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Jews are targeted in shuls & online. Brown & Black people are abducted and sent to concentration camps. Muslims are openly targeted by politicians. Activists & journalists are targeted by the FBI. Trans & queer people are being outlawed. We are in this together. This is why solidarity matters.

Our fascists have never thought about anything from anyone else’s perspective. Yes, they think gleefully about the pain, but not about any actual human emotions or perspectives or motivations. “Empathy is bad,” after all. But it’s also a Hormuz-sized Achilles heel.

This is the most searingly accurate description of life now. Perfect in its dissection of our limited strategic options and yet our moral imperative to keep going anyhow. This “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”

The Lemkin Institute has issued a *THIRD* trans genocide warning, noting the next stage is widespread containment - and this was before the 4th Circuit ruled today that states can essentially do whatever they want to make trans people "appreciate their sex". www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

I know this is a crazy idea, but do any of the commentators who got snookered by anonymous Republicans into sticking with "Trump is strong on immigration, the public actually loves deportations" for far too long feel like it's time to ask themselves why they got so easily taken?

Shocking no one with a brain, the war is not, in fact, over. Nor are any of its short-, mid- or long-term impacts on any sort of non-catastrophic trajectory for human life, economics, the environment, or global conflict.

Hey cis women, the anti-trans push is coming for your menopause and abortion meds, your ability to use the bathroom without bounty hunters spying on you, your ability to play sports without genital checks, and your ability to wear “non-feminine” clothes. You might want to stand up for ALL women now

LOCK HIM UP.

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

Hey humans: if you don’t want random adults in schools to LEGALLY enforce their own opinions about what girls and boys should wear, you might want to start defending the right to wear clothes. Just standard meets-dress code clothes.

You average normie Democrat in 2026 loves AOC, wants to abolish ICE, and thinks Israel shouldn’t get another penny from us. It’s laughable how out of touch centrist consultants and politicians are.

Looking at the stock market today makes me think the Titans of Industry *still* haven’t internalized that every word out of Trump’s mouth is a lie and that market fundamentals are still on fire. Ha we could do a Kalshi bet on whether they still vote R in Nov (everything they touch is grift)

Reason number seventy trillion that good regulation matters. I can tell you that corporate staff care about climate and that leadership cares about checking boxes and saying the right thing to stay out of trouble. Good rules drive good investments and corporate messaging. Without rules… yeah.

Now would be a good time to reconsider those WFH policies, after several years of forcibly dismantling them. And funding public transit. And promoting all the bike lanes and bike shares we already have. And, for ppl in suburbia, teaching them about the value of used EVs. Just spitballing here.

“The [Copenhagen] modal split in 1970 was about 10% biking. But then we got the oil crisis…So that was the changing point and now there’s more than a 30% bike modal split.” We can change our cities. Because of the high price of gas, or just because it’s clearly the smart thing to do. #UrbanTruth

Someday, it would be amazing if we could safely visit our very affirming Texas family again. Talarico gives me genuine hope.

Argentina, Bolivia & Chile contain over half global lithium resources. Once Kast assumes the Chilean presidency, all three will be governed by right-wing leaders. What are the implications? I’m in @financialtimes.com to analyze this major political reversal www.ft.com/content/0276...

Psst. Climate policy IS affordability policy. As we all look around at the energy and climate catastrophe unfolding, it would be swell for an actual leader to harness the fear of our reality into narrative that drives climate policy implementation.

Boy am I glad all the mainstream U.S. Jewish groups spent the last two years loudly proclaiming that there was no absolutely no daylight between the actions of the Israeli State and the Jewish people just in time for the entire world to blame the Jews for a global oil crisis.

Screams in Cassandra, after a whole ass career in commercial transportation sustainability/energy security. We were thiiiiiiis close to large-scale Class 8 electrification in the US and corporations ran from EVs when Trump smashed regulations and funding.

The national suicide being committed by the Republican-led United States has no historical precedent. Centuries from now (if humanity survives that long), historians will struggle to explain how such a thing was possible.

Here are some of my thoughts about climate change. 1/12

While we crater the global LNG market and drive up energy prices with war, after already driving up energy prices with data centers and attacks on renewables. Planetary nihilism strikes again. Fascists only know how to destroy and loot.

“Trans children are perfect.”

Oil prices are going parabolic. This is insane.

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it). the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

America has a long history of pointless and wasteful military adventurism. And in our quest to normalize Trump we’ve stuck his Iran war in that box: “another war, just like the rest.” It’s not like the rest. It’s an act of insanity, rogue state behavior. Don’t know how this ends until we admit it.

Would you rather fight one horse-sized chicken or 200 chicken-sized horses wielding drones and nukes? No, of course there are no tacos. You can’t send back WW3. Global economic and environmental nihilism is on the menu, famine included, served up by our planetary nihilists oligarchs.

Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”

Okay. Great

If only the rest of us could relax and watch as the Right descends further into conspiratorial madness. But MAGA controls the levers of state power. This is where the gravest danger lies: Delusion, ideology, and ineptitude are conspiring to make escalation almost inevitable.

Years ago, I learned the term “poly crisis” as I worked hard on my particular corner of one particular crisis. I’m fucking tired. Just so damn tired.

Unstable energy markets and migration are fuels for far right populism. With Germany, France, and the UK about to fall to far right nationalist parties, this will push them over the edge. I believe that's part of the goal. Russia has done this for over a decade with Syria and Ukraine.

I don't think people's problem with, for example, the paper's decade-long crusade putting a big ol' target on trans people's backs can be accurately described as NYT doing "reporting that doesn't always 100% accord with what advocacy groups want."

whoops

We don't allow players to place bets on their own games but we're allowing national security advisers to place bets on literal wars.

I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children. From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

It’s clear the regime studies certain history books (see: the 88 shrieking dog whistles) but these evil imperialists were actually here for our last fateful Middle East debacles. And things are even worse now, largely because of these planetary nihilists.

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

Every time a fascist takes office, they do increasing damage to this country's ability to fight off fascism. Look at the difference between 2016 and 2024. The fascists are learning. If our leaders won't, they are advocating for eternal fascism.

Important update: I was sent proof of another very large donation, and we are now at $38,247.98. That is not a typo. Today has blown me away and reaffirmed my faith in humanity. Can we make it into an even $40,000?

SHOCKER: Democrats accidentally discover how to drown out Fox News My look at how the opposition to Trump 2 shows that Democrats may never win the propaganda war. But we can win the people war.

Elections alone can’t fix this. We need leaders & grassroots ready for the reality of this. “Tues night was a stark reminder that the Republican Party has wholly given over to fascism and that its transformation into an anti-liberal and anti-democratic institution is going to outlive Trump.”

They’re going to sell it as “don’t say trans” while trying to also force a national Christian Nationalist curricula. Control schools, control teachers, enshrine more hate and death.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...

we don't yet know why superintendent carvalho had his home raised, but just some context:

ICE has not been able to kidnap so much as 1 kid on an LAUSD / Los Angeles Unified School District campus. Remember this as the FBI targets our school district.