strange subterranean commotions

"How 'War' Becomes War: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Ours of Us" "From the moment the armed services violently engage their first civilians, their prestige will be gone forever, and service members will be destroying the Republic they are sworn to serve." snyder.substack.com/p/how-war-be...

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

🤮 'Bill Ackman, the billionaire financier, fired off a warning on X, saying “hundreds of millions of dollars” would be available to clobber the young interloper in November and “save our City.”' www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

Big day for people who care about other people

🇮🇱We obtained leaked high-level Israeli government documents. They reveal how the Israeli government waged a ten-year lobbying campaign in Britain to protect its officials from war crimes arrests. www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobbi...

Big things are happening…

Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget. Excellent climate analysis of today's federal budget from @hadrianmk.bsky.social... www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...

In Alberta, landowners can’t deny oil and gas wells on their properties, but they’re entitled to compensation. Some companies fail to pay those bills — and rural Albertans are tired of waiting. They're also tired of that repayment, eventually, coming from taxpayers. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-land...

This is LIVE! And everyone needs to see the benefits of Low Traffic Neighborhoods from London! There is so little good documentation and this needs to be spread far & wide! Thanks for giving it a watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaRc...

Vancouver’s urban tree canopy, and the “kissing canopies” over the streets the mature trees create, are one of our city’s most important assets. Cooling, cleaning, beautifying and strengthening the city while integrating urban life with nature for livability. Great pics via @traffictrish.bsky.social

Another great piece by my friend Ben Parfitt, who rightly argues that the fracking companies should be made to pay for the water pipeline their industry has necessitated. Why Fracking Firms Should Pay for a $100-Million Water Pipeline via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

women to the rescue

Ouch

Mamdani: “We won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do.”

helluva closing message

🚨BREAKING: Maine voters rejected a Republican-backed ballot initiative Tuesday that would have imposed new photo ID rules and severely limited mail-in voting — a decisive win for voting rights advocates who said the measure threatened to upend the state’s tradition of accessible elections.

Mary Sheffield will become the first woman elected mayor of Detroit, CNN projects. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/4oRiL7z

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BREAKING: NBC News projects: Prop 50 Congressional Redistricting has been approved.

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

California voters approved Prop. 50 www.latimes.com/california/l... @latimes.com

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani (D) projected to be the next mayor of New York City - DDHQ projection

@scopedbylarry.bsky.social, take note:

Worth remembering…

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

Alberta company proposing to use wood burned in wildfires to fuel power plants. This reads like an epilogue for the next edition of @johnvaillant.bsky.social's book, _Fire Weather_. www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

Say Hi to Tech Bro Carney. Good insights & warnings here. via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

In Oklahoma, oil companies inject tens of billions of gallons of toxic wastewater into the ground each year — enough to fill the Empire State Building 300+ times — frequently at pressures above the legal limit. Regulators have failed to stop them. With @readfrontier.bsky.social

Bannon calls it 'The Duma' - and that's ominous

Why the plutocrats have now targeted @teenvogue.com:

Once they decide that humans are convenient appetizers... "...using a specialised technique to flip the sharks on their back, inducing a temporary paralysis. The orcas then eat the liver and possibly other nutrient rich organs before discarding the carcass..." www.scimex.org/newsfeed/orc...

Nvidia, the computing giant that became the world’s first $5 trillion company, is powering ICE's investigative division, according to federal records reviewed by The Intercept.

Somewhere in there, @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social, you know this. @liberalca.bsky.social #energytransition #oilandgas

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Why catch-and-kill the story when you can catch-and-kill the whole network? #CBS #Weiss

I think you mean: your number is up.

Meanwhile, in Oz . . .

🚨A federal judge disqualified Trump-appointed prosecutor Bill Essayli, finding he was unlawfully serving as Los Angeles U.S. Attorney. The judge barred from continuing in the role. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

#photography #film

"The world is undeniably a worse place for Mr. Trump being part of it, let alone running the joint. And the last thing anyone needs is some jumped-up Trump tribute band, playing the same songs slightly off-key and waiting for a nod of approval from the big guy." 👏 @sproudfoot.bsky.social

“I could not, would not, in good conscience go to my birth country,” Mr. Irving said, “when there is such an authoritarian bully in the White House, and when the craven Republicans in the House and the U.S. Senate are complicit in their silence.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/s...

Check. And mate. #UkraineNews #UkrainianSanctions #russianLosses