The US used to be the industry leader. China Rides a Global Green Wave www.juancole.com/2026/06/chin...

Solar, Tidal, Wind, (and where available, geothermal.) www.juancole.com/2026/06/cris...

150 years ago tomorrow. The Battle of the Greasy Grass 140 Years Later: The Complete Story in 18 Drawings (6/24/2016) indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/06/24/b...

@twofiftytotwofifty Jonas Salk, Narrated by Peter Salk youtube.com/shorts/HqoWn...

“So we’re not talking about a catastrophe. We’re not yet talking about, we aren’t even talking about a Bitcoin level of disappointment for investors. But okay, it’s a break in the trend.” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-chips-...

The Abundance Bandwagon Jumps the Shark in Vancouver Dean Baker cepr.net/publications...

Dude. Even I can understand this. The SpaceX Bubble Crash Is Worse Than It Looks MonkeyExplains youtu.be/sy4HzG_qzKw

34% of the people polled are utter morons. Lawrence: Republican Senator Sheehy just made Donald Trump Iran's ‘dope’ youtu.be/4FsJLq3uCHo

Sending everyone into China's orbit. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Oooh A PRIVATE LIFE | Official Trailer (2026) youtu.be/HbIEbJbEpF4

KLARA AND THE SUN Official Trailer (2026) Jenna Ortega youtu.be/vtoaWqKJTQc

Peter Thiel's "Secret Society" Rebecca Watson (Skepchick) youtu.be/aKQW_J20ReM

Why I Left The US Leeja Miller youtu.be/a5IEyylqQrE

Dude Albanians tear down construction site in on-going protests over Kushner-backed private island youtu.be/8Ip2MK07Hmo

Fuck ICE, Trump, and Texas. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Threat Model needs your support Cybersecurity: June 23, 2026 Threat Model www.patreon.com/violetblue/p...

Will Surrendering to Iran Relieve Trump’s Gas Pains? Capitulation probably won’t pay off at the polls in November paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-surre...

"The Hormuz effect" www.juancole.com/2026/06/elec...

More anti-ICE protest prosecuting than you think are happening at a state, not just federal level (even in Blue states). Dial in to what your state level authorities are doing to violate, and to demand protection of, our rights. c.org/WYXQ2djVYq

The US economy is apparently comprised of data centers and exploding space rockets. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The admin is already replete with the worst sort of scum.

Yikes. "Arctic sea ice in the Barents Sea is a record low for this time of year and potentially on its way to the earliest melt-out on record for the summer season. There is an area with sharply declining ice cover for long-term trends too." Map of the the region: zacklabe.com/arctic-clima...

new take™ www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNFi...

"Elon Musk's net worth has plummeted by more than $300 billion as SpaceX's selloff extended into a third straight day on Monday" bsky.app/profile/dean...

"Fuck the empire." Halle Bailey Presents the Peabody to Tony Gilroy for Andor Peabody Awards youtu.be/nV0x8u4MYfw

Introducing: 250 to 250 Heather Cox Richardson youtu.be/xrzQjU560Gs

Alan Greenspan’s Mixed Legacy Dean Baker cepr.net/publications...

"Almost none of this is real." Resistance History Day Book | Resistance in Williamsburg Meet-Up youtu.be/HWSW3eG8450

Resistance History with Tad Stoermer youtu.be/dj9fFmwgYzQ

"Just don’t ask me to take myths literally. No I don’t think there’s a heaven or hell. Or that God sends people there depending on the way they conducted their lives here on earth. I don’t know what happens after you die. And I’m a little afraid of people who think they do."

Uh, some of us understood this to be the case from the get-go. Ever since the 1964 Civil Rights Act. As they say in my 'hood: "Whitey gonna White." www.theguardian.com/inequality/n...

Missing my dads on Father's Day

OK we can add "ripping out a state of the art filtration system for the reflecting pool because Obama installed it" to the list of things Trump has done out of absolute bitter jealousy of the first Black president.

A Black admiral fixed one of the Navy’s worst messes. Mr. Hegseth blocked his promotion anyway. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

Pete Hegseth Wants Blacks and Women Out of the Military Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie youtu.be/fOVt5CrAEvk

on juneteenth – jamelle bouie youtube.com/shorts/DofbI...

"The political class running America are pyramid scheme swindlers, funded by pyramid scheme money. They're running a big con on all of us." The Big Con – Pluralistic pluralistic.net/2026/06/19/t...

Expanding transit access through bikes. Shifter #bike #bikecommuting #transit youtu.be/8zp53XHElNQ

what a dumb fucking war this has been

pete hegseth is engaged in open racial discrimination against black officers. the clear message is that there is no place for black or women leadership in his military

Trump's "Open-Border" Policy for Parasitic Worms that Make Hamburgers More Expensive Rebecca Watson (Skepchick) youtu.be/uHBRKq0-S70

The Single Most Produced Vehicle In History Berm Peak Express youtu.be/p2d2ifuUcCM

My favorite version of "Lift Every Voice And Sing", sung by the PS22 Chorus of Staten Island. youtu.be/7NlVojhB3xo

Today we celebrate the end of slavery in the US, a huge step in the right direction on a long road upon which we still trod. And today, in the often sorrowful story of America, we choose joy and celebration. May all our chains, literal and metaphorical, fall into the dust beneath our dancing feet.

Our human family, indeed all living things, are bound together in an inseverable web of inter-being, and none of us are respected until all of us are respected, none of us are free until all of us are free.

"The holiday's name, first used in the 1890s, is a portmanteau of the words "June" and "nineteenth", referring to June 19, 1865, the day when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War. – Wikipedia.

"The Center for Action and Contemplation has core faculty member Brian McLaren offering a fresh re-frame of the heady times in which the Jewish radical Jesus ran his very brief teaching mission." – Prof P. Bolland.

"Trump's Treaty of Versailles" Lawrence: Trump picked the worst place in the world to sign his terrible deal with Iran youtu.be/H3r0_p_z8PQ

(dies) www.huffpost.com/entry/trumps...