America's political elite has decided that climate change is no longer that important or worth talking about, but rest assured, it's still happening, it's extremely bad, and yes, it is going to affect you here in America.

oh baby something might be happening here, just need a few pushes (primaries)

ok well i gotta give him this one

Total scammer www.cnbc.com/2025/11/10/n...

appreciate that in england there's a little bluesky feature prompting me to verify my age in order to glimpse alf's bodacious hog

“Anyone who helps me try to steal an election gets a pardon” is perhaps the most corrupt thing to happen in American history. That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.

ok I am not sure Oscar Isaac is able to do an English accent yall

like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure

“And they are Republicans. I can’t conceive of them once again lying to my face as they have done in the past over and over…”

I want Oscar Isaac to play a different version of the Victor Frankenstein character every three years for the rest of his life

Funniest thing about the shutdown arc is the Democratic strategy made no sense, but was totally working thanks to the tireless efforts of Donald J Trump.

Ah well, just roll over and show your belly then, I guess.

"But we're making people miserable!" Yes that's the fucking idea you stupid motherfuckers. The people should be miserable, they elected the Make Everyone Miserable Party.

Hearing from more people after this went out. "We're all pissed. This was a lot of unnecessary stress on people and their families for nothing. And if I win the lottery tonight I absolutely will spend millions to hire people to follow these 8 Dems around for a year and make their lives miserable."

I, like most right thinking people, am ride or die for Ms Rachel and I am firmly of the opinion that if there is any figure that could finally take down the Grey Lady, it’s her.

it's all fun and games until someone threatens our moderate senators' precious vacation travel

if you wanna blame somebody I think Mark Warner is a pretty good choice. also I think a lot of the Biden Go drama was because Warner thought he could and should be President. he's on the ballot in 2026 and does not afaik have a primary challenger

very valuable when they’re your possessions on a shelf, much less so when they’re not

Ro Khanna calls for Schumer‘ ouster

weirdly honest messaging from the breakaway mod/institutionalist leaders who blew up the party strategy they're explicitly giving up. "It wasn't working so we quit" that's the message

Listen. No one actually plays 3D chess. Or 4D, or 5D, or any of that. Business and governance are too huge and variable to conduct with constant scheming and Batman gambits. Most of it is done directionally - you pick a place you want to go, and face that way. These people are facing surrender.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

We simply cannot beat fascism with the Democratic Party of 2020-2025. It’s a useless, cynical, conciliatory husk of what a left-of-Hitler party needs to be. The more we know about who are the weakest links—and we WILL learn more about that in the coming days than we did in March—the better.

The shutdown put incredible strain on so many families and dedicated civil servants, but at least it was all for fucking nothing.

> @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

Data-center projects that “may sit empty for years because the local utility isn’t ready to supply electricity.” @bloomberg.com @weisenthal.bsky.social $NVDA www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Just occurred that the BBC is the most literal example of Conquest's third law in that it is actually run by a cabal of its enemies.

huh, already hitting the primaries

Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao

Good morning with good news: Renewables & nuclear are ~75% of EU's electricity, while fossil fuels drop ~30%-50% since 2016. Coal is well below 10% from April-Sept & gas below 16% from March-Sept. RE generated from ~41% to 57% during Jan-Sept 2025. Nuclear produced ~21% to 25%. #energysky

A lot of “what did you expect?? you all have such unrealistic expectations of democrats!!” on here but then Chait and Yglesias are all “man this one was dumb, I don’t get it.” if you have lost the We Need To Moderate guys, then you have fucked up, reconcile to that

There are a lot of Politics Knowers on here who’ve agreed repeatedly “you’re gonna have to nuke the filibuster, you’re gonna have to pack the court” and yet in the past 10 hours have pivoted to “abruptly caving in this manner was the smart play, grow up, idiot”

Voting to fund the government means you voted to fund everything the government is doing. That's the whole point. It's not about some narrow this or that on the margins. You own the whole enchilada, you're saying "yes, this overall package for everything the government's doing is acceptable to me."

the “axios is fake news trying to stir shit, dems aren’t gonna cave” to “the dem deal is actually good and smart and savvy” pipeline is real and best explained not be rational trains of thought but fear and cognitive dissonance

i suspect there’s some truth to this and also why we should be EXTREMELY skeptical that senate dems as currently constituted would ditch the filibuster should they ever have a trifecta again

thinking back to when eric cantor got knocked out in a primary in 2014

Jennifer Lawrence is miffed Christopher Nolan hasn’t asked her to be in anything but then she’s never been a good fit for “sad dead wife” or “angry wife who’s difficult and wrong”

I guess it really is a global struggle when you’re sitting in a hotel restaurant in London and the two American dudes sitting next to you immediately begin angrily listing the senators who caved mere hours ago

you think zip lining looks cool, but then once you watch the video of yourself you realize the harness instantly transforms you into a big dangling sack of a person, but also in a large nylon diaper

A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers. This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.

what the fuck do you even say to this?

My wife was watching the BBC bit here in London about how they were apparently biased against Trump during 1/6, and was appalled. Really does seem like a global struggle at the moment

interesting to see Fairlife profiled by Odd Lots given that IIRC its protein milk is one of ones with the most plastic content

No Dem with a future has voted yes.

this is kinda true, but also kinda not true, King and CCM were anti-shutdown from Day 1 and they probably got enough support to roll Schumer (now, is being weak enough to be rolled over by Angus King a tenable political position? no.)

Welp, I’ll be giving $100 to each of their opponents, on top of what I give to the food banks now, because that’s what you do in times like these I guess

Yeah I do not think SNAP was the inflection point. If it was, we would have reached deals at the end of October or the very start of November. The provocation they are responding to is Sean Duffy shutting down airports.

If Torres and Yglesias are willing to say “are you fucking stupid, why support this bill,” how do you think your donors and primary voters will react.

I didn't catch this until i saw @intense.wiggling.me 's post but he literally says "I, then say your name, do solemnly swear" oh my GOD