This is what needs to happen, though, like in Poland. Ds Need to use Trump’s tools against MAGA and to push forward policy. Will they? That is the question.

I'm on the record saying that Russ Vought will do things during the shutdown that will make his illegal rescissions visible in the way they otherwise weren't. And boy howdy, threatening to ignore the law on backpay is a great example. [corrected]

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

wrote this line yesterday: "If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

Hey, remember Epstein?

This is the home of Diane Goodstein, a federal judge who ruled against Trump last month. Members of her family were still inside, but survived by jumping out windows. Just yesterday Stephen Miller claimed left wing judges were terrorists & state power was needed to stop them.

Whether he's lighting up the night sky with fake stars, polluting Memphis & the atmosphere, or torching our modest programs to improve global health & feed the starving, Musk does not pay a nickel for the impacts of his fever dreams: everyone else does. This is not how a healthy society functions.

"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳

On Wednesday, the Pontiff delivered his first address on climate change at a conference taking place at the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo calling for a “true ecological conversion… that transforms both personal and communal lifestyles.” By @brianroewe.bsky.social

Lutnick’s $5 Billion in Gold Card Sales Has Gone Missing Trump’s commerce chief bragged of selling 1,000 Gold Cards in a day. Treasury can’t find the money. migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-lutn...

So no Dems or major news media are going to treat the more than a thousand people disappeared from Alligator Alcatraz as a story worthy of persistent pressure? Got it.

Vance's most monumental achievement to date has been being told off by two popes in one year.

The three great political koans of our time are: "Who was president in 2020" "Who was commander in chief Jan 7, 2021 to Jan 20, 2021" and now "Who was president in 2025"

"vance is coming to negotiate now because trump is in no position to do so" is the obvious conclusion here

This came from the TESCREAL faction. Others behind Trump would be happy to see those universities burn to the ground, but Silicon Valley wants to shift the focus of universities to focus on what they feel is valuable.

One of the overarching themes of contemporary politics is self-professed conservatives tearing down institutions that were explicitly created to prevent the repetition of some historical catastrophe.

As @historyned.bsky.social put it recently, "One of the overarching themes of contemporary politics is self-professed conservatives tearing down institutions that were explicitly created to prevent the repetition of some historical catastrophe."

“Enshittification” was a term coined by Cory Doctorow, in 2022, to describe how the technologies that dominated our daily lives seemed to be all getting worse at the same time. Now, in a new book, he expands on the word that has become bleakly relevant.

BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well. youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...

"It appears that Donald Trump not only has dementia set in, but he's copying tactics of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, thinking that that's some sort of proving ground for war.. is just, frankly, inane and I'm concerned for his health" www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

A new report from Bright Line Watch finds experts now rate the U.S. as a "mixed" or "illiberal" democracy. The rating is dragged down by Trump's attacks on institutions, a weak legislature, political violence, and partisan gerrymandering www.gelliottmorris.com/p/experts-no...

Do think the single most likely do or die flashpoint for this administration is gonna be the seating of the 120th Congress

Following an illegal order is illegal. Helping the president shred the Constitution is unconstitutional. Everyone in the military has sworn an oath to the Constitution, not to this dictator, and the time is coming when our soldiers will have to choose to defy orders to obey their oaths.

If you’ve heard about Trump’s unprecedented and deeply frightening “speech” to all US military leaders today, but you didn’t watch it and aren’t sure what the concern is, this is worth watching. And if you’re still not frightened yet, you should be. youtu.be/v-7bB_UHmRc?...

If you live in these states, your ACA premiums are about to jump: SD - Up 235%
LA - Up 150%
WV - Up 387%
WY - Up 382%
TN - Up 320%
MS - Up 314%
AK - Up 346% Republicans are fighting to make sure this happens to their own constituents.

government's shut down quick, build renewables

Comedians being recast as great truth tellers with some piercing insight into society is a neat piece of self-serving rhetoric that we’ve obligingly swallowed since Carlin. Unfortunately, some of the worst people you’ll ever meet in your life are good at getting a laugh- it’s not a mark of virtue.

in the 2000s, institutional comedy became fetishized as something deeply moral and necessary for any right thinking person - Jon Stewart led the way. But there was a strong nihilistic element, which was cute until about 10 years ago. Now we shootings for the lulz. Genocide shitposting. And this.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How corrosive it is that public figures are--more and more shamelessly--ripping the copper wiring out of the walls. Integrity is for suckers. Abusing power is fun. Caring about anything bigger than yourself is lame. An elite class of evil toddlers

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

Direct air capture (DAC) continues to be small, slow, and very expensive. Not because it’s an early stage technology, but because it runs into fundamental thermodynamic challenges that money can’t solve. This is exactly why it’s not recommended by Project Drawdown. www.ft.com/content/fa4c...

source: www.axios.com/2025/09/29/a...

"Big Short" investor David Burt on central banks, interest rates, and climate risk: "It's kind of ironic, because if the Fed was actually paying attention to climate risk and how it's affecting homeowners, instead of being told not to, they would probably be more accommodative..."

I dunno about you but everytime I'm addressing a group of people I need on my side, I always start by calling them fat and lazy

Hesgeth called them from all over the world to tell them to do more push-ups? Nahhhhhhh. Nope. Nein. Don't believe it for a second. This is a loyalty test, and you can be damn sure lots of conversations are happening here. The question is why right now?

"In mainstream economics, dealing with climate change is an issue of trade-offs: how much growth do we sacrifice today to limit damage tomorrow? But if tipping points are real and ecological damage is irreversible, the basis for this form of economic thinking is destroyed" - @meadwaj.bsky.social

My thesis is that no matter how doomer you were in Nov. 2024, we're probably past your worst-case scenario for the first 9 months of this administration. It's very strange for me to realize I wasn't pessimistic enough. www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-in-...

The case YouTube settled with Trump, with a payment of more than $24 million, had already been closed for two years.

I can think of no more cruel yet majestically appropriate fate for Donald Trump: wasting away into emptiness, while his uncaring minions tirelessly torment him with AI-generated specters and shades of what never was and what will never be

really need to emphasize the small cities part. i have mentioned this before, but you'll see people on facebook talk about charlottesville like its ridley scott's mogadishu

we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president

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If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie; But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra

The alleged shooter in Michigan. Weird that Vance and Patel haven’t tweeted out this info. 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽 www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it *incredibly* disturbing that the president of the US is very clearly losing his goddamned mind, but most of the media steadfastly refuse to even mention it.

“And if you look up on your left, 55 Wacker was designed by Otto Stark, which is one of nature’s perfect names for a brutalist architect.. …And if you look BELOW on your left, you’ll see four guys who have never given anyone an orgasm, and cope with their misery by doing GI Joe cosplay.”

Direct air capture is too expensive and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon.