There's no serious discussion of climate politics that doesn't begin here and the outcome of the elections in Colombia are a big setback for the world and the possibility of coordinated fossil fuel phaseout

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

What I'll remember most about Grima Wormtongue is his joie de vivre.

Don’t live your life so that when you die people say “oh I was hoping it’d be the other guy, but I’ll take it”

well that was quick

Pausa de hidratación

O pequeno torcedor cabo-verdiano 😭🇨🇻

The Pope has decided that instead of competing against each other, Portugal will play Brazil while Spain plays Mexico.

I keep seeing certain people referred to as birthright citizens because they were born in the US to noncitizen parents, but it is vital to understand that every single person* born in this country is a birthright citizen! *except children of diplomats, who aren't subject to US jurisdiction.

I’d say the hardest thing about being a writer is the writing.

Monticello, 1983 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5243

Cape Verde score their first World Cup goal ever and it’s a 30 yard bomb!

Truly my cinematic the-term-we-don’t-use-anymore. I’ve been a Rizzo stan for 34 years and more precisely a Stockard Channing stan.

Imagine being a kid and learning both your parents were arrested by ICE. You’ll have to pay rent and survive on your own. I shadowed four siblings—US citizens near Mar-a-Lago—as they try to do that. I'll be thinking about their story for a long time 1/x www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...

In an instant’s compass, great hearts sometimes condense to one deep pang, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly diffused through feebler men’s whole lives.

evergreen

What an odd thing to say

I recently published an article on an esoteric historical subject. It took me years. AI could not have researched and written it, and even if it could, relying on AI to do these things would have deprived me of the knowledge and joy I gained doing something I love to do and is worthwhile.

Amazing story about how Starbucks launched a "Tank" marketing campaign in South Korea on the anniversary of a massacre by the military.... including a slogan referencing the beating to death of a student. AI did it. Emails were signed off unread by managers www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

"There are many innocent people in prisons today who do not have the opportunity to raise their voices," he said. "There are people being judged unfairly. I know because that was my case."

Do you not marvel, then

I mean no disrespect but I can't believe we're still pretending "corporations never cared about Pride" is an interesting thing to say. even during peak corp Pride I think you had to be exceptionally dim to not get what was going on lol like yeah I think I know Chipotle would kill me for a nickel

New kinds of Mad Syrup People I’ve discovered: 1. Canada?!? I’m from [US state] and we have syrup too 2. Canada?!? It’s basically all Quebec. 3. Canada?!? Indigenous people had syrup first you monster 4. Sugar water?!? Syrup is thick dummy. 5. “Maple” syrup?!? Lots of it is flavored corn syrup!

Maple syrup is amazing because it’s just a socially acceptable way to drench a full plate of food in sugar water. Outstanding work Canada.

“But Doctor Hammond, additional Brontës are impossible” “They were…until now. Welcome. To Brontë Park.” (Enormous Brontësaurus roars)

New Mexico, thank you for believing in what we can build together. I’m honored to officially accept the Democratic nomination for Governor of New Mexico.

CYCLE OF HATE and then the pic is this

He won’t be the last. Utterly insane that the US was allowed to host this World Cup.

A new study found that the National Guard in D.C. has had no effect on violent crime.

That email from the AHA Executive Council asking members to vote for their pre-vetted slate of candidates in the name of saving the discipline from scholars opposed to genocide in Gaza is not doing the work they think it is.

i was visiting a neighborhood bar in boston when a roving gang of elite college professors strode in acting like they owned the place. they saw me ordering a domestic lager and shouted "this motherfucker's not chasing novel gustatory experiences!" and started beating me with heavy wooden rulers

Hasn't even been a year and Zohran's governance is having a massive impact on my family. Our daycare was able to open a 15-seat 3K program because of the 2,000 extra seats the admin funded. Everyone we know got in somewhere they wanted. This is gonna save us almost 50 grand.

I am going to take a baseball bat to my computer

you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils

DC area friends please join me for my book launch event at People's Book in Takoma Park MD (@peoplesbooktakoma.com) Tuesday, May 19 6:30 pm! The brilliant Ryan Reft of the Library of Congress will lead a brief discussion before mingling and book signing! peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/polici...

Let’s go Liberty!

I began to be sensible of strange feelings. I felt a melting in me.

Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.

This part: “Disaffected and independent voters aren't angry at Dems due to missing moderate policies or bad talking points; rather, they're disgusted by a perceived lack of courage and clear values. Again, this argues for finding better ways to talk about climate more often.”

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

I already dealt with this.

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould