He Should Be Fired Immediately and Investigated…..

War is the ultimate failure of imagination, invention, and integrity.

Great work by Zachary Cohen at CNN.

Fascism is here. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. “Left-wing political terrorism” will mean those who oppose the regime — while actual right-wing extremism is allowed to grow and thrive. We are very far off the cliff, folks.

Seems like you’re supporting a genocidal Israeli regime @repricklarsen.bsky.social

Guess he would have been too good at his job?

As millions of Americans prepare for another brutal heatwave, it’s now harder to find information about ways to stay cool while saving energy and keeping utility costs down. At least 1,662 Department of Energy webpages with guidance on protecting the electrical grid during heatwaves have gone dark.

""People detained at Camp East Montana reported routine ⁠beatings and other excessive force by guards, chronic malnutrition, and unsanitary and degrading living conditions," the report said... "Together, these abuses violate fundamental protections under U.S. and international human rights law.""

NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.

Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes. Murray: And what is the rate for someone making $1,000,000? Dahl: 2.2%.

This is weird. Apparently some Christian Nationalist data center oligarch with ties to Pete Hegseth and (from another source) Peter Thiel is buying up the town of Battle Ground in Southwest Washington… Anyone know anything about this? www.rawstory.com/battle-groun...

We were warned, +2C by 2050 must be averted ... But somehow a world dominated by fossil fuel billionaires ditched, neutered, derailed the message ... "... we may get to 2°C Global Warming by 2027, but with this supercharged El Niño it’s possible - temporarily" meme via WFLA Jeff Berardelli

Important statement from the New York Times

NYT: “The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects.”

@governorferguson.bsky.social If this is against the law in WA State, and your background in law enforcement was touted as a benefit to Washingtonians, then WHAT are you doing to stop this?

The University of Washington has some very detailed reports they have made about WHY this is happening. They are using Washington States DOL data. It’s illegal in WA, but the system is accessed via law enforcement and the Feds keep using it anyway. They are most likely doing this EVERYWHERE. 🧵

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

This: “Prevention leaves no visible monument. It produces something so ordinary we hardly notice it: another uneventful Tuesday. And because it is invisible, it is the first thing cut when budgets tighten.”

BREAKING: The Trump White House just ousted all three sitting members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — hamstringing the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms. The EAC helps state and local officials run elections, including by certifying election equipment.

How insane is this gift? And where is Trump’s?

“Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump & paid its CEO $96 million. This year, it’s raising the price of an Xbox by $150 & eliminating 3,200 jobs. Please don’t tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down.” - Bernie Sanders

This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

Reuters confirms. 11 more people captured by ICE have been sent to a maximum security prison in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), a country where they have no ties and committed no crimes. reut.rs/4wpbIGU

If the death and destruction aren’t enough…

More and more researchers are warning that it will take a "Chernobyl" moment to force governments to take the threats in AI seriously. By then it might be too late. This is my latest dive into the dark anomalies that are emerging in the technology. charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-cherno...

Breaking News! Code: y-axis alert! As of July 5th, the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly has now crossed 1.80°C above the 1991-2020 mean. ' The Nino 3.4 SST is now 3.46 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean:

$3,600.   That's how much EXTRA the average family in Washington state had to pay since Trump took office because of his reckless and stupid policies.

Flag flying half mast today for our diseased democracy’s 250th.

Happy 250 to the USA where celebrations are being canceled because of a climate change-driven heat wave and where both political parties ignore the fact that the price of continuing to subsidize fossil fuels now exceeds the price of a 100% transition to renewable energy. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8GU7MhT/

This heat wave brought to you by ExxonMobil and Chevron.

America’s Independence Day Parade in downtown DC (July 4, 10:30AM) has been CANCELED by organizers due to Extreme Heat Warning. Heat index 110-115F. #Climate

New ocean temperature record set as fossil fuel keeps dumping zettajoules (look it up — big-ass number!) of excess heat into the ocean every year. “Nothing to see here,” say the polluters. They lie. marine.copernicus.eu/press/press-...

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Walk into any nursing home or home care situation and 9 times out of 10 the nurse or caregiver is an immigrant.

July 23, 2025: The White House rolls out a plan to deregulate AI companies. Also, July 23, 2025: Trump buys up to $5 million apiece in stock of Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon & Broadcom. Coincidence? Congress must BAN stock trading by the President, VP, and lawmakers.

“DOGE was sold to the American people as a war on waste. Instead, it became an engine of it, costing $1,028 per U.S. taxpayer by our analysis. In a single year, the Trump Administration forced out more than 300,000 career civil servants…” ourpublicservice.org/know-the-fac...

The MAGAs hate your children.

This map is why Seattle needs to build housing as fast as possible. Climate refugees are coming, folks. We better be ready for it, because they’re coming whether you like it or not.

On June 21, ocean temperatures hit approximately 21 degrees Celsius (about 70 degrees Fahrenheit), setting an “unprecedented” new record for that time of year. Warmer oceans threaten marine life and could lead to greater sea level rise. spklr.io/6005EOmFz

"fossil fuel companies launched sophisticated public relations campaigns to muddy the waters, creating authoritative-looking reports designed to mimic official government science while downplaying the catastrophic threat to marine ecosystems like coral reefs."

This is absolutely terrifying The Nino 3.4 forecast temperature anomaly mean is now at 4C, when even the biggest historical super ninos have seen less than 3C I really have no idea what this is going to bring over the next 12 months, but it will be very, very, grim

More extraordinary heat in WEST ASIA The Pakistani Town of Nokkundi at 700m asl recorded another brutally hot night with a MINIMUM of 35.5C which ties its record of its hottest night in history and one of the hottest ever recorded in the world at that elevation

Let's hear it for President Dealmaker, who negotiated and signed USMCA (calling it the “best and most important trade deal ever made"), then ran against it, won, and breached it while asking "who would ever sign a thing like this?' from the same desk where he signed it, and now won't renew it.

Not a fan of the “Hiroshima bombs per second” metric? The oceans are now absorbing heat at nearly 700 terawatts, up from ~315 TW in 2020. That's like the continuous output of 46 million offshore wind turbines or 230 billion kettles switched on at the same time.

We're now at day 28 of setting a new record daily global sea-surface temperature.

To be clear: in the United States, heat kills more people than cold, and it's not even close. www.weather.gov/hazstat

Warren: So we’ve got all these ways to lower the cost of housing. And Donald Trump just doesn’t care. And he openly says so. The guy who ran for president saying, “I will lower costs on day one.” Remember that? He ran for a year saying, “I will lower costs on day one.”

Support transgender people, fight discrimination, and give a middle finger to the corrupt SCOTUS justices at the same time…

Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made tough choices regarding cars in the past, and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.

NEW — The sentencing of the Prairieland demonstrators shows the brutality of Trump's war on dissent, but it's not without precedent, @kimkelly.bsky.social writes. History shows us the government has always punished anti-fascism. But this time we can change the narrative in real time. Read here: