one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

The electricity system is the largest commodity supply chain in the world that doesn’t feature storage. Every technology benefits from storage (esp Solar/Nuclear). Top 1% of peak hours are 8% of your bill. Top 10% of hours are 40% of your bill Batteries provide more tools to flatten out peaks.

“It’s now becoming just a casual and routine thing for Republicans to say, okay, well if you’re going to oppose Donald Trump, well we’re gonna send in the military. That seems like an ominous development that really shows what’s happening with this party and the Trump era.”

My big idea is that we should either enforce laws or remove them from the books. First up: the Hatch Act. It gets enforced less frequently than marijuana laws on PWI campuses. Just dump it.

CVS should start offering tests for adults to determine whether they should get a measles booster.

This curve may bend up or down depending on how ICE behaves during the World Cup.

Why is this phrased as Republicans offering Democrats something? Republicans can choose to offer help to Americans instead of screwing them over. It’s nutty that everybody assumes the GOP will not act in the best interests of the people, and this is not an ongoing scandal.

Oracle Cloud to deploy 50,000 AMD AI chips, signaling new Nvidia competition

I’m starting to think the new administration doesn’t have a plan to bring prices down.

This thing where people plan to start a new job after the age of 78 is so strange to me.

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

ITALIAN PM GIORGIA MELONI COULDN'T GET AWAY FAST ENOUGH.

GOP causes fiscal issues for everyone consistently but claim to be fiscally responsible party... Make it Make sense.

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Chikungunya is difficult to test for & has no treatment. It has exploded globally in the past 20 yrs bc of climate change, w/ outbreaks in areas it wasn’t previously found. First detected in the W Hemisphere in 2015, local transmission now occurs in the US. This administration suspended the vaccine…

1. You wanna know what's interesting about Pepsi making this decision? Pepsi literally made its fortune off the backs of Black people. (short 🧵) Both Pepsi & Coke were created in the late 19th century. But while Coca-Cola was going on to become America's drink, Pepsi was bankrupt in the 1920s.

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

A record 29% — nearly a third! — of all new cars purchased in California during July, August, and September were zero-emission vehicles. DC may be fine with selling out American innovation to China, but California will keep charging ahead toward cleaner air for our communities.

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

Remember we're already in a world of Kavanaugh stops based solely on ethnicity. If you are from a targeted group, this can happen to you no matter what your citizenship status is. What if you forget your wallet at home? You could end up in detention for days or worse.

They’re going to have to start calling him “Confirmed Kills”

Confusing to have a device and a service have the same name. Open the TV app on the Apple TV and open the channel for Apple TV.

Conveniently ICE attracted the biggest pieces of shit in the country into one agency.

Isn’t the first attempt, won’t be the last. Our history won’t be erased.

Everyone should experience the humbling effect of sending out a small request to an organizing listserve [of people who have self-selected to be on said list] and getting zero responses. It will help you to understand how hard it is to organize anything.

I always said that conspiracy theorists should be forced to organize an office holiday party

Paying for healthcare might be a problem for people here, but folks will be happy to know that Argentina's right-wing nutjob president says he has an unlimited supply of dollars from Donald Trump www.bloomberg.com/news/article... (The government pays for healthcare in Argentina.)

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education. America’s children deserve better than this.

I try not to play my “I was in special ed” card so much that it loses its power, but it saved my life and this is going to cost the lives of children. Whether by suicide, ending up in prison, actual medical complications, this is going to kill kids and destroy families.

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

All of the dumb ideas seem to come from either Stanford drop-outs (Altman) or Standford graduates (Thiel).

I hope Joe Biden is watching this and feeling like the chump that he is. He always saw himself as America’s greatest friend of Israel. But his refusal to pressure Netanyahu into a peace deal meant Trump gets hailed as that instead - because it helped Trump win the ‘24 election.

Diabetics and COVID. Not great for your 🫀 www.frontiersin.org/journals/pha...

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes. Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

America is getting so great

So much winning.

Kamala Harris: "Here in Chicago I'm told the helicopters that were descending on an American city were Black Hawks. Do you know what Black Hawks were designed to do? War. So I think everyone can draw their conclusions just based on the facts."

Mass killing: 4 dead and 20 injured in shooting at Willie’s in Saint Helena Island, South Carolina. Bar shooting. It was a party for alumni of Battery Creek High School at the bar. The bar’s owner had closed the venue back in December.

we need to abolish this shit

i do think the revolt of the bosses has caught the car and they're not actually gonna like what they get

Police in the US are comparable to the Iraqi Hashd ash Shaabi/PMU. Ostensibly part of a state security service run by elected civilian leadership, but in practice serve as an independent paramilitary completely unaccountable to civilian democratic control.

Wait, what?

"In 1992 New York tried to create a review board for NYPD officers accused of misconduct. Thousands of off duty cops responded by breaking through barricades outside of city hall, chanting racial slurs, smashing car windows, attacking pedestrians and blocking traffic across the Brooklyn Bridge."

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

This is why the costumes are honestly brilliant. Ngo, who has never said a truthful thing in his entire life (remember the concrete milkshake?) now has to convince people inflatable Sesame Street and animal costumes are violent terrorists. Sometimes you just need an image too silly to demonize.

It’s amazing watching so many people choose the wrong side of history while history is happening all around us