Have you ever read a thread that *perfectly* distills a significant phenomenon (here, our political family dynamic) in a satisfying yet infuriating way? For me, this is that thread:

JD Vance now blaming the Democrats and far left radicals for US soldiers now not getting paid. The day after Trump called on US military commanders to go to war against the "enemy from within". 🤔

TRUMP TO CITY: DROP DEAD www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/n...

Rapid changes in the Antarctic are 'stark warning' to the world oceanographicmagazine.com/news/rapid-c...

Instead of calling it a "Hatch Act Violation", call it what it is: "illegal federal corruption"

illegal federal corruption

“You kill people and break things for a living” is one of the most insane sentences I’ve ever heard

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social please sign

Today is the last day to buy an EV in the US and get your federal tax credit. Run and get yours now, or buy 10 ebikes instead.

Pro-tip: Don’t try to take on Gavin Newsom’s press team. Especially if you’re a dumb dumb.

imagine flying halfway around the world for a meeting that could’ve been an email and some guy with a hangover is just shouting at you that it’s against the rules to be fat or gay

It is undeniable that this moment is being shaped by people who marinated for years in an informational environment where reality was not only demoted but actively disdained. It took a while for that bubble to become impermeable but it did and now we have a chunk of people who know nothing but.

There are no words. A psychopath is sitting in the Oval Office, demanding illegal acts from OUR military. 25th amendment NOW!

If Koch-funded "news" outlets like the "Daily Caller" lie about things as provably false as this, what else are they lying to you about?

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

If you heard the leader of another nation threatening to unleash the military against his perceived political enemies, what would you call it?

Good news, but I hate that it took a judge to do it.

It's enough to drive you insane watching the government constantly doing crimes and then calling a press conference to say "The real crime is when people say we're doing crimes, and we have to stop it"

Word from the meeting last night is that Speaker kept bringing up “health care for illegal aliens,” seemingly unaware that Medicaid and Medicare and Affordable Care coverage are by law NOT available to anyone here illegally.

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

👇👇

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

I’m still processing what happened this morning. Is it now the administration’s position that the U.S. military does not observe or adhere to the laws of war?

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Years ago, I was on campus in my office reading a book--a textbook that could be used in the classroom. As one does. The next day, a student asked me if I didn't have enough to do because they saw me reading a book at work. I think about that exchange every time I open a physical book on campus.

I think its quite possible that energy costs from data centers become THE issue for next year's elections. That seems crazy given ICE and other things but I think given how much utility prices are spiking its going to be as salient as grocery prices have been.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

The father—who's lived in the U.S. for over two decades and has an active asylum application—was reportedly driving with his daughter when he called his wife and said someone seemed to be following them. When they got home, agents got hold of the child. trib.al/VFuC1v3

WHAT?! I mean I’m not surprised but WHAT?!

A fantastic guide to the current terminology & thinking of the Silicon Valley bros, who are riding high at the moment. (I really can not exaggerate how aesthetically & morally repulsive I find every bit of this.)

:-(

“Show us your warrant!” “Ma’am, you’ve been watching too many movies. We’ll show you the warrant after we’re done.” 🤔 *busts in the door with babies crying*

But, in the name of one-sided Calvinball-civility, we mustn’t call them Nazis.

I feel like there's an analog to pareiodolia but for political sensemaking. Sometimes there's no real unifying narrative to learn from. Just a bunch of random shit that happened. "Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why." -- Kurt Vonnegut en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareido...

Despite broad political support, one third of the nation's Climate Adaptation Science Centers will wind down in coming days due to lack of funds. The Northeast, South Central, and Pacific Islands will be left without actionable science on drought, floods, wildfire, sea level rise and other hazards.

“Their demise is unconnected to a possible federal shutdown: Instead, employees say, Interior Department officials have not approved paperwork that would help fund them for another five years.”

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

I’m sitting outside a cafe listening to live bossa nova music, no evidence of unrest beyond the over caffeinated drummer

If we want affordable, clean, equitable, and resilient electricity, then we need to be paying attention to State Utility Commissioner elections and appointments, as I said on #WITHpod here: open.spotify.com/episode/32ps...

Looks like TD 9 will miss making a U.S. landfall. The latest from @bhensonweather.bsky.social and I: yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/09/trop...

tl;dr: Fascism, in a very literal sense, is for dead-end losers.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

It appears the federal government is invading Portland because Trump tweeted it would and they scrambled to put together an invasion in response.