Anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis today

If your bar for success is "stopping a superpower led by fascists" then you're only setting yourself up to fail. It's a form of doomerism. Instead set the bar at "how can I get 2 of my friends involved to do 1 positive thing together". We win because there's many of us, each playing a small part.

"it's new year's eve, not new year's steve" - boring, overdone. have you considered: "it's new year's eve, not new year's jeeves" - no asks allowed (we're all old enough on this website to get this) "it's new year's eve, not new year's peeve" - please do not piss me off this early into 2026

some personal news: if anyone else called me to say "hi I'm running for Congress, will you move across the country to help" I'd say "no lol ur delusional" but it was Lucia so I said "yes duh" drop a follow, help bring a climate policy expert + the kindest, most principled human I know to Congress

I highly recommend adding a paid subscription to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for next year. Her posts keep me informed, grounded, and hopeful amid all the chaos and pain.

thread for restoring your faith in humanity this year

“.. The astounding haul hints at a level of transactionalism for which it is difficult to find obvious comparisons in modern American history.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The citywide outage is San Francisco is going to be the straw that broke PG&E's stranglehold on California politics. Here's my state Senator calling for public ownership- not just for San Francisco but all of PG&E statewide. The future is public and that's what @publicgrids.org is for.

i love my team!!

extremely ominous that on my last day in san francisco the power goes out in 30% of the city and i have to finish moving out in total darkness 👍

seems right

new from me: are data centers going to wipe out water supplies? how much water does ChatGPT really use? and what's going on with that big correction in Empire of AI? i went long on the conversation around AI and water, and how it's actually about what we want resources to be used for:

small town america is so inscrutable to me. i live in a 300 unit high rise apartment complex and we all say "have a good night" to each other when we leave the elevator

The estimated median net worth of who’s running the country: House: $1.0M – $1.5M Senate: $1.7M – $2.5M Supreme Court: $4M – $6M White House Cabinet: $15M – $50M President: $5.1B – $7.1B​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

men will literally pledge 10% of their lifetime income to highly effective charities before going to therapy

Up early to drive to my hometown of Lexington MA (where the first No Kings day was arguably held in 1775). If you don't know where it's happening near you, here's the guide. Please turn out--this is one of those days that matter in American history www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=t...

bluesky, i want to know: how much is your electricity bill? have you been shutoff recently? are you worried getting shutoff? tell me what’s going on. and then, i want to ask for your help with a donation to help us close a movement fundraising goal that frankly i didn’t think we’d reach. 1

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

had lunch yesterday with a friend and found out that she loves zohran and saikat, donates to palestine, regularly listens to candace owens, and is super active on crypto twitter. i love her, she's an infinite well of mysteries

ok not to post, ok not to look at the video

Many of the people still active on Twitter and bashing Bluesky were declaring "Twitter is not real life" daily in 2019-2020. Text-based social media has always been distinct and in many ways unrepresentative. But the actual frustration they have is with forums that empower progressives/leftists.

Gavin may have some funny tweets but JB is my president 🫡🫡🫡

@givinggreen.earth on one of my favorite pods!!

Just a reminder, since many people don't know about it: the "Popular with Friends" feed is pretty damn good at giving you a quick overview of what's happening. I know there are lots of complaints about "Discover" and PwF is often better for me...

lol i am a ✨high-information✨ voter, my partner has canvassed about the upcoming special election, and i am embarrassed to admit that i didn't realize we have to register for vote by mail THIS WEEK until i saw an INSTAGRAM AD

who is thinking about what a just transition looks like for workers/industries affected by AI?

Gavin Newsom is a genuinely bad person and any admiration you have for him needs to be directed toward actually good people like JB Pritzker or Andy Beshear.

Maybe my most cancellable take is that discussions of AI data centers’ water use (up to 6.6 billion m3 by 2027 cee.illinois.edu/news/AIs-Cha...) should also acknowledge water use of livestock production (4,387 billion m3 around 2000 & likely growing agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) 🙈

the university of chicago strikes again

things people text me during zoom meetings

new @givinggreen.bsky.social slogan: "shoot for the moon or we're all going to fry"

[butterfly meme] is this permitting reform?

sometimes i think about how the climate movement made so much progress in the last decade in undoing the individual culpability framework for climate action, only to be thwarted by terminally online leftists who need someone even more terminally online to dunk on

medicaid $5 solar energy $3 science $2 concentration camps $400000 tax cuts for the rich $9000000000 npr $5 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying

it’s pretty wild that the nation’s first climate law is headed towards a chainsaw and the only people talking about it here are wonks

This whole 🧵!

he couldnt even get a legitimate sounding handle, this is like an autogenerated venmo handle from 2013

fascinating detail in this is that SLC Indivisible had held a *different* No Kings protest earlier that day, and the 50501 one was separate

hi terminally online friends of giving green - we have a rebrand in the works 👀 and i'd love to get some quick, low-stakes feedback from a few outside pairs of eyes! dm me if this is something you'd be down for - i'm just thinking a group dm/email with 1-2 asks a month and no obligation to respond

An important read.

y'all. the people setting waymos on fire are not reading your bluesky posts. finger-wagging about Nonviolent Protest is much more likely to scare liberals and undermine protest messaging than it is to reach the tiny number of protestors doing things that you personally think are Bad Optics

abolish the senate

If you are in LA and would like to go stand in front of a line of fascists with some friends and play the Imperial March on kazoos, I will ship you a bunch of kazoos right now

You can really see this cop deliberately take aim at the reporter while she talks to the camera They are often intentional like this, but it's not always caught on video so clearly

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

Police brutality captured on ABC7-- as the police chief gives a press conference. A fire breaks out, then cops brutally assault a protestor. They run him over with a horse and hit him with batons several times, despite the fact he does not pose any threat to the officers. Cops are rioting.

Stephen Miller, who some insiders have dubbed Trump’s “prime minister” (while Trump is more of a figurehead), is now claiming that an “insurrection” is under way. This could escalate rapidly. The Insurrection Act is likely on the table. They most likely attacked blue cities with this endgame in mind