Fixing the world is a damn buffet and if you don't want the salad you don't need to tell people you don't like salad. You can just eat the pasta.

The Wilson admin will be remembered for stunts like this: so much political capital (and actual $) spent on bad shelters which closed w/in a year after wealthy NA’s complained. Is the goal to appear to be doing something, forever, or just to burn $$$ before the socialists can get to it? Yes.

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(He did the mesh) He did the Gilgamesh (The Gilgamesh) He and Enkindu sure did mesh (He did the mesh) He ripped off tons of flesh (He did the mesh) He did the Gilgamesh

(To be clear, CIW had to work on Taco Bell for years to get them to agree to it. But also there are companies that CIW's been working on for even longer, that still haven't gotten onboard.)

Taco Bell was one of the first companies to sign the "Yes, we WILL only buy tomatoes from farms that stop doing slavery" pledge with Coalition of Immokalee Workers. @immokaleeworkers.bsky.social

Some good news: The largest housing bill in decades became law! Proud to get this done in Congress. We’ll keep working to secure affordable housing for all!

Portland City Councilor @councilormorillo.bsky.social is extremely good at her job. She’s finding agreement in a strongly divided council and getting demonstrable results for Portlanders. We are so lucky to have to have her!

i'm 100 pages into this biography of jim jones now and so far he's just an ardent anti-racist working hard to integrate Indianapolis while feeding, clothing, and housing a large number of the poor, and preaching christian socialism. i hope this goes well for him

One of them was Nancy Pelosi lol

It's false accusations! Taco Bell is not giving you diarrhea. It's the government!

Eating at Taco Bell right now and this is proof it's fine. No bacteria is surviving. This lunch could remove carbon build up in an engine

Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.

the collected testimonies can form the basis of a National reparations campaign for all who are harmed.

People keep saying they don't know what to do. Do this.

Yup. The public needs to get organized & local People's Assemblies in each state are a way to begin. Start collecting testimonies of ICE's impact in your state. Invite all who attend to get behind a campaign to fire everyone in ICE during the first week of any potential Dem presidency. Begin now.

No one needs permission. You can just get started where you are. A group of 5 people is a good way to begin.

Happy Fire Emblem Friday! FE3H celebrates its anniversary on 7/26, plus one of my local fall cons has been announcing FE3H VA guests. I may have to bring my timeskip Petra cosplay back out for the occasion~ Sewing & beading help: MagicalAni💚💜 #fireemblem #fe3h #cosplay #fireemblemcosplay #fe16

We are going to end utility shutoffs and make electricity a human right

Everything is connected. The people suffering the most from wildfire smoke are homeless. Next, still housed people who can't afford to weatherize. In the heat, people without or who can't afford to run AC so they simply keep the windows open and pray. Universal and free electricity is a necessity.

i had canva open

Going outside this morning

A big revelation for me from the past year or so is just how deeply my generation is enculturated to think in terms of personal choices and not really have any concept of solidarity. Solidarity that's only for people you feel have Correct Opinions and Priorities isn't really.

Here’s a picture of the group: *10 of the most known reactionaries in town and 5 well known conservative media People* just the most ordinary citizens out here!

The same 10 rich people in a trench coat keep launching “new” advocacy groups that are exactly the same group but with a different name. And every time, the TV news is like “look at this new grassroots group!”

a classic problem with complex systems is that we can only ever observe their behavior through intermediate artifacts like telemetry data. fortunately, we have solved this problem by building a chatbot that can query those intermediaries and interpret them for you

I waited till the end because I just wanted to kind of see where the temperature was and get a sense for how colleagues were feeling. Honestly, I feel really encouraged by the discussion that we just had.

Novick sure loves to clown and brew petty drama. Wish he loved to govern just as much.

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

"Closing all county jails" sounds radical to some, but here's what I will say -- a former DOJ civil rights prosecutor who worked on consent decrees against sheriffs, not a "radical" by any means, told me that closing county jails was necessary bc they are all irredeemably awful.

the portland pickles are fucking unhinged and it fucking rules. kings of lents

Over the weekend, my investigation on dropshipping digital blackface scams was published by @theverge.com: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

It was over. The Dracula Brigades had driven their enemies back, even with the infamous garlic artillery. But it came at a high cost: they had lost their best soldiers, the elite Nosferatu Column. Only time would tell, but it truly seemed like a vampyrrhic victory.

We wrote this about a week or so ago. Read it and if you like it, share it please.

IBEW 125 Power System Dispatchers at PGE are ready to strike. These are the folks that make sure our grid is working and they deserve a fair contract.

A MEDICATED WARRIOR IS A LETHAL WARRIOR.

thanks to @hurricanexyz.bsky.social constantly mentioning it i am finally watching LEGEND OF THE GALACTIC HEROES and…it rules

The organized left deliberates, decides, and mobilizes. It is not perfect. It can produce bad politics and bad strategy. But joining means that you are part of something. You cannot join the unorganized left. It is not being a part of something. It abuses, grifts, and corrupts.

Guilty as charged when it comes to, and I don't say this phrase flippantly, my formative corn years

37.5 GW of behind-the-meter virtual power plant capacity is comparable to all battery capacity in the US today (around 50-60 GW). Both are growing fast. Batteries generally get transferrable federal tax credits of 30-50%, while VPPs are largely unsubsidized.

Can you, as one person, possibly make a difference in whether an unusual, creative, category-breaking book (a book without a marketing department or a budget behind it) succeeds? Yes you can, and I'm going to tell you why it's a hell of a lot more attainable than you think.

PROGRAM... DRIVE!

"The cost of clean energy power purchase agreements (PPAs) is set to increase by between 40 per cent and 120 per cent once Inflation Reduction Act subsidies for solar and wind projects end."

Garffeld Pt 4

IT IS GLORY TO BATHE IN THE BLOOD OF YOUR ENEMIES BUT TO ALSO BATHE IN THE SHOWER.

The X-Men have arrived! [at Dave's Hot Chicken]

Getting closer by the hour! Have you donated yet? Your $5 becomes $55! If you’ve donated share this with someone that hasn’t! 250 is achievable if we all pitch in!