No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

In the early 60s! I would have believed it more easily 30+ years earlier.

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel Gratitude to Climate Change Resources for sharing this quote of the week. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social @mason4c.bsky.social

Beautiful.

The hijacking of computer software is called “a virus” for a reason. And the reason is that it’s a metaphor for what viruses do to our biological DNA programming. Get literal, people. Vaccinate your kids before measles or rubella or Hep B or HPV takes out their whole air traffic control system.

“Join Ice” www.instagram.com/reel/DND34FS...

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at GU Politics: "the struggle is not whether AI is good or bad. It's who controls it and who benefits from it." #bernieatgu #aisystem #ai #berniesanders #geoffreyhinton #computerscience #gupolitics #gupoliticsforum #georgetown

Wake up, America. Your president is launching criminal investigations into any citizen he wants with the ease of a social media post. If thats okay with you, then I hope you like your Constitution extra crispy.

#freedom × #family × #mobility × #productivity Car dependency hurts all of the above

Some good replies here, too.

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

FYI

TENNESSEAN: “Ethics complaint filed claiming 8 Senators ― including @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty ― violated conflict of interest rules by supporting a provision allowing them to sue the government for millions…” (Finally they cover this story! 👏🏽) www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

That’s our founder - out there fighting for fair maps and voter’s rights in all the places and in all the ways 🩷

Getting ready to roll with the Alameda Bike Bus!

In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.

Ouch.

When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose. Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The grand jury refused to indict felony charges so DOJ brought a misdemeanor. The trial jury acquitted—note: that means that every single person on the jury voted for acquittal. There wasn’t even a single vote to convict. joycevance.substack.com/p/prosecutor...

See the film and my update on the ongoing, pointless, man-made loss of life here: bsky.app/profile/agaw...

DAILY DEMS DOING THE WORK, MAKING NOISE, AND FIGHTING BACK Day 279 I hope no one is saying that Dems aren’t talking about the shutdown, but I also know that a lot of people really just expect the content to be literally handed to them, so, 1/2

So, “humanitarian intervention” in Nigeria? Also, I hear somebody keeps killing Christians on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Might want to look into that.

I wonder if the South American fishermen he's routinely killing would count as "innocent Christians" too, or nah?

What the actual f*ck?!!! “Members of Trump’s National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with three U.S. officials.“

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'" I've saved her some time.

The Republicans' shutdown message is abundantly clear: Let us jack up millions of people's health care costs or we'll starve the poor. I wish that was an exaggeration. It's not.

A climate justice disaster is underway in Jamaica as Hurricane Melissa moves over the island.

Glory!

We have reached the point where the *American Bar Association* cannot find attorneys willing to represent them in litigation against the Trump administration. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I am a serious professional scientist. I am also a commissioner of climate change and have to discuss practical and pragmatic solutions with people who disagree strongly with climate action. I have a calm and optimism-driven approach to climate action. 40 inches of rain is biblically catastrophic.

Since the coming food crisis isn't from lack of food, and the worsening climate crisis isn't from lack of low carbon ways to be warm, or cool, or have light, I believe it is possible to turn it around, from harm gaining momentum, to healing doing so.

I hope I live long enough to be able to see inexorable healing coming, the way we now see inexorable harm barreling down. On islands. On children. On dinner plates.

"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

So the #USMilitary is now a charity case?

women are about 78% of the healthcare workforce in america. i know people know this but it’s always worthwhile to state it outright. not only is it gendered to underpay healthcare workers but men who get “caught up” in it are undervalued for doing female-coded work. same with teachers.

Everyone should be doing this, perfect public ridicule for these goons

On a roll, @borowitzreport.bsky.social ! Mike Johnson Has no Comment After Trump Demolishes His Home open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

I’m feeling a sudden need to visit the #WhiteHouse this weekend. Anyone else?

This is extrajudicial murder. It is illegal and unethical. And it is a pathetic use of American military force, demonstrating not strength but weakness.

This makes me sick. That’s our House, our history. The fact that it happened today stinks of retribution for Saturday.

Truly believe that @nikkolas_smith art will go down in history as important social commentary pieces like #normanrockwell, while more inclusive in his messaging… The world needs our #art. Driven by narratives that promote #peace.

Fascinating, powerful image!

And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.

Highly recommend!

It is true that authoritarians manufacture crisis so they can consolidate power. The gov shutdown isn’t chaos — it’s choreography. Agencies gutted, public trust eroded, then rebuilt under more control.