The Public Grids Halftime Show some are saying

Commenting on energy injustice is now the floor for any halftime act.

Getting several text messages about Bad Bunny dancing on the power lines as an omen

"deprofessionalizing" fields that are majority-women...not by accident!

The Ink Block is truly one of the most remarkable BRT-oriented infill redevelopments in the United States. If only the Silver Line got proper grade separation and signaling priority...

"This is for people who are committed to movement-building praxis and are interested in challenging themselves." Been looking around for resources to share with people (and for myself) and this is another good one

nuclear <- humans <- food <- solar <- nuclear <- gravity it's gravity all the way down

One of the most frequently recited pieces of "evidence" that public power won't work is the dysfunction of one of a number of existing public power utilities. I think this is not only pessimistic but misanthropic. It's a position of despair about whether or not we can collectively do good and

Sarah is kicking off a new series of videos unpacking how agriculture in the US became politically conservative. First one dropped this morning:

"The old certainties are crumbling fast, but danger and possibility are sisters." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Just gave $50 to this strike fund. Movement work is like a muscle, we have to build it through solidarity. Gotta participate more often and with more weight where we can.

If you can donate $50 to @nynurses.bsky.social's strike fund, you'll get one of those red hats. If you can't, here's a solidarity action: Governor Hochul has issued executive orders making it easier for the hospitals to hire strike-breaker nurses. Demand Hochul rescind the order: (518) 474-8390

I love Portland 🥰

‘We’re not criminals’: Hot dog vendors say San Francisco is pushing them out ahead of the Super Bowl. Read more: eltecolote.org/content/en/s...

Thomas Ferguson argues that Dem woes go back to changes in managing the macroeconomy starting under Carter www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

What we’re seeing with WaPo is part of a larger trend. If it’s not clear by now, there is nothing big money gets its hands on that does not dirty and destroy. - housing - law - govt - media - entertainment What we call “enshittification” is really the capitalization of everything.

This is hard everyone, Living through this, contending with this much impotence in the face of sadism, locating our agency and efficacy, contending with grief over so many losses we could not prevent, the daily torrent of heartbreaking horrifying news, celebrating when we are able Its really hard

Note that this is local police not ICE or CPD attacking these young people. Local police are working overtime to distance themselves from ICE/CPD. Don't buy the hype.

8500 beds is more beds than at Angola

Had a convo recently about just this. There is no more equivocating we should tolerate on whether life is precious and has value.

Alt text: transmission lines across an arid landscape in a wildfire haze, dated August 2020. A crow sits just in the frame.

Concentration camps are the defining issue in public health right now. Measles and TB outbreaks, healthcare being withheld as punishment for your race. It is not enough simply to turn the grants tap back on. To do so would make us the same as the Nazi scientists who discovered smoking causes cancer

Revisiting this lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Seems bad that we have a system where one guy gets to add enough money to allow a family to live in luxury for generations to his Scrooge McDuck money vault every day

is 3pm too soon to lie down for the weekend?

There has been a good idea circulating for awhile that we should hold on to and make real which is that the SNAP card should cover your water bill. There's a fixed number of water utilities and the transfer would help keep public water utilities solvent & universal. Wld also reduce water bottle use!

she's thinking about coal and public power utopia again everybody

if everyone could take on the “what if we just did the thing instead of waiting for it to happen” energy that much of minneapolis has right now, the world could be pretty good

Was just talking with a great comrade about how wild it is that so much is happening in our country and also life just goes on Got me thinking again about the need to identify and make real projects like this one that i laid out along the value chain of the just transition

FWIW one the simplest ways to increase the affordability of NYC transit *today* would be to auto-enroll SNAP recipients into Fair Fares via HRA adjunctive eligibility. SNAP is a strong proxy for Fair Fairs eligibility and 75-90% of eligible NYers have SNAP vs only 30-35% for Fair Fares.

The movement to build tenant unions continues and has some lessons for all of us

Happy Friday, comrades.

like that we've arrived at some sort of polanyian nightmare embeddedness, where huge segments of the "market" are embedded within the social relations, networks, and institutions of elite pedophilia.

Nashville being a publicly owned utility is perfect fodder for anti-government, anti-woke lines. The reality is we have to organize to protect existing public goods and build the capacity of public institutions to intervene _because_ climate change is getting worse.

1. deregulate everything and destroy all regulators so nothing functions in the public interest under the pretense this "aids innovation" and "empowers entrepreneurs" 2. blame poor people and minorities when nothing works

I get why a lot of people’s view of pro wrestling is some racist Vince McMahon skit from 1998 because that’s the last time pro wrestling had relevance to their life but that’s not the thing nowadays. I know HHH going to the white house every week is confusing but that’s really not the whole thing.

This is very concerning and is almost certainly being championed in the US by Trump's tech and oil backers, both of which see the UK as a battleground at the moment.

I’m damn near 40. This is about to be a whole damn lifetime dealing with this. My nephews are just reaching high school; they’re going to spend their lifetimes dealing with this, after my parents and grandparents spent their whole lives dealing with this, and that fact should make more people angry.

Most Heated Rivalry coverage has been focused on what young people, particularly younger straight women, think. I cover aging and decided to ask older gay men about their thoughts. I found: A founder of what may have been the first gay hockey blog, a wedding cake shaped like a Zamboni and more.

today's New Jersey primary is all about the collapse of the Dem party's mighty machine in NJ — their candidate is coming in 4th. a piece from 2024 in bolts that gives you a window into what's happening right now: boltsmag.org/new-jersey-p...

we are so back

This is probably the most instructive moment in the evolution of the Democratic Party on Palestine so far— AIPAC is now running ads against one of its (now former) closest allies in Congress, Tom Malinowski, because Malinowski did not commit to *unconditional* support for Netanyahu specifically.

DID YOU KNOW? If you have Delta Sky Miles, you can donate them to help a kidnapped-and-released person fly home! They are set free on the streets of El Paso or another Texas town with no phone, no money, nothing at all. Your miles can get them back to their loved ones!

Once the gestapo has attacked someone once, it just keeps gnawing at them persistently, refusing to ever admit any error or accept any consequences or let the victim go. The victim is now flagged in the system, and the gestapo will keep trying one thing after another to fuck with them.

the best part about epstein causing the great financial crisis are the heartwarming stories about how a good billionaire was nearby and tried to stop him

gotta tax the rich out of existence, like pronto

what the fuck man

Read this whole fucking thread. People *die* when you turn off their utilities. Children suffer, adults suffer, pets suffer. Access to utilities should not be a privilege, but a right.

There are some climate and energy jobs people of color straight up should not take because of who that job reports to and more of our white colleagues need to do a better job of knowing who among them are known abusers.