What the hell is my %#^*!?* school doing.

Let’s not forget… www.nytimes.com/1992/02/07/b...

Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!! It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms 😱 newrepublic.com/article/2028...

Progressive groups yes but also a lot of the federal employees involved with all this www.gravityisgone.com/a-slap-in-th...

Hard to see @schumer.senate.gov being able to stay in leadership after this or in the senate, he was not the man for this moment

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Please, tell me it isn't so ... Are Senate Democrats once again snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? Are they showing they have no spine, no unity, no real ability to govern in the broad interest of Americans?

Like, Tim Kaine, who represents the people most affected by the government shutdown just had those voters blow the GOP out of the water in VA

There are too many Democrats in Congress that have no will to fight and we are all worse off becuase of their presence. I thought this week had potential to be a turning point and instead a few woefully inadequate cohort of Senators will make it harder for the entirely of the country once again.

me when i’m trying to talk plato out of it

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I want to thank a generation for bringing the expression “cringe” into the mainstream

@amywestervelt.bsky.social there are writings that are awesome because they are untimely reminders and there writings that are awesome because they are timely. This essay is definitely awesome and I hope it is read broadly.

A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. www.bbc.com/news/article... @paulisci.bsky.social

“The Billionaires Won’t Save Us from the Climate Crisis" | Nice article by @jasondovemark.bsky.social for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social: www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

This leads to what I mean by antifascist economics. It doesn’t target one party; it tackles the material conditions that make fascism appealing: insecurity, despair, unmet basic needs. Policies that make life affordable are not just social policy, they are democracy insurance.

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

if you quote Eugene Debs in your victory speech, you will break CNN

conservatives are deeply committed to making the left looking really fucking cool

I love this. Also, listen to the Fela podcast (instead). It’s awesome.

TIME TO BUY THAT PIED A TERRE nypost.com/2025/11/03/u...

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

"China is the only large country driving the energy transition at anything close to the necessary speed and scale." It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability. Coincidence? I think not.

In California, WIC will remain open and fully operational through November. Families should keep their scheduled WIC appointments and use their WIC cards for groceries as usual. Find updates at: myfamily.wic.ca.gov/Home/Federal... #WIC #WICWorks #FundWIC

I don't think we should talk about climate change anymore, we should talk about kitchen-table issues. Like how climate change will destroy your kitchen table and everything else you have

Bill Gates sure picked an interesting day to downplay the threat of climate change

"Bill Gates Delivers ‘Tough Truths’ [i.e. bull$hit] on Climate Just Before Big U.N. Talks" by @jefftheyoung.bsky.social for @newsweek.com: www.newsweek.com/bill-gates-d...

After a modest decline over the first half of the year (and after record 2024 warmth), global temperatures are ticking back up. The past two days have been the warmest on record for this time of year in ERA5 and the highest temperature anomalies since January.

“Cash is the people’s fintech” is a brilliant first sentence. Very interesting.

Nero is practicing fire prevention the right way. Ezra Klein, 64 AD

Some places in Jamaica will receive more rainfall from hurricane Melissa than London or Paris receives in a year! It’s noteworthy that scientists and technicians from NOAA’s National Hurricane Center who are tracking the storm are not being paid because of the Republican government shutdown.

One of the many things @ninalakhani.bsky.social does so well is show the very real, very now cost of climate change at the most human level. This story is devastatingly good: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Voting for the guy who basically killed your father over the other guy because some people lie about the other guy's beliefs is quite something.

Rule of Law Alert: Trump’s authority for country-specific tariffs comes from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which doesn’t mention tariffs—but does require a national emergency. An ad showing that Reagan opposed tariffs surely is not a national emergency. (It may be a personal one)

Being done in our name by our own government to our neighbors. Disgusting.

Saw some incredibly effective climate change messaging today @sammyroth.bsky.social Kingston, NY waterfront TIL that the Hudson River is tidal from the Atlantic Ocean to Albany. Storm surge threatens more than coastal areas

What we have wrought:

«Glaubt man, die Probleme der Welt seien durch identitäre Kriterien zu erklären, hat man schon verloren.» Philosophin @leaypi.bsky.social erklärt im Interview mit @annajik.bsky.social und @dwild.bsky.social den «moralischen Sozialismus» + wieso Archiven nicht zu trauen sei.

It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can.

ICYMI — The president posts an AI video of him wearing a crown dumping shit on protestors. Our kids are watching.

When the conflict expands in scale & scope, the good feelings help propel people to do hard things. Shitting on the public rallies is fucking dumb. It's also ahistorical and lacks any serious engagement with the history of social movement successes in the US. It's just trashy demobilization.

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s. It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling. Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

Feels like a sibling if the general Abundance compliant: 'Why don't we just do things fast by not caring if we do them right' Fine if you want lovely exponential charts and shareholder returns for this quarter. Awful if you want this change to persist at pace for the rest of our conscious lives

What can burn will burn. Arsonists matter. Put them in jail. But fuels are the only thing we can control that drive the outcome. Fix the gardens. Fix the houses. Manage fuels within ember cast of the interface. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...

Hanging onto every bit of good news The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing. This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better. lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog. www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels. New from me @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

Rudely interrupting thread with another animal protected by the marine mammal protection act..

The striking bit about "car guys": Yeah, there's the occasional meet up, where standing in line is the point. But in general, the fewer cars, the more enjoyable the experience. For bicycles, it's the opposite: the more of them on any given street, the more enjoyable the experience.