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Sounds about right...

BREAKING: Arsonist Puts Out Fire

😂😂😂😂😂

I've been advocating for a few weeks: have town halls & rallies in red districts and glad to learn @sanders.senate.gov is going out on the trail & @repjasmine.bsky.social is working social media/news. Happening in Georgia! The news is getting out. trump can't hide. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

DOGE = Department of Gross Errors

Anyone near Huntington Beach, CA? There's a plaque that needs your attention.

A reminder that the BBC can still do accurate, informative analysis when it wants to. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Apropos after the past week...

The billionaires are marching through the institutions. We must build alternative sources of power that can resist them. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-con...

These are my people. Gotta say

57 companies are responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 2016. These companies include fossil fuel giants like Chevron, Shell, and BP, who have been raking in record profits. The profits of Big Oil should not be more important than the future of our planet.

Media stories about the wildfires often don’t mention the role of climate change at all, and if they do, they do not mention that climate change is caused by the burning of fossil fuels. This is a human-caused problem, not a mere act of God. www.currentaffairs.org/news/yes-we-...

Imagine watching disaster movies like The Day After Tomorrow or 2012 and thinking that the apocalyptic weather scenes were the “unrealistic” part. Turns out those scenes were almost bang on. The unrealistic part was the humans working together to overcome the problem & save the world. Sigh.

So much serious and terrible in the world right now, we need some laughs...

Evacuation shelters and animal shelters in greater Los Angeles for those in need...

FYI for those in Los Angeles. Order means go now. Warning means gets ready to go. Also there is now another fire burning in the Hollywood Hills.

Wow. Just looked it up and yeah, it's under the Hateful Conduct section... 😡

UnitedHealth, worth over $500 billion, denies a third of claims—twice the industry average. If you wonder why there's no sympathy for Brian Thompson, look no further than their predatory business model. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R2W...

ProPublica link to find out why your claim was denied. Passing it on because knowledge is power: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

The best way to understand the NYT is as a chronicle of power, which may explain why there are ** checks notes ** seven reporters on this single story about beefing up executive security

As I was saying:

I am happy to pay higher taxes if it means the people on my street or in the next neighborhood or five towns over are better cared for, can put food on the table, can care for their children. Society is a collective. If you are well, I am well. Everyone benefits.

Sure ya can! 😂😂😁

Yes please.

I’ve been writing for a week that we are really closer than it seems to a war in which the US is a combatant, and now this, as IDF armor enters Gaza FWIW I’m seeking clarification from the Pentagon re whether strikes were on Iranian-backed militia positions or, as the Post wrote, on the IRGC itself

Food for thought...

Dear fellow drivers...

Just sayin'...

This one feels very accurate: www.vulture.com/article/how-...

Dolomites, Italy

I think about this quote a lot. “I believed then, as most conceited young people do, that a strong rational argument will carry the day if sufficiently well supported by substantiated facts. This, of course, is nonsense.”

Yet another problem with AI...

There are no shortcuts or easy fixes. If this summer was too hot for you, that storm too devastating, or that fire too brutal, then you need to help push the world to get off fossil fuels fully asap. Period. This is the coolest summer for the rest of your life. No joke. #ClimateChangeIsHere

Just. I can't. The political class in almost its entirety, regardless of party, is not on our side. Full stop.

Taking a pulse: Just started using Duolingo to learn a language. Positives? Negatives? Other programs better?

I suppose my first post here should be the obligatory cat pic, so here's Bambi: