China is testing a train that will go 280mph, making it the fastest conventional train in the world. The US can't get its shit together to build a single new line.

MARCO RUBIO: The imminent threat was from Israel deciding to attack Iran without us and then Iran retaliating The imminent threat was from Israel deciding to attack Iran without us The imminent threat was from Israel deciding to attack Iran The imminent threat was from Israel

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

For what?

These children died for Trump's greed and literally nothing else

Remember how I said, just a few hours ago, in response to critics insisting I should support the war in Iran because it will help Iranians, that in fact Donald Trump plans to pick the new leader of Iran and Iranians will have no say in it? Me of several hours ago, meet just now:

Attacks on Voting include: Directive from WH to USPS to NOT post mark mail in ballots Calls to Nationalize elections Calls to eliminate electronic voting The SAVE act which will eliminate millions of voters Demands by DHS for Voter Rolls Demands by tRump to redistrict

What's important about this story is the newly revealed fact that Donald Trump's personal lawyers are sifting through the Epstein Files and determinedly removing only those pages that could potentially inculpate their client. That's consciousness of guilt writ cartoonishly large.

This is so wild and awful.

I certainly agree that we need to think bigger about how to expand the electricity system -- about how to structure institutions, how to protect workers during the transition, how to take a more direct public hand in investment & expansion. Why, I'd even say we need a ... Green New Deal. 😎

All my life, Democrats have bent over backwards to run scrupulously scandal-free administrations, while Republicans have wallowed publicly and unapologetically in crime and corruption ... and Democrats have gotten zero advantage for it. Zilch.

Layer on top of that insurance markets on the verge of collapse, with bills doubling and tripling where insurance is available at all, and it becomes clear that the climate crisis and the affordability crisis are one and the same.

(Oh, and you paid hundreds of thousands for Patel to party in Italy rather than do his job. He even took a plane you own to get there—after saying *on camera* before he became FBI director that no FBI director should use that plane in that way. Maybe he should be fired tonight?)

I'm sure you're wondering how many paragraphs it took the NYT to note that the US-Iran crisis the world is facing was *deliberately created by Trump* when he exited the US-Iran nuclear deal in 2018 purely to spite a Black man he hated (Obama). Answer: 22.

It's utterly irrational how much joy this tweet brings me.

If I were the Greenlanders, I'd check that hospital ship for Odysseus and his Greeks before letting it anywhere near shore, given that it's a weird creepy unnecessary oddly shaped "gift" no public reporting on what is happening in Greenland explains and Trump is Temu Agamemnon

This is well said. The only reason he lost this case is because what he did annoyed some rich people. Every time he does something that takes away the rights of the rest of us it will be either a 6-3 or 5-4 decision in his favor.

This is a fake quote that was never said by anyone, which is precisely why it is in an image, has no link associated with it, and does not name the prosecutor. Jesus Christ, people: fascism is here, and even on Bluesky people of good faith are failing even the most basic media literacy tests. FFS.

This is a crime. If you read the Board of Peace charter, you understand it has nothing to do with the American government; it's a private entity Trump created for his own enrichment. This is an impeachable offense, and if this country were not broken he would be gone by tomorrow.

Hang on a second ... you don't think ... you don't think it was about more than high school sports all along, do you?

At the same Texas concentration camp: “There were children in Dilley who were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, several mothers told me. Recently, two cases of measles were discovered in the center.“ Extreme child abuse as state policy. www.propublica.org/article/life...

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

NOTE I am not suicidal; I don't drink or do drugs; my blood pressure and cholesterol are normal; I don't engage in high-risk activities; my vehicles are well kept and newly serviced. If anything happens to me, please assume foul play and only let state agents—not federal—access my data and drafts.

Trump’s back to threatening 100% tariffs on Canada this morning, wow I can’t imagine why the Canadians now see the Chinese as a more reliable trade partner

Look, the endangerment-finding move was stupid and wrong, but this headline is wildly misleading. EPA regs never meaningfully restrained GHGs and the US government still very much has the power to address climate change. It's called f'ing Congress!

we are at the "war is peace" phase of things, fully. Including dept of defense named "dept of war" and the biggest corrupt war mongering supremacist slobs creating a ridiculous "board of peace"

Right over here, Bondi

The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.

the companies' mistake was passivity in the face of the possible election of the MAGA crowd and its fossil fuel allies. if you commit this kind of money you need to commit to the politics that supports it. it's the whole point of lobbying

China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies. It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

Fucking love this guy.

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

Here's one where Larry Kudlow reveals that, despite the fact that climate change has been a prominent public policy issue for three decades now, despite him having done numerous segments on it, he still has no idea what it is, at even the most rudimentary scientific level.

This tracks

Correct. Now is the time to be very clear on the fact that you don't give a fucking inch to fascists. Not on anything. Not ever. Everything they are doing is per se illegitimate. The very minimum you demand is an immediate, across-the-board return to regular democratic order and norms. Nothing less.

Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Most people don’t know this: Heat pumps REDUCE gas consumption even if running 100% on electricity from a gas fired power plant. More here in my piece for @carbonbrief.org👇 interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...

First line of Wikipedia article: "China has the largest installed capacity of any nation and continued rapid growth in new wind facilities." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_po...

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It seems like we have the dumbest trolls in government, but it's way worse than that. These men are evil. Every single one of them knows they're lying about climate change. They know that actual science shows it's real, it's us, it's dangerous, but we can fix it—yet they truly do not give a fuck.

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

In what is arguably the World's Best News, it looks like India is going to spend much less time in the "fossil fuel detour" than the US or China. It is moving much more directly to clean electrification. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

2/10 Before her first election in 1996, Susan Collins pledged to only serve two terms. She affirmed that pledge six years later. Today Senator Collins announced she would seek her SIXTH term. #maine #MEpolitics

On a day tens of millions of Americans are more sure than ever before that the leader of our nation is a serial sexual predator who's either a pedophile or aiding and abetting pedophiles, the idea that his party is investigating Spanish lyrics they don't understand is a near-alien level of weirdness

American political and economic elites continue to pal around with a guy who killed 750,000 kids.

Wow, someone really did not think this through. "I can 'exonerate' you for a price"—made as a public offer—is essentially an acknowledgment that the person being offered the bribe is in fact... ...a criminal who did exactly what they have been accused of.

Around the world, politicians and businessmen are resigning from their positions because of the Epstein Files. Except in the United States. Here: Zero shame, zero consequences. We need resignations, investigations, impeachments, and punishments now. Should have been years ago.

For my part, I prefer an America with both 5yos! The more cute little 5yos the better! People are good. Having more people in the country is good.