Coal emissions in Germany are already down to 1880ies levels. openclimatedata.net/emissions/gc...

Joel Pett, Tribune Content Agency

ICE is facing zero consequences for the deaths of Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and many other people they killed. The GOP does not care

Dave Whamond, Toronto Star

Holy sh*t THIS IS THE KIND OF AD DEMOCRATS NEED TO MAKE!!! Expose Republicans as the out-of-touch ASSH*LES they are. SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE!! #EarthDay

Excellent podcast IMO from @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and @volts.wtf re: "Doing data centers the not-dumb way". Change is happening so fast it's hard (for me) to keep up on all the relevant macro trends, which this covers implicitly in umpteen dimensions. Kudos! www.volts.wtf/p/doing-data...

Despite the horrifying subject matter, kudos to @sahanjournal.bsky.social for the journalism.

At least 17 people have already died in ICE custody this year—outpacing every other past Administration. ICE has a shameful & egregious record of violating people's rights, traumatizing children, & killing our neighbors.

She warned the world before it was ready to listen. Rachel Carson exposed the dangers of pesticides and helped launch the modern environmental movement. Scientist. Author. A mind behind the science that saved lives. Her work still shapes how we protect life. #EarthDay #SheShed

From the essay: Using pronouns in this way is a kind of claiming. Dupuy-Spencer is being claimed by cisness whenever someone uses she/her pronouns. I am a trans man who uses he/him, and so I choose to assert my own claim. I'll go into it more, but you'll have to become a member of Assigned to read.

Tucker Carlson isn’t actually sorry www.ms.now/opinion/tuck...

A lot about the world is very heavy right now but if a college football podcast that got jettisoned by Vox during the pandemic for not having a marketable audience can raise this much money for refugees in Atlanta in two days then just think of all the stuff we can all do together

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

You guys. A goose is nesting under the Spoon Bridge and Cherry. This is our Romulus and Remus moment. We already became ungovernable. Now we become myth. #Minneapolis.

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Finally had time to read @tiyamiles.bsky.social's wonderful All That She Carried, a book about a fabric sack given by an enslaved woman to her about-to-be-separated 9yo daughter and years later stitched by a granddaughter with that origin story. Wonderful blend of history and fiction. Kudos!!

Twenty-nine people have died in ICE custody since October, the start of the federal government's fiscal year, already surpassing 2004's toll of 28, the previous record, according to government data. n.pr/4sLetjV

MAGA star Caitlyn Jenner is 100% behind Trump's policies against transgender individuals, but wants Trump to make an exception for her because, she says, it is dangerous for her to travel with a passport indicating that she is a male. She thinks is OK for every other trans female, just not her.

Worthy piece, particularly describing Trump’s dark blather as “the photographic negative of the Sermon on the Mount.”

IMO this is an interesting and potentially productive means of constraining corporate misadventures when they stray into the actually criminal. (I believe fascist/MAGA/Trump corruption will lead to a resurgence of more ethical/moral public behavior.) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/o...

Cartoonist: Mike Luckovich

This village uses its solar income on free communal lunches, buses and other communal efforts.“If you divide money as individual income, people feel disconnected. People who didn’t know each other for years now get to know each other within days” I love everything about this.

A recent poll claimed vaccine skepticism is widespread. However, a careful reading of the poll data tells a different story. @drhigginsmd.bsky.social takes a closer look at the survey questions and what the data actually say. Here's what you need to know: ow.ly/oRIi50YKELC.

I think there are two key takeaways for Americans from Peter Magyar’s ouster of Orbán: 1. We must rally overwhelmingly behind the 2028 Dem nominee 2. We have to be ready to send people to prison if we win My latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/two-lessons-...

To be clear, we have to send people __who broke laws that are already on the books__ to prison.

A note to Pete Hegseth: I just can’t help but notice the endless stream of garbage cloaked in faux piety and patriotism that you cannot resist peddling to the American people. It’s incredibly unpatriotic.

"The goal must be to sweep the Republican Party out of power and to do so thoroughly that a new political project can begin to emerge in the aftermath. Failing to understand this is failing to meet the moment on a world historical scale." www.liberalcurrents.com/two-lessons-...

convinced that sam alito’s only actual issue with jim crow is that it was democrats

I have been surprised that some data-center developers seem to think that getting a DC into production by whatever means guarantees that its external impacts (e.g., power/water consumption, air/noise pollution) are magically permanent for the 30-year life of the DC. That's not how democracy works.

Independent news media has to start from the facts, which in this case are undeniable. Climate change is real and accelerating and hitting the American public, e.g. in the form of higher homeowners insurance premiums (the climate deniers thought they could fool insurance companies!? 🤣 🤣 🤣).

Say his name: Emeshyon Wilkins. Another person of color shot dead by law enforcement while posing no threat to police officers or the public. Shot dead in the back of the head in this case. Accountability is mandatory! apnews.com/article/body...

I think this is an under-appreciated point about nuclear power. Yes, it's "firm", unlike solar/wind "variable", so an element of nuclear in our portfolio makes sense. But it's not cheap compared to solar/wind, even including the batteries needed to make them firm. www.dnv.com/energy-trans...

Excellent and wonderfully detailed article by @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social about @nytimes.com / @wsj.com failing to accurately portray US pro-democracy demonstrations. Many smaller, less prominent papers are doing an excellent job. mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/new-york-t...

Despite knowing Clint Massie was abusing girls for years, church leaders never reported him to police. It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.” (Published Nov. 2025 with @startribune.com)

I drive a MINI Cooper SE with range of 200 km (120 miles). All electric. This summer, I am driving from Ottawa to St John’s, Newfoundland and back - more than 5000 km (3000 miles.) There are charging stations along the entire route. No range anxiety. Gas $1.72/litre CAD or $4.75/gal USD

Excellent story by @insideclimatenews.org about deception by the natural-gas industry about the nature of NG: it is cleaner than coal but still a fossil fuel so not clean in an absolute sense, and is not the cheapest source of firm power (solar+batteries is). insideclimatenews.org/news/1104202...

If Hungary can get rid of its autocrat, so can America anntelnaes.substack.com/p/viktor-orb...

“Instead of “why are they all coming forward now?” we should be asking why Eric Swalwell felt so secure in his abuse that he had the gall to run for Governor of Cali-freakin’-fornia.”

"The right’s characterization of higher education is a fiction. Students across the ideological spectrum feel free to express themselves, think their education is worth the cost and don’t think their views are silenced." Only 3% of Republican students feel out of place on campus for their views.

Listen up: I am one of those rare sex assault victims who actually took the guy who did it to court. It was a local scandal that put my initials on the front page of the local paper (not my whole name because I was a minor). You have no idea what happens to women on the stand or in the press.

MOSCOW, Idaho (FāVS News) — During a town hall at an Idaho University, Wilson and his fellow pastors pitched a vision of America with no LGBTQ+ rights, no divorce and no voting rights for married women. Wilson has gained notoriety for his Christian nationalist views and his ties to Pete Hegseth.

To state the obvious and sorry it has to be explicitly stated: political violence never supports democratic outcomes. We must all denounce it.

NEW: A federal judge has ordered the DOJ to hand over all it's evidence in the murder of Renee Nicole Good in the next 3 weeks. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

NEW: A “Vatican source close to Pope Leo XIV” tells NBC Chicago that the Pentagon meeting between Trump officials and the Vatican’s top American diplomat “was most unpleasant and confrontational.” This is now the fifth news outlet to describe the meeting in this way.

There's a lot being shared right now about China's incredible shift towards renewable energy - and rightly so. But this, from the UK, is equally astonishing & encouraging. It's not just that change can happen. It's that it *is* happening. (Via climateactapp.substack.com/p/your-daily...)

This is so well done. 👌