Agreed. It's not possible to reconcile "rule of law" with "one week the GOP SCOTUS will nullify a 43-year-old statute so they can allow racial gerrymandering, then the next week the GOP VA SC will block voter-approved redistricting and have themselves a laugh by citing the SCOTUS liberals' dissent."

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Don’t forget the recent FBI raid of the LAUSD Superintendent who fiercely protected immigrant kids (he had legit issues too, but standing against kidnappings was probably the real reason for FBI involvement). This is an escalation.

Research on cities deploying batteries, heat pumps, and EVs together shows that meeting the fossil fuel reduction targets would save 22 to 37% of energy costs; the transition pays for itself.

Our house motto is “Fuck Resilience” because we’re So Damn Tired of needing to be resilient. Grit doesn’t make us successful, it means we’re stubborn and burnt out.

Join and participate in School’s Beyond Screens. We’re starting to successfully fight back against tech in schools. www.schoolsbeyondscreens.com

A lot of my trans friends and community have found safety the left-leaning LATAM counties. Tech fascism is a global cancer coming for us all.

"Trump bad" is not the story. The story is that every Republican administration for the last 50 fucking years has been a corrupt disaster and Democrats keep having to clean up after them. This narrative is obvious in the numbers, in the history, but voters don't know it because Dems won't tell it.

How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.

What do conservatives always say when liberals criticize a Supreme Court decision? "Get Congress to pass a law," right? That is EXACTLY what happened here. In 1982, Congress explicitly overruled a Court case that narrowly interpreted the VRA. Today, Sam Alito said, nope, we were right all along.

Man, I read more and more posts on social media sites about how the Dems need to reform the court, impeach people, hold people accountable, completely rebuild institutions, implement universal healthcare, etc. etc. ... and then I look around at the actual elected leaders of the party ...

ICYMI: I wrote about a local protest, and the much broader issue of blue state hospitals bowing to Trump and ending their youth gender affirming care programs. www.burnsnotice.com/concerned-ci...

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

Help ordinary working class people find and navigate and pay for all the sustainability upgrades (solar, efficiency, water, native plants and food gardens, transit cards, ebikes, EVs) with grants and actual low-cost financing. Create community networks along the way.

The wheels might be coming off, if the Hagia Sophia is catching Christian Nationalist strays now. Seems a pretty niche MAGA interest TBH.

🧵It's time to talk about how we Jews should think about power. Many want us to believe "our-community-first-at-all-costs" is *the* legitimate Jewish path, rooted in text & tradition. That's a lie. Let's reactivate the deep lineage of Jewish thought that sees all as worthy of equal dignity 🧵🧵🧵

Fuck off, fascists. You know you can’t win in CA, so this is just a waste of time and money but here we are.

The ADL permanently sacrificed its reputation to get in good with a massively dangerous antisemite and white nationalist. They defended him and stood up for him even after his Nazi salute. Here's how he repays them. This is what happens when you think you're using bigots. They're always using you.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social EITM Trump has made attacking trans ppl a signature priority . but a new Fox poll shows voters prefer Dems on the issue by 13%, 56 to 43, including Black (77 to 23) Hispanic (59 to 40) and even white voters (53 to 46) as well as every age group.

“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.”

Is the US market finally catching up? Are they realizing we’re borked on food, meds, plastics, fuel, and reliant industries? At the same time as the tech bubble and private capital are teetering? All in time for a VERY hot El Niño summer? Mutual aid, organize, and commit to something better.

This is what “ keep men out of women’s sports” should mean. Disgusting.

Lots of simultaneous thoughts: I’m *loving* the Dem redistricting backbone/bully bashback. It’s also another rhetorical tool in GOP election theft and misinfo control. We’re going to win on paper in November and 2028. We’re also all continuing to lose and this fragmentation of truth is terrifying

They are systematically decimating policy pathways and authority for states to do anything to protect the environment or climate while simultaneously gutting federal law. This bill is really important. This cuts states at the knees and burns the planet. Raise hell about this.

A New Jersey data center will reportedly receive $77 million in tax breaks — while only creating one permanent job. One job, in exchange for higher utility bills, noise pollution, and potential groundwater pollution. Is it any wonder communities are organizing to stop data centers?

My tween asked a seemingly simple question about why all the fast-casual restaurants nearby have closed and we ended up talking about late stage capitalism and publicly traded companies/stock market, and where people spend limited money in downturns. I think the system might be broken.

Private online screening of our “Mom’s Club” documentary about PTA moms tracking Proud Boys and the dark money groups funding their violence is 4/23/26!

For no particular reason, I’ve been wondering about any policy limits (or resources) to repurpose or adopt sidewalk-adjacent greenery for food and general resilience. City wide community garden resources might be helpful soon (for survival, environmental, and social resilience).

Never let the people forget that the Hollowing Out and Theft of every system that matters is because of Republicans. They can never wash the blood off their hands. Generations have to remember that MAGA are mass murders and insatiable thieves.

EVs won the war.

The insurance markets are appropriately accounting for the real-world costs of climate and long-covid, and the entire world is sticking fingers in their ears and screaming lalalala-i-can’t-hear-you. The problem is that climate and pandemics don’t care what you want and reality is here.

It's been 50 days. We are slowly sliding into a global gas crisis. At the same time we are slowly sliding into a new normal where renewables ensure we don't have to fear another global gas crisis. But that doesn't solve the crisis we have.

The specific policies we had for HD EVs in the US were less than ideal, with real concerns. But now we’re scrapping them and then trying to blow up access to any future EV policy mechanisms, damning us to a fossil fuel future, failed manufacturing sector, and economic ruin.

HAPPIEST SATURDAY!!! Genuinely teared up reading this. After a year and a half of stochastic terrorism against the trans community, this is a real win.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez addresses a meeting of Hispanic left leaders in Barcelona: “The right wing is on the decline. People are realizing that they have no vision or solutions, just hatred and empty slogans. All they’ve brought to the world is war, inflation, inequality, and social division.”

I’d rather not be living through the collapse of empire, international order, and climate but softball Saturday is still pretty nice today. Try to find a glimmer of kindness and light in your own life too.

Multiple peer reviewed studies in high impact journals have shown a substantial benefit of gender affirming care for trans youth. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon's penis for "further study" says this care is dangerous. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

This Trump administration is proof that DEI is the only thing keeping every pillar of American society from crumbling under the weight of the most incompetent and corrupt idiots among us.

the combination of Ohio, Chevron, and Jarkesy is to tell the extraordinarily rich “there’s no one who can hold you accountable for anything if you can afford a lawsuit”

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

Senator Wyden can’t say it plainly without losing his security clearance, but this raises the alarm that Kash & crew have decided they can illegally surveil Americans without a warrant.

Exactly one year ago today:

I’m just a woke non-warfighter type, but I have actually read history books, and I’m pretty sure logistics and food are core to military success. But maybe our stable geniuses have special inside information (aside from their prediction market bets)?

NYT: “A series of disjointed, ocasional, and seemingly half-hearted softball questions have left many with the impression of a deranged Grey Lady mad with her institutional power to shape public discourse.”

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Another +1 in the #nokings protest column. Visible and mass physical solidarity matters. Necessary but not sufficient.

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

Um, this is remarkably Anti-Semitic. All of them are equally vile, as is the entire MAGA clown car. Pulling out just the Jewish evil though is much more than a dog whistle. Do better, leftish folks.

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