“Koch brother groups have tried to derail public transit plans in other cities around the country, from Little Rock, Arkansas and central Utah, to Nashville and Michigan. They have frequently called such projects ‘wasteful spending’. The Koch organization is also heavily invested in fossil fuels.”

The only reason to announce a total victory before reaching a signed deal is to manipulate the markets for profit taking.

Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.

One of my kids lives in the Netherlands. Beautiful & peaceful. They have free health care and meds. If you have a baby its free. Nurse visits if wanted plus a year paid leave . Excellent schools (free- with healthy, delicious food.) Image a government that exists to make people happy!

Just because Caitlyn Jenner is an objectively horrible person doesn’t mean it’s okay to deadname her. Please don’t.

I want to swap out my old Corolla for an EV next year, but I have zero interest in spending $50k for one, which is the only price US carmakers are interested in. If one of them rolled out a $22k EV it be the best-selling vehicle within a year. So why won't they? Big Oil, the Shithead in power.

Prime so sucks at sports coverage....once again a solid half second lag on video vs audio...

Breaking News! Code: Preliminary Mega-Yikes!!! Preliminary SSTs are spiking near a new record all-time high. The final data will take about 2 weeks to be posted. With the record ocean heatwave in the Eastern pacific and a rapidly developing El Nino, hang on to your tenterhooks!

Nothing makes me appreciate being Canadian more than spending the entire day in the hospital with extensive testing and only having to pay for parking Holy shit.....

Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 17, 2026 ~ and hello to oblivion. "As the oceans warm due to climate change, they now face the risk of potentially fatal overheating." insideclimatenews.org/news/1604202...

World temperature anomalies 17.04.2026 More of the same..endless Deep 🥶🥶 over Canada + Alaska , West 🇺🇸,central Russia + Kazakhstan area 🔥🔥 East 🇺🇸 #Greenland Europe + Scandinavia + west Russia North #China + #Mongolia SW Australia #ClimateCrisis

Apple is closing its first unionized store in the country. Reminder that Apple spent $700B+ on stock buybacks over the past decade. CEO Tim Cook raked in over $74M in compensation in 2025 — 650 times the median Apple employee's pay. The greed of union-busters knows no end.

oh no. the owner of the bookstore my husband wants to have my book launch at is willing & excited. I checked with my acting chair & she’s excited, too. so it looks like it’s actually going to happen. but what if no one comes & it’s just me & this big book cake? help.

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

How Many People Would It Take To Storm Mar-A-Lago? - defector.com/how-many-peo...

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Hungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche admited that the DOJ excluded all images showing “death, physical abuse, or injury” from the Epstein files release. DEATH? The truth is probably far worse than anyone can imagine. Blanche needs to be proescuted as well.

I hope dem presidential candidates are paying attention. 👀

If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than: Tesla Southwest Disney Live Nation HP United PayPal CVS Health Palantir Citigroup PG&E 3M That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax. It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.

My new book, "Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World," comes out in 20 days! Check out this sample audiobook chapter on the closing days of the Ice Age: www.pod.link/1852618120/e...

The more trump spirals downward, the more foolish the legacy media looks trying to prop him up. After a while, the public just stops attaching any credibility to them. As happened in Hungary.

“Look man, all I can do is describe these things. I am not responsible for the world being like this.” - @albertburneko.bsky.social defector.com/president-ex...

Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 14, 2026 ~ The canary is dead. "And so this small and charismatic bird has been held up as 'the canary in the coalmine', signalling deep-seated problems for many other birds struggling to cope with climate change." www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...

Talking about Donald Trump having dementia just gives a sympathetic excuse for inexcusable preexisting conditions. Donald has *always* been a mean, self-centered, incoherent fool who says stupid and ignorant things.

Tween the sun and the shadows s'where the alchemical gets busy.

Ray Ratto - my fav sports curmudgeon: "But there is also a sense that refusing to try in the NBA reached its zenith this year as part of American's ongoing culture war against ethical behavior." And Now It Is Time To Forget The NBA’s Regular Season - defector.com/and-now-it-i...

The DOJ holds thousands of Epstein videos Not one has been released

Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 13, 2026 ~ The long goodbye. "Gray whales are beginning to break their long-established migration patterns, venturing into risky new territory like San Francisco Bay as climate change disrupts their Arctic food supply." www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

In Springsteen’s words: everybody has a Hungary heart

Someone post the pictures of Hungarians dancing in the streets so that we can all live vicariously through them.

BREAKING: Victor Orban has CONCEDED to Magyar www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

As of this morning, the nation of Iran continues to kick Donald Trump’s ass. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

The Dream Team failed. Total shock. We sent two of our most mediocre real estate developers and a fraud. Who could’ve guessed this outcome?

Your 'doom quote' for today: "The earth and its atmosphere are a closed system... The good water cannot purify itself indefinitely. The good air cannot cleanse itself endlessly. And the good earth cannot sustain and repair the injustices of man forever." www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/pr...

I'll be at @powells.bsky.social in Portland on May 18th to talk about my new book Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World with the fantastic @rkambury.bsky.social! This is an absolute dream come true. www.powells.com/events/patri...

"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth." (Sophocles) #collapse

So anyone else nervous that the purge of the Armed Forces brass now means there are no reasonable folk standing between the Shittler and the Button?

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Your 'doom quote' for today: "The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?" www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/an...

Triplet Tropical Cyclones being birth in the Western Pacific! Yes it’s far away, but it’s a sign of a rapidly evolving tropical Pacific pattern shift and will have a big impact on global weather by accelerating the transition to El Niño through bursts of westerly winds propelling warm water east… 1/

Man- I've heard of 'let em play' but this Texas/UCLA game is kinda ridiculous...

I’m about to tell ‘em in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Bank of America would not have paid out $72.5 million dollars to the Epstein survivors, if the Epstein files were just a "Democratic hoax."

I’ve never written anything using AI, I never will, and I have zero respect for any professional who does.

The Generals are gone. The AG is gone. We started a war. Gas is up. Healthcare is up. Prescriptions are up. The rich are richer. The poor are poorer. Protesters have been killed. Service members have been killed. The law is a suggestion. The constitution is a memory. We. Are. Not. Okay.

Driveway view....breathe honey. just breathe

Pam Bondi will be remembered as the AG who watched videos and saw images of powerful men raping kids and decided to protect the men.