the Brazilian right is attempting to pass measures through the legislature to shield Bolsonaro and other legislators from the legal consequences of the failed coup, for which Bolsonaro was recently sentenced to 27 years. these photos are of the massive protests in response.

Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its case against him. “This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.

Would be nice to see the enthusiasm for SRM redirected toward methane abatement and urban heat island mitigation, neither of which are “magic bullets” like SRM, but both of which meaningfully complement the temporal and/or spatial scales of decarbonization benefits

I’m not sure an engineering research ban is feasible in a world with fragmenting governance, but an international “do not deploy” rule seems more feasibly enforceable than an “only deploy up to 1 W/m^2” rule

They all seem like maybe they go in the bucket of “ideas for how to govern global climate after the revolution.” In the mean time, we need to better debug ideas for how to accelerate global climate action given our actual existing institutions and political economy.

There are bots that do this. Seriously, just AI chatbots that are given access to an account and just disagree with posts at random just to stir up trouble. There's a Hank Green video about this but I was pretty sure about it before I saw the video

This story has been updated to reflect that these rumors are not true. So let’s make them real. See y’all Friday morning at 1930 Beach Street!

someone on here said "years of lead paint" and I can't think of a better caption than that

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

true blueskyism has never been tried

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

As a corollary I think we're better at trust building and sense making and massive collaboration (for all our infighting). So we should lean in and leverage those comparative advantages when possible. Me and @mutual-a.bsky.social essay in AK Press "No Pasaran" buy it but: zoboko.com/text/rnog4ee...

Actually @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social just started following me. FYI I referenced you in this article I wrote (that u may love or hate idk): www.juniperbevensee.com/musings/does...

This is my meta-argument with a lot of what I see on BlueSky. "You want sustainable broad progress on [your particular issue]? That's downstream of getting back to responsive governance that values facts and expertise in general."

Neurodivergent & #NEISvoid Bsky! Folks start to react strongly to things that weren't rude & definitely weren't personal, due to some changes in chronic illness & neurodivergence presentation this time of year. You can see a surge on social media every fall! 🍂 So literally: winter is coming ❄️

we are going to win (Stealing format from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social) www.ft.com/content/36dd...

it really is annoying when your posts hit the discover feed or if you’re posting about something that has some astroturfing going on. by and large, I don’t think it’s a bluesky problem (rather a social media problem) but it still sucks.

For all the talk of "climate pragmatism" (basically, doing stuff that further enriches billionaires and pleases autocrats and also might reduce emissions a bit), most paths to genuine US climate action run first through deep system reform that makes this country an actual, functioning democracy.

"Here's a cute pupdate!" "ICE IS BUILDING GULAGS AND YOU'RE SHOWING US YOUR DOG"

“i take summers off, 'cause I love winter beef” said a legion of LLM backed bots

ICYMI Free Press team built a tool that makes it easy to find your local ABC affiliate station and its phone number. Give them a call! We need to let these companies and the Federal Censorship Commission know that we've had enough of their capitulation, cowardice and corruption.

my understanding of modern influence campaigns is that a big part of it is just getting people angry (because they are less rational in that state, and consequently easier to manipulate). mute accounts that just make you angry.

noticing more "oh so you hate waffles?" style randomly aggro replies these days. winter is coming

Stacy Davis Gates: "Solidarity is the antidote to white supremacy. Solidarity is the antidote to anti-immigrant fear. Solidarity is the antidote to homophobia and transphobia. Solidarity is the antidote of people not having and still needing. Solidarity is what reunites us."

The key thing I’m really taking away from this is that Tom Homan might have the lowest fees in the whole administration.

Democracy is in decline, growing weaker from within. But why? Is it political dysfunction, economic mismanagement, threats from authoritarian powers? More important, can we reverse the damage from backsliding before it’s too late?

The study Olúfémi cited here is long and detailed, but I want to highlight two specific paragraphs which get at why, like him, I know we will win.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

the "cross-entropy objective" is basically saying info compression (and thus loss) are inherent in the exercise and that, in doing so, it creates the conditions in the system that create these "hallucinations" you cannot give it flexibility and portability w/out creating inevitable errors

okay AI controversy aside, just talking as a nerd for a second: this is such a cool paper

seems fair

"The UK, Australia and Canada have formally recognised a Palestinian state... The UK has become the first G7 country to move towards full recognition of a State of Palestine, with France and others expected to follow at the annual UN General Assembly next week." www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

My statement formally recognising the State of Palestine.

It's been my hobby theory for a bit now that ChatGPT spells the death of search traffic, which is catastrophic news for media outlets and ecommerce companies that don't have a dedicated sales team. Readers visit Substack intentionally, not through search. You're not stumbling on a Substack article.

In the white culture, money is often given to others in a gesture of friendship and gratitude.

Last year, the countries Norway, Spain and Ireland recognized the State of Palestine. Since then, Spain and Belgium have gone further in the form of banning the import of settler goods and imposing a two-way arms embargo. Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund has divested from a half dozen Israeli banks.

The list of countries that are confirmed to be set to recognize the State of Palestine on Sunday and Monday, September 21st and 22nd. The United Kingdom France Canada (conditional, gradual) Australia Belgium (gradual) Portugal Luxembourg Malta Andorra San Marino

In fact, what voters often do is use policy proposals to rationalize their vote choice. They not supporting candidate C because of policy P. They support P because they plan to vote for C.

cope and seethe, sweetgreen

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

“With a single post or video, we can influence thousands of guests to try a food, drink, or experience in the parks,” she says. “I couldn’t, in good conscience, keep giving them free publicity knowing they don’t support free speech and are willing to bow to fascism."

the republican line to open corruption in the government is “WE DON’T CARE” lmfao

"years of lead paint"

AOC responds to the Tom Homan story.

Several folks discuss what kind of future we need to make in order to survive climate change and have lives with more freedom and dignity – in this forum opened by a provocation from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social with @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/forum/climat...

So the skinny from the pharmacy is you need a doctor’s prescription to get the COVID shot in DC, but you can go to Maryland & get it without.

Here's every word Thomas Frank just said on 'exceptional' Destiny Udogie, a Kolo Muani update, Vicario being to blame for Brighton's second goal, Xavi Simons and Wilson Odobert's displays and why he felt that was Spurs' most complete performance so far. www.football.london/tottenham-ho...

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.