"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

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I just received the terribly distressing news that Gordon Wood was hit by a car and killed yesterday. We were together with other Founding era scholars at the 2nd Judicial Circuit conference last week at Lake George, and he was as usual in fine fettle and as always enjoyable to talk to.

They call themselves the Gulabi Gang. After surviving abuse, Sampat Pal Devi helped build a movement of 400,000 women in India determined to protect each other and fight back against violence. When nobody came to save them, they saved each other. #SheShed

Either Trump does not want a ceasefire in his illegal war on Iran that Israel and the regime launched. Or Trump is incapable of getting one of America’s supposed closest allies to agree to his ceasefire. Email your Members of Congress and urge them to use every lever available to end Trump’s war.

1/ What if you put all the ways that Jared Kushner is selling out America while lining his pockets into one place? In our new cover story, @cjcmichel.bsky.social did just that www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Thomas Massie says the conspiracy theorists were right about Section 224 of the NDAA, which he says will merge the US military with the IDF. Massie says the provision is treasonous and warns that it will force the US to compromise its own security for Netanyahu's demands.

Wow! 200,000km² of ocean declared entirely off-limits to fishing in some of the most biodiverse waters on earth 🌏 That's a win 🙌 #oceanoptimism oceanographicmagazine.com/news/papua-n...

have I mentioned that I teach first year writing here and that I am being laid off

Call your reps -- blue, red, purple, it doesn't matter -- about the proposed OMB science funding rule. The house can stop this. Let them know it matters for your district.

I would really like for outlets to, after stating the government’s allegations, at least mention the fact that the car ran into us. An ICE agent drove into a crowd. Of people. Who were peacefully protesting. And then the government tried to paint us as a lawless mob.

"We've got a beautiful country. If you don't want to be part of it you're free to leave. You won't be taking any land with you.” Assembly of First Nations Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, addressing Alberta separatists

Ummm, @barnesandnoble.com - what is going on with your website and your app? I can't log into your website on my desktop via Chrome (I could with another browser), the app says it is down, I can log in on Chrome on my Android... And now, my entire wishlist of *many* books is zeroed out. RIP, B&N?

In light of the Roberts Court emphatically clarifying that the voting rights era really is OVER and that the nation’s laws and constitution can henceforth only be used to *curtail* the right of minorities to vote, I am reposting my series of essays on the history of multiracial democracy:

“Correction: Ken Paxton’s home county is actually in North Dakota, and he grew up in California. But this is as close as we could get in Texas.” - @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social ’s Threads account 😂

You can’t collaborate with a tool.

Wow. A convicted Jan. 6 Capitol rioter has been hired to work in a Pentagon office that handles classified military information. Elias Irizarry was hired to work in the DOD’s Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, and internal alarms are going off. www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

"For many, Pelley was in recent years the heart of the newsmagazine... Indeed, Pelley has won half of all major awards earned by “60 Minutes” during his tenure, which began in 2004." variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Scott Pelley is no fool. He could have left earlier. He could have stuck around. He picked the most opportune moment to strike the biggest blow on behalf of truth and journalism. Whatever happens next, hijackers of CBS and 60 Minutes can’t wrap themselves in the brand’s hollowed out credibility.

"Mr. Pelley also wrote that senior managers at CBS News had pressured him to insert bias into stories for “60 Minutes” this past season, though he did not provide details about specific segments." Pretty important part of the story re his firing. Maybe *the* most important part. CBS = new Fox.

Listening to history rhyming like mad...

This is a big deal. Call about this one. Pentagon bars journalists from its press office, saying it has become a 'classified space'

Congressional statute: "There is a Director of National Intelligence who shall be appointed by the President ... Any individual nominated for appointment as Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise." 50 U.S. Code § 3023

The money was always there for the good things.

Donald Trump is violating the law by appointing an inexperienced lackey to be acting DNI and oversee the entire intelligence community. This is a threat to national security. How many Republicans will oppose this?

Hey, #Booksky #Writersky #Authorsky -- Let's spill some tea!

Ellie isn’t in the Epstein files but she is in the #nycacc Euth list! She needs you now! Pls repost this precious girl!

Since they tried to bury it, you know what to do. Video: xcancel.com/patriottakes...

This is a Concentration Camp. People are sick and dying. Everything about this is a crime. A violation of the 4th, 5th, 6th and 14th amendments. So kettling protestors and making a “curfew” is disgusting. Free the people from the concentration camp and shut it down!

And it continues, because with the regime's flood the zone campaign, the press can't stay on any one story for long. But @paleofuture.bsky.social has been trying track of human beings in boats being blown out of the water with abandon by Trump and Hegseth. #WarCrimes 📺 bsky.app/profile/pale...

Cops busting through a barricade that they set up is pretty tough to misinterpret.

This feels like absolute vandalism as so many books are not e-resources so not available any other way and are absolutely essential for arts and humanities research in particular.

Please don't forget that there is a very solid second candidate running on the Democratic ticket, and to the best of my knowledge he doesn't even have a Nazi tattoo. he's a career USAID guy from an ACTUAL working class family

Americans have a constitutional right to speak out against injustice and the inhumane cruelty we are seeing under this Administration. That is NOT a crime. This is what abuse of power looks like.  We will not stay silent while this administration tries to silence the voices of the American people.

Why is today crucial for Delaney Hall awareness? Because today is day one of First Amendment Zoning A question of rights. And tomorrow is the day that Immigration states they’ll go forward with force feeding the hunger strikers. A pending doom.

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

@thrasherxy.bsky.social My library just received its copy of THE OVERSEER CLASS and I was first on the hold list! Just picked it up and look forward to reading it.

This right here is very telling. The OMB proposal directly dismantles the post-WWII system used by NIH, NSF, DOE, NASA, and nearly every science agency, in which independent expert peer review was the primary measure of scientific merit. 🧪 elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

And without AI spending, there was apparently ZERO net growth in the economy this past quarter.

Americans pay more for a private insurance bureaucracy that exists to deny treatment than everyone else does for their public bureaucracy that exists to extend it, as my colleague Peter Lindert observes

I am extremely cynical about the effects of actual attempts at international justice for crimes such as genocide but this is an important day. I hope it holds perpetrators accountable. A victory for Ukraine puntuated by punishment for Russia is the only way to ensure European security.

The FBI has recently interviewed current and former election officials about the 2020 election in Milwaukee, ramping up reviews of swing states that President Trump lost. Election officials are cautiously watching to see if agents try to seize ballots.

Under Pam Bondi, survivors’ names were unredacted. One survivor’s name was mentioned over 500 times. Epstein’s co-conspirators? Redacted. These weren’t “errors.” They were choices. Choices that protected the powerful and put survivors in danger.

Russia’s war of aggression has crossed yet another line. A Russian drone incursion struck a densely populated area in Romania, injuring civilians. On EU territory. We stand in full solidarity with Romania and its people.

ICE broke the finger of a Reuters photojournalist today. After two days of drenching people in pepper spray, people have been adding more and more layers of protection, rendering the spray useless and leading to ICE using their short metal batons that they swing with full force.

Russian drone hits Romanian apartments, wounding two people and starting fire

🚨 “You’re hearing hope… and you’re seeing fascism.” 🚨 Outside Delaney Hall ICE prison, protesters sing “Take Me Home, Country Roads” as ICE agents surround them. Jordan says the moment shows what America could be — while what he’s witnessing shows the complete opposite. LIVE ⬇️

Tell your Republican members of Congress, NOT ONE PENNY MORE FOR ICE: act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo...

We are investigating what could have been a horrific disaster and emergency in Orange County. The company involved must be held accountable.

The US plan to direct US citizens to a quarantine facility in Kenya is unethical and likely a violation of fifth amendment constitutional rights. It is reckless disregard for the lives of American health and humanitarian workers courageously assisting in Ebola response.