When we say these people are just repeating the segregationist playbook, we mean it literally

My not-so-hot take is that what Mamdani is doing *IS* incrementalism, and the bar is so deeply in hell that a politician just doing *anything* good consistently is a total anomaly for people. And I think for now that is good and fine, because it is restoring people’s faith that better is possible.

June 25 marks the 150th anniversary of Custer's death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. No matter how you think about it, you're probably wrong. I received a Pulitzer for "Custer's Trials," yet no one's asking my opinion. That should tell me something. Still, here's how to understand it. 1/🧵

As well as being just, this is also clever, as North Korean troops will recognise the new route to defection, NK leadership and loyal officials will recognise the risk, and the fighting efficiency of those sent there will be reduced by the effort of trying to guard against defection.

Improved conservation helps, but not emitting in the first place is 4x more effective than removals or avoided habitat conversions.

Solar and farming do not have to compete 😎 🌱 . A new agrivoltaics pilot shows how combining them can boost productivity, support ecosystems, and diversify farm income, while pointing to what is needed to scale this approach for people and nature. https://nature.ly/4f60xOd

Read this to my 3yo this morning and she’s now stomping around the apartment pumping her fist and chanting “Strike! Strike!”

I mean, due to scientific international cooperation, the virus was sequenced and the vaccine was in production in the U.S. before the first case of Covid in the U.S.

If the 60 Minutes thing is proving anything it’s that a lot of people in positions of power think there is no crime greater, no injustice more profound, than being called out for being incompetent when you’re clearly fucking incompetent

Every time data centers are brought up, I'm reminded of a recent meeting I had with a person working in that sector who mentioned how important power demand modeling was, because they projected if the grid were to go down in Phoenix during peak summer, 30,000 people would die in the first 24 hours

I'm a total sucker for math jokes.

They say the door to Hell is locked from the inside. And the same is true of reactionary politics. The solution to the Male Loneliness Epidemic <dismissive wanking gesture> is and has always been feminism. Simple as. Men, go clean your rooms and learn feminism.

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

When the writer of my favorite TV series meets my favorite Regional Sewer District.

People have asked me what I think, so... Scenarios, schmenarios… www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

Apparently we were vibing yesterday with our posts on RCP 8.5. and now I'm following another smart person on Bluesky.

Here's a hill I will die on. RCP 8.5 is incredibly useful. RCP 8.5 (Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5) is a high-emissions climate scenario used by the IPCC to model the most extreme potential futures. It is currently considered unlikely, but that doesn't matter. A thread 1/

"What went wrong"? This is many, many, many, many, many, many, many words to avoid saying "Brexit" Quite literally, a word that doesn't appear in the entire essay

After an obscure defense vendor won a $12 million no-bid contract w/ ICE, I noticed something odd on its website: The firm was using a (still watermarked!) stock photo for the chief of its “development team.” Things only got more bizarre from there…

Alabama Legislature is meeting on redistricting; we are under a tornado watch, and it’s flooding in the building. These metaphors are too on the nose.

I do frequently wonder what the average citizen of the U.S. knows about Reconstruction. As Du Bois would later point out, the backlash of lost cause propaganda didn’t just create mass disinformation about the civil war itself, but about the opening for actual democracy that briefly came after it.

Michael Harriot is among the most gifted and insightful writers on US politics. This piece is another example. If you don't follow him, now's your chance.

"When men no longer feel honored" THIS IS THE ATTITUDE OF A FUCKING CHILD.

The urban backyard warbler draft is underway. First round pick this year...Pine Warbler.

Fortunately, we can dial back our fertilizer use in much of the world -- without compromising crop yields or food production. This helps curb N2O emissions *and* lowers water pollution from nitrate runoff. Win-win! Here's more on these solutions: drawdown.org/explorer/imp...

Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids https://theonion.com/once-adventurous-salmon-can-t-believe-she-ended-up-movi-1825827223/

The Oracle at Delphi told the King Croesus of Lydia that if he invaded Persia he would destroy a great empire. Croesus invaded. Croesus lost battle after battle, with the final loss being the siege of the Lydian capital, Sardis. The King destroyed a empire--his own. So hey--be careful out there!

John Dewey pushed back. He agreed with Lippmann's diagnosis, the world is too complex for individuals to grasp alone. But he rejected the technocratic cure. Democracy couldn't be saved by bypassing the public.

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

I hate to be a downer on a lovely Friday, but I'm following the actuaries. Lloyd’s of London and the international insurance market have withdrawn standard hull and machinery coverage for Hormuz transits. War-risk policies now carry premiums of up to 5 percent of vessel value 1/3

The hacks working furiously to rationalize Trump’s desire to end birthright citizenship serve very much the same function in law that the Discovery Institute does in biology: To create the illusion of a scholarly debate that in fact does not exist.

Good policy can produce good news

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

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Well this is freaking cool!

NEW “We’re celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You can’t keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, it’s ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.”

The judges in WV have seen enough. They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It's worth a read. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Gramsci once observed "the old is dying and the new struggles to be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear," and I'm not sure there would be any better encapsulation of our society's comorbidities than this headline.

Interviewing a 5-year-old about how they're worried because "bad guys are taking mommies and daddies" is not something I ever thought I'd do.

Reposting w/alt text. Iranians are experiencing collective trauma. Thousands have been killed/injured, the economy is crippled & the threat of a wider conflict is real. It’s especially difficult for those living in Iran, as many have lost (or fear losing) loved ones. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

When the Guinea worm eradication program began in 1986, there were an estimated 3.5 million cases across 21 countries in Africa and Asia.

disturbingly plausible

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Why is Dem leadership not on the ground in MN? If the answer is “polls show Trump’s disapproval is only -15 on deportations, but -25 on prices,” thats a Bad Use Of Polling and a complete failure in their capacity as leaders to lead public opinion and fight for democracy and the rule of law

This is one of the times you remember patriotism isn’t about flags on the Fourth