All elections should be publicly funded, with a single campaign site, for all candidates in the election to lay out their priorities/policies. Everything else is just a scheme that leads to buying politicians. 🤷‍♂️

One of the things the NYT story on how many assault on ICE goons did not discuss is how often they were attested to by HSI agents, and how often HSI made transparently bullshit claims. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u...

“It seemed clear to him that Trump’s people were backing the Tates, because of the “electoral support” that they’d provided in 2024.” Excerpt From “Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse” Heidi Blake The New Yorker (June 15, 2026) apple.news/AZS0y4mmzQHq... This material may be protected by copyright.

If the next Congress doesn’t remove this regime, this conference will be in the history books as the plainest statement of the fascist oppression that follows. Impeachment and removal or we all burn.

This is a chilling speech from Stephen Miller (White House Deputy Chief of Staff) Describing the left as a cancer infecting American society, contrasting "deformed" anti-fascist activists with "normal" church-going Americans www.state.gov/releases/off...

Good morning. This is fascism. This is the US Govt creating thought crimes. It’s not about who they are arresting today, it’s about how this vague and threatening pursuit will be used against dissenters. ✨EVERY✨ fascist govt to date, has taken this step. www.state.gov/releases/off...

Imagine thinking that a room full of people doing useless work (a.k.a. "fitness" workout) is a viable business that exemplifies America's enterprising spirit.

What does climate change sound like? Children crying for their mothers. 🔥🌍 Keep pumpin' that gas www.theguardian.com/education/20...

amputee-in-a-sundress www.coyotemedia.org/meta-ai-has-...

The craziest shit for me is that there's an audio recording of Donald Trump asking for Georgia officials to "find votes" in 2020 and he's running now. How is that not instantly disqualifying? We HEARD him. Not Meadows. Not Giuliani. How is asking officials for votes (with proof) not instant jail?

Trump gets on national T.V. to demonstrate his unfitness for office. A speech! An address to the nation! The same old made-up talking points! We disapprove. Impeach and remove: no more taxpayer dollars for the Trump family. Let him alone deal with what he has wrought, not on my dime!

The expensive, ruinous conflict in Iran has resumed for no other reason than one octogenarian narcissist’s inability to face reality. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Did Movies Ruin Everything? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/b... "According to Thomson, [American] movies have whitewashed history, glorified violence and made role models out of thugs, narcissists and murderers. The consequences shape our public life.

Eat vegetables, not spreadsheets.

The people understand, but Trump doesn’t.

The great majority of government regulation was set up for a climate-stable world. The complexity of dealing with water rights is way easier when the amount of water doesn't change that much - and that's not the world we live in now. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Colonize the colonizer.

Caption this.

Trump is the argument for gated communities. Can’t keep out the mosquitoes tho.

Trump won't sit down and have a beer with you not because he doesn't drink but because he actively hates you. Trump's "friends" pay membership fees at his Mar-a-Lago club. Pay-to-play friendships, what could be more genuine?

If you think oak trees are an inconvenience, wait til you hear about no trees.

Per Raskin: if your understanding of the Constitution doesn't make Trump's corruption clear, then your understand of the Constitution is broken. The Constitution was intended to guide our expectations of self-governance, and not allow an authoritarian takeover as with Trump.

It all feels so tenuous and now that I’m 50, I know that I’m not planning or hoping for my 30s to be awesome. They were what they were. Like my 40s. But now I see how my 50s can be and already are and were awesome.

Complex messiah.

"That’s the thing about semi-authoritarian states that many Americans don’t grasp…. Life goes on, collapsing in pieces instead of dramatic sweeps, acclimatizing you to horrors and destroying your expectations until survival becomes an aspiration."

US government plan to defund science — All federal grants to be assessed by officials, not by civil servants and peer-review panels. They could deny them because they don't fit Trump's agenda. Grants could also be terminated at any time for the same reason www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

What does the Geiger counter say now?

jamie raskin is great. into him.

Jamie Raskin is one of the baddest motherfuggers out there and if you don't get that i ask you to reconsider your knowledge set. Raskin gets America right! 🇺🇸 East coast Maryland Constitutional law man, among the best of our great United States of America. Listen to Raskin.

These are such terrible, terrible people. The change is “undermining the fundamental purpose of the Endangered Species Act,” said Lynn Scarlett, who served as deputy interior secretary under President George W. Bush. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

It just gets worse. "The administration finalized a repeal of a decades-old regulation [in the 1973 Endangered Species Act] that said habitat destruction was a form of harm to endangered species." These are evil people.

The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.

Jane Crowther @coolbikeart1.bsky.social

The larvae of the Western Balsam Fir Bark Beetle are going to kill probably most of the pine trees in the Rocky Mountains, and then those trees are going to burn.

Heat records are getting broken. Electricity prices are soaring. The administration's response? Let's gut energy efficiency rules for appliances.

“The law is this: The land requires our attention. Either you pay attention, or you hire somebody to pay attention, but attention, one way or another, must be paid.”

Tired: 4th of July fireworks Wired: impeach Trump

As I say in the essay above, our experience is what creates our minds. And experience begins within every cell. Minds are the group project of our body's cells. But we cannot understand what they do, because our mind is made from them. Introspection must be imperfect to avoid an infinite loop.

By doing so, the Regime now has "proof" that the Antifa Conspiracy they invented exists, because see? We have these convictions. Using this "logic" they can now accuse, try and imprison pretty much anyone, on no evidence at all, or even an actual crime. This is what totalitarianism looks like.

Your God has nothing on my sun. The old gods are dead. The sun always rises.

Trump is a punk. If he was magically inserted into an alternate reality that's a replica of the HBO series "The Wire," he would have been one of the lesser schmucks to be taken out within a season's story arc. Characters in WireWorld wouldn't have put up with his shit for long.

Some bridges I've known.

Lizards

Five Rolls-Royces and a Ferrari When the company informed him of its decision, he went on a spending spree with the show’s remaining production money, speculating on cryptocurrency, living out of five-star hotels in California and Spain and buying five Rolls-Royces and a Ferrari.

What is happening to the Prairieland Defendants is unchecked state repression. From the beginning, this case has been politicized, and was meant to send a message to others. The judges admitted as such. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/prairieland-defendants-texas/

Restricting that information risks leaving the public less informed about dangers in places millions of people visit each year. Links: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... people.com/national-par... www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-h...

Utility-scale solar is sold as a clean path to decarbonization… But sacrificing the Mojave Desert for this buildout increasingly serves the tech industry’s expanding network of data centers, not decarbonization for the public good.

i'm partial to the western desert bc it was something i didn't get to experience until i was almost 40. this dispatch about the scale of solar farms in nevada is absolutely essential reading: mojaveproject.org/dispatches-i...

Religion exists to challenge the legitimacy of this ruler. Moral citizens do not consent to this government of cruelty, indifference, and blatant corruption. Build homes for communities, not detention centers for revenge fantasies.

Facebook is horseshit.