Montgomery County first made its “Ride On” buses free to all riders under 18 in 2019. Then on June 29, 2025, it made all of its buses fare-free for all passengers. The system has a fleet of nearly 400 buses, 80 routes, and provided 19.2 million rides in the 2025 fiscal year.

In 2015, I wrote the first big article inside the war on coal for @politico.com. Ten years later, I wrote about how the war is going for @canarymedia.com. The @sierraclub.org is still winning the war, but Trump and AI are complicating the endgame. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

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Prominent bird flu expert veterinarian David Swyane describes the sequence of mixing and reassortment that has unfolded to make the current strain of H5N1 able to infect a wide diversity of animals, from birds to foxes to sea lions. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/flu...

If you want to know why Hegseth is panicking about reminders that there is accountably for giving or carrying out illegal orders, it’s likely because he knows he has given illegal orders to murder people.

Even as Trump tries to crush clean power, T1 Energy is betting big on solar manufacturing with a massive factory outside Dallas: www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

If anyone needs to be reinstated back into service to be court martialed, it's Gen Mike Flynn #TraitorFlynn

Despite their positioning as a green alternative, experts warn biofuels expansion could have catastrophic consequences.

In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.

We remember

In December 2018, Epstein wrote about Trump: “I am the one able to take him down.” Eight months later, Epstein was found dead in a prison run by the Trump administration. Weird coincidence.

"What I want young women and girls to know is: You are powerful and your voice matters." 🔹 Former VP Kamala Harris #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory

The world has focused on Zohran Mamdani, for VERY good reason. 🙌🏼 But don’t forget- he’s not the only one.👊🏼 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago is on 🔥…. Much like Mamdani, he is focused on the right thing- affordability. And fighting ICE. We love him 💙 & @jbpritzker.bsky.social & @katmabu.bsky.social

Miraculously, he didn’t hit a single CDC employee! But he did kill David Rose, the police officer who responded, who leaves behind two children and a pregnant wife. I can't help but imagine the vast attention this case would have received if the race of the shooter and the victim were reversed.

We've already figured out how to graze sheep at solar farms. Can cows and photovoltaic panels coexist too? Great story by @dangearino.bsky.social on the company trying to make it happen: insideclimatenews.org/news/0211202...

It's so true, how did I never see it this way?

More people need to watch this. It's what happens when a pipeline carrying CO2 ruptures. We need these pipelines for any carbon sequestration scheme (CCS, DAC). When the flood of heavy CO2 gas rolls over the landscape it suffocates everything in its path and shuts off car engines, which need oxygen.

This.

Pay for this by raising taxes on the wealthy. Get big money out of politics. This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future.

BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Brilliant up-to-date from someone who knows this stuff. As always, with a touch of smart/tough humor.

So, it appears they did NOT follow any of the federal laws prior to demolition. It only takes 1 fiber to contract asbestosis.

“The Trump administration is weaponizing the government shutdown to gut staffing, weaken environmental protections, and normalize their ultimate goal of privatizing public lands,” writes @jackieostfeld.bsky.social in @thehill.com . thehill.com/opinion/ener...

🚨 We just launched an interactive tracker analyzing the proxy voting guidelines of major U.S. public pensions. 🔍Take a look & learn how these influential investors decide where to cast their votes on shareholder proposals at major corporations.

My new NYT essay is about the essence of Trumpism: Bailing out farmers who can’t sell soybeans to China because of his tariffs, while bailing out Argentina so it can sell more soybeans to China. It’s the economic equivalent of pardoning pals and prosecuting enemies. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o...

This doesn’t even include the ones who had pending case but he had their charges dropped.

Some of those people are currently on the staff of elected Republicans, in fact. They’re part of the present of the GOP.

The writer Peter Matthiessen traveled the world looking for elusive snow leopards and rare cranes. But a new biography shows that the genuine self he was really seeking would be much harder to find, writes John Kaag:

The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed go.nature.com/4925W5G

Sanity says: “if there is a risk that the AMOC is weakening and heading towards a tipping point, we need to act on that (just like with other major risks). This is not an issue where we can afford to wait until we are certain, or pretend it’s just an academic discussion without major consequences.”

"Help us locate and commemorate our children who died while being forced by the government to attend boarding schools."

Here is a reporter who deserves to be remembered. kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-jo...

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

Sometimes autism is wanting so badly to be a part of things but then being totally overwhelmed when you are 💔

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

Pro abortion politics are very popular. Every time a man says Dems should compromise on abortion to win votes they’re exposing their misogyny. There’s literally no other reason to suggest the compromise

A lot of men resent having to treat women like people and just can’t stop telling on themselves now that there’s an explicit permission structure for misogyny.

A really good analysis here, explains a lot esp. for people who know much about farming and farm programs. Not too technical. Note that the first paragraph on the touchy subject of tariffs cites 12 separate sources for the claim of damage done by Trump's tariffs.

irenes.entropy Irene’s Entropy

The abortion drug mifepristone is safer than, well, Tylenol. And on its 25th anniversary, it's under assault as never before. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I think it would be helpful if DA Bragg charged a few of these assaults. If the agents think that federal law immunizes them for actions that would result in ordinary New Yorkers being charged, let them litigate it.

Chuck Grassley is complaining about the Argentina bailout more than Democrats. Hello?

NEWS: I've just released the Cheap Energy Agenda with @levin.house.gov. This is our plan to lower energy costs for Americans by expanding access to cheap and reliable energy. heatmap.news/politics/ene...

Farnoush is an AP UN correspondent. Dan is a former White House speechwriter. newrepublic.com/post/200833/...