A piece I wrote to try and wrap my brain around the current realm of bended reality we're living in. Defending a shared truth is crucial - so learn about what you can do about it. Thank you @luckytran.com for chatting with me.

I’m not Romanian but it feels like Trump is in his 80s Ceaușescu phase

A must read: “A foreign policy organized around punishing and killing our supposedly sworn enemies, diplomacy be damned, conveys the terrible message that we can only kill and maim our way to achieving the world we want to live in.” Hasan Piker www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

NEW RESULT: Democrats have flipped a state Senate in Iowa. This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%. This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowa’s senate.

If you want to follow the latest updates on resistance to the Trump regime -- make sure to follow @resistlist.bsky.social

Just to be clear: "No votes have taken place on the House floor related to flood recovery." Texas Republicans value racial gerrymandering over helping those affected by extreme floods.

Israel told the world they were carrying out precise strikes to minimize civilian deaths. “Self Defense”, they said. This is total annihilation. What Netanyahu doesn’t want the world to see: “Deprivation of the means to sustain life.” #GazaIsGone

In June, for the first time ever, solar was the largest source of power in the EU.

This is very similar to conversations with Tech world oligarchs. Their egos were bruised and they weren't treated as god-like figures and so they shifted right. How much of our current US politics is because white men have fragile egos?

can TX republicans actually arrest democrats who left the state? can abbott really remove them from office and fill their vacant seats? can he extradite them to texas from another state? answers to your questions here: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“Among the horrors the Israel-Gaza war has brought to its people, the torture of parents seeing their children starve and being powerless to save them is surely one of the worst.”

There is money for climate justice and a just transition - it’s just being spent on AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

If you don’t count covid victims people won’t die. If you don’t measure carbon the temperature won’t rise. If you fudge unemployment numbers the economy will soar. Our fool is building his paradise

yup

Rebecca @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social reminded me of this quote from Adam Hochschild "When the national census showed that his reign of terror was shrinking the country’s population, Stalin ordered the members of the census board shot. The new officials, not surprisingly, came up with higher figures."

I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator very grim

Reminder “16 women have accused Donald Trump of various forms of sexual assault, including one accusation of rape and another, in which the accuser has not used the word “rape” but whose description meets the legal definition of rape.” www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

He's saying the families are evil for asking why their kids are dead. If you wondered why Trump has embraced 'religion' recently, it's not just because he thinks they're easy marks for a grift but he can blame God for shit and say it's out of my hands

#climatecrisis tripled death toll in Europe’s June heatwave, study finds - Heat caused 2,300 deaths across 12 cities, of which 1,500 were down to climate crisis, scientists say theguardian.com/environment/...

@houstonchronicle.com needs to follow the lead of @texasmonthly.bsky.social and as @latimes.com did in the fires and drop all the paywalls from flood related stories. These are stories vital to community safety and understanding. No paywalls are barriers to information

Staff at FEMA haven't received any internal communications from the agency or department leadership since the deadly floods in Texas, which is unheard of in the wake of a major disaster. Acting Administrator David Richardson is "nowhere to be found."

Unfortunately it’s not a big step from “The forecast was wrong” to “NWS is incompetent and wasteful,” and there are strong political incentives to make that argument now regardless of the truth (see also: attacks on FEMA after Helene)

This is a brilliant thread of contextualization of this moment and what's praiseworthy about it amidst the atrocities.

For more on how our weather is becoming more extreme and harder to predict using the tools and expertise we've developed based on past conditions, read:

Wouldn’t wish what those parents in Texas are going through on my worst enemy

I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.

Being a Texan and seeing the horrifying floods in so many places I know and have lived - I’m immediately angry at Rep. Chip Roy for voting yes on the spending bill. It’s not time for the US to pull back on clean energy transition.

A quick🧵about the devastating Texas flooding -- and how it connects to climate change. ⬇️ (Photo cred: @nytimes.com)

Unbelievable rainfall totals from this event, and it's still raining. Several pockets of 10-20" rain totals. That's up to HALF A YEAR of rainfall that has fallen in just the last 36 hours #atxwx #txwx

The latest from @drjeffmasters.bsky.social and me on Friday's horrific flash flooding in Texas (followed by yet another deadly flash flood in central TX on Sat AM). We also have an update on newborn and not-too-fierce Tropical Storm #Chantal. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/07/deva...

the one big beautiful bill is going to pass. it's certainly bad, but not as bad as it could be. so where does clean energy go from here? @emilypont.bsky.social and @zeitlin.bsky.social gotchu

New York City had free college tuition at all CUNY schools for 130 years

‼️ Y'all, House Republican leadership just told their members to go back to their offices. The floor has emptied. They don't even have the votes to pass the procedural Rule that's needed to get to a passage vote on the bill. 👀 There's still time to make noise --> 5calls.org

EXTRAORDINARY HISTORIC DAY IN EUROPE 39.3 Germany Dozens of records (next tweet) 39.0 Netherlands 40.6 France including monthly record 38.4 Guebwille 38 Czechia, 37 Poland 34.0 Holbek DENMARK all time record etc etc Another day for history book in Europe

Good to know one of the U.S. President's main influencers on national security policy is calling for actual genocide (65 mil is the total Latino population of the U.S.)

Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election. A new generation of leaders is here.

A 64-year-old Iranian woman, who has lived in the US for 47 years, was detained by immigration agents on Sunday morning while gardening outside her home in New Orleans. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The silencing of public climate resources reminds me of this tenet of The Party in 1984: "We shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there shall be no words in which to express it." #EndClimateSilence

I get that they're all-in on climate denial, but now hurricane denial?

Excited for @rollingstone.com article by Julian Aguon about Vanuatu's fight at the ICJ "At its core, this case asks the court to clarify how existing principles of international law apply to the greatest existential threat humanity has ever faced: climate change" www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

We need answers—now. Where is our sister Hilary Rivers? ICE took her the morning after Pride with no warning, no due process, and no communication. This is not justice—this is kidnapping. We demand transparency, accountability, and her immediate release. Read more: 48hills.org/2025/06/drag...

'The Danish government is to clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice.' Danes decline to 'turbocharge' AI and turn to copyright protections.

No one from Tuvalu was interviewed for this article.

We should not become immune to or just shrug off the blatant horrifying racism that the Right has shown. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/n...

"the very language of this conversation, language around bureaucracy, efficiency, waste, even quality of life, we’ve allowed this language to be seen as if it is of a right-wing concern, when in fact this should be the most paramount left-wing concern"

Funny thing is, my extremely Republican county has free public transportation because a county commissioner did the math and realized making all the buses free, not just the tourist beach trolley, was in fact cost effective because free buses convinces more people not to drive.

Today's heat wave was made FIVE TIMES more likely by fossil fueled climate change Yet Republicans are trying this week to pass a bill that would decimate the energy transition and sell off swaths of public lands to fossil fuel companies

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Things... feel bad. Cuts across the federal government have thrown agencies whose job it is to prepare for disasters into chaos. Because being ready for a disaster has never been more important, WIRED spoke with experts to bring you a guide. @mollytaft.com has more: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Abolishing ICE remains as important as ever. Not only that—it is an obvious litmus test for anyone seeking political office. You can’t proclaim to fight Trumpist extremism and dodge its most visible, horrifying manifestation, writes @jackmirkinson.bsky.social: