as long as establishment dems adhere to the gentleman’s agreement on billionaires and Israel there is a wide open lane with huge appeal to the actual voters. leadership should focus on occupying it with strong, vetted candidates instead of trying to wish it away

Onsite battery storage requirements also seem really, really doable for helping grid health if we're going to pump the brakes. They're compact enough to not blow up siting like solar requirements would, and they indirectly subsidize solar build out by evening out prices over the course of a day

I think it is perfectly fine and reasonable for everyone outside the US to boo the US flag and any expression of patriotism, and I probably would too if I lived elsewhere also, promoting a positive vision of a better America to other Americans is how we win this fight and we should keep doing it

Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

One thing to be said for this era - at least the battle lines are crystal fucking clear.

Oh. The difference is just Trump being open? Not the scale? The conflicts of interest and corruption? The policy decisionsTrump made that enriched him and his children? The pay to play of it all? How much money did Biden personally gain @wsj.com? Tell us!! What specifically did the Bidens do?

Found it strange that ppl push back on our argument that sales of electric vehicles are going to accelerate after Iran War AND totally upend politics in every car-making or oil country. Turns out almost no one knows this fact: Sales of ICE cars peaked way back in 2018! bsky.app/profile/70sb...

The most important divide in the Democratic Party today is between those who think Trump is a temporary aberration within the GOP and those who understand that Trump is the best version of what the GOP will be for the rest of our lives and into the foreseeable future.

Reality denial is the core MAGA gesture. It started with climate change but it doesn’t end there. Yes, Exxon, Koch, etc are directly responsible for the circumstances that brought us Trump. (The irony of the fact that the Kochs are now anti-Trump will never fade.)

need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.

Who the fuck hires these people? Is *every single* VP of Whatever a failson?

Not a risk. A near-certainty.

Removal is the moderate position.

AIPAC has far less influence than it or its enemies think it has, but the modicum of power they do have is now bent entirely to evil. Remaining loyal to Bibi even as he became a mass-murdering despot was a choice.

The lines are insane to get into Trump’s State Fair.

On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”

it’s really a policy problem from hell, because false positives and false negatives are both really, really bad, so there’s no such thing as “erring on the side of caution”

Fans use 1% of the electrify that air conditions use. Ceiling fans in summer can cool you off. If you run a ceiling fan while you use your ac it allows you to run your ac at higher temps using less power overall. If you reverse their direction, in winter they can help better distribute heat.

The suburbs rule because subsidized living rules. It is sick to consume things you get at an extreme discount. This is also why European cities are better than American ones--that's where all the public money goes.

Anti-trans politics is a major plank of the republican party because they just replaced the previous plank that was anti-gay, they just swapped one for the other when it wasn't working any more, and this is the most obvious thing ever. Surely everyone remembers how vile they were about gay people?

A friend of mine is up for security clearance and asked me if I’d be a character reference like three months ago. I totally forgot and just got a phone call that said “hello this is xxx from the fbi counterintelligence and security agency” and, dear reader, I shat

Any Democrat currently in office who supports Palantir should not be in office for another term. We need a Palantir Tracker just like the AIPAC Tracker.

I must point out that the 2021 Princeton Net Zero America study — which, mind you, was also funded by BP (and ExxonMobil!) — included about 10gt of cumulative carbon sequestration by 2050 in what they represented as the most "cost-effective" pathway to US decarbonization.

Coordinating agents Claude Code: Some days, you feel like a wizard. Other days, you feel like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

IOW he suffered from the same affliction as Will Stancil.

But as we all know, every single thing that MAGA ever says, down to the smallest detail, is a lie. So, on brand.

The immune system is not a muscle. It is a cleansing fire. It causes collateral damage. It has a limited supply of fuel. It can get out of control. Don’t burn your whole house down every time by catching every disease without caution.

I’m really glad President Zelenskyy is saying this out loud. More people need to realize this.

All credit to @katewillett.bsky.social on the Abundance deep dive, for my part I am glad that people are waking up to how tech fascists are compromising the both democrats/republicans. We also need to realize FOR HOW LONG venture capitalists have been compromising the Democrats... decades now.

very much so: the issue is that Trumpism is unstable because one part of it wants a far-right multiracial civic nationalist movement and the other part wants a far-right ethno-nationalist movement

Geo-engineering seems to be forever an attempt to not do the very doable greenhouse-gas reduction things we can do, know how to do, are doing, but not nearly enough. To reject a proven, viable solution in favor of a wild gamble that could create its own catastrophes.

a taco is a sandwich if you break the shell in two I have laid out my Grand Unified Sandwich Theory here I have expert sandwichologers right now debating on if #5 should be a kebab or an ice cream cone instead

Well, I guess this makes me a sandwich liberal. It’s a sandwich if the filling is embraced by the wrapper, but has a chance to escape. So open-faced, not a sandwich (not quite willing to go so far as calling it pizza), calzone is a dumpling. Everything in between is sandwich

I think Obama would have done us all a favor if he’d been more willing to impose his will, on Israel specifically. 10/7 only happened because the rest of the world turned a blind eye and let Israel (and Netanyahu) play out enough rope to hang themselves with (settlements, etc).

Fascist influencers

We're here because of corporations driving profits with planned obsolescence and disposables, a culture of overconsumption, and the municipalities and state agencies that keep slapping bandaids on bullet wounds. There are no easy answers here, but we start by knowing the story behind the smoke.

"Specifically, the water is more or less the color of a sour apple Jolly Rancher now. It looks like they're brewing Yodas in there. " LOOOL

This and: If there are history books written that refer to this era, that already indicates we escaped from the worst of the reasonably probable consequences of this era.

When the foo shits… And it definitely does in this case.

Give’em hell, Mr. Secretary.

This behavior only makes sense if you assume that MAGA full believes its own bullshit about paid protesters and public sentiment.

The dems need to treat the Republican party like a criminal organisation. Because they are. We are witnessing the biggest scaled con in history and the entire party is enabling it. Being able to "reach across the aisle" should be a mark of naivety and not of competence.

On the second point: Do we really need to spell it out anymore? A liberal and democratic society is not compatible with the GOP culture of lying, corruption, and double standards. If Dems can't make them pay a political price for bad faith dealing, we're fucked. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

Time for me to repeat one of my ‘sayings’. If you try to solve a problem by passing a law, but people don’t obey the law, you now have two problems where you used to have one.

Solar just produced more electricity than coal in the US for the first month ever and it won't be the last... Over the last two decades, the role of coal and solar in the US mix has changed drastically May 2006: 🪨 48%, ☀️ 0% May 2016: 🪨 26%, ☀️ 2% May 2026: 🪨 12%, ☀️ 13%

i follow a mongolian family on insta who live a traditional nomadic lifestyle w a dairy heavy diet... THEY DON'T DRINK RAW MILK. they have a lot of kinds of yogurt/creams/fermented dairy drinks and they always boil the milk first at the start of the prep process