Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner! “The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”

Spotted in South Philly 👀

This has got to be the best time in 60 years to be organizing labor and tenants. Got to be. Got. To. Be.

I think that Dr. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social had some characteristically smart things to say in this. This part really resonated: "I'm going to need myself." It reminded me of Maxine Waters talking about reclaiming her time years ago. www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd...

starting to think the MAHA movement only makes sense relationally... beyond a thin veneer of healthiness-as-beauty (thanks @tressiemcphd.bsky.social), their vision of health is only relative advantage over less-healthy poor people. See below where I apply this to schools. bsky.app/profile/loui...

Shuler: This is the choice working Americans have been given: chaos, or the same broken status quo. We wanted cheaper groceries—and we got tanks in our streets. We wanted affordable health care—and instead, 16 million Americans are about to be kicked off their coverage

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

Democrats use new tactic to highlight Trump’s gutting of Medicaid: billboards in the rural US. The ‘big, beautiful’ bill will cut more than $1tn from the health plan, with rural hospitals feeling the brunt of it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Prolonged exposure to soaring temperatures can cause a deterioration in our cells and tissues and speed up biological aging, according to a new and growing body of research.”

As you pump all the fresh water out of underground aquifers, the ground above it can sink. It's happening all around the world. Take the surface of California’s Central Valley, which is now nearly 30 vertical feet lower than it was a century ago. www.propublica.org/article/wate...

PMS also post-menopausal syndrome or why am I crying about/watching The O.C., lmao

Shark skin is made of lots of little teeth called dermal denticles!

this is an explicitly white nationalist administration in a way that even woodrow wilson shied away from www.reuters.com/world/africa...

"...his words suggested he would do little to pressure Israel to pull back on its 21-month-long military campaign in Gaza, despite a growing humanitarian crisis that led one UN official this week to label Gazans “walking corpses.” www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/p...

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

The centrists and leftists can argue policy and ideological positioning all day long, but at its core this is a media environment and brand problem. Voters prefer Dem policies generally, but the brand itself is in the toilet. The only way to fix this is with new leaders and new rhetoric.

“Data copied from devices during advanced searches at entry points into the U.S. gets saved for 15 years in a database searchable by thousands of CBP employees without a warrant.” o.canada.com/travel/us-tr...

In “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” the author describes “inevitablism” as a tactic companies use to stop conversation about the amount of our private lives they are commodifying and selling.

This week on VIBE CHECK, we try to make sense of MAGA’s Epstein saga and we go all-in on James Gunn’s #Superman. I loved it! @zachstafford.bsky.social liked it. @samsanders.bsky.social has some notes. Listen here:

Philly’s AFSCME DC 33 is officially ON STRIKE! Over 9,000 blue collar city workers who run our streets, libraries, sanitation, and more have refused the city’s lowball offers. They make an average of $46K while our mayor enriches herself, her cronies, and the cops www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

No Kings. www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

🚨 🚨 🚨 If any of this sounds repugnant to you the US Capital Switchboard 202.224.3121. If you hesitate it will be too late. Let others know what is on the line.

#Iowa #HandsOffMedicaid

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

How is this making us healthier?

As DOGE sucks up government data that Americans thought was confidential, RFK Jr. says people's privacy will be "protected" in his autism registry. I remember when Republicans pretended to be against big government. In fact, they just wanted it to be *their* big government.

Tariffs are taxation without representation. We wrote a whole Declaration of Independence about it. Threw tea in the harbor and everything.

With increased awareness and improved screening, autism has been better diagnosed. This is a POSITIVE development that should be met with expanded resources and opportunities for all!🧡

But most importantly, there's no profit motive here. It's all about what's in the public interest. As the Trump administration impounds funds for key institutions and we all must look to alternative funding sources to stay afloat, let's think about how the power of the purse can be distributed. 5/

Yesterday's remarkable NYT piece by Larry Summers backs up my argument for wealthy universities to backstop Trump's cuts with their endowments. You can read it here. @epopppp.bsky.social @jeisinger.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

If you’re interested in writing poetry about issues you care about & can spare an hour 4/8 at 9:30 AM CT, this online session with legendary Caleb Rainey will be outstanding. Sign up here from anywhere☀️: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... (Hosted by Iowa Farmers Union & @progressiowa.bsky.social)

If you’re interested in writing poetry about issues you care about & can spare an hour 4/8 at 9:30 AM CT, this online session with legendary Caleb Rainey will be outstanding. Sign up here from anywhere☀️: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... (Hosted by Iowa Farmers Union & @progressiowa.bsky.social)

We need to end energy subsidies for AI companies. Why am I paying tax dollars to support an industry that makes human labor less valuable?

There is a new democratic movement bubbling up underneath the surface. It is developing organically and being arrived at both individually and through networks. It is there, it just needs to keep getting tapped into and released. And people who see it need to coordinate and connect.

If you want to write tonight, together online, join tonight’s Writers’ Co-op Zoom through Iowa Farmers Union & @progressiowa.bsky.social at 6 PM CT.📝 RSVP here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A powerful essay from Parker Williamson, a rural iowan with an urgent message "The Place I Call Home No Longer Calls Me One of Its Own" "What happens when the place you love stops loving you back?" @progressiowa.bsky.social @jensinkler.bsky.social theiowamercury.substack.com/p/the-place-...

"Iowa has been a better place for people like me than other surrounding states, historically speaking.” Not anymore. Not right now. From Parker Williamson: ruralroutes.substack.com/p/the-place-...

UPDATE NEW LINK: Attending events & rallies and looking for practical lessons to relay information on issues you care about? Tonight, Tues., Feb. 25, 6 to 7 PM on Zoom, Dr. @robertleonard.bsky.social will share strategies for reporting. Register from anywhere: us06web.zoom.us/j/83961668575

Today's post about the chaos caused by Republicans in their attempt to "save money". Very costly and unconstitutional power grab. Co-written with Robert Leonard. Here's the link to the story on Growing New Leaders: Perspectives from Coyote Run Farm.

This morning's post. Support Federal workers. Fight Republicans. Pay attention to what Trump World is doing not saying. Push back against Democrats who say the fundamentals are strong for making Republicans pay in the mid-terms. That strategy is falling apart as fast as the economy under Trump/Musk.

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

Meanwhile, the Iowa legislator is preparing to pass a law stripping transgender people of their civil rights. One thing should be understood, when one marginalized group loses a right it once had, all others vulnerable. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

Leonard is a seasoned reporter. This should be a good session

Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121

1/ 🚨🚨🚨The bill to take civil rights away from transgender Iowans was pushed through a subcommittee this morning & will be considered by the full committee today at 1:30 PM.

2/ That’s why we must take action against HSB 242 TODAY. Find the House Judiciary Committee, and demand they oppose this hateful legislation, here: www.legis.iowa.gov/committees/c...

Today a sweeping transgender discrimination bill is scheduled to run through a subcommittee and the full Iowa House Judiciary Committee. My deep dive on what's in the bill and the many practical and constitutional problems: #ialegis #trans #iowa #LGBTQ www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/02/23/n...

New post: John Kenyon takes on some proposed legislation that would affect Iowa libraries. "No one is being protected here. The real objective is to control what we access and how we think about the issues of the day." www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/02/24/a...