Ranting ranter rants

citizen you have exceeded your pencil allotment this year. prepare to die

Another rightwing lunatic with no relevant experience gets a major government job. www.thehandbasket.co/p/conspiracy...

Trump’s “37 dolls” gaffe again. And a weird claim that China wants its kids to have 37 pencils. But brave American kids need only 2. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A huge night for Democrats: —They flip Miami's mayorship. —They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%. —They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council. —And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.

He’s literally demented. And the fact that he’s being forced to take a series of cognitive tests shows that his cronies know it.

I wonder if he mentions "lying like a lying motherfucker" as one of his strengths during his annual performance evaluations

The guy can barely string two sentences together on any subject and couldn't point to Europe on a map of Europe - yet he pretends to know what Europe's problems are... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Know thine enemy. Brilliant/terrifying/infuriating piece of power-mapping.

Homo sapiens sapiens has finally figured out how to raise its young

A new record - on 5 December wind power produced enough electricity for 3/4 of UK homes At 23.8GW it meant that even during winter peak demand, it was still providing nearly half the country's power needs Still a way to go though.... www.edie.net/uk-soars-pas...

Daily Memo: A Thousand Confirmed Kidnappings in the Past 90 Days, Plus Two More Deaths in Detention @eltragon.bsky.social

11.7 GW for solar in Q3 and 0 GW for nuclear so far in 2025? 🥴

Solar is 91 GW (67%) of the 136 GW of “high probability” additions FERC expects to be built by September 2028 (so almost at end of Trump 2 regime). Wind 23 GW (17%). Gas just 20 GW (15%); and the much hyped nuclear a whopping 335 MW — 0.2%. www.utilitydive.com/news/solar-g...

Solar energy dominance www.utilitydive.com/news/solar-g...

Amazon pressuring other companies to prolong greenhouse gas reporting rules that allow tech companies to greenwash their emissions www.ft.com/content/4bbd...

"Dems must pivot to energy affordability and also embrace nuclear power" is a take I've read several times just today, and not a single time did the author pause to contemplate the dissonance.

Ethanol is ridiculous when used as fuel. We need to stop it.

This just gets worse and worse.

Well fucking said. Bunch of racist fucking dirtbags.

We got you, Adelaide 🚍 You'll no longer see bull dust about gas being clean on your buses, following our successful complaint to Ad Standards. #greenwashing commsdeclare.org/2025/12/03/a...

Would be fitting for all the titles of the officer holders in this regime to start with “SS”

He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Brilliant piss-take! Newsom is the healthiest person ever to live!

Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.

based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens

This is something important to understand in the current moment - a lot of people make a lot of money in bubbles and they’re often not the same people losing money when they go pop. Or if they are, they’re fine as a lot of bubble era profits are locked away in real estate or other safer assets.

We’re the only country that lets the gun lobby write the laws and then pretends to be shocked when children end up in coffins. NEW UPDATE: The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office has announced that four of the victims shot in the Stockton mass shooting were ages 8, 9, 14, and 21.

God how I hate these grifters

Huge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵

He seems a mite insecure.

Who wore it better?

Three things about the Witkoff tapes: 1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia. 2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea. 3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

"The cost of removing large quantities of CO2 from the air will fall in the medium term, but not as much as previously hoped. This is the conclusion reached by @ethz.ch researchers on the basis of new calculations. Efforts to reduce carbon emissions should therefore continue at pace"

The Trump surrender of Ukraine descends into utter chaos. But “chaos” is too mellow a word: What we have here is a rich bouillabaisse of incompetence, mendacity, tragedy, farce, and diplomatic blunder. Words have a hard time keeping up with the story. But we’ll try. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

As of 5pm today, batteries were the largest single source of power for the Californian grid www.caiso.com/todays-outlo...

happy days

WTF

The climate-insurance crisis is important & worsening part of affordability squeeze yet mostly ignored by nat'l politics. Home values must drop to keep ownership affordable & lower home values = lower property taxes = less $ for local govts = less $ for resilience www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Floods in Vietnam have killed at least 90 people in last week

Can't argue with that www.ft.com/content/8ccf...

Shit the President says: "groceries, its sort of an old-fashioned word, but its very accurate”

Some of the phrases in the US’s “peace proposal” for Ukraine appear to have been originally written in Russian. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

The AI buildout takes your water, electricity and jobs — but you DO get this. 🤡 @nypost.com nypost.com/2025/11/21/b...

In hindsight, this will be one of those projects that marks the peak LNG bubble insanity. Building a pipeline over the Rockies to take New Mexican methane to an LNG export facility....somewhere yet to be determined. Embarrassing for all involved.

So fecking stupid.

Seems like this should have gotten more attention . . . subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...