Our tax dollars paying for government officials to use mafia tactics to bully other governments on behalf of their fossil-fuel overlords. Despicable

Jury nullification is an important part of our legal system. Jurors Find Sandwich Hurler Not Guilty of Assault

Unbelievable - all too believable

It seems intuitive (and is absolutely true) that air pollution harms our lungs and severely impacts our health. What is just coming into focus is the way particulate pollution causes dementia. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

No one has figured out the exact scale of the Hispanic vote collapse yet, but I tried to get my arms around it. Read the rest here: www.thebulwark.com/p/2025-elect...

Big wins for climate and progressive issues across the country last night. Join a debrief on Monday with one of the groups that helped make it happen.

Golly gee, doesn't seem like the US allowing Microsoft to sell advanced AI chips to UAE would have anything to do with a $2 billion crypto bribe to the Trump family, does it? #corruption. @timothynoah.bsky.social @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2026...

100% this. Broadening the point, instead of pumping $ millions into ads on main stream media, how getting donors to support local grassroots organizations that build authentic connections and long-term power. That's a key reason I support @waytowinus.bsky.social

What's that giant, orange albatross perched on every Republican candidate? @jamellebouie.net

This is a critical bellwether for Georgia and energy politics. Running on affordability and clean energy, Democrats Oust Two Republicans on Georgia’s Utility Board

Well, to be fair, the Democratic sweep was good for the nation, but not for you and your oligarchic buddies

Brand new data: Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!). These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates. Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.

"the best explanation for 2025 is that voters didn’t know what they were getting with Trump 2.0 last November, but now they do — and they don’t like it." @gelliottmorris.com analyzes the sweeping Democratic wins last night. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

Agree that this is a key takeaway from tonight's results. Partisan redistricting is a dangerous game when you are facing a wave election, because you have to turn safe seats into swings. Let's hope we can make them pay in Texas and elsewhere

More, more, we want more good news!

Know your enemies. Good reporting in the @washingtonpost.com on the secretive donor network seeking to use Trump's populist politics to enthrone a new generation of aristocrats to rule the country. H/t @gilduran.com www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

All hail to our robot overlords!

Love it. Let's fill every stocking with lumps of coal for ICE agents and MAGATs and warning whistles for the rest of us!

Remarkable that "Never Trump" former Republicans like Bill Kristol and @timmiller.bsky.social are much clearer on the need for Democrats to rally around @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for NYC mayor than stalwarts like Hillary Clinton and Schumer. @thebulwark.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Great idea. ICE is stepping up raids in Seattle and around the country. Get a whistle and be ready to alert people when masked hoodlums are we abducting our neighbors. @katemacfarlane.bsky.social

This is cool: @shilpichhotray.bsky.social interviews @justinjpearson.bsky.social for her podcast "A People's Climate" talking about his work defending Memphis communities from oil companies and Elon Musk. Happy to have connected them. Check it out! @thenation.com @counterstream.bsky.social 1/

Excited that my book group took my suggestion to read We Survived the Night, by Julian Brave Noisecat. I have loved his writing on climate and looking forward to this book! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/688144...

US under Trump is ceding the race for global economic leadership to China, especially by undercutting policies supporting renewable energy and advanced technology. @pkrugman.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/were-numbe...

Global trends fuel bull market for clean-tech stocks, despite headwinds from Trump and GOP. $ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US life expectancy declines are especially shocking when you consider that we spend far more per capita on health care than any other nation.

How's that rhetoric pronouncing Trump as the "Peace Candidate" holding up?

Deeply ironic. Trump has repeatedly blamed California and other Western states for failing to remove fire-fueling debris from forests. While this is simplistic and false, it also overlooks fact that USFS controls most forest lands. And now that work is being drastically curtailed.

One in five children in the US depend on SNAP benefits to avoid extreme hunger. The cruelty is the point. time.com/7329421/snap...

More troubling signs from the recent takeover of CBS news -- their climate team has been gutted and their new ED, Bari Weiss, has a long history of downplaying the climate crisis. @sammyroth.bsky.social www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...

Pop goes the bubble?!? Prominent economists explain the likelihood that the market is in for a significant drop due to the inflated expectations around AI. @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...

No reason to worry, Mainers. Your Senator, Susan Collins, is undoubtedly *concerned*.

Who would've thought building a $300 million gold-plated ballroom as kids go hungry and health care costs soar would be unpopular?

Which companies benefited when Elon Musk took a chainsaw to the federal government? @sierraclub.org's Environmental Law Program sues under FOIA demanding access to communications between Musk, DOGE and industries about these cuts. www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...

I'm sure that Exxon's efforts to find oil in the Caribbean between Venezuela and Trinidad has absolutely nothing to do with the US's escalating extra-judicial murders, CIA dark ops, and other provocations that may lead to a regime change war.

If you are wondering why they are pushing gas for AI so hard, this explains it. When Yahoo Finance is running headlines about the shale industry be "broken" we are in a new era. And they are correct. No one is making money in US shale at these prices.

Every word of this piece by @davekarpf.bsky.social. Democrats are not going to win by nominating more "moderates" who spout only focus group-tested pablum. We need to figure out ways to break through an increasingly rigged communications environment to catch voters attention. 1/

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

The video showing Donald Trump wandering away from the Japanese Prime Minister following his disclosure of an MRI and cognitive test raises more questions about Joe Biden's fitness to be President newrepublic.com/post/202339/...

Important to celebrate good news when we see it! Fabulous to see salmon returning to the Klamath.

That's why I left my job, too.

Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."

Good to see SkyNRG clearing a key regulatory hurdle for its "Project Wigeon" facility in SE Washington. This is a major milestone in the decades-long effort to bring the production of sustainable aviation fuels to scale in the region

We could save more than $1 trillion nationally and cut utility bills for the average household by $1,600 per year by streamlining permitting of rooftop solar. No federal policy needed -- this can all be done by cutting red tape at state and local level. @michael-thomas.bsky.social 1/

The cruelty is the point.

Fascinating: could the exploding growth of sargasso (a form of seaweed that has become a plague in many coastal communities) become a solution for aviation's climate problems? green.simpliflying.com/p/dr-mar-fer...

Good article on the work that @waytowinus.bsky.social and other progressive organizations are doing to win back Latino voters who drifted to Trump or sat out 2024, by showing how Trump's economic promises have fallen short and his immigration crackdown has gone too far. @torygavito.bsky.social

Recent @prri.org poll: “President Trump is a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy,” while only 41% see him as “a strong leader who should be given the power he needs to restore America’s greatness.” h/t @hcrichardson.bsky.social

For shame: the companies and oligarchs funding Trump's demolition of the White House to build a tacky ballroom. Altria Group Inc. Amazon Apple Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. Caterpillar Inc. Coinbase Comcast Corporation J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul Hard Rock International Google HP Inc. 1/

The @nytimes.com argument that the path forward for the Democratic party is to field only moderate candidates is based on a statistical illusion. @adambonica.bsky.social 1/ data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...

Trump's pardon of crypto criminal and business associate Changpeng Zhao is just the latest proof that DJT is the G.O.A.T for presidential corruption. @timothynoah.bsky.social @newrepublic.com 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2022...