Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."

The "How DARE you question Dear Leader's lies" defense.

"The slow moral rot of the backwards-looking, theocratic regimes behind the Iranian revolution of 1979 and the Reagan revolution of 1980 has finally decayed to the point where thousands of people are out in the streets of Tehran, Minneapolis, Tabriz, and Philadelphia." - @willbunch.bsky.social 🎁🔗

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 427 ppm in December 2025 10 years ago December averaged about 402 ppm Data available at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

Fox: Saying anything negative about Charlie Kirk should get someone fired. Also Fox: ...

Sexualized deepfakes created without a subject’s consent = “Racy”. @kateconger.com @nytimes.com

"Yeah, that's the thing. If you artificially cap borrowing rates, then you restrict the availability of credit. If you want to create a man-made recession, this is a good way to do it."

I remember when the Kennedy Center celebrated interesting people with talent. How far it has fallen.

#Fairbanks #Alaska at -30F protests against ICE. We remember Renee Good and the many, many hurt and stolen. Standing here loving cold, not murder, not abductions, and not vice.

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

white women and queers - and people who love them - this is a good week to look GOP voters you know in the eye and ask them if they think it should be legally permissible for men to shoot you or your loved one in the head on the basis of being a “fucking bitch”

Air pollution is the world's leading cause of early death and illness: Take action--right now--to tell your members of Congress that you oppose any efforts to reduce vehicle fuel efficiency. Do so by clicking this link: secure.ucs.org/a/2026-oppos... @docsforclimate.bsky.social

"I quit the Republican Party in 2018 because I saw that it was no longer the party that I joined in 1980, and it was a personality cult ... I honestly think that when people get to hear about what I have to say on issues, they're going to say, 'Well, that's perfectly reasonable. I agree with that.'"

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

“.. A Department of Homeland Security agent detains a demonstrator, at a protest against the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, during a rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota.” @reuters.com

"They posthumously determined her to be an enemy of the state because they need her to be one in order to keep their supporters from questioning how Trump uses his power."

Last night, at the corner where an ICE agent murdered Renee Good, thousands of Minnesotans gathered in the frigid dark to protest her killing. In the face of this administration’s lawless violence, solidarity is the answer. They want to mold America to their cruelty. We refuse.

Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Make it viral.

Climate change manifests particularly via nighttime lows.

A combined 204 record warm lows are forecast overnight Tonight, Thursday night, and Friday night across the CONUS – 37 by more than five degrees!

ICE’s “wartime recruitment” ads are running on national television, proliferating on social media, and popping up on platforms such as Hulu, HBO Max, Spotify, and YouTube with alarming frequency. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

Video makes clear almost every word of this is a lie.

Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.

one of the things i hate most about this persistent line of argument is the implication that any of these actions would be fine if groceries were cheaper

MAGA followers are asking Elon Musk to ‘fix’ Grok over this Twitter (X) post:

Dude, stop being disappointed and start recognizing you are in an existential street fight with a pack of hooligans.

Never has a President wagged a dog harder than Trump and MAGA now. To distract from Epstein, the explosion of health and homeowners insurance costs, and the tariffs that are decimating small businesses, Trump is plunging this country into a war and using our soldiers as pawns.

A “Secretary of State” who’s not read into the pardon of a foreign head of state sitting in an American prison is not the Secretary of State. So you can stop interviewing him. (Again.)

Time is a flat circle.

Franklin Graham was previewing the foreign policy of the United States when he called God a “God of war” last month. This is an idol that scripture warned us of. What we believe about God shows us the boundaries of our ethics. God is a God of peace - not war. Reported by @briankaylor.bsky.social

This is the way. Simple, direct, unambiguous.

Fairbanks average temperature for 2025 of 30.1ºF/-1.1ºC tied for the 10th warmest year since 1930. There hasn't been a "top ten" coldest year in the 21st century, but half of the top ten warmest years have occurred since 2000. The typical year is now 3ºF warmer now than before 1960. #akwx #Climate

Humans have emitted 2750 gigatons of CO2 since the industrial revolution from burning fossil fuels and land use change. To put this in perspective, this is more than the (dry) mass of all living things on earth and everything humans have ever built combined:

Mamdani already throwing felons out of the city.

“.. Since his return to office, President Trump and his family have engaged in a moneymaking campaign like none in modern American history.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Arctic sea-ice extent in 2025 was record low in January 🥇 February 🥇 March 🥇 and December 🥇 and the second lowest in June 🥈 November 🥈 and YEARLY 🥈 No blue cells in any month since 2013 ...

This latest reporting shows Bondi, Blanche, and others at the DOJ have been lying to the American people about the Epstein files since day one. The less than 40,000 pages that have been released represent less than 0.01% of all the total documents. They are hiding something.

Tech billionaires (Sacks, Thiel) are ending 2025 by announcing their offices have moved out of California to avoid paying new taxes that CA might impose on billionaires and their unrealized gains in 2026. You cannot hate billionaires enough. Their loyalty is to their money and not their country.

As always, my last post of the year reminder... Reducing emissions will reduce future climate warming and impacts. The time is now. Visualization made by globalcarbonbudget.org. Thanks for being here in 2025! I appreciate all the support 🙂

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.