Shout out to @cityofsantamonica.bsky.social for closing up a mysterious "high voltage street lighting" cover with dangerous protruding wires after I contacted #311! Thank you for getting on that quickly!

I'm sure if a Democratic elected official mandated that a left-wing organization had to be given access to all of a state's public schools, they would be completely fine with it and would never ever call it "grooming" or "indoctrination" or anything.

In times of struggle. 💙🫂🌟 The Boxer.

I talked about rising electricity bills & the need for clean electrification on #WITHpod with @chrislhayes.bsky.social. AI & data centers are spiking electricity demand, & the Administration is restricting the building of renewable energy. Prices are going up. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f653...

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains

Start your day right as you conduct a symphony of anti-fascist waving & honking! 🎶📢 💪 Remind your neighbors that WE ARE THE MAJORITY AND WE’RE NOT GIVING UP!!

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

This is the best start to the day! Join us!

Help us HOLD THE LINE!! THIS SATURDAY 9/26 10am-12pm Show up to send the message that CA stands together in peaceful resistance! ❤️✌️ TOGETHER we are going to HOLD THE LINE! castrongholdtheline.org

After Stephen Miller and others turned a memorial service into a celebration of their own hate, after we showed our power to make Disney back down from canceling Kimmel, let's remind MAGA (again) that CA will Hold the Line for our people and our state. 9/27, 10am to 12 pm castrongholdtheline.org

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

HOT TIP!! Fascism survival strategy: read (or listen to!) books about fighting Nazis! This week I’ve enjoyed Double Cross, by Ben MacIntyre, and am now onto A Woman of No Importance, by Sonia Purnell. Both checked out from my local library! 🙌 share.libbyapp.com/title/668341

I’m kind of starting to think that any democratic uprising by the people is going to include a full-on rejection of tech and its makers. Just throwing these machines into a river and holding the designers responsible.

So, again, it's worth pointing out that one of the authors of this piece, David Keith, created and then sold the carbon removal company "Carbon Engineering" to Occidental Petroleum, who *VERY EXPLICITLY* intend to use it to expand fossil fuel extraction......... ketanjoshi.co/2023/09/03/c...

Omg this

The concept of trying to implement geoengineering solutions to #climate change is like trying to design a complicated, expensive, unreliable helmet while you're still hitting yourself in the head with a 2x4.

ICYMI: Many Americans think climate change will devastate future generations, the world’s poor, and nature — but far fewer believe it will harm them personally. This “it won’t happen to me” bias delays action, even as climate chaos grows in that country. Source: climatecommunication...

I’m hearing from surprising friends that they are using AI. I am floored. I don’t know how they trust it. But it is also clear that 1) it is helping them navigate systems that are otherwise too complicated (legal compliance, medical care) and 2) they just think of it as yet another tech tool

in education, creative industries, caring professions, and LABOR ORGANIZING, people are doing things, there's a movement against-a-i.com www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

"constitutional conventions have been abandoned. What if we decided to take tools out of toolbox on the 250th anniversary for 1 purpose: addressing challenges AI poses to fundamental law, consent of the governed, equal rights, life, liberty+the pursuit of happiness?" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

What anti-vaxxer Levi means is they realize they can't ban COVID vaccines entirely, so they are going to devise a ridiculously limited set of circumstances in which you're allowed to get the vaccine, none of which is supported by evidence. Impeach Kennedy, impeach him now.

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

„Sadly, the U.S. itself must now be considered an authoritarian petrostate.“ And there is still too many folks gullible enough to fall for the disinformation of the fossil fuel industry.

California isn't backing down on offshore wind. Five ocean leases have already been granted to energy companies, and the state's plan calls for eventually putting enough turbines offshore to generate clean power for 25 million homes. @hayleysmith.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

Cancelled #Disney #Hulu #ESPN bundle with message: “For your cowardly suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. We’ll come back when he does.” #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #1MillionRising #NoKings

So excited to be in the #NoKings2 #NoKings kickoff! Join now! www.youtube.com/live/HJewRRf...

"The maths need to be right before these [AI] facilities can get built. We don't have enough power and we don't have enough water." Whodathunk, amirite?

At the end of the day, it can really feel like this cruel, stupid, vulgar regime is just bitter that they don't have any talent

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

"Cancel culture" was always a dog whistle about fragile (white) people feeling awkward & self-conscious for their racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc. That is NOT THE SAME THING as the govt using its power to SILENCE CRITICS. Please now CANCEL your subscription to Disney/ABC:

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

THIS Thursday, Sept. 18 from 8-11 am near LAX. Join us in solidarity with the National Day Laborers Organizing Network and Indivisible CA27 to protest ICE's attacks on LA communities: Register here: www.mobilize.us/indivisiblec...

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

Four Black girls were murdered in a church for daring to exist in a desegregated America. Decades later, justice came, because people refused to let the story die. Watch Sen Doug Jones and historian Heather Cox Richardson break it down. History isn’t past. It’s a warning. youtu.be/bccqUo0mZvQ?...

History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. Clearly the administration wanted Kirk to be their Horst Wessel, an SA member and later Nazi “martyr” possibly killed by Communists in 1930. Martyrs are useful to propaganda machines. We are seeing this in real time. www.britannica.com/biography/Ho...

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

"Institutions administered by public servants sworn to place that public good above their own. We persevere not because our Union is perfect, rather because we never stop pursuing a more perfect one - together." Let's hold onto that. Join up. Oct. 18th WE SAY NO KINGS www.nokings.org

If the right *truly* believed Charlie Kirk was a defender of free speech and someone who was fine with dissenting opinions, they wouldn't be engaged in a massive campaign to punish anyone who didn't "mourn him properly." They clearly know all of that is bullshit. Only the media was conned.

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

the mainstream blind spot here is obvious and easily exploited 1. I, the mainstream pundit, am a good person 2. This right winger is friendly to me 3. I, as a good person, would not be friends with someone who genuinely advocated for horrible things 4. My friend didn’t mean the things he said

One thing that I think some not-youngs forget (and is different from 20 years ago) is that Kirk used his ‘debates’ to generate video that could go viral and, to use an old phrase, catapult the propaganda. His debates weren’t in any way, shape, or form educational.

Democratic lawmakers in California want the state to restore funding for scientific research that has been slashed by the Trump administration, creating an ambitious plan to use tens of billions of dollars in voter-approved bonds to fill the void.

I won't quote-tweet our main character of the day, but if your complaint is that Charlie Kirk's words are being taken out of context, I'd encourage you to skim through the Media Matters tag for his name. They have hundreds of posts about Kirk and most have longer clips that give the full context.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

Why isn’t every local news broadcast opening with, “What are the ‘Groypers’, and how do you know the signs of your son is part of the deadly gang?”

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.