Why are Americans like this

Never change, NYC

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

the first amendment means the government cant stop you from speaking, not that you have to go to the correspondents dinner. those are different things

My grandfather was born in Haifa, exiled from Haifa, and never allowed back to Haifa. He died in his 80s. But 4000+ people who can apparently trace their heritage to some ancient tribe can all move to Haifa and be Israeli citizens overnight. www.instagram.com/reel/DXgw9YB...

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

They're doing the detransition thing but with autism now.

The recent military raid and eviction of 11 Palestinian homes in Silwan are part of Israel’s coordinated assault on the conditions that make psychological life possible: home, continuity, and the right to remain. We must resist. mondoweiss.net/2026/04/when...

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $271B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $231B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Checked out a book of poems for National Poetry Month from the NY public Library. It is called The Years of Blood by Adriano Agarau. One of the first poems is “Ìbàdàn”

@katieporterca.bsky.social was enormously, enormously helpful on disability issues when she was in Congress. Her office came through for us just because it was the right thing to do and she cared. If I lived in California, she'd have my vote.

Israeli settlers killed Palestinian teen in raid on school, mourners say

From the start I have been saying that the bitch narrative was too cheap and easy to be taken at face value. Both stories which she has openly admitted to involved someone who just kept screwing up in major ways, including one who exposed her whole family to Covid. In that case I'd be a bitch too.

"These coordinated attacks and threats have only continued to worsen, most recently after I introduced Articles of Impeachment against Pete Hegseth. This conduct has crossed the line into threats to our physical safety, which we have reported to law enforcement." x.com/RepYassAnsar...

There are a handful of Dems who are stupidly diving into the idea that since the rich won’t pay taxes, we should start eliminating taxes on everything else. Then, when we can’t afford to run the country, and Republicans say we should eliminate safety nets entirely they’ll be like, ‘Welp … *shrug*’

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil found dead after being trapped in rubble following Israeli strike, obstruction of rescue: cpj.org?p=583367

“The @workingfamilies.org platform…also includes calls for affordable housing, ‘guaranteed low-cost childcare’ and 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave for all employees. It also renews a demand for the implementation of a single-payer health care system”

Israeli soldiers looting civilian property in southern Lebanon: Report

Good god the kicker:

Anyone who shows up for this travesty is knowingly choosing to act as a prop for authoritarian kabuki because they’re too cowardly or amoral to pass up vapid schmoozing and free drinks. They deserve your contempt, and possibly a few pieces of rotting produce.

Important reporting. Jerusalem is being erased. jewishcurrents.org/the-land-reg...

“.. Developing Asia is already in a full-blown energy crisis. .. Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines are facing shortages, rationing and demand destruction. .. If the strait remains closed, this will develop, horribly, into a food crisis ..” @robarmstrong.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/b5e2...

Private credit and private equity are going to do a stupid deal or two, but Medallia going to creditors is going to piss off Blackstone shareholders. Oracle needs Blackstone’s money. SoftBank is leveraging OpenAI shares, which is obviously going to be a problem if they start losing value.

The only possible way out of this situation is for Oracle to walk away from these Stargate data centers. It cannot afford them. It is already running a negative cash flow of $25 billion dollars and requires at least another $50-100 billion more in debt. It cannot afford to pay without OpenAI’s cash.

Anthropic’s existence only serves to absorb cash that OpenAI needs to survive. It will try and bumrush going public, because Anthropic is in disarray because its models are too compute intensive for the customers it has and it’s too greedy to stop so it needs more money.

The state of the modern dot com bubble explained in one thread.

"In 1902, politicians designed a lifetime ban to “eliminate the darkie as a political factor” in Virginia and guarantee “the complete supremacy of the white race in the affairs of government.”" "As recently as 2016, 22 percent of Black Virginians were barred from voting for life."

He's a cabinet member. Impeach him.

A former British commando has described the distribution of aid in Gaza as being like an episode of Netflix's Squid Games by @joejglenton.bsky.social

Israeli strike kills Lebanese journalist despite ceasefire - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-strike-kills-lebanese-journalist-despite-ceasefire

Texas father among DACA recipients Trump administration now targeting for deportation Immigrants with DACA were protected from deportation, but since Trump’s return, the government has arrested nearly 300 DACA recipients, including 75 in Texas.

Fadel Abdulghany argues that Israel’s new death penalty law deepens an apartheid-like legal system imposed on Palestinians under occupation:

this is why the anti-trans movement is not some fringe culture war issue. it is fundamentally exterminationist and its current discursive function is to normalize exterminationism by targeting one of the most marginalized and misunderstood groups in our society. it is about mainstreaming genocide

Syrian President al-Sharaa says he loves basketball but was distracted by war

BREAKING NYT: The FBI began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about Kash Patel using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation, according to a person briefed on the matter.

I mean. They’d be innocent even if they WERE related, because that’s not how guilt works.

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Remember when @hellgatenyc.com uncovered that the CCRB had been quietly recategorizing misconduct allegations against NYPD officers in public data to protect their reputations? Now the PBA is suing the watchdog—because it thinks the CCRB's whitewash on the cops' behalf is insufficiently thorough.

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

Let's call this policy what this is. It's socialism. It's Leftism. And it's curing actual ills. Righting institutional wrongs. It's not coming from someone who is infallible, or someone who is always correct. It's coming from someone who promised to help and is trying to keep those promises.

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing. (image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

The midterms will serve as an unprecedented stress test of the integrity of American elections “with more election deniers having access to federal power than ever before,” some experts and Democrats warn.

And here is the confirmation. He literally quote Samuel L Jackson’s fake Bible verse at a prayer service in the Pentagon. This… I don’t know what to say anymore.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quoted a violent and fictional Bible passage nearly word-for-word from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction in his Wednesday night worship service at the Pentagon.

This is an almost perfect example of why the ruling class turns to fascism to crush the threat of socialism and the power of the working class.

The downfall of movements is not taking 'the day after' seriously enough.

Award-winning journalist and filmmaker Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been detained in Kuwait since March 3 after sharing a video related to the Iran–US war.

"If your local bakery loses one of its ovens, the whole neighborhood ends up having to get by with less bread." That's the whole game. Markets can calm fast; physical production can't.

Gee that's a pretty bold claim, they must have great eviden—