A decade ago, analysts were calling Spain a cautionary tale. Too much solar, too fast! Today, Spain is rapidly on its way to having the cheapest power in Europe. Maybe this time, solar naysayers will learn... haha, jk, they'll just move the goalposts.

Larry and David Ellison really thought Bari Weiss was going to seamlessly retool CBS News into a propaganda outlet that would influence public opinion in their favor. I firmly believe the various billionaire fascists trying to consolidate power right now are very dumb and will be defeated

I thought I was going to be a little streak in the sky but DAMN

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

This is one of the reasons “we can’t run AOC” makes zero sense. The gop accused Bill Clinton of being a secret communist! They said Obamacare was socialism! The underlying policy just doesn’t matter, they’ll always make this attack. So why don’t we run someone who believes in things?

The only thing I dislike more about these people than their snarling bigotry is the way they demand everyone else treat them as nice liberals

Saw a bunch of teenagers walking to school with these this morning, ready to take that Dunkin’ caffeine buzz to new heights.

My enduring hope is that one day people will realize paying fewer taxes will never singlehandedly move them into a higher income bracket. Because of math. And logic

It occurred to me that this spotless truck probably hauls much as my bike does on an average day.

“austerity is when the government taxes you” God help us all if this shit embeds itself in the base of the Democratic Party

And this is why liberals always lose to fascists. They're so busy trying to preserve institutions that they never look up to see that the barbarians are at the gate and already set fire to those very institutions. You either fight these bastards or they will never stop.

(Schumer/Jefferies voice): Impeachment would just be a distraction from the economy

Gonna be honest with you, I expect Kash to be a national embarrassment but it seems like the bigger problem here is the Navy orchestrating this shit for him

It's not "anti-American" to demand that Trump stop spending our taxpayer dollars to wage illegal wars on other countries, @johnfetterman.com. Contrary to whatever you have become, the Democratic base is built on the values the U.S. aspires to: liberty & justice for all. (1/2)

In response to Citibike racks being added to my neighborhood, Eric and Jeffery Dinowitz sent out a letter validating some locals opposing them. In the letter they vaguely cite crash statistics, without clarifying most of those crashes just involve drivers. never heard of a citibike doing this.

A bunch of people held a protest about a traffic calming project on 72nd Street just last week. One of the complaints was that people might get hit by bikes.

I remember during her campaign she put on her website she was not a Mamdani Democrat (or something to that effect), and well, here you go. I wonder how many people in Virginia will sit out the next gubernatorial election over this garbage?

Every crosswalk along Third Avenue looks like this because nothing is stopping them. Ticketing this behavior would balance the NYS budget

Me at the self-checkout when it tells me to place the scanned item I just got done placing

Once again: Car brain is bipartisan

BAN THE PERVERT GLASSES

It's time to classify any vehicle capable of sending a bus into a house as a "class 3" automobile and require the engine to cut out once it hits 28 mph.

Third Way is obviously VERY relevant to voters, in that voters do the opposite of what Third Way says they should do

It feels like they're chasing populist votes on ridiculous policy they can't/won't follow through on. But if the Democrats do win and this garbage (hopefully) doesn't happen it will just make people feel even more bitter toward the Democratic Party.

The Evers-Vos surplus spenddown: you've got a moderate Dem and two arch-conservatives doing the Predator handshake to ruin Wisconsin's budget with bona fide slopulism. Meanwhile, the democratic socialist is promoting actual fiscal responsibility—long-term investment in the state.

Now that this is in the news, I'm excited to finally announce that I am starring in "Paper Rush: A Fast and the Furious Tale" for NBC, which tells the story of the brave loan officers who help the heroes of the franchise buy all of their Skyline GT-Rs at 27.9% APR

AOC is right to say this, and anyone who attacks her for it is wrong. And AOC should under no circumstances be labeled antisemitic.

I just created a Facebook account because I needed to see a specific post on a local Facebook group and the third post on my timeline without following anyone was xenophobic right wing propaganda. will be deactivating again ASAP.

This alone is disqualifying

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

The profiles of people like Tucker Carlson and all the anti-trans stories aren’t accidents. We’re being subjected to corporate centrists emotionally preparing themselves to ally with fascists against us as leftist energies and demands for change grow. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-corpor...

Between him and that ex-DNC leader dope who I blocked earlier, politics sure has some real “woe is me” type bitches who got everything they wanted but will die if they are criticized by people noticing Then What Happened

ok, as someone who has been in the trenches of working on and helping shape DSA's electoral strategy, these posts (and the many other dunks) have literally no idea what they're talking about. the framing that DSA hasn't been building from the ground up is deeply ignorant. a thread:

So much of the discourse around the DSA is based on fundamentally misunderstanding what the DSA is and isn't

Politicians who are complicit in war crimes should absolutely be sent to the Hague. The problem with Israel is much deeper than one politician, and the same is true in the US. I want to like JB Pritzker because he seemed to understand the stakes at home, but this makes me unsure if he does!

Kathy Hochul is going to force austerity on NYC in order to give people like this a tax break:

We have an epidemic of speeding drivers killing children, including a child walking to school this week. And this church holds a vigil for losing a traffic lane on their dangerous multi lane one way downtown street.

As always, the only move here is to let them have their tantrum and they’ll move on. Protected infrastructure saves lives.

People don't realize when they try to scold us for riding with kids it just encourages us to do it more.

Alright fine I'll stop complaining about the cool spring weather we've been having in NYC

One of the big reasons I wound up becoming a leftist is because I grew up in a multicultural country where one ethnic group doesn’t have power than every other ethnic group (Yes, obviously this is only nominal especially with recent Supreme Court rulings!). Ethnic hierarchy is a right wing thing!

broadly speaking, commentators put way too much emphasis on issue polling, which are incredibly easy to manipulate to get the results you want.

I'll stop "demonizing" drivers when they stop killing pedestrians and cyclists

Danny Pearlstein's excellent op-ed here starts with an anecdote about the Bx7, a route I desperately want to love but can't in its current state

It is sort of bleakly amusing that the one Palestinian that centrist-liberals like is a white supremacist.

The car lobby is so powerful that even the most progressive states, including California, are considering laws to kill electric bikes. Despite their environmental and climate benefits. Despite their affordability compared to cars.

Honestly I think the mayor should make it very difficult and expensive to undo the changes to the streets his administration makes, because there is a very good chance the next mayor is going to suck on this issue.

once again meditating on Ta-Nehisi Coates' optimistic "these are the least racist white people so far"

When I see someone's license plate is concealed by an errant leaf or piece of cardboard stuck in the license plate cover, I help them out by removing it. After I've made sure they aren't around, I want it to be a surprise!

NGC 3607 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/cXvHs3