the other in some way.”

We all meet giants in life. They might be difficult circumstances. Or that quiet voice insisting we're not enough. They aren't the end. They're the beginning of our courage. When we stop running, we begin to see that every giant can reveal who we're capable of becoming. #StoicSisterhood

I’m actually struggling to think of a better example of self-interested legislating from the bench. They *know* that Trump interfering with the Fed would be an economic catastrophe for them personally. For everything else, they’re just gambling that they’ll be fine.

the federal reserve straight up did not exist when the constitution was drafted, central banks and their relation to the government was a contentious political issue for more than a century after, and "federal reserve independence" as a concept isn't even an accepted norm until after volcker!

The word 'wilderness' visibly comprises the elements 'wild' and '-ness', but where does its middle ER come from? A third ingredient has gone into the word, namely Old English dēor 'animal' (the source of today's narrower term 'deer'), making 'wilderness' literally 'wild-animal-ness'.

It's crazy that even during the great recession, a time that was notoriously difficult for me and my peers to enter the job market, people were still hiring youths more than today.

This is Fine? Our new Bellingcat guide helps you look for the bits of the planet currently on fire using a variety of tools - Burning Forests: Tools for Tracking and Reporting Wildfire Damage www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...

Good thread on how hatred of inflation > love of higher wages

Shipping Rackets and Sea Mines: The New Normal in Hormuz after 17 Weeks ⚓Fragile Ceasefire ⚓Iranian Oil Surge ⚓Transit "Rackets" ⚓The Mine Threat ⚓Escalating Costs Video: youtu.be/r0EvQgLcjMw

Liner networks shift away from Asia’s mega hubs splash247.com?p=241352

Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business.

Climate lukewarmists, deniers and delayers have spent decades insisting that none of this will be bad and it will all be manageable. What is truly amazing is that they keep saying it, even as we're burying parents, children, pets and relatives who've been killed by extreme heat.

Sweltering UK temperatures promise a deadly new normal

WHO chief says gov'ts must recognise extreme heat as a health crisis + get ready: 'the London Ambulance Service said the extreme heat contributed to its busiest day on record...cooling failures disrupted medical equip't, operating theatres + wards' www.euronews.com/health/2026/...

This misses the point. Self-education has become more accessible in the last 20 years than at any point in history, though not through ‘amateur reading’. The problem isn’t access to information but learning how to evaluate it critically - and that brings us back to universities (and Humanities)

ICE has made it official in a court pleading: they are selling the site of the planned Roxbury NJ concentration camp. North Jersey activists did this. We won.

The Strawberry Moon. Artistic nightscape capturing the full moon isolated in a deep indigo sky. The composition relies on heavy negative space and low-key lighting, documenting twilight mist and sharp silhouettes of trees on the horizon #luiscordobapharchive #moon #scape #night #photography

Bitcoin giant Strategy #$MSTR announced a 5-part plan to arrest the slide in its common and preferred stock. I took a look in @alphaville.ft.com & concluded it might buy some time but doesn’t address underlying flaws. It’s also clear Strategy is a big seller of bitcoin now www.ft.com/content/3821...

I’ve heard of putting a hat on a hat. Unclear whether this is putting a pyramid on a pyramid. “…giving itself broader powers to sell the cryptocurrency, buy back securities and preserve liquidity as it adapts to mounting pressure on the structure that fueled years of aggressive accumulation.”

As a labor economist, I sometimes wonder if we focus too much on AI's potential to disrupt the labor market and too little on its potential to disrupt human capital acquisition

Maersk raises profit guidance as new US tariffs fuel demand ft.trib.al/evIAIS2

And now an 11th loss, as a judge tosses DOJ's case in New Hampshire. Ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Victory!! Elias Law Group was proud to help secure this decisive win for voters before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Vet Voice Foundation and the Mississippi Alliance for Retired Americans. elias.law/press-releas...

Sotomayor: "The Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws."

Justice Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench. It reads in part: "Today, this Court undoes centuries of political practice and concludes that all three branches of Government have been acting in open defiance of the Constitution all this time. Its conclusion is wrong."

45% of Mainers have a favorable opinion of Platner 51% have an unfavorable opinion of him 48% of Mainers have a favorable opinion of Susan Collins 51% have an unfavorable opinion of her #MESen www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/u...

New #MESen Maine Senate poll shows: Platner 49% Susan Collins 47% BUT Collins is winning 10 percent of voters who prefer Democratic control. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/u...

Buckle up, Platner fans. A big new poll shows he's up by 2 points — a virtual tie, and well below what Gideon was polling six years ago. And if you drill down, the numbers get really scary. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/u...

High quality poll: Platner 49%, Collins 47% MOE 4.8% Over 90% heard of Platner's controversies More Harris voters back Collins (10%) than Trump voters for Platner (4%) Indies: Platner vs Collins (51-43%) 92% of Rs favor Collins, 83% of Ds Platner #mepolitics www.pressherald.com/2026/06/29/m...

"Fifty-four percent of voters said they would like to see Democrats control the Senate next year, a notably higher percentage than the percent of respondents who said they supported Mr. Platner." Most recent poll says my fellow ME voters want a Dem MORE than they say they want Platner.🧵

"voters’ views of the senator remain largely unchanged since 2020, when she won re-election by 9 percentage points, outperforming President Trump in the state." AND "Likely voters view her more favorably than Mr. Trump by nearly 10 percentage points" Furthermore, a majority don't think 🧵

Platner is moral: "Majorities do not believe Mr. Platner has “good character” or the “right kind of moral values” AND "More likely voters view Mr. Platner as “too extreme,” with 47 percent saying the phrase fit him well" Screen shots below show he isn't liked, just being USED (L) & isn't trusted. 🧵

And not once does the article say Collins refuses to vote for Platner. I can't find evidence of this @joncooper-us.bsky.social lie that he's gotten 9k likes for. He's no better than Fox News. PHustle's tiny little lead in this poll doesn't clear the MOE. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/u...

Getting harder and harder to deny reality.

tl;dr - some lies about the reflecting pool, masses of words to get to the point: his next project. Taxpayer money will go towards building the WORLD’S GREATEST GOLF COURSE. Work starts Sept 1. It will be built to “the highest standards of golf”.

central fascist narrative—effeminate, insufficiently violent leadership is a core complaint of theirs neofascism is very fixated on women in power/ women voting. that's what the 'suicidal empathy' thing is about

#Ebola update: DRC confirmed 47 new cases on 6/27; 12 of them are already dead. That brings the outbreak total in DRC so far to 1274 cases and 239 deaths. 87% of known contacts of cases were being followed as of yesterday. insp.cd/sitrep-n044-...

As we deal with ridiculousness of the Reflecting Pool, it’s worth remembering how Narcissus met his end. He was defeated by self-obsession, illusion, and the inability to love anything beyond himself. Wisdom knows the reflection isn’t the whole truth. But 47 thinks his image is it #ReflectingPool

@hrryan.bsky.social @redheaddebbie.bsky.social @charleshedrick.bsky.social @acadia-maine.bsky.social @nuthatchme.bsky.social Do any of you know about this? I don't see or hear on our local news that this is true. Cooper is the only result in the search that reports it as real.

Putin: “The possibility of a complete ban on the export of diesel fuel is being discussed.”