I’m looking for business books aimed at solopreneurs written by indie author/entrepreneurs for our next book club pick. Have you seen any good ones we should read?

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

Tuesday we went to the White House to demand regime close the camps where 70K people are held in horrific conditions. We know our history - holding civilians without due process has been done here & around the world for centuries & is known as concentration camps. These have no place on our soil.

It doesn't feel like exaggeration to say that everything this administration touches dies.

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only

US LNG exports hit record high in April. War in Iran is good for business. Reminder: you, your mom, the store down the street...we all compete with the world for oil and gas. US companies can make more exporting fossil fuels and don't care about you. www.naturalgasintel.com/news/us-lng-...

As extreme politics have normalized, young people have grown up not knowing any other way. For months, I've spent time getting to know 10 college students who literally do not recall a time in America without Trump. My latest for @thewesternedge.bsky.social www.thewesternedge.media/p/the-age-of...

Perhaps maybe all the Republican tax cuts, budget cuts, firings, and bluster about the US needing to cut its debt are just...oh, what's the word...bullshit. One likes how a total and avoidable economic clusterfuck is called a "fiscal headache" by the NYT.

This analysis is incredible, I see no lies. Basically it is a bar crawl where everyone is steaming drunk and everyone has lost their house keys.

Ours is a deeply broken society, with wildly unserious & misplaced priorities when it comes to public institutions of higher education. Also, again, marginal wealth & income taxes are too low & this poses an existential threat to American democracy & society.

Cinco de Snow-o in Denver. Very good for border collies. Very very bad for trees. #cowx

Someone very cool is about to have a heckuva job with some of the best around

Are we cooked? Yes. Yes we are.

if i was an entrepreneurial type (i'm not) and cared about golf (i don't) i would look into making a golf course that wasn't absolutely freaking terrible for human and environmental health

Ypsilanti Township in Michigan is attempting to cut off the flow of water to a planned data center that would power a new generation of nuclear weapons research. www.404media.co/community-vo...

Great that local communities and nonprofits are organizing public meetings. Essential work. But it should concern everyone that the government is gutting public comment and participation. The message to public is “screw you we can do whatever we want.“ Not a great way to run a stable government.

The impact of the Voting Rights Act on Black representation in the House. Pretty damn clear. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Film you've watched more than six times with gif. hard mode: no star wars, star trek, lotr, dc, marvel, disney, pixar, dreamworks, spielberg, cameron, wachowskis, or ghibli

A little background on Steve Pearce, Trump's pick to kill off the Bureau of Land Management. via @mountainjournal.bsky.social mountainjournal.org/the-us-senat...

Many of us live in NM and know Steve Pearce's record/reputation. He is being appointed to wring every last private dollar out of our #PublicLands for wealthy corporations no matter the long-term effects on the land/air/water. He does not mind leaving our shared resources a smoldering, dead husk.

Tactical nerds, rejoice! I have GIFed The Matt Wells Way™ for your reading and intellectual pleasure. @bymattpollard.bsky.social @empiregass.bsky.social @mattdoyle.bsky.social @joeclowery.bsky.social #Rapids96 holdingthehighline.com/p/the-matt-w...

Not the first to say it but at this point official US "Climate Policy" seems to be an exercise in determining how much misery and loss Americans will normalize. Which is also, come to think of it, a short summary of US economic and foreign policy.

How much are we missing out on because people don’t have enough? The art, innovation, creativity…?

While we have your attention about the safety of journalists in harm’s way… Say her name: Amal Khalii. She was killed by US-Israel this week. She is one of 14 Lebanese journalists killed, and among nearly 300 killed in the Middle East since 2024.

Drillers have long injected a toxic waste product of oil and gas production underground. Increasingly, it doesn’t stay where it should, instead contaminating drinking water or blasting back to the surface. ➡️ Join our virtual discussion: https://events.propublica.org/wastewater-crisis/bluesky

Four 1970 things still true today... 1. Most of the cats that you meet on the streets speak of true love 2. Most of the time they're sittin' and cryin' at home 3. One of these days they know they gotta get goin' 4. Out of the door and down to the street all alone

Unregulated gambling. On politics and war. What could possibly go wrong? www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/p...

Does the thirstiness of Instagram's notification algo have an equal? It's almost as sad as LinkedIn's make believe notifications about someone you barely know just leveling up in whatever LI game it is that nobody even knows exists.

In case anyone thinks Trump forcing Californians to accept new offshore oil drilling will make gas prices go down, the answer is a definitive "no": www.latimes.com/business/sto... via @hiltzikm.bsky.social

We're hiring editorial fellows in SF and DC. Great gig that has launched hundreds of media careers: www.motherjones.com/careers/fell...

Among other things this @leahsottile.bsky.social article in @highcountrynews.org does a great job showing the connections between misogyny and political violence. Connections that get plenty of extra oxygen in trump world.

It's all so corrupt and miserable. But imagine being a "clean air skeptic."

Selling off the nation for parts. Will help build a few more data centers though.

"We will need sweeping investigations into wrongdoing by public and private officials. More importantly, we will have to have the courage and unity of purpose to put criminal behavior on trial and, where there are convictions, send even prominent individuals to prison"

Today’s much needed book delivery spans time and place. Looking forward to time with the characters of Willy Vlautin and Jerome K. Jerome.

This is a really beautiful and wholesome piece of writing. Take a few minutes and read it. This section resonated with me.

“The reason why I love these Forest Service research stations is because they have the capacity to look at change over long timescales, the timescales that it actually takes for plant communities to change...A five-year project is a really long project for me, but that’s nothing for a plant”

Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service. The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

My story on the 57 forest service research stations that are going to be closed is up now

America’s fade to comic irrelevance was slow slow slow….then freakishly fast.

The Trump + MAGA harm to America’s public trust is wildly unpopular, generationally damaging, but also quietly plodding along via an authoritarian bureaucracy happy to wreak havoc upon everything Americans value.

Orban's inability to prevent last year's Pride protests—attended by 300k despite being banned—was a turning point in his authoritarian grip of the country. Queer people are always leading the fight against authoritarianism, as we are often its first targets. Never cower to fear.

Who IS Kosi Thompson? #rapids96

Nobody ever talks about the 1985 movie Fandango which is a shame because it's certified by @texasmonthly.bsky.social as one of the best Texas movies ever. Cast includes Costner, Judd Nelson, Sam Robards. Directed by Kevin Reynolds. Great west Texas locations. www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

Until recently there were Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse. One was lost in a tornado due to no radar - the result of budget cuts. In a statement, a spokesman for the administration said that Americans should be quite satisfied with the chaos and destruction provided by the four remaining horsemen.

Permitting reform and stripping back public lands protections are the peanut butter and chocolate of Trumpers, oil and gassers, abundancers, and other grifters who hate people power.

Data Center Watch sounds like a ragtag watchdog group, but it's a front group for 10a Labs "10a Labs has a financial incentive to create an atmosphere of fear – to make it seem like data centers are under constant threat from rabid activists that could cost them billions and billions of dollars."

Like, personally? I don't think I should have to think about the president of the united states every day or contemplate what fucking insane caper he's up to this time.